Today in the Past
Events
694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1282 - Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1494 - Family de’ Medici become rulers of Florence
1580 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 - Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
1853 - Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1877 - American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1888 - Jack Ripper’s 5th & last probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1899 - Boerenaanval up Ladysmith, Natal, attack
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1913 - Storm “Freshwater Fury” sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1923 - Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 - German NSDAP form SS
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 - Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1939 - ”Ninotchka,” with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1946 - Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1963 - 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1965 - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 - 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1967 - 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 - Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 - John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1973 - Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 - Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1984 - Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
1985 - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1989 - East Berlin opens its borders
1993 - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 - Stari most, the “old bridge” in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2004 - Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2009 - Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker’s main event.
Births
1389 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1799 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1802 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1809 - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
1810 - Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 - Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1823 - William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865
1835 - Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1841 - [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1869 - Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)
1871 - Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1886 - Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1895 - Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1901 - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress , Inventor , (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1915 - Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1918 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), crook
1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1923 - Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, Cleveland OH, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess)
1924 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1928 - Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967)
1929 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)
1931 - Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 - Carl Perkins, singer (Blue Suede Shoes)
1934 - Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca’s Brain)
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986-91, 94- )
1935 - Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 - Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)
1942 - Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1948 - Alan Gratzer, Syracuse NY, rock drummer (Reo Speedwagon)
1948 - Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1951 - Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1954 - Dennis Stratton, London England, rock guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1964 - Leah Pells, Vancouver BC, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1965 - Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 - Stefen Edberg, Sweden, tennis star
1967 - Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-96)
1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1970 - Chantal Brunner, Wellington NZ, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American Blues Musician , Guitarist
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singerd rapper
1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1980 - Vanessa Minillo, Filipino television personality
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1996 - Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)
Deaths
959 - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 - Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales,
1677 - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1862 - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1911 - Howard Pyle, American , Illustrator , author (b. 1853)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1927 - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1939 - Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa’ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1959 - Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1988 - John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 7
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 - William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)(see UE Births 11/04)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
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