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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-19-2005, 09:45 PM:
 
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On this day in history ..

1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
1582 - Puerto Rico Discovery Day
1620 - Mayflower pgrims reach Cape Cod
1644 - 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1863 - Lincoln delivers Gettysburg address
1895 - Pencil invented
1919 - Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal State Historical Landmark
1971 - Ft Wilderness opens
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer failed on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown Guyana

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1600 - Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1752 - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat built Suez Canal
1831 - James A Garfield, 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19 1881)
1888 - Jose Ra£l Capablanca, of Cuba world chess champion (1921-27)
1905 - Tommy Dorsey, band leader
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77 1980-84)
1919 - Alan Young, English actor
1921 - Roy Campanella, baseball player
1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
1933 - Larry King, radio talk show host
1936 - Dick Cavett, TV talk show host
1938 - Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul
1941 - Dan Haggerty, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1942 - Calvin Klein, clothes designer
1949 - Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, in Mill Valley Cal (Rose Garden Twilight Zone)
1956 - Glynnis O'Connor, in NYC
1962 - Jodie Foster, LA (Bugsy Malone) - Pulls Hinckley's string
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-19-2005, 09:50 PM:
 
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On November 20 in history ..

1780 - Britain declares war against Holland
1789 - NJ became 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights.
1888 - William Bundy invents 1st timecard clock
1894 - US intervenes in Bluefields Nicaragua
1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico led by Francisco I. Madero.
1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1931 - Commercial teletype service began
1942 - NHL abolishes regular season overtime
1943 - American forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg Germany.
1947 - Meet the Press makes network TV debut on NBC.
1947 - UN General assembly looks into printing their own stamps
1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1953 - 1st airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield
1967 - At 11 AM Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
1975 - Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82
1977 - Walter Payton of Bears rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
1980 - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1980 - UA withdraws $44 million movie `Heaven's Gate' for reediting.
1981 - Anatoly Karpov USSR retains world chess championship
1983 - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie `The Day After'
1985 - Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
1986 - UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS

Famous birthdays on November 20 ..

1602 - Otto von Guericke, invented air pump
1620 - Peregrine White, son of William & Susanna White born aboard Mayflower
1726 - Oliver Wolcott, governor of Conn. signer of Declaration of Indep
1781 - Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat author humanist
1841 - Sir Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian prime minister (1896-1911)
1858 - Selma Lagerl”f, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge 1st commissioner of baseball
1886 - Karl von Frisch, zoologist bee expert (Nobel 1973)
1889 - Edwin Hubble, US astronomer discoverer of galaxies red shift
1900 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, raconteur (Masterpiece Theatre)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, fashion designer
1916 - Robert A. Bruce, pioneer in exercise cardiology
1916 - Judy Canova, in Fla
1917 - Robert Byrd, (D-Sen-WV) majority leader
1919 - Evelyn Keyes, actress
1920 - Gene Tierney, actress (Laura Razor's Edge)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, in Portland Maine
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer (Lying Days)
1925 - Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina
1925 - Robert Kennedy, in Brookline Mass (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated
1926 - Kaye Ballard, in Ohio Actress-comedian
1927 - Estelle Parsons, actress (Rachel Rachel Bonnie and Clyde)
1932 - Richard Dawson, (Family Feud Hogan's Heroes)
1939 - Dick Smothers, comedian
1942 - Joseph R. Biden Jr., (D-Sen-Del)
1943 - Veronica Hamill, Phila (Hill Street Blues)
1946 - Judy Woodruff, newscaster
1949 - Ahmad Rashad, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota) sportscaster
1956 - Bo Derek, Long Beach Cal (10 Tarzan Ape Man)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-20-2005, 08:48 PM:
 
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On November 21 in history ..

1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown MA harbor
1624 - Jakob B”hme German philosophical mystic dies (birth date unknown)
1783 - Pilƒtre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1789 - NC becomes 12th state
1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
1847 - Phoenix is lost on Lake Michigan
1933 - 1st US ambassador to USSR - WC Bullitt
1934 - Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals
1952 - 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1959 - Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet
1964 - World's longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened
1980 - Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
1980 - Who Shot JR episode of Dallas

Famous birthdays on November 21 ..

1694 - Voltaire of France, thinker
1785 - William Beaumont, surgeon studied digestion
1787 - Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
1854 - Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
1898 - Rene Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe)
1904 - Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
1907 - Jim Bishop, author
1912 - Eleanor Powell, in Springfield Mass
1916 - Sid Luckman, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1920 - Ralph Meeker, actor (Anderson Tapes Night Stalker)
1920 - Stan Musial, baseball player
1923 - Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys and Dolls)
1932 - Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay Philadelphia)
1933 - Henry W. (Hank) Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4 41D 61A)
1937 - Marlo Thomas, in Detroit Michigan aka Mrs Phil Donahue
1940 - Natalia Maskarova, in Lenningrad ballerina
1941 - Juliet Mills, in London England
1943 - Marlo Thomas, actress (That Girl! Jenny)
1943 - Larry Mahan, rodeo champ
1945 - Goldie Hawn, Wash DC (Butterflies Are Free Foul Play)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Halloween Trading Places)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 02:06 PM:
 
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On this day in history .. November 22, 2005.

1906 - Intl Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1925 - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1943 - Lebanon gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1944 - Arthur S Eddington dies
1945 - end Jim Benton of Cleveland gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1957 - Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
1963 - JFK assasinated in Dallas
1967 - UN Security council passes resol 242 - Israel must give back land
1968 - Beatles release "The Beatles" there only double album
1972 - Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1974 - Lake Buena Vista Club opens

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer son of J.S. Bach
1819 - George Eliot, in England novelist (Silas Marner)
1868 - John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
1869 - Andr‚ Gide, French novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures) (Nobel 1947)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, pres of France (1958-69)
1898 - Wiley Post, American aviator parachutist
1899 - Hoagie Carmichael, American actor songwriter (Stardust Lazybones)
1913 - Benjamin Britten, English composer
1924 - Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors Trip to Bountiful)
1930 - Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3 STS-9)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, actor (Napoleon Solo of I Spy)
1943 - Billie Jean King, tennis pro Cal
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, in LA Cal - Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh's daughter
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, in Ketchum Idaho (Manhattan Personal Best)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 02:09 PM:
 
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Today In History search for November 23.



1852 - just past midnight a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet
1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1911 - Post Hospital at Presidio SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
1948 - Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
1979 - Merle Oberon dies at 68
1980 - Mae West dies at 88

Famous birthdays on November 23 ..

0912 - Otto I (the Great), German king Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
1221 - Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile and Leon (1252)
1749 - Gov. Edward Rutledge, of S.C. signer of Declaration of Independence
1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th Pres (1853-1857)
1859 - Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), criminal
1860 - Karl Branting, Swedish statesman diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
1887 - Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein Isle of the Dead)
1930 - William Brock, Sen
1930 - Vera Miles, in Okla
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
1935 - Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7 11)
1952 - Francie Larrieu, Track runner
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:36 PM:
 
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On November 24 in history ..

1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1832 - SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
1874 - Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
1954 - 1st US Presial airplane christened
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1963 - 1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1971 - D B Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200, 000
1979 - Kings' Charley Simmer failed on 8th penalty shot against Islanders

Famous birthdays on November 24 ..

1632 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
1700 - Benjamin Spinoza,
1713 - Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in Cal
1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5 1849-July 9 1850)
1864 - Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, in France painter
1868 - Scott Joplin, American musician composer
1877 - Alben W. Barkley, (D) 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53)
1888 - Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
1912 - Eric Severide,
1921 - John V. Lindsay, (R-NY-mayor)
1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
1930 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
1938 - Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:39 PM:
 
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On November 25 in history ..

1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1758 - Britain captures Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1783 - Britain evacuated NY their last military position in US
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk
1885 - VP Thomas A Hendricks died at 66 8 months after taking office
1920 - WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1933 - 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft
1948 - Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1952 - Agatha Christie's "Mouse Trap" opens in London
1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke
1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development Richland Wa
1973 - Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup
1974 - UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65
1975 - Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day)
1976 - O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Det
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship
1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth 149 days after take-off
1984 - William Schroeder becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart

Famous birthdays on November 25 ..

1835 - Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist library builder
1846 - Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers
1881 - John XXIII, 261st pope (1958-63) (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo It
1896 - Virgil Thomson, Composer and music critic
1914 - Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
1920 - Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island Khan
1933 - Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
1933 - Kathryn Grant Crosby, in Houston
1937 - John Larroquette,
1939 - Martin Feldstein, economist
1940 - Tina Turner, in Brownsville Tx
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr,
1966 - Stacy Lattislaw,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:42 PM:
 
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On November 26 in history ..

1716 - 1st lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 - 1st natl celebration of Thanksgiving
1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1825 - 1st fraternity Kappa Alpha formed at Union College (Schenectady)
1832 - 1st horse drawn American street car -NYC- fare: 12›
1865 - Alice in Wonderland published
1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF at 25th & Folsom
1883 - Sojourner Truth abolitionist women's rights advocate dies
1885 - 1st Meteor photograph
1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn formed
1940 - Nazis force 4.5 mil Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 - China enters Korean conflict
1962 - 1st recording session under the name Beatles
1965 - France launches 1st satellite a 92-pound A1 capsule
1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary France
1973 - Nixon's personal sec Rose Mary Woods told a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1975 - Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1980 - Rachael Roberts dies at age 53
1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager
1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched

Famous birthdays on November 26 ..

1607 - John Harvard, English clergyman scholar founder of Harvard Univ
1731 - William Cowper, English poet
1792 - Sarah Moore Grimk‚, American antislavery women's rights advocate
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, little woman
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor women's rights leader
1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1892 - Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton Cleveland Oorang Rock I. etc.)
1894 - Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
1912 - Eric Sevareid, newscaster
1922 - Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
1925 - Lois Hunt, in Morriston NJ
1933 - Robert Goulet, Singer in Canada
1935 - Marian Mercer, Actress-singer
1937 - Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1938 - Tina Turner, Singer
1938 - Rich Little, Impressionist in Canada
1942 - Jan Stenerud, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:44 PM:
 
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On November 27 in history ..

1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1582 - Advent Sunday
1815 - Cracow declared a free republic
1890 - 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
1901 - Army War College was established in Wash DC
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1937 - Pro-labor musical revue `Pins & Needles'opens produced by ILGWU
1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships & submarines to prevent them from falling into hands of Nazis
1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane White Sands NM
1953 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65
1966 - in highest-scoring NFL game Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1971 - Mars 2 1st crash land on Mars
1972 - Yanks trade Ellis Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
1973 - Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1978 - SF Mayor George Moscone & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White
1980 - Soyuz T-3 is launched
1981 - Singer-actress Lotte Lenya dies in NY at 83
1982 - 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1985 - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1985 - Space shuttle Atlantis makes 2nd flight carries 7 (1 Mexican)

Famous birthdays on November 27 ..

1701 - Anders Celsius, invented centigrade temperature scale
1746 - Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
1804 - Sir Julius Benedict, composer
1809 - Fanny Kemble, English actress
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian
1903 - John McNally, a.k.a. Johnny Blood early NFL halfback
1903 - Mona Washbourne, Actress
1912 - David Merrick, Bdwy producer
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith,
1921 - Alexander Dubcek, head of Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1937 - Gail Sheehy, Writer
1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, guitarist
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, in Wash DC
1957 - Caroline Kennedy,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:46 PM:
 
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On November 28 in history ..

1520 - Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1853 - Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
1895 - America's auto race starts; 6 cars 55 miles winner avg 7 MPH
1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
1929 - Adm RE Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1929 - Ernie Nevers scores 40 points for Cardinals vs Bears (NFL record)
1943 - Roosevelt Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran
1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1964 - Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1974 - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1976 - Rosalind Russell dies at age 68
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
1986 - Reagan adm exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time

Famous birthdays on November 28 ..

1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1632 - Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer musician
1757 - William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet essayist dramatist translator
1908 - Claude L‚vi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist
1929 - Gloria Grahame,
1933 - Hope Lange, in London
1937 - Gary Hart, (D-Sen-Colo)
1942 - Paul Warfield, NFL WFL wide receiver (Cleveland Miami Memphis)
1943 - Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops)
1949 - Alexander Godunov, composer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:48 PM:
 
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On November 29 in history ..

1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII died.
1847 - Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu Hawaii
1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game Score: Navy 24 Army 0
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1924 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
1929 - Richard Byrd & crew flies over South Pole
1934 - Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1945 - Yugoslav Republic Day
1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion Frenchman Flat Nevada
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war.
1961 - Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1967 - US Sec of Def McNamara becomes president of the World Bank.
1971 - 1st Prof Golf Championship at Walt Disney World
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina Calif. at 43
1986 - Cary Grant dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
1987 - It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
1987 - Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles)

Famous birthdays on November 29 ..

1803 - Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage antislavery prison reformer
1818 - George Brown, (L) Canadian publisher (Toronto Globe) PM (1858)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women)
1849 - Sir Ambrose Fleming, invented diode
1874 - Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1895 - William V.S. Tubman, (Whig) 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1907 - Merle Travis, U.S. country singer (Sixteen Tons)
1927 - Vin Scully, Sportscaster
1928 - Paul Simon, (Sen-D-Ill) pres candidate
1932 - Diana Ladd,
1933 - David Reuben, physician/Writer
1933 - John Mayall, blues singer
1940 - Chuck Mangione, jazz musician composer
1946 - Suzy Chaffee, Skier
1955 - Howie Mandel, (St Elsewhere's-Dr Fiscus)
1960 - Cathy Moriarty, Actress
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-22-2005, 07:52 PM:
 
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On November 30 in history ..

0030 - BC Cleopatra died
1752 - St Andrew's Day
1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1939 - USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1940 - 1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8 Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel Jewish settlements are attacked
1954 - 1st meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Ala
1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched Dewey Bath Me
1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1967 - South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
1974 - 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)

Famous birthdays on November 30 ..

1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman admiral
1554 - Philip Sidney, English poet statesman soldier (Arcadia)
1667 - Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal)
1793 - Johann Lukas Sch”nlein, helped establish scientific medicine
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker
1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German historian writer (Nobel 1902)
1835 - Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn)
1863 - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, (C) Brit. PM (1940-45 1951-55) (Nobel 1953)
1898 - Roy (Link) Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1912 - Gordon Parks, film director
1915 - Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, in St Louis Mo
1923 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (77 Sunset Strip)
1924 - Allan Sherman, comedian
1924 - Shirley Chisholm, (D-Rep) pres candidate
1927 - Richard Crenna,
1929 - Dick Clark, oldest teenager (American Bandstand)
1930 - G Gordon Liddy,
1936 - Abbie Hoffman, Yippie
1955 - Billy Idol, rocker (White Wedding)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-30-2005, 07:00 AM:
 
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On December 1 in history ..

1640 - Portugal becomes independent of Spain
1821 - Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1913 - 1st drive-up gasoline station opens in Pitts
1917 - Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
1918 - Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
1922 - 1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt Turner RAF
1929 - Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
1935 - Bernard Schmidt invented Schmidt camera dies
1951 - Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds
1955 - Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
1958 - Central African Republic established (National Day)
1959 - 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
1959 - International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington
1962 - Grey Cup halted by fog resumed next day (Winnipeg 28 Hamilton 27)
1967 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope

Famous birthdays on December 1 ..

1800 - Mih ly V”r”smarty, Hungarian poet dramatist
1886 - Rex Stout, mystery writer
1899 - Robert Welch, founded John Birch Society
1902 - Morris (Red) Badgro, NFL end (Yankees Giants Brooklyn Dodgers)
1911 - Walter Alston, baseball manager
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center NY)
1913 - Mary Martin Weatherford, Tx (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
1935 - Lou Rawls, singer
1935 - Woody Allen, (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) Bkln (Zelig Annie Hall)
1936 - Lee Trevino, pro golfer
1939 - Dianne Lennon, singer
1940 - Richard Pryor, comedian actor (Lady Sings the Blues Stir Crazy)
1945 - Bette Midler, in Patterson NJ
1958 - Charlene Tilton, in San Diego Calif
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-01-2005, 11:27 AM:
 
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On December 2 in history ..

1804 - Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor placing crown on his own head
1805 - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1816 - 1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
1822 - In San Salvador a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823 - Pres Monroe declares his doctrine
1852 - French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1859 - John Brown hung
1899 - US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1927 - 1st Model A Fords sold for $385
1942 - 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
1952 - 1st human birth televised to public Denver Co
1954 - US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
1957 - 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated Pa
1961 - 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21 Hamilton 14)
1971 - Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 - United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1972 - In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1974 - Soyuz 16 launched
1975 - Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1981 - Moscone Convention Center in SF opens
1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted

Famous birthdays on December 2 ..

1859 - Georges Seurat, French painter pointillist
1885 - George Minot, US physician worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
1885 - N¡kos Kazantazak¡s, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
1914 - Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific Sting)
1915 - Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
1915 - William Randolph Hearst, publisher
1917 - Ezra Stone, American actor producer
1923 - Maria Callas, NY opera singer
1924 - Alexander Haig, (R) sec of state
1925 - Julie Harris, in Michigan
1931 - Edwin Meese III, AG
1940 - Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos Oakland Raiders)
1949 - Cathy Lee Crosby, in LA
1962 - Tracy Austin, tennis pro
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-03-2005, 07:15 AM:
 
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On this day in history .. December 3..

1621 - Galileo invents telescope
1678 - Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College Oxford
1818 - Ill admitted as 21st state
1818 - Illinois becomes 21st state
1828 - Andrew Jackson elected pres
1833 - Oberlin College in Oh 1st truly coeducational college opens
1866 - Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies
1933 - Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
1947 - Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire ' opens
1948 - Pumpkin Papers came to light
1950 - Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1954 - Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate
1964 - Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley
1967 - 1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown South Africa)
1967 - 20th Century Ltd famed NY-Chic luxury train final run
1973 - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
1979 - 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum Cin at a Who concert
1980 - NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy D-NY guilty
1984 - 2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal India
1985 - 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1368 - Charles VI, (the Well-Beloved) king of France (1380-1422)
1729 - Antonio Soler, Spain composer
1755 - Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter painted Washington
1857 - Joseph Conrad, in Poland novelist (Lord Jim Heart of Darkness)
1879 - Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp
1883 - Anton von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer
1895 - Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter
1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist worked with vitamins (Nobel '38)
1923 - Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
1924 - John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
1927 - Ferlin Husky, Country singer
1930 - Andy Williams, singer (Moon River)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
1930 - Phyllis Curtin, in West Virginia
1931 - Jaye P Morgan, in Mancos Cal
1934 - Viktor V. Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 8 24 37)
1943 - Jim Morrison, rock musician (Doors)
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, eat a bat
 

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December 4th

On this day in history ..

1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
1680 - A hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great comet 1st seen on December 16 1680
1682 - 1st Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester)
1783 - Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern NYC
1909 - 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26 Toronto Parkdale 6)
1912 - Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
1915 - Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1957 - 1st edition of Chase's Annual Events published
1965 - Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
1980 - Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
1980 - South Africa grants Transkei independence

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1443 - Pope Julius II, (1503-13) patron of Michelangelo Bramante Raphael
1835 - Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom Way of All Flesh)
1861 - Lillian Russell, American singer actress (The Great Mogul)
1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (Duino Elegies)
1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist historian (or 1795)
1908 - A.D. Hershey, US biologist worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
1922 - Deanna Durbin, actress (100 Men and a Girl)
1943 - Patti Chandler, in Cal
1944 - Dennis Wilson, drummer Beach Boys
1949 - Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry)
 

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On December 5 in history ..

1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola
1776 - Phi Beta Kappa 1st American scholastic fraternity founded
1791 - Mozart dies
1876 - Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
1933 - 21st Amendment ratified 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed
1935 - 1st coml hydroponics operation established Montebello Ca
1947 - Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
1951 - Dragnet premiers
1955 - AFL & CIO merge
1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
1974 - Seattle Seahawks formed
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1982 - University Baptist Church Seattle declares sanctuary for refugees

Famous birthdays on December 5 ..

1782 - Martin Van Buren, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
1839 - George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame
1901 - Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse
1901 - Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
1902 - Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC)
1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
1905 - Otto Preminger, movie director producer (Laura Exodus)
1947 - Jim Plunkett, NFL quarterback
1947 - Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
1951 - Morgan Brittany,
 

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On December 6 in history ..

1492 - Haiti discovered by Columbus
1534 - Quito Ecuador founded by Spanish
1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1825 - Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
1876 - City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
1882 - Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
1907 - Coal mine explosions in Monongah WV kills 361
1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
1921 - Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1973 - Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence

Famous birthdays on December 6 ..

1421 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61 1470-71)
1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large US pencil factory
1870 - William S Hart, star of silent Westerns
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees)
1887 - Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy Arms and the Man)
1896 - George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful I Got Rhythm)
1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist economist
1906 - Agnes Moorehead, (Endorra-Bewitched)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
1921 - Otto Graham, AAFC NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
1925 - Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams NY Giants)
1947 - Chelsea Brown, in Chicago Ill
 

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On December 7 in history ..

1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1912 - George Darwin theorized moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean dies
1935 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
1941 - Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy) 1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
1960 - France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
1972 - Apollo 17 last of Apollo moon series launched
1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0
1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1st woman full prof at Harvard U dies

Famous birthdays on December 7 ..

1542 - Mary Queen, of Scots
1598 - Gian Bernini, baroque sculptor
1761 - Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
1873 - Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia)
1878 - Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet
1888 - Joyce Cary, writer
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer discovered moons of Uranus Neptune
1915 - Eli Wallach, actor
1923 - Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter anchorman)
1924 - Mario Soares, (Socialist) premier of Portugal (1976-78 1983- )
1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist founder of transformational grammar
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, in Det
1947 - Gregg Allman, singer
1947 - Johnny Bench, baseball catcher
1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina
1956 - Larry Bird, (Boston Celtics)
1956 - Priscilla Barnes, (3's Company)
 

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On December 8 in history ..

1831 - James Hoban White House designer dies
1845 - German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid Astra
1863 - Fire in Santiago Chile kills 2 000
1869 - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican I opens in Rome
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
1893 - Enlightment of Buddha
1913 - Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1940 - 1st NFL championship on natl radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - SF 1st blackout at 6:15PM. Also US declares war on Japan
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1966 - A terrible Yankee trade Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1980 - John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman
1982 - Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays on December 8 ..

0065 - Horace, BC in Rome poet
1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1765 - Eli Whitney, inventor
1832 - Bjírnstjerne Bjírnson, Norwegian writer (Nobel 1903)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, French painter sculptor
1861 - William Crapo Durant, founded GM
1865 - Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer
1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
1894 - James (Grover) Thurber, in Columbus Oh (Men Women and Dogs)
1903 - Adele Simpson, fashion designer
1906 - Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1908 - John Volpe, former governor of Massachusetts cabinet officer
1922 - John B. (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer actor (Ocean's 11)
1927 - Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4 8 10)
1930 - Maximilian Schell, actor (Odessa File Julia)
1933 - Flip Wilson, comedian actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh)
1936 - David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu Mean Streets)
1937 - James MacArthur, actor -- "Book 'Em Danno!"
1953 - Kim Basinger, in Athens Ga (9 1/2 Weeks Man Who Loved Women)
 

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On December 9 in history ..

1292 - Sa'di great Persian poet (Orchard Rose Garden) dies
1792 - 1st cremation in US
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper American Minerva
1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold in Wilmington PO
1941 - 300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ
1948 - UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

Famous birthdays on December 9 ..

1561 - Edwin Sandys, a founder of Va colony
1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
1608 - John Milton, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus stories
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king
1897 - Hermione Gingold,
1898 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch of the West)
1905 - Dalton Trumbo, writer film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor (Ghost Story)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men Highway Patrol)
1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
1912 - Thomas P. O'Neill, (D-Mass-Rep) Speaker of the House
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
1918 - Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral 7 Days in May)
1922 - Redd Foxx, actor and comedian (Sanford and Son)
1925 - Dina Merrill, in NYC
1926 - Luis Miguel Domingu¡n, matador
1928 - Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough)
1929 - Robert J.L. Hawke, (Labor) prime minister of Australia (1983- )
1938 - David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA SD Washington)
1942 - Dick Butkus, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1957 - Donny Osmond, singer
 

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On December 10 in history ..

1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant
1817 - Mississippi becomes 20th state
1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Mass
1869 - Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
1896 - Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
1898 - Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant Fr‚d‚ric Passy)
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1920 - President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
1923 - Harold Gould (Rhoda
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1948 - UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
1950 - Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1962 - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1966 - Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1967 - Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 - Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

Famous birthdays on December 10 ..

1787 - Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf
1822 - Cesar Franck, in Belgium composer
1824 - George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet
1851 - Melvil Dewey, creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1891 - Nelly Sachs, German poet O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966)
1903 - Una Merkel, actress (The Parent Trap)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, in New Orleans (Road to Bali Greatest Show on Earth)
1946 - Gloria Loring, in NYC
1952 - Susan Hallock Dey, in Ill (First Love LA Law)
1961 - Nia Peeples,
 

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On December 11 in history ..

1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state
1888 - French Panama Canal company fails
1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1932 - Snow falls in SF
1936 - King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
1941 - Japanese occupy Guam
1946 - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1953 - KTVA Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News Va
1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry Don Larsen Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1961 - JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1970 - John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10› to 13›
1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich

Famous birthdays on December 11 ..

1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist inventor of kaleidoscope
1803 - Hector Berlioz, in France composer
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist
1882 - Fiorello La Guardia, (R) mayor of NYC (1933-45)
1882 - Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954)
1905 - Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
1913 - Carlo Ponti, director
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
1931 - Rita Moreno, actress (The King and I West Side Story) in Puerto Rico
1937 - Anne Heywood,
1944 - Brenda Lee, in Atlanta Georgia
1944 - Donna Mills, in Chicago Illinois
1945 - Lynda Day-George, in Tennessee
1947 - Elizabeth Baur, in Cal
1950 - Christine Onasis, in NYC
1962 - Kim Linehan, swimmer
 

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On December 12 in history ..

1787 - Penns becomes 2nd state
1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1899 - George F Grant patents golf tee
1901 - Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal England to US
1921 - Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover dies
1937 - 1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
1963 - Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 - Russia launches Voshkod I 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs ties NFL record
1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves

Famous birthdays on December 12 ..

1745 - John Jay, diplomat
1805 - Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (Madame Bovary)
1852 - Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, singer actor (Old Blue Eyes)
1918 - Joe Williams, jazz singer
1923 - Bob Barker, game show host
1924 - Edward Koch, mayor of NYC
1929 - John Osborne, playwright
1938 - Connie Francis, in Newark NJ
1941 - Dionne Warwick, in East Orange NJ
1950 - Billy Smith, goaltender (NY Islanders)
1962 - Holly Gagnier, in LA
 

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On December 13 in history ..

1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg Va; South beats North
1903 - Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kittyhawk
1918 - Wilson 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres
1920 - Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres
1968 - Playland at the Beach reopens
1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1974 - Maltese Republic Day
1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar 1st US coin to honor a woman issued
1981 - Solidarity Day
1982 - Devil's 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
1983 - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers

Famous birthdays on December 13 ..

1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
1835 - Phillips Brooks, clergyman composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
1871 - Russell Porter,
1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist
1913 - Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ
1915 - Ross Macdonald, detective novelist
1920 - George Schultz, secof state
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show Mary Poppins)
1929 - Christopher Plummer, actor
1930 - Genevieve Page,
1941 - John Davidson, TV host
1948 - Kathy Garver, in Cal
 

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On December 14 in history ..

1782 - Charleston SC evacuated by British
1799 - George Washington died at Mt Vernon Va
1819 - Alabama becomes 22nd state
1911 - South Pole 1st reached by Roald Amundsen
1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain but British troops remain
1962 - Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
1971 - Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure
1974 - Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent - Kings 3-0
1980 - Anders Kailur scored in 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 - Yankee catcher Elston Howard dies
1985 - Roger Maris dies at 51

Famous birthdays on December 14 ..

1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
1546 - Tycho Brahe, at Knudstrup Denmark astronomer
1895 - George VI, king of England (1936-52)
1896 - James H. Doolittle, former Air Force general
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, (R-Sen-Maine)
1909 - Edward L. Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
1914 - Morey Amsterdam, actor
1922 - Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1932 - Abbe Lane, in Bkln
1932 - Charlie Rich, singer
1935 - Lee Remick, in Boston Mass (Days of Wine and Rose Long Hot Summer)
1938 - Janette Scott,
1946 - Jane Birkin,
1946 - Joyce Wilson (Dawn), in Detroit Michigan
1946 - Patty Duke, in Bkln (Miracle Worker)
 

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On December 15 in history ..

1612 - Simon Marius namer of Jupiter's 4 inner satellites is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval
1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash DC
1859 - G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden Candiens 3 Americans 1
1939 - 1st coml manufacture of nylon yarn Seaford Delaware
1944 - Bandleader Major Glenn Miller lost over English Channel
1946 - Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL failed to report bribe attempt
1964 - American Radio Relay League founded
1965 - 1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 link up
1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn Janus
1966 - Walt Disney passes away
1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1971 - USSR's Venera 7 becomes the 1st craft to land on Venus
1973 - Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
1973 - Pirates of Caribbean opens
1980 - Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1985 - Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed

Famous birthdays on December 15 ..

1832 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris
1859 - Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea, invented 1st auto built and operated in US
1892 - J. Paul Getty, business tycoon
1933 - Tim Conway, comedian (Carol Burnett Show)
1965 - Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl)
 

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On December 16 in history ..

1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1773 - Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor Indians welcome
1857 - Earthquake in Naples Italy
1893 - Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
1905 - Variety covering all phases of show business 1st published
1907 - Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
1909 - US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office
1911 - South Pole 1st reached by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1944 - Battle of the Bulge began
1965 - Gemini VI returns to Earth
1983 - Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time

Famous birthdays on December 16 ..

1485 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
1770 - Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany composer
1775 - Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice)
1863 - George Santayana, philosopher poet humanist
1899 - Sir Noel Coward, playwright
1900 - V.S. Pritchett, literary critic
1901 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001 Childhood's End)
1926 - James McCracken, dramatic tenor
1939 - Liv Ullman, in Tokyo Japan (Cries and Whispers)
1941 - Leslie Stahl, TV newsperson
1952 - Elayne Boosler, Comedian
1962 - William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)
 

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On December 17 in history ..

1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1777 - France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies
1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st one-way street
1792 - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1843 - Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published
1852 - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1860 - Anaheim Township created in LA County
1875 - Violent bread riots at Montreal
1903 - At 10:35AM 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Bros
1920 - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1933 - 1st professional NFL football game: Chicago Bears vs NY Giants
1944 - M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1954 - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In
1959 - 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities - On The Beach
1975 - 1st time Islanders shut-out Rangers 3-0 - Billy Smith's 5th
1979 - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)

Famous birthdays on December 17 ..

1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
1797 - Joseph Henry, American scientist and inventor
1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
1853 - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor theater manager
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L) 10th Canadian PM (1921-30 1935-48)
1894 - Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor
1903 - Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road God's Little Acre)
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock"
1926 - Patrice Wymore,
1929 - William Safire, political columnist
1930 - Julia Meade,
1936 - Roland Sheldon, Yankee Pitcher
1936 - Tommy Steele, singer
 

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On December 18 in history ..

1737 - Antonio Stradivari violin maker dies
1787 - NJ becomes 3rd state
1813 - British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
1849 - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
1865 - 13th Amendment ratified slavery abolished
1898 - Auto speed record set -- 63 kph
1915 - Pres Wilson widowed the year before marries Edith Bolling Galt
1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1945 - Uruguay joined UN
1956 - Japan admitted to the UN
1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1958 - 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1961 - India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa Damao & Diu
1965 - Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII
1969 - Britain abolished death penalty
1971 - 1st Candlelight Processional
1971 - Diana Lynn dies at 45
1972 - US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1973 - Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
1974 - SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1980 - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76
1985 - UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking'

Famous birthdays on December 18 ..

1707 - Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
1709 - Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I)
1779 - Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist "greatest clown in history"
1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German Romantic composer
1861 - Edward MacDowell, composer
1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter
1886 - Ty Cobb, played in 3000 games batted .367 stole 892 bases
1888 - Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
1910 - Abe Burrows, Broadway impresario
1913 - Willy Brandt, (SD) chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
1916 - Betty Grable, in St Louis
1917 - Lynn Bari, actress
1917 - Ossie Davis,
1927 - Ramsey Clark, Attorney General
1934 - Boris V. Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5 21)
1943 - Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones)
1947 - Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws Raiders of the Lost Arc)
1950 - Leonard Maltin, Movie reviewer
 

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On December 19 in history ..

1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1732 - Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1741 - Vitus Bering Dutch navigator & explorer died
1776 - Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge Pa for the winter
1842 - US recognized independence of Hawaii
1843 - Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol ' in England
1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 - Battle of Black Water
1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1907 - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Penn
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc authorized
1946 - War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
1950 - Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
1957 - The Music Man starring Robert Preston opens on Broadway
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1972 - Apollo 17 returns to Earth
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
1977 - Nellie Tayloe Ross 1st woman governor dies at 101
1984 - Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile

Famous birthdays on December 19 ..

1683 - Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
1790 - Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
1821 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer women's suffrage leader
1849 - Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage actress
1906 - H. Allen Smith, author
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine
1910 - Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks)
1920 - David Susskind, TV producer
1926 - Bobby Layne, pro quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1928 - Galt MacDermot, Canadian composer
1933 - Cicely Tyson, in NYC (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
1941 - Maurice White, Singer
1944 - Tim Reid, Actor (WKRP)
1945 - Elaine Joyce, Actress (Dating Game)
1946 - Robert Urich, Actor (Starman Vegas Spencer for Hire)
1947 - Janie Fricke, Singer
1949 - Claudia Kolb, swimmer
1963 - Jennifer Beals, in Chicago (Flashdance)
1972 - Alyassa Milano, (Who's the Boss)
 

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On this day in history December 20..

1606 - Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket RI)
1803 - Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US
1812 - Sacagawea Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark dies
1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1850 - Hawaiian PO established
1860 - SC becomes 1st state to secede from US
1864 - Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.' Savannah Ga
1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip according to Verne
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented
1919 - Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50 000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
1922 - 14 republics formed USSR
1929 - Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
1939 - Radio Australia starts shortwave service
1944 - Battle of Bastogne Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1963 - Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
1968 - Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66
1976 - Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley dies at 74
1976 - Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein pianists dies in Geneva Switzerland at 95
1983 - Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1805 - Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry
1819 - John Geary, 1st SF postmaster 1st mayor (May 1 1850)
1833 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
1841 - Ferdinand-�douard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
1868 - Harvey S Firestone, where the rubber meets the road
1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41 1949-66)
1895 - Susanne Langer, US philosopher educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
1904 - Irene Dunne, in Louisville Ky
1922 - George Roy Hill, Movie director
1928 - Dr Joyce Brothers,
1928 - Jack Christiansen, NFL defensive back (Det Lions)
1952 - Jenny Agutter, in London
 

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December 21

On this day in history ..

1375 - Boccaccio author of Decameron dies
1620 - Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1790 - Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US in Rhode Island
1909 - U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1929 - 1st group hospital insurance plan effected Dallas Tx
1933 - Human blood serum 1st prepared
1937 - 1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
1952 - Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered
1968 - Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
1973 - Israel Egypt Syria Jordan US & USSR meet in Geneva
1976 - 20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1984 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1804 - Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868 1874-80)
1874 - Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1879 - Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
1891 - John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of the House (1962-70)
1909 - George Ball, former undersecretary of state
1911 - Josh Gibson, pro baseball player "Negro Babe Ruth"
1917 - Heinrich B”ll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72)
1918 - Donald Regan, White House staffer
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81) Austrian Pres Nazi
1922 - Paul Winchell, ventriloquist
1935 - Phil Donahue, TV host
1937 - Jane Fonda NYC, actress (Barbarella Klute)
1939 - Diane Lennon, in LA
1940 - Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
1948 - Dave Kingman, Baseball player
1954 - Chris Evert Lloyd, Ft Lauderdale tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-22-2005, 07:13 AM:
 
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December 22

On this day in history ..

1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1783 - Washington resigns his milt commission
1850 - Hawaiian PO established
1919 - US deports 250 alien radicals
1937 - Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3 530 kph (record for a jet)
1983 - Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1984 - Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general author colonizer of Georgia
1727 - William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
1856 - Frank Kellogg, sec of state tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohme Tosca)
1862 - Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager executive (Phil A's)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
1903 - H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
1912 - Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
1917 - Gene Rayburn, game show host
1922 - James C Wright Jr, (D-Texas) Speaker of the House
1944 - Steve Carlton, baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer, TV news personality
1949 - Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees)
1951 - Jan Stephenson, in Australia golfer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-23-2005, 08:52 AM:
 
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December 23...

On this day in history ..

1569 - St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1672 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea a satellite of Saturn
1690 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
1783 - Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
1913 - US Federal Reserve system authorized
1920 - Ireland divided into two parts each with its own parliament
1947 - Transistor invented by Bardeen Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1948 - PM Tojo 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
1968 - Borman Lovell & Anders 1st men to orbit moon
1972 - Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua
1972 - Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1975 - Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1978 - Islanders scored 7 goals in one period against the Rangers Trottier scores 8 pts vs Rangers 5 goals-NHL rec 6 pts in 1 pd
1986 - Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1732 - Sir Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame
1777 - Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
1790 - Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1805 - Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
1812 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self-Help Character Duty)
1860 - Harriet Monroe, American poet editor of Poetry magazine
1918 - Jose Greco, dancer
1924 - Ruth Roman, in Boston Mass
1925 - Harry Guardino, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1935 - Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
1941 - Elizabeth Hartman, in Youngstown Ohio
1949 - Susan Lucci, soap star
 

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December 24..in history ..

1524 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin India
1582 - Vasco daGama Day
1814 - Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812 (This news did not arrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
1818 - Silent Night composed by Franz Gruber sung next day
1851 - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash destroys 35 000 volumes
1865 - Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski Tn
1871 - Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo at Suez canal opening
1906 - 1st radio program broadcast in Brant Rock Mass
1906 - Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio
1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250 000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1920 - Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
1936 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered Berkeley Ca
1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1951 - Libya gains independence from Italy
1966 - Luna 13 lands on moon
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
1970 - Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds

Famous birthdays on December 24 ..

1745 - Benjamin Rush, American physician patriot humanitarian
1809 - Kit Carson, Western scout
1818 - James Prescott Joule, physicist discovered conservation of energy
1822 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (Dover Beach)
1868 - Emanuel Lasker, of Germany world chess champion (1894-21)
1881 - Juan Ram¢n Jim‚nez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
1905 - Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
1907 - I.F. Stone, American journalist told it like it was
1910 - Mary McGann Kennedy Bob Maar's Mother-in-Law
1921 - Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh Detroit Washington)
1922 - Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach Night of the Iguana)
1930 - Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
1959 - Madonna, rock singer actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-25-2005, 10:35 AM:
 
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On this day in history December 25th...

0336 - 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome
1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
1758 - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1776 - Washington crosses Delaware & surprises Hessians
1818 - Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
1868 - Despite bitter opposition Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
1926 - Hirohito became emperor of Japan
1931 - NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1939 - Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1941 - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1963 - Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
1968 - Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
1977 - Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
1977 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1983 - 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1642 - Isaac Newton, (sir) in Grantham England
1752 - Mithra,
1821 - Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder in Oxford Mass
1865 - Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
1876 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
1881 - Joseph McCarthy, Yank manager
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter
1887 - Conrad Hilton, hotelman
1892 - Dame Rebecca West, author critic feminist (or 12-21-81)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor Here's looking at you kid
1899 - Raphael Soyer, painter
1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Can physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
1906 - Lord Grade,
1907 - Cab Calloway, bandleader
1909 - Mike Mazurki, actor wrestler
1913 - Tony Martin, singer
1918 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
1940 - Phil Spector, rock producer
1945 - Gary Sandy, Actor
1945 - Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
1946 - Larry Csonka, Former football player
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, in Houston Tx
1949 - Sissy Spacek, in Quitman Tx (Badlands Coal Miner's Daughter)
1954 - Annie Lennox, Singer (Eurithemics)
1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-26-2005, 08:09 AM:
 
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December 26....

On this day in history ..

1492 - 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded by Columbus
1773 - Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
1848 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1860 - Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1865 - James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
1917 - Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1919 - Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1925 - 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25 000 fans
1933 - US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1972 - Harry Truman 33rd US Pres dies at 88
1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1194 - Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman emperor
1716 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
1738 - Thomas Nelson, merchant signed Decl of Ind
1778 - Juan Lovera, Venezuelan artist
1792 - Charles Babbage, invented calculating machine
1837 - Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
1891 - Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn Tropic of Cancer)
1893 - Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
1914 - Richard Widmark, actor (Alamo Judgement at Nuremberg)
1917 - Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary keep her away from your tapes
1921 - Steve Allen, comedian
1927 - Alan King, comedian
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Ar‚valo, president of Guatemala (1986- )
1948 - Chris Chambliss, NY Yankee 1st baseman
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-27-2005, 06:42 AM:
 
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December 27.....

On this day in history ..

1741 - Prussian forces took Olmutz Czechoslovakia
1825 - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1831 - Darwin begins his voyage onboard HMS Beagle
1850 - Hawaiian Fire Department established
1867 - Ontario & Quebec legislatures held 1st meeting
1903 - Sweet Adaline a barbershop quartet favorite is 1st sung
1927 - Show Boat opens in NYC
1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR Trotsky expelled
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens in NY
1934 - 1st youth hostel opened Northfield Mass
1941 - Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an `open city'
1945 - International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
1947 - 1st `Howdy Doody' show (Puppet Playhouse) telecast on NBC
1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1972 - LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
1972 - Lester Pearson Canadian PM (Nobel-1956)
1979 - Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
1983 - Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo
1985 - Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyaner Moammar Gadhafi

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1571 - Johannes Kepler, at Weil-der-Stadt Germany Astronomer
1773 - George Cayley, founder of the science of aerodynamics
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist
1901 - Marlene Dietrich, in Berlin Germany (Blue Angel)
1939 - John Amos, actor
1952 - Tovah Feldsuh, in NYC
1957 - Caroline Kennedy,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-28-2005, 06:15 AM:
 
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December 28...

On this day in history ..

1669 - William Semple patents chewing gum
1832 - John Calhoun became the 1st Vice-president to resign
1846 - Iowa becomes 29th state
1890 - Battle of Wounded Knee SD - Last major conflict with Indians
1902 - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina Italy; 80 000 die
1912 - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)
1915 - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel into South Korea
1978 - 30th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1763 - John Molson, founder of a Montreal brewery
1856 - Woodrow Wilson, (D) 28th pres (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
1882 - Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and cosmologist
1882 - Sir Arthur Eddington, astronomer physicist mathematician
1894 - Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents Chicago Bears)
1896 - Roger Sessions, American composer
1903 - John Von Neumann,
1905 - Earl `Fatha' Hines, jazz pianist
1908 - Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1920 - Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Eagles)
1925 - Heldegarde Neff, in Ulm Germany
1929 - Owen Bieber, president of United Auto Workers
1931 - Martin Milner, (Adam-12)
1934 - Maggie Smith, in Ilford Eng (Death on the Nile Clash of Titans)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-29-2005, 08:32 AM:
 
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December 29....

On this day in history ..

1170 - Archbishop Thomas A Becket murdered by King Henry II supporters
1845 - Texas becomes 28th state
1848 - Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
1864 - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1890 - Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD
1911 - SF Symphony formed
1916 - Death of Rasputin
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1931 - Identification of heavy water publicly announced HC Urey
1937 - Pan Am starts SF to Auckland New Zealand service
1949 - 1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport Ct
1949 - Hungary nationalized its industries
1952 - 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale Elmsford NY
1975 - 11 killed 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
1983 - US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1984 - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1721 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland patented waterproof fabric
1800 - Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
1808 - Andrew Johnson, (Unionist) 17th pres (1865-69)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74 '80-86 '92-94)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, president of Mexico (1915-20)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, WW I aviation hero Gen
1917 - Tom Bradley, LA Mayor
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were Welcome to LA)
1921 - Marla Powers,
1934 - Inga Swenson, in Omaha Nebraska
1936 - Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, in Bkln (Mary Tyler Moore Show Ordinary People)
1938 - Barbara Steele,
1938 - Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance Midnight Cowboy)
1946 - Marianne Faithful, Rocker
1947 - Ted Danson, (Cheers)
1949 - Angel Tompkins,
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-30-2005, 06:58 AM:
 
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December 30.............

On this day in history ..

1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 45 000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
1903 - 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
1916 - Grigori Rasputin Russian monk advisor to tsarina is assassinated
1922 - USSR organized as a federation
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
1935 - Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1938 - Electronic television system patented VK Zworykin
1971 - Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
1972 - Pres. Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1975 - Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, sen
1869 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist humorist
1876 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violinist conductor composer
1884 - Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII
1911 - Jeanette Nolan,
1914 - Bert Parks, Miss America emcee
1919 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral East of Eden)
1928 - Bo Diddley, Rock `n' roll pioneer
1928 - Jack Lord, (Hawaii 5-0)
1929 - Barbara Nichols,
1931 - Skeeter Davis, in Dry Ridge Ky
1935 - Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher
1942 - Mike Nesmith, (Monkees)
1959 - Tracy Ullman,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-30-2005, 07:40 PM:
 
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On December 31 in history ..

