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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)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

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)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

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)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

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

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

—

Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

756 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain

884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy

1248 - Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral

1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.

1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse

1525 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war

1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants’ War.

1536 - Anna Boleyn & George Boleyn Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest

1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law

1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria

1648 - Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified

1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France

 

 

 

1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world’s 1st machine gun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)

1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.

1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.

1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt

1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1829 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith

1836 - Francis Baily observes “Baily’s Beads” during annular solar eclipse

1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London

1862 - Battle of Drewry’s Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia

1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London

1862 - Department of Agriculture created

 

 

 

1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia

 

 

 

 

 

 

1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms

1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25

1894 - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41

1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas

1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.

1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft

1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded

1906 - NY Giants’ Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning

1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.

1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)

1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended

1918 - 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)

1918 - 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated

1918 - 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6

1919 - 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4

1918 - Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game

 

 

 

1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8

1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in “Plane Crazy”

1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)

1930 - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)

1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d’état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate

1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive

1937 - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4

1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France

1940 - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

1940 - McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1941 - 1st British turbojet flies

1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1

1942 - Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)

1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan

1945 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

1948 - 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends

1948 - 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4

1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel

1951 - AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders

1952 - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners

1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago

1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins

1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world’s fifth highest mountain.

1957 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade

1957 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)

1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III

1959 - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest

1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US

1962 - US marines arrive in Laos

1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched

1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1963 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam

1965 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2

1966 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

1970 - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals

1970 - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College

1971 - 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54

1972 - George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md

1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0

 

 

 

1974 - Ma’alot massacre:  31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1976 - 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55

1980 - 1st trans-US balloon crossing

1981 - ”Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” airs

1981 - 2nd City TV’s (SCTV) network premier (NBC)

1981 - SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC

1982 - 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma’s Ruler wins in 1:55.4

1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion

1987 - Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set

1988 - Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan

 

 

 

1990 - ”Portrait of Doctor Gachet” by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $82.5 million

 

 

 

 

 

 

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45

1991 - Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Balt Oriole game

1992 - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores

1993 - 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6

1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens

1997 - ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com

2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

 

 

 

Births

 

1565 - Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam

1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L’Orfeo)

1608 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)

1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)

1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)

1773 - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince

1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)

1802 - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888

1810 - Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885

1819 - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)

1830 - Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907

1845 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)

 

 

 

1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children’s book author (Wizard of Oz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)

1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)

1895 - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)

1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)

1903 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)

1904 - Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)

1905 - Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)

 

 

 

1909 - James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1914 - Jack Pepys, immunologist

1915 - Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)

1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)

1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)

1920 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet

1923 - Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)

1924 - Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)

1930 - Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)

1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress (Cinderfella)

1936 - Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)

1936 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist

1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist

1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)

1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State

1940 - Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)

1941 - K T Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80′s Ladies)

1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)

1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Indianapolis, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)

1944 - Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)

1944 - Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)

1944 - Tich, rocker

1946 - Chazz Palminteri, Bronx NY, actor (Jade, Diabolique, Bronx Tale)

1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)

1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)

1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)

1953 - George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)

1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)

1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker

1960 - Rob Bowman, American film director

1964 - Pamela Dukes, Bronx NY, discus thrower

1967 - John Smoltz, Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)

1969 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)

 

 

 

1969 - Holly McPeak, Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1970 - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)

1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete

1973- Tori Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)

1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)

1978 - Amy Chow, San Jose California, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)

1978 - David Krumholtz, NYC, actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)

1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player

1981 - Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne

1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress

1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)

1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)

1984 - Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

392 - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21

884 - Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies

913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz

1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)

1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince

1174 - Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174), dies at 56

1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron

1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)

1482 - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies

 

 

 

1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1591 - Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8

1621 - Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam’s master builder, dies at 56

1622 - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69

1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)

1685 - Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies

1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar

1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)

1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)

1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)

1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55

1932 - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered

 

 

 

1945 - Major Henry Alexius Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)

1964 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61

1967 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84

1972 - Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47

 

 

 

1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian , Admiral (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88

 

 

 

 

 

 

1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)

1986 - Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71

1988 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64

1991 - Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84

1992 - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88

1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)

1994 - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71

1994 - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79

2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)

2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)

2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)

2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)

2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)

2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)

2010 - Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (b. 1950)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

 

Events

 

649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France

1264 - Battle at Lewes during the 2nd Barons War: Simon van Leicester beats English King Henry III

1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France (“Charles l’Affable”).

1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy

1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten

1607 - 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va

1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon

1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.

1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast

1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)

1853 - Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk

1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.

1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph

1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, MS takes place.

1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

1878 - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)

1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US

1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25

1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50

1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00

1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45

1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings

1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)

1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)

1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane

1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins

1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53

1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit

1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06

1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8

 

 

 

1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world’s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production

1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.

