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Today In The Past

Events

597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar

1190 - York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit sucide rather than submit to baptism

1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.

1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.

1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: “the miracle of Amsterdam” (legend)

1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines

1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen

1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass

1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.

1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29.

1802 - Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point, NY)

1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)

1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.

1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)

1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college

1836 - Texas approves a constitution

1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” published

1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union

1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles

1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)

1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.

1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate

1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts

1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross

1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus

1910 - Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)

1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC

1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle

1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty

1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184′ (56 meters)

1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine

1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act

1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow

1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60

1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima

1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.

1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested

1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war

1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket

1964 - Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension

1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die

1968 - Robert Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers

1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville

1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury

1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland

1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast

1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed

1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty

1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut

1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs

1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash

1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi

1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball

1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan

1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15

1997 - Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.

2003 - The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.

2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

Births

1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)

1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)

1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)

1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)

1634 - Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist

1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)

1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer

1751 - James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)

1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm’s Law)

1802 - George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868

1806 - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)

1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869

1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)

1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)

1836 - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)

1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)

1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)

1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger

1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)

1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)

1884 - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)

1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip

1906 - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)

1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)

1912 - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)

1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)

1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler’s secretary (d. 2002)

1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)

1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)

1926 - Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France

1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )

1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)

1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)

1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist

1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)

1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)

1940 - Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)

1943 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist

1946 - Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)

1948 - Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

1951 - Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)

1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur

1953 - Richard Stallman, American free software activist

1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)

1954 - Colin Ireland, Kent, England, serial killer (‘Gay Slayer’/ Coleherne killer), (d. 2012)

1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven’s Gate)

1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer

1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)

1959 - Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)

1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality tv star

1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

1964 - Gore Verbinski, American movie director

1965 - Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)

1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer

1976 - Nick Spano, American actor

1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress

1985 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel

1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model

1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser

1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli

Deaths

455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)

1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III

1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen

1072 - Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies

1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) dies in battle at Boroughbridge

1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)

1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)

1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45

1649 - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)

1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)

1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)

1738 - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72

1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64

1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49

1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)

1903 - Judge Roy Bean, American jurist

1914 - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55

1914 - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies

1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog

1935 - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58

1941 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73

1946 - Marius HLW “Max” Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61

1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111

1961 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)

1970 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (You’re All I Need), dies of brain tumor at 24

1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68

1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64

VIDEOS

1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists

1983 - Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79

1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)

1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire’s band, killed in a plane crash

1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies

1993 - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered

1995 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83

1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)

2001 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)

2005 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)

2006 - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)

2008 - G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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