1384 - John Wycliffe English religious reformer died
1600 - British East India Company chartered
1719 - John Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal dies at 73
1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation
1775 - Battle of Qu‚bec
1805 - End of French Republican calendar
1852 - Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry
1857 - Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1862 - Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union
1862 - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras NC
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
1879 - Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1890 - Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot
1921 - Last SF firehorses retired
1943 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden Utah
1946 - Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1951 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
1974 - US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
1981 - Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
1984 - Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM
1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama

Famous birthdays on December 31 ..

1869 - Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
1880 - George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
1904 - Nathan Milstein, concert violinist
1905 - Jule Styne, English songwriter
1928 - Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF Minnesota Giants Detroit)
1930 - Odetta, folk singer
1932 - George Schlatter, TV producer
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Actor
1941 - Sarah Miles, in England
1943 - Ben Kingsley, Actor
1943 - John Denver, (Thank God he's a country boy)
1946 - Diane von F�rstenberg, fashion designer in Brussels Belgium
1946 - Patty Smith, in Chic
1947 - Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House To Be or Not to Be)
1948 - Donna Summer, in Boston (On the Radio)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-30-2005, 07:41 PM:
 
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On January 1 in history ..

1643 - Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth England
1801 - Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid later named Ceres
1801 - United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1848 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
1892 - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY - Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
1894 - Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
1898 - Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
1899 - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
1901 - Commonwealth of Australia established
1902 - 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena California
1912 - 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
1913 - Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
1934 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
1936 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues NY Herald Tribune
1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1948 - 1st newsreel in color Pasadena Ca
1954 - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1956 - Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
1960 - Cameroon gains independence from France
1962 - Beatles Decca audition
1962 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
1965 - International Cooperation Year
1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
1972 - International Book Year
1973 - Britain Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
1974 - World Population Year
1975 - International Women's Year
1978 - Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1979 - International Year of the Child
1980 - Decade of Water & Sanitation
1981 - International Year for Disabled
1981 - Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
1983 - World Communications Year
1984 - AT & T broken up into 8 companies
1984 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1985 - International Youth Year
1986 - International Peace Year
1986 - Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
1987 - Internat'l Year of Shelter
1988 - NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
2304 - Mid- CALENDAR day
4713 - B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon

Famous birthdays on January 1 ..

1449 - Lorenzo de'Medici, (The Magnificent) of Florence
1481 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1735 - Paul Revere, US patriot and The British are coming
1745 - General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
1752 - Elizabeth Griscom, (Betsy) Ross--flag maker
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet and friend of Matthew Arnold
1854 - Sir James Frazer, British anthropologist and author (The Golden Bough)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
1867 - Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies and The Bosses)
1879 - E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End and A Passage to India)
1895 - J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
1900 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader
1909 - Barry Goldwater (R), former US senator from Az
1909 - Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge and Laura)
1909 - John Glenn, astronaut
1911 - Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
1919 - Carole Landis,
1919 - J D Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'
1922 - Ernest Hollings (D), US senator from SC
1925 - George Conner, NFL tackle and linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, Russian choreographer
1932 - Terry Moore, in Los Angeles Calif
1942 - Country Joe McDonald,
1942 - Gennadi V. Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
 

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January 2...

On this day in history ..

1776 - 1st revolutionary flag displayed
1788 - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1893 - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1917 - Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
1921 - D eYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1933 - Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
1936 - 1st electron tube described St Louis Mo
1942 - 28 nations at war with Axis pledge no separate peace
1942 - Japanese occupied Manila
1955 - President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
1957 - SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
1959 - USSR launches Mechta 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
1968 - Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
1972 - Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1979 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
1982 - Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1983 - Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
1985 - 90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
1986 - 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion of Va. (1676)
1727 - James Wolfe, commander of British Army at capture of Qu‚bec
1861 - Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady
1863 - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano
1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans and Baltimore Colts)
1927 - Richard Belmont Ray, Democrat-Georgia
1936 - Roger Miller, singer (King of the Road)
 

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January 3..

On this day in history ..

1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1543 - Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Cen. America discoverer of Calif dies
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
1777 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton NJ
1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1870 - Brooklyn Bridge begun completed on May 24 1883
1888 - 1st drinking straw is patented
1900 - Perihelion Passage
1912 - S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
1920 - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
1921 - Turkey made peace with Armenia
1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
1941 - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1943 - 1st missing persons telecast NYC
1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain for treason
1957 - 1st electric watch introduced Lancaster Pa
1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state
1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1977 - Apple Computer incorporated

Famous birthdays for this day ..

0106 - Cicero, Roman statesman
1543 - Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
1793 - Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
1840 - Father Damien, helped lepers in Hawaii
1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney)
1879 - Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady
1883 - Clement R. Attlee (Labour), British prime minister (1945-51)
1892 - J.R.R. Tolkien, REAL Lord of the Rings
1905 - Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder and The Lost Weekend)
1909 - Victor Borge, pianist and comedian--Denmark
1916 - Betty Furness, in NYC
1918 - Maxine Andrews, of singing Andrew Sister
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, in Paris France
1930 - Robert Loggia, actor (1st Love and An Officer & a Gentleman)
1939 - Bobby Hull, hockey player
1945 - Stephen Stills, singer and songwriter
1947 - Melanie (Safka), in Astoria Queens
1950 - Victoria Principal, actress (Earthquake and Dallas) in Japan
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-04-2006, 06:38 AM:
 
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January 4..

On this day in history ..

1754 - Columbia University opened
1784 - US treaty with Great Britain ratified
1790 - Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
1896 - Utah becomes 45th state
1948 - Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1959 - Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1962 - 1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
1982 - Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1581 - Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov. 23-4004 BC
1643 - Sir Issac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up)
1785 - Jacob Grimm, German librarian and philologist and fairy tale collector
1789 - Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist and abolitionist
1797 - Wilhelm Beer, German amateur who helps to construct 1st moon map
1809 - Louis Braille, developed reading system for blind
1813 - Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
1838 - Charles Stratton, (alias General Tom Thumb and famous short person)
1914 - Jane Wyman, in St Joseph Missouri 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan
1930 - Barbara Rush, in Denver Colorodo (Hombre and When Worlds Collide)
1930 - Don Shula, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1930 - Sorrell Brooke, actor
1935 - Floyd Patterson, world heavyweight champ (1956-59 and 1960-62)
1937 - Dyan Cannon, Former Mrs Cary Grant and actress in Tacoma Wash
1943 - Tom Wilkinson, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-05-2006, 06:49 AM:
 
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January 5......

On this day in history ..

1589 - Catherine de Medici Queen of France died
1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
1822 - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1850 - Calif Exchange opens
1854 - Steamship SF wrecked
1905 - C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite Elara
1911 - SF has it's 1st air meet
1914 - Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
1922 - Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer died aboard his ship
1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming 1st woman gov in USA
1926 - James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
1964 - Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
1969 - USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
1972 - NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
1975 - Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1985 - Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
1987 - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58) and builder of Taj Mahal
1779 - Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1846 - Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor of safety razor
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
1895 - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist and Episcopal priest
1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse and Happy Hooker)
1921 - Jean, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
1926 - Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees and Texans and Colts)
1928 - Walter Mondale (D), 42nd US vp (1977-81)
1938 - Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1938 - Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
1940 - Dany Saval,
1946 - Diane Keaton, actress (Annie Hall and Little Drummer Girl) LA
1954 - Pamela Sue Martin,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-05-2006, 08:36 PM:
 
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On January 6 in history ..

1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1753 - Epiphany
1838 - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1884 - Gregor Mendel Augustine monk & heredity pioneer died
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario)
1941 - FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech religion; from want fear)
1942 - 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
1981 - 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
1987 - 100th US Congress convenes

Famous birthdays on January 6 ..

1412 - Joan of Arc, martyr
1799 - Jedediah Smith, fur trader and explorer
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
1823 - Gustave Dore, illustrator (Inferno and Rime of Ancient Mariner)
1838 - Max Bruch, German composer
1842 - Clarence King, geologist and mining engineer
1854 - Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
1871 - Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
1878 - Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln (The People and Yes)
1880 - Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882 - Samuel Rayburn (D), speaker of House (1940-57)
1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet and Broken Wings)
1911 - Joey Adams, comedian
1913 - Loretta Young, (Farmer's Daughter and Stranger) in Salt Lake City
1914 - Danny Thomas, comedian and actor
1915 - Don Edwards (D), US representative from California
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church)
1924 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician
1934 - Sylvia Sims,
1945 - Bonnie Franklin, TV actress (One Day at a Time) in Santa Monica
1957 - Nancy Lopez, Golf pro
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-07-2006, 07:23 AM:
 
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January 7

On this day in history ..

1558 - Calais last English possession in France retaken by French
1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites Io Europa & Ganymede
1714 - Typewriter patented (built years later)
1753 - Plough Monday
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel
1789 - 1st natl presidental election - US
1822 - 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1929 - Tarzan" one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
1963 - 1st class postage raised from .04 to .05.
1967 - Newlywed Game premiers
1968 - 1st class postage raised from .05 to .06.
1972 - LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1800 - Millard Fillmore, (Whig) 13th US pres (1850-53)
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind)
1925 - Gerald Durrell, British zoologist and writer and broadcaster
1935 - Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6 and 36 and Apollo-Soyuz)
1942 - Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter
1948 - Kenny Loggins, singer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-07-2006, 08:22 PM:
 
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On January 8 in history ..

1336 - Giotto Italian Renaissance painter dies (birth date unknown)
1583 - Iotto Day
1642 - Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified Judicial powers construed
1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1880 - Passing of Norton I Emperor of US Protector of Mexico
1913 - Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1932 - Ratification of present SF City Charter
1935 - Spectrophotometer patented AC Hardy
1952 - Antonia Maury discoverer of supergiant giant & dwarf stars dies
1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
1980 - Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0

Famous birthdays on January 8 ..

1587 - Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co
1864 - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Moonstone)
1867 - Emily Balch, US sociologist and feminist and pacifist (Nobel 1946)
1868 - Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1891 - Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
1902 - Carl R. Rogers, psychologist
1904 - Peter Arno, Cartoonist
1912 - Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1926 - Milton Hines, AKA Soupy Sales
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, 5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race
1935 - Elvis Presley, singer (Blue Suede Shoes and Hounddog)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, in Wales
1942 - Vyacheslav D. Zudov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, in Hollywood Cal (Time Machine and Where the Boys Are)
1946 - Tod Brannan,
1947 - David Bowie, singer and actor
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-08-2006, 07:26 PM:
 
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On January 9 in history ..

1788 - Conneticut becomes 5th state
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
1799 - 1st income tax imposed in England
1839 - Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 - Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
1843 - Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy " dies at 98 in Germany
1847 - 1st SF paper 'California Star' published
1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
1854 - Astor Library opened in NY
1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
1903 - AL Baltimore baseball team bought to move to NY for $18 000
1912 - US marines invade Honduras
1915 - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1945 - As vowed MacArthur returned to Philippines
1976 - Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1987 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect

Famous birthdays on January 9 ..

1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder of League of Women Voters
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge
1898 - Gracie Fields,
1901 - Chic Young, creator of "Blondie" comic strip
1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager
1904 - George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins and The Second Sex)
1913 - Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) and 36th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer and actress
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (For a Few Dollars More and Escape from NY)
1934 - Bart Starr, NFL quarterback and coach (Green Bay)
1941 - Joan Baez, folk singer and human rights advocate in Staten Island
1941 - Susannah York, actress (A Man for All Seasons and Tom Jones) in London
1951 - Crystal Gale, in Kentucky
1951 - Rosalyn Kind, singer in Bkln
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-09-2006, 09:37 PM:
 
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On January 10 in history ..

1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1840 - Penny Post mail system is started
1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1920 - League of Nations established
1932 - Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered Phila
1945 - Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon Belmar NJ
1949 - 1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1964 - That Was The Week That Was premiers
1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 - Preview Center Opens
1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 - Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
1978 - Soyuz 27 is launched

Famous birthdays on January 10 ..

1738 - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1877 - Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented elecrostatic precipitator
1880 - Manuel Azasa y Diaz, P.M. and president of 2nd Spanish republic
1883 - Florence Reed, silent film actress (The Dancing Girl)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, silent film actor (The Spy's Defeat)
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet and playwright (Tamar & Other Poems)
1888 - Grock, Swiss clown
1904 - Ray Bolger, dancer and actor (Once in Love with Amy and Wizard of Oz)
1910 - Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
1926 - June Haver,
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, in Winnipeg Manitoba
1927 - Johnnie Ray, pop singer
1938 - Willie McCovey, baseball player
1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
1949 - George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74)
1953 - Pat Benatar, in Brooklyn--Hell is for Children
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-10-2006, 08:07 PM:
 
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On January 11 in history ..

1935 - 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu AE Putnam
1642 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1787 - Titania & Oberon moons of Uranus discovered by William Herschel
1805 - Michigan Territory organized
1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
1861 - Mexico City captured by Juarez
1892 - Hawaiian Historical Society founded
1915 - Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000.
1923 - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
1935 - Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop of course)
1963 - Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
1975 - Soyuz 17 is launched
1978 - Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
1983 - Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time

Famous birthdays on January 11 ..

1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st Sec of US Treasury
1807 - Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University
1815 - Sir John A. MacDonald, (C)--1st prime minister of Canada (1867-73)
1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot and scholar
1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1850 - Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
1885 - Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party and ERA advocate
1896 - Eva Le Gallienne, actress
1896 - Paddy Driscoll, NFL quarterback and coach (Chicago, Cardinals and Bears)
1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry and the Beloved Country)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD
1926 - Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive
1926 - Lev S. Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1930 - Rod Taylor, actor
1948 - Madeline Manning, runner
1974 - Rosenkowitz sextuplets, (1st known to have survived infancy)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-12-2006, 06:56 AM:
 
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January 12..

On this day in history ..

1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
1820 - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1836 - Battle of Wetumka Fla
1945 - US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
1969 - AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16 Balt Colts 7)
1971 - All in the Family premiers
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1588 - John Winthrop, 1st gov of Mass Bay Colony
1729 - Edmund Burke, famous Whig
1737 - John Hancock, Decl of Ind signer (or 0123)
1856 - John Singer Sargent, American painter
1876 - Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
1910 - Luise Rainer, actress
1913 - Edward Gurney, senator
1920 - James Farmer, black activist
1926 - Ray Price, country singer
1930 - Glenn Yarborough, singer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-12-2006, 08:38 PM:
 
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On January 13 in history ..

1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto 4th satellite of Jupiter
1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1854 - Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
1894 - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
1920 - NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
1939 - Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert dies
1966 - 1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
1969 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1971 - Apollo 14 launched
1978 - Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
1981 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick - 4 goals
1985 - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
1985 - Carol Wayne dies at 42

Famous birthdays on January 13 ..

1808 - Salmon P. Chase (R), senator and cabinet member and 6th chief justice
1832 - Horatio Alger Jr., American clergyman and author of boys' books
1884 - Sophie Tucker, last red hot mamma
1913 - Ralph Edwards, (This is your life)
1919 - Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman)
1919 - Robert Stack, TV & film actor (Elliot Ness)
1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress and dancer (Cotton Club) in LA
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, comedian
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-13-2006, 08:51 PM:
 
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On January 14 in history ..

1742 - Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton dies at 86
1784 - Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
1847 - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
1914 - Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
1936 - L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1939 - All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
1952 - Today show premiers
1969 - Soyuz 4 is launched

Famous birthdays on January 14 ..

1730 - William Whipple, Decl of Ind signer
1741 - Gen Benedict Arnold, fink
1791 - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
1861 - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, doctor and humanitarian and organist (Nobel 1952)
1892 - Hal Roach, early film director & producer
1896 - John dos Passos, novelist (1919 and Big Money and 42nd Parallel)
1919 - Andy Rooney, TV commentator (60 Minutes)
1926 - Thomas Tryon, actor and novelist
1932 - Catarina Valenti, singer in Paris France
1940 - Julian Bond (D), civil rights leader and Georgia legislator
1941 - Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown and Bonnie & Clyde) in Fla
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-15-2006, 06:02 AM:
 
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January 15..

On this day in history ..

1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1759 - British Museum opens
1778 - Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1927 - Dunbarton Bridge 1st bridge in Bay Area opens
1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1943 - World's largest office building Pentagon completed
1967 - Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
1968 - Soyuz 5 launched
1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
1974 - Happy Days premiers
1975 - Space Mountain opens
1981 - Hill Street Blues premiers
1986 - Living Seas opens

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1622 - Molire, French dramatist (baptized)
1809 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French libertarian socialist
1850 - Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
1866 - Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop and internationalist (Nobel '30)
1899 - Goodman Ace, radio & TV writer and actor and columnist and humorist
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
1908 - Edward Teller, fathered H-bomb
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt and Roots and Airplane)
1918 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
1919 - S. Kovalevskaya,
1926 - Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
1926 - Maria Schell, in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
1929 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, in San Diego Calif
1946 - Janet Lennon, in Culver City
1951 - Charo, in Spain
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-16-2006, 06:38 AM:
 
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January 16..

On this day in history ..

1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
1865 - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
1870 - Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
1887 - Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
1909 - David Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
1920 - 18th Amendment prohibition went into effect; repealed in 1933
1938 - William Pickering pioneer American stellar spectroscopist dies
1956 - Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
1969 - Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
1973 - USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
1977 - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1979 - Iranian revolution overthrows shah

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist and tire manufacturer
1874 - Robert Service, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
1894 - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end and coach
1909 - Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
1911 - Dizzy Dean, baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
1924 - Katy Jurado, in Mexico
1929 - Allard Lowenstein, Students for Democratic Action
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, author
1933 - Oleg G Makarov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12 & 18-1 & 27 & T-3)
1934 - Marilyn Horne, in Pennsylvania
1935 - A.J. Foyt, auto race driver
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-16-2006, 10:07 PM:
 
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On January 17 in history ..

0355 - Death of St Anthony of Egypt founder of Christian monasticism
1746 - Battle of Falkirk Scotland
1773 - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1861 - Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1871 - 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
1893 - Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1910 - Thomas Crapper inventor of flush toilet dies
1943 - Tin Can Drive Day
1945 - Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
1950 - Great Brink's robbery in Boston $28 million
1957 - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1976 - Hermes rocket launched by ESA
1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
1979 - Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers

Famous birthdays on January 17 ..

1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston and kite flyer and statesman and wit
1732 - Stanislaw II, last king of Poland (1764-95)
1771 - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel
1818 - Sir Antoine Dorion (L), joint premier of Canada (1858 and 1863-64)
1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, developed 1st sound-on-film recording
1863 - David Lloyd George (Liberal), prime minister of Britain (1916-22)
1863 - Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor and director and producer and methodist
1880 - Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
1899 - Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educator and civil libertarian
1919 - A Chekhov,
1924 - Betty White, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls) in Oak Pk
1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina
1931 - James Earl Jones, actor (Darth Vader)
1933 - Sheree North, in Los Angeles
1934 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer in Bronx NY
1944 - Joe Frazier, heavyweight champion boxer (1968-73)
1949 - Debbie Watson, in Culver City California
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-18-2006, 10:39 AM:
 
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January 18

On this day in history ..

1644 - 1st UFO sighting in America by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
1817 - San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
1869 - Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
1871 - German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1913 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
1919 - Versailles Peace Conference
1949 - 1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
1956 - Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
1969 - Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
1980 - Barbara Britton dies
1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1779 - Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame--invented Slide Rule and pocket chessboard
1782 - Daniel Webster, early American orator & politician
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st coml useable barbed wire
1849 - Sir Edmund Barton, 1st prime minister of Australia (1900-03)
1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell
1867 - Ruben Dario, national poet of Nicaragua
1882 - A.A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
1892 - Oliver Hardy, of comedy team Laurel & Hardy
1904 - Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace and North by Northwest)
1913 - Danny Kaye, comedian and actor and UNICEF
1922 - Constance Moore, in Sioux City Iowa
1942 - Muhammad Ali, (aka Cassius Clay) -- boxer
 

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On January 19 in history ..

1747 - Johann Bode founder of "Bode's Law " dies
1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1839 - Aden conquered by East India Company
1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
1921 - Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1955 - Millionaire TV program premiers

Famous birthdays on January 19 ..

1095 - St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester--ended sale of slaves at Bristol
1736 - James Watt, made steam engine workable (or 1753)
1749 - Isaiah Thomas, American printer and editor and publisher and historian
1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher and founder of sociology & Positivism
1807 - Robert E Lee, Confederate gen
1809 - Edgar Allen Poe, author (The Pit & the Pendulum)
1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor
1839 - Paul Cezanne, painter
1859 - Alice Eastwood,
1906 - Lanny Ross, singer
1917 - John Raitt, singer
1922 - Guy Madison, actor (Computer Wizard and Jet over the Atlantic)
1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress (Damn Yankees and Klute) in NYC
1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor (Day of the Dolphin and Demon Seed)
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL linebacker (Detroit)
1935 - Tippi Hedren, in Minnesota (The Birds)
1943 - Janis Joplin, in Port Arthur Texas
1944 - Shelly Fabraes, in Santa Monica
1946 - Dolly Parton, country singer and bra buster in Tennessee
1947 - Ann Compton, TV news reporter
1951 - Linda Hayden,
1953 - Desi Arnez Jr, actor
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-19-2006, 10:11 PM:
 
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On January 20 in history ..

1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1783 - End of Revolutionary War
1866 - Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
1872 - Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
1887 - Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
1892 - 1st basketball game played
1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
1937 - Inauguration day every 4th year
1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
1964 - Meet The Beatles" album released in US
1981 - Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
1981 - Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0
1981 - US embassy hostages freed in Tehran

Famous birthdays on January 20 ..

1760 - Charles III, king of Spain (1759-88)
1775 - Andre-Marie Ampre, founder of science of electromagnetism
1891 - Mischa Elman Violinist,
1896 - Nathan Birnbaum, (better known as George Burns)
1903 - Leon Ames, actor
1920 - Federico Fellini, director (8« and Satyricon
1926 - Patricia Neal, actress (Hud and The Subject Was Roses) in Packard Ky
1930 - Edwin E (Buzz) Aldrin Jr, US astronaut (Gemini 12 and Apollo 11)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, in Deadwood SD
1956 - John Naber, swimmer
 

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January 21..

On this day in history ..

1793 - King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
1892 - John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune dies
1954 - 1st atomic sub USS Nautilus launched
1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
1962 - Snow falls in SF
1967 - Ann Sheridan dies at 51
1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1982 - Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1338 - Charles V, (The Wise) King of France (1364-80)
1743 - John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
1813 - John C Fremont, map maker & explorer of western US
1815 - Horace Wells, dentist and pioneer in use of medical anethesia
1821 - John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US vice-president (1857-61)
1824 - Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate gen
1884 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union
1887 - Wolfgang Kohler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)
1921 - Barney Clark, 1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart
1922 - Paul Scofield, author
1924 - Benny Hill, British comedian
1924 - Telly Savalas, actor "Who Loves Ya Baby?"
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet Olympic gymnast
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, golfer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-22-2006, 11:01 AM:
 
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January 22..

On this day in history ..

1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown Canada
1840 - New Zealand settled by British
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
1905 - Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1939 - Aquatic Park dedicated
1943 - Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach
1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made
1973 - Supreme Court approves abortions
1975 - Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1440 - Ivan III (The Great), grand prince of Russia
1561 - Francis Bacon, English statesman and essayist (Novum Organum)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German critic and dramatist
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron and English Romantic poet
1802 - Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel NY)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist and novelist
1875 - D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
1909 - U Thant, 3rd secretary-general of UN (1962-72) Burma
1912 - Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car
1920 - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
1928 - Birch Bayh, (D) former US senator from Indiana
1932 - Piper Laurie, in Detroit Michigan
1934 - Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk and My Favorite Martian)
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, police writer (The Onionfields)
1959 - Linda Blair, actress (The Exorcist) in St Louis Mo
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-22-2006, 08:40 PM:
 
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On January 23 in history ..

1579 - Union of Utrecht signed forming protestant Dutch Republic
1793 - 2nd partition of Poland between Prussia & Russia
1856 - Steamer Pacific lost
1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea
1944 - Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
1953 - Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1960 - Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10 900 m in Mariana Trench
1964 - 24th Amendment ratified Barred poll tax in federal elections
1977 - Miniseries Roots premiers
1983 - A-Team with Mr T premiers

Famous birthdays on January 23 ..

1730 - Joseph Hewes, Decl of Ind signer
1756 - Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy
1783 - Marie-Henri Beyle, aka Stendhal and French novelist
1832 - Edouard Manet, French Impressionist painter
1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
1862 - David Hilbert, mathematician
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
1903 - Randolph Scott, actor
1915 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court justice
1919 - Eisenstein,
1930 - William R Pogue, US astronaut (Skylab 4)
1933 - Arlene Golonka,
1933 - Chita Rivera, actress (West Side Story) in Washington DC
1936 - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer and author
1943 - Gil Gerard,
1958 - Princess Caroline of Monaco,
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-23-2006, 09:46 PM:
 
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On January 24 in history ..

1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830 000 in Shensi Province China
1639 - Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
1764 - Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma Calif
1861 - Arsenal at Augusta Ga seized by Confederacy
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1935 - Beer 1st sold in cans Richmond Va
1965 - Sir Winston Churchill died in England
1981 - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1982 - SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl 26-21
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81 593 km) finds new moons

Famous birthdays on January 24 ..

1712 - Frederick I (The Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)
1746 - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
1862 - Edith Wharton, Novelist US
1880 - Elisabeth Achelis, inventor of World Calendar
1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra and Young Warriors)
1918 - Oral Roberts, Evangelist
1922 - Ava Gardner,
1925 - Maria Tallchief, ballerina in Fairfax Ok
1927 - Paula Hawkins, (R-sen-Fla)
1941 - Neil Diamond, Jazz-Singer
1946 - Barry Bostwick, actor
1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy and NY Cosmos)
1949 - John Belushi, commedian and actor (Sat Night Live and Blues Brothers)
1960 - Nastassia Kinski, in Berlin Germany
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-24-2006, 06:53 PM:
 
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On January 25 in history ..

1875 - Anti-slavery society formed in NY
1915 - Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
1925 - Largest diamond Cullinan (3106 carets) found in South Africa
1945 - Topping Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million
1949 - 1st Emmy Awards
1949 - 1st Israeli election
1959 - 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
1961 - 1st live nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK)
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
1964 - Echo 2 US communications satellite launched
1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st

Famous birthdays on January 25 ..

0749 - Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80)
1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist and author
1736 - Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange and mathematician
1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet
1860 - Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US vice-president (1929-33)
1874 - Somerset Maugham, novelist and poet (Of Human Bondage and Cakes & Ale)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room and To the Lighthouse)
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman and leader in European integration
1919 - Edwin Newman, newscaster
1924 - Lou (the Toe) Groza, AAFC and NFL tackle and kicker (Cleveland Browns)
1933 - Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986- )
1934 - Elizabeth Allen, in New Jersey
1935 - Dean Jones, actor (Love Bug and That Darn Cat)
1945 - Leigh Taylor Young, in Washington DC
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-25-2006, 07:56 PM:
 
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On January 26 in history ..

1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night
1788 - 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
1837 - Mich admitted as 26th US state
1841 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
1861 - La becomes 6th state to secede from US
1871 - American income tax repealed
1885 - Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
1905 - World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond
1946 - Indian Republic Day
1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1961 - 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
1980 - Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game
1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
1986 - Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20

Famous birthdays on January 26 ..

1715 - Claude Helvetius, French philosopher
1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall and king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady
1831 - Writer Mary Dodge, (`Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates')
1880 - Gen Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
1904 - Sean MacBride, Irish statesman and minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1974)
1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian president
1923 - Anne Jeffereys, in North Carolina
1925 - Joan Leslie, actress
1925 - Paul Newman, actor (Hud - Hombre - Hustler) and racer & popcorn mogul
1928 - Eartha Kitt, in South Carolina
1928 - Roger Vadim, Director
1929 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (Passionella)
1931 - Mary Murphy,
1935 - Bob Uecker, Sports personality
1944 - Angela Davis, black activist
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler
 

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On January 27 in history ..

1736 - Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland
1880 - Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
1888 - National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC
1894 - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1926 - 1st public TV demonstration
1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated
1948 - 1st Tape Recorder is sold
1964 - Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964 - Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
1965 - Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee
1967 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
1971 - Montgomery St Station last link in BART 'holed thru'
1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft
1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000)
1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
1985 - Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays on January 27 ..

1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy and Salzburg Austria
1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole)
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL
1885 - Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer
1894 - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
1900 - Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy
1901 - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh)
1911 - Benay Venuta, actress
1918 - Skitch Henderson, Bandleader
1921 - Donna Reed, in Denison Iowa
1927 - Joe Perry, AAFC and NFL fullback (SF 49ers and Baltimore Colts)
1929 - Ingrid Thulin, in Sweden
1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (Cockfighter and Grandview USA)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-28-2006, 08:09 AM:
 
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On this day in history ..

Jauary 28...

1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies
1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
1821 - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
1860 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1871 - Paris surrenders to Germans
1878 - 1st telephone exchange New Haven Connecticut George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
1878 - Yale Daily News published - 1st college daily newspaper
1909 - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
1915 - US Coast Guard established
1932 - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
1938 - 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
1960 - 1st photograph bounced off moon Washington DC
1978 - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
1986 - 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff

Famous birthdays for this day ..


1457 - Henry VII, king of England (1485-1509)
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer
1822 - Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd prime minister of Canada (1873-78)
1841 - Henry Stanley, explorer who found Livingstone
1853 - Jose Marti, Cuban poet and essayist and politician
1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of recording adding machine
1869 - Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist and essayist and haiku poet (The Heart)
1884 - Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists and explorers
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist
1922 - Robert W Holley, American biochemist and worked with tRNA (Nobel '68)
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, sculptor
1933 - Susan Sontag, author and film director
1936 - Alan Alda, actor (Hawkeye Pierce)
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-28-2006, 05:16 PM:
 
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On January 29 in history ..

1788 - Australia Day
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1900 - American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams
1904 - 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
1919 - Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
1922 - Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1955 - William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
1958 - Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
1984 - 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Famous birthdays on January 29 ..

1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader
1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense and Age of Reason)
1756 - Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman
1843 - William McKinley, (R) 24th US pres (1897-1901)
1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, invented box kite
1860 - Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer
1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
1874 - John D Rockefeller Jr, financier
1880 - Claude William Dukenfield, (better known as WC Fields)
1901 - Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube
1916 - Victor Mature, actor (One Million BC and Robe)
1918 - John Forsythe, actor
1939 - Germaine Greer, in Melbourne Australia
1942 - Claudine Longet, in France - Former Mrs Andy Williams
1943 - Katharine Ross, in Hollywood Cal
1945 - Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI)
1951 - Ann Jillian, in Cambridge Mass
1953 - Oprah Winfrey, actress and TV host (The Color Purple)
1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, in Santa Monica - Cal (Waltons)
1960 - Gregory Louganis, champion diver
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-30-2006, 06:30 AM:
 
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On this day in history January 30

1487 - Bell chimes invented
1649 - King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S 1820 km from S pole (record)
1847 - Yerba Buena renamed SF
1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1 682 votes cast
1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship "Monitor" launched
1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1917 - 1st jazz record in US cut
1922 - World Law Day
1933 - Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas
1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1882 - Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd Pres (1933-1945) in New Hyde Park NY
1894 - Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian and author (The Guns of August)
1914 - David Wayne, actor
1922 - Barbara Hale, in Dekalb Ill
1922 - Dick Martin, actor and comedian (Laugh-In)
1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (At Gunpoint! and Night & Day) in Chic
1928 - Harold Prince, stage producer
1931 - Gene Hackman, actor (Bonnie & Clyde and Under Fire)
1936 - Tammy Grimes, in Lynn Mass
1937 - Boris Spassky, of USSR--world chess champion (1969-72)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up and Julia and Orient Express) in London
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-30-2006, 09:33 PM:
 
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On January 31 in history ..

1849 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1851 - SF Orphan's Asylum 1st in Calif founded
1862 - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
1871 - Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
1911 - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
1945 - Eddie Slovik 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
1950 - Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
1958 - 1st US satellite launched Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt
1958 - US launches 1st artificial satellite Explorer 1
1961 - Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
1966 - Luna 9 launched for moon
1968 - Nauru gains independence from Australia
1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb 32") at Agata USSR
1971 - Apollo 14 launched 1st landing in lunar highlands

Famous birthdays on January 31 ..

1797 - Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1830 - James G Blaine, 'Plumed Knight'
1872 - Zane Gray, American West novelist
1881 - Irving Langmuir, physical chemist/colloid researcher (Nobel '32)
1892 - Eddie Cantor, comedian
1902 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish pacifist (Nobel 1981)
1913 - Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers)
1913 - Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
1919 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
1923 - Carol Channing, in Seattle Wash - Diamonds are her best friend
1923 - Joanne Dru, in West Virginia
1923 - Normal Mailer, novelist and NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead)
1929 - Jean Simmons, actress in London
1929 - Rudolf Mossbauer, German physicist (Nobel 1961)
1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Birds and Bob Newhart Show) in NYC
1938 - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands(1980- )
1938 - James G Watt, former sec't of interior
1944 - Jessica Walters, in NYC
1947 - Nolan Ryan, baseball player
1957 - Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-01-2006, 04:01 PM:
 
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On this day in history ..

February 1..

1709 - Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernandez
1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1790 - US Supreme Court convened for 1st time (NYC)
1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 - Sherman's march through SC
1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1920 - 1st armored car introduced
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1957 - 1st Negro pilot on scheduled passenger airline - PH Young
1958 - Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in - at Greensboro Woolworth's
1966 - Nicholas Piantanida sets unofficial world altitude record for manned balloon flight (123 -800 ft or 37 -700 m) - but dies in descent
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
1975 - Lorne Henning scored in 3rd Islander penalty shot
1976 - Sonny & Cher resumes on TV despite real life divorce
1982 - Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1805 - Auguste Blanqui, French revolutionary workers' leader
1859 - Victor Herbert, composer
1882 - Louis St. Laurent ,(L) 12th Canadian prime minister (1948-57)
1901 - Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara
1902 - Langston Hughes, poet & translator (The Weary Blues)
1904 - S.J. Perelman, author & humorist
1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist
1935 - Vladimir V. Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 22 & T-2)
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, (Elvis' daughter)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-02-2006, 09:27 AM:
 
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February 2..

On this day in history ..

1753 - Candlemas
1848 - 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF Mexico sells US; Texas - California - New Mexico & Az for $15 million
1876 - National Baseball League formed with 8 teams
1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef
1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court - Portage Wi
1962 - 8 of the 9 planets aligned for 1st time in 400 years
1981 - Late Night with David Letterman premiers

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1754 - Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat
1859 - Havelock Ellis, American physician & sex researcher
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian virtuoso violinist & composer
1882 - James Joyce, Irish novelist & poet (Dubliners & Ulysses)
1895 - George S. Halas (Papa Bear), end & coach for Chicago Bears
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, violin virtuoso
1920 - Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories
1923 - James Dickey, writer
1926 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of France (1974-81)
1928 - Elaine Stritch, actress
1937 - Martina Arroyo, Opera singer
1937 - Tom Smothers, comedian
1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of Richard Milhaus (or 0221)
1947 - Farrah Fawcett-Major, in Texas--Charlie's Angels
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-02-2006, 08:45 PM:
 
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On February 3 in history ..

1809 - Territory of Illinois organized
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11 -920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service
1945 - Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released
1945 - Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan
1964 - Meet the Beatles goes Gold
1966 - Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched

Famous birthdays on February 3 ..

1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer
1811 - Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west)
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C) & British P.M. (1885-1902)
1842 - Sidney Lanier, poet
1874 - Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway
1894 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
1907 - James A. Mitchner, U.S. writer (South Pacific & Hawaii & Space)
1918 - Joey Bishop, comedian
1926 - Shelley Berman, comedian
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, in Canton Ohio
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1943 - Blythe Danner, in Philadelphia
1944 - Bridget Handley, in Budapest
1947 - Melanie (Safka), singer & songwriter
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, in Dallas Texas
 

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On February 4 in history ..

1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax
1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

Famous birthdays on February 4 ..

1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics
1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
1918 - Ida Lupino, actress
1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique)
1923 - Conrad Bain, actor
1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president
1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks
1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension
1948 - Alice Cooper, singer
1950 - Pamela Franklin,
1952 - Lisa Eichhorn,
1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
1960 - Pamela Ferdin,
 

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February 5..

On this day in history ..

1663 - Earthquake in Canada
1887 - Snow falls on SF
1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
1906 - John Carradine, actor
1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright
 

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February 6...

On this day in history ..

1693 - College of William & Mary chartered in Williamsburg - Va
1788 - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between European & Natives of N Zealand
1900 - Spanish-American War ends
1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1922 - US - UK - France - Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations
1952 - Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one
1974 - 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1977 - 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unifier of Japan
1665 - Queen Anne of England, (1702-14)
1756 - Aaron Burr, (D-R) 3rd US VP (1801-05) & dueler
1885 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, baseball great
1902 - Louis Nizer, lawyer & author
1911 - Ronald Reagan, (R) actor & 40th US pres (1981-89)
1919 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Budapest
1931 - Rip Torn, actor
1932 - Francois Truffaut, French director (Jules & Jim & Fahrenheit 451)
1933 - Mamie Van Doren, in Rowena SD
1940 - Tom Brokaw, newscaster (NBC)
1943 - Fabian, singer
1945 - Bob Marley, reggae musician
1948 - Barbara Hancock, in Atlanta
1950 - Natalie Cole, in Los Angeles
 

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February 7


On this day in history ..

1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
1905 - Dominican Rep. signs treaty turning over customs collection to U.S
1914 - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium
1940 - Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1973 - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in USSR
1977 - Soyuz 24 launched
1984 - Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
1986 - Haitians overthrow dictator - "Baby Doc" Duvalier

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1478 - Sir Thomas More, lawyer & lord chancellor of England & saint
1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist & Tale of Two Cities)
1817 - Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
1824 - William Higgins, discoverer of nature of spiral "nebulae,"
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist
1877 - Godfrey H. Hardy, English number theorist
1883 - Eubie Blake, composer (I'm Just Wild About Harry & Memories of You)
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist & social critic (Main Street) (Nobel 1930)
1905 - Ulf Svante von Euler, Swedish physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1908 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer & actor (Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers)
1920 - Eddie Bracken, actor
1932 - Alfred M. Worden, U.S. astronaut (Apollo 15)

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On February 8 in history ..

1587 - Mary - Queen of Scots beheaded
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1693 - Charter granted for College of William & Mary - 2nd college in US
1861 - Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery - Ala
1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
1910 - Boy Scouts of America founded
1911 - US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila - president of Honduras
1922 - Radio arrives in the White House
1926 - Walt Disney Studios formed
1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1969 - Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua - Mexico
1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
1977 - Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966
1984 - Soyuz T-10 is launched

Famous birthdays on February 8 ..

1612 - Samuel Butler, English poet & satirist (Hudibras)
1819 - John Ruskin, writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
1828 - Jules Verne, in France--pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1885 - Dame Edith Evans,
1906 - Chester F Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, in Seattle Washington & the stripper
1920 - Lana Turner, actress in Wallace Idaho
1925 - Jack Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses & Missing)
1931 - James Dean, stage & film actor (Giant & Rebel Without a Cause)
1940 - Ted Koppel, newscaster (ABC)
1949 - Brook Adams, actress
1968 - Gary Coleman, actor
 

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February 9..

On this day in history ..

1811 - Nevill Maskelyne - 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
1877 - US Weather Service is founded
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud.
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa
1943 - Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal - ending epic battle
1953 - Superman TV series premiers
1964 - 1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
1969 - Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun)

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4 1841)
1866 - George Ade, American journalist & playwright & humorist
1874 - Amy Lowell, American critic & Imagist poet (Patterns)
1909 - Dean Rusk, former Sec of State
1914 - Bill Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Carmen Miranda, singer
1914 - Ernest Tubb, singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (The Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson,
1928 - Roger Mudd, newscaster
1942 - Carole King, in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry
1945 - Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) LA
1950 - Andrew N. Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Judith Light, in Trenton NJ - Who's the Boss
 

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February 10...

On this day in history ..

1720 - Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time)
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
1942 - Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1775 - Charles Lamb, English critic & poet & essayist
1868 - William Allen White, editor
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist & poet (Dr. Zhivago) (Nobel 1958)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, comedian
1893 - William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player
1894 - Harold Macmillan, (C) British Prime Minister (1957-63)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (Mother Courage)
1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian educator & aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1914 - Larry Adler, actor
1922 - Harold Hughes, ex-Governor of New Jersey
1922 - Neva Patterson,
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Italian basso
1927 - Leontyne Price, operatic soprano
1930 - Robert Wagner, actor (Hart to Hart)
1939 - Singer Roberta Flack, in North Carolina
1944 - Peter Allen, singer
1950 - Mark Spitz, U.S. Olympic swimmer
 

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On February 11 in history ..

0660 - Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1650 - Rene Descartes - "I think therefore I am" - dies
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1868 - Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies
1929 - Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint - Mich. ends
1958 - 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his show
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin
1984 - Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays on February 11 ..

1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court
1839 - J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist & A-bomb worker & peace activist
1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand prime minister (1960-72)
1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer & director
1909 - Max Baer, boxer
1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest & actress (Green Acres)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen ,(D) U.S. senator from Texas
1925 - Dr Virginia E. Johnson, sexologist (of Masters & Johnson)
1925 - Kim Stanley, actress in New Mexico
1934 - Mary Quant, in England
1934 - Tina Louise, NYC & actress (Gilligan's Island)
1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor (Deliverance & The End & Smokey & the Bandit)
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz musician (Brazil 66 & 77 & 88)
 

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On February 12 in history ..

1541 - Santiago - Chile founded
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC
1924 - Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporated
1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference
1947 - A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1980 - 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau

Famous birthdays on February 12 ..

1746 - Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot
1775 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
1809 - Abraham Lincoln ,(R) 16th U.S. president (1861-65)
1809 - Charles Darwin, Evolutionist--Shrewsbury England
1880 - John L. Lewis, leader of United Mine Workers of America
1893 - General of Army Omar Bradley, 'GI General'
1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) in Canada
1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor
1923 - Franco Zefferelli, motion picture director
1926 - Joe Garagiola, baseball player & announcer
1934 - Bill Russell, basketball player & coach
1936 - Joe Don Baker, actor
1938 - Judy Blume, author
1945 - Maud Adams, actress in Sweden
 

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On this day February 13 in history ..

1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1741 - 1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
1867 - Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
1937 - Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1937 - Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
1945 - Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
1960 - France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Flyers

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1542 - Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII
1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venetian painter
1764 - Talleyrand, in France--statesman
1805 - D Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had intl effects
1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer & law codifier
1805 - Peter Dirichlet, German number theorist & analysist
1849 - Randolph Churchill, English politician & father of William
1885 - Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
1886 - Ricardo G�iraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
1892 - Grant Wood, painted American Gothic
1901 - Henry R. Maar M.D. Father of Bob
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian mystery writer (The Snow Was Black)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer
1920 - Eileen Farrell, in Willimantic Conn
1931 - Dorothy McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, fashion designer
1936 - George Segal, actor & banjo player
1937 - Sigmund J„hn, 1st German space traveler (on board Soyuz 31)
1939 - Valeri I. Rozhdestvensky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Carol Lynley, actress born in NYC
1944 - Stockard Channing, in New York
 

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February 14..

On this day in history ..

1753 - Valentine's Day
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd State
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state
1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1921 - Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed
1950 - Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies
1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
1961 - Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California
1962 - Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
1972 - John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
1972 - USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns
1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1766 - Thomas Malthus, population expert
1856 - Frank Harris, English journalist & writer (My Life & Loves)
1859 - George Washington Ferris, engineer invented Ferris Wheel
1894 - Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny Oh Rochester!
1912 - Edmund George Love, American teacher & historian & author
1913 - James Pike, bishop
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared
1913 - Mel Allen, voice of the Yankees
1931 - Phyllis McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
1934 - Florence Henderson, in Indiana -- keeps Brady Bunch in line
1944 - Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter (Watergate)
1947 - Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
1949 - Ewa Aulin,
 

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On February 17 in history ..

1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine
1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)

Famous birthdays on February 17 ..

1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
1774 - Raphael Peale, American painter
1781 - Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope
1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business
1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher
1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM
1888 - Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
1902 - Marian Anderson, operatic contralto
1908 - Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer
1924 - Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S
1925 - Hal Holbrook, actor
1929 - Chaim Potok, novelist
1934 - Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek)
1936 - Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)
1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1945 - Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place
1947 - Dodie Stevens,
 

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On February 18 in history ..

Famous birthdays on February 18 ..

1516 - Queen Mary I, (Bloody Mary) (1553-58) -- 1st reigning queen of GB
1745 - Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta, Count--invented battery
1795 - George Peabody, American merchant & philanthropist
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
1859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain)
1892 - Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
1894 - Andres Segovia, guitarist
1909 - Wallace Stegner, novelist & critic
1920 - Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host
1920 - Jack Palance, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not)
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, author & publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me
1926 - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers)
1933 - Kim Novak, in Chicago Illinois
1933 - Mary Ure,
1933 - Yoko Ono, aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan
1950 - Cybill Shepherd, in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting)
1954 - John Travolta, actor (Saturday Night Fever)
1957 - Vanna White, in SC--Wheel of Fortune's hostess
1968 - Molly Ringwald, in Los Angeles California -- Pretty in Pink
 

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On this day in history ..

