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Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed

685 - Battle at Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians

878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.

879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.

996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor

1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency

1260 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.

1471 - King Edward IV enters London

1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena

1602 - Martha’s Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland

1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.

1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

1809 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon

1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)

1840 - NZ became a British colony

1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii

1856 - Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces

1861 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union

1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital

1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins

1864 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.

1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25

1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45

1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds

1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.

1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40″ (1m) refractor used for 1st time

1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris

1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars

1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4

 

 

 

1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8

1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota

1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I

1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.

1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co

1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000

1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun

1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole

1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic

1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC

1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers

1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland

1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens

 

 

 

1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.

 

 

 

 

 

1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp

1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)

1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia

1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset

1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island

1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6

1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos

1966 - ”Downtown” by Mrs Miller hits #82

1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4

1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97

1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

 

 

 

1968 - Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969 - Robert Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets

1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U

1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn

1972 - Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.

1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart

1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4

1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19

1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone

1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR

1980 - ”Empire Strikes Back” premieres

1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands

1983 - ”Bang The Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren hits #63

1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4

1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka

1988 - ”Fat” by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99

1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68

 

 

 

1990 - Last episode of “Newhart” airs on CBS-TV

 

 

 

Spoiler Alert : This video includes only the LAST ten minutes or so of the finale .

 

 

 

 

 

 

1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4

1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning

1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen

1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY

1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs

1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win

1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.

1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 17th time

1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.

1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.

1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history

2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.

2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu’s record from the previous year.

2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.

2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.

 

 

 

2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She is the last surviving clipper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana’a, Yemen

2012 - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania

 

 

 

 

Births

 

1471 - Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker

1527 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)

1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer

1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)

1688 - Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744)

1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)

1821 - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director

1822 - Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900

1822 - Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865

1825 - George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1835 - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)

1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)

1860 - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)

1865 - C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages

1872 - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)

1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)

 

 

 

1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, aviator , inventor (hydroplane)

 

 

 

 

 

1882 - Georgine M “May” Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)

1898 - Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)

1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil’s Planet)

 

 

1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain’t Misbehavin’)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)

1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)

1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)

1918 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist

1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel ’75)

1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)

1924 - Peggy Cass, Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)

1926 - Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer

1927 - Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)

1929 - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)

1930 - Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)

1932 - John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)

1934 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate

1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)

1938 - David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)

1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)

1942 - Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)

1943 - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)

1944 - Janet Dailey, US, author

1944 - Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )

1944 - Mike Degett, horse trainer

1945 - Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)

1947 - Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker

 

1952 - Mr. T, [Lawrence Tureaud], Chicago, American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)

 

1954 - Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)

1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet

1957 - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

1957 - Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)

1957 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress

1958 - Sabine Bischoff, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, fencer (Oly Gld 1984), (d. 2013)

1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director

1961 - Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)

1964 - Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)

1968 - Matthias Ungemach, German rower

1972 - Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)

1972 - The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], New York City, New York, rapper (Life After Death), (d. 1997)

1974 - Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)

1979 - Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter

1981 - Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)

1984 - Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen

1985 - Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7

1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer

1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress

1994 - Tom Daley, English diver

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

987 - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies

1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)

1481 - Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies

 

 

1542 - Hernando de Soto , dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi

 

 

 

 

 

1650 - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged

1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman

1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)

1690 - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85

1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle

1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)

1786 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43

1810 - Charles GLAAT chevalier d’Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81

1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)

1894 - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54

1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)

1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)

1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)

1919 - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship’s doctor/writer, dies

1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)

1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14

1926 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40

1952 - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39

1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)

1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)

1966 - Pat O’Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75

1970 - Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63

1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)

1981 - Patsy O’Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)

1981 - Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)

1987 - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57

1990 - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies

1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46

1992 - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24

1993 - John Frost, English lt-col (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80

1994 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60

1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81

1995 - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56

1996 - Al “Lash” La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78

1996 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67

1996 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83

2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)

2000 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)

2000 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)

2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)

2005 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)

2006 - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)

 

 

 

 

 

Today In The Past

 

 

Events

 

325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor

1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.

1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.

