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Today In The Past

 

 

Events

539 BC – King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

532 – Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1346 – Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.

1415 – Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office

1448 – Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.

1456 – The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)

 

 

 

1483 – Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor–general of Spain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.

1691 – New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth

1707 – German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach

 

 

 

1777 – British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1781 – Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown(see UE 10/16)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1829 – Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens

1829 – German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser

1831 – Felix Mendelssohn’s 1st Piano concert in G, premieres

1850 – Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized

1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented

1862 – Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA

1871 – President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus

1876 – Henry Morton Stanley’s reaches Lualaba River

1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

1894 – Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

1899 – Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000

1904 – Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors

1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.

1916 – Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage

1919 – Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created

1920 – Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0

1931 – Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

1933 – Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany

 

 

 

1941 – 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

1945 – Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina

1951 – Egyptian army fires on British troops

1959 – Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse

1960 – US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases

1961 – Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians

1961 – NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m

1967 – Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km

1970 – Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt

1972 – Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-ling,” is #1

1973 – 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins

1973 – Arabs decrease oil production

1975 – 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss

 

 

 

1977 – West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers

 

 

 

 

 

1978 – Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship

1979 – Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1979 – Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education

1982 – Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation

1982 – Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series

1983 – Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu

1983 – STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem

1984 – Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield

1985 – French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature

1986 – US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

1988 – Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment

1988 – Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft

1988 – Rockin Robin beats “Sensational” Sherri Martel for WWF woman’s title

1991 – Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races

1994 – Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland’s Gund Arena

1995 – Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000

1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.

2003 – The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World’s tallest highrise.

2003 – Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.

2005 – The Colbert Report first airs.

2006 – The United States population reaches 300 million.

2007 – The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.

 

 

Births

1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, ]])

1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer

1582 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)

1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)

1696 – August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen

1704 – Willem Bentinck, orangist

1711 – Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry (Complete Works)

1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)

1806 – Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist

1817 – Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)

1817 – Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)

1848 – William “Candy” Cummings, created curve ball

1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)

1898 – Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer

1900 – Jean Arthur, New York, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991)

1903 – Irene Ryan, El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)

1903 – Jerry Colona, Boston Mass, comedian (Jerry Colona Show)

1903 – Nathanael West, American novelist (Day of the Locusts)

1905 – Franco Albini, Italian architect

1909 – Crozy [William] Cole, US jazz drummer

1914 – Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman)

1915 – Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)

1918 – Rita Hayworth, NY, [Marguerita C Casino], actress (Gilda, Pal Joey)

1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist

1920 – Montgomery Clift, Omaha NE, actor (From Here to Eternity)

1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952)

1921 – Pricilla Lanford Buckley, editor/columnist (National Review)

 

 

 

1921 – Tom Poston, Columbus Ohio, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart)

 

United Airlines Commercial

Cold Turkey

Get Smart:”Shock it to Me”

Newhart

1923 – Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)

1926 – Beverly Garland, Santa Cruz California, actress (My 3 Sons)

1926 – Karl Gordon Henize, Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51-F)

1930 – Jimmy Breslin, Queens NYC, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)

1930 – Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)

1932 – Paul Anderson, US, light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic-gold-1956)

1933 – William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8)

1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist

1938 – Robert “Evel” Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), (d. 2007)

1940 – Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner

1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)

1941 – James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)

1942 – Gary Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)

1946 – Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor (Soap)/pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-68)

1946 – James Ray Tucker, LA California, rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor)

1947 – Michael McKean, NYC, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap)

1948 – George Wendt, Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)

1948 – Margot Kidder, Yellowknife, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror)

1949 – Bill Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)

1955 – Sam Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Prime Risk, Savages)

 

 

 

1958 – Alan Jackson, Newnan Ga, country singer (Here in the Real World)

 

Small Town Southern Man

Drive

Chattahoochee

Little Bitty

 

 

 

 

1959 – Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]

1959 – Richard Roeper, American film critic

1960 – Rob Marshall, American director

 

 

 

1962 – Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist

 

Mike Judge on Jimmy Kimmel

Citizen Butthead

Boomhauer King Of The Hill

 

 

 

 

1963 – Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian

1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality

1967 – Reggie Clark, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)

1968 – Ziggy Marley, reggae performer

1969 – Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open)

1970 – Tasha Tsang, Saskatoon Saskatchwan, rower (Olympics-96)

1972 – Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], Saint Joseph, Missouri, rapper and movie star (‘The Real Slim Shady’, ‘Stan’ and ‘8 Mile’)

1972 – Tarkan, Turkish singer

1972 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer

1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver

1980 – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver

Deaths

532 – Boniface II, 1st “German” Pope, dies

1174 – Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)

1312 – Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies

1552 – Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53

1586 – Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32

1616 – John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)

1660 – Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)

1780 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)

1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)

1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)

1887 – Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63

1889 – Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)

1909 – Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44

1910 – Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91

1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)

1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)

1970 – Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)

1972 – Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)

 

 

 

1979 – S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

1984 – Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89

 

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

My Handy Man

My Castle’s Rockin

Beale Street Blues with Fats Waller

 

 

 

 

1990 – Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64

 

 

 

1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72

 

 

16 Tons                                                                 Goober Peas

Peace In The Valley                                        Bonnie Blue Flag

What A Friend We Have With Odetta

The Southern Wagon

 

 

 

 

1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)

1993 – Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77

1994 – Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27

1997 – Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54

1998 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist

1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)

2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)

 

 

 

2007 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)

 

Joey Bishop roasts Don Rickles

Frank Sinatra Joey Bishop & Peter Lawford at the 1960 Sands Summit

Joey Bishop Show-1963

Dean Martin and Joey Bishop

 

 

 

 

2008 – Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (b. 1936)

 

 

 

2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)

 

Addams Family TV Show Opening 1964

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Green Acres Opening

2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., Cincinnati businessman and one of the world’s richest people (b. 1919)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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