0197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
0356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
0607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike
1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czechoslovakia), expelled
1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Netherlands
1582 Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant
1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague
1634 Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1674 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
1700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark
1736 George Frideric Händel's "Alexander's Feast" premieres
1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles
1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1825 Franz Grillparzer's "König Ottokars Glück" premieres in Vienna
1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania
1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH
1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used
1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington DC (12 members)
1869 US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized
1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph)
1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people
1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
1906 W K Kellogg & Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI
1910 English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support
1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)
1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations
1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
1923 Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in New York NY
1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
1928 2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady NY
1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
1933 Prussian minister Göring bans all Catholic newspapers
1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry
1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months
1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in New York NY
1936 Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier
1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
1941 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942 New York Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion
1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
1942 Japanese troop land on Timor
1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
1945 US 5th Fleet (30,000 US Marines) launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League
1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
1949 Mass arrests of communists in India
1952 French offensive at Hanoi
1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
1953 William Inge's "Picnic" premieres in New York NY
1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
1959 Gabon adopts its constitution
1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico
1959 Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland
1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
1961 Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US
1965 NFL adds 6th official
1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
1968 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for book-making
1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
1971 Walt Wesley becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 points in a game
1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 vs West Indies at Kingston
1974 1st American Music Award
1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1977 19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
1977 Doug Walters scores 250 vs New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 performances
1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.8)
1978 Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in New York NY
1980 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 meter in 1 15.18
1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
1982 Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Netherlands' 1st Communist mayor
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 meter freestyle swimming record
1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at the Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1984 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
1984 14th winter Olympics games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
1985 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville KY
1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1986 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
1987 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 meter (1:32.55)
1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1990 Soyuz TM-9 lands
1992 Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You" premieres at the Shubert Theater in New York NY for 1622 performances
1992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
1994 Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200 meter (22.10 seconds)
1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
1995 Linford Christie runs European record 60 meter indoor (6.47 seconds)
1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds)
1995 Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake" premieres
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer in Torun - Poland
1717 - David Garrick, actor & producer & writer
1833 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss writer & pacifist (Nobel 1902)
1843 - Adelina Patti, Spanish operatic coloratura
1859 - Svante August Arhenius, founder of physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
1865 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer of Tibet & scientist
1889 - Jos‚ Eustasio Rivera, Colombian poet & novelist (The Vortex)
1911 - Merle Oberon, in Tasmania
1912 - Stan Kenton, band leader
1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey
1924 - Lee Marvin, actor
1932 - Joseph P. Kerwin, U.S. astronaut (Skylab 2)
1940 - Smokey Robinson, singer
1955 - Margaux Hemingway, in Portland Oregon
1960 - Prince Andrew, of Britain
1966 - Justine Bateman, in Rye NY - Family Ties
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-19-2006, 08:37 PM:
 
Rated G

On February 20 in history ..

1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert François I's army
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (New York NY)
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School (University of California/San Francisco)
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO
1899 Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
1915 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in New York NY
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 WOR-AM in New York City NY begins radio transmissions
1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies" premieres in New York NY
1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1923 Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1930 Capelle soccer team forms
1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1933 Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana's speech
1933 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in New York NY
1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York NY
1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México)
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS)
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York NY
1953 August A Busch buys the Cardinals for $3.75 million
1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1963 Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1965 Turkish government of Uergüplü forms
1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season
1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda
1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109)
1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater
1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA
1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1978 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
1980 Actress Susan Dey of "LA Law" weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
1981 James Sanford equals 50 meter indoor world record (5.61 seconds)
1982 New York Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champion cross-country cycling
1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America", after 11 years
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating
1988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 André Hoffmann skates world record 1500 meter (1:52.06)
1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds)
1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2)
1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters)
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 Total eclipse of the Moon
1991 "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 78 performances
1991 33rd Grammy Awards Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1992 "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1997 "Stanley" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC
1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9 million 2 year contract
1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal
1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)

Famous birthdays on February 20 ..

1844 - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (statistical mechanics)
1886 - Bela Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Car manufacturer
1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, US sportsman
1902 - Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera
1921 - Joseph A. Walker, X-15 pilot
1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, Don't my jeans look great
1925 - Director Robert Altman, M*A*S*H
1927 - Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess & A Raisin in the Sun)
1931 - Amanda Blake, actress (Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke)
1934 - Bobby Unser, auto racer
1937 - Nancy Wilson, jazz singer in Chillicothe Ohio
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, folk singer in Maine
1942 - Phil Esposito, NHL player
1946 - Sandy Duncan, in Texas
1949 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress (Summer of '42) in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1954 - Patty Hearst, in San Francisco -- famous kidnap hostage
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-20-2006, 09:15 PM:
 
Rated G

Birth datesFebruary 21

1417 Louis IX Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1484 Joachim I Nestor elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)
1556 Sethus Calvisius composer
1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius composer
1684 Justus van Effen writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg composer
1710 Willem van Haren Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)
1728 Peter III Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine
1730 Charles L Fournier Flemish writer/painter
1744 Eise J Eisinga Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1776 Vincenzo Lavigna composer
1779 Friedrich C von Savigny German lawyer
1785 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1794 Antonio López de Santa Anna President of México (1833-36)
1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva composer
1800 John Henry Winder Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1801 John Henry Newman England, cardinal/churchman/author (Dream of Gerontius)
1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer
1802 George Douglas Ramsey Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1882
1805 David Tod US diplomat/(Governor-R-OH, 1861-63)
1814 Nicolo Gabrielli composer
1815 Ernest Meissonier French painter/sculptor
1817 José Zorrilla y Moral Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
1821 Charles Scribner US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
1829 Johnson Hagood Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1831 Eduard Rappoldi composer
1836 Léo Delibes Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Coppélia)
1836 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes composer
1836 Emil Hartmann composer
1837 Rosalía de Castro Spanish writer (Canteres Gallegos, Follas Novas)
1844 Charles-Marie Widor Lyons France, composer/professor (Paris Conservatory)
1852 [James] Burner Matthews US playwright/critic (New York Times)
1855 Alice Freeman Palmer educator (Hall of Fame)
1856 Hendrik P Berlage architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
1857 Jules de Trooz baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1861 Pierre Breville composer
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Company
1875 Jeanne Louise Calment France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
1876 Constantin Brancusi Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
1877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius] South African poet/theologist
1878 Fritz Cortolezis composer
1880 Frank Orth Philadelphia PA, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers)
1881 Savilly Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1883 J M M "Mick" Commaille cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer representative)
1885 Sacha Guitry France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
1887 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1888 Florence Bates Texas, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
1888 Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1889 Felix Aylmer actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
1893 Andrés Segovia Linares Spain, classical guitarist
1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
1896 Sylvain Poons Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
1897 Celia Lovsky Vienna Austria, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1898 Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
1900 Madeleine Renaud French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
1900 Sydney Arnold English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son)
1902 Arthur D Nock English/US historian (St Paul)
1902 Bob [Hijman] Scholte Dutch vocalist
1902 John Smallenbroek Dutch minister of Internal Affairs
1903 Anaïs Nin Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
1903 Thomas Yawkey baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1903 Eric Fogg composer
1903 Madeleine Renaud Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
1903 Raymond Queneau [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
1904 Armand Preud'homme Flemish organist/poet
1907 Wystan Hugh Auden US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1909 George G F van Renesse Dutch pianist/music director
1909 Hans Erni Switzerland, painter/sculptor
1909 Helen O Dickens [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
1910 Douglas R S Bader British pilot (WWII)
1912 Arline Judge actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
1912 Nikita Magaloff Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1912 Patrick Murphy English multi-millionaire
1913 Glenn M Anderson (Representative-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 Arnold S Denker New York, US chess champion (1944-46)
1914 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
1915 Ann Sheridan Denton TX, actress (Dodge City, Good Sam, Another World)
1915 Godfrey Brown England, 4 X 400 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1936)
1917 Victor G M Marijnen Dutch premier (1963-65)
1922 Murray "the K" Kaufman NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1922 Uros Krek composer
1923 Zvi Zeitlin Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/professor (Eastman School)
1923 Lola Flores entertainer
1923 Lucille Bremer dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
1924 Robert G Mugabe Premier/President of Zimbabwe
1925 Al Fann Cleveland OH, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
1925 Jack Ramsay NBA coach
1925 Sam Peckinpah Fresno CA, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
1926 Hans Andreus [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language)
1927 Erma Bombeck Dayton OH, humorist (The Grass is Always Greener...)
1927 Hubert de Givenchy Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
1927 Patricia Benoit Ft Worth TX, actress (As The World Turns, Nancy-Mr Peepers)
1927 Pierre Mercure composer
1930 Elizabeth Adams madame
1931 Larry Hagman TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1932 Harald V King of Norway (1991- )
1933 Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, singer/pianist ("I Loves You Porgy")
1934 Rue McClanahan Healdton OK, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
1935 Mark McManus actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night)
1936 Barbara Jordan Houston TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1972-78)
1937 Gary Lockwood Van Nuys CA, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
1937 Ron Clarke Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
1938 Beryl F Anthony Jr (Representative-D-CA, 1979- )
1939 Richard Beymer Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
1939 Ron Nagle rock producer (Riding with the King)
1940 Peter McEnery England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
1940 John Lewis (Representative-D-GA)
1941 Charlie Shelburne English earl/large landowner
1942 Margarethe Von Trotta Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
1943 David Geffen Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffen, Asylum)
1943 Duncan Swift jazz pianist
1943 Roberto Faenza director (Cop Killers, Corrupt)
1944 Kitty Winn Washington DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
1944 Herman de Coninck Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
1945 Paul Newton rock bassist
1945 Sudhir Naik cricketer (Indian Test batsman in 2 Tests 1974)
1946 Tricia Nixon Cox Richard Milhaus Nixon's daughter (or 0202)
1946 Tyne Daly Madison WI, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
1946 Alan Rickman actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves)
1946 Desmond Lewis West Indies cricket batsman/keeper (average 86.33 in 3 Tests)
1947 Jill Eikenberry actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law)
1947 Olympia J Snowe (Representative-R-ME, 1979- )
1948 Larry Ragland Richmond VA, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1949 Jerry Harrison Milwaukee WI, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-And She Was)
1951 John Parker cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70s)
1951 Michael Cotten rock synthesizer (Tubes)
1951 Vince Welnick rock keyboardist (Tubes)
1952 Jean-Jacques Brunel rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1953 Christine Ebersole Park Forest IL, actress (Saturday Night Live, Barbara-Valerie, My Favorite Martian, Tootsie)
1953 William L Petersen actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
1954 Ivo van Damme Belgium, 800/1500 meter dash (Olympics-silver-1976)
1956 Woody Brown Dayton OH, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life, Flamingo Road, Dominion)
1958 Jack Coleman Easton PA, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
1958 Jake Steinfeld exercise expert (Body by Jake)
1958 Alan Trammell Garden Grove CA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter Princeton NJ, country singer (This Shirt, Shooting Straight in the Dark)
1961 Christopher Atkins Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
1961 Ranking Roger rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
1961 Yobes Ondieki Kenya, 10K runner (world record)
1963 Greg Turner Dunedin New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1963 Michael Gostigian Newtown Square PA, pentathlete (Olympics-16th-88, 92, 96)
1964 Alana Soares Redondo Beach CA, playmate (March 1983)
1964 Mark E Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut
1964 Scott J Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut
1964 Willie Pless CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 Jayson Meyer Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1965 Keith Arthurton cricketer (Charlestown, Nevis West Indies lefty bat)
1966 Bronwen Booth London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Glory & Honor)
1966 Chris Donnels US baseball infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Edie Boyer St Paul MN, discus thrower
1966 Tommy Hendricks rocker
1966 Wendy James London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1967 Bas Roorda Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, NEC)
1967 Leroy Russel Burrell Philadelphia PA, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1967 Patrick Lodewijks Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1968 Todd Ferich computer language expert
1968 Pellom McDaniels NFL defensive end (Kansas City Chiefs)
1968 Terry Allen NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins)
1969 Dean Noel CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Petra Kronberger Austrian alpine skier (Olympics-gold-1992)
1970 Javier De La Hoya Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1970 Marc Woodard NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Michael Slater cricketer (devastating Australia opening bat since 1993)
1970 Patrick Pilloni hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 Will Moore NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Arco Jochemsen Dutch soccer player (SVDB, Vitesse)
1971 Jeff Schmidt US baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1971 Jey Phillips WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Jose Solano actor (Baywatch)
1971 Terry Mickens NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Karl DeWolf hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1973 Brian Rolston Flint, NHL left wing (Olympics-1994, New Jersey Devils)
1973 Les Gutches Medford OR, 180½ lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympics-1996)
1974 Alexei Lojkin NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1974 Rohsaan Griffin Texas City TX, 200 meter runner
1975 Troy Slaten actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1975 Scott Miller Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1976 Robin Confer soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Ryan Smyth Banff, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt Waco TX, actress (Party of Five, Time of Your Life, The Audrey Hepburn Story, I Know What You Did Last Summer)
1986 Amedeo Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz

Deaths which occurred on February 21:

0556 Maximianus van Ravenna bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies
1513 Julius II [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Roman Catholic Pope (1503-13), dies at 69
1554 Hieronymus Bock German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies
1595 Robert Southwell English Jesuit/poet, hanged
1624 Dirck van Baburen Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28
1648 Christian IV king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1653 Adriaen Pauw master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71
1677 [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza philosopher, dies at 44
1684 Pieter van den Abeelen Dutch jeweller, dies at about 75
1689 Isaacus Vossius Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
1711 Joan van Hoorn Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57
1730 Benedict XIII [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer, dies at 64
1803 Edward Despard last person drawn & quartered in England
1842 Wojciech Zywny composer, dies at 85
1852 Nikolai Gogol Russian playwright (Dead Souls), dies
1862 Justinus A C Kerner German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
1864 Jeffery Forrest US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1872 Pavel P Gagarin Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1876 Henry John Gauntlett composer, dies at 70
1879 Peter P van Bosse Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69
1884 John Pike Hullah composer, dies at 71
1894 Gustave Caillebotte French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
1919 Giovanni Bolzoni composer, dies at 77
1919 Habib Ullah Chan emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46
1919 Karl von Hohenzollern Prince of Belgium, dies
1919 Kurt Eisner premier Bayern (socialist), murdered at 51
1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi composer, dies at 78
1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan composer, dies at 52
1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1938 George Ellery Hale astronomer, dies
1938 Albert Huybrechts composer, dies at 39
1945 Eric Liddell Scottish runner (Olympics-gold 1924), dies at 43
1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond composer, dies at 80
1949 Ernest Walker composer, dies at 78
1951 Anton Roemer Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63
1956 Edwin Franko Goldman composer, dies at 78
1961 Blaise Cendrars [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Switzerland, poet, dies at 73
1965 Malcolm X [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York NY at 39
1968 Anthony Asquith British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
1969 José de Capriles Mexican-born US Olympics fencer, dies
1971 Adolph Weiss composer, dies at 79
1976 Frieda Inescort Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
1979 Glendon Gibbs cricketer (Test Cricket West Indies vs Australia 1955), dies
1979 Ray Whitley composer, dies
1980 Chester H Lauck actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78
1984 Michail A Sholochov Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1985 Louis Hayward actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
1985 Eric Herfst Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47
1985 Ina Claire actress/comedienne (3 Broadway Girls), dies of stroke at 92
1991 Dame Margot Fonteyn ballerina, dies of cancer at 71
1991 Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
1992 Eva A Jessye US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97
1992 Franc Holden British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving singer, dies at 83
1992 Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85
1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies
1992 William S Magginetti dies at 98
1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin architect, dies at 68
1994 William Elgin Swinton child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
1995 Robert Bolt British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1996 Horace Leonard Gold science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81
1996 Jean Burroughs educationalist, dies at 67
1996 Morton Gould composer, dies at 82
1996 Terence Edward Armstrong polar geographer, dies at 75
1997 Kenneth Rowntree painter, dies at 81
1997 Michael Hollings catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75

On this day...in History February 21

1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury
1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1564 Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comté
1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders
1583 Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar
1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1613 Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet
1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1764 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
1782 US congress resolves the establishment of a US mint
1792 Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British
1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC
1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell MA
1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
1857 US issues flying eagle cents
1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston MA)
1861 Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico
1862 Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent
1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore MD
1864 Battle at Okolonam MS
1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
1878 1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued (New Haven CT)
1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins
1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington DC)
1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
1904 National Ski Association formed, Ishpeming MI
1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)
1909 John Galsworthy's "Strife" premieres in London
1910 John Galsworthy's "Justice" premieres in London
1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)
1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1916 Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties)
1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
1918 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss incorporation of Austria
1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, "Le Train Bleu" premieres in Paris
1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1923 André Charlot's musical "Rats" premieres in London
1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch" premieres
1930 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" premieres in New York NY
1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 Chicago White Sox & New York Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
1932 André Tardieu becomes premier of France
1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
1943 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews
1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1944 "The War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC (NYC only)
1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 British Army captures Goch
1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champion
1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1951 South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises
1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
1961 Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Die Physiker" premieres in Zürich
1961 Gabon adopts constitution
1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1966 Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution
1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117
1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" premieres in New York NY
1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1974 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album is released
1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 years
1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances
1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY
1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period
1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom)
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44
1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances
1982 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skating race
1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
1988 During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)
1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20)
1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1990 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win
1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances
1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)
1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition" premieres
1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
 

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This date in history: February 22 Birthdates

1403 Charles VII king of France (1422-61), drove out English
1440 Ladislaus V Posthumus King of Hungary/Bohemia
1514 Tahmasp I shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1533 Péter Bornemisza Hungarian vicar/author/publisher (Tragoedia)
1542 Santino Garsi composer
1573 Gemignano Capilupi composer
1599 Anthony Van Dyck Antwerp Belgium, painter
1634 Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten fortress architect
1684 William Pulteney London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 Peter Arctedius [Artedi], Swedish biologist
1732 George Washington Virginia, Father figure, 1st American President (1789-97)
1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho composer
1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg composer
1761 Jacob Kimball composer
1764 Alexander Campbell composer
1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer
1772 Joseph Lipavsky composer
1772 Karl Jacob Wagner composer
1773 Matthijs I van Bree Flemish (court)painter
1778 Rembrandt Peale portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1796 Adolphe Quetelet Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1797 William I Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 Charles Mynn Thruston Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1810 Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer
1810 Holger Simon Paulli composer
1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg composer
1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1819 James Russell Lowell poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig composer
1821 Giovanni Bottesini composer
1822 Adolf Kuszmaul German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1827 James Barnet Fry Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 Robert Alexander Cameron Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 Josef Foerster composer
1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel composer
1836 Eduard Wachmann composer
1838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1840 F August Bebel German social-democrat
1842 Carl Rosa Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 Léon Vanderkindere Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer composer
1850 Isaac L Rice Germany, (namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium)
1852 Pieter K Pel internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 Heinrich Hertz physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1862 Connie Mack baseball manager (Philadelphia A's 1900-1950)
1862 Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen] Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 Jules Renard France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 Otto Modersohn German painter
1868 Henri Polak union leader/politician (Social-Democrat)
1873 Muhammad Iqbal Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1877 Yme C Schuitmaker Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1879 Johannes Brønsted Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions)
1882 Eric Gill England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1883 Alfred Wikenhauser German Roman Catholic exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 Jaroslav Kocian composer
1883 Marguerite Clark voice (Snow White)
1884 Abraham "Abe" Attell boxing hall of famer
1886 Hugo Ball German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1887 Mary Ellen Chase educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1889 Robin G Collingwood English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1891 "Chico" Marx New York NY, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 Jan Wils Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympics Stadium)
1891 Lucien Cailliet composer
1892 David Dubinsky labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 Edna St Vincent Millay poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach composer
1895 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 Edvin Wide Sweden, 10K runner (Olympics-silver-1924)
1896 Enid Markey Dillon CO, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 Nacio Herb Brown US composer
1896 Paul Van Ostaijen Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1898 Anton de Kom Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1899 Dwight Frye Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
19-- Geoffrey Scott Hollywood CA, actor (Secret Empire, Dynasty)
1900 Giorgios Seferis Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 Luis Bruñel Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
1900 Evald Aav composer
1900 Sean O'Faolain [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1901 Charles E Whittaker Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 Mildred Davis PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 Stefan Lorant writer
1902 Hanns Neupert German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 Morley Callaghan Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1904 Peter Hurd Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of José Herrera)
1905 Luis Sandi composer
1906 Edmund von Borck composer
1907 Robert Young Chicago IL, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 Sheldon Leonard New York NY, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1908 John Mills England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
1908 Rómulo Betancourt President of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1909 Roderick Barclay diplomat
1910 Al Sears jazz performer
1910 Muriel Monkhouse Red Cross worker
1910 Nicholas Monsarrat Liverpool England, novelist
1915 Dan Seymour Chicago IL, actor (We the People, Sing it Again)
1915 Gus Lesnevich light heavyweight boxing champion (1947 fight of year)
1917 Harmen van Rossum civil servant/resistance fighter (WWII)
1917 Jack Robertson cricketer (superb England batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 Jane Bowles writer
1918 Charles O Finley baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1918 Robert Wadlow Alton IL, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 Sid Abel NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1918 Don [Dominic G] Pardo Westfield MA, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
1919 Jiri Pauer composer
1920 Bettina Vernon-Warren dancer
1920 Del Wood singer
1920 Giulietta Masina Italy, actress (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik)
1921 Jean-Bedel Bokassa dictator
1922 Andre Asriel composer
1922 Felix Werder composer
1925 Edward Gorey Chicago IL, author/artist (The Curious Sofa)
1925 Gerard Hoffnung Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 Guy Mitchell [Albert George Cernick], Detroit MI, actor/singer (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle)
1925 Raymond Joseph Cecil British architect
1926 Bud Yorkin producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1927 Donald May Chicago IL, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1927 David Ahlstrom composer
1928 Paul Dooley Parkersburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1928 Bruce Forsyth London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1929 Ryne Duren New York Yankee near-sighted pitcher
1929 Marni Nixon singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1930 Allison Hayes Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 JPS van Neerven Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1932 Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (Senator-D-MA, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive)
1932 Piper Laurie Detroit MI, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Carrie)
1933 Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley England, Duchess of Kent
1934 George "Sparky" Anderson South Dakota, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 Thomas Paul Chicago IL, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans LA, rocker
1937 Dubravko Detoni composer
1937 Joanna Russ US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 Noel Murphy British rugby player
1937 Samuel Whitbread English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 Tommy Aaron Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters, 1969 Canadian Open)
1938 Ishmael Reed US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 Bobby Hendricks US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1939 Steve Barber pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees)
1940 Chet Walker NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 Julian Chagrin London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1940 Johnson P Mlambo South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1943 Dick Van Arsdale NBA all-star (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 Tom Van Arsdale NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, Kansas City-Omaha, Philadelphia)
1943 David E Skaggs (Representative-D-CO)
1943 Louise Lopez singer
1944 E J Peaker Tulsa OK, actress (That's Life)
1944 Jonathan Demme Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 Ranjit Fernando Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 Tom Okker tennis star
1945 Oliver singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1947 John Bryant (Representative-D-TX, 1983- )
1948 Dennis Awtrey NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
1949 Leslie Charleson Kansas City MO, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1949 Nikki Lauda Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champion 1975, 77, 84)
1950 Ellen Greene Brooklyn NY, singer/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors, One Fine Day)
1950 Julius Erving ABA/NBA forward (Virginia Squirers, New York Nets, Philadelphia 76ers)
1950 Julie Walters England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1950 Sylvette "Miou-Miou" Hery Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage, Dog Day, My Other Husband)
1951 Harley O Staggers Jr (Representative-D-WV, 1983- )
1952 James Philip Bagian Philadelphia PA, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 Wayne John Levi Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1955 Tim Young athlete
1956 Amy Alcott Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore, Vare Trophy 1980, 83)
1958 Kyle MacLachlan Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Twin Peaks, The Hidden)
1959 Susan Benjamin actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1961 Debbie Linden Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 Don Van Spall guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 Marla O'Hara Gardena CA, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 Mike Morris NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1962 Lenda Murray Detroit MI, body builder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 Lisa Jacquin equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1963 Dave Besteman Madison WI, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 Devon Malcolm cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 Vijay Singh Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1964 James Wlcek New York NY, actor (Trent-Walker Texas Ranger, Linc-As The World Turns)
1964 Gigi Fernandez [Beatriz], San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olympics-gold-96, 1988 US Open Doubles)
1965 Pat LaFontaine St Louis MO, NHL center (Olympics-1984, New York Islanders, New York Rangers)
1965 Chris Dudley NBA center (New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers)
1965 Joe Reekie Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1966 Sheila Riggins Trussville AL, Miss Alabama-America (1990)
1966 Brent Severyn Vegreville Alberta Canada, NHL defenseman (New York Islanders)
1966 Suave singer
1966 Thorsten Kaye soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1967 Marianne Ihalainen ice hockey right wing (Finland, Olympics-98)
1967 Steve Broussard NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Abeyratne Samarasekera UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1968 Jayson Williams NBA center (New Jersey Nets)
1968 Jeri Ryan actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1968 Johanne Samarasekera UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup)
1968 Reggie Rivers NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1969 Kahryn Tough Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96)
1969 Leslie Spalding Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amateur-90, 91)
1969 Mark Chmura NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Shawn Jefferson NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots)
1970 Adam Keefe NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 Dominic Roussel Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 Leo Stefan hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1971 Barry Smith 100 meter/200 meter runner
1971 Gilbert Brown NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Jason Marshall Cranbrook British Columbia Canada, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 Lea Salonga Manila Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Saigon)
1971 Lisa Fernandez Lakewood CA, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Max Lane NFL tackle (New England Patriots)
1971 Mohammed Sylla soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues)
1971 Rico Mack WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Christin Didier Miss Montana-USA (1997)
1972 Michael Chang Hoboken NJ, tennis star (1989 French Open)
1973 James Christensen NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Kate Sage Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1973 Kimberly Davies Melbourne Australia, actress (Baywatch)
1973 Ntala Skinner Sun Valley ID, biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1974 Aaron Gavey Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Kyoko Nagatsuka Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart)
1975 Charles O'Bannon NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 Drew Barrymore Los Angeles CA, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy, Altered States)
1975 Gregory Maddalone Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski)
1977 Melanie Schnell Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya)
1979 David Lopez Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)

Deaths which occurred on February 22:

0606 Sabinian Italian Pope (604-06), dies
1071 Arnulf III earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle
1076 Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered
1078 Johannes van Fécamp Italian mystic writer, dies
1078 John of Fécamp Italian mystic writer, dies
1213 Wibert of Gembloers benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1371 David II Bruce king of Scotland (1331-71), dies at 46
1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius) writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
1512 Amerigo Vespucci Italian explorer (America), dies at 61
1674 John Wilson composer, dies at 78
1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully Paris, composer
1690 Charles Le Brun classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1695 Robert Southwell English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1727 Francesco Gasparini composer, dies at 58
1731 Frederik Ruysch Dutch anatomist, dies at 92
1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer, dies at 71
1770 Christopher Snider 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer, dies at 63
1816 Adam Ferguson Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
1822 Johann Ignaz Walter composer, dies at 66
1824 John Davy composer, dies at 60
1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General, dies at 53
1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poet, Weimar, Germany
1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld composer, dies at 65
1838 Friedrich Johann Eck composer, dies at 70
1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor composer, dies at 77
1846 Nikoli A Poveloi Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49
1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca composer, dies at 28
1875 Charles Lyell British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
1878 Franz Hunten composer, dies at 84
1896 Thomas Hughes politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1903 Frederick William Farrar writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
1912 Richard Andree German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
1913 Suarez Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup
1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure Swiss linguist, dies at 55
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President, assassinated in military coup at 39
1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
1925 Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies
1925 Thomas C Allbutt English physiologist, dies at 88
1930 Godfried van Daalen Dutch General/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
1934 Willem Kes violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78
1936 Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
1943 Christoph Probst German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
1943 Hans Scholl German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 Sophie Scholl German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1949 Russell Porter actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1956 Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84
1957 Harry Sothern actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
1958 Michael Todd film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 Helen Parrish actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
1960 Hubert Cuypers composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran Chilean marquis, dies at 75
1964 Edie Martin actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84
1966 Paul de Keyser Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
1967 Joe Forte actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
1967 Fritz Erler German politician (SDP), dies at 53
1968 Omer CFL Tulippe Belgian geographer, dies at 71
1971 Barry Macollum actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81
1971 Matt McHugh actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77
1971 Rudolf Mauersberger composer, dies at 82
1972 Walter Sande actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
1973 Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in London at 72
1973 Katina Paxinou actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
1973 Winthrop Rockefeller US Governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
1976 Angela Baddeley actress (Mrs Kate Bridges-Upstairs, Downstairs), dies from pneumonia at 71
1976 Florence Ballard rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32
1976 Michael Polany Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1977 Edith Barrett actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
1977 Jack O'Connor cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
1978 Ilka Chase actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
1978 Phyllis McGinley US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
1980 Alfred Andersch German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
1980 Oskar Kokoschka Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980 Richard Kallman actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46
1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman NYC DJ (The 5th Beatle), dies at 60
1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
1983 Romain Maes Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70
1984 David spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12
1985 Alexander Scourby actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
1985 Efrem A Zimbalist Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
1987 David Susskind TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
1987 Andy Warhol pop artist, dies from complications following gall bladder surgery at 58
1987 David Susskind TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
1987 Glenway Wescott US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
1989 Joan Woodbury actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies
1990 Stephen Burns actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
1992 Richard Sheldon dies at 59
1993 Jean Lecanuet French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
1993 Pieter A H Bos Dutch lawyer/procureur-General (Aruba), dies at 63
1994 "Papa" John Creach US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
1995 Ed Flanders actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi Austrian circus director, dies at 80
1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies
1996 Helmut Schoen soccer coach, dies at 80
1996 Niall MacDermott lawyer/politician, dies at 79
1997 Austin Andrew Wright sculptor, dies at 85
1997 Frank Launder director/scriptwriter, dies at 91
1998 Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1998 Jose Maria de Areilza Spanish minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
1998 Sandy Hume correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28

On this day...Events

1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108
0057 -BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
0606 Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown
1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1744 Battle at Toulon English-French & Spanish fleet
1746 French troops conquer Brussels
1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10
1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1784 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from New York
1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1847 Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army
1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown" premieres in New York NY
1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for the 1st time
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn MS, strike successfully for higher wages
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS
1864 Battle at Dalton, Georgia
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1865 Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
1872 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
1876 Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
1879 1st 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by Frank W Woolworth in Utica NY
1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 Hawaii became a US territory
1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA
1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka" premieres in St Petersburg
1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913 Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its 1st campus)
1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA)
1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA)
1924 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted
1933 Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 "It Happened One Night" opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall
1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres
1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)
1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (revised edition)
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1967 Barbara Garson's "MacBird" premieres in New York NY
1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "The Silent Sun"
1969 1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin)
1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1973 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington DC
1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)
1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500 meter freestyle swimming record
1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Québec
1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.36 seconds)
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter (39.10 seconds)
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1990 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton
1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1992 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1994 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1998 "King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-22-2006, 03:37 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 23:

1417 Paul II [Pietro Barbo], Italy, Pope (1464-71)
1614 Jacob Colijn(s) Dutch coat of arms painter
1615 Cornelis Galle II Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised
1633 Samuel Pepys London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
1649 John Blow composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
1685 George Frideric Händel Halle Germany, organist/baroque composer (Messiah)
1700 Wilhelmus Schortinghuis Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity)
1730 Christian Joseph Lidarti composer
1734 Mayer Amschel Rothschild Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1776 John Walter II London, chief proprietor (The London Times, 1812-47)
1787 Emma Willard US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
1792 Istvan Ferenczi Hungarian sculptor
1811 George Washington Hewitt composer
1817 George Watts London, painter
1818 Major General Jeremy F Gilmer General/Chief Engineer Confederate War Department
1824 Herman N van der Tuuk Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
1824 Lewis Cass Hunt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 Hendrik W Mesdag Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 Gustav Hermann Nachtigal German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunisia
1838 Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 Carl Menger Austrian economist
1848 Thomas Paine Westendorf composer
1859 Theodor Batthyányi Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
1863 Franz von Stuck German painter (Der Krieg)
1865 Barney Dreyfuss baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1868 William E B Du Bois Great Barrington MA, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1869 Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya Russian revolutionary (Social-Democrat)
1873 Dmitri Arakishvili composer
1874 Konstantin Päts Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 Jozef E Stokvis journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1876 Agnes M Royden writer
1876 Wadi' Sabra composer
1879 Agnes Arber English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)
1879 Norman Lindsay Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist
1880 Edgar Istel composer
1881 Titus [Anno S] Brandsma Dutch philosopher
1882 Ladislav Vycpalek composer
1883 Victor Fleming Pasadena CA, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
1883 Karl Jaspers Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
1884 Frank Cellier Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
1884 Herman Courtens Belgian painter
1886 Albert Edward Sammons composer
1886 Ventura García Calderón Peruvian diplomat/author
1887 Oskar Frederik Lindberg composer
1889 Cyril Delevanti England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
1889 Frederik M baron of Asbeck Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
1892 Kathleen Harrison actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)
1895 Richard Goolden London England, actor (School for Husbands)
1898 Reinhard Herbig German archaeologist
1899 E Langgässer writer
1899 Erich Kästner Dresden German author (Emil & the Detective)
19-- Catherine Larson actress (Ryan's Hope)
1900 Elinor Remick Warren composer
1901 Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel author (Mieke-serial)
1903 Grigori V Aleksandrov Russian director (Veselye Rebjata)
1904 William L Shirer historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
1904 Leopold Trepper Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1905 Leonidas Zoras composer
1907 Anthony Standerwick Heal businessman
1908 Sir William McMahon PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1909 Frank Ward cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
1911 G Mennen Williams Detroit MI, Sup Court Justice/(Governor-D-MI, 1949-60)
1911 Walter Ernest Allen writer/critic
1913 Charles Leonard US, pentathlete (Olympics-1936)
1913 Earl of Lincoln
1914 Margaret Farrer CEO (Central Midwives Board)
1915 Heinrich Schirmbeck German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1916 George Abel Canada, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1972)
1916 Martindale Sidwell organist/conductor
1916 William Walsh academic
1917 Kenneth Tobey actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds)
1918 Dom Aelred Watkin headmaster (Downside School)
1919 Johnny Carey soccer star
1919 Lord Ezra
1920 Hall Overton Bangor MI, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1920 David Wright poet
1920 Lord St Levan
1923 Gery Florizoone Flemish poet
1924 Lejaren Hiller composer
1925 Ian Smith cricket leg-spinner (South Africa 1947-58 average 64.08)
1925 Louis Stokes (Representative-D-OH, 1969- )
1926 Regine Crespin French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
1927 Ivan Hrusovsky composer
1928 Duke of Beaufort
1928 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1929 Elston Howard Yankee catcher (1st black New York Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
1929 Eduard W "Ed" Bauer [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets)
1929 Régine Crespin Marseilles France, operatic soprano
1929 Richard Moryl composer
1930 Harry Boldt German Federal Republic, equestrian dressage (Olympics-gold-1976)
1930 Johnny Seven New York NY, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1930 Gerry Davis writer
1930 Imre Gyongyossy film Maker
1930 Jef Geeraerts Flemish writer (Black Venus)
1931 Tom Wesselman US sculptor (Great American Nudes)
1933 Donna J Stone poet
1933 Lee Quencey Calhoun Laurel MS, 110 meter hurdler (Olympics-gold-1956, 60)
1934 Lady Digby
1937 David Ward president (Law Society)
1937 Lord Tugendhat
1937 Tom Osborne college football coach
1938 Diane Varsi San Mateo CA, actress (Peyton Place)
1938 Sylvia Chase St Paul MN, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1939 Josef Feistmantl Austria, lugeist (Olympics-gold-1964)
1939 Majel Barrett Columbus OH, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
1939 Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher
1940 Peter Fonda actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
1940 Jermyn P Brooks CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1941 William Hjörtsberg New York NY, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel)
1941 Frank Gerstenberg Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College)
1941 Robin Bynoe cricketer (West Indies opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67)
1942 Beau Boulter (Representative-R-TX, 1985- )
1942 Colin Sanders founder (Solid State Logic)
1942 John Lewis Head Master (Eton College)
1943 Fred Biletnikoff NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1943 Jada Rowland New York NY, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
1943 Bobby Wayne Mitchell Chatham VA, PGA golfer (1971 Cleveland Open)
1944 Johnny Winter [John Dawson], Leland MS, guitarist (Silver Train)
1944 James Cousins British MP
1944 Mike Maxfield rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1945 Frank Murray police Officer
1946 Rusty Young California, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
1947 Anton Mosimann chef
1947 Colin Sanders British computer engineer (Solid State Logic)
1947 Geoff Cope cricketer (England off-spinner 1977-78)
1947 Shakira Caine Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
1948 Bill Alexander theatre director
1949 Anna-Maria Müller German DR, Luge (Olympics-gold-1972)
1949 Larry Demps US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1949 Marc Garneau Québec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77)
1949 Maureen Hicks British MP
1949 Terry "Tex" Comer Burnley Lancashire England, bassist/guitarist (Ace-How Long)
1950 Neil Jordan Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
1950 Steve Priest London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes)
1951 Ed "Too Tall" Jones NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1951 Nicholas Kenyon controller (BBC Radio 3)
1951 Patricia Richardson Bethesda MD, actress (Home Improvement, Double Trouble)
1952 Brad Whitford Massachusetts, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
1953 Sallie L Baliunas astrophysicist
1955 Howard Jones rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1956 Maren Jensen Glendale CA, actress (Battlestar Galactica)
1958 David Sylvian vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
1958 Lorraine Michaels Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1958 Ria Brieffies Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots)
1959 John Arthur Wilson Ceres CA, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th)
1960 Cindy Figg-Currier Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 British Open-6th)
1960 Gloria von Thurm un Taxis Munich German Federal Republic, Princess
1960 Maria Gloria von Schönberg-Glauchau wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
1960 Naruhito crown prince of Japan
1962 Melinda Mays Augusta GA, playmate (February 1983)
1962 Michael Wilton rock guitarist (Queensrÿche-The Warning)
1963 Bobby Bonilla New York NY, outfielder (New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Marlins)
1963 Debbie Kruck Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA (1994)
1963 Reza Abdoh theatre director
1963 Robert Collins keyboard player
1964 Byron Evans NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 Dana Katherine Scully fictional character (X-Files)
1964 John Norum rocker
1965 Helena Sukova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1985 US Open Women's Doubles)
1965 Kristin Davis actress (Melrose Place)
1965 Sylvie Guillem France, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1966 Marc Price actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
1966 John Druce Peterborough, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings)
1967 Gord Murphy Willowdale, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1967 Pam Blundell fashion designer
1967 Steven C Stricker Edgerton WI, PGA golfer (1994 Northern Telecom-2nd)
1968 Stephanie Seymour San Diego CA, actress/model (Sunny Side Up)
1969 Ed McDaniel NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Michael Campbell Hawera New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1971 Jason Keller Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
1971 Shane Keller Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1971 Carin Hjalmarsson Koch Kungalv Sweden, golfer (1995 Pinewild-7th)
1971 Torsten Kienass Berlin Germany, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1972 Greg Hill NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs)
1972 Jamie Watson NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1972 Ryan Grigson NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Steve Papin WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Robert Pipkins Staten Island NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1974 Herschelle Gibbs cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)
1974 Kenyon Cotton full back (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 Bohdan Utihrach Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1975 Chris Garner NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1975 Michael Tricario actor (Randy-Wonder Years)
1975 Pat Barnes quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1976 Dmitriy Dudarev hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1976 Jeff O'Neill Richmond Hill, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1977 Angie Trostel Oxford OH, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 Dally Randriantefy Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)
1978 Karolina Rantamaki ice hockey left wing (Finland, Olympics-98)
1980 Yvonne Tousek Kitchener Ontario, gymnastic (Olympics-96)

Deaths which occurred on February 23:

0155 Polycarp disciple of Apostle John, arrested & burned at stake
1447 Eugene IV [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
1468 John Gutenberg German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
1554 Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed
1607 Herman Herbertsz vicar, dies at about 60
1660 Charles X Gustaaf king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1662 Johann Crüger German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63
1669 Lieuwe van Aitzema Frisian historian, dies at 68
1682 Abraham de Wicquefort Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75
1704 Georg Muffat French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
1718 François Fagel Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63
1766 Stanislaw Leszcynski duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
1792 Joshua Reynolds English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
1797 Antoine d'Auvergne French opera composer (Coquette Trompée), dies at 83
1806 John Alcock composer, dies at 90
1807 François Guichard composer, dies at 61
1821 John Keats Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
1821 Marie-Anne Collot French sculptor, dies
1828 Mihály Fazekar Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies
1848 John Quincy Adams 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematician, dies
1867 George Thomas Smart composer, dies at 90
1884 Tambo Tambo Australian aboriginal/US circus attraction, dies at 23
1897 Woldemar Bargiel composer, dies at 68
1900 William Butterfield architect of the Gothic revival, dies
1902 Samuel R Gardiner British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
1903 Albert Cahen composer, dies at 57
1903 Friedrich Grutzmacher composer, dies at 70
1906 Johann Hoch US murderer, executed
1913 Jimmy Sinclair cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test South Africa career), dies
1915 Robert Smalls Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in South Carolina
1916 George Clement Martin composer, dies at 71
1920 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky composer, dies at 61
1922 Henri Landru executed for having 11 wives, in France
1924 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 28th US President (1913-21), dies
1927 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson composer, dies at 79
1930 Horst Wessel German Nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
1930 Mabel Normand actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
1931 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
1934 Augusto Sandino Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 Edward William Elgar English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76
1935 Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
1937 Claude Buckenham cricketer (21 wickets in 4 Tests for England 1909-10), dies
1942 Stefan Zweig Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
1944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland inventor (Bakelite), dies
1945 Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945 Aubrey Cousins Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
1955 Paul Claudel French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
1961 Wilf Ferguson cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies
1965 Stan Laurel comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies in California of heart attack at 74
1968 Edna Ferber US author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80
1968 Fannie Hurst US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
1969 Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud King Saudia, dies at 67
1969 Joseph Messner composer, dies at 75
1971 King Lockwood dies of stroke at 73
1972 Michael Taube composer, dies at 81
1974 Florence Rice actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63
1976 Fuzzy Knight actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74
1976 L S Lowry painter, dies
1980 Robert Vandekerckhove Belgian politician, dies at 62
1983 Adrian Boult conductor, dies
1985 Alexander Scourby actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71
1987 Esmond Knight actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
1990 Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1990 James Gavin commandant US 82nd Airborn Division (Normandy), dies at 82
1990 Jose Napoleon Duarte President of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1992 Jacquelyn Hyde actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
1992 Markos Vafiades leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
1993 Edwin Louis Battle actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
1994 Stuart Berger doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
1995 Art Kane photographer, dies at 69
1995 David Melvin English Franklin singer, dies at 52
1995 James Herriot Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1995 Norman Hunter writer, dies at 95
1995 Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes dies at 79
1996 Freddie Stocks cricket (center on debut & wicket on 1st ball, Notts), dies
1996 George Alan Dawson jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
1996 Joseph Walker Barr banker/politician, dies at 78
1997 Oscar Lewenstein impressario, dies at 80
1997 Tony Williams jazz musician, dies at 51
1998 Philip Abbott actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74


On this day...February 23

0303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
1574 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots
1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
1820 Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college
1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1847 Battle of Buena Vista, México; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
1854 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office
1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US
1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)
1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred" premieres
1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1892 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA
1894 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play
1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56)
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay
1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 Control of Panamá Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
1905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds
1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1910 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" premieres in London
1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1917 February revolution begins in Russia
1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy
1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
1923 German Republic day with laws against worker
1923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor)
1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released
1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA
1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews
1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli
1955 Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes" premieres in New York NY
1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
1971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets and a dispute with the police
1971 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina
1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1978 20th Grammy Awards Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win
1979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill
1980 13th Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981 Spanish coup under Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" premieres in London
1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million)
1983 25th Grammy Awards Rosanna, Toto IV, Men at Work win
1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds)
1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1988 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta
1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1990 Ian Smith 173 New Zealand vs India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1991 US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1991 Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1991 North Carolina is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
1991 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1992 16th Winter Olympics games close in Albertville, France
1992 Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut, Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka
1993 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
1993 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1993 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
1994 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
1995 "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
1995 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1995 Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
1996 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve
1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
1997 American Express Senior Golf Invitational
1997 Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic
1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List", completely uncensored, 65 million watch
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1997 Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic
1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-22-2006, 03:45 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 24:

1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 Emperor Charles V king of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1501 Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius] German writer (Suzanna)
1536 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, last Counter-Reformation pope (1592-1605)
1545 Don John of Austria the elder, Austrian general
1547 Jan of Austria Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherlands
1557 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Vienna, Polish Jesuit/poet/Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1619 Charles Le Brun Paris, painter, designer (The Chancellor Séguier)
1679 Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer
1684 Catherine I Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1697 Bernard S Albinus [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
1704 Hubert Renotte composer
1717 Bernhard Hupfeld composer
1750 Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet
1766 Samuel Wesley Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1797 Samuel Lover composer
1809 Albert Schäffle German sociologist (Abriss der Soziologie)
1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 Daniel A Payne Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 Edward Dickinson Baker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 John Crawford Vaughn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 Georg Leo earl von Caprivi German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1833 Eduard earl von Taaffe Austrian premier (1868-93)
1836 Winslow Homer US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 Thomas Benton Smith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 Arrigio Enrico Boito composer
1843 [Joaquim] Theófilo F Braga Portuguese poet/author/politician
1846 Luigi Denza composer
1848 C Grant B Allen Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848 Johanna C P Barbiers actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1852 George A Moore Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1854 Franz Courtens Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 Arnold Dolmetsch Le Mans, musician
1860 Daniel Berkeley Updike printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 Arthur Pearson Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1872 John Jarvis England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
1874 Honus Wagner HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
1876 Jean Poveigh composer
1876 Victor Moore Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 Rudolf Ganz composer
1879 Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII)
1885 Bert Lytell New York NY, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 Joseph Sprinzak Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1887 Mary Ellen Chase US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 Antonio Massana composer
1890 Marjorie Main [Tomlinson], Action IN, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 Kurt Tank German WWII aircraft designer
1899 Jacob Presser Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
19-- Dorothy Parke Toronto Canada, actress (Amanda-Hot Shots)
19-- James Sloyan Indianapolis IN, actor (Oh Madeline)
19-- Joan Diener Cleveland OH, actress (54th Street Revue)
19-- Melinda Naud New York NY, actress (Operation Petticoat)
1905 E Boyland biochemist
1905 Guillaume Landre composer
1906 Alexis Curvers Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 August William Derleth Sauk City WI, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
1909 Jean Yves Morvan Marin broadcaster
1909 Max Black Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay orientalist
1910 Lord Hazlerigg
1911 Konrad Lechner composer
1912 Julius Kowalski composer
1913 Richard Murphey Goodwin economist
1914 Zachary Scott Austin TX, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
1914 David Langdon cartoonist/illustrator
1915 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin trade unionist
1916 Gene Mitchell museum director
1917 William Fairbank Minneapolis MN, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist
1919 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1920 Frank Rogers CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 Abe Vigoda New York NY, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1921 Douglass Watson Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1921 Ingvar Lidholm composer
1921 Ludvig Aschkenazy writer
1922 Kanwar Rai Singh cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1922 Richard Hamilton painter
1922 Steven Hill Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
1924 Lionel Dakers director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 William Pillar British Admiral
1926 Reginald Freeson British MP
1927 David Mourao-Ferreira poet/politician
1928 Michael Harrington St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1928 Paul B Elvström Denmark, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60)
1928 Al Lettieri New York NY, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1929 Richard B Shull Evanston IL, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yo-Yo)
1929 David Houston Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1930 Barbara Lawrence Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 Brian Close cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
1931 Inge Bernstein British judge
1931 Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov Russia, cosmonaut
1931 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 Marta Marzotto Italy, countess
1932 John Vernon Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 Andrew Jacobs Jr (Representative-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1932 Everard Goodman English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 Michel Legrand composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1934 Flemming Nielsen Denmark, soccer player (Olympics-silver-1960)
1934 Frank Chapot US, equestrian (Olympics-silver-1960, 1972)
1934 Linda Cristal Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 Renata Scotto Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 Bettino Craxi Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 Shuko Mizuno composer
1937 Jerry Wiggin British MP
1938 James Farentino Brooklyn NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1938 Kathleen Richardson president (Methodist Conference)
1939 George Bain principal (London Business School)
1940 Jimmy Ellis WBA heavyweight boxing champion (1968-70)
1940 Denis Law British soccer player
1940 Theo Bosch Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam)
1942 David K Williamson Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 Joe Lieberman (Senator-D-CT)
1942 Paul Jones England, rocker (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 Stuart Henry British disc jockey
1944 Sheila Larkin Brooklyn NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1944 Nicky Hopkins rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver)
1945 Alain Prost France, Formula 1 race driver (1985, 86, 89, 93) & current team owner
1946 Barry Bostwick San Mateo CA, actor (Spin City, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Lexx, Megaforce, Movie Movie, Scruples, Foul Play)
1946 Anthony Mayer chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 Jenny O'Hara Sonora CA, actress (Wishmaster, Facts of Life, My Sister Sam)
1946 Michael Radford director (1984, White Mischief)
1947 Edward James Olmos California, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1947 Lonnie Turner bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 Rupert Holmes Tenafly NJ, singer (Piña Colada song)
1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 Lord Melchett
1948 Lorri Menconi playmate (February 1969)
1949 John Lever cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
1950 Cathy Mant LPGA golfer
1950 G J M Gazdar computational linguist
1951 Helen Shaver Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1951 Derek Randall cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
1952 Tom Burleson USA, basketball (Olympics-silver-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
1952 Simon Weinstock businessman/racehorse owner
1954 Marquess of Normanby
1955 Steven Jobs cofounder of Apple Computer
1955 Bob Abrams Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1956 Eddie Murray Los Angeles CA, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
1957 Phil McConkey NFL wide receiver (New York Giants)
1958 Susan Scannell Lexington MA, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1958 Sammy Kershaw Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1959 Beth Broderick Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1959 Michael Roy Whitney cricket (great New South Wales & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 Janice Gibson Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 Persijn "Dakota" Joling Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1961 Ruud Really soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 Teri Weigel Ft Lauderdale FL, porn star/playmate (April 1986)
1962 Michelle Shocked singer/musician
1963 Fuad Reveiz NFL kicker (Minnesota Vikings)
1963 Matias Carrillo Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1965 Paul Gruber NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1966 Billy Zane actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
1966 Rene Arocha Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1968 John Velddman soccer player (Sparta)
1968 Kendall Cross Hardin MT, 125½ lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1968 Vaughn Booker NFL defensive end (Kansas City Chiefs)
1970 Jonathan Ward Baltimore MD, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
1970 Jeff Garcia CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 Wilson Alvarez Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 Aki Rahunen Finland, tennis star
1971 Brian Savage Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montréal Canadiens)
1972 Larry Amar Camarillo CA, field hockey midfielder/captain (Olympics-96)
1972 Manon Rheaume Lac Beauport Québec Canada, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
1972 Patricia Regan Leines Medford OR, Miss Oregon-America (1996-3rd)
1972 Ron Davis NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 James Michael Kennedy Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1973 Alexei Kovalev Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (New York Rangers)
1973 Harold Morrow full back (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Kavis Reed CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 Oscar de la Hoya boxer
1974 Jeremy Laster Fullerton CA, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1974 Simeon Rice defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1977 Alexis Jose Grullon New York NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 Floyd Mayweather Grand Rapids MI, featherweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1978 Louise Woodward Elton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen

Deaths which occurred on February 24:

1563 François Guise French General/duke, assassinated at 44
1624 Vicente Espinel Spanish adventure/chaplain (Marcos de Obrégon), dies at 72
1642 Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 Nicholas Lanier composer, dies at 77
1686 Ferdinando Tacca Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 Antimo Liberati composer, dies at 74
1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier French composer (church music), dies
1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffman composer, dies at 56
1784 Anton Laube composer, dies at 65
1785 Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 Broerius Brorius theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 Georg C Lichtenberg German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 Henry Cavendish physicist/chemist, dies
1812 Hugo Kollataj Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1815 Robert Fulton steamboat pioneer, dies
1825 Thomas Bowdler self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 Auguste Chouteau St Louis co-founder, dies
1836 Dániel Berzsenyi Hungarian poet, dies at 59
1848 Frans van Campenhout Belgian singer/composer (Brabançonne), dies at 69
1862 Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1871 Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny French painter/etcher, dies at 73
1874 Anselmo Clave composer, dies at 49
1876 Jan Pieter Heije Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1895 Ignaz Lachner composer, dies at 87
1907 Otto Goldschmidt composer, dies at 77
1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn composer, dies at 66
1919 Josephine McGill composer, dies at 41
1922 Alfred Espinas French sociologist (Sociétes Animales), dies at 77
1922 Dmitri B Shostakovich father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 Edmond Picard French/Belgian writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1926 Eddie Plank pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager composer, dies at 75
1930 Jacobus van Looy Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 Spottiswoode Aitken actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 Oskar Loerke German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 Leo H A Baekeland Belgian/US chemist (bakelite), dies at 80
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 Karl R G von Rundstedt German General-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne] French poet, dies at 86
1960 Jean Binet composer, dies at 66
1961 Léon Jeunehomme Belgian teacher (Pédagogie en Cours), dies at 77
1964 Alexander Archipenko Ukrainian sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 Frank Conroy actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 Franz Waxman German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 Kenneth Green actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 Conrad Nagel actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 Art Smith actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 Nikolai A Bulganin marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 H Allen Smith TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68
1976 Charles Wilfred Orr composer, dies at 82
1976 Julian Rivero actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 Virginia Bruce actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 Herbert Norman Howells composer, dies at 90
1983 Tennessee Williams US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
1984 Uwe Johnson writer, dies at 59
1988 Irwan Chanin US theater builder, dies at 96
1990 Johnnie Ray singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 Malcolm Forbes CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 Sandro Pertini President of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 Tony Conigliaro baseball player (Red Sox), dies in Salem MA at 45
1991 George Gobel Chicago IL, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies after surgery at 71
1991 Jean Rogers actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 Marcella Markham dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 Webb Pierce US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 Kay Loring dies after long illness
1993 Bobby Moore English soccer team captain (World champions 1966), dies
1993 Toy Caldwell guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1994 Dinah Shore singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 Donald Phillips pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 Jean Sablon crooner, dies at 87
1994 Knut Anders Haukfield SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 Lores Bonney aviator, dies at 96
1995 Richard Nicholson musician, dies at 89
1996 Anna Larina revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 Gene Mitchell museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 James Runcieman Sutherland academic, dies at 95
1996 Laurence Richard Deniz jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 Henny Youngman comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92

On this day...February 24 in History

0303 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
1389 Battle at Falköping Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1525 Battle at Pavia Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king, François I caught taken/8700 killed
1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
1528 János Zápolyai, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerainty
1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
1538 King Ferdinand of Austria & King János Zápolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein
1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia
1552 Privileges of the Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission
1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1597 Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1607 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo" premieres in Mantua
1613 English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
1711 Händel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes IN from British
1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India
1793 French troops conquer Breda
1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison)
1807 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England
1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain
1835 Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian language monthly magazine
1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government
1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to the government
1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized
1863 Arizona Territory created
1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN
1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile AL)
1876 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo
1881 De Lesseps' Company begins work on Panamá Canal
1888 Louisville KY becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
1891 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diéna West Sudan
1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1895 Cuban war of independence begins
1896 Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British
1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" premieres in New York NY
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 Russian revolution breaks out
1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000
1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia
1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbräuhaus Münich
1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida
1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100 meter record (57:2/5 seconds)
1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY
1927 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
1932 Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
1933 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC
1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers
1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WWII
1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km
1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election
1951 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
1951 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of Germany
1951 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
1951 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
1952 Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1955 "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1960 Italian government of Segni falls
1960 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1
1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
1962 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in the Bahamas
1965 East German President Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
1968 "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by
1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1974 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round skater
1976 Cuba adopts its constitution
1976 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in New York NY
1976 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX
1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
1980 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
1980 USA Olympics hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal
1980 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1982 24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy win
1983 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yards
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win
1987 Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1988 Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances
1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins
1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1998 Elton John knighted
1998 NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accommodate the Olympics
2002 XIX winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City UT/Québec City
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-22-2006, 03:53 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 25:

1635 Walraad the Elder, Dutch field marshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen
1643 Ahmed II 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1680 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz composer
1707 Carlo Goldoni Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of the 3 Oranges)
1725 Armand-Louis Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame)
1725 Karl Wilhelm Ramler German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
1731 Simon Stijl Frisian physician/writer
1732 Robert Hudson composer
1735 Ernst William Wolf composer
1778 José Francisco de San Martín liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú
1788 Mateo Ferrer composer
1794 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
1807 George Alfred Trenholm Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy), died in 1876
1808 James Bowen Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1809 George Washington Cullom Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1811 Carl Schuberth composer
1814 Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian national poet/painter
1815 Robert Hall Chilton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1832 Theodorus J I Arnold bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)
1833 Clement Anselm Evans Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1833 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet Flemish actress
1840 Alexis Hollander composer
1840 Otto Liebmann German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
1842 Karl May German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
1847 John Watson Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
1855 George Bonnor cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
1860 Menso Kamerlingh Onnes painter/water colors painter
1860 William James Ashley English economic-historian
1866 Benedetto Croce Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
1868 Anthony J Block Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
1871 Oliver Samuel Campbell tennis champion (US Open-1890)
1873 Enrico Caruso Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1876 Charles Freer art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
1879 Otakar Ostrcil composer
1881 William Foster Massachusetts, Communist Presidential candidate (1924,28,32)
1882 Ludvig Nordström Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
1882 Bruno Traven German writer (Sierra Madre)
1882 Jozef Goossenaerts Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1887 Leonard Carey England, actor (Laughter)
1888 John Foster Dulles US Secretary of State (1953-59)
1890 Myra Hess London England, concert pianist
1894 Ernst Friedrich Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
1894 Howard Wendell Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
1895 DeBenneville "Bert" Bell PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
1895 Henri Martelli composer
1896 John J McClellan (Senator-D-AR)
1897 Lili Körber writer
1898 William Thomas Astbury English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1899 Leo J Weisgerber German linguist
19-- Jean Bruce Scott Monterey CA, actress (Magnum PI, Airwolf)
19-- Louise Williams Scranton PA, actress (Busting Loose)
1900 Jed Harris producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx New York NY, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
1901 Federico Ghisi composer
1902 Max Kommerell German literary/author (Die Gefangenen)
1902 Oscar Cullmann Swiss theologist (Das Petrusproblem)
1904 Adelle Davis author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
1906 Domingo Ortega Spanish bullfighter
1906 Howard Zahniser Father of the Wilderness Act
1906 Boris Papandopulo composer
1906 Warren Hymer New York NY, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
1907 Mary Coyle Chase playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
1907 Shimen Rushkin Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
1908 Frank G Slaughter author (Sangaree)
1909 Edgar Pangborn US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
1909 John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather writer
1910 Millicent Fenwick New York NY, (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
1912 Richard Wattis England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
1913 Jim Backus Cleveland OH, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan's Island)
1913 Gert Froebe Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
1914 John Arlott cricketer (the doyen of cricket commentators & writers)
1916 Ralph Baldwin harness driver (set 11 major world records)
1916 Ian Wallace British CEO
1917 Anthony Burgess essayist/novelist (A Clockwork Orange)
1917 Alex Gordon architect
1917 Asta E R Elstak Suriname/Dutch social worker
1918 Henry Norwood Ewell Harrisburg PA, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1948)
1918 Robert Lorimer "Bobby" Riggs US tennis star (US Open 1939, 41)
1919 Monty Irvin baseball hall of famer (New York Giants)
1919 F de Jong Edz Dutch historian
1920 Antony Duff diplomat
1920 Hayes Gordon Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room)
1922 Matti Rautio composer
1923 Roger Parker Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 Peg Ridge peace campaigner
1925 Bert Remsen Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
1926 Harvey McGregor QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
1927 Dick Jones Snyder TX, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
1927 Jane Nigh Hollywood CA, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1927 Jacques Monod composer
1927 Ralph Stanley country singer
1928 Keith Williamson British RAF marshal
1928 Larry Gelbart writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, MASH)
1928 Richard Stern US writer
1929 Christopher George Royal Oak MN, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
1929 Tommy Newsom Virginia, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1929 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff British church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
1930 Erica Pedretti writer
1931 Edward Kellett-Bowman British MEP
1931 J R Stephenson Lieutenant-Colonel/Secretary (MCC)
1932 Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone)
1932 Laurence New Major-General
1932 Martin William Karlins composer
1934 Lord Crickhowell
1934 Michael Wheeler-Booth Clerk of the Parliaments
1934 Robert Neame brewer
1936 Jonnie Nicely playmate (August 1956)
1936 Norman Orville Scribner composer
1937 Bob Schieffer Austin TX, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 Basia Johnson maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1937 Tom Courtenay England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
1938 Diane Baker Hollywood CA, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1938 Herb Elliott Australia, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1960)
1938 Farokh Engineer Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75)
1939 A C F Verity master (Dulwich College)
1939 Marisa Mell Vienna Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
1940 Jesús Lopez-Cobos Toro Spain, conductor (International Conductor Competition)
1940 Jud Taylor actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
1940 Ron Santo Chicago Cub shortstop (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1940 Billy Packer Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS)
1940 George Paul CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1940 Hector MacKenzie trade unionist
1941 David Puttnam London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
1941 Susan Browning Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
1941 Ramon Pagayon Santos composer
1941 Stewart Sutherland Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1943 George Harrison Liverpool England, rocker (My Sweet Lord, Beatles-Something, Traveling Wilburys-End of the Line)
1943 Sally Jesse Raphael Easton PA, TV talk show host (Sally)
1943 Maryann Amacher composer
1944 Karen Grassle Berkeley CA, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1944 Kristina Holland Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1945 Elkie Brooks Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1946 F Xaver Kroetz writer
1947 Eddie Thomson Australian soccer coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1947 Lee Edward Evans Madera CA, 400 meter runner (Olympics-2 gold-1968)
1947 Lewis Moonie British MP
1948 G B Warren British biochemist
1949 Lord Sempill
1950 Emitt Rhodes musician (The Merry-go-Round)
1950 Anthony Lloyd British MP
1950 Neil Jordan director (Crying Game)
1950 Rick Flair [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champion (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1952 James A Barcia (Representative-D-MI)
1953 Garrett Glaser entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
1954 Steve Rixon Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85)
1955 Leann Hunley actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek)
1956 Davie Cooper soccer star
1957 Jane Ackroyd British sculptor
1957 Stuart "Woody" Wood Scotland, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1958 Kurt Rambis NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-alike
1959 Mike Peters rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1960 Glen Bishop cricketer (South Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987)
1962 Birgit Fischer German DR, 500 meter kayaker (Olympics-gold-1980)
1962 Cammy Ciarelli Iowa City IA, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-2nd-1995)
1962 Foster Emerson Sylvers rocker
1963 Alison Roberts fashion designer
1963 Paul O'Neill Columbus OH, right fielder (Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees)
1963 Tom McHale NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1964 Don Majkowski NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1964 Steve Nevius film editor (Eden, Fall Time, Damascus)
1965 Carrot Top [Scott Thompson], Florida, comedian (American Comedy Award-1994)
1965 Veronica Webb supermodel/actress (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1966 Don Anurasiri cricketer (Sri Lankan slow left-armer)
1966 Samantha Phillips Ft Meade MD, Penthouse Pet
1966 Stacey Cortez actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital)
1966 Tea Leoni New York NY, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth)
1967 Jenny Byrne Perth Australia, tennis star (1984 Futures-Wyong-Australia)
1967 Nick Leeson British banker (Baring bank)
1967 Rich Rowland US baseball catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1968 David Hulse US baseball outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 Donald Hodge NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 Kerry Dienelt Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 Michelle Gibson equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 Alfred Jordan CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 Brian O'Neal NFL full back (San Francisco 49ers)
1970 Corey Mayfield NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Dave Brown NFL quarterback (New York Giants)
1970 Joe Bowden NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 Troy Mallette Sudbury, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 Andrew Hermann US 50K walker (Olympics-96)
1971 Byron Dafoe Sussex England, NHL goalie (Los Angeles Kings)
1971 David Fox US, 50 meter freestyle (Olympics-6th-96)
1971 Helen Dobson Skegness England, golfer (1993 State Farm Rail Classic)
1971 Jennifer LaVoie Nashua NH, playmate (August 1993)
1971 Nova Peris Darwin Australia, field hockey left halfback (Olympics-96)
1971 Sean Astin Los Angeles CA, actor (Goonies, Like Father Like Son, Toy Soldiers)
1972 Chris Harrison guard (Detroit Lions)
1972 Erwin van de Looi soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 Sean Harris NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1973 Daryl Gardener defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1973 Kirrily Sharpe Bankstown Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures-Saga-Japan)
1974 Detron Smith NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 Tamarick Vanover NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs)
1975 Hercules Kyvelos Montréal Québec Canada, boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 Chris Pitman rocker (Zaum, Tool)
1976 Samaki Walker NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1992 Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan Columbia SC, sport pistol (Olympics-96)

Deaths which occurred on February 25:

0779 Walburgis Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies
1247 Hendrik IV duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
1495 Djem Sultan son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
1601 Earl of Essex executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabeth
1601 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth
1602 Everard van Reyd Dutch historian, dies at about 51
1634 Albrecht von Wallenstein German generalissimo, murdered at 50
1634 Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein German duke, murdered at 50
1634 Van Friedland/Mecklenburg General-Admiral, dies at 50
1643 Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at 60
1682 Alessandro Stradella Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37
1713 Frederik I King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
1719 Giovanni Maria Casini composer, dies at 66
1723 Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90
1819 Filinto Elísio [do Nascimento], Portuguese poet, dies at 84
1826 Piotr A von der Pahlen military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
1851 Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer, dies at 53
1852 Thomas Moore writer (Odes of Anacreon), dies
1865 Otto Ludwig German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
1894 James Morrison Steele Mackaye US actor/author/director, dies at 51
1899 Paul Julius von Reuter founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1901 Jose Rogel composer, dies at 71
1902 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf composer, dies at 77
1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky Russian composer/conductor, dies at 44
1914 John Tenniel British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
1915 George Mimot physician (Nobel-1934), dies
1920 Aloys Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73
1922 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
1925 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, dies at 81
1934 Daniel Protheroe composer, dies at 67
1934 John J McGraw manager (New York Giants), dies at 60
1942 Leo Ascher composer, dies at 61
1945 Mário R de Morais Andrade Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51
1947 Friedrich Paschen German physicist, dies at 82
1953 Jesus Garcia Leoz composer, dies at 49
1955 Marij Kogoj composer, dies at 59
1957 Kurt von Wolfurt composer, dies at 76
1957 Mark Aldanov [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
1960 Everhardus J van Romondt Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51
1962 Wilhelm Pessler German sociologist, dies at 81
1964 Alexander Archipenko sculptor, dies
1967 John Griggs actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
1968 Camille Huysmans Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
1969 Jan Zajic Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates
1970 Mark Rothko abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
1975 Elijah Muhammad leader of the Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 77
1978 Daniel "Chappie" James Jr retired Air Force General, dies at 58
1982 J K Irani cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies
1983 Tennessee Williams writer (Streetcar Named Desire), chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71
1983 John Cowles Sr US publisher, dies at 84
1987 James Coco actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
1988 Amapola Del Vando actress (Cowboy), dies at 78
1990 Deborra Hampton actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30
1992 Guy Deghy actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79
1992 John E Allen Jr actor (1 2 3), dies
1992 Ollie O'Toole dies after long illness at 79
1993 Eddie Constantine actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75
1993 Jan D Boeke Dutch organist/conductor, dies
1993 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans Dutch PM (Social Democrat, 1965-69), dies
1993 John D Boeke organist/conductor, dies
1993 Troy Caldwell country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1994 Baruch Goldstein physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
1994 Hugh Tayfield cricketer (170 wickets for South Africa in 37 Tests), dies
1994 Jersey Joe Walcott boxer, dies at 80
1994 Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki dies at 80
1994 Yann Piat French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
1995 Jack Clayton British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
1995 Oh Jin Woo Korean minister of defense, dies
1995 Terence Weil cellist/teacher, dies at 73
1996 Haing S Ngor doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45
1996 Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett dies at 59
1996 Vehbi Koc industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 94
1997 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky writer/critic, dies at 71
1997 Tony Williams jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51
1998 Luigi Veronesi Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90
1998 Umberto Mastroianni Italian sculptor, dies at 87

On this day February 25 in events:

1095 Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
1358 Dalmatië flees Venice
1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians
1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)
1791 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus
1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
1830 Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West
1847 State University of Iowa is approved
1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
1870 Hiram Revels, Mississippi, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Senator)
1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London
1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in New York NY
1904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theatre Society
1904 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in London
1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1911 The opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia)
1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon)
1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3)
1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1925 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
1927 Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
1930 Check photographing device patented
1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs England (114 & 112)
1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yards in, posts on goal line)
1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases the Boston Red Sox
1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadiens)
1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando FL 2 Ball Golf Tournament
1952 6th Winter Olympics games close at Oslo, Norway
1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances
1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres
1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in New York NY
1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 meter at release to record 14,10
1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
1962 India Congress Party wins elections
1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship
1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968 Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus
1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in New York NY
1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
1973 Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theater in New York NY for 601 performances
1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 points
1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1978 Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs New Zealand Christchurch
1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981 New York Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes)
1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1981 23rd Grammy Awards Sailing-Christopher Cross, Billy Joel win
1981 Executive Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1986 28th Grammy Awards We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins win
1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour" begins in Worcester MA
1988 South Korea adopts constitution
1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 vs New Zealand at Eden Park
1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs Sri Lanka (122 & 100)
1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile, kills 28
1992 34th Grammy Awards Unforgettable, Marc Cohn win
1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993 Pakistan all out 43 vs West Indies, world one-day international record low
1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad vs Leeward Is
1998 40th Grammy Awards
1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-22-2006, 03:58 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 26:

1361 Wenceslas of Bohemia Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400)
1588 Nicolaus Erich composer
1675 Guillaume Delisle Paris France, geographer (Atlas Géographique)
1675 Johann Philipp Treiber composer
1677 Nicola Fago composer
1686 Godefroi L Count d'Estrades French diplomat
1717 John Randall composer
1770 Antoine Reicha composer
1772 Caspar Furstenau composer
1802 Victor Hugo France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1808 Honoré Daumier France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
1824 Carlos Calvo Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
1825 Hans Balatka composer
1831 Filippo Marchetti composer
1832 John George Nicolay US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
1834 Aleksander Zarzycki composer
1835 Richard Andree German geographer (Andree's Handatlas)
1837 Charles Woeste Belgian count/minister of Justice
1838 Wendelin Weissheimer composer
1841 Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer English Consul-General (Egypt)
1842 Camille Flammarion Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
1845 Alexander III St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94)
1845 Aleksander Rozycki composer
1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes
1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
1857 Emile Coué French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
1861 Ferdinand I Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
1866 Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
1867 Siegfried Passarge German geographer (Cameroon/South Africa/America)
1868 Leonard Borwick British pianist
1869 Nadezjda K Krupskaja Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
1873 Ewoud van Everdingen Dutch meteorologist
1874 Carl Vogler composer
1875 Emma Dunn actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
1875 Richard Wetz composer
1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2")
1876 Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38)
1877 Carel S Adama van Scheltema Dutch poet/writer (socialism)
1877 Russell Alexander composer
1879 Frank Bridge English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten
1882 Walter Lucht German artillery general (WWI/WWII)
1883 Erich R Jaensch German psychologist (eidetism)
1884 Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer
1884 Hildo Krop Dutch modernistic sculptor
1885 Lili Green [Alice Sally Mary], Netherlands/England dancer
1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
1887 Sir Benegal Narsing Rau India, president of UN Security Council (1950)
1891 Alan Bridge PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning)
1893 William Frawley Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
1896 Andrei A Zjdanov Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
1896 Eduard Flipse Dutch conductor/composer
1898 Julien de Valckenaere Flemish writer
19-- Barbara Meek Detroit MI, actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Melba)
19-- Christopher Templeton Lake Forest IL, actor (Carol-Young & Restless)
19-- Damita Jo Freeman Palestine TX, actress (Jackie Simms-Private Benjamin)
19-- Jonathan Schmock La Jolla CA, actor (Billy-Double Trouble)
19-- Kevin Best New York NY, actor (Harrison-General Hospital)
1900 Jean Negulesco Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica)
1902 Rudolf Moralt German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic)
1902 Vercors [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer)
1906 Madeleine Carroll English actress (The 39 Steps, Secret Agent)
1906 Nikos Ghika artist
1908 Tex Avery cartoon director (What's up, Doc?)
1909 Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock TV Chef
1911 Josef Smrkovsky Czechoslovakia MP chairman
1913 Jon Hall Fresno CA, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
1913 George G Barker English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini)
1913 Hermann Lenz writer
1914 Robert Alda New York NY, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
1914 Witold Rowicki composer
1915 Elisabeth Eybers South African/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses)
1915 Pran Nath Chhuttani physician/teacher
1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
1916 Mordecai Seter composer
1916 Ross Gregory cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WWII)
1917 Robert Taft Jr (Senator-R-OH)
1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers)
1918 Otis R Bowen US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
1918 Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon US, sci-fi author (Starshine, A Way Home, Hugo, Caviar)
1919 Hendrika Mastenbroek 100 meter/400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1936)
1919 Mason Adams New York NY, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
1919 Beppie Nooij actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien)
1919 Luc-Andre Marcel composer
1920 A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek Netherlands, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
1920 Antony Kearey TV producer
1920 Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney)
1921 Betty Hutton Battle Creek MI, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
1922 Margaret Leighton Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
1922 Bill Johnston cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
1924 Mark Bucci New York NY, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 Noboru Takeshita Japanese PM (1987-89)
1925 Frank Henry Copplestone TV executive
1925 James Moody US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1926 Cynthia Stone Peoria IL, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
1926 Konstantin P Feoktistov Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1926 Arsene Souffriau composer
1927 Donald Gramm Milwaukee WI, bass-baritone
1927 Tom Kennedy Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1928 Aldonis Kalnins composer
1928 Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
1928 Antoine "Fats" Domino New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill)
1928 Everton Weekes West Indian cricket player (one of the 3 W's)
1930 Lazar Berman Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1931 Francisco Kroepfl composer
1931 Robert D Novak Joliet IL, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1932 Johnny Cash Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue)
1933 Sir James Goldsmith Paris France, financier/corporate raider (Referendum Party)
1933 Godfrey Cambridge New York NY, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
1934 Ron Gaunt cricketer (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s)
1936 Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski cosmonaut
1936 Manmohan Desai filmmaker
1938 Jack Knight Somerville MS, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
1941 Keith Thomson cricketer (batted in 2 Tests New Zealand vs India 1968)
1942 Adriaan van Dis author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa)
1942 Joop van den Ende director (Alsmeer Studio)
1943 Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1943 Bill Duke actor (Bird on a Wire, Predator)
1943 Bob van Reeth Flemish architect
1943 Paul Cotton Los Angeles CA, rocker (Poco)
1944 Marilyn Michaels comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour)
1945 Mitch Ryder rocker (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1946 Bobby "Bingo" Smith NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1946 Phyllis Eisenstein US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
1947 Sandi Shaw [Sandra Goodrich], Dagenham Essex England, rocker (Always Something There To Remind Me)
1948 Priscilla Lopez Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
1949 Emma Kirkby British soprano
1950 Jonathan Cain Chicago IL, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys)
1953 Bree Walker news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV)
1954 Michael Bolton New Haven CT, rock vocalist (How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, That's What Love Is All About)
1954 John Bolger actor (Captain Gabe McNamara-Another World)
1957 Keena Rothhammer US, 800 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1957 Connie Carpenter-Phinney Madison WI, 79k cyclist (Olympics-gold-1984)
1958 Jeff Fithian actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 Joe Fithian actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 Susan J Helms Charlotte NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78)
1961 Sophie Winter actress (She's a Good Fighter)
1962 Sheila Cornell Encino FL, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1965 Brittany York London England, playmate (October 1990)
1965 Alison Armitage London England, actress (Acapulco HEAT)
1965 Donald Narcisse CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 Matt Jackson Birmingham MI, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Payless)
1966 Jennifer Grant actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)
1966 Wesley Walls NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints)
1967 David Howard Sarasota FL, infielder (Kansas City Royals)
1967 Roman Fortin NFL center (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 Scott Service US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1968 Brendan Rogers CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 Chris Green NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1968 J T Snow Long Beach CA, infielder (New York Yankees, California Angels)
1968 Leif Rohlin Vasteras Sweden, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1968 René Groen soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 Brandon Wilson US baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1970 Katie O'Neill Los Angeles CA, actress (Together We Stand)
1970 Meeno Peluce Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
1970 Ben Maruquin Ventura CA, field hockey sweeper (Olympics-96)
1970 Radka Zrubakova Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1970 Sasha Danilovic NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1971 Erykah Badu singer
1971 Rick Lyle defensive end/defensive tackle (New York Jets)
1972 Clint McDaniel NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1972 Scott Turner NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1973 Jenny Thompson Danvers MA, 400 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1973 Marshall Faulk NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Ron Fox soccer player (Willem II)
1975 Cindy Werley Allentown PA, field hockey forward/midfielder (Olympics-96)
1975 Mike Wilson Brampton, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 Froso Spyrou Miss Cyprus-Universe (1996)
1977 Tim Thomas NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
1994 Creason Carbo Moss daughter of US actor Ronn Moss

Deaths which occurred on February 26:

1076 Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Netherlands-Lutherian, murdered
1154 Rogier II Guiscard King of Sicily (1101-54), dies at 60
1266 Manfred bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies
1324 Dino Compagni Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies
1538 Worp van Thabor Frisian abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies
1577 Erik XIV Wasa King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43
1630 William Brade composer, dies
1686 Godefroi L Earl d'estrades French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78
1726 Maximilian II M Emanuel elect of Bavaria/governor of Netherlands, dies
1766 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer, dies at 30
1770 François Hanot composer, dies at 72
1770 Giuseppe Tartini Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77
1810 Johann Ernst Rembt composer, dies at 60
1813 Robert R Livingston US diplomat (Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
1823 John P Kemble English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at 66
1827 David Moritz Michael composer, dies at 75
1857 Ole Andreas Lindeman composer, dies at 88
1859 Ferdinand Lukas Schubert composer, dies at 64
1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched
1871 Charles Niellon Belgian brigade general, dies at 76
1901 Chi-hsui during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
1903 Richard J Gatling US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1906 Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer, dies at 70
1909 Caran d'Ache [Emmanuel Poiré], French illustrator, dies
1913 Felix Draeseke composer, dies at 77
1920 Ludwig Rubiner writer, dies at 38
1921 Carl Menger Austrian economist, dies at 81
1926 Frederik Pijper Dutch vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67
1926 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer, dies at 75
1930 Raffaele Merry del Val Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64
1931 Otto Wallach German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
1933 Antonio Nicolau Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74
1939 E Fernandez Arbós Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75
1941 Jan Keizer Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1947 Ben Webster actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
1950 Harry Lauder (Maclennan) Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75
1953 Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies
1953 Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/linguist (spelling), dies at 58
1954 William R Inge English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93
1956 Herman Courtens Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72
1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 Aleksandar Belic Swedish linguist, dies at 83
1961 Karl Albiker German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
1961 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at 51
1962 Harold Johnson comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1962 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer, dies at 83
1963 Artturi A Leinonen Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74
1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights activist, dies of injuries
1966 Minerva Urecal actress (Peter Gunn, Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
1967 Harry McNaughton comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
1968 Eric Feldary actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55
1969 Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli premier, dies; Golda Meir takes over 3/17
1969 Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86
1970 Ethel Leginska composer, dies at 83
1971 Edward van der Merwe cricket keeper (South Africa in 2 Tests in 30's), dies
1971 Fernandel [Contandin], French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67
1971 Joseph Desire Fernandel comedian, dies of cancer at 67
1971 Tullio Carminati actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at 76
1972 Tom Manders Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50
1973 Mary Finney actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
1977 Bukka White rocker, dies at 43
1977 Maxime Jacob composer, dies at 71
1981 FC Terborgh [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79
1981 Howard Hanson US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84
1981 Munabi assistant to Ugandan President Obote, murdered
1982 Gabor Szabo Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
1990 Cornell Gunther US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
1990 Leslie Ames cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
1990 Maurine Stuart Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
1990 Scott Jarvis musician (Great Expectationa), dies
1992 Gerrit Schulte "Crazy Cyclist", Dutch 6-days bicyclist, dies at 76
1992 Jean R Yawkey owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of a stroke at 83
1993 Constance Ford US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
1993 Fletcher Knebel author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
1993 Mark Kolthoff Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92
1994 Avery Fisher US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
1994 William "Bill" M Hicks comedian, dies at 32
1996 Audrey Angers charity pioneer
1996 Daniel John Chapman Cunningham physiologist, dies at 76
1997 David Doyle actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67
1997 Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone car Designer, dies at 82

On this day...Events in History

0747 -BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar
1266 Battle of Benevento
1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
1564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
1590 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda
1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
1732 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia)
1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)
1797 Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
1834 1st US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified
1839 Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
1848 2nd French Republic forms
1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
1862 Battle of Woodburn, KY
1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
1869 Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic" premieres
1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
1881 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
1891 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo
1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
1893 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500 meter (48 seconds)
1895 Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine
1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine
1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1930 "The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1936 Military coup in Japan
1937 C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London
1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200 meter free style (2:24.6)
1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1938 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY
1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO
1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN
1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premieres in New York NY
1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
1952 PM Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA
1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith
1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances
1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating
1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York
1962 Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York NY
1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls
1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1970 "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances
1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in New York NY
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
1981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 minute total
1981 French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released
1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs Australia Wellington, run out 9
1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville NY) begins transmission
1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win
1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
1987 Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
1987 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65)
1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991
1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
1991 New York-New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 & 102)
1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
1992 "Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 46 performances
1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
1994 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
1995 London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
1997 39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes win
1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders
1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-27-2006, 07:51 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 27:

0280 Constantine the Great Roman emperor (306-37), adopted Christianity
1539 Franciscus Raphelengius Dutch book publisher
1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius Dutch painter
1649 Johann Philipp Krieger composer
1702 Johann Valentin Gorner composer
1745 Silverius Muller composer
1746 Gian Francesco Fortunati composer
1759 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab composer
1784 Elias Annes Borger Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
1784 Job Plimpton composer
1792 Don Joaquin B F Espartero Spanish adventurer/field marshal
1802 William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck Lord George Bentinck
1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Portland ME, poet (Hiawatha)
1811 [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee
1822 Eugene Gautier composer
1823 Ferdinand Van Derveer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1823 William Buel Franklin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1827 Richard W Johnson Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1832 Alfred Pollard Edward Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1835 Charles Cartuyvels Belgian pulpit orator
1835 Richard Garnett English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker)
1841 [Eleanor] Agnes Lee daughter of US General Robert E Lee
1846 Joaquin Valverde composer
1847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry Coventry England, Shakespearian stage actress
1848 Charles Hubert H Parry England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1850 Henry Edwards Huntington US, railroad exec
1861 Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement)
1867 Irving Fisher US economist (compensating dollar)
1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer
1869 Alice Hamilton physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws)
1870 Louis Coerne composer
1874 Max Ettinger composer
1879 Jose Sancho Marraco composer
1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician
1881 Sveinn Björnsson 1st President of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)
1886 Hugo L Black Alabama, (Senator-D-AL)/78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
1887 James D Innes English painter
1888 Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
1891 David Sarnoff US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
1891 Georges E Migot French composer
1892 William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1893 Joseph Messner composer
1893 Ralph Linton US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan composer
1895 Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
1897 Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (Lyot filter)
1897 G Paul H Schuitema graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
1898 Allison Danzig sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1898 Rutkowski Bronislaw composer
1899 Charles H Best Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment (Insulin)
1899 Ian Keith Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
1899 Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer
19-- Stephen Yates actor (Another World, Guiding Light)
19-- Tim Topper Baltimore MD, actor (Evan-Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
1901 Marino Marini Italian sculptor/painter
1902 Gene Sarazen Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32)
1902 John Steinbeck Salinas CA, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
1902 Marian Anderson singer, banned by D A R
1902 Ethelda Bleibtrey 100 meter/300 meter US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920)
1903 Reginald Gardiner Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
1904 James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
1904 Renaat Verheijen Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
1905 Franchot Tone Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
1905 Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye)
1906 Alexander Matheson New Zealand cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
1906 H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)
1907 Gerhard Alexander [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
1909 Elisabeth Welch singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
1910 Joan Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little Women, Disraeli)
1910 Peter De Vries Chicago IL, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon)
1912 Hugues Panassié French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France)
1912 Lawrence Durrell Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
1913 Frank Allaun British MP (L)
1913 Irwin Shaw US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
1915 Arthur Gilson Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958- )
1917 John Bowden Connally Jr Floresville TX, (Governor/Senator-D/R-TX), Wounded in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1919 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composer
1920 Jose Melis Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program)
1920 David Vere Bendall former diplomat
1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55)
1921 Andras Szollosy composer
1921 Michael Fox US, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein)
1922 Mervyn Jones author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
1923 Dexter Gordon US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
1923 Viktor Kalabis composer
1924 M M Shearer former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1924 Norman Marshall cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for West Indies 1955)
1925 Hugh Leggatt art dealer
1925 Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival)
1925 Richard AFM Auwerda Dutch journalist/writer
1926 Sir Peter Emery British MP
1927 Lord Belhaven & Stenton
1927 Michael Butler Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)
1930 Joanne Woodward Thomasville GA, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
1930 Lieux Dressler actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
1931 Andrew Sloan Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
1932 Elizabeth Taylor London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
1932 Lord Young of Graffham CEO (Cables & Wireless)
1932 Dolf Zwerver Dutch painter
1933 Edward Lucie-Smith poetry critic
1933 Raymond Berry Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
1933 6th marquess of Bute Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1933 Geoffrey Maitland Smith CEO (Sears)
1933 Malcolm Wallop (Senator-R-WY, 1977- )
1934 Van Williams Fort Worth TX, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
1934 [Navarre] Scott Momaday US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969)
1934 Ralph Nader Winsted CT, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
1935 Mirella Freni Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1935 Alberto Remedios opera/concert singer
1936 Roger M Mahoney Hollywood CA, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
1936 Chuck Glaser Spalding NB, singer (Glaser Brothers-Getting to Me Again)
1936 Timothy Spall actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)
1936 Virginia Maskell actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
1937 L Jay Silvester US, discus thrower (Olympics-silver-1972)
1937 Barbara Babcock Pasadena CA, actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues)
1937 Donald MacKay CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
1937 Viscount Head
1938 Pascale Petit Paris, actor (Code Name Jaguar, End of Desire)
1939 Peter Revson auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
1939 Antoinette Sibley ballerina (Turning Point)
1939 Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939 Lester King cricketer (West Indies fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wickets)
1940 Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1940 Barbara Kelly CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)
1941 Paddy Ashdown New Delhi India, 1st leader of Britain's Social/Liberal Democrat Party
1941 Ian McGarry General Secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)
1941 Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends)
1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
1943 Mary Frann St Louis MO, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Lives)
1944 Alan Fudge Wichita KS, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
1944 Graeme Pollock cricketer (South African batting prodigy)
1944 Roger Scruton philosopher
1945 Daniel Olbrychski Poland, actor (La Truite)
1947 Gidon Kremer Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
1947 Ashley Woodcock cricketer (one Test Australia vs New Zealand 1974, only knock 27)
1947 Marian G Klaren Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage)
1948 Eddie Gray rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1948 Stephen Curtis CEO (DVLA)
1950 Franco Moschino fashion Designer
1950 Julia Neuberger British Rabbi
1951 Lee Atwater Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
1951 Steve Harley London England, rocker (Cockney Rebel-Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me))
1952 Dwight Elmo Jones Houston TX, basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972)
1952 Henk Westbroek Dutch singer (Good Cause)
1952 Kevin Raleigh rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)
1954 Neal Schon rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
1955 Garry Christian rocker
1955 Sally Spencer actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)
1957 Adrian Smith heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
1960 Paul Humphreys rock keyboardist/synthesizer player (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
1960 Stoney Jackson Richmond VA, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
1960 Andres Gomez Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
1960 Bolik Dahan Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
1960 John van Grinsven soccer player (MVV)
1961 James Worthy NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
1961 Grant Shaud actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
1962 Adam Baldwin Chicago IL, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
1962 Grant Show Detroit MI, actor (Jake Hanson-Melrose Place)
1962 Kory Tarpenning Portland OR, pole vaulter
1962 Veronica Ribot-Canales Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96)
1963 Francesco Cancellotti Italy, tennis star
1964 April Heinrichs Littleton CO, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1964 Ewen Vernal British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)
1964 Richard de Vries soccer player (De Graafschap)
1965 Sandra Cecchini Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles)
1966 Gregg Rainwater actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders)
1966 Chris Howard US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 Pete Smith US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets)
1967 Dallas Eakins Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Frantisek Kaberle Brno Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakian Republic)
1967 Robert Kron Brno Czechoslovakia, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1968 Loy Vaught NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers)
1968 Mike Sullivan Marshfield, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1968 Ron Cox NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1969 Victoria Fair Jackson MI, Miss Michigan-America (1990)
1969 Greg Stevenson Sherbrooke Québec Canada, rower (Olympics-11-92, 96)
1969 Robert Massey NFL cornerback (New York Giants)
1969 Robert Molenaar Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1969 Willie Banks US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1970 David White NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Ivan Robinson Philadelphia PA, US boxer (Olympics-92)
1971 Jaroslav Modry Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1971 Rich Tylski guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 "Pooh" Clark rocker (High-5)
1973 Terence Davis WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1974 Chris Dishman guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 Jim Maher cricketer (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995 side)
1975 Christina Nigra actress (Out of This World)
1975 Dana Marie Lane Cheyenne WY, Miss Wyoming-America (1995)
1975 Duce Staley running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1975 Marcus Robinson wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1976 Tony Gonzalez tight end (Kansas City Chiefs)
1980 Chelsea Victoria Clinton Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton

Deaths which occurred on February 27:

1167 Robert of Melun English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
1656 Johan van Heemskerk Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
1706 John Evelyn diarist, dies
1731 Angelo Predieri composer, dies at 76
1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, dies at 46
1735 John Arbuthnot physician/mathematician, dies
1779 Jan Nepveu Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele composer, dies at 61
1805 Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at 57
1844 Nicholas Biddle US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
1852 Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at 69
1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23
1881 George Colley British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle at 46
1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin Russian composer, dies at 53
1913 Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58
1920 Alexandru D Xenopol Romanian historian, dies at 72
1921 Schofield Haigh cricketer (England all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies
1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams composer, dies at 67
1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at 65
1936 Ivan P Pavlov Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70
1940 Peter Behrens German architect, dies
1942 Karel WFM Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
1943 Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), dies at 84
1945 HJ Lochtman Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen
1947 Mackinnon of Mackinnon cricketer (Tests England vs Australia 1879), dies at 89
1950 Ivan Goll writer, dies at 58
1952 Theodorus Pangalos Greek General/dictator 1926, dies at 74
1955 Tom Howard comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
1956 Frank Dailey orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
1956 Günther Ramin German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57
1958 Harry Cohn CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
1960 Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
1961 Platt Adams high jumper (Olympics-gold-1912), dies
1962 Willie Best actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
1966 Minerva Urecal actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81
1968 Johannes Tralow writer, dies at 85
1968 Ludvik Podest composer, dies at 46
1969 John Boles actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73
1970 Robert Bruce Lockhart diplomat/writer, dies
1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72
1974 Pat Brady Toledo OH, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 59
1975 Neville Cardus writer/cricketer, dies
1977 Allison Hayes actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47
1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov composer, dies at 65
1980 George Tobias actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
1982 Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, dies at 39
1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
1985 David Huffman actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
1985 Henry Cabot Lodge (Senator-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
1987 Joan Greenwood English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65
1989 Joe Silver actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66
1989 Konrad Lorenz Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85
1991 Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45
1991 H J of Royen manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at 52
1991 Robert-Jan Akkerman Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
1992 Marinus Ruppert Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
1992 S I Hayakawa (Senator-R-CA, 1977-83), dies from a stroke at 85
1993 José Duval actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
1993 Lillian Gish US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
1993 Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
1994 Harold Acton English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
1994 Karl I Pelgrom Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie jet pioneer, dies at 92
1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84
1995 Bernard Cornfield financier, dies at 67
1995 Philip Sherrington opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
1996 François Chaumette actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
1996 George Ian Murray 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64
1996 Pat Smythe show jumper, dies at 67
1996 Sylvia Williams museum director/curator, dies at 60
1998 J T Walsh actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), dies from a heart attack at 54
2003 Fred[erick McFeely] Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television host, dies from stomach cancer at 74



On this day events in History...