1942 - US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms

1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

1948 - Israel declares independence from under British administration

1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC

1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania

1961 - Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama

 

 

 

1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix

 

 

 

 

 

 

1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed

1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes

1967 - Mickey Mantle’s 500th HR off Oriole’s Stu Miller

1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built

1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)

1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court

1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4

1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London

1973 - Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV

1973 - Skylab launched, 1st Space Station

1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship

1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

1983 - ”She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby hits #5

1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)

1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.

1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000

1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn

1989 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)

1989 - 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)

1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing’s Tiananmen square

1989 - Final TV episode of “Family Ties” airs

1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53

1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

1991 - World’s Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs

1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet’s 2nd most sr spiritual leader

1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)

2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

2012 - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye

 

 

 

Births

 

1316 - Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78). Dies 1378

1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)

1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer

1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)

1679 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer

1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]

1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)

1710 - Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70)

1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)

1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)

1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)

1830 - George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864

1836 - James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877

1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)

1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader

1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)

1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer

1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)

1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)

1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)

1922 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show)

1923 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper’s Bazaar)

1925 - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player

1928 - Will “Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)

1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor

1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress

 

 

 

1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1940 - ’H’. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)

1942 - Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire

1943 - Elizabeth Ray, Marshall NC, congressman Wayne Hays’ lover

1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)

1944 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)

1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits-Kinda Hush)

1946 - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)

1947 - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)

1947 - Tamara Dobson, Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)

1951 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)

1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)

1951 - Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)

 

 

 

1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1953 - Bill Meek, Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-8th-1996)

1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)

1956 - Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)

1957 - William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)

1961 - Tim Roth, London England, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)

1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)

1964 - James M Kelly, Burlington Iowa, Capt USAF/astronaut

1966 - Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)

1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)

1969 - David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin’ You Forever)

1969 - Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the Rings)

1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director

1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer

1976 - Terrance Cauthen, Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)

1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality

1978 - Heather Brink, Lincoln Neb, gymnast (Olympics-96)

1983 - Amber Tamblyn, Santa Monica California, actress (Emily Bowen-Gen Hospital)

1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)

1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New York, American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook

1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

 

 

 

Deaths

 

347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies

649 - Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies

964 - John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies

1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)

1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies

1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)

1610 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56

1643 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41

1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)

1726 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies

1761 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50

1832 - John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried

1864 - William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies

1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)

 

 

 

1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)

1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63

1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)

1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74

1925 - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies

1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)

1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)

1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies

1947 - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59

 

 

 

1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959 - Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62

1968 - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86

1970 - Billie Burke, comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84

1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73

1984 - Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies

1987 - Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 68

1991 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide

1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43

1993 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85

1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)

1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician, dies of cancer at 62

1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82

2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)

2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)

2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)

2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

Events

 

535 - St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

609 - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church

641 - Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon

1106 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans

1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath

1364 - Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven

1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola

1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel

1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside

1607 - English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA

1624 - Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru

1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife

1643 - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists

1643 - Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population

1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.

1654 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish

1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1861 - Queen Victoria announces England’s position of neutrality

1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

1864 - -16] Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca Georgia

1865 - S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms

1887 - 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25

1890 - 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75

1891 - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25

1911 - 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05

1913 - 1st four engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1916 - 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04

1916 - Native American Day is 1st observed

1922 - 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6

1922 - 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6

1927 - ”Black Friday” on Berlin Stock Exchange

1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas

1933 - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02

1939 - 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8

1939 - SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives

1940 - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat

1942 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight

1943 - German occupiers confiscate all radios

1944 - 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2

1950 - Diner’s Club issues its 1st credit cards

1950 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.

1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits

1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.

1959 - Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV

1965 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

1966 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1967 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller

1967 - Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries

1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident

1972 - 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)

1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)

1978 - Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels

1979 - Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran

1983 - Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times

1985 - Phila Police bomb a house held by group “Move,” kills 11

1987 - Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II

1989 - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China

1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0

1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time

1992 - Final episode of “Night Court” airs on NBC-TV

1992 - Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show

1993 - Arsenio Hall’s 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands

1993 - KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR

1995 - New Zealand beats US for the America’s Cup

1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA

2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.

2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.

2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.