1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1310 - Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1347 - Rienzo calls Rome for people’s tribunal

1495 - French King Charles VIII leaves Naples

1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1501 - Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands

1521 - Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball

1631 - Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly, most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War.

1639 - Dorchester Mass, forms 1st school funded by local taxes

1690 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II

1734 - 1st Jockey Club forms in SC

1774 - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio

1775 - Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain

1830 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1830 - D Hyde patents fountain pen

1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.

1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861 - North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

1861 - US marshals appropriate previous year’s telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence

1862 - Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West

1864 - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured

1864 - Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured 

1867 - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1868 - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant

1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets

1879 - 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37

1892 - George Sampson patents clothes dryer

1896 - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.

1900 - 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)

1902 - US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends

1913 - 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4

1916 - Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting

1918 - 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)

1919 - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550

1922 - ”Egypt” sinks off Ushant after colliding with “Seine,” killing 90

1926 - Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes

1926 - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927 - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris

1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)

1930 - 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot

1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1939 - 1st regular transatlantic airmail (Pan Am: NY to Marsseille France)

1940 - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)

1942 - US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1948 - 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army

1950 - 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2

1959 - Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon”

1959 - Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1961 - 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6

1961 - White mob attacks “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama

1964 - Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team

1967 - 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2

1969 - US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1970 - 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam

1972 - 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6

1978 - 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4

1978 - 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris

1979 - 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John

1980 - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss

1980 - Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157

1980 - In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism

1983 - Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1983 - Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title

1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs

1984 - Boston’s Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory

1985 - Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time

1985 - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR

1985 - Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers

1985 - Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1985 - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti

1986 - Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv

1989 - 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8

1989 - China declares martial law in Beijing

1989 - Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live

1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph’s from space

1992 - Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds

1993 - 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)

1993 - 274th & final “Cheers” on NBC

1994 - Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show

1995 - 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4

1995 - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung

1997 - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed

1997 - Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful

 

 

 

 

Births

 

1315 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)

1364 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican

1470 - Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian

1537 - Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)

1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist

1663 - William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)

1706 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)

1750 - Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812

1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)

1768 - Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)

1772 - William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)

1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)

 

 

 

1806 - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian

 

 

 

 

 

 

1818 - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)

1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister)

1828 - James William Reilly, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905

1851 - Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)

1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)

1883 - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher

1899 - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)

1899 - John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)

1901 - Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)

1908 - Jimmy Stewart [James], PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life), (d. 1997)

1911 - Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)

1912 - Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC’s Zodiac killer (survives)

1913 - Henry Cadbury Brown, architect

1913 - William Hewlett, cofounder (Hewlett-Packard Co)

1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense

1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

1919 - George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)

1923 - Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)

1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)

1926 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)

1927 - [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)

1928 - David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1928 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor

1930 - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)

1931 - Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)

1933 - Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)

1936 - Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)

1938 - Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)

1940 - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR

 

 

 

1942 - Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 - Joe Cocker, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)

1945 - Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )

1946 - Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified

1946 - Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], El Centro, California, American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)

1948 - Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV, Grace Under Fire)

1951 - Thomas D Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79)

1951 - William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)

1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)

1954 - Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain

1954 - Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka

1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)

1958 - Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, LA, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)

1959 - Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)

1960 - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)

1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)

1961 - Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olymp-bronze-96)

1962 - Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)

1962 - Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress

1963 - David Wells, Torrance CA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees)

1964 - Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

1966 - Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)

1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist

1971 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver

1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player

1977 - Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards

1981 - Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver

1993 - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)

1277 - John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Portuguese Pope (1276-77), dies. (b. 1215)

1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)

1444 - Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63

1471 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies

1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)

1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55

1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)

1597 - Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle

1622 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies

1669 - Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies

1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)

1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)

1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)

1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)

1795 - Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded

 

 

 

1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)

1923 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies

1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)

1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)

1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)

1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies

1959 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60

1961 - Josef “Pips” Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)

1972 - Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75

1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)

1989 - Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70

1989 - Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42

1989 - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies

1993 - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77

1996 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70

1996 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101

2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)

2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)

2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)

2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)

2011 - Randy Savage, American Pro-Wrestler (b. 1952)

2012 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60

2012 - Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

Events

 

715 - St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir

1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles

1568 - English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines

1585 - Spain confisquates English ships

1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague

1635 - France declares war on Spain

1643 - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army

1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England

1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.