0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
1594 Henri IV crowned king of France
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao
1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1816 Dutch regain Suriname
1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA
1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland
1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumter"
1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO
1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw
1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1919 1st public performance of Holst's "The Planets"
1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
1921 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1921 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in New York NY
1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 vs England
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1929 Russia & US sign trade agreement
1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists)
1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris
1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6)
1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes
1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
1942 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York NY)
1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
1957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain
1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR
1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria
1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1967 Dominica gains independence from England
1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox
1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1974 "People" magazine begins sales
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers)
1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78
1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)
1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
1985 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands)
1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1987 "Washington Week In Review", 20th anniversary on PBS
1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1
1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16
1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated
1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-28-2006, 07:07 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on February 28:

1533 Michel de Montaigne France, essayist/philosopher
1552 Jobst Bürgi [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
1573 Elias Hill German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1616 Kaspar Forster composer
1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully Florence Italy, composer
1663 Thomas Newcomen English co-inventor (steam engine)
1675 Guillaume Delisle Paris, cartographer/geographer
1683 René-Antoine de Réaumur France, biologist/engineer
1690 Aleksei P Romanov Russia, son of Peter the Great
1712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran France, General
1747 Justin Morgan composer
1750 Ignacy Potocki Polish foreign minister
1764 Robert Haldane Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1771 French Jozef Kinsoen Flemish portrait painter
1779 Augustus Callcott landscape painter, Kensington
1786 D François J Arago French astronomer/physicist/politician
1792 Henriette countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont wife of King Willem I
1792 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer Estonian/German embryologist
1797 Mary Lyon US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
1797 W Frederik K prince of Netherlands/General/Admiral (10 day campaign)
1799 Johann von Döllinger German Old Catholic theologian/historian
1810 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink Dutch historian
1812 Berthold Auerbach German author (Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten)
1817 James Craig Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1820 John Tenniel England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1822 Matthew Duncan Ector Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1823 Ernest Renan French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1824 Charles Blondin France, acrobat/aerialist
1824 John Creed Moore Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1833 Alfred von Schlieffen Count/Prussian General-field marshal
1850 Hermann Schell German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
1854 Juliusz Zarebski composer
1857 Gustave Adolph Kerker composer
1858 Jacob P Vis Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
1865 Sir Wilfred Grenfell England, medical missionary
1865 Arthur Symons Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov Russian philosopher/classical/Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars)
1874 Soledad Jiminez Santander Spain, actor (Phantom of the Range)
1875 Viliam Figus composer
1876 John Alden Carpenter Chicago IL, composer (Sea Drift)
1877 Sergei Bortkiewicz composer
1882 José Vasconcelos Oaxaca México, politician/essayist/philosopher
1882 Geraldine Farrar US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1882 Richard Heinrich Stein composer
1886 José Gutiérrez Solana Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
1886 Max Vasmer German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
1887 William Zorach Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
1889 Victor Sutherland Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer
1893 Ben Hecht New York NY, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (The Front Page)
1895 Guiomar Novaes Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 Marcel Pagnol French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
1896 Philip Showalter Hench Pittsburgh PA, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
1898 Molly Picon Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist
19-- Richard Romanus Barre VT, actor (Foul Play, Strike Force)
19-- Rick Lohman Cleveland OH, actor (Search For Tomorrow, Phyl & Mikhy)
1900 Edna Swithenbank Manley Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1900 Laura Z Hobson writer
1901 Linus Pauling chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
1901 Rudolf W Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1905 Glyn Jones writer
1906 Bugsy Siegel gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1907 Milton Caniff Hillsboro OH, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates)
1908 Billie Bird Pocatello ID, actress (Mrs Cassidy-Benson, Dear John, Jury Duty)
1909 Olan Soule La Harpe IL, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
1909 Stephen Harold Spender England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
1910 Roman Maciejewski composer
1910 Vincente Minnelli Chicago IL, movie director (American in Paris, Gigi)
1911 Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1912 Helmut Coing German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
1914 Jim Boles Lubbock TX, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
1915 Sir Peter Medawar England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
1915 Zero [Samuel Joel] Mostel Brooklyn NY, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1917 Hans Deutgen Sweden, world champion archer
1918 Alfred Burke London England, actor (Backfire)
1920 Edward Kassner music publisher
1920 Jim Olin (Representative-D-VA, 1983- )
1920 Marjorie M Sweeting English geomorphologist
1921 John Bouber [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
1921 Vladimir Sommer composer
1923 Charles Durning Highland Falls NY, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
1924 Robert A Roe (Representative-D-NJ, 1969- )
1925 Harry H Corbett Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky)
1926 Svetlana Alliluyeva daughter of Josef Stalin, author (My Life)
1926 Seymour Shifrin composer
1926 Stanley Glasser composer
1927 Bernard Frank oriental scholar/writer
1927 John Swire British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1928 Bettye Ackerman Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
1928 Smokey The Bear
1928 Tom Aldredge Dayton OH, actor (What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers)
1929 Frank O Gehry architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City)
1930 Frank Malzone baseball player
1930 Leon Cooper US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1931 Gavin MacLeod Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
1931 Gustav Thoni Italy, skier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
1931 Jack Thieuloy writer
1932 Brian Moore British commentator (Big Match)
1932 Don Francks Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
1934 Willie Bobo New York NY, jazz drummer (Cos)
1935 Clive Halse cricketer (South Africa fast bowler on 1963-64 Australia/New Zealand tour)
1938 Martin Olav Sabo (Representative-D-MN, 1979- )
1939 John Fahey singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
1939 Tommy Tune Wichita Falls TX, dancer/choreographer (The Boyfriend)
1939 Charles Brown Cincinnati OH, featherweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1964)
1940 Joe South Atlanta GA, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
1940 Mario Andretti race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500)
1941 Alice May Brock author
1941 Marty Sanders rock vocalist
1942 Brian Jones rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1942 Frank Bonner Little Rock AR, actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love, Sidekicks)
1943 Barbara Acklin [Allen], Chicago IL, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman)
1943 Donny Iris singer
1943 Hans F Dijkstal Dutch minister of the Interior (VVD, 1994-)
1944 Colin Nutley director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack)
1944 Kelly Bishop Colorado, actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn)
1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith Texas, NFLer (Baltimore Colts)/actor (Police Academy)
1945 Mimsy Farmer Chicago IL, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
1945 Ronnie Rosman rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1946 Graham Vivian cricketer (son of Giff, 5 Tests for New Zealand 1965-72)
1947 Stephanie Beacham England, actress (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
1948 Bernadette Peters [Lazzaro] Queens NY, actress (The Jerk, Song & Dance)
1948 Mercedes Ruehl Queens NY, actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People)
1948 Willie Donnell Smith
1950 Ilene Graff Brooklyn NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
1950 Stephen Chatman composer
1951 Gustavo Thoeni Italy, giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 John Roarke Providence RI, comedian (Fridays)
1951 Karsan Ghavri cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s)
1952 Cristina Raines [Tina Herazo] Manila Philippines, actress (Sentinel)
1952 Jennie Lynn San Diego CA, actress (Love & Marriage)
1952 Melissa Babish South Carolina, swimmer (Olympics)
1952 Eddie Manion saxophonist
1953 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1955 Gilbert Gottfried comedian (Beverly Hills Cop)
1955 Randy Jackson New Orleans LA, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1956 Adrian Dantley Washington DC, NBA forward (Olympics-gold-1976, Utah Jazz, 1981, 84 top scorer)
1957 Phil Gould rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1957 Cindy Wilson Athens GA, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1957 Ian Smith cricket wicket-keeper (New Zealand of the 80's)
1957 Ian Stanley keyboardist
1957 Jeff Woodland Papua New Guinea, Nike golfer (1991 Dakota Dunes Open)
1957 John Turturro Brooklyn NY, actor (Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever)
1958 Christine Lathan-Brehmer German DR, 400 meter runner (Olympics-gold-76)
1958 Mark Pavelich NHLer (New York Rangers)
1959 Sydney P Mufamadi South African leader (SACP)
1960 Dorothy Stratten Vancouver British Columbia, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina)
1961 Barry McGuigan British boxer
1961 Wayne Smith Albany WA, Australasia golfer
1962 Rae Dawn Chong Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire)
1962 Angela Bailey England, Canadian 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1984)
1962 Chunli Li Auckland New Zealand, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 Steve Tsujiura hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1965 Mikko Makela Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (New York Islanders)
1965 Duane Ferrell NBA forward (San Francisco Warriors, Indiana Pacers)
1966 Erik van Kessel Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1966 Jan Varholik Kosice Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1966 Tim Goad NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1966 Vincent Askew NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers)
1967 Antone Davis NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Jeff[rey] Pfaendtner Detroit MI, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1967 Marcus Lillington rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need)
1968 J T Snow US baseball 1st baseman (New York Yankees, California Angels)
1968 Mike Milchin Knoxville TN, pitcher (Minnesota Twin)
1969 Elisa Fiorillo singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
1969 Robert Sean Leonard New Jersey, actor (Dead Poets Society, Mr & Mrs Bridge)
1969 Shawn McEachern Waltham MA, NHL forward (Boston Bruins, Senators)
1970 Jan Varholik hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 Mika Stromberg Helsinki Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1970 Noureddine Morceli Algeria, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 John Buchanan actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man)
1972 Melisa Moses Jacksonville FL, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1972 Scott Gragg NFL tackle (New York Giants)
1973 Demetrice Martin WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Denard Walker cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Eric Lindros London Ontario, NHL center (Philadelphia Flyers)
1973 Gary Walker NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1973 Henry Bailey NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Katie Allen Australian field hockey full back/half back (Olympics-96)
1974 Kevin Abrams cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1974 Michael Manasseri actor (License to Drive)
1974 Michael Swift WLAF CB (Rhein Fire)
1975 Azhar Mahmood cricket pace bowler (Pakistani ODI 1996)
1976 Angie Kennedy Nambour Queensland Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 Aki-Petteri Berg NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-bronze-1998, Kings)
1977 Debbie Koegel Norristown PA, dance skater (& Oleg Fediukov)
1978 Marissa Perez Miss Connecticut Teen-USA (1996)
1979 Virginia Ledgerwood Chester VA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)

Deaths which occurred on February 28:

1261 Hendrik duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies
1573 Jan "Hans" Liefrinck Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54
1609 Paul Sartorius composer, dies at 39
1618 Filips Willem Prince of Orange, dies at 63
1626 Cyril Tourneur English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies
1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac French mathematician/poet, dies at 56
1665 Lodewijk van Nassau Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies
1737 Hercule Brehy composer, dies at 63
1742 Willem J 's-Gravesande Dutch physicist, dies at 53
1781 Richard Stockton US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 50
1784 Phillis Wheatly poetess, dies
1796 Friedrich Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 56
1818 Adriaan Loosjes Pzn Dutch publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
1844 Abel P Upshur Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 Thommas W Gilmer Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1876 Charles Edward Horsley composer, dies at 53
1903 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada Albanian poet, dies at 88
1905 Joseph C Juglar French physician/economist, dies at 85
1912 Bill Storer English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
1913 Elephant seal 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in South Georgia (South Atlantic)
1916 Henry James US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1922 Vicente Lleo composer, dies at 51
1925 Friedrich Ebert Social-Democrat president of Germany, dies
1929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
1929 John Ebenezer West composer, dies at 65
1931 Ban Johnson created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1935 Alexander W F Idenburg Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1909-16), dies at 73
1936 Pedro Muñoz Seca La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
1940 Johan C Braakensiek Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1941 Alfonso XIII de Borbón King of Spain (1902-31), dies
1949 Stanley Robert Marchant composer, dies at 65
1953 Jim Thorpe decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64
1959 Maxwell Anderson US dramatist (Key Largo, Bad Seed), dies at 70
1960 F S Flint British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960 Jonathan Hale actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68
1961 Joris Vriamont Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64
1962 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1963 Theodore Newton actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58
1964 Dirk Filarski painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
1965 Adolf Schärf President of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74
1966 Charles A Bassett II astronaut, dies in a crash of T-38 jet at 34
1966 Elliot McKay See Jr astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash at 38
1968 Frankie Lymon singer, dies at 25
1968 Juanita Hall actress (Captain Billy), dies at 66
1968 Doretta Morrow actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41
1972 Victor Barna table tennis champion, dies
1973 Cecil Kellaway actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
1973 Hope Landin actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79
1974 Mees Toxopeus Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89
1975 Istvan Kardos composer, dies at 83
1977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
1978 Philip Ahn Los Angeles CA, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
1978 Eric Frank Russell sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
1979 Mr Ed talking horse, dies
1979 Jane Hylton English actress (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
1980 Ian Alexander Ross Peebles cricketer (45 wickets for England), dies
1984 Leslie Walcott cricketer (Test for West Indies vs England 1930), dies
1985 Charita Bauer actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in New York NY
1986 Olof Palme Swedish PM, assassinated in Stockholm
1986 Sven Olof Palme Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1987 Anny Ondra actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
1987 Nora Kaye US ballet dancer, dies at 67
1988 Mikha`il Na'imah Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1989 Hermann Burger writer, dies at 46
1990 Colin Milburn cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
1990 Fabia Drake actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
1990 Tuppy Owen-Smith South Africa cricketer (batsman vs England 1929), dies
1991 Guillermo Ungo member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
1992 Emilla Sherman choreographer/rockette, dies
1992 La Lupe Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53
1993 Fer A Olthoff Dutch WWII resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
1993 Franco Brusati Italian director/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
1993 Ishiro Honda Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993 Joyce Carey [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
1993 Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82
1994 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
1994 Buster Holmes chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
1994 Elbert "Skippy" Williams tenor Sax player, dies at 77
1994 George Osborne Sayles historian, dies at 92
1994 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard dies at 90
1994 Pu Yi brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
1995 Herman "Ace" Wallace blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
1995 Keith Rigg cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
1995 Max Rudolf conductor, dies at 92
1996 Daniel Chipenda Angolan politician, dies at 64

On this day events in History

0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
1066 Westminster Abbey opens
1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1610 Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 Salem witch hunt begins
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY
1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1728 Georg F Händels opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London
1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener" premieres in Vienna
1835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI
1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1862 The opera "La Reine de Saba" premieres (Paris)
1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister GA
1864 Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1882 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
1883 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
1891 Oscar Grundén skates world record 500 meter (50.8 seconds)
1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1906 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens University (Kingston Ontario) in 2 games
1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco)
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI
1920 Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin" premieres
1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
1924 US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1929 Chicago Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 1st female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37)
1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1942 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1950 "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1951 French government of Pleven dissolves
1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
1954 Patty Berg/Pete Cooper win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
1959 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA
1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA
1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
1960 8th Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley CA close
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1962 WMGM-AM in New York City NY changes call letters to WHN
1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
1966 Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR
1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA
1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1970 "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam
1971 WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville KY (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
1974 US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Taiwan police shoot into crowd
1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
1975 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
1976 18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win
1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles CA)
1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in New York NY
1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
1981 China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1982 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
1988 15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada
1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
1989 Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1989 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
1991 Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain
1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
1991 "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500 meter indoor (3:34:16)
1993 "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins
1993 Gun battle erupts at Waco TX between FBI & Branch Davidians
1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46 meters)
1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 Denver International Airport opens
1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
1998 "View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-01-2006, 07:36 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 01:

0772 Po Tjiu-i Chinese poet/Governor of Hang-tsjow
1456 Wladyslaw Jagiello king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1494 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini] Italian painter
1528 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1607 Giovanni Francesco Milanta composer
1610 Johann B Schup [Schuppius] German poet/historian
1630 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere Flemish painter, baptized
1690 Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel composer
1703 Dieudonne Raick composer
1709 Josef Antonin Gurecky composer
1711 Peregrinus Pogl composer
1734 Pieter Valck[x] South Netherlands sculptor
1771 Armand-Emmanuel Trial composer
1779 Jacob Gottfried Weber composer
1780 Léonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1826-30)
1788 Gheorghe Asachi Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky composer
1810 Frédéric Chopin Poland, composer/pianist (Concerto in F Minor)
1811 Robert Christie Buchanan Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1820 George Davis Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 Richard Redhead composer
1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 Charles Champion Gilbert Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 John Thomas composer
1828 James Fleming Fagan Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli] Italian playwright
1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 Friedrich Grutzmacher composer
1835 Matthias J Scheeben German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1837 Ion Creanga Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 William Dean Howells US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
1838 Gabriele dell' Addolorata [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1841 Blanche Kelso Bruce Farmville VA, (Senator-MS, 1875-1881)
1841 Romualdo Marenco composer
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
1852 Theophile Delcassé French statesman
1856 Florimond Fonteyne Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1858 Georg Simmel German philosopher/sociologist
1860 Suzanna Salter 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
1864 Rebecca Lee 1st black woman to get a medical degree
1865 Gerard Vissering Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1874 Jean de Merode [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Netherlands
1878 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont composer
1880 Julian Myrick promoter of junior tennis
1880 Lytton Strachey biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
1882 Ida Moore Altoona KS, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1883 Thomas Shelvin college footballer great (Yale)
1885 Lionel Atwill Croyden England, actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1886 Oskar Kokoschka Russian/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1890 Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1893 Theo Frenkel actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1895 G B "Duke" Keats hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
1896 Dimitri Mitropoulos Athens Greece, conductor/composer
19-- Richard Shoberg actor (Tom-All My Children, Edge of Night, Somerset)
19-- Tom Mason Brooklyn NY, actor (Jack & Mike, Our Family Honor)
1900 Donald Keith Falkner singer
1903 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1904 Paul Hartman San Francisco CA, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
1905 Pol le Roy Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1907 Lois Moran Pittsburgh PA, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1909 David Niven Kirriemuir Angus Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Eye of the Devil)
1909 Richard de Guide composer
1909 Robert Selby Taylor bishop
1909 Terrence De Marney London England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1911 Harry Golombek chess grandmaster
1913 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim photographer/collector
1914 Archibald J Gumede South African ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1914 Ralph Waldo Ellison US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1915 Johannes J "Joop" Klant Netherlands/South Africa economist (Madame Sans Gêne)
1917 Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 Robert Lowell poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
1918 Roger Delgado London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June)
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1920 Alfred Grant Goodman composer
1920 Harry Caray baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1920 Howard Nemerov US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist/critic (Blue Swallows)
1921 Jack Clayton Brighton East Sussex England, film director (Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes)
1921 Richard Wilbur 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
1921 Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke New York NY
1922 William M Gaines publisher (MAD Magazine)
1922 Yitzak Rabin premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
1923 Bonita Granville actress/producer (Perry Mason)
1923 Duncan White Ceylon, 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-silver-1948)
1924 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton Sparta WI, Major USAF/astronaut (Apollo 18)
1925 Al Rosen Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (American League MVP 1953)/New York Yankee president
1926 Cesare Danova Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
1926 Pete Rozelle NFL commissioner (1960-89)
1926 Robert Clary Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 Harry Belafonte Harlem New York NY, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1927 Lusine Amara opera/concert singer
1927 Robert Heron Bork judge, nominated for supreme court
1929 Sonny James singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1930 C D Gopinath cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
1930 Pierre Max Dubois composer
1930 Raymond St Jacques actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
1932 Jacques Leduc composer
1933 Istvan Lang composer
1933 Myrlie Evers politician/commissioner (Los Angeles Board of Public works)
1934 Jim "Ed" Brown Sparkman AR, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1934 Joan Hackett New York NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1934 Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1935 George Généreux Canada, trap shooter (Olympics-gold-1952)
1935 Judith Rossner author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
1935 Robert Conrad [Conrad R Falk] Chicago IL, actor (Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1936 Camille E Baly St Maartens poet (Sonny)
1936 Jean-Edern Hallier writer
1936 Marion Farouk-Sluglett political scientist
1937 Jed Allan Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, C C-Santa Barbara)
1938 Michael J[oseph] Kurland US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
1939 Leo Brouwer composer
1939 Warren Davis rocker (Monotones)
1940 David Broome Show Jumper (world champion-1970)
1940 Ralph Towner Chehalis WA, rocker (Oregon, Weather Report)
1941 Michael L Lampton Williamsport PA, astronaut (STS-45)
1942 Jerry Fischer rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 Peter Guber producer (Flashdance)
1943 Benjamin W Jipcho Mount Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Olympics-silver-1972)
1943 Franz Hohler writer
1943 Mauro Checcoli Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Piet Veerman Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1943 Wolfgang Scheidel German Democratic Republic, luge (Olympics-gold-1972)
1944 Dirk Benedict Helena MT, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1944 John B Breaux (Representative-Democrat-LA, 1972-88)
1944 John Napier London, set designer (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1944 Mike D'Abo rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 Roger Daltrey Hammersmith London England, rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1944 Roger Daltrey rocker (The Who-Tommy)
1945 Burning Spear [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1946 Lana Wood [Svetlana Gurdin] Santa Rosa CA, actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1946 Tony Ashton Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1947 Alan Thicke Kirkland Lake Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
1948 Norman Connors singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 Sido Martens Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1950 Shahid Israr Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test vs New Zealand 1976)
1951 Barbara DeAngelis talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show)
1952 Alice Ritzman Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester International-5th)
1952 David Allen Barr Kelowna British Columbia, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
1953 Bandula Warnapura cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain)
1953 Ron Howard Duncan OK, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days/Willow, Backdraft)
1954 Catherine Bach Warren OH, actress (Daisy Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 Janis Gill Torrance CA, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 Jimmy Fortune Newport News VA, singer (Statler Brothers-Class of '57)
1956 Balwinder Singh Sandhu cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup)
1956 Mark Todd UK, New Zealand equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1956 Timothy Daly New York NY, actor (Joe-Wings, Almost Grown, Diner, Made in Heaven)
1957 Jon Carroll Washington DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1958 Nik Kershaw Bristol England, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1958 Wayne B Phillips cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
1960 Alicia Dibos Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1961 Davis Daniel Arlington Heights IL, country singer
1961 Mike Rozier NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
1962 Bill Leen rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Mark Gardner Los Angeles CA, pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
1963 Arnold Oosterveer soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1963 Barb[ara] Marois Auburn MA, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1963 Magnus Svensson Leksand Sweden, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1963 Maurice Bénard [Mauricio Morales] San Francisco CA, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital, Nico Kelly-All My Children)
1963 Robert James Affuso Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 Ron Francis Sault Ste Marie Ontario, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins, Team Canada)
1963 Tony Castillo Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1964 Jennifer McCarter Sevierville TN, singer (McCarter-The Gift)
1965 Les Miller defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1966 Clinton Gregory singer
1966 John David Cullum actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
1966 Luis Sojo Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1966 Steve Reed Los Angeles CA, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Aron Winter Surinamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio)
1967 Tawnni Cable Salem OR, playmate (June 1989)
1968 Dave Zuniga Worland WY, 136½ lbs/greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1968 Salil Ankola cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989)
1968 Sanjeeva Weerasinghe cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka vs India at 17)
1969 Azam Khan cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996)
1969 Doug Creek Winchester VA, pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
1969 Vincenzo Esposito NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1970 Lisa Eagen Harlan IA, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
1970 Ray Crittenden wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Stuart Thompson Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 Allen Johnson Washington DC, long jumper/110 meter hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 André Karnebeek soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 Austin Robbins NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints)
1971 Shepherd Clark Atlanta GA, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champion)
1971 Tim Prinsen CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Tyler Hamilton Marblehead MA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 Zahoor Elahi cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman vs New Zealand 1996)
1972 Omar Daal Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montréal Expos)
1972 Profail Grier CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 Chris Webber NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 Igor Murin Trencin Czechoslovakia, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1974 Stephen Davis running back (Washington Redskins)
1975 Maria Jose Suarez Miss Spain-Universe (1996)
1976 Maringo Vlijter soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1977 Rod White Sharon PA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1980 Rose VBL Windsor daughter of English prince Richard
1980 Shahid Afridi cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)

Deaths which occurred on March 01:

0965 Leo VIII Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
1131 Stephen II King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1383 Amadeus VI (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 Francisco d'Almeida viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1535 Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1619 Thomas Campion English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1633 George Herbert English poet, dies at 39
1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1693 Benedict Schultheiss composer, dies at 39
1771 Isfrid Kayser composer, dies at 58
1773 Jan Wagenaar Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 Luigi Vanvitelli [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1777 Georg Christoph Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 Orazio Mei composer, dies at 56
1797 Juan Manuel Olivares composer, dies at 36
1804 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer, dies at 63
1817 Luigi Gatti composer, dies at 77
1826 J J Friedrich Weinbrenner German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1859 Josef Theodor Krov composer, dies at 61
1865 Anna Paulowna Romanova great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1870 Francisco S López President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1892 Archibald Scott Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 ... Albertone Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 ... Arimondi Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 ... Dabormida Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle
1899 György earl Apponyi Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1901 Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68
1906 José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa Spanish writer, dies at 73
1906 Moriz Heyne German germanist (German Wörterbuch), dies at 68
1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1914 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin composer, dies at 47
1918 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren composer, dies at 64
1920 Joseph Trumpeldor killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1924 Louise-Marie Amélie princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 Albert Herbert Brewer composer, dies at 62
1928 Jacob Adolf Hagg composer, dies at 77
1930 Aloïs Walgrave Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54
1932 Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 Josef Swickard actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1944 ... Formans director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 J Boogaard Nazi collaborator, executed
1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 Giacomo Balla Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 Roscoe Ates actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1964 Sergius Kagen composer, dies at 54
1965 Boleslav Vomacka composer, dies at 77
1968 Georg von der Vring German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1972 Victor Babin composer, dies at 63
1974 Jos de Haes Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1976 Jean Martinon French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 Dolores Costello actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 John Jacob Niles composer, dies at 87
1984 Jackie Coogan actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 Eugene List US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 Jean Le Poulain actor (The Gorillas), dies at 63
1988 Joe Besser comedian (3 Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 Henk van Stipriaan Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1990 Claude Spaak Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 Edwin H Land inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 Katharine Blake actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 Scott Huston composer, dies at 74
1992 Maria Déa French actress (Piéges), dies at 73
1993 Luis Kutner US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1993 Terry Frost actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1994 Eliseo Diego Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga journalist/writer, dies at 75
1994 Manmohan Desai filmmaker, dies at 57
1994 Timothy Andrew James Souster composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 Walter Kent US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher, dies at 56
1995 Vladislav Listyev Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1996 Margaret McKay politician, dies at 85

On this day...

0001 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy
0492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1790 1st US census authorized
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd)
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington CT)
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs Australia
1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history
1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY
1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, North Dakota
1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 1st federal land bank chartered
1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy
1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
1921 Rwanda ceded to England
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied; killing railroad striker
1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
1928 Paul Whiteman & his orchestraestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records
1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
1937 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
1940 12th Academy Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win
1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN
1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commisioner
1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
1942 Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough
1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premieres in Chicago
1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach
1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1946 Panamá accepts its new constitution
1947 International Monetary Fund began operations
1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion
1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals
1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1950 USSR issues golden rubles
1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle WA (IND) begins
1953 WJZ-AM in New York NY becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 Representatives
1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 Pakistan vs India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan
1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95
1962 K-Mart opens
1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
1962 US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1965 Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada)
1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore MD (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
1969 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1970 End of US commercial whale hunting
1970 Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC
1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones" premieres in New York NY
1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at Wellington
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides
1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI
1980 Snow falls in Florida
1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1982 The New York Times raises it's price from 25¢ to 30¢
1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people
1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay
1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 performances
1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100 meter freestyle world record (1 :1.40)
1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100 meter freestyle US record (54.48 seconds)
1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians
1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland
1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow
1995 Belgium ends military conscript
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Julio María Sanguinetti sworn in as President of Uruguay
1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1998 "Art" opens at Royale Theater NYC
1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-02-2006, 07:26 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 02:

1316 Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90)
1409 John II French duke of Alençon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc
1459 Adrian VI [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23)
1481 Franz von Sickingen German knight
1545 Sir Thomas Bodley England, diplomat/scholar
1555 Ludovico Spontoni composer
1609 Hadji Chalfa/Kâtib Tsjelebi Turkish literary (Djihannüma)
1755 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick composer
1759 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer
1760 Camille Desmoulins France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
1769 DeWitt Clinton (Governor/Senator-NY)
1793 Sam[uel] Houston 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44)
1810 Leo XIII [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903)
1813 George Alexander Macfarren composer
1815 Antonio Buzzolla composer
1817 János Arany Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
1820 Multatuli writer
1824 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1824 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian theorist
1824 Henry Beebee Carrington Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1829 Carl Schurz Major General (Union volunteers) journalist/political reformer/Civil War general
1838 David Duffle Wood composer
1844 Hermanus J A M Schaepman clergyman/Dutch politician
1862 John Jay Chapman US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays)
1875 Hans Lietzman German theologist/church historian
1876 Gösta Forsell Swedish radiologist
1876 Pius XII [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58)
1878 Wander J de Haas Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
1882 Wallis Clark Essex England, actress (Postal Inspector)
1884 Leon Jongen composer
1893 Maxime Dumoulin composer
1894 Renaat Veremans Flemish composer/conductor
1895 Felix Bressart Eydtkuhnen East Prussia Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads)
1899 Pattie Maie Menzies Australian dame
19-- Nelson Ned Brazil, Spanish singer (Mi Manera de Amor)
19-- Paul Mones Newark NJ, actor (Renegades)
1900 Kurt J Weill Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
1901 Willem Bruynzeel Dutch timber-merchant
1902 Edward Uhler Condon atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)
1904 Dr Seuss [Theodor Geisel] children's book author (Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!)
1905 Marc Blitzstein Philadelphia PA, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
1908 Jan Brasser Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
1909 Hanoch Jacoby composer
1909 Jan Fabricius Dutch playwright
1909 Mel Ott 1st National League-er to hit 500 homeruns, hall of famer (New York Giants)
1910 Hope Clara Chenhalls food inspector
1911 William Hansen Washington DC, actor (Homebodies)
1912 Arthur Beaumont C Langton cricketer (South African pace bowler of 1930's)
1913 Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas)
1913 Marjorie Weaver Crossville TN, actress (Young Mr Lincoln)
1913 Mort Cooper baseball player (National League MVP 1942)
1915 Lona Andre actress (Case of Baby Sitter)
1916 Anne Vondeling Dutch politician (PvdA)
1916 Bernard George Stevens composer
1917 Desi Arnaz Santiago Cuba, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy)
1917 Jim Konstanty baseball player (National League MVP 1950)
1917 John Gardner composer
1918 Peter O'Sullevan Ireland, horse racing commentator
1919 Eddie Lawrence comedian
1919 Jennifer Jones [Phyllis Isley] Tulsa OK, actress (Farewell to Arms)
1919 Tamara Toumanova dancer
1920 Enrique Franco composer
1921 Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson composer
1922 Eric Feldbush composer
1922 Mario Zafred composer
1923 "Doc" Watson bluegrass musician
1923 Don Taylor cricketer (New Zealand 3 Tests, Auckland stands w/Sutcliffe in Wisden)
1923 Robert H Michel (Representative-Republican-IL, 1957- )
1924 Albert Vogel Dutch elocutionist
1924 Rénos Apostolidis Greek author/poet (Katigoró)
1926 Murray Newton Rothbard economist/Libertarian Party founder
1927 Siegfried Kohler composer
1927 Witold Szalonec composer
1928 Philip K Dick writer
1929 Donald Gosling English parkeerplaatsenmagnaat/multi-millionaire
1930 Jan van Noor Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1930 John Cullum Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure)
1931 Duane F Graveline Newport VT, astronaut
1931 Mikhail S Gorbachev Privolnoye USSR, Soviet Secretary-General (1985-91)
1931 Tom Wolfe Richmond VA, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
1934 Bernard Rands Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack)
1934 Howard "Hopalong" Cassady NFLer
1935 Al Waxman Toronto Canada, actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms)
1936 Henny Boskamp [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)
1938 Alan Lewis English textile factory/multi-millionaire
1938 Donald Schwall baseball player (1961 American League rookie of year)
1938 Simon Estes Centerville IA, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos)
1939 Barbara Luna New York NY, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage)
1939 Gerard van Tongeren Dutch singer (Buffoons)
1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert chairman (South African Progressive Federal Party, 1979-86)
1942 John Irving Exeter NH, writer (World According to Garp)
1942 Lou Reed [Louis Firbank] Freeport NY, vocalist/guitarist (Walk on the Wild Side, Velvet Underground)
1942 Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan] London England, rocker (Drifters, Vipers)
1943 George Benson jazz/blues guitarist (Breezin', This Masquerade)
1943 Gordon Black English industrialist
1943 Rosa DeLauro (Representative-Democrat-CT)
1943 Stephen Dickman composer
1944 Katherine Crawford actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man)
1944 Leif Segerstam composer
1944 Pam Barnett LPGA golfer
1945 Gordon Thomson Ottawa Canada, actor (Adam Carrington-Dynasty)
1945 Joy Garrett actress (Jo-Days of Our Lives)
1946 Brian J Donnelly (Representative-Democrat-MA, 1979- )
1948 Larry Carlton rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss)
1949 Eddie Money [Mahoney] Brooklyn NY, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight)
1949 Gates McFadden actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation)
1949 Rory Gallagher Ballyshannon Ireland, rock guitarist (See Here)
195- Molly Cheek Bronxville NY, actress (Garry Shandling Show)
1950 Karen Carpenter New Haven CT, vocalist/drummer (We've Only Just Begun)
1950 Matthew Laurance Queens NY, actor/identical twin of Mitchell (Mel-Beverly Hills 90210, Ben-Duet)
1950 Mitchell Laurance Queens NY, actor/identical twin of Matthew (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
1951 Cassie Yates Macon GA, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
1952 Laraine Newman Los Angeles CA, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live)
1953 William Simmons sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1954 Stone Phumelele Sizani South African treasurer (UDF)
1955 Dale Bosworth TV host (America's Most Wanted)
1955 Dale Bozzio Boston MA, rock vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown)
1955 Jay Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donny & Marie)
1955 Shoko Asahara [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader
1955 Steve Small cricketer (stalwart New South Wales opening batsman)
1956 John Cowsill Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 Mark Evans Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
1958 Ian Woosnam Welsh golfer
1958 Kevin Curren South Africa, tennis star
1959 Andrew Farriss Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 Larry Stewart Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1959 Laura Hurlbut LPGA golfer
1962 Al Del Greco NFL kicker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 Jon Bon Jovi [Bongiovi] Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 Philip Jonas Johannesburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Payless-2nd)
1962 Terry Steinbach New Ulm MN, catcher (Oakland A's)
1963 Suzette Charles Mays Landing NJ, replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America (1984)
1965 Ron Gant Victoria TX, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1966 Judith Wiesner Hallein Austria, tennis star (1994 Schenectady)
1966 Stevie Rachelle rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1967 Allan Boyko CFL slot back/twin of Bruce (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 Bruce Boyko CFL fullback/twin of Allan (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 Leo Gomez Canovanas PR, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 Penny "Stamper" Davis Carlisle England, Canadian 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1970 Kevin Miniefield NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1970 Steve Holman Indianapolis IN, miler
1971 Amber Smith Tampa FL, actress (Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces)
1971 Donna Perry Glendale CA, playmate (November 1994)
1971 James Hammerstrand LaMesa CA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 Ray Hall NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Ruffin Hamilton NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 John Elmore guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Paul Popowich actor (Tommy Tricker & Stamp Traveler)
1974 Martine Dessureault Montréal Québec Canada, 50 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1975 Arleen McDonald Miss Mississippi-USA (1997)
1976 Lars Bruggemann hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)

Deaths which occurred on March 02:

0986 Lotharius King of France (954-86), dies at 44
1122 Floris II the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 Charles the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered
1333 Wladyslaw IV the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies
1383 Amadeus VI count of Savoy, dies
1619 Anne of Denmark daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44
1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann German stucco worker, buried at 78
1772 Robert J Pothier French lawyer, dies at 73
1787 Jean Allamand French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73
1797 Horace [Horatio] Walpole British horror writer, dies at 79
1800 Christian Friedrich Schale composer, dies at 86
1822 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, dies at 40
1840 Heinrich Olbers German astronomer (discoverer of comets & asteroids), dies at 81
1855 Nicholas I Pavlovitch tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
1862 Frederick West Lander US Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40
1867 French A Durlet Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
1868 Carl Eberwein composer, dies at 81
1882 Louis Kufferath composer, dies at 70
1887 August W Eichler German botanist, dies at 47
1887 Wilhelm Troszel composer, dies at 63
1895 Berthe MP Morisot French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
1895 Ismail Pasha kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1916 Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
1930 David H Lawrence poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth composer, dies at 73
1939 Howard Carter British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65
1943 Alexandre Yersin Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79
1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
1957 Harry E Soref inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1959 Eric Blore actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1959 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67
1962 Charles-Jean baron de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian engineer, dies at 96
1967 Gordon Harker actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
1971 Charles W Engelhard US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
1972 Bill Lawrence news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1973 Cleo Noel US ambassador to Sudan is assassinated
1974 Barbara Ruick actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41
1975 Jean Kurt Forest composer, dies at 65
1979 Edith Craig actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani Kurdish leader, dies at 75
1979 Sir Richard Sykes British ambassador is assassinated in Holland
1981 Janear Hines actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30
1982 Philip K[indred] Dick author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53
1984 Louis Basile actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
1985 John B Kelly Jr chairman US Olympics Committee, dies at 57
1985 Sir Michael Redgrave actor/writer dies at 77 of Parkinson's disease
1986 Marcel Liebman Belgian historian, dies at 56
1986 Zafer Masri mayor of Nablus, murdered
1987 Randolph Scott actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89
1991 Clark Mollenhoff US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1991 Freek Zoetmulder publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-Nazi, dies
1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
1991 Serge Gainsbourg composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62
1992 Sandy Dennis actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1993 Floortje Peneder Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
1993 Paul D Zimmerman US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
1994 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon philosopher, dies at 80
1994 Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, dies at 70
1995 Hugo Cole musician/critic, dies at 77
1995 Vladislav Listyev TV journalist, dies at 48
1996 Jacobo Majluta President of Dominican Republic (1982), dies at 61

On this day...Major Events

0871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1121 Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1629 English King Charles I leaces house of commons
1675 Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel
1725 Georg F Händels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres in London
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures
1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin PA
1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, New York NY
1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington DC
1861 US Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR
1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut
1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 Howard University established
1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead
1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education
1867 US Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
1868 University of Illinois opens
1874 Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
1876 Rutherford B Hayes elected President
1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit MI
1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
1890 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
1896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians
1896 George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs South Africa at Johannesburg
1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in US)
1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1902 Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (National League) club to manage American League's new Boston Somersets
1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY
1904 "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
1904 Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio" premieres in Milan
1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille" premieres in Paris France
1909 Great Britain, France, Germany & Italy ask Serbia to set no territorial demands
1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die
1915 British Vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
1918 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's
1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1920 Karel Capék's "Loupeznik" premieres in Prague
1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth TX, begins broadcasting
1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
1923 Time magazine debuts
1925 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
1925 SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1929 Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
1929 Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1930 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
1933 "King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1936 Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes, SA vs Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA)
1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
1939 Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late
1940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
1942 14th Academy Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper & Joan Fontaine win
1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win
1944 16th Academy Awards: "Casablanca", Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali
1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford CT)
1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hours
1950 Silly Putty invented
1951 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop" premieres in New York NY
1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Féz, declares independence from France
1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1958 Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic
1961 "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game
1964 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", George Harrison meets Patti Boyd
1965 "Sound Of Music" opens
1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney MI, founded
1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night & Michele win
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
1968 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)
1968 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov (USSR)
1968 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)
1968 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)
1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)
1969 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony
1969 Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season
1969 Pirate Radio Station 295 (England/France) begins transmitting
1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
1972 Jean-Bédel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Central African Republic
1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler win
1974 1st class postage raised from 8¢ to 10¢
1974 Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1974 Greg Chappell makes 247 vs New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1976 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
1976 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants
1976 Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in New York NY
1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
1977 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson
1977 Libya amends constitution
1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pittsburgh
1980 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC
1982 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
1983 Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1984 John Long (Detroit MI) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1985 US approves screening test for AIDS
1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
1988 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley win
1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial
1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1990 Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50 meter backstroke (25.06 seconds)
1991 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
1991 "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
1991 North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1992 Anita Hall swims female world record 200 meter freestyle (2 :5.35)
1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
1993 Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't
1994 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
1994 William Natcher, (Representative-Democrat-KY), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
1995 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
1996 Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
1996 Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose
1997 Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters
1997 Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open
1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-03-2006, 08:09 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 03:

