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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