1780 - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it’s cause is still unexplained

1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North

1848 - 1st department store opens

1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war

1862 - Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West

1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete

1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)

1864 - Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania

1864 - Skirmish at Cassville Georgia

1865 - President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia

1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1892 - Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer

1892 - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

1893 - Heavy rain wash “quick clay” into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)

1896 - 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands

1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1898 - Post Office authorizes use of postcards

1900 - World’s longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens

1909 - Jack Johnson fights Jack O’Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title

1916 - Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun

1921 - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1923 - 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4

1926 - French air force bombs Damascus Syria

1929 - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death

1931 - Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel

1937 - John Murray/Allen Boretz’ “Room Service,” premieres in NYC

1941 - New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

1943 - Churchill pledges England’s full support to US against Japan

1951 - 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4

1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea

1956 - 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4

1958 - Premiere of Harold Pinter’s “Birthday Party,” in London

1960 - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter

1960 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m

1962 - 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2

1962 - Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea

1964 - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy

1965 - Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)

1967 - US bombs Hanoi

1971 - USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1973 - 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4

1975 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1975 - Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest

1976 - Gold ownership legalized in Australia

1977 - ”Smokey & the Bandit,” premieres

1979 - ”In The Navy” by Village People hits #3

1979 - 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2

1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506

1983 - Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC

1984 - 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6

1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad

1989 - Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1

1990 - 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6

1991 - ”Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs

1991 - Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500

1992 - 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary

1992 - Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI

1992 - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches

1992 - VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values

1993 - Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)

1994 - Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack

1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center

1995 - World’s youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

 

 

 

 

Births

 

1469 - Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor

1611 - Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)

1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer

1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)

1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)

1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)

1762 - Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)

1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)

1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University

1808 - Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883

1812 - Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862

1815 - John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882

1828 - Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)

1864 - Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process

1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)

1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)

1890 - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)

1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)

1892 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS]

1897 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)

1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)

1904 - Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)

1906 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)

1913 - Albert Hardy, photographer

1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)

1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player

1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)

1925 - Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)

1928 - Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)

1928 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)

1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)

1929 - Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)

1931 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)

1934 - James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)

1935 - David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)

1936 - Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)

1937 - Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer

1939 - Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)

1939 - James Fox, London England, actor (Greystoke)

1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong)

1940 - Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)

1941 - Jimmy Hoffa Jr, son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader

1941 - Nora Ephron, NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Michael, Heartburn), (d. 2012)

1945 - Peter Townshend, England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy)

1946 - Phillip Rudd, Melbourne, rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock ‘n Roll Damnation)

1946 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)

1947 - Jerry Hyman, Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)

1948 - Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp)

1948 - Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)

1949 - Dusty Hill, rocker (ZZ Top)

1951 - Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], lead singer of the punk rock band The Ramones (Baby I Love You)

1951 - Dick Slater, American professional wrestler

1952 - Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)

1953 - Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary

1953 - Dawud M. Mu’Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)

1955 - Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62)

1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs OJ Simpson (murdered)

1960 - Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], London, England, singer (Fine Time)

1962 - Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens)

1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor

1969 - David Wharton, Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-silver-88)

1971 - Lori Ann Mundt, Yorkton Saskatchawan, volleyball player (Olympics-96)

1971 - Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler

1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)

1976 - Kevin Garnett, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)

1981 - Georges St. Pierre, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter

1988 - Lily Cole, English model/actress

 

 

 

Deaths

 

804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69

988 - Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies

1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)

1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)

1296 - Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies

1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)

1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded

1536 - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded

1647 - Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies

1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)

1795 - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65

1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)

1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)

1800 - French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged

1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies

1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)

1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)

1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)

1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)

1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)

1928 - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53

1935 - Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash

1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)

1958 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)

1966 - Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga’s King by Capt Cook (1773), dies

1969 - Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies

1971 - Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68

1987 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71

1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)

1989 - Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS at 64

1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64

1997 - Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie’s Book), dies at 12

2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)

2004 - Tony Randall, actor (Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) dies aged 84

2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)

2009 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)

2009 - Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm

 

 

 

1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1291 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre

1302 - Bruges Matins; the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by local Flemish militia.