1500 Reginald Pole English Cardinal/"heretic"
1549 Henric Spieghel Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
1583 Edward Herbert of Cherbury English military/philosopher
1589 Gisbertus Voetius [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist
1606 Edmund Waller England, poet (Penshust)
1652 Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved)
1705 Michael Schevenstuhl composer
1747 Kasamir Pulaski US General (Revolutionary War)
1756 William Godwin philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams)
1793 Charles Sealsfield writer (The Making of America)
1809 Sophia Hawthorne writer
1811 Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
1814 Charles Kensington Salaman composer
1820 Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar)
1823 Guyla Andrássy Sr premier of Hungary (1867-71)
1828 Karl Collan composer
1831 George M Pullman inventor (railway sleeping car)
1838 George W Hill US astronomer (Moon orbit)
1841 John Murray Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
1845 Georg Cantor German mathematician (discovers transfinite numbers)
1846 Desiderio Pietri Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father
1847 Alexander Graham Bell Edinburgh Scotland, inventor (telephone)
1849 Jacques Oppenheim Dutch lawyer
1853 Vincent Van Gogh Dutch painter
1857 Alfred Bruneau composer
1865 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler composer
1867 Gustav Strube composer
1868 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
1869 Henry J Wood English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1872 Wee Willie Keeler outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
1873 William Green president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
1877 Garrett Morgan African-American inventor
1880 Anne C Veth Dutch cartoonist/art critic
1882 Floris H L Prims Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
1886 James Friskin composer
1886 Reginald Owen Morris composer
1889 Fritz Behrend composer
1890 Edmund Lowe San Jose CA, actor (Black Sheep, Front Page Detective,Dillinger )
1890 Norman Bethune Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
1891 Federico Moreno Torroba composer
1891 Jan Donner Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
1892 Rui Coelho composer
1893 Beatrice Wood potter/artist/author
1893 Bill Nestell California, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
1893 Karel Lotsy Dutch insurance director/Olympics-chief d'équipe
1895 Alexander Nicholas Voormolen Dutch composer
1895 General Matthew Ridgeway US, military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
1895 Juanita Hansen Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
1895 Ragnar Frisch Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
1895 Robert Gordon KS, actor (Loveless)
1897 Jose Moreno Gans composer
1899 Alfred M Gruenther US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
1899 Juri Olescha writer
19-- Darnell Williams London, actor (All My Children)
19-- Denise Pence actress (Guiding Light)
19-- Judy Pioli Brooklyn NY, actress (Moose-Star of the Family)
19-- Kevin Steele rocker (Roxx Gang-Things You Never Done Before)
19-- Larry Pine Tucson AZ, actor (Roger-One Life to Live)
19-- Lonnie Vencent rocker (Bulletboys-For the Love of Money)
1900 Edna Best Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
1902 Ruby Dandridge Memphis TN, actress (Father of the Bride)
1903 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
1903 Rabbe A Enckell Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
1906 Artur Lundkvist Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
1906 Donald Novis Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
1906 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar journalist/diplomat
1907 Aar van de Werfhorst [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
1907 Canada Lee New York NY, actor (Lost Boundaries)
1907 Joy Finzi [Joyce A Black], British painter
1908 Riccardo Nielsen composer
1909 Harry Hemsley billionaire New York landlord
1909 Jay Morris Arena inventor/pediatrician
1909 Kenton Kilmer poet/translator
1911 Francesco Siciliani opera composer
1911 Jean Harlow [Harlean Carpentier] Kansas City MO, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8)
1912 Joe Stydahar NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1913 Margaret Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger
1913 Roger Caillois French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes)
1914 Martin Ritt actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
1915 George Brian Snape businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
1917 Bert van Aerschot Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
1918 Arnold Newman photographer (Faces USA)
1918 Arthur Kornberg US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
1918 Frank Wigglesworth composer
1920 James Doohan Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek)
1920 Julius Boros golfer (PGA Champion 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
1920 Julius Boros golfer (US Open 1952,63)
1920 Martin Ritt director (The Front, Nuts)
1921 Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet (1969 Arts & Letters Award)
1921 Diana Barrymore New York NY, actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife)
1921 Junior Parker Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
1922 Kazimierz Serocki composer
1925 Enzo Stuarti Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1925 Richard Vernon Reading Berkshire England, actor (Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night)
1926 James Ingram Merrill US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
1927 [Herman] Junior Parker rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark)
1927 Charles O Whitley (Representative-Democrat-NC, 1977- )
1927 Frank Singleton librarian
1927 John McLaughlin commentator (McLaughlin Report)
1928 Dave Dudley singer (Six Days on the Road)
1928 Don Gibson singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me)
1928 G Pausewang writer
1928 Joe Conley Buffalo NY, actor (Ike-The Waltons)
1929 Nicos Mamangakis composer
1931 Henk Knol Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1931 Piet [van] Bambergen Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
1932 Mara Corday Santa Monica CA, playmate (October 1958)
1933 Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY, princess (Jackie O's sister)
1933 Marco Antonio Muñiz Mexico, Spanish singer (Murmullos)
1933 Princess Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY (Jackie O's sister)
1934 Gia Scala Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
1935 Zhelyu Zhelev president of Bulgaria (1990- )
1936 Jim Clark Formula 1 racer (1963 Champion)
1938 Douglas Leedy composer
1938 Lew De Witt singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 Willie Chambers guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
1939 M L Jaisimha cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
1942 Mike Pender Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1942 Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
1943 Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
1944 Janice Garfat rocker (Dr Hook)
1945 Farooq Hamid cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan vs Australia 1964)
1945 Hattie Winston Greenville MS, actress (Nurse, Electric Company)
1946 James C Adamson Warsaw NY, Lieutenant Colonel USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43)
1947 Dave Mount Carshalton Surrey England, rocker (Mud)
1948 Byron MacGregor newscaster
1948 Reed Hundt FCC chairman
1949 Bonnie J Dunbar Sunnyside WA, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
1949 James S Voss Cordova AL, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
1950 Re Styles rock vocalist (Tubes)
1950 Tim Kazurinsky Johnstown PA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
1951 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov Russian cosmonaut
1952 Robyn Hitchcock rocker (Moss Elixir)
1953 Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin Russia, cosmonaut
1953 Dave Amato rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
1954 Keith Carlton Fergus Temple TX, PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th)
1954 Merrick [Chris Hughes] rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1956 Jim Barton Lincoln NE, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1956 John F Reid cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's)
1956 Miguel Bosé Panamá, Spanish actor (Lo Mejor del Año)
1958 Bob Bradley Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1958 Miranda Richardson Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game)
1959 Romeo Zondervan Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1961 Mary Page Keller actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)
1962 Herschel Walker WFL/NFL running back (New Jersey Generals, Dallas Cowboys)
1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee East St Louis IL, heptathlete (Olympics-gold-88, 92)
1963 Elizabeth Chavez Santa Monica CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-91)
1963 Jacqueline Sheen Dallas TX, playmate (July, 1990)
1963 Kelly Miller Detroit MI, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1964 Arturo Huerta Mexico, Canadian walker (Olympics-96)
1964 Atif Rauf cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman vs New Zealand 1994)
1964 Laura Martinez-Herring Sinaloa Mexico, Miss USA-1985 (Texas)/(Carla-General Hospital)
1964 Lisa Ann Poggi Grand Rapids MI, actress (Jolie-Loving)
1965 A J Sager Columbus OH, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1966 Anthony Terrell Smith Los Angeles CA, rocker (Tone Loc-Let's Do It)
1966 Claus Boekweg Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
1966 Dmitri Volkov Russian swimmer (world record)
1966 Ellen Minzner Lawrence MA, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 Gary Parker WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1966 Hope Marie Carlton Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985)
1966 Noelle Daghe Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st)
1966 Tone-Loc [Anthony Terrell Smith], Los Angeles CA, rocker (Let's Do It)
1966 Wendy Fletcher Boston MA, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993)
1967 Alexander Volkov Russia, tennis star
1967 Calvin Williams NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Elizabeth Cheshire Burbank CA, actress (Jill-Sunshine)
1968 Brian Leetch Corpus Christi TX, NHL defenseman (Team USA, New York Rangers)
1968 Diann Roffe-Steinrotter Warsaw NY, alpine skier (Olympics-gold/silver-92)
1968 Scott Radinsky Simi Valley CA, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1969 Ronald Humphrey NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Donovan Bergstrom US 3K steeplechase runner
1970 Inzamam-ul-Haq cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman)
1970 Kristine Radford Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham)
1970 Rick Mirer NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 Scott Keswick Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96)
1970 Shawn Marie Brogan Miss Iowa-USA (1997)
1971 Terryl Ulmer CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Christian Oliver actor (Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the Bell)
1972 Martin Prochazka Slany Czechoslovakia, NHL forward (Toronto, Czechoslovakia Olympics-Gold-98)
1973 Cory Raymer NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1973 James Dexter tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Jim Mills tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1973 Tisha Venturini Modesto CA, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 Victoria Nika Zdrok Kiev Ukraine, playmate (October 1994)
1973 Winslow Oliver running back (Carolina Panthers)
1974 Jared Rushton actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids)
1975 Albert Fields Gary IN, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 David Faustino California, actor (I Had 3 Wifes, Bud-Married With Children)
1977 Bas Zuiderent cricketer (Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
1977 Ronan Keating Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1978 Carol Aquino Miss Guatemala-Universe (1997)
1978 Douglas Osmond Provo UT, vocalist (Osmonds 2ndG)

Deaths which occurred on March 03:

0561 Pelagius I Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies
1191 Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
1459 Ausias March Catalan poet, dies
1554 Johan Frederik de Greatmoedige ruler of Saxon (1532-47), dies at 50
1580 Jacob Hillebrand Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies
1635 Philips de l'Espinoy historian/mayor of Ghent, dies
1703 Robert Hooke scientific genius, dies in London
1706 Johann Pachelbel organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52
1707 Aurangzeb Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1717 Pierre Allix French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
1766 Gregor Joseph Werner composer, dies at 73
1768 Nicola Antonio Porpora composer, dies at 81
1792 Robert Adam Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
1800 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi composer, dies at 64
1822 Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at 81
1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1848 Heinrich Olivier German painter, dies
1858 József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
1864 Ulric Dahlgren Union Colonel, dies in battle at 21
1889 Edward Sydney Smith composer, dies at 49
1902 Isaac D France van de Putte Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1921 Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
1926 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, dies at 58
1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1932 Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at 67
1934 Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer, dies at 58
1935 Neville Knox cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
1938 Arthur Koestler writer, dies at 32
1941 Constant W L Scheurleer archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
1941 Ernst Cahn owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
1942 Amedeo Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
1943 George Thomson cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for England 1909-10), dies
1945 Arthur Vanderpoorten Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
1945 Koos Speenhoff Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1948 Antonin Artaud writer, dies at 51
1956 Willem H Keesom Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
1959 Lou Costello comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 Sammy White actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
1965 Carlo Gatti composer, dies at 88
1966 Alice Pearce comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
1966 William Frawley actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
1967 Georges Lonque composer, dies at 66
1974 Barbara Ruick actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1974 Frank Wilcox actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66
1975 László Németh Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73
1976 Alfred Sendrey composer, dies at 92
1977 Percy Marmont actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
1982 Georges Perec French writer, dies at 45
1983 Arthur Koestler Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1985 Sarah Blanding 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1987 Danny Kaye comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
1988 Lois Wilson actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
1988 Sewall Wright US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1990 Frans Goedhart Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1990 Gerard Blitz Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Méd), dies at 88
1991 Arthur Murray dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1991 Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1992 Robert Beatty actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82
1992 Sandy Dennis actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1992 Ted Liss actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 Albert Sabin physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
1993 Carlos Montoya flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 Cyril Collard French composer/director/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1994 Anita Morris actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1994 Bob Crisp cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies
1994 Karel Kryl folk singer, dies at 49
1995 Gilbert Gadoffre French scholar, dies at 84
1995 Howard Hunter US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
1995 Howard Yanks founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
1995 Pierre Tisseyre publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
1995 Shiv Verma soldier, dies at 85
1996 David Bowman trade unionist, dies at 82
1996 John Joseph Krol cardinal, dies at 95
1996 Leo Malet writer, dies at 86
1996 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord journalist, dies at 76
1996 Lyle Talbot [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76
1996 Marguerite Duras writer, dies at 81
1996 Meyer Schapiro art historian, dies at 91
1997 Stanislav Shatalin Russian economist (500 Days), dies

On this day...events

0078 Origin of Saka Era (India)
0468 St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
0493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
0561 Pelagius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1409 Austrian civil war ends
1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1776 US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 Congress establishes US Mint
1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church
1801 1st US Jewish Governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 US Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established
1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans LA
1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1837 US President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts)
1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1845 1st US law overriding a Presidential veto (John Tyler's)
1845 Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1845 Florida becomes 27th state
1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized
1849 US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3¢ piece)
1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1853 US Assay Office in New York NY authorized
1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1855 Registration of letters authorized by Congress
1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO
1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City NV
1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established to help destitute free blacks
1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
1873 Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1873 US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montréal)
1875 Congress authorizes 20¢ coin, lasts only 3 years
1875 Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris France)
1877 Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President
1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1879 US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton IA
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891 Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department)
1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova PA
1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
1894 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "New York Atlantis"
1894 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1905 US Forest Service forms
1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montréal Wanderers, 8-3
1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
1918 Richard Göring's "Seeschlacht" premieres in Berlin
1918 Russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany & Austria
1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria BC
1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1920 Montréal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Québec Bulldogs
1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1923 Time magazine publishes 1st issue
1923 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague
1924 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami FL)
1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1933 German Presidential candidate Earnest Thälmann (KPD) arrested
1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
1933 New York NY premiere of "King Kong"
1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wickets in 5th Test vs South Africa
1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
1941 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Göring in Berlin
1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
1943 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet" premieres in New York NY
1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter
1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed
1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1946 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 points
1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1955 Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance
1956 Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 meter freestyle (1 :4.2)
1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in New York
1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 World Ice Dance Championship in Colorado Springs won by June Markham & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
1957 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada)
1957 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (USA)
1957 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
1962 British Antarctic Territory is formed
1963 Senegal adopts constitution
1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter" premieres in New York NY
1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée
1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
1968 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1968 Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points
1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA
1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die)
1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (USSR)
1977 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR)
1977 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1977 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (West Indies vs Australia)
1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals
1981 New York Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Toronto Maple Leafs (6)
1984 Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
1985 "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra
1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan), 1st black crowned 39th Miss USA
1991 "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
1991 Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109 vs West Indies at Kingston
1991 Iraqi generals & General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1991 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 meter indoor (22.24 seconds)
1991 Miguel Trovoada installed as President of Sao Tomé e Principal
1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1992 Charges are filed in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992 Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd number retired by New York Islanders
1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
1994 "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
1994 "Philoktetes Variations", with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
1994 IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
1995 Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon
1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-04-2006, 10:20 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 04:

1394 Prince Henry the Navigator sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
1492 Francesco de Layolle composer
1651 John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
1678 Antonio Vivaldi Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1719 Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter
1742 Johann Heinrich Egli composer
1747 Casimir Pulaski Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 Benjamin Waterhouse physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer
1757 Ignaz Malzat composer
1765 Charles Dibdin England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer
1782 Johann Wyss Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
1789 Pavel P Gagarin Russian monarch
1798 John Joseph Abercrombie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
1813 Wijnand J J Nuijen romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
1819 Charles Oberthur composer
1826 John Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1838 Paul Lacome composer
1841 Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
1844 Josip Jurcic Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
1862 Robert Emden Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop)
1875 Alberto Vaccari Italian Jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
1875 Enrique Larreta [E R Maza] Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 Suze Groeneweg 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike composer
1877 Daniël G van Beuningen Dutch art collector
1879 Bernhard Kellermann writer
1885 Willem H Winkel Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao)
1888 Knute Rockne Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1889 Pearl White [Victoria] US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
1891 Dazzy Vance hall of fame pitcher (led National League in strike-outs 7-years)
1897 Francis "Lefty" O'Doul baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
19-- Anne Haney Memphis TN, actress (Evelyn-Lime Streets)
1900 Roberto Soundy El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympics-1968)
1901 Charles H Goren bridge master (26 US Titles)
1901 Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo Madagaskisch poet (Enfants d'Orphée)
1903 Harold Berens comedian
1904 George Gamow nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...'infinity')
1905 Lili Kràus Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978)
1907 Edgar Barrier New York NY, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered)
1908 Boris N Poveloi [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer
1909 Harry B Helmsley New York NY, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
1910 Tancredo Neves president of Civil rights activist
1912 Afro [Basaldella] Italian painter
1912 John Garfield New York NY, actor (Air Force, Destination Tokyo, Juarez)
1915 Carlos Surinach Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo)
1915 Eunice Catunda composer
1915 Petrus de Jong Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
1916 Giorgio Bassani Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure)
1916 Hans Eysenck psychologist
1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont Joseph OR, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)
1920 Marcella Grady Jennings rancher
1921 Halim El-Dabh composer
1921 Joan Greenwood London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn)
1923 Patrick Moore England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy)
1923 Piero J d'Inzeo France, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-gold-1952, 64)
1927 Robert Di Domenica composer
1927 Thayer David Medford MA, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages)
1928 Alan Sillitoe Nottingham Nottinghamshire England, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
1928 Samuel Adler composer
1929 Bernard Haitink Amsterdam Netherlands, conductor (London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78)
1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny composer
1931 Ernesto Rosenstand Arubian playwright (Kiko Ta Di Nos?)
1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky composer
1931 Han Jansen Dutch painter
1932 Guido Baggiani composer
1932 Hessel Rienks economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1932 Miriam Makeba Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
1933 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
1934 Barbara McNair Racine WI, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show)
1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)
1934 John Duffey bluegrass musician
1934 Mario Davidovsky Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Synchronisms)
1936 Aribert Reimann composer
1936 David Thompson British food magnate/multi-millionaire
1936 Eric Allandale rocker (Foundations)
1936 Jim Clark race car driver (Indianapolis 500)
1937 [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen musician
1937 Graeme Dowling cricketer (New Zealand, 239 vs India 1968)
1937 Ron Carter jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich Russian cosmonaut
1939 James Aubrey Turner scientist
1939 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa] San Antonio TX, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
1940 Kas Garas Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report)
1941 Adrian Lyne director (Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Jacob's Ladder)
1941 Ji-Tu Cumbuka Helena AL, actor (Roots, Man Called Sloane)
1941 John Aprea Englewood NJ, actor (Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2)
1941 John Hancock Hazen AR, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1943 Zoltan Jeney composer
1944 Bobby Womack Cleveland OH, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
1945 Dieter Meier Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
1945 Jaime Tirelli New York NY, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four)
1946 Haile Gerima director (Ashes & Embers)
1946 Harvey Goldsmith impresario
1946 Michael Ashcroft English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire (Hawley-ADT)
1946 Ralph Kirshbaum Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester International Festival)
1946 Robert Raymond rocker
1948 Billy Gibbons rock guitarist (ZZ Top-Cheap Sunglasses, Legs, Fandango)
1948 Chris Squire London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1948 Shakin' Stevens [Mike Barrett], Ely Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
1950 Emilio Estefan Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
1950 Judy Dickinson Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic)
1950 Kenny Dalglish soccer manager
1950 Rafael Canizares Poey Alacs Mountains Cuba, basketballer (Olympics-bronze-72)
1951 Chris Rea Middlesborough England, rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over, Heaven)
1951 Gwen Welles Chattanooga TN, actress (Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers, Angel On My Shoulder)
1951 Kenny Dalglish British soccer star (100+ goals)
1952 Ronn Moss Los Angeles CA, actor (Ridge-Bold & Beautiful, Santa Barbara)
1953 Christopher H Smith (Representative-Republican-NJ, 1981- )
1953 Kay Lenz Los Angeles CA, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man)
1954 Catherine O'Hara Toronto Ontario, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV)
1954 Irina Ratushinskaya USSR, poet (Grey is the color of hope)
1954 Peter Erling Jacobsen Portland OR, PGA golfer (1990 Bob Hope)
1955 Benny Alexander Secretary-General (South African Pan-Africanist Movement)
1958 Patricia Heaton Cleveland OH, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1959 Kelly Lynch Golden Walley MN, actress (Warm Summer Rain, Cocktail)
1960 Reggie McElroy NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1960 Russell Todd Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World)
1961 David "Tinker" Juarez Los Angeles CA, cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1961 Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
1961 Roger Wessels Port Elizabeth South Africa, golfer (1994 Canadian Masters)
1961 Steven Weber Queens NY, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings)
1962 Brant Ian Woodward Hurstville New Zealand, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1962 Greg Kragen NFL nose tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1962 Steve Fletcher London England, actor (Brad-One Life to Live)
1963 Anne Minter Australia, tennis star
1963 Jason Newsted US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All)
1963 MDV [Michiel de Vos] Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1964 Emilia Eberle Romania, gymnast, scored a perfect 10 in 1980 Olympics
1964 Linda French Oak Park IL, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1964 Tom Lampkin Cincinnati OH, catcher (San Francisco Giants)
1965 Alexandra Harbold New York NY, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1965 Dana Brown Memphis TN, Miss Tennessee-America (1990-3rd)
1965 Stacy Edwards Glasgow MT, actress (Santa Barbara)
1966 Kevin Johnson NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1966 Mike Small Aurora IL, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Emerald Coast)
1966 Patrick Hannan English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
1967 Daryll Cullinan South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny)
1967 Juli Furtado New York NY, mountain cyclist (world champion-1991, 92)
1968 Brian Hunter Torrance CA, infielder (Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros)
1968 Dinky van Rensburg South Africa, tennis star
1968 Dionna Harris Wilmington DE, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Evan Dando rocker (Lemonheads)
1968 Patsy Kensit London, rocker/actress (Lethal Weapon 2, 21, Hanover St)
1969 Chastity Bono Los Angeles CA, daughter of Sonny & Cher
1969 Jeff Tinsley Shelbyville KY, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1969 Karrie Poppinga Manhattan Beach CA, volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4-95)
1969 Kenneth Benson CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 Dave Stevens Fullerton CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1970 Marja Helena Paluila ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
1970 Matt Gay WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 Tina Paternostro Williamsport PA, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple-57th)
1971 Edwin van Holten soccer player (FC Volendam)
1972 Chris Borg Lexington SC, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96)
1972 Martin St Pierre Ripon Québec Canada, 20k walker (Olympics-96)
1972 Robert Smith NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993)
1973 Phillip Daniels NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 Jarrett Deuling Vernon, NHL left wing (New York Islanders)
1974 Karol Kucera Bratislava Slovakia, tennis star (1995-Rosmalen)
1974 Sherry Wigginton Austin TX, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 Anna Baitchik Miss Russia-Universe (1997)
1993 Bobbi Kristina Brown daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown

Deaths which occurred on March 04:

1172 Stephan III King of Hungary (1162-72), dies
1484 Kazimierz the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25
1595 Robert Southwell English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1615 Hans von Aachen German painter, dies
1617 Arcangelo Crivelli composer, dies at 70
1793 Isaac Ouwater Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
1804 Karl Leopold Rollig composer, dies
1805 Jean-Baptiste Greuze French painter, dies at 79
1831 Georg Michael Telemann composer, dies at 82
1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner pianist/composer, dies at 72
1851 Michael Henkel composer, dies at 70
1852 Nikolai Gogol writer, dies at 43
1864 Thomas Starr King Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies
1866 Alexander Campbell Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1876 Alfred Holmes composer, dies at 38
1877 Hendrik E van Rijgersma Dutch Governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
1883 Alexander H Stephens Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71
1888 Amos Bronson Alcott US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
1903 Joseph H Shorthouse English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
1916 Franz Marc German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
1918 Eugene D'Harcourt composer, dies at 58
1922 Bert Williams famous black, dies at 46, in New York NY
1925 Moritz Moszkowski Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1933 Willie Walker US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors composer, dies at 64
1941 Edoardo Mascheroni composer, dies at 81
1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg composer, dies at 62
1943 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1943 Pieter C Boutens Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
1948 Antonin Artaud French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
1948 Elsa Brändström [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies at 59
1953 Sergei S Prokoviev Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1954 Georg Gohler composer, dies at 79
1954 Noel Gay [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
1958 Albert Kuyle [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
1960 Leonard Warren US baritone, dies on stage at 48
1962 Cairine R Wilson 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1963 William Carlos Williams US physician/poet, dies at 79
1966 Janis Medins composer, dies at 75
1968 Alexandre Cellier composer, dies at 84
1974 Adolph Gottlieb US painter, dies at 71
1981 Torin Thatcher actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies
1983 Hergé [Georges Rémi], Belgian cartoonist (Rin-Tin-Tin), dies at 75
1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze composer, dies at 79
1986 Henri Knap Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75
1986 Richard Manuel rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40
1991 Vance Colvig actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
1992 Arthur Babbitt Disney animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), dies at 84 of heart failure
1992 C Meijer Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
1992 Christian K Nelson inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1992 Mary Osborne jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
1992 Nestor Almendros Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
1993 Art Hodes Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
1993 Richard Sale writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
1994 Guus Verstraete Sr Dutch actor/director (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79
1994 John Candy actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
1995 Eden Ahbez songwriter, dies at 86
1996 Barbara Lewis British obituarist, dies at 55
1996 Minnie Pearl country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 84

On this day...in History Events

1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury
1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania
1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives)
1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (Pennsylvania), takes office
1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands
1793 President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US
1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 1st President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy MA
1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President
1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres in Venice
1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepción
1837 City of Chicago incorporates
1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President
1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" premieres in London
1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 James K Polk inaugrated as 11th President
1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1849 US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd
1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US Vice President
1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1861 Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living
1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
1863 Territory of Idaho established
1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President
1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President
1873 New York Daily Graphic, 1st illustrated daily newspaper in US, published
1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow
1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1881 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", 1st case together
1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President
1881 South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President
1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US
1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer)
1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President
1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga" premieres in Berlin
1908 Collingwood OH primary school catches fire; 180 die
1909 President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm
1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1913 Gabriel Fauré's opera "Pénélope" premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President
1917 Jeannette Rankin (Representative-Republican-MT) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles CA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President
1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President
1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 Mrs Charles [Emma] Fahning is 1st woman to bowl a santioned perfect [300] game
1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
1934 Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 NHL Chicago goalee Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 1st US bombing of Berlin
1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany
1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player
1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
1954 JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die
1966 John Lennon says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1967 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain)
1967 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Ljudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov (USSR)
1967 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (USA)
1967 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to average 100+ points per game
1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000 meter (1:18.5)
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1973 15th Grammy Awards: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes in Toledo OH
1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth
1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114) vs New Zealand
1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43 meter)
1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds)
1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1
1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 05:

1324 David II Bruce king of Scotland (1331..71)
1326 Louis I [the Great] King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512 Gerardus Mercator Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1574 William Oughtred England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1578 Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes premier of France/Governor of Picardië
1585 Johan Georg I elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
1637 John van der Heyden Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America
1668 Francesco Gasparini composer
1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice)
1733 Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
1746 Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1748 William Shield composer
1750 Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
1751 Jan Krtitel Kuchar composer
1756 Thomas Linley composer
1774 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse composer
1794 Jacques Babinet French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1805 Theodore Labarre composer
1817 Austen H Layard British archaeologist/diplomat
1824 Elisha Harris US, physician/found American Public Health Association
1824 James Merritt Ives lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1825 John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1825 Joseph Albert German photographer (albertotype)
1828 Johann Gungl composer
1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson Claremont NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1843 William F Sudds composer
1845 Alfonse Hasselmans composer
1850 Daniel Brink Towner composer
1852 Lady Isabella Gregory Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1853 Arthur W Foote Salem MA, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1853 Howard Pyle illustrator/painter/author (King Stork)
1867 Theodor Zöckler German theologist (Stanislauer Anstalten)
1868 Prosper Poullet Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
1869 Michael von Faulhaber cardinal/archbishop of Munich
1870 Franc[lin] Norris US, writer (McTeague, Octopus)
1871 Maria do Carmo Geronimo Brazilian lives to be at least 126
1874 Arthur van Schendel Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1874 Henry Travers Berwick-Upon-Tweed Northumberland England, actor (Bells of St Mary's, High Sierra)
1877 Malcolm D Whitman tennis champion (US Open-1898)
1879 Walter Long actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)
1886 Paul Radmilovic England, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1908)
1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1888 Friedrich Schnack German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1889 Frits Slomp [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
1891 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson Chicago IL, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1893 Emmett J Culligan founder of water treatment organization
1894 Henry Daniell London, actor (Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers)
1895 Fritz Usinger German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1897 Mei-ling Soong Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1899 Patrick Hadley composer
19-- Dyango Barcelona Spain, Spanish singer (A Fin Solos)
19-- Jo De Winter Sacramento CA, actress (Dr Lawrence-Gloria)
19-- Ray MacDonnell Lawrence MA, actor (Dr Joe Martin-All My Children)
1900 Ludwig Donath actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
1901 Julian Przybos Polish poet (Sruby)
1903 Lowell Peters Cleveland TN, vocalist (Southernaires)
1905 Gilroy Roberts US chief engraver (1948-64)
1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
1908 Sophie Stewart Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
1909 Sutan Sjahrir premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1911 Joseph Tomelty actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)
1913 Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn composer
1914 Joan Sterndale-Bennett London England, actress (Those Fantastic Flying Fools)
1916 Horace Ian Parrott composer
1917 Joseph Stone lawyer
1917 Virginia Christine Stanton IA, actress (Tales of Wells Fargo)
1918 Halsey S Colchester British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
1918 Ranga Sohoni Indian cricketer (pace bowler of late 40's average 101)
1920 Delbert L Latta (Representative-Republican-OH, 1959- )
1920 Leontine Kelly 1st black female bishop (Methodist)
1920 Virginia Christine actress (Mrs Olson)
1921 Berkley Bedell (Representative-Democrat-IA, 1975- )
1922 Ebrahim Maka Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952)
1922 James Noble Dallas TX, actor (Governor Gatling-Benson)
1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
1927 Jack [John Joseph Edward] Cassidy Richmond Hill NY, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She)
1929 Joan Shawlee Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1930 Lorin Maazel Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orchestra 1941)
1931 Anthony Headges composer
1931 Barry Tuckwell Melbourne Australia, horn player (London Symphony Orchestra 1955-68)
1932 Walter Charles Marshall scientist
1933 Arlen Dean Snyder Rice KS, actor (Trauma Center)
1933 Norbert Linke composer
1934 James B Sikking Los Angeles CA, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
1935 Malcolm J Anderson tennis champion (US Open-1957)
1935 Philip K Chapman Melbourne Australia, astronaut (Apollo 14 support)
1936 Dale Douglass Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
1936 Dean Stockwell Hollywood CA, actor (Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet)
1937 Stephen Fitz-Simon entrepreneur
1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson Gary IN, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia)
1938 Paul Evans singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
1939 Charles Fuller US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story)
1939 Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle)
1939 Terry Curry English multi-millionaire
1940 Mary Rose Oakar (Representative)
1942 Michael D[iamond] Resnick sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)
1944 Paul Sands Los Angeles CA, comedian/actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere)
1945 Randy Matson US, shot putter (Olympics-gold-1968)
1946 Michael Warren South Bend IN, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 Murray Head singer
1946 Rocky Bleier Wisconsin, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 Eddie Hodges Hattiesburg MS, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
1948 Eddy Grant Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 Jacques Kloes singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1950 Eugene Fodor Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1972 Paganini Award, 1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1950 Harvey Jacob Alperin Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
1951 Rodney Hogg cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84)
1952 Alan Clark keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1953 Russel D Feingold (Senator-D-WI)
1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun Russian Colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
1954 Marsha Warfield comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)
1955 Marcia McCabe actress (Alice-One Life to Live)
1955 Penn Jillette Greenfield MA, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1956 Mark Handley writer (Nell)
1957 Mark E Smith English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole)
1957 Tim Holden (Representative-Democrat-PA)
1958 Andy Gibb Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold)
1958 Bill Timoney TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1961 Dan Stuart US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 Zeke Mowatt NFL tight end (New York Giants)
1962 Elise Burgin Baltimore MD, tennis star
1962 Robert L Curbeam Jr Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 85, sk-99)
1963 Eddo Brandes cricketer (Zimbabwe Test pace bowler)
1964 Reggie Williams NBA forward/guard (Denver Nuggets)
1966 Greg Clark CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 Michael Irvin NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 Tracy Kerdyk Coral Gables FL, LPGA golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple)
1967 Nicole Boegman Australian long jumper (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1968 Marq Mellor Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1968 Roman Phifer linebacker (St Louis Rams)
1968 Shjon Podein Rochester, NHL left wing (Philadelphia Flyers)
1971 Amy Peistrup-Matthews Arlington Heights IL, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995)
1971 Brian Hunter Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1971 Chad Fonville Jacksonville NC, infielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1971 James Roberson WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1971 Jose Mercedes El Seybo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1972 Brandon Hamilton CFL cornerback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Brian Grant NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers, Sacramento Kings)
1972 Hernan Gumy Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star
1972 Mikael Tillstrom Sweden, tennis star
1972 Tom Hipsz CFL defensive tackle (Montréal Alouettes)
1973 Nicole Pratt Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia)
1973 Paul Lieftink Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg)
1974 Brad Schumacher US, 400 meter/800 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 Hans Bond Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1974 Kevin Connolly actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Angus)
1975 Chris Silverwood cricketer (England Test pace bowler vs Zimbabwe 1996)
1975 Niki Taylor model (Elle, Marie Claire)
1976 Adriana Serra-Zanetti Modena Italy, tennis star (1995 Moscow semi)
1977 Bryan Berard NHL defenseman (Team USA Olympics-1998, New York Islanders)
1977 Natalie Bevins Miss West Virginia-USA (1997)
1978 Kimberly McCullough Bellflower CA, actress (Robin-General Hospital)

[b]Deaths which occurred on March 05:

0254 St Lucius I Pope (253-54), dies
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1561 Carlo Caraffa Italian cardinal, dies at 41
1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde Flemish viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies
1576 Don Luís de Requesens y Zuñiga viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70
1605 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1625 James I (VI) king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1644 Louise Juliana countess of Nassau, dies at 73
1732 Joseph-François Salomon composer, dies at 82
1770 Crispus Attuks slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1778 Thomas A Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
1794 Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62
1795 Josef Reicha composer, dies at 42
1827 Alessandro Volta Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1853 Georg A Kestner German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75
1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor composer, dies at 34
1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern], Fren author, dies at 70
1893 Hippolyte Taine French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
1893 Richard Samuel Hughes composer, dies at 37
1895 Nikolai Leskow writer, dies at 64
1904 Alfred von Waldersee Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
1919 Jozef Surzynski composer, dies at 67
1932 Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1941 Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
1944 Max Jacob French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at 67
1947 Alfredo Casella Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
1948 Charles Prince cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies
1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer, dies at 63
1953 Josef V Stalin soviet leader responsible for 11 million murders, dies at 73
1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer, dies at 61
1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
1956 Erich Itor Kahn composer, dies at 50
1962 Anne C Veth Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82
1962 Otakar Jeremias composer, dies at 69
1963 Cyril Smith actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
1963 Patsy Cline country singer (Crazy, I Fall To Pieces), dies in a plane crash at 30
1966 Anna Achmatova Ukrainian poet, dies at 76
1966 Enrique E Ecker Curaçaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79
1967 Mischa Auer actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
1971 Winnie Lightner actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71
1972 Nils Bjorkander composer, dies at 78
1973 Rupert Crosse actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45
1974 Billy Dewolfe actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67
1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok US impresario, dies at 85
1977 Lockrem Johnson composer, dies at 52
1977 Moses Pergament composer, dies at 83
1979 Vicente Ascone composer, dies at 81
1980 Jay Silverheels actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1980 Winifred Wagner-William German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
1981 Brenda De Banzie actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64
1981 Paul Horbiger actor (3rd Man), dies at 86
1982 John Belushi comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33
1984 Harry Salter orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
1984 Michael Sklar California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1984 Tito Gobbi Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68
1984 William Powell actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91
1986 Teddy Hoad cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies
1990 Gary Merrill actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
1990 Gloria Carter Spann President Carter's sister, dies at 63 from cancer
1991 August de Schryver Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
1992 Andrew Samuel child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
1993 Diana Ochoa dies after long illness at 80
1993 Peter Bierdrager Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
1994 Joe Daley jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
1994 Paul Vincze medallist, dies at 86
1995 Ed Flanders actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies
1995 Marguerite Kelsey English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
1995 Peter John Norton naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1995 Vivian Stanshall British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
1996 Joshua Compston art impressario, dies at 26
1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed President of Bangladesh (1975), dies
1996 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner Spanish courtier, dies at 90
1996 Whit Bissell actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86

On this day...in History - Events

0254 St Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1528 Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York NY
1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi)
1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL
1864 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele" premieres in Milan
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
1896 Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
1897 American Negro Academy forms
1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
1900 American Hall of Fame is founded
1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1908 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica
1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres
1910 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die
1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York NY
1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" premieres in Berlin
1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo TX)
1935 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville
1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1945 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO)
1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
1948 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea" premieres in London
1953 Josef Stalin's death announced
1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 "King Kong" 1st televised
1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1957 Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvin Pelvin)
1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring NE (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1960 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
1960 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada)
1960 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
1960 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (France)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die
1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19 meter indoor world record
1966 Player representatives elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France
1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" premieres in London
1970 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY
1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect
1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1976 British £ falls below $2 for 1st time
1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 performances
1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1981 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1981 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & Igor Lisovski (USSR)
1981 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Hartfoed won by Denise Biellmann (Switzerland)
1981 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)
1983 New South Wales beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
1984 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1989 Blaine McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 meter indoor (8 :3.82)
1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
1993 Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1995 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5 :0.26)
1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-06-2006, 07:32 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 06:

1405 Johan II King of Castille
1459 Jacob Fugger German banker/merchant
1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta)
1483 Francesco Guicciardini Italy, attorney/president of Romagna
1492 Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
1615 Jan Zoet actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)
1616 Malachias Siebenhaar composer
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon)
1698 John Alberti Dutch theologist/philologist
1710 Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli composer
1740 Giovanni Meli Siclian poet (Buccolica)
1761 Earl d'Andréossi French General/member of parliament
1763 Jean Xavier Lefevre composer
1765 Jan Kops Dutch agronomist/vicar
1779 Philipp Roth composer
1785 Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski composer
1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1791 Anna Claypoole Peale painted miniatures
1793 Bernhard Joseph Klein composer
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of American watchmaking
1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh German theologist (Home Mission)
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
1835 Charles Ewing Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1835 Ludwik Grossman composer
1843 Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer
1852 Joseph Bayer composer
1870 Oscar Straus Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)
1882 Guy Kibbee El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot)
1885 Ring Lardner US, writer (You Know Me Al)
1887 Henri Gagnon composer
1890 Fernand Ansseau Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
1891 Victor Kilian Jersey City NJ, actor (Gentleman's Agreement)
1893 [Walter] Furry Lewis father of the blues
1893 Kathleen Smoothy housewife (last link to Siege of Sidney Street)
1897 Knudåge Riisager Port Kunda Estonia, Danish composer (Quaarrtsiluni)
1898 Hal Hooker cricketer (New South Wales pace bowler of 20's & 30's)
1898 Jay C Flippen Little Rock AR, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay)
1898 Jimmy Conzelman NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago)
1898 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent Dutch soprano (Matthäus Passion)
1900 John Henry Pyle Pafford librarian (University of London)
1900 Ludwig Donath Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco)
1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
1901 Mark Donskoy Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
1903 Elizabeth Pinkston Becker US, platform diver (Olympics-gold-1928)
1904 Hugh Williams actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday)
1904 Johannes C "Chris" Baay Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid)
1905 Bob Wills Kosse TX, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)
1906 Lou Costello Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
1909 Dave Clark music promoter/songwriter
1909 Obafemi Awolowo Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83)
1911 Charles Frank physicist
1911 Roland Jacobi Leich composer
1912 Madge Adam astronomer
1913 David Bowman trade unionist
1913 Ella Logan Glasgow Scotland, actress (52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies)
1913 Stewart Granger actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
1914 Kirill P Kondrashin Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
1916 Rochelle Hudson Oklahoma City OK, actress (That's My Boy)
1917 J A Mommersteeg Dutch Assistant Secretary of Defense (KVP)
1917 Roy Scott cricketer (one Test New Zealand vs England 1947, 18, 1-74)
1920 Lewis Gilbert London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice)
1920 Roger Price Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles)
1921 Julius Rudel Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1921 Oliver Wright British Ambassador (To US)
1921 Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)
1922 Frankie Howerd York England, actor/comedian (Mr Mustard-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, That Was The Week That Was, Runaway Bus)
1923 Ed McMahon Detroit MI, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)
1923 Erhard Karkoschka composer
1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg college president (Wolfson at Oxford)
1924 Sarah Caldwell Maryville MO, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1924 William H Webster US, judge/head FBI/CIA
1926 Alan Greenspan economist/Presidential advisor (Federal Reserve Board)
1926 Andrzej Wajda Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna)
1926 Ann Curtis 400 meter/800 meter US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948)
1926 Elwood H [Bud] Hillis (Representative-Republican-IN, 1971- )
1926 Jon Nordal composer
1926 Miroslav Klega composer
1927 John Fairchild Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing)
1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr Shawnee OK, USAF/astronaut (Mercury 9, Gemini 5)
1927 Norman Treigle New Orleans LA, bass-baritone
1927 William J Bell Chicago IL, soap opera creator (Young & Restless)
1928 Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, novelist (Europa Y America, Nobel 1982)
1928 Ronald Stevenson composer
1929 David Sheppard bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)
1929 Günter Kunert German poet/writer (Kaiser von Hondu)
1929 Hal Miller British MP
1929 Ho Dam North Korean Secretary of State (1970-83)
1929 Thomas S Foley (Representative-Democrat-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/Speaker of House
1931 Carmen Delavallade US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1931 David Haddon Whitaker British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
1931 John Smith Los Angeles CA, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
1933 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins folk musician/composer
1933 Heiko Wierenga Dutch social-democrat mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
1933 Kim Elgie cricketer (South African bat vs New Zealand 1961-62, Scotland RU international)
1933 William Davis author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
1934 John Noakes British TV presenter
1935 Ronnie Delaney Ireland, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1956)
1936 A "Bram" Stemerdink Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
1936 Jean Boht actress (Arthur's Hallowed Ground)
1936 Marion S Barry (Mayor-Democrat-DC, 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
1937 Doug Dillard actor (Clem-Popeye)
1937 Ivan Boesky Detroit MI, stockbroker inside trading
1937 Merle Haggard country singer
1937 Paul Mefano composer
1937 Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1938 Lovelace Watkins singer
1939 Christopher Bond (Senator-R-MO)
1939 David Spielberg Weslaco TX, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice)
1939 Jerry Naylor Stephenville TX, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1940 Joanna Miles Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA)
1940 Willie Stargell outfielder/1st baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1971 National League homerun leader)
1941 Ann Winterton British MP
1941 Ben Murphy Jonesboro AR, actor (Name of the Game, Winds of War)
1941 Karyn Kupcinet actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show)
1944 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Gisborne New Zealand, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1944 Mary Wilson Detroit MI, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
1945 Anna Maria Horsford New York NY, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen)
1945 Hugh Grundy Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There)
1945 Rob Reiner Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
1946 David Jon Gilmour Cambridgeshire England, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Wall)
1946 Martin Kove Brooklyn NY, actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey)
1946 Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
1946 Tony Klatka rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 Dick Fosbury Portland OR, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
1947 Judy Loe Urmston Manchester UK, actress (Singles, Meaning of Life)
1947 Kiki Dee Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude cartoonist
1949 Donald York rocker (Sha Na Na)
1951 Stedman Graham Oprah Winfrey's fianceè
1952 Lyn Perrin executive administrator (WIC)
1953 Jackie Zeman Englewood NJ, actress (Bobbie-General Hospital)
1956 Peter Roebuck cricketer (Somerset opening batsman & SMH writer)
1958 Mike Gatting England cricketer
1959 Tom Arnold Ottuwa IA, comedian (Roseanne, True Lies)
1960 [Eris] Sleepy Floyd NBA guard
1962 Alison Nicholas Gibraltar, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic)
1963 Suzanne Crough rocker (Partridge Family)
1964 Cher Butler Garland TX, playmate (August, 1985)
1964 Reniet Vrieze rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1965 Tammy Liley Long Beach CA, volleyball mid blocker/captain (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1966 Cliff Meidl Redondo Beach CA, sprint kayak (alternate-Olympics-96)
1966 Michelle Edwards WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1968 Carla McGhee Peoria IL, US basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Connie Britton Boston MA, actress (Nikki-Spin City)
1968 Jon Baker WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Marty Morgan Minneapolis MN, 180½ lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1968 Moira Kelly actress (Cutting Edge)
1968 Russell Butler Dandenong Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-28th-88, 96)
1969 Andrea Elson New York NY, actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids)
1969 Deems May NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Amy Pietz Milwaukee WI, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City)
1970 Robbie Tobeck NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Scott Stahoviak Waukegan IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 Darrick Martin NBA guard (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1971 Roger Salkeld Burbank CA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1972 Jamal Anderson fullback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Paul Frlan CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Shaquille O'Neal Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Olympics-gold-96)
1972 Susan Alexander Silver Spring MD, Miss Maryland-America (1996)
1973 Brian Olson Tallahassee FL, middleweight (189 lbs) judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 Greg Ostertag NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1973 Michael Finley NBA guard/forward (Phoenix Suns/Dallas Mavericks)
1973 Terry Adams Mobile AL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)

Deaths which occurred on March 06:

0766 Chrodegang church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
1583 Zacharias Ursinus German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48
1615 Pieter Both Dutch Admiral/1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
1616 Francis Beaumont Elizabethan dramatist, dies (birth date unknown)
1674 Johann Paul Schor German barok painter, dies at 58
1720 Pieter van Flowers Flemish painter, buried at 63
1753 Gerhardus Havingha composer, dies at 56
1754 Henry Pelham English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
1836 Davy Crockett US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49
1846 Nikoli A Poveloi Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49
1851 Alexander Aliabiev composer, dies at 63
1854 Caspar GC Reinwardt German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80
1867 Wiktor Kazynski composer, dies at 54
1888 Louisa May Alcott US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
1900 Gottlieb Daimler designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
1924 Meyer E van Beem actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85
1930 William Milton cricketer (South African Test captain in 3 Tests 1889-92), dies
1932 John Philip Sousa US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1933 Anton J Cermak US mayor of Chicago, murdered
1936 Josef Stransky composer, dies at 63
1936 Rubin Goldmark composer, dies at 63
1937 Frank Vosper actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37
1939 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann German mathematician, dies at 86
1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder Dutch February strike leader, executed
1945 Jan Thijssen Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1945 Rudolph Karel composer, dies at 64
1947 Ludwig Weber composer, dies at 55
1950 Lew Lehr comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
1951 Ivor Novello actor/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58
1954 Jan Kalf Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
1954 Louis Zimmermann violinist, dies at 80
1959 Fred Stone actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at 85
1961 George Formby British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1961 Kjeld Abell Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59
1962 Rezso Kokai composer, dies at 56
1963 Kornelis ter Laan 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
1964 King Paul I of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker] actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75
1965 Ruvim Pergament composer, dies at 58
1966 Richard Hageman composer, dies at 83
1967 Nelson Eddy US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1967 Oscar Shaw actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1967 Zoltán Kodály Hungarian composer (Háry Janos), dies at 84
1968 Isa Krejci composer, dies at 63
1968 Joseph Martin Jr Speaker of the House, dies at 83
1970 William Hopper actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55
1971 Raymond Herreman Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at 74
1973 Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
1973 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80
1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67
1976 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion (1932-34), dies at 71
1979 Charles Wagenheim actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
1981 George Geary cricketer (14 Tests for England, 46 wickets), dies
1981 Klaus Grabowski child molester, shot by parent
1982 Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77
1982 Jan Lemaire Dutch actor/writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at 97
1983 Thelma Pelish actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55
1984 Henry Wilcoxon actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies of congessive heart failure at 78
1984 Ian Cromb cricketer (5 Tests for New Zealand, 123 runs, 8 wickets), dies
1984 Martin Niemöller German submarine captain/anti-Nazi minister, dies at 92
1984 Pierre Cochereau composer, dies at 59
1985 Eric Sloane US artist, dies at 80
1986 Adolph Caesar actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
1986 Georgia O'Keeffe US painter (Flowers), dies at 98
1988 Konstantin Iliev composer, dies at 63
1989 Harry Andrews actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 Elvia Allman actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
1992 Emmy Huf Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies
1992 Maria Vieira da Silva Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at 83
1993 Cyril Collard French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
1993 Douglas Marland soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
1993 Nicholas Ridley English Minister of Finance, dies at 64
1994 Leighton Noble singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
1994 Max Schubert winemaker, dies at 89
1994 Melina Mercouri Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
1994 Moses Rascoe blues singer, dies at 77
1994 Tengis Abuladze Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
1995 David Beinhoff mayor, dies at 24
1995 Delroy George Wilson singer, dies at 46
1995 Emile van Moerkerken photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
1995 Helene Weijel author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay politician, dies at 88
1996 Herbert "Herb" Hall clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
1996 Simon Cadell actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45
1997 Anthony Hopkins clinical Neurologist, dies at 59
1997 Jagan Guyanes Prime Minister of Guyana (1953, 57-64), dies
1997 Michael Manley Jamaican Prime Minister (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
1998 Adem Jasari Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed

On this day...Events in History

1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 Treaty of Paris
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West Africa
1521 Magellan discovers Guam
1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1714 Peace of Rastatt: French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres in Milan
1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1838 Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lügt" premieres in Vienna
1851 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice
1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA
1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York NY
1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1895 J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England vs Australia
1896 1st auto in Detroit MI, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 Census Bureau forms
1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1906 Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda" premieres in Vienna
1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1919 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
1922 George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV" premieres in New York NY
1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1924 British Labour government cuts military budget
1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy & Sankt Vith
1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
1929 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in New York NY
1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1934 Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in New York NY
1935 Frank Bartell (Czechoslovakia), cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles
1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York NY
1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommels assault attack
1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
1945 Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter
1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1945 Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis
1945 Federico García Lorca's "La Casa" premieres in Buenos Aires
1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA
1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
1959 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1961 1st London minicabs introduced
1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
1961 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year government jubilee
1962 St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1964 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Eddie Fisher)
1964 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3 :6.4)
1965 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances
1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand vs India in 1st Test Cricket innings
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain
1972 Jack Nicklaus passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1973 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 homeruns & knocks in 7 RBIs)
1974 "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1974 Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket
1976 World Ice Dance Championship in Gothenburg won by Liudmila Pakhomova & Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR)
1976 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Irina Rodnina & Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR)
1976 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill (USA)
1976 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (Great Britain)
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1980 7th Daytime Emmy Awards presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News"
1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1983 "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
1983 Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983 New Bedford MA woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1983 US Football League begins its 1st season
1985 Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1986 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London
1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die
1988 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
1988 Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
1989 Yankees beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over"
1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.30 seconds)
1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1995 9th American Comedy Awards: Rodney Dangerfield
1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
1995 US 4.5¢ equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
1996 10th American Comedy Awards
1996 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs Kenya
1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-07-2006, 06:53 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 07:

1543 Johan Casimir count of Rhine (occupied Gent)
1574 John Wilbye composer
1602 Kano Tanju Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1621 Georg Neumark composer
1659 Henry Purcell English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer
1682 Johan W van Ripperda Dutch diplomat/baron/duke
1693 Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
1707 Stephen Hopkins (Governor-RI) signed Declaration of Independence
1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist German lyric poet (Der Frühling)
1731 Jean-Louis Laruette composer
1762 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh director-general (East Indies Company)
1765 Joseph N Niépce French inventor (photography)
1769 Josef Alois Ladurner composer
1773 Tommaso Marchesi composer
1785 Alessandro Manzoni Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1792 John Herschel Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
1797 Karl Schwencke composer
1799 Frantisek L Celakovsky Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song)
1807 Franz Grave von Pocci German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
1811 Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer
1813 Judocus Smits Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
1820 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman composer
1822 Victor Masse composer
1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1831 John Bratton [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brigadier General
1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 Henry Draper Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
1841 Olegario Víctor Andrade Argentina, poet (El nido de cóndores)
1842 Anne van Diest Belgian physician/feminist
1844 Anthony Comstock New Canaan CT, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
1849 Luther Burbank Lancaster MA, horticulturist
1850 Tomás G Masaryk Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35)
1856 Matilde Serao [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
1858 Nikolai Artzibushev composer
1866 Paul Ernst writer
1869 Ernst J Cohen Dutch chemist
1872 Piet Mondrian Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
1872 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov composer
1875 Maurice Joseph Ravel Cibourne France, composer (Boléro)
1883 Carl Deis composer
1886 Raymond Largay Wisconsin, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl)
1887 Heino Eller composer
1888 Alidius van Starkenborch Stachouwer Governor of Netherland Indies (1936-45)
1891 Marcel Barger [Meyer Streliskie], cabaret performer (I keep Susy)
1895 Juan Jose Castro composer
1896 Erwin Bodky composer
1898 Jan Bata Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer
1900 [Albert] Carel Willink Dutch painter (magic realism)
1900 Giuseppe Capogrossi Italian painter
1902 Heinz [Heinrich William] Ruehmann Essen Germany, actor/director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
1904 Ivar Ballangrud Norway, Olympics speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
1904 Reinhard Heydrich German Governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
1904 Virginia Downing actress (Gig, Butterfield 8)
1904 Willy Forst Austria actor/director (Vienna Blood)
1905 Vera Fjodorova Panova Russian author (Sputniki)
1906 Alejandro Garcia Caturla composer
1906 Hans Lachman composer
1907 Juan Francisco Giacobbe composer
1907 Mircea Eliade religious historian (Le Yoga)
1908 Anna Magnani Rome Italy, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
1908 Joop [Joseph] van Santen Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
1908 Tomas de Manzarraga composer
1909 Greta Schoon writer
1909 Leo Malet writer
1911 Stefan Kisielewski composer
1914 Morton DaCosta Philadelphia PA, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas French politician
1917 Davis Roberts Mobile AL, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
1917 Janet Collins ballerina
1917 Robert Erickson composer
1918 June Wayne artist/lithographer/teacher
1919 Jocelyn Olaf Hambro financier
1919 Mochtar Lubis Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta)
1920 Willie Watson cricketer (England batsman & soccer international)
1924 Eduardo Paolozzi British sculptor (Hydra)
1924 Kobo Abe Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones [Earl of Snowdon] London England, photographer
1930 James Broderick Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
1931 C W Stubblefield music promoter
1931 Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen director Social Businesses of Press
1931 Donald Barthelme US, writer (Snow White)
1934 King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], rocker
1934 Nari Contractor cricketer (Indian batsman & captain)
1934 Willard Scott weather forecaster (Today Show)
1936 Georges Perec French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
1937 Anne Kristen actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay, Sunset Song)
1937 Don Bonker (Representative-Democrat-WA, 1975- )
1938 Homero Blancas Houston TX, PGA golfer (1972 Phoenix Open)
1938 Janet Guthrie race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indy 500
1939 Marion Marlowe St Louis MO, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
1940 Daniel J Travanti Kenosha WI, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
1940 Harald Gerlach writer
1940 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)
1940 Viktor Petrovich Savinykh USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5)
1942 Al[bert] Tanara WLAF defensive coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1942 Michael Eisner Mount Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 Paul Preuss US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
1942 Tammy Faye Bakker gospel singer/wife of Jim Bakker (PTL)
1942 Tommy F Robinson (Representative-Democrat-AR, 1985- )
1942 U N Kulkarni cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68)
1943 Carole Peel Australian softball assistant coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1943 Chris White rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1943 Leon Frank Sylvers rocker
1944 Elton Gallegly (Representative-Republican-CA)
1944 Jürgen Theobaldy writer
1944 Townes Van Zandt musician
1945 Arthur Lee rocker (Vindicator)
1945 John Heard Washington DC, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD)
1946 Matthew Fisher London, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 Peter Wolf rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1947 Donna Loren Boston MA, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1947 Lewis J Stadlen Brooklyn NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)
1947 Richard Lawson Loma Linda CA, actor (Eddie-The O'Neills)
1947 Robert O'Neill Crossman politician
1950 Franco Harris NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1950 Mark Pinter Decorah IA, actor (Karl-Behind the Screen, Another World)
1951 Linda Gibboney actress (Search for Tomorrow, Jessica-Generations)
1952 Ernie Isley US vocalist/guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
1952 Lynn Swann NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
1952 Vivian Richards West Indian master blaster
1953 Jules Shear rock musician
1953 Kathleen Sullivan Pasadena CA, newscaster (E!)
1954 Matt Frenette rock drummer (Loverboy)
1958 Rik Mayall comedian (Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises)
1959 Thomas Edward Lehman Austin MN, PGA golfer (1994 Memorial Tournament)
1960 Ivan Lendl Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
1960 Joe Carter Oklahoma City OK, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1961 Mary Beth Evans Pasadena CA, actress (Katherine-General Hospital, Kayla-Days of our Lives)
1962 Taylor Dayne [Leslie Wunderman], Long Island NY, vocalist (I'll Always Love You)
1963 Mike Eagles Sussex, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1963 Mohammad Ishaq cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
1964 Amy Baltus Bloomington IN, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1992)
1964 Jeff Criswell NFL tackle (Kansas City Chiefs)
1965 [Willie] Flipper Anderson NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 Cameron Daddo Melbourne Australia, actor (Brian Petersen-Models Inc)
1965 Jesper Bo Parnevik Stockholm Sweden, PGA golfer (1995 Nestle-5th)
1965 Steve Beuerlein NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars, Car Panthers)
1966 Robert Maar Jr. Major Stud St. Vincents Hospital NYC
1966 Jeff Feagles NFL punter (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 Mel Rojas Haina Dominican Republic, pitcher (Montréal Expos)
1966 Terry Carkner Smiths Falls, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1967 Zheng Haixia WNBA center (Los Angeles Sparks)
1968 Jeff Kent Bellflower CA, infielder (New York Mets)
1968 Ricky Proehl NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1969 Anne Marie Lauck Rochester NY, marathoner (Olympics-10th-96)
1969 Anthony Davis NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1969 Brian Jamieson Livingston NJ, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1969 Geoff Smith Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 Matt Blundin NFL quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions)
1969 Sam Gash NFL running back (New England Patriots)
1970 Jacquelyn Doucette Miss Massachusetts-USA (1996)
1970 James Calvin Spivey Schiller Park IL, miler
1970 Kathy Gedney Indianapolis IN, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1971 Alison Herst Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-5-92, 96)
1972 Andrew Finch rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 Marina Hatzakis Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Joost Volmer soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 Andrey Savenkov hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1975 William Hampton CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1977 Ludmila Richterova Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Bournemouth)

Deaths which occurred on March 07:

322 -BC- Aristotle dies
0161 Antoninus Pius [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74
1040 Harold I King of England (1035-40), dies
1111 Bohemund I of Tarente French ruler of Antioch, dies
1274 St Thomas Aquinas Italian thelogian dies at 48
1305 Gwijde van Dampierre count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78
1719 Steven J Vennekool Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1724 Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68
1737 Guido Starhemberg Austrian earl/fieldmarshal, dies at 79
1750 Cornelis Troost Dutch painter (Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52
1761 Antonio Palella composer, dies at 68
1786 Frantisek Benda composer, dies at 76
1802 Johann Georg Witthauer composer, dies at 50
1804 John Wedgwood founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
1809 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian composer, dies at 73
1810 Albertus H Wiese Governor-General of Netherland Indies, dies at about 48
1833 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German author, dies at 61
1842 Christian Theodor Weinlig composer, dies at 61
1862 Ben McCulloch US Confederate Brigadier-General (KIA), dies at 50
1862 John Baillie McIntosh US General-Major (Union Army), dies at 32
1862 William Slack US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1907 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy composer, dies at 64
1911 Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
1924 Pat Moran manager (Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
1926 Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan composer, dies at 73
1931 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
1931 Theo van Doesburg [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47
1932 Aristide Briand 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1939 Amadeo Roldan composer, dies at 38
1941 Arnold Schering German musicologist, dies at 63
1941 Günther Prien German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
1945 Adolf Bartels German writer/racist, dies at 82
1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1951 Ivor Novello British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58
1951 Shah Ali Razmara of Iran assassinated
1951 Shah Ali Razmara of Iran, assassinated
1955 Tom Dugan actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66
1959 Arthur C Pigou English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies
1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1961 Englebert van Anderlecht Belgian painter, dies at 42
1961 Max Hymans WWII resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
1964 Franz Alexander Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
1968 Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
1973 André de Meulemeester Belgian WWI pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78
1975 Ben Blue actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
1975 Francine Larrimore actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
1976 Erwin Kroll composer, dies at 90
1979 Guiomar Novaes pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
1979 Klaus Egge Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
1981 John Gnagy artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
1981 Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
1982 Charles Borromeo Mills composer, dies at 68
1983 Igor Markevich composer, dies at 70
1983 Robert Bray actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1985 George Schick Czechoslovakian conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985 Robert W Woodruff CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1986 Jacob K Javits (Senator-Republican-NY), dies in Palm Beach FL at 81
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] transvestite actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles at 42
1988 Robert Livingston actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema
1990 Max Neuhaus composer, dies at 50
1993 Arnold Franchetti Ital/US composer, dies
1993 Earl Wrightson singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77
1993 Tony Harris cricketer (8 Tests for South Africa 1947-49, 100 runs), dies
1995 Don Cook British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995 Jaap van den Hurk TV-director (NCRV), dies
1995 Jacques Lefebvre Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1995 John Arthur Neill Lambert composer teacher organist, dies at 69
1995 Paul-Emile Victor French pole explorer, dies at 87
1995 Thijmen Kuijt resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
1996 Aled Eames maritime historian, dies at 74

On this day...Events

1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 English King Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" premieres in Venice
1835 HMS Beagle returns from Concepción to Valparaiso
1843 1st Catholic Governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1865 Battles round Kinston NC
1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1872 -8º F in Boston MA
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1896 Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke" premieres in London
1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
1900 Stanley Cup: Montréal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
1918 H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!" premieres in New York NY
1918 President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger
1925 American Negro Congress organizes
1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 Montréal Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
1941 3rd largest snowfall in New York NY history ( 18.1")
1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 General-Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1946 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances
1946 Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz" premieres in Zürich
1950 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in London won by Karol Kennedy & Peter Kennedy (USA)
1950 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova (Czechoslovakia)
1950 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA); this is his 3rd consecutive win
1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round heavyweight decision against Jersey Joe Walcott
1951 Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden" premieres in New York NY
1953 Jackie McGlew scores 255 vs New Zealand at Wellington
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 West Indies all out 76 vs Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton
1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" premieres in New York NY
1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 World Ice Dance Championship in Ljubljana won by Liudmila Pakhomova & Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR)
1970 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov (USSR)
1970 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (German Democratic Republic)
1970 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires
1979 Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 performances
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 meter indoor ( 49.59 seconds)
1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party"
1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses"
1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1990 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
1990 H Wayne Huizenga buys ½ Joe Robbie Stadium & 15% of Dolphins for $30M
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200 meter backstroke (2 : 6.78)
1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 8th American Comedy Awards: Carrot Top wins
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1995 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million £ order
1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-07-2006, 09:38 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 08:

1075 Abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari Arab theologist
1495 Juan de Dios Portugal/Spain, saint/founder (Brothers of Mercy)
1607 Johann Rist composer
1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach German composer, son of JS Bach
1743 Bendix Friedrich Zinck composer
1748 Willem V Batavus prince of Orange-Nassau
1778 Friedrich August Kanne composer
1783 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink composer
1783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren Kinderhook NY, wife of President Martin Van Buren (1837-41) (died 1819)
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe help create modern plastic surgery
1799 Simon Cameron Secretary of War (Union), died in 1889
1815 Jean Delphin Alard French violinist/composer
1825 George William Martin composer
1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler Major General (Confederate Army)
1839 James Mason Crafts US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1840 Franco Faccio Italian composer/conductor
1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Massachusetts, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1843 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom composer
1847 Karl von Bach German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1853 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 Tom Felix Horan cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Australia all-rounder)
1857 Ruggiero Leoncavallo Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
1859 Kenneth Grahame author (The Wind, Willows)
1859 Otto Taubmann composer
1862 Joseph Lee helped develop playgrounds
1865 Frederick William Goudy US, printer/type designer
1872 Paul Juon Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1876 Franco Alfano Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 M Lichnowsky writer
1879 Otto Hahn German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium, co-discoverer-nuclear fission)
1883 Manuel Gomez Carillo composer
1886 Anton Portielje Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis)
1886 Edward Kendall chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1888 Stuart Chase Somersworth NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
1889 Oscar Ewing US government official (Everybody's Business)
1890 Oswald von Nell-Breuning German theologist/philosopher
1892 Mátyás Rákosi Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
1894 Wäinö V Aaltonen Finnish sculptor
1898 Louise Beavers Cincinnati OH, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for Each Other)
1898 Theophilus E Dönges South African minister of Internal Affairs
1899 Eric Linklater Scotland, novelist/poet/historical writer (Blue Swallows)
19-- Jason Kincaid actor (All My Children)
19-- Johnny Ventura Santo Domingo DR, Spanish singer (El Caballo Negro)
19-- Rita Walter actress (As the World Turns)
1902 Jennings Randolph (Senator)
1907 Charles Boost movie critic
1909 Anthony Donato composer
1909 Claire Trevor [Wemlinger] New York NY, actress (Murder My Sweet, Marjorie Morningstar)
1909 Hugh Murphy English multi-millionaire
1911 Alan Hovhaness Somerville MA, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1911 Elsie Agnes Giorgi physician/humanitarian
1914 Jacob B Bakema urban developer (St Louis MO)
1915 Vivien John artist
1916 R W Schnell writer
1917 A Marja [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
1918 Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr Los Angeles CA, actor (Skipper Jonas Grumby-Gilligan's Island)
1919 Ivor Keys musician/teacher
1920 Eileen Herlie Glasgow Scotland, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children, Hamlet)
1920 Eva Dahlbeck Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
1920 James Daniel "Danny" Turner saxophonist
1921 Cyd Charisse [Tula Ellice Finklea] Amarillo TX, dancer/actress (East Side West Side, Brigadoon)
1921 Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson trumpeter
1922 Carl Furillo Brooklyn Dodger (National League Batting Champion 1953)
1922 H Kipphardt writer
1923 Booth Colman Portland OR, actor (Zaius-Planet of the Apes)
1923 Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz premier of Dutch Antilles (NVP, 1973-77)
1923 Sembene Ousmane Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
1924 Sean McClory Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
1924 Victor "Toby" Neuberg teacher/writer
1925 Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis composer
1925 Francisco Rabal Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
1925 Petrus Steenkamp Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
1927 Jaromir Podesva composer
1927 Joseph Berg composer
1928 Frank Michael Beyer composer
1928 Judy Johnson Norfolk VA, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1931 John McPhee author (The Control of Nature)
1931 Neil Adcock cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wickets 1953-62)
1933 Johnny Dollar singer
1934 Christian Wolff composer
1934 Ron Taylor Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals)
1936 Gabor Szabo Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
1936 Sue Ane Langdon Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
1937 Juvenal Hayarimana president of Rwanda (1973-94)
1937 Pamela McEvoy-Johnston psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
1937 Raynoma Gordy [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
1938 Lew DeWitt Roanoke VA, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1939 George William Reed astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
1939 Jim Bouton Newark NJ, pitcher (New York Yankees)/author (Ball Four)
1939 Lydia Skoblikova USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
1939 Mike Lowry (Representative-Democrat-WA, 1979- )
1939 Robert Tear Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh National Opera 1970)
1939 Yannis Vlachopoulos composer
194- Alan Sues Ross CA, comedian/actor (Laugh-In, Oh Heavenly Dog)
1940 Leslie Isben Rogge one of FBI's most wanted
1940 Susan Clark Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)
1940 Theo Laseroms [The Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1941 Ivana Loudova composer
1941 Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff composer
1942 [Dick] Richie Allen baseball player (American League MVP 1972)
1942 Ann Packer-Brightwell England, 400 meter/800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Lynn Redgrave London England, actress (Georgie Girl) Weight-Watcher
1944 Carole Bayer Sager NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
1945 Graeme Watson cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
1945 Jim Chapman (Representative-Democrat-TX, 1985- )
1945 Keith Jarrett pianist/composer
1945 Mickey Dolenz Los Angeles CA, actor (Circus Boy) singer (Monkees)
1946 Mohammad Nazir Pakistani cricket off-spinner (14 Tests 1969-83)
1946 Randy Meisner rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 Mike Allsup Modesto CA, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1948 [Little] Peggy March [Margaret Battavio] Lansdale PA, vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1948 Ralph Ellis Liverpool England, rhythm guitarist (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1949 Charles Lismont Belgian marathon runner (Olympics-silver-1972)
1951 Philippe Henri Edmonds cricketer in Zambia, England slow left-arm
1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
1953 Jim Rice Boston Red Sox outfielder (American League MVP 1978)
1953 Kathleen Ann Shower Brookville OH, Playmate of the Year (May 1985)
1954 Cheryl Baker rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies, Making Your Mind Up)
1954 David Wilkie England, 200 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1976)
1954 Karl Schnabl 90 meter ski jumper (Olympics-gold-1976)
1954 Maria-Therese Nadig Switzerland, skier (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
1957 Cynthia Rothrock Wilmington DE, actress (Lady Dragon, Honor & Glory)
1957 Ruth Wysocki Alhambra CA, 800 meter/1500 meter runner
1958 Andreas Maurer West Germany, tennis star
1958 Gary Numan [Gary Webb] Hammersmith England, vocalist (Cars, Dominion Day)
1959 Aidan Quinn Chicago IL, actor (Legends of the Fall, Michael Collins, Benny & Joon, Reackless)
1960 Buck Williams NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, New York Knicks)
1961 Larry Murphy Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1962 Shaun Gayle NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1962 William Fuller NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1963 Gursharan Singh cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90)
1963 Kathy Ireland model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
1963 Mike Lalor Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1964 Cheryl "Salt" James singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 Peter "Ged" Gill drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes)
1965 Kenny Smith NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1966 Elliot Boult Blenheim New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1966 Holly Ann Salo Keani AK, Miss Alaska-America (1990)
1966 Laura McCabe cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1967 Brent Fedyk Yorkton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 Dale Joseph CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 Clare Wood Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon)
1968 Rob Zettler Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1969 Andrea Parker actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender)
1970 Harry Decheiver soccer player (RKC)
1970 Jason Elam NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 Rhett Harty Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympics-92)
1970 Vadim Bekboulatov NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1971 Bob Boughner Windsor, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1971 Marc Tobert CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 Craig Johnson St Paul MN, NHL left wing (Los Angeles Kings/Olympics-1994)
1972 Pat Riley NFL defensive end (Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Takuro Abe WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Kendell Watkins NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 Nanette Pearson Pleasant Grove UT, Miss America-Utah (1996)
1974 Steve Sarkisian CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1974 Toran James linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1975 Brett Conway NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 Kenny Wheaton cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1976 Freddie Prinze Jr actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
1977 James Van Der Beek actor (Dawson's Creek)
1977 Petr Devyatkin hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)

Deaths which occurred on March 08:

0883 Albumasar [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
1144 Celestine II [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
1403 Bajezid I Jildirim 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
1466 Francesco Sforza Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
1550 Juan de Dios Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
1638 Jacob C van Neck Admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
1640 Guillaume van Messaus composer, dies at 50
1661 Jules Mazarin Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
1702 John de Baen portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69
1702 William III Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51
1709 William Cowper/Cooper English anatomist, dies at about 62
1716 Harald Vallerius composer, dies at 69
1720 Georg Bronner composer, dies at 53
1724 Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli Swiss architect, dies at about 81
1728 Gian M Crescimbeni Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
1734 Carolomannus Pachschmidt composer, dies at 33
1754 Don José de Carvajal bon Lancaster Spanish minister of Foreign affairs, dies
1828 Johann Anton Sulzer composer, dies at 75
1862 Adrien de La Fage composer, dies at 56
1862 Nat Gordon last pirate, hanged in New York NY for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 Louis Hector Berlioz French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1874 Millard Fillmore 13th President (1850-53), dies of at 74
1887 Pavel Annenkov Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1889 Jens/John Ericsson Sweden/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
1901 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg German politician, dies at 64
1901 Peter Benoit Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1919 Auguste Tolbecque composer, dies at 88
1920 Rafael Obligado Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
1923 Johannes S van der Waals Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1930 William Howard Taft 27th US President (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
1931 Clara Kathleen Rogers composer, dies at 87
1932 Jan de Louter Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
1936 Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52
1937 Albert Verwey Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
1941 Jose Serrano Simeon composer, dies at 67
1941 Sherwood Anderson US writer/publisher (Winesburg OH), dies at 64
1942 José R Capablanca Cuban chess player (world champion 1927), dies at 53
1945 H J Jamin Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1945 Jan Beekes resistance fighter, executed at 26
1950 Jaroslav Kocian composer, dies at 67
1951 John Winter Thompson composer, dies at 83
1951 The Honeymoon Killers (Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez) die in electric chair
1954 Percy Twentyman-Jones cricketer (pair in only Test for South Africa), dies
1955 Clementine Princess of Belgium, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
1957 Othmar Schoeck composer, dies at 70
1958 Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
1959 Abdel Wahab Shawwaf Iraqi Colonel/putschist, murdered
1961 Thomas Beecham English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1963 John Hartley cricketer (bowl average 115 in 2 Tests for England 1906), dies
1965 Esther Howard actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72
1967 John F Bothwell actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
1971 Harold Lloyd US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
1973 Gordon Leggat cricketer (9 Tests for New Zealand, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
1974 Christian van Geel Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1974 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
1975 George Stevens US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1977 Henry Hull actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
1979 Gérard Blitz Dutch 400 meter swimmer (WR), dies at 78
1983 William T Walton English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1985 Edward Andrews actor (Broadside), dies of a heart attack at 70
1985 Thomas Creighton US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at 33
1986 Hubert Fichte writer, dies at 50
1992 Red Callender US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 Billy Eckstine jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1993 Johan Bodegraven radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
1993 Joop Scheltens TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
1993 Wells Root US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
1994 John Ewart Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
1994 Joop C Swart publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
1994 Knut Haukelid Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
1995 Ota Adler Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995 Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan novelist, dies at 91
1996 Alison McCartney pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
1996 Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill commando, dies at 89
1996 Paul Lewis Harrhy actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1997 Alexander Salkind producer (Superman), dies at 75

On this day...Events

1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant
1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702 England's Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1766 Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1858 Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)
1861 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA: CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1865 Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
1896 Volunteers of America forms (New York NY)
1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen
1900 National League decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ontario) in 2 games
1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers
1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York
1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes 1st licensed female pilot
1911 International Women's Day (1st celebrated)
1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg)
1917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time
1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate UT
1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
1929 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1939 Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait" premieres
1941 1st baseball player drafted into WWII (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
1943 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1943 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Arthur Vaughn
1944 US resumes bombing Berlin
1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed
1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign
1946 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York NY)
1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth TX, begins broadcasting
1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances
1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Herb McKinley sets ¼ mile record of 0 :6.8 in Melbourne, Australia
1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1958 William Faulkner says US schools degenerated to become babysitters
1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary" premieres in New York NY
1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours
1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria
1965 1st US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)
1968 Fillmore East opens
1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo Italy
1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden (New York NY)in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens
1973 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris France
1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1977 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
1979 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
1980 Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 performances
1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Queensland 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1987 David Hookes (306) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia
1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60 meter indoor
1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60 meter hurdles (7.37 seconds)
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991 Harry Hamlin & Nicollette Sheridan wed
1991 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1994 20th People's Choice Awards
1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
1994 Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
1995 -26ºF (-32.2ºC) in Bismarck ND
1995 -44ºF (-42.2ºC) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67ºN
1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece
1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-08-2006, 08:30 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 09:

1454 Amerigo Vespucci explorer, This could be Vespucciland
1564 David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star)
1568 Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga Italian prince/Jesuit/saint
1697 Friederike C Neuber German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1735 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer
1737 Josef Myslivecek composer
1753 Jean-Baptiste Kléber French General/architect (Mainz, Fleurus)
1758 Franz Joseph Gall German/French physician (frenology)
1777 Alexander Orlowski Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1791 George Hayward US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1810 Jean-Georges Kastner composer
1812 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer
1814 Taras Shevchenko Ukraine, national poet/painter/professor of Kiev
1824 Leland Stanford (Governor/Senator)/found Stanford University
1826 Jean Joseph Bott German violinist/composer
1839 Felix Huston Robertson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov)
1848 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick composer
1850 Alexandre Luigini composer
1859 Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend)
1865 Margaret Murray Washington wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1874 Johann Richard Ohlsson composer
1875 Martin Fallas Shaw composer
1877 Emil Abderhalden Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1881 Enver Pasja Turkish General/politician
1881 Ernest Bevin British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1883 Umberto Saba writer
1885 Ringgold "Ring" Lardner baseball player
1887 Phil Mead cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1892 David Garnett England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 Frank Puglia Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 Vita Sackville-West England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1893 Edgar Scauflaire Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 Hans Munch composer
19-- Bradley Lockerman Milford CT, actor (Shep-General Hospital)
19-- Finn Carter actress (As the World Turns)
19-- George Jenesky Los Angeles CA, actor (Nick-Days of Our Life)
19-- Gregory Hex rocker (Kik Tracee-Field Trip)
19-- Iris Chacón Puerto Rico, Spanish personality (Iris Chacon Show)
19-- Lauren Koslow Boston MA, actress (Margo-Bold & Beautiful)
19-- Walter Mercado Ponce PR, astrologer (Walter Mercado Show)
1900 Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1902 Edward Durell Stone US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 Will Greer Frankfort IN, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1905 Félix Labisse French painter (libidoscaphes)
1905 Grigori Kozintsev Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1905 Peter C Quennell English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 Rex Warner English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1907 Henry Leland Clarke composer
1908 Luiz Cosme composer
1910 Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 Samuel Barber West Chester PA, composer (School for Scandal)
1911 Ramon Campbell Batista composer
1912 Alan David Melville polymath
1913 Ger[ar]da Brautigam journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1914 Fred Clark Lincoln CA, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1915 Pete Gray one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1917 Dante B Fascell (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1955- )
1918 Marguerite Chapman Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1920 Carl Betz Pittsburgh PA, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1922 Herbert P Douglas Jr Pittsburgh PA, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1948)
1923 André Courréges France, fashion designer (introduced the miniskirt)
1923 James Buckley (Senator-Republican-NY)
1924 Konstantin Iliev composer
1926 Celso Garrido Lecca composer
1926 Gerrit A Kooy Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
1926 Irene Papas Corinth Greece, actress (Moses The Lawgiver)
1927 Hans Ludwig Schilling composer
1927 Jack Jensen baseball player (American League MVP 1958)
1927 John Beckwith composer
1929 Hugh Desmond Hoyte president (Guyana, 1985-92)
1929 Marie Cardinal writer
1930 Harrie J B Aarts Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1930 Thomas Schippers Kalamazoo MI, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1931 Taina Elg Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in New York, Les Girls)
1932 Heere Heeresma Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid)
1933 Lloyd Price Kenner LA, singer (Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Misty, Just Because, Come to Me)
1933 William Francis McBeth composer
1934 Joyce Van Patten Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
1934 Yuri Gagarin Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1935 Joe Gallison Houston TX, actor (PT-109, Neil-Days of our Lives)
1935 Keely Smith Norfolk VA, singer (Mrs Louis Prima)
1935 Sister Bernard Ncube South African nun
1936 [Aino] Elina Salo Sipoo Finland, actress (Hamlet Goes Business)
1936 Glenda Jackson Birkenhead Cheshire England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
1936 Marty Ingels Brooklyn NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1936 Mickey Gilley Ferriday LA, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1937 Grahame Chevalier cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 & 0, 5-100)
1938 Charles Siebert Kenosha WI, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John)
1940 Raul Julia San Juan Puerto Rico, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eyes of Laura Mars)
1941 Ger van Each sculptor
1941 Jim Colbert Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1942 Bert Campaneris shortstop (Oakland A's)
1942 John Cale Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground)
1942 Mark Lindsay Eugene OR, rocker (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
1943 Bobby Fischer US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1943 Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] Englewood Cliffs NJ, actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse)
1944 Geoff Arnold cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
1944 Lee Irvine cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970)
1944 Trevor Burton rocker (Move)
1945 Laura Lee [Rundless] singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
1945 Ray Royer rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 Robin Trower London England, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1946 Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1948 Jamie Lyn Bauer Phoenix AZ, actress (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls)
1948 Jeffrey Osborne Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1948 Jimmy Fadden Long Beach CA, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1949 Kalevi Aho composer
1950 Danny Sullivan Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1952 Iuliana Semenova USSR, basketball (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 William Kirby Cullen Santa Ana CA, actor (How the West Was Won)
1953 Henriëtte J Toll actress (Soldier of Orange)
1954 Charmain Elaine Sylvers rocker
1954 Keven Wade Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1955 Fernando Bujones Miami FL, ballet dancer
1955 Ornella Muti Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife)
1955 Teo Fabi formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1957 Faith Daniels news anchor (CBS-TV)
1957 Jeff Senior Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1957 Jon Engen Oslo Norway, US biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1958 Martin Fry rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1959 Barbie doll (Mattel)
1959 Kato [Brian] Kaelin actor (Beach Fever)/OJ houseguest/witness
1959 Lonny Price New York NY, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1960 Linda Fiorentino Philadelphia PA, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
1960 Mike Leach Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1962 Brian Green Columbus IN, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children, Sam Fowler-Another World)
1963 Kent Ferguson Cedar Rapids IA, diver (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Terry Mulholland Uniontown PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 Phil Housley St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team USA Olympics-98)
1965 Benito Santiago Ponce PR, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Brian Bosworth NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1965 Juliette Binoche Paris France, actress (English Patient, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1966 Louis Oliver NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1967 Curt Schreiner Albany NY, biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Eric Flaim Pembroke MA, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 Michael Kiselak CFL corner (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Bryce Burnett NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1969 George Nimako CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Mahmoud Abdul Rauf NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1970 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy US soldier (Iraqi POW)
1971 Bev Oden Millington TN, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 Emmanuel Lewis Brooklyn NY, actor (Webster)
1971 Jiro Nihei hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Lou Benfatti NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets)
1971 Sean Holcomb NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
1972 Marcia M Griffith Washington DC, Miss Maryland-America (1995)
1972 Sara Nicole Williams Miss Washington-USA (1997)
1973 David Prinosil Olmutz Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 ATP Newport)
1973 Josh LaRocca WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1973 Troy Bailey WLAF defensive end (Scotland Claymores)
1974 Mark Harrity cricketer (promising South Australia left-arm fast bowler)
1975 Adonal Foyle NBA center (San Francisco Warriors)
1975 Roy Makaay Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1977 Radek Dvorak Tabor Czechoslovakia, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)

Deaths which occurred on March 09:

1566 David Riccio Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered
1620 Aegidius Albertinus German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1661 Jules Cardinal Mazarin chief minister of France, dies
1688 Claude Mellan French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
1693 Antonio Caraffa Italian General (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46?
1706 Johann Pachelbel German organist/composer, dies at 52
1747 Jacob Campo Weyerman South Netherlands adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
1800 Dominique Della-Maria composer, dies at 30
1819 Janos Fusz composer, dies at 41
1824 Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79
1827 Franz Xaver Gerl composer, dies at 62
1831 Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1870 Theodore Labarre composer, dies at 65
1877 Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58
1895 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
1913 Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar, dies at 61
1916 Ken Hutchings cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies
1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary, dies at 53
1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
1938 Sydney Baynes composer, dies at 59
1941 Carlos Pedrell composer, dies at 62
1943 Oskar Hêks Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1947 Stanley Jackson cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
1955 Matthew A Henson met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
1962 Dr Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59
1962 Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
1964 Johanna W "Mina" Bakker Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at 87
1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian General/politician, dies at 93
1965 Anthon van der Horst Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65
1965 Kazys Boruta writer, dies
1969 Riad chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1969 Richard Crane actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50
1971 Jean-Pierre Guezek composer, dies at 36
1974 Earl W Sutherland Jr US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
1975 Joseph Dunninger New York NY, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
1975 Shirley Ross actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at 62
1979 Barbara Mullen actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
1980 Olga Chekova actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
1981 Max Delbrück German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74
1982 Alan Badel actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
1982 Rex Marshall TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies
1982 Richard A Butler England, minister of Finance, dies at 79
1983 Faye Emerson actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
1985 Edward Andrews actor (Broadside, Harry-Supertrain), dies at 70
1986 Ned Calmer TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1988 Kurt Georg Kiesinger West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1989 Robert Mapplethorpe US photographer, dies at 42
1992 Felipe Turich actor (Lawless), dies
1992 Jack McEdward assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
1992 James Brooks US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
1992 Menachim Begin Israeli prime minister (1977-1983, Nobel 1979), dies at 79
1993 Ad van Gessel Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
1993 Bob Crosby swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
1994 Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 Fernando Rey Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 John Harrison South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 Lawrence E Spivak journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100
1994 Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77
1995 Ian Ballantine publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
1995 Ruud van den Hende Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1996 Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist, dies at 77
1996 Elman Ali Ahmed peace campaigner, dies at 42
1996 Peter Mansfield writer, dies at 67
1997 Notorius B I G [Biggie Small Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
1997 Terry Nation writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66

On this day...Events

1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III Roman Catholic-German emperor
1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace" premieres in Paris France
1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1791 George Hayward, Us, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1822 Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani" premieres in Venice
1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" premieres
1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC
1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris France
1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 Stanley Cup: Montréal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ontario) loses to Montréal AAA, 5-1
1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
1897 Indian fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin
1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape" premieres in New York NY
1922 KJR-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in New York NY
1923 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
1924 Italy annexes Fiume
1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris France
1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY
1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York NY (Castro Decorators)
1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Oklahoma
1964 Supreme Court issues New York Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies vs India at Port-of-Spain
1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
1977 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
1978 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa Canada won by Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponosov (USSR)
1978 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Irina Rodnina & Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR)
1978 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (German Democratic Republic)
1978 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen" premieres in London
1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 John Lennon's "Borrowed Time" is released
1984 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds)
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
1991 5th American Comedy Awards: Dennis Wolfberg
1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit MI) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1993 19th People's Choice Awards
1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pakistan's WC QF loss to India
1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs England in WC QF
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
1997 Senior Golf Slam
1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-09-2006, 08:28 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 10:

1452 Ferdinand II the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1503 Ferdinand I German emperor (1558-64)
1538 Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
1628 Constantine Huygens Jr Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1656 Adolf H van Rechteren Dutch diplomat/politician
1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi composer
1713 Christian Friedrich Schale composer
1713 Raphael Weiss composer
1748 John Playfair Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser composer
1771 Georg F Creuzer German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1772 Friedrich von Schlegel Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
1776 Luise queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
1780 Juan Jose Landaeta composer
1787 William Etty English painter (nudes)
1788 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1809 William David Porter Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
1810 John McCloskey US, president of St John's College (Fordham University)
1812 Victor Tesch Belgian lawyer/minister of Justice
1818 George Wythe Randolph Secretary of War (Confederacy), died in 1867
1822 Willem Roelofs Dutch painter/lithographer
1824 Major General Thomas J Churchill Confederate Army/Fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River
1832 William Henry Penrose Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1833 Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Spain, writer (Three-Cornered Hat)
1839 Dudley Buck Hartford CT, organist/church composer
1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith US, poet laureate of California
1844 Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez composer (Spanish Dancing)
1845 Alexander III [Romanov] Russian tsar (1881-94)
1850 Mary Mills Patrick US, 1st president of Istanbul Women's College
1865 Pim [Willem JH] Mulier Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer
1867 Lillian D Wald US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
1870 Alfred Kastner composer
1872 Felix Borowski composer
1873 Jakob Wassermann Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser composer
1877 David Mendes Chumaceiro Curaçao, poet (Crisálidas)
1878 Karel van de Woestijne Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea)
1880 Michael Jacobs New York NY, boxing promoter
1884 Stuart Holmes Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1888 Barry Fitzgerald Dublin Ireland, actor (Academy Award-Going My Way)
1888 Krsto Odak composer
1891 Jacob van Gelderen economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
1891 Sam Jaffe New York NY, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1892 Arthur Oscar Honnegger Le Havre France, composer (King David)
1892 Eva Turner British soprano
1896 Harry Krimer actor (Napoleon)
1896 Nancy Cunard writer
1898 Cy Kendall St Louis MO, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1899 Finn Hoffding composer
19-- Ariane Munker actress (Ryan's Hope, Guiding Light, Doctors)
19-- Kari Kane rocker (Pretty Boy Floyd-Rock & Roll)
19-- Lissette Lima Peru, Spanish singer (Caricatura)
19-- Lupita D'Alessio Mexico, Spanish singer (Soy Autentica... Y Punto)
1900 Sherman Billingsley Enid OK, talk show host (Stork Club)
1903 Bix Beiderbecke jazz cornet player (In a Mist)
1905 Rene Bernier composer
1907 Robert de Roos composer
1908 Carl Albert US speaker of house (1971-77)
1908 Kristian Palusalu Finland, heavyweight wrestler (Olympics-gold-1936)
1909 Gerard Croiset Dutch clairvoyant
1911 Warner Anderson Brooklyn NY, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
1914 Chandler Harper golfer (1950 PGA champion)
1916 James Herriot Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small)
1916 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill record producer
1918 Heywood Hale Broun journalist
1920 Jethro Burns country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1923 [Kenneth C] "Jethro" Burns Conasauga TN, mandolinist/country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1921 Cec Linder Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger)
1921 Paul Coates New York NY, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 Adam Kennedy Lafayette IN, actor (Dion-Californian)
1922 Pamela Mason London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1923 Ara Parseghian football coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame)
1925 Ed van der Elsken movie photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis)
1925 M J J A [Sef] Imkamp Dutch politician (D66)
1926 Marques Haynes NBA hall of famer (Harlem Globetrotters)
1927 Claude Laydu actress (Diary of a Country Priest)
1927 Donn Trenner New Haven CT, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1927 Paul Wunderlich German lithographer/painter/sculptor
1928 Arthur Milton cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's)
1928 James Earl Ray assassin (Martin Luther King Jr)
1930 Raymond Rasberry pianist/singer
1930 Sandor Iharos athlete
1932 Anatoliy Roschin USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympics-gold-1972)
1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak composer
1934 Judith Jamison artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
1935 Gary Owens announcer (Laugh-in)
1936 Juda Bar-Norwegian Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
1937 Oscar Abrams community organizer
1937 Tamara Press USSR, shot putter (Olympics-gold-1960, 64)
1938 Ijaz Butt cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in 8 Tests 1958-60)
1938 Marina Vlady Clichy France, actress (Conjugal Bed, The Hunt)
1938 Ron Mix NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
1939 Irina Press USSR, 80 meter hurdles/Pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1960, 64)
1940 Chuck [Carlos Ray] Norris Ryan OK, martial arts actor (Walker Texas Ranger, Missing in Action)
1940 David Rabe Dubuque IA, playwright (Streamers)
1940 Dean Torrence Los Angeles CA, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady from Pasadena)
1940 Francis Schwartz composer
1940 Wayne Dyer psychologist (Universe Within You)
1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz composer
1941 Piotr Warzecha composer
1941 Sandra Palmer Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1986 Mayflower Classic)
1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl composer
1943 Angelique Pettyjohn Los Angeles CA, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
1943 Stephen Montague composer
1945 Katharine Houghton Hartford, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1946 Gaylord Birch drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1947 Avril "Kim" Campbell Canada's 1st female Prime Minister/19th Prime Minister (June 25, 1993-November 4, 1993)
1947 Laurie Langenbach Dutch author
1947 Tom Scholz rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1948 Austin Carr NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1948 Eddie Grundy rocker
1950 Ted McKenna rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1952 Oupa J Gqozo South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1953 Caroline H "Carolien" van de Berg actress (Havinck)
1955 Bunny DeBarge Grand Rapids MI, rocker (Debarge)
1955 Juliusz Machulski Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself)
1956 Janet Anderson West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)
1957 Adolfo Horta Camaguey Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-silver-1980)
1957 Shannon Lee Tweed St Johns Newfoundland, playmate (November 1981) actress (Meatballs 3)
1958 Sharon Stone Meadville PA, actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino)
1960 Linda Jezek California, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979)
1961 Jesse Sapolu NFL guard (San Francisco 49ers)
1961 Laurel B Clark Ames IA, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
1961 Mitch Gaylord Van Nuys CA, gymnast (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem)
1962 Andre Waters NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1962 Gary Clark rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1963 Jasmine Guy Boston MA, actress (Whitley-Different World)
1963 John Cangelosi Brooklyn NY, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1964 Cynthia Brimhall Ogden UT, playmate (October 1985)
1964 Greg Campbell cricketer (Aussie pace-bowler 1989-90)
1964 Neneh Cherry Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Buffalo Stance)
1964 Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis of Britain
1965 Paul Masotti CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 Rod Woodson NFL cornerback/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers)
1966 Edie Brickell Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
1966 Michael Timlin Midland TX, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 Stephen Mailer New York NY, actor (Red Meat, League of Their Own, War & Love)
1967 Derrick Graham guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 Jay Hillmann WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1969 Ricky Seagall rocker (Partridge Family)
1969 Stephen Leaney Australia, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Infinit TPC-7th)
1970 Antonio Edwards NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Frank Habermann WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 Morris Unutoa corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Shad Williams Fresno CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1972 Jack Kellogg WLAF CB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 Eva Herzigova Litvinov Czechoslovakia, model (Guess Jeans, Wonderbra)
1975 Stefan Bergkvist Leksand Sweden, NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1976 Barbara Schett Innsbruck Austria, tennis star
1977 Shannon Miller Rolla MO, gymnast (Olympics-2 gold/2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)

