Today In The Past
Events
904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal – Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1595 - William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 - Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia.
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe’s “Raven” 1st published (NYC)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1895 - King Koko’s Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100′s killed
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1943 - New Zealand’s Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1951 - Liz Taylor’s 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1959 - Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” released
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Stanley Kubrick’s”Dr Strangelove,” premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
w storm in north east US kills 165
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1975 - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats “I Don’t Like Mondays”
1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst’s 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 - ”Down Under” by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989 - Cleveland’s Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 - USSR’s Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1996 - 6,138th performance of “Cats” is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway’s longest-running musical, “A Chorus Line”
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 - Woman’s Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
Births
1584 - Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange
1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 - Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award)
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court) composer/pianist
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America/field marshal
1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
1756 - Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III, Congressman, Governor of Virginia and American General
1761 - Abraham AA “Albert” Gallatin, Switz, US minister of Finance (1801-14)
1803 - James Outram, Bulterley Hall Derbyshire, general
1810 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician
1821 - Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 - Franklin Gardner, Major General (Confederate Army)
1836 - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 - James Meech Warner, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901)
1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1866 - Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1873 - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1874 - John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1880 - W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
1891 - R Norris Williams, American tennis champ (US Open-1914) and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1892 - Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
1901 - Allen B DuMont, inventor (perfected coml practical cathode ray tube)
1903 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist
1906 - Franciscus Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920)
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1911 - George Burns, British major-general
1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1912 - ”Professor” Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1913 - Victor Mature, Louisville KY, actor (1 Million BC, Samson & Delilah) (d. 1999)
1915 - Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven)
1917 - John Raitt, Santa Ana California, actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game)
1918 - John Forsythe, NJ, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty)
1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 - Paddy Chayevsky, [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital) (d. 1981)
1924 - Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot
1925 - Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate)
1926 - Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist
1927 - Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire)
1929 - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1937 - Bobby Scott, jazz singer
1938 - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
1942 - Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
1942 - Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1944 - Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
1945 - Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1947 - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin’ On)
1948 - Marc Singer, Vancouver Canada, actor (V, Dallas)
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1950 - Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver’s 1979)
1952 - Tommy Ramone, [Erdelyi], Budapest, Hungary, rock drummer/bassist (Ramones)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, Mississippi, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1955 - John Tate, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1957 - Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1957 - Jac Bico, Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica California, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons)
1959 - Paul McGann, actor (Dr Who)
1960 - Eddie Jackson, bassist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1960 - Gregory Efthimos Louganis, San Diego Ca, diver (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1960 - Steve Sax, 2nd baseman (LA Dodgers, NY Yankees, Chic White Sox)
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, Queens NY, actor (James Martinez-NYPD Blue)
1964 - Andre Reed, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Roddy Frame, rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera-Stray)
1968 - Ed Burns, director/actor (Brothers McMullen)
1968 - Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1969 - Karen Fonteyne, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 - Heather Graham, Milwaukee WI, actress (Drugstore Cowboy, Diggstown)
1970 - Scott Davis, guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1972 - Scott Davis, Great Falls Mont, figure skater (Olympics-1994)
1974 - Kris Burley, Truro Nova Scotia, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Lorraine Magwenzi, Miss Zimbabwe Universe (1997)
1975 - Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica California, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)
1976 - Ilmira Shamsutdinova, Miss Universe-Russia/best costume (1996)
1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1985 - Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
Deaths
969 - Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies
1240 - Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1559 - Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52
1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738). Reigned 1760-1820
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
1899 - Alfred Sisley, painter, dies
1899 - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
1928 - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66
1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
1944 - William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75
1946 - Harry L Hopkins, US min of Business (Loan & Lease law), dies at 55
1956 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, US essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86
1963 - Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1964 - Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs Calif
1970 - Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74
1973 - Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89
1977 - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22
1980 - Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86
1981 - Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II), dies
1988 - Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide
1992 - Willie Dixon, bluesman, singer,songwriter (I’m a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76
1993 - Hank Werba, [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety), dies at 79
1994 - Nick Cravat, midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81
1994 - Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26
1995 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
1995 - Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948), dies at 77
1995 - Richard Desborough Burnell, oarsman, dies at 77
1996 - John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82
1997 - Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Dick “Night Train” Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2009 - Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
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