1385 - Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts

1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd’s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya

1619 - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1631 - English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right

1631 - John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts

1642 - Montreal Canada founded

1652 - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal

1756 - England declares war on France

1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.

1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.

1803 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France

1811 - Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas.

1830 - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever

1846 - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros

1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school

1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president

1861 - Battle of Sewall’s Point VA-1st Federal offense against South

 

 

 

1863 - Grant Lays Siege To Vicksburg, MS

 

 

 

 

 

 

1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)

1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.

1880 - 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5

1896 - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)

 

 

 

1896 - Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1897 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)

1897 - American baseball NY Giant William (Bill) Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game

1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.

1904 - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco

1910 - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley’s Comet causes near-panic

 

 

 

1916 - US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 - US passes Selective Service act

1918 - TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200

1920 - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o’ War wins in 1:51.6

1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped

1927 - ”Slide Lake” in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses

1927 - Grauman’s Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif

1927 - Ritz Hotel opens in Boston

1929 - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8

1929 - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)

 

 

 

1933 - Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) signed by FDR, to build dams

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)

1934 - Congress approves “Lindbergh Act,” makes kidnapping a capital offense

1934 - Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers

1934 - TWA began commercial service

1940 - German troops conquer Brussels

1941 - Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

1941 - Jewish veterans honor their dead

1942 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II

1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea

1944 - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy

1944 - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans

1948 - Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus

1948 - Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel

1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC

1951 - US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea

1953 - 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)

1953 - Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier

1955 - 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)

1956 - Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time

1957 - 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2

1960 - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)

1963 - 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2

1964 - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years

1965 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt

1967 - Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London

1967 - Tenn Gov Ellington repeals “Monkey Law,” upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

1968 - 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8

1968 - AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger

1968 - Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games

1969 - Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit

1971 - Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus

1971 - Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found

1972 - John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded

1974 - ”Streak” by Ray Stevens hits #1

1974 - 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6

1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

1977 - Nightclub fire in Cincinnati  kills 164

1978 - Italy legalizes abortion

1980 - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket

1980 - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die

1980 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.

1982 - Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

1983 - Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program

1985 - 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank’s Prospect wins in 1:53.4

1985 - 1st remote location for “Nightline” (South Africa)

1986 - David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool

1986 - South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia

1986 - Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 “atomic” hand-stand push-ups

1990 - Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak

1990 - Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant

1990 - Return To Green Acres TV movie airs

1991 - 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54

1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs

1993 - Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola

1994 - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip

1996 - 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2

1998 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.

2009 - Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

 

 

 

 

Births

 

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)

1474 - Isabella d’Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)

1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)

1711 - Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer

1788 - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer

1797 - Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)

1798 - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870

1815 - Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891

1817 - James William Denver, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1850 - Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere)

1868 - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)

1872 - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)

1883 - Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (Bauhaus school of design)

1889 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)

1891 - Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)

 

 

 

1897 - Frank Capra, Ital, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1900 - Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)

1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, US biochemist

1902 - [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)

1904 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)

1907 - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist

1907 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)

 

 

 

1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1912 - Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer

1912 - Perry Como, [Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)

1912 - Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)

1915 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader

1917 - James Donald, Aberdeen Scotland, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings)

1918 - George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)

1919 - Margot Fonteyn, Surrey England, prima ballerina (Giselle)

1920 - John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Wadowice, Poland, 264th Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005)

1922 - Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)

1922 - Kai Winding, Danish-born Jazz musician (d. 1983)

1924 - Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)

1928 - G R Hall, nuclear scientist

1928 - P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral

1928 - Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)

1929 - Kai Winding, Denmark, American Jazz composer, (d. 1983)

1929 - Johan N Block, aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland)

 

 

 

1930 - Fred Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)

 

 

 

 

 

1931 - Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That’s Life, Jack Frost)

1934 - Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)

1937 - Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)

1939 - Glen Hardin, Texas, rocker (Crickets)

1940 - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist

1941 - M S Longair, astronomer

1942 - Albert Hammond, rocker

1942 - Rodney Dillard, rocker (Glittergrass)

1943 - James Reiher, American professional wrestler

1946 - Reggie Jackson, “Mr October” baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A’s)

