Today In The Past*
* Please accept our apologies , those of you who have come to expect a more detailed , link-filled Uncurrent Events , but due to technical difficulties we are not able , at present , to include the usual embellishment of certain interesting events , births and deaths . Rest assured that the detailed version of UE that you have come to love will resume by the end of this coming weekend . Thank you for your patience .
Events
197 - Lucius Septimius Severus’ army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
607 - Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
842 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
1539 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1574 - Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Neth
1600 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1634 - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]
1771 - Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
1803 - Congress accepts Ohio’s constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1819 - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
1852 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1859 - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used
1864 - Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1884 - Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people
1900 - British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
1906 - WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin find Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co
1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1913 - Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support
1915 - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1922 - Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
1927 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1928 - Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
1929 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1943 - German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
1944 - 823 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - U-264 sinks off Ireland
1945 - 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
1949 - Mass arrests of communists in India
1952 - French offensive at Hanoi
1959 - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
1960 - Bil Keane’s “Family Circus” cartoon strip debuts
1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1977 - Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18
1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
1985 - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
1986 - Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
1986 - US Senate ratifies UN’s anti-genocide convention 37 years later
1986 - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1987 - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
1987 - Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
1990 - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1992 - Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
1995 - Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
1995 - Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
1998 - US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
2001 - An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 - NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a “lifetime of service to humanity.”
2007 - Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala.
2008 - Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war between it and Sony’s Blu-Ray Disc
2012 - 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
Births
3 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1526 - Charles de L’Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)
1552 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630)
1630 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1671 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
1683 - Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1687 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer
1717 - David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
1722 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
1827 - Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855
1843 - Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
1859 - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1865 - Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
1893 - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
1895 - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
1911 - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1912 - Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
1917 - Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1920 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)
1924 - Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
1924 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1927 - Rene Firino-Martell, cognac manufacturer
1929 - Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)
1930 - John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1932 - Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
1934 - David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
1936 - Ione Mylonas Shear, archeologist
1940 - Smokey Robinson, American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
1943 - ”Mama” Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1943 - Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, American singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again)
1943 - Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer
1943 - Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Paul Dean, rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy)
1947 - Peter Bird, ocean rower
1948 - Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
1948 - Mark Andes, Philadelphia Pa, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
1948 - Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
1948 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1948 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 - Edward Hardin, NYC, rock guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1950 - Andy Powell, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1952 - Rudolfo Neri-Vida, Mexico, PHD/astronaut (STS 23)
1952 - Amy Tan, American novelist
1953 - Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
1954 - Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1954 - Jamie West-Oram, rock guitarist (Fixx)
1955 - Jeff Daniels, GA, actor (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Speed)
1956 - Dave Wakeling, rock singer/guitarist
1956 - George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
1956 - Peter Holsapple, rocker (Continental Drifters)
1956 - Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1958 - Helen Fielding, English writer
1960 - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
1961 - Andy Wallace, English race car driver
1962 - Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
1963 - Seal, English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)
1966 - Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
1966 - Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 - Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)
1968 - Frank Watkins, US heavy metalist bass (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1969 - Burton C. Bell, American vocalist
1972 - Francine, American professional wrestler
1975 - Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder
1977 - Ola Salo, Swedish singer (The Ark)
1978 - Immortal Technique, American rapper
1979 - Mariska, Finnish rapper
1981 - Gil Reyes, American boxer
1985 - Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
1986 - Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver
1986 - Reon Kadena, Japanese model/actress
1993 - Victoria Justice, American Actress (The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, Lola Martinez in Nickelodeon show Zoey 101)
Deaths
197 - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
440 - Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)
1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
1260 - Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
1401 - William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
1414 - Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
1545 - Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
1620 - Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam
1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
1864 - William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies
1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
1875 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1897 - Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81
1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
1962 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
1967 - Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1980 - Bon Scott, Aust rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33
1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1991 - Peggy Mondo, actress (Who’s Minding the Store), dies at 50
1995 - Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
1998 - Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)
2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
2003 - Johnny PayCheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
2009 - Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b.1945)
2010 - Laura Spurr, Tribal Chairperson, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (b. 1945)
2012 - John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
2012 - Steve Kordek, American pinball machine designer, dies at 100
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