2012 - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war

 

 

 

Births

 

1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)

1254 - Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)

1314 - Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint

1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)

1592 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist

1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)

1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker

1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)

1795 - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883

1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)

1856 - Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art

1867 - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)

1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)

1903 - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer

1907 - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)

1907 - Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist

1908 - Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)

1914 - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)

1924 - Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director

1926 - Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)

1927 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)

1927 - Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)

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

1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)

1931 - Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)

1937 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)

1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio

1938 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)

1939 - Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer

1939 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)

1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist

1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)

1941 - Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)

1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist

1943 - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)

1944 - Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist

1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author

1945 - Magic Dick, [Richard Salwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)

1947 - Pete “Overend” Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)

1947 - Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul’s Bane)

1949 - Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)

1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)

1950 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)

1951 - Paul Thompson, rock drummer (Roxy Music)

1951 - Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)

1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation

1959 - Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer

1961 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)

1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor

1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder

1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)

1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian

1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)

1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)

1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist

1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)

1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress

1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol

1986 - Robert Pattinson, London, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)

 

 

Deaths

 

384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+

1162 - Géza II of Hungary

1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)

1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)

1381 - John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies

1390 - Robert II the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90), dies

1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)

1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded

1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)

1776 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71

1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)

1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies

1864 - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35

1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)

1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies

1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)

1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60

1962 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51

1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43

1985 - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64

1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59

1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83

1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58

1996 - John “Jack” Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57

1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)

2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)

2011 - Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)

2012 - Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today In The Past

 

 

Events

 

254 - Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope

919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich

1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr

1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country

1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur

1525 - Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers

1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian

1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens

1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV

1689 - England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg

1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)

 

 

 

1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina (Revolutionary War)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses

 

 

 

 

 

 

1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.

1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana

1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss

1864 - Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)

1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia

1864 - Battle of Todd’s Tavern, VA (Sheridan’s Raid)

1864 - Butler attacks Drewry’s Bluff on James River

1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general

1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas

1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada

1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0

1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting

1897 - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece

1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed

1909 - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8

1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)

1917 - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4

1917 - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6

1923 - 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6

1924 - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2

1925 - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics

1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole

1926 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole

1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ

1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers

1934 - ”Cocktails For Two,” by Duke Ellington hits #1

1934 - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2

1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River

1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River

1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender

1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US

1944 - 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux

1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)

1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll

1960 - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”

1963 - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama

1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of SDS

1969 - Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH

1970 - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run

1970 - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court

1970 - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)

1973 - Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92

 

 

 

1975 - US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces

 

 

 

 

 

 

1977 - 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)

1978 - Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female

1979 - Chris Evert’s 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end

1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)

1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D

1986 - Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph

1989 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists

1990 - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)

1992 - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest

1993 - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC’s “Wonder Years” in Netherlands

1993 - Last broadcast of “Knots landing” on CBS

1993 - Last broadcast of “Cheers” on NBC-TV

1995 - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)

1997 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1997 - Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida

2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.

2003 - Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.

2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people

2012 - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon

 

 

 

Births

 

1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)

1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)

1590 - Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)

1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)

1670 - Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)

1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect

1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)

1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)

1806 - Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877

1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)

1812 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863

 

 

 

1820 - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)

1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights

1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank

1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)

1906 - William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist

 

 

 

1907 - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam’s Rib, On Golden Pond)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)

1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)

1912 - Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet

1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)

1914 - Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)

1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)

1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)

1922 - Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter

1923 - Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire

1925 - Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)

1928 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I’ll Never Fall in Love Again)

1930 - Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood California, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)

1936 - Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)

1937 - George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)

1939 - Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)

1941 - Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)

1942 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)

1942 - Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd)

1942 - Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau La, rocker (I Can Help)

1945 - Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)

1946 - Ian McLagan, rocker (Faces)

 

 

 

1946 - L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author

 

 

 

 

 

 

1948 - Steve Winwood, England, rock bassist (A Higher Love)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1950 - Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don’t Say No)

1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)

1950 - Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)

1950 - Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72)

1950 - Shozo Fujii, judoka

1951 - Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)

 

 

 

1955 - Kix Brooks , Shreveport La, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1956 - Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show “The Simpsons”

1958 - Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend

1958 - Kim Greist, Stamford CT, actress (CHUD, Brazil, Payoff, Manhunter)

1959 - Ving Rhames, American actor

1962 - Amy Benz, Rochester NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile Classic-3rd)

1962 - Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)

1963 - Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver

1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)

1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder

1969 - Kim Fields Freeman, LA California, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)

1969 - Kevin Nalty, famed YouTuber

1970 - James Michael Furyk, West Chester PA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)

1970 - Samantha Mathis, American actress

1973 - MacKenzie Astin, LA California, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)

1973 - Travis Lutter, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1977 - Monique de Bruin, Porland Oregon, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)

1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor

1981 - James Graham – Founder HistoryOrb.com

 

 

 

Deaths

 

912 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45

1003 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome

1003 - Pope Sylvester/Silvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies

1012 - Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies

1382 - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies

1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea

1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48

1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered

1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest

1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)

1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)

 

 

 

1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83

 

 

 

 

 

 

1852 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies

1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)

1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)

1864 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37

1871 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies

1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)

1897 - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies

1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)

1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead

1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71

1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)

1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67

1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)

1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies

1989 - Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81

1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)

1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59

1995 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71

1996 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84

1996 - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35

1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)

2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)

2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)

2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)

2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)

2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)

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