1948 - Joe Bonsall, Phila, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)

1949 - Rick Wakeman, rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)

1949 - William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)

1950 - Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)

1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele)

1951 - Angela Voigt, German DR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-76)

1951 - Denny Dillon, comedian (SNL, Dream On)

1952 - Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire)

1952 - George Strait, Pearsall Tx, country singer (All My Exes Live in Texas)

1952 - Jeana Yeager, American aviator

1953 - [Feliciano] Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)

1955 - Yun Fat Chow, Nam Nga Island Hong Kong, actor (Better Tomorrow)

1957 - Michael Cretu, rocker (Enigma)

1960 - Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)

1962 - Mike Whitmarsh, San Diego CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)

1962 - Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer

1962 - Sandra Cretu, German singer

1966 - Mike Inez, US rock bassist (Alice in Chains-Facelift)

1967 - Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German F1 driver

1969 - Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)

1970 - Tina Fey, American writer/actress

1971 - Clifton Sunada, Honolulu HI, extra-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)

1971 - Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot/television reporter

1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese racing driver

1973 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver

1975 - Jack Johnson, American musician

1979 - Kaci Thompson, Miss Nevada Teen USA (1997)

1987 - Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model

1992 - Spencer Breslin, American actor

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

526 - John I, Pope (523-26), dies

1160 - Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies

1401 - Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 -

1410 - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies

1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)

1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)

1587 - Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies

1625 - Francisco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Spanish marquis of Denia, dies

1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)

 

 

 

1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)

1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)

1862 - William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48

1864 - James Byron Gordon, Confederate brig-gen, dies at 41

1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)

1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)

1927 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)

1965 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72

1973 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92

1974 - Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61

1980 - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)

1980 - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)

1980 - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)

1981 - Arthur O’Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73

1981 - William Saroyan, US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72

1987 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73

1988 - Daws Butler, cartoon voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), dies at 71

1990 - Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54

1995 - Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45

1995 - Elisha Cook Jr, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at 91

 

 

 

1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62

 

 

 

 

 

1996 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner, dies at 44

1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)

2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)

2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley’s “Naked Guy” (b. 1972)

2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)

2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran,Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)

2009 - Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b.1947)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

218 - 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

352 - Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I

884 - St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

1525 - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels

1527 - Pánfilo de Narváez departs to explore Florida

1536 - Anne Boleyns 4 “lovers” executed

1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.

1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)

1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface

1631 - Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

1672 - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)

1673 - Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi

1733 - England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

1742 - Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians

1744 - French army takes Austrian Netherlands

1756 - Britain declares war on France (7 Years’ or French & Indian War)

1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

1792 - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street

1794 - Hard frost in southern New England

1803 - John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase

1837 - Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)

1845 - Rubber band patents

1849 - Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri

1862 - Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities

1863 - Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS

1864 - Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat

1871 - Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75

1876 - 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln

1881 - 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40

1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody’s 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha

1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory

1890 - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London

1894 - 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49.25

 

 

 

1900 - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

1904 - Maurice Ravel’s “Shéhérazade,” premieres in Paris

1911 - 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51

1915 - 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58

1919 - War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.

1920 - 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol

1920 - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)

1924 - 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2

1926 - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1927 - Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings

1927 - U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania

1930 - 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6

1932 - Congress changes name “Porto Rico” to “Puerto Rico”

1938 - Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1940 - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France

1943 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School to develop the ENIAC.

 

 

 

1943 - World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.(16th)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 - Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

1944 - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea

1945 - 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu

1946 - Pres Harry Truman seizes control of nation’s railroads to delay a strike

1948 - Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi

1948 - Soviet Union recognized Israel

1949 - British government recognizes Republic of Ireland

1952 - 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4

1954 - Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 “separate but equal” Plessy Vs Ferguson decision

1957 - Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1958 - 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2

1961 - Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers

1963 - Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ

1964 - Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s

1968 - Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game

1969 - 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6

1969 - Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL

1969 - Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus

1970 - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits

1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra

1973 - Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run

1973 - Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

1973 - Stevie Wonder releases “You are the Sunshine of my Love”

1975 - 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4

1975 - 10cc releases “I’m Not in Love”

1975 - NBC paid $5M for rights to show “Gone with the Wind” one time

1976 - Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000′s killed

1978 - Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run

1979 - -12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)

1980 - 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2

1980 - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours

1980 - Major race riot in Miami Florida – 16 killed, 300 injured

1985 - Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska

1986 - 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8

 

 

 

1987 - USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die

 

 

 

 

 

1989 - Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!

1990 - Cheers’ star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71

1992 - Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)

1993 - Intel’s new Pentium processor is unveiled

1997 - 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54

1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.

2006 - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef

2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

 

 

 

 

Births

 

1155 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)

1443 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England

1451 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg

1490 - Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia

1551 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)

1576 - Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized

 

 

 

1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1741 - John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6]

 

 

 

1743 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1749 - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination

1758 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)

1768 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)

1812 - Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880

1821 - Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)

1836 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)

1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)

1846 - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle

1867 - Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher

1868 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)

1879 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)

1896 - Hannah Tillich, writer

1897 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1898 - Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)

1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s ayatollah (1979-89)

1903 - Douglas Packard, British Lt General

1903 - James “Cool Papa” Bell, Starkville, Mississippi, baseball center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game (d. 1991)

1906 - Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft)

1907 - Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power

1907 - Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)

1909 - Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant

1911 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative

1911 - Maureen O’Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice)

1912 - Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate)

1913 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)

1915 - Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer

1919 - Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)

1923 - Michael Beetham, Marshal (RAF)

1924 - Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)

1924 - Thomas Baird, vice-admiral

1927 - Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel)

1928 - Donald Cameron Watt, historian

1928 - Vivian Moses, biotechnologist

1929 - Raymond Hide, geophysicist

1931 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician

1936 - Dennis Hopper, KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)

1939 - Gary Paulsen, American author

1940 - Alan Kay, American computer scientist

1941 - Malcom Hale, rocker

 

 

 

1942 - Taj Mahal, NYC, bluesman, singer/songwriter (Real Thing)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1943 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)

1944 - Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)

1945 - D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines)

1946 - Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)

1947 - John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)

1949 - Bill Bruford, English drummer (Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis)

1950 - Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)

1950 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)

1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)

1955 - Bill Paxton, actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)

1956 - Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House, America’s Funniest Home Video)

1956 - Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Rocky Mount North Carolina, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)

1956 - Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist

1959 - Paul Di’anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist

1959 - Jim Nantz, American broadcaster

1960 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter

1961 - Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer and songwriter (A Day Without Rain)

1962 - Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, Scottish actor, writer and comedian

1965 - Trent Reznor, musician (9 Inch Nails)

1965 - Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer

1967 - Cameron Bancroft, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)

1969 - Paige Turco, Boston MA, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)

1970 - Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin’ Tough)

1970 - Matt Lindland, American mixed martial arts fighter

1975 - Cheick Kongo, French martial artist

1975 - Jonti Picking, British cartoonist

1977 - Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ)

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

1050 - Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies

1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)

1336 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)

1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)

1395 - Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm

1464 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)

1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65

1591 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51

1606 - Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered

1727 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies

1765 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)

1801 - William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)

1807 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)

 

 

 

1829 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1838 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)

1838 - René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)

1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57

1868 - Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)

1875 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)

1879 - Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)

1883 - Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies

1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer of agricultural equipment who founded Deere & Company, dies at 82

1889 - William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies

1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)

1917 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)

1926 - Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies

1927 - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)

1930 - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61

1945 - Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies

1945 - Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies

1963 - John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)

1974 - Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)

1978 - John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies

1981 - Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies

1987 - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88

1992 - George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87

1992 - Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89

1994 - Willian Noel Moffet, architect, dies at 82

1996 - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37

1996 - Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75

 

 

 

1996 - Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Blues guitarist , dies at 61

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1999 - Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)

2001 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)

2002 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)

2005 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)

2006 - Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)

2011 - Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)

2012 - Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

—

Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope

1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine

1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

1527 - Florence becomes a republic

1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor

1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England

1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM

1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia

1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki’s cosacks beat John Casimir

1763 - Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London

 

 

 

1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called “The Regulators“, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade

1815 - The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains.

1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins

1860 - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate

1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality

1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile

 

 

 

1863 - Battle of Champion’s Hill, MS , bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)

1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA

1864 - Last battles at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)

1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer

1866 - Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)

1868 - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson

1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7

1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time

1874 - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)

1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000

1881 - World’s 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

1882 - 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00

1884 - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25

1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam

1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings

1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)

1903 - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US

1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms

1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK

1911 - Zeppelin “Deutscheland” wrecked at Dusseldorf

1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City

1916 - 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8

 

 

 

1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 - Joan of Arc (Jean D’arc) canonized a saint

1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull

1921 - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2

1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage

1925 - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6

1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

1929 - 1st Academy Awards – “Wings,” Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins

1931 - 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8

1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game

1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France

1936 - 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59

1938 - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)

1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued

1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1943 - -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)

1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting

1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa

1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk’s body is found in Greece

1951 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone

1955 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title

1957 - Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH

1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn

1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex

1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

1959 - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57

1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury

1964 - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8

1964 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ

 

 

 

1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

 

 

 

 

 

 

1965 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.

1966 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes

1967 - Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium

1969 - US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF

1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere

1970 - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2

1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)

1972 - Greg Luzinski’s 500′ HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet

1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest’s summit

1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1977 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC

1980 - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

1980 - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes

1981 - ”Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks

1981 - 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6

1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer

1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game

1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year

1986 - ”Top Gun,” premieres

1987 - 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8

1987 - ”Bobro 400,” a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site

1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress

1992 - ”Smells Like Nirvana,” by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35

1992 - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6

1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock

1994 - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment

 

 

 

1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways two months earlier

 

 

 

 

 

 

1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning

1997 - St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits

1998 - 124th Preakness

2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.

2005 - Kuwait permits women’s suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

 

 

 

Births

 

1558 - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)

1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)

1609 - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands

1641 - Dudley North, financier/economist

1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)

1763 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)

1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)

1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)

1806 - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879

1816 - Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886

1819 - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898

1821 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)

 

 

 

1824 - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893

 

 

 

 

 

 

1831 - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)

1832 - Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)

1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)

1860 - Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)

1866 - Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)

1904 - Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)

 

 

 

1905 - Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)

 

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1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)

1907 - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)

1911 - Margaret Sullivan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)

1912 - Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud’s Place, Working)

1913 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)

1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author

1916 - Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)

1919 - Liberace, West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)

1921 - Harry Carey Jr, Saugus California, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), (d. 2012)

1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)

1929 - Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), (d. 2012)

1931 - Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)

1931 - Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust

1934 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)

1937 - Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)

1938 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)

1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)

 

 

 

1944 - Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz drummer (Same Ole Love)

 

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1944 - Danny Trejo, American actor

1945 - Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)

1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)

1946 - Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

1946 - Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)

1947 - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He’s So Fine)

1949 - William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)

1950 - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)

1953 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ireland, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)

1955 - Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)

1955 - Olga Korbut, Grodno Belorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)

1957 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)

1959 - Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo’s Fire, Turner & Hooch)

1960 - Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)

1961 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as “The Godfather”

1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)

1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)

1966 - Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael’s sister (Control)

1969 - Steven Earl Lewis, LA California, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)

1969 - Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)

1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator

 

 

 

1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1972 - Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994- )

1979 - McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress

1981 - Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)

1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 - Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, American actress (Transformers) and model

 

 

 

Deaths

 

583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)

942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies

1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)

1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60

1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr

1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)

1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)

1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies

 

 

 

1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason

 

 

 

 

 

 

1777 - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, signer of Dec of Ind , dies from wounds

 

 

 

 

 

 

1805 - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68

1819 - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75

1829 - William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56

1830 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies

1863 - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47

1864 - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered

1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies

1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)

1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies

1944 - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies

1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)

 

 

 

1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)

 

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1954 - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38

1955 - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY

1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese’s (b. 1876)

1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

1959 - Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69

1975 - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder

1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35

1984 - Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71

1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82

 

 

 

1988 - Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42

 

 

 

 

 

 

1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered

1990 - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando’s boyfriend killed by brother Christian

1990 - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53

 

 

 

1990 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64

 

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1993 - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54

1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57

1996 - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)

2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)

2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)

2010 - Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942)

2010 - Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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