Deaths which occurred on March 10:

0037 Tiberius Claudius Nero Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78
0483 Simplicius Italian Pope (468-83), dies
1546 Thomas Elyot English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
1585 Rembert Dodoens [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67
1592 Michiel Coxcie Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies
1597 Petrus Forestus Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz composer, dies at 61
1701 Johann Schelle composer, dies at 52
1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt composer, dies at 48
1735 Dirk T van Cloon Dutch lawyer/Governor-General of E Indies, dies at about 46
1792 John Stuart 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
1819 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi writer, dies
1826 Johan VI M L J King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
1832 Muzio Clementi Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 Josepf François Snel composer, dies at 67
1864 Maximilian II Jozef King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting Confederate General-Major, dies at 48
1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini composer, dies at 87
1870 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles composer, dies at 75
1872 Giuseppe Mazzini Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul composer, dies at 84
1888 Ciro Pinsuti Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
1892 Otto van Raised Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
1897 Teodulo Mabellini composer, dies at 79
1900 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer, dies at 94
1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell composer, dies at 38
1906 Eugen Richter German MP (Liberal), dies at 67
1910 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke composer, dies at 85
1910 Karl Lueger Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
1913 Harriet Tubman abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in New York
1922 Arthur Hervey composer, dies at 67
1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl composer, dies at 73
1935 Barend Barendse actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82
1940 Louis de Vries Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1943 Tully Marshall actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
1944 David Vogel Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
1948 Jan Masaryk Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1966 Mari Sandoz US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1968 Helen Walker actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47
1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels composer, dies at 92
1973 Sir Richard Sharples Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated
1974 June Harrison actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
1974 Quinto Maganini composer, dies at 76
1975 Leopold Samuel composer, dies at 91
1977 E Power Biggs English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1977 Pieter Jan Bouman Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74
1977 Willem Schermerhorn Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
1980 Doctor Tarnoff Jean Harris kills Scarsdale diet doctor
1980 Herman Tarnower doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1984 June Marlowe actress (Pardon US), dies at 81
1985 Konstantin Chernenko party leader/President of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73
1986 Ray Milland actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81
1988 Andy Gibb singer, dies in Oxford England of an inflammatory heart virus at 30
1988 Glenn Cunningham US world record miler, dies at 78
1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth composer, dies at 79
1990 Michael Stewart UK Secretary of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
1992 Roy Holmer Wallack dies of pneumonia at 64
1993 C Northcote Parkinson English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
1993 David Gunn abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt journalist/policeman, dies at 92
1994 Charles Bukowski German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73
1994 Robert Shea author, dies of cancer
1995 Alexander Hyatt-King Mozart scholar, dies at 84
1995 Carel Birnie ballet producer, dies at 69
1995 Hendrik W van Leeuwen Dutch musician, dies at 79
1995 Richard Baerlein racing writer, dies at 84
1996 Lucius E Burch Jr US civil rights leader, dies at 84
1996 Ross Hunter US producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75

On this day...March 10 Events

0241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships
0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
0483 St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
1535 Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands
1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1789 Franklin College founded (1787?)
1791 John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy
1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so
1862 Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Red River campaign Louisiana
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina
1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1888 1st performance of César Franck's "Psyche"
1888 Heavyweight Boxing champion John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montréal AAA in 2 games
1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
1910 China ends slavery
1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
1913 Stanley Cup: Québec Bulldogs sweep Sydney Miners in 2 games
1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1914 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1920 NHL's Québec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1926 Run on Belgian banks
1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach CA
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1934 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis
1934 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, New York NY, I Pagliacci
1941 Larry MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
1945 US troops lands on Mindanao
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB California
1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in New York NY
1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater FL
1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his two 1st at bats in spring training
1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary IN)
1972 General Lon Nol becomes President & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs England Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1975 "Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1982 Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1985 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
1985 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)
1985 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1985 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (USSR)
1986 Ernie Lombardi, National League MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1988 Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1990 4th American Comedy Awards: When Harry Met Sally
1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 World Ice Dance Championship in Halifax won by Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR)
1990 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1990 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 meter indoor (22.24 seconds)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schönlebe walk 4x400 meter indoor world record (3 :3.05)
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole & Color Me Badd win
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400 meter (3 :7.22)
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win
1996 NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 11:

1544 Torquato Tasso Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)
1549 Hendrik L Spieghel Dutch merchant/Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
1596 Isaac Elsevier book publisher
1654 Heinrich Georg Neuss composer
1683 Giovanni Veneziano composer
1726 Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess
1731 Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
1754 Juan Meléndez Valdés Spanish lawyer/poet
1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich composer
1793 Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist
1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune
1812 James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887
1812 Pieter Blussé van Oud-Alblas Dutch liberal minister of Finance
1812 William Vincent Wallace composer
1818 John Wilkins Whitfield Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1819 Henry Tate English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1819 Marius Petipa French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
1822 Allison Nelson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1827 Septimus Winner composer
1832 Franz Melde German physicist (Melde test)
1832 William Ruffin Cox Brigadier General (Confederate Army-2nd North Carolina Infantry), died in 1919
1840 Edmund Kirby Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1846 António C G Crespo Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1860 Thomas Hastings New York NY, architect (New York Public Library)
1863 Andrew Stoddart cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
1863 Wobbe de Vries Dutch linguist
1872 Abraham van Stolk Jzn lumber merchant/art collector
1876 Carl Ruggles Marion MA, composer (Evocations)
1876 David Wijnkoop Dutch revolutionary socialist
1879 Justus Hermann Wetzel composer
1879 Niels Bjerrum Danish chemist (ph tests)
1884 Jan Lemaire Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
1885 Malcolm Campbell 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/minutes (8 km/minute)
1890 Vannevar Bush developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1892 Raoul Walsh New York NY, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry)
1892 Wladyslaw Anders Polish General (WWI, WWII)
1897 Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park CA, composer (New Musical Resources)
1898 Dorothy Gish Massillon OH, stage & silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1899 Frederick IX king of Denmark (1947-72)
19-- Nancy Sloan actress (Katie-Bold & Beautiful)
1902 Josef Martin Bauer writer
1903 Dorothy Schiff publisher (New York Post)
1903 George Dickinson cricketer (bowled for New Zealand in their 1st 3 Tests)
1904 Cornelis Jan Bakker Dutch/US nuclear physicist
1904 Maurits Wertheim Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar composer
1907 Eleni Gatzoyiannis heroine (saved her kids)
1907 Helmuth J von Moltke German politician (July 20th plot)
1907 Jessie Matthews London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)
1907 Margaret Herbison British minister (Lab)
1908 Lawrence Welk Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1909 Ljubica Maric composer
1910 Robert H G Havemann German chemist
1911 Alan Gifford Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
1911 Fitzroy Maclean British diplomat soldier politician/historian
1912 Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar
1912 Xavier Montsalvatge Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 John Jacob Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1913 Thomas Gray professor/anaesthetist
1914 Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
1915 Karl Krolow writer
1915 Vijay Hazare cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54)
1916 Sir [James] Harold Wilson (L) British Prime Minister (1964-70, 1974-76)
1917 GE Göran Schildt Finnish art historian/writer (Solbåten)
1918 Al Eben Philadelphia PA, actor (Doc Bergman-Hawaii Five-0)
1919 Mercer Ellington son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1920 D J Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920 Henry Marking CEO (British Airways)
1920 Kenneth Dover chancellor (St Andrews University)
1921 Astor Piazzolla Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
1922 Thom Kelling Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1922 Vinnette Carroll New York NY, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers)
1923 A Louise Brough Clapp Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champion)
1923 A X Gwerder writer
1923 Ad[rianus C] de Besten Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 Morschi Mirando [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
1923 Terence Alexander London England, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
1925 James Miskin QC/recorder of London
1926 Adrienne Keith Cohen travel editor
1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu composer
1926 Patricia Tindaole England, architect
1926 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
1927 Alan Betts emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
1927 Raymond Jackson [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 Robert Mosbacher US politician
1927 Ron Todd British trade unionist
1928 Albert Salmi Brooklyn NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
1928 Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No)
1929 Erskine Childers unofficial/civil servant
1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal composer
1929 Jackie McGlew cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50')
1930 David Gentleman designer/painter
1931 Peter Walters CEO (Midland Bank)
1931 Rupert Murdoch Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network
1932 Nigel Lawson British government official (The Power Game)
1932 Valerie French London England, actress (Jubal, The Hard Man)
1933 Terry J Hatter Jr US judge in California
1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos Greece, medical genetics researcher
1934 Joep [Joseph Willem Frederik] Straesser composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1934 Keith Speed British MP
1934 Sam Donaldson El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1934 Sydney Burke cricketer (South African quick, 11 wickets on Test debut vs New Zealand 1961)
1936 Antonin Scalia Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )
1937 John Ward New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1938 Malcolm Keith Speed British high court judge
1942 Peter Eyre actor (Hedda)
1944 Ric Rothwell drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 Harvey Mandel rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1945 Mark Stein vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1945 Timothy Mason consultant (British Arts Council)
1945 Tricia O'Neil Shreveport LA, actress (Piranha Part II)
1946 Brigitte Fossey Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
1947 Dominique Sanda [Varaigne] Paris France, actress (1900, First Love, Inheritance, Beyond Good & Evil)
1947 Geoffrey Hunt Australia, world-champion squash player
1947 Mark Stein Bayonne NJ, rocker (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1948 George Kooymans The Hague Netherlands, guitarist/singer (Golden Earring-Radar Love, Twilight Zone)
1949 Richard de Bois Dutch drummer/producer
1950 Bobby McFerrin singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-1989 Grammy)
1950 Jerry Zucker Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
1952 Douglas Adams Cambridge England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1952 Susan Richardson Coatesville PA, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
1955 [Kater]Nina Hagen East Berlin German Democratic Republic, actress (Blue Angel)
1956 Curtis L Brown Jr Elizabethtown NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95)
1961 Bruce Watson Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 Mike Percy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 Peter Berg actor (Chicago Hope)
1964 Raimo Helminen Tampere Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland, Olympics-bronze-98)
1965 Eric Jelen West Germany, tennis star
1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov Russian cosmonaut
1966 Ralph Tamm NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs)
1966 Steve Reed Los Angeles CA, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Andrew Zesers cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1967 Bill Houlder Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1968 John Barrowman actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)
1969 Dan Lacroix Montréal, NHL left wing (New York Rangers)
1969 John Fina NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Brett Liddle Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1970 Evgeniy Koreshkov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1971 Bob Kronenberg WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1971 Jiri Vykoukai Olomouc Czechoslovakia, hockey player (Team Czechoslovakia Republic, Olympics-gold-98)
1971 Marta Lovera Parquet Miss Paraguay-Universe (1996)
1971 Martin Rucinsky Most Czechoslovakia, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Olympics-Gold-1998)
1972 Carl Greenwood NFL cornerback (New York Jets)
1972 Chris Shelling WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1972 Jamal Duff NFL defensive end (New York Giants, Washington Redskins)
1973 Kennedy Otieno Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 vs Australia 1996 World Cup)
1973 Mike Mihelic CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 Sammie Brennan CFL defensive back (British Columbia Lions)
1973 Tony Veland NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 Billy Granville linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 David Cameron Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Kevin Donovan Des Plaines IL, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1975 Cedric Henderson NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 Shawn Springs cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1982 Hasan Raza cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)

Deaths which occurred on March 11:

0222 Varius A Bassianus Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18?
0638 Sophronius of Jerusalem saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
1486 Albrecht III Achilles elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1715 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus Flemish painter, dies at 80
1772 George Reuter composer, dies at 63
1786 Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1807 Anton Eberl composer, dies at 41
1820 Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 Gervais-François Couperin composer, dies at 66
1833 Fridolin Weber composer, dies at 71
1845 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana
1857 Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1874 Charles Sumner a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1894 John Selby cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1897 Berthold Tours composer, dies at 58
1897 Henry Drummond Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1900 Edmund Peate cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1908 Peter Milne composer, dies at 83
1919 Harald Fryklof composer, dies at 36
1921 Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 Andreas Hallen composer, dies at 78
1926 John Henry Anderson cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for South Africa), dies
1937 Paul Scheinpflug composer, dies at 61
1941 Walford Davies British organist/composer, dies at 71
1944 Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, dies at 45
1949 Henri-Honoré Giraud French General/MP, dies at 70
1949 Juan Lamonte de Grignon composer, dies at 76
1950 Florence Arliss actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 Philippe of Isacker Belgian minister, dies at 66
1955 Alexander Fleming English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1957 Richard E Byrd US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1959 Haydn Wood composer, dies at 76
1960 Roy Chapman Andrews US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
1962 Will Vesper German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 Mahomed Nissar cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wickets), dies
1965 James Reeb US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 Geraldine Farrar soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1969 John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris] author (Day of the Triffids, Chrysalids), dies at 65
1970 Erle Stanley Gardner US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
1971 Philo T Farnsworth US TV pioneer, dies at 64
1971 Roy Glenn dies in Los Angeles at 56
1971 Whitney M Young Jr leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 Fredric [William] Brown sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda writer
1975 Philip Bezanson composer, dies at 59
1975 Sammy Spear orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 Walter Kinsella actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1979 Victor Kilian actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 Edmund Cooper British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1984 Nakagawa Soen Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1988 Pham Hung premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 Johan Fleerackers Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1992 David Carroll actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 Heinz Kühn Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80
1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 Richard Brooks director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 Dino Bravo wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 Edgar Nelson Barclift dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 Manuel da Fonseca Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 Jacques Doucet French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 Carel Birnie found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 Ernest Kabushemeye Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 Frank Fidler artist, dies at 84
1996 Barry Appleby cartoonist, dies at 86
1996 Charles William Oatley electrical engineer, dies at 92
1996 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson public servant, dies at 70
1996 John Henry Pyle Pafford librarian, dies at 96
1996 Vince Edwards actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67

On this day...March 11 Events

0417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
0537 Goths lay siege to Rome
0843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1502 Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 League of High Nobles' second protest against King Philip II
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 1st English daily newspaper, "Daily Courant", is published
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris France
1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US
1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield MA)
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
1905 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Québec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montréal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
1924 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 1st golden gloves tournament
1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York NY)
1928 Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
1930 President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
1935 Bank of Canada opens
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria
1938 German troops enter Austria
1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 Reginald Weir became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1958 Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets
1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"
1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC
1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 University of San Francisco-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust North Carolina
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game
1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw
1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1981 Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1983 World Ice Dance Championship in Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1983 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)
1983 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
1983 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 12th People's Choice Awards
1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm
1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1988 £ note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by £ coin
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1990 16th People's Choice Awards
1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence
1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records
1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
1995 -36.8ºF (-38.2ºC) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67ºN
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03 meter
1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup
1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup
1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-11-2006, 09:43 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 12:

1336 Eduard Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence
1515 Caspar Othmayr composer
1685 George Berkeley Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 Thomas Augustine Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1755 Georges Couthon French politician
1758 Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum Dutch General/politician [or March 22]
1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor composer
1788 Pierre J David [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer
1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard Belgian historian
1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce 1st lady-Franklin Pierce (1853-57)
1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 David Stuart Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818 John Lorimar Worden Captain (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821 Luitpold von Bayern Prince-regent of Bayern
1821 Sir John Abbott Québec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian Prime Minister (1891-92)
1823 William Flank Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824 Gustav R Kirchoff Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826 Robert Lowry composer
1827 John Robert Jones Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827 William Richard Terry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830 William Felix Brantley Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831 Clement Studebaker automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 Charles Boycott Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 Simon Newcomb US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837 Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer
1838 William Perkin inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848 Cyrill Kistler composer
1855 John White composer
1859 Josef Cyril Sychra composer
1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo composer
1862 Jane Delano US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon Curaçao, poet
1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy, writer/military hero (The Intruder)
1874 Edmund Eysler Austrian composer
1875 Julio Garreta composer
1877 Wilhelm Frick German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 Gemma Galgani Italian saint
1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer
1880 House Peters Bristol England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1881 Daniel Webster Hoan Wisconsin (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 Kemal Atatürk 1st President of Republic of Turkey
1881 Väinö A Tanner premier of Finland (1926-27)
1883 Judge Jackson composer
1885 Raphaël Verwilghen Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 Hall Johnson composer
1889 Philip Guedalla historian
1890 A Evert Taube Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka)
1891 Michael Polany Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller San Francisco Blues Great
1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1900 David Croll QC senator
1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer
1904 Ken James cricket wicketkeeper (New Zealand's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907 (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison politician
1908 David Saul Marshall diplomat lawyer/politician
1908 Inez Courtney New York NY, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1910 Roger L Stevens producer (Giant)
1910 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 Wilhelmus L Reijers sculptor
1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz President of Mexico
1912 James McKay lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 Kylie Tennant novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 Paul Weston Springfield MA, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1913 Harold Butler cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1914 Jan Kapr composer
1915 Alberto Burri Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917 Googie Withers Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 Tom Normanton British MP
1918 James Bracken race horse trainer
1921 Giovanni Agnelli CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 Gordon MacRae East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 Max de Metz Dutch publisher/translator
1921 Ralph Shapey Philadelphia PA, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 Helen Parrish Columbus GA, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 Jack Kerouac Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 Lane Kirkland union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood composer
1923 Hjalmar Andersen Norway, speed skater-1500/5K/10K (Olympics-gold-1952)
1923 Norbert Brainin violinist
1923 Walter M Schirra Jr Hackensack NJ, Captain USN/astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
1925 Georges Delerue composer
1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
1925 Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 Louison Bobet French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925 William G Whitehurst (Representative-Republican-VA)
1926 David Oliver Williams trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 George R Ariyoshi (Governor-Democrat-HI)
1926 Gudrun Ure British actress (The Crow Road, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926 Hildy Park Washington DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 John C[lellon] Holmes US writer (Horn)
1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus composer
1926 Ronald Alley art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich Baku Russia, conductor/cellist (Cello Concerto)
1927 Raul Alfonsin President (Argentina)
1928 Edward Albee Washington DC, playwright (Virginia Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 Phil Jones principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 Roland Moyle British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1929 Bernard Costello US, double sculls (Olympics-silver-1956)
1929 Lupe Anguiano Mexican-American civil rights activist
1930 Antony Acland provost of Eton/British ambassador to US
1930 Robin Cavendish disabled campaigner
1930 Scoey Mitchill Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 Stanko Horvat composer
1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue director (Royal Collection)
1931 William "Buckwheat" Thomas actor (Little Rascals)
1932 Andrew Young US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-Democrat-Atlanta)
1934 Rudolph Agner CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 Helga Pilarczyk German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 John Gross author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1936 Anthony Loehnis vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 Keith Slater cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936 Lloyd Dobbins Newport News VA, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 Patrick Procktor painter
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 Dimitri Terzakis composer
1938 Johnny Rutherford auto racer (26 championship races)
1938 Karl Soderlund Duluth MN, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 Millie Perkins actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 Norman Hogg British MP
1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao composer
1938 Vijay Mehra cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939 Barbara Feldon Pittsburgh PA, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 David Mlinaric British interior director
1940 Al Jarreau Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940 Albert Johanneson soccer star
1940 Millie Perkins actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1942 Bert Campaneris baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 Brian O'Hara rocker
1942 Paul Kantner San Francisco CA, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit, Somebody To Love)
1942 Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano mobster (testified against Gotti)
1945 Hans van Emden Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1946 Liza Minnelli Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1947 Jill O'Hara Warren PA, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1948 Dana Walden rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 James Taylor Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948 Kent Conrad (Senator-D-ND)
1948 Les Holroyd Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 Virginia Bottomley British minister of state health/secretary (Heritage)
1949 Bill Payne Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 David Mellor Secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949 Mary Alice Williams news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 Mike Gibbons Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 Sara Lane New York NY, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1950 Jon Provost actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950 Willie Duggan rugby football player
1951 Caren Kaye New York NY, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 Jack Green rocker
1953 Joanna Kerns actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
1953 Labamba [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1956 Dale Murphy Portland OR, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time National League MVP)
1957 Jerry Levine New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 Marlon D Jackson Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 Steve Harris London England, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden--Number of the Beast, Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 Debra Jensen Orange County CA, playmate (January, 1978)
1960 Courtney B Vance Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960 Eldine Baptiste cricketer (West Indies all-rounder early 80's)
1962 Darryl Strawberry Los Angeles CA, right fielder (New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees)
1962 Gunde Svan Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963 Candy Costie Seattle WA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-1984)
1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz Brazil, 800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1963 John Andretti race car driver
1963 Julia Campbell Huntsville AL, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 Paul Way British golfer
1964 Tony Terry rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965 Fran Harris WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965 Molly Van Nostrand West Islip NY, tennis star
1965 Randy Dixon NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 Steve Finley Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 Alecia Stephenson North Vancouver British Columbia, softball shortstop (Olympics-96)
1966 Erich Fischer Dinuba CA, US Olympics water polo foward (Olympics-92)
1966 Grant Long NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1967 Irvin Smith CFL cornerback (Montréal Alouettes)
1967 Rowelle Blenman WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1968 Merton Hanks NFL safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1969 Graham Coxon singer (Blur)
1969 J P Izquierdo CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 Karen Snelgrove London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969 Muhammad Oliver NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1970 Michael Bankston NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Rex Walters NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970 Rod Smith NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1971 Greg Hansell Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1971 Isaiah Rider NBA guard/forward (Minnesota Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971 Raul Mondesi San Cristobal Dominican Republic, outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1972 Alisa Castillo Miss Nevada-USA (1996)
1973 Antonio Banks cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Gabriel Mendez Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Keif Bryant NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Louis Laros Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974 Chris Carr NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1978 Cristina Teuscher New Rochelle NY, 4X200 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1978 Tara Mounsey ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-98)

Deaths which occurred on March 12:

0417 Innocent I Italian Pope (401-417), dies
0604 Gregory I the Great Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami Persian poet, dies
1471 Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel Dutch scholastic theologist, dies
1496 Johannes de Lapide [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 Cesare Borgia cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1570 Jacob van den Eynden Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1628 John Bull thought to have composed British national anthem (God Save The King), dies
1648 Tirso de Molina Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 French van Mieris the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1734 Antonius Schultingh [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1753 George Berkeley philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, dies at 48
1831 Johann Franz Volkert composer, dies at 64
1832 Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1834 Karl W Feuerbach mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel composer, dies at 75
1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer, dies at 52
1883 Murrumgunarriman [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
1888 Henry Bergh founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1902 John Peter Altgeld German/US Governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 Rudolf von Alt Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 Edmondo de Amicis Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909 Johanna "Lena" Bakker Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1913 Joseph Bayer composer, dies at 61
1914 George Westinghouse US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1916 M v Ebner-Eschenbach writer, dies at 39
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Sun Yat-Sen Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1932 Ivar Kreuger "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor French organist/composer, dies at 93
1937 Jeno Hubay composer, dies at 78
1941 Charles Sanford Skilton composer, dies at 72
1942 Enrique Morera composer, dies at 76
1945 Anne Frank diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1946 Philip Merivale dies at 59
1949 Maria "Beppie" Bakker Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1950 L Heinrich Mann German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker US jazz saxophonist, dies in New York NY at 34
1955 Theodor Plievier writer, dies
1957 Harry Dean cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
1957 Josephine Hull actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 Belinda Lee actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 Estelita Rodriguez actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37
1973 Esther Williamson Ballou composer, dies at 57
1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch baseball player, dies at 74
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
1974 Billy Fox Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
1978 John Cazale actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1978 Tolchard Evans composer/conductor, dies
1982 Elisabeth Zernike Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90
1983 Jevsei G Liberman Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984 Arnold Riley playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau] Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85
1988 Billie Rhodes dies
1988 William Camp dies at 74
1989 Maurice Evans actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1991 Etienne Decroux French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1992 Barbara Morrison actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 Hans G Kresse Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70
1992 Ida Oosterbaan Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 Karel Poons father of Paul Deen, dies
1992 Philippe Soupault writer, dies
1992 Salvo Lima mayor (Palermo)/MP (christian-democrat), murdered
1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
1993 June Valli singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
1993 Michael Kanin screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993 Wang Zhen marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1994 Sandra Paretti German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
1996 Charles Bruce Perry professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996 Gyula Kallai Prime Minister of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon writer/teacher, dies at 67

On this day...March 12 Events

0417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 University of Vienna founded
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Luís Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 US Post Office established
1799 Austria declares war on France
1848 2nd republic established in France
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists
1865 Affair near Lone Jack MO
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth
1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal" premieres in Brussel
1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st American League ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of American League
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Winnipeg Maple Leafs in 2 games
1910 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrive in St Petersburg
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit" premieres in New York NY
1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0 :6.1)
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 The British Empire celebrates its 1st British Empire Day
1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 -5ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 1st performance of Arnold Schönberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Streisand win
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in New York NY
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco]
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little" premieres in New York NY
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4 :1 :9)
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1987 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South America indoor record 800 meter (2 :0.35)
1995 World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham UK won by Oksana Gritshuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
1995 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny (Czechoslovakia)
1995 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Chen Lu (China)
1995 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 "Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 13:

1548 Sasbout Vosmeer Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 Johannes Berchmans Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli] Pope (1691-1700)
1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal
1700 James Kent composer
1700 Michel Blavet composer
1712 Isfrid Kayser composer
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90)
1744 David Allan Scottish painter
1746 Maurus Haberhauer composer
1752 Josef Reicha composer
1764 Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34)
1767 Heinrich Domnich composer
1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg Dutch civil servant
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1779 Oliver Shaw composer
1781 Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore 1st lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53)
1818 Albion Parris Howe Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz German poet
1832 Alberto Randegger composer
1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1858 Maximilien Luce French painter
1859 Ivo Bligh cricketer [Lord Darnley] England captain vs Australia 1882-83
1860 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Windisch-Gräz Austria, composer
1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov composer
1872 Oswald Garrison Villard American journalist
1875 Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 Balthazar H Verhagen Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer
1883 Enrico Toselli composer
1884 Emanuel Stickelberger Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 Oskar Loerke German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1884 Sir Hugh S Walpole New Zealand, novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1886 Henri D Gagnebin Swiss organist
1886 John "Home Run" Baker hall of famer (hit 2 homeruns in 1911 world series)
1887 Carlos Isamitt composer
1890 Frank Thieß writer
1890 Michael Taube composer
1892 Alec Rowley composer
1892 Janet Flanner journalist (New Yorker)
1896 Dorothy Aldis writer
1897 Marcel Thiry Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 William Herald Australia, swimmer (Olympics-1920)
1898 Josie Sedgwick Texas, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 Pancho Vladigerov composer
1901 Paul Fix Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 Henry Iliffe Cozens pilot
1907 Albert Hughes Williams teacher/historian
1907 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 Frank Wilcox DeSoto MO, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 Oscar Brink latinist
1908 Helen Sinclair Glatz musician
1908 Paul Stewart New York NY, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 Walter Annenberg Milwaukee WI, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)
1909 Gilbert Inglefield Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 Sammy Kaye Lakewood OH, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 Jose Ardevol composer
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 Ernst Hess composer
1912 Igor Youskevitch dancer
1912 James Friell political cartoonist
1913 Tessie O'Shea Cardiff Wales, actress (Entertainers)
1913 William J Casey headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg composer
1916 (Corinne) Lindy (Claiborne) Boggs (Representative-Democrat-LA, 1973- )
1917 Ina Ray Hutton Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 Maria Vlamynck Flemish author
1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan US government official (health services)
1918 George McAfee NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 Frans van der Elst Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1921 Allan Jaffee comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
1921 Cyril Poole cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
1922 Brun Smith cricketer (New Zealand right-handed batsman of late 1940's)
1922 Jim Rodger sports writer
1925 Anthony Milner composer
1925 Bertha Tickey Dinuba CA, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
1925 Roy Haynes US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1926 Frederick Hemming McClintock criminologist
1926 Raúl Alfonsín Argentine President (1983-89)
1927 Charles Sickman Corsen Dutch Antillean poet
1929 J D Slater writer
1929 Peter Breck Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
1929 Walter Medio race horse trainer
1929 Will Eisma composer
1930 Doug Harvey hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1930 Liz Anderson C & W singer
1931 Marc Dessauvage Flemish architect
1931 Rosalind Elias Lowell MA, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1931 Wolfgang Kohlhaase Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
1933 Frank H Murkowski (Senator-Republican-AK, 1981- )
1933 Mike Stoller composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1935 Don Nute Connellsville PA (Denver University), actor
1936 Clarence Nash animation voice (Donald Duck)
1937 Fofo I F Sunia (Representative-Democrat-American Samoa, 1981- )
1938 Hans-Joachim Hespos composer
1938 Jean-Claude Risset composer
1938 Joseph Bellino footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1938 Patricia W Amicone educator/midwife
1939 Neil Sedaka Brooklyn NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1943 Andre Techine director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous)
1943 Stephen Vincent Benet writer
1947 Lesley Collier British ballet dancer
1947 Tomas Hinojosa jockey
1950 Bernard Julien cricketer (West Indies left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 Danny Kirwan London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 Joe Bugner Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champion 1971)
1950 Robert S Woods Maywood CA, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Deadly Love)
1950 Steve Hill country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 William H Macy Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1951 Fred Berry St Louis MO, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
1952 Wolfgang Hihm composer
1953 Andy Bean Lafayette GA, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1953 Deborah Raffin Los Angeles CA, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
1954 Robin Duke Toronto Canada, comedienne (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1955 Glenne Headly New London CT, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
1955 Olga Rukavishnikova USSR, pentathlete (Olympics-silver-1980)
1955 Patricia J Engfer general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
1956 Dana Delany New York NY, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1958 Debi Nicolle Johnson Torrance CA, playmate (October, 1984)
1958 Rick A Lazio (Representative-Republican-NY)
1959 Dirk Wellham cricketer (century on New South Wales debut & Australian debut)
1959 Ronnie Rogers guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1960 Adam Clayton Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1961 Cor Lems soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht '90)
1962 Liane Tooth Sydney New South Wales Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1963 Mariano Duncan S P de Macoris Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Yankees)
1963 Vance Johnson NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos)
1964 Will Clark New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1966 Akira Nogami wrestler (NJPW)
1966 Tine Scheuer-Larsen Denmark, tennis star
1967 Colleen Rosensteel South Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 Satu Huotari ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
1968 Christopher Collett New York NY, actor (Manhattan Project)
1969 Chris Zorich NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1969 Kevin Kaminski Churchbridge Saskatchewan, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1971 Curtis Conway NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chicago Bears)
1971 Li Chen Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1971 Paul Henderson Australian 100 meter/200 meter (Olympics-96)
1971 Ralf Kleinmann WLAF kicker/punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Robert Samuels cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman vs New Zealand 1996)
1971 Ryan Hayden Indianapolis IN, 400 meter hurdler
1971 Tony Vinson NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons, Lon Monarchs, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 Tracy Wells actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1972 Avrom Smith WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1972 Brian Saxton NFL tight end (New York Giants)
1972 Rickey Brady NFL tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Ryan McCoy WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1972 Shea Olliff Augusta GA, Miss Georgia-America (1996)
1972 Trent Dilfer NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Ann Coale Miss Maryland-USA (1997)
1973 Bobby Jackson NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1973 Dan Wilkinson NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 Edgar Davids Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)
1973 Trezelle Jenkins NFL tackle (Kansas City Chiefs)
1974 André Batista Santos "Vampeta" (Brazilian) soccer player (PSV)
1974 Corinna Broiz Garberville CO, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1974 Thomas Enqvist Stockholm Sweden, tennis star (1991 Wimbledon junior boys)
1975 Landon Wilson St Louis, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)

Deaths which occurred on March 13:

1202 Mieszko III the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1516 Vladislav II Jagiello king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
1558 Jean Fernel French physician/physiologist, dies
1569 Louis Condé French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
1573 Michel de l'Hôpital chancellor of France (1560-68), dies at about 65
1619 Richard Burbage English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1716 Georg Gabriel Schutz composer, dies at 46
1756 Johann Melchior Conradi composer, dies at 81
1817 Matej Sojka composer, dies at 77
1837 Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
1839 Robert Gallenberg composer, dies at 55
1879 Adolf Anderssen German world champion chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 Alexander II Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1890 Henry Wylde composer, dies at 67
1901 Benjamin Harrison 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
1903 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand] Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony American suffragist, dies at 85
1911 Jacob M van Bemmelen Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1915 Sergei J Witte Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1918 Karel Stecker composer, dies at 57
1918 William Courtleigh actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1930 Mary E W Freeman US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
1934 Fritz Cortolezis composer, dies at 56
1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
1941 A Coenradi Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 Bernard Ijzerdraat Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 E Hellendoorn Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 Isaak E Babel Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941 J Eyl Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1945 Herbert Bedford composer, dies at 78
1946 Abraham Bredius Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer, dies at 69
1946 Werner von Blomberg German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
1951 Alfred Hugenberg German Roman Catholic president-director of Krupp/media magnate, dies
1951 James I Wedgwood British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
1955 Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere dies
1955 Yung Deva king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
1957 Lena Ashwell English actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1964 Kitty Genovese stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1965 George Calinescu Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
1967 Frank Worrell West Indian cricketer, dies
1969 Felix Locher actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
1970 Rick Besoyan composer, dies at 45
1971 Piero Coppola composer, dies at 82
1971 Rockwell Kens US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
1973 Stacy Harris actor (Door With No Name, Appointment with Danger), dies at 54
1974 Howard St John actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
1974 Janos Prohaska actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1975 Ivo Andric Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1975 Jean Del Val actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
1975 Ruth Schaumann German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1976 Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
1977 Fanie Lou Hamer freedom fighter, dies
1977 Jan Patocka Czechoslovakian philosopher, dies in prison
1978 David McKinley Williams composer, dies at 91
1978 Ghulam Mustafa Guard cricketer (3 wickets in 2 Tests for India), dies
1980 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer, dies at 61
1982 Albert Weisser composer, dies at 64
1982 Wilfred Hawker Suriname Sergeant-Major, executed
1983 Louison Bobet French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
1983 Paul R Citroen Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
1984 Dick Whitington journalist/cricketer (South Australia & AIF bat), dies
1986 Alvaro Fayad Delgado Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
1987 Bernhard Grzimek West German zoologist, dies at 77
1987 Finn Videro composer, dies at 80
1987 Gerald Moore England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1988 Olive Carey actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
1990 Bruno Bettelhelm Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
1991 Cor Witschge [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
1991 Jimmy McPartland US, jazz cornetist, dies
1992 Clarence Wright singer, dies at 84
1992 Hans Redeker Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
1993 Ralph Smith Fults US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
1994 Danny Barker US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
1994 Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue snooker player
1994 Sandra Paretti romantic novelist, dies at 59
1995 Abdul Ali Mazari Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 John Silverlight journalist, dies at 75
1995 Leo Kaplan lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
1995 Leon Day pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
1995 Lorraine Macleod dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1995 P C J van Lierde Dutch vicar-general of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
1996 Brian Hulls television news cameraman, dies at 48
1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski film director, dies of heart attack at 54
1996 Lucio Fulci filem director, dies at 68
1996 Lucy Faithfull children's campaigner, dies at 85

On this day...March 13 Events

0483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 Cortez lands in México
1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 Académie Française opens
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti" premieres in Brunswick
1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 Cherubini's opera "Medée" premieres in Paris France
1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in New York NY
1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ontario), 7-4
1912 Stanley Cup: Québec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (New Brunswick) in 2 games
1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 1st NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in New York NY
1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
1924 German Republic day
1925 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 450 die in St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)
1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in New York NY
1929 Bradman scores 123 Australia vs England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 Banks reopen
1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4 :9.6)
1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win
1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 New Zealand bowl out West Indies for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in New York NY
1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death
1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running" premieres in New York NY
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in New York NY
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1982 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Sabine Baess & Tassilo Thierbach (German Democratic Republic)
1982 World Ladies Figure Skate Championship in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Capitals score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes & 3 seconds
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ
1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-11-2006, 09:57 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred March 14:

1623 Adam-Nicolas Gascon composer
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1692 Peter Musschenbroek Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)
1726 Josef Antonin Stepan composer
1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg composer
1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin composer
1782 Thomas Hart Benton (Representative), "Old Bullion"
1795 Rubert Lucas Pearsall composer
1800 James Bogardus US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
1803 F G Klopstock writer
1804 Johann Strauss the Elder Viennese violinist/composer (Radetzky March)
1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1815 Josephine Lang composer
1816 Montgomery Dent Corse Alexandria VA, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1820 Victor Emmanuel II King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
1821 Jens Worsaae Denmark, archaeologist
1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1826 William Fisk Sherwin composer
1829 Charles Charlesworth England (dies at 7 of old age)
1831 Leon Leopold Lewandoski composer
1833 John Sappington Marmaduke Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor 1st US woman dentist (1866)
1835 Giovanni V Schiaparelli Italian astronomer (Mars)
1835 Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer
1837 Charles Ammi Cutter US librarian (Expansive classification/originated Cutter system)
1844 King Umberto I of Italy (1878-1900)
1847 Antonio de Castro Alves Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
1854 Paul Ehrlich Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
1854 Thomas Riley Marshall (D) 28th Vice President (1913-21)
1862 Vilhelm FK Bjerknes Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
1864 [John] Casey Jones RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones)
1873 Joannes DJ Aengenent sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
1874 Anton F Philips president-director of Philips
1874 Mary Carr Philadelphia PA, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
1875 Isadore Gilbert Mudge US, librarian/author/bibliographer (Thackeray Dictionary)
1875 Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer
1878 Carel T Scharten Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921)
1880 Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire actor/director (Pink Kate)
1883 Juan Manen composer
1884 Albert Egges van Giffen Dutch archaeologist
1884 Winter Haynes Watts composer
1887 George Creten Belgian sculptor/painter
1887 Lawrence Collingwood composer
1891 John P Strijbos Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa)
1892 Olive Netta Parsons co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
1894 Josef Schelb composer
1895 Frans Ganshof Belgian historian
19-- Imhotep Gary Byrd radio personality (WLIB-NY)
19-- Tamara Tunie Bouquette Philadelphia PA, actress (Jessica-As the World Turns)
19-- Tim Rossovich Palo Alto CA, actor (When the Whistle Blows)
1903 Molla Mustafa Barzani Iran, Kurd leader (KDP)
1905 Raymond Aron French sociologist/political scientist
1906 Ulvi Cemal Erkin composer
1907 Björn-Erik Höijer Swedish writer (Nu dansar Sara)
1908 Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty French philosopher
1908 Nikolay Petrovich Rakov composer
1909 André Pieyre de Mandiargues French writer (Margin)
1911 Pete Piute [Morris Kaufman], New York NY, comedian (Village Barn)
1912 Les Brown Reinerton PA, orchestra leader (& his band of renown)
1913 Witold Rudzinski composer
1914 Fiorenzo Marini Italy, épée (Olympics-gold-1960)
1914 Henry Ralph Carr soldier
1914 Jiri Reinberger composer
1915 Alexander Brott composer
1915 Carlos Surinach Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo)
1915 Kenneth Rowntree painter
1917 Macha Louis Rosenthal critic/poet
1918 Dennis Patrick Philadelphia PA, actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals)
1919 Luther Henderson Jr Kansas City MO, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1919 Max Shulman novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1920 Dorothy Tyler-Odam Great Britain, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1936, 1948)
1920 Hank Ketcham cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
1921 Lis Hartel Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympics-silver-1952, 56)
1922 Colin Fletcher author (Walking Through Time)
1922 Les Baxter US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1923 Diane Arbus photographer/innovator
1925 John Barrington Wain England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1925 John Wain England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1926 François d'Assise Morel composer
1927 Bill Rexford auto racer
1927 Joop F Wolff Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)
1928 Frank Borman Gary IN, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8)/CEO-Eastern Airlines
1929 Thomas Bell Jr race horse trainer
1930 Dieter Schnebel German vicar/composer
1930 Ray Flockton cricketer (prolific New South Wales batsman of 50's)
1931 Bob Goalby golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, New Zealand-1970)
1931 Phil Phillips [Baptiste] rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
1933 Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite] Bermondsey London England, actor (Blame it on Rio, Alfie, Educating Rita)
1933 Quincy Jones Jr Chicago IL, jazz & R&B producer/composer/singer (We Are The World)
1934 Eugene A Cernan Chicago IL, Captain USN/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 17)
1934 Shirley Scott swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 Jo van den Booren composer
1936 Bob Charles Carterton New Zealand, PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open)
1937 Peter van der Merwe cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's)
1938 Johnny Gleeson cricketer (mystery spinner for Australia 1966-72)
1939 Bertrand Blier Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places)
1939 William Benjamin Lenoir Miami FL, astronaut (STS-5)
1940 Eleanor Bron Stanmore Middlesex England, actress (Women in Love, Bedazzled)
1941 Wolfgang Petersen Emden Germany, actor (Shattered, Enemy Mine)
1942 Jerry Jeff Walker Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles)
1942 John Whittaker English real estate developer (Peel Holdings)
1942 Rita Tushingham Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Doctor Zhivago)
1943 Jim Pons Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
1944 Clyde Lee NBAer
1944 Peter Paul Zahl writer
1945 Herman[us J] van Veen Netherlands, cabareter/singer/composer/writer
1945 Michael Martin Murphey Dallas TX, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 Walter Parazaider Chicago IL, rock saxophonist (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1946 Jasper Carrott English comedian (Jane & the Lost City, Detectives)
1946 Steve Kanaly Burbank CA, actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs-Dallas)
1946 Wes Unseld NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets, MVP 1969)
1947 Billy Crystal Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, Saturday Night Live, City Slickers)
1947 Jan [AJ] te Veldhuis Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 Janis Schmitt St Louis MO, playmate (February, 1978)
1947 Jimmy O'Rourke rocker
1947 William Jefferson (Representative-Democrat-LA)
1950 Michael Ford son of President Gerald & Betty Ford
1951 Rick Dees radio disc jock (KIIS Los Angeles)
1952 David Byrne guitarist/vocalist (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House)
1952 J Fred Muggs chimp (Today show)
1953 Tim McKee US, 400 meter medley swimmer (Olympics-silver-1972)
1954 Adrian Zmed Chicago IL, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
1954 David La Croix race horse trainer
1954 Jann Browne country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 Boon Gould rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1956 Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova Russia, cosmonaut
1956 Tessa Sanderson Kingston Jamaica, British javelin thrower (Olympics-gold-84)
1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Olympics-1988)
1959 Patrick Dupond Paris France, dancer (La Bayadere)
1960 George Horvath Sweden, pentathlete (Olympics-1980)
1960 Helen Hopkins Donneybrook Australia, golfer (Australian International 1983)
1961 Gary Dell'Abate Uniondale Long Island New York, producer (Howard Stern Show, Private Parts)
1961 Grigoriy Kornev Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)
1961 Russell Todd actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1962 Kirby Puckett centerfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1963 Bruce Reid cricketer (brilliant left-arm Australia pace bowler 1985-92)
1963 Pedro Duque Madrid Spain, engineer/astronaut (STS 78 alternate, sk-95)
1964 Donald Evans NFL defensive end/tackle (New York Jets)
1964 Richard Migliore jockey
1965 John Stephenson cricketer (England opening bat in one Test vs Australia 1989)
1965 Kevin Brown Mcintyre GA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 Darcy Wakaluk Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
1966 Tertius Bosch cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992)
1967 Edward M Fincke Pittsburgh PA, Captain USAF/astronaut
1967 Melissa Brennan Reeves Eatontown NJ, actress (Jennifer-Days of our Lives)
1967 Vijay Yadav cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia)
1968 Megan Follows actress (Chase, Anne of Green Gables)
1969 Greg Biekert NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Larry Johnson NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, New York Knicks)
1969 Laura Leighton actress (Sydney-Melrose Place, The Other Woman)
1969 Ty[rel] Bennion Seattle WA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 Meredith Salenger actress (Dream a Little Dream, The Kiss)
1970 Thomas McLemore NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Ernie Brown CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Antowain Smith running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Aris Brimanis Cleveland OH, NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers)
1972 Clover Maitland Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-96)
1972 Tom Barndt NFL/WLAF guard (Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1973 Chris Sullivan defensive end (New England Patriots)
1974 Justine Joyce Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer Auckland New Zealand, 3k independent pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1982 Kate Maberly actress (Secret Garden)
1983 Jordan Taylor Hanson Tulsa OK, singer-Hanson (MMMBop)
1989 Oliver Bernsen son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays

Deaths which occurred on March 14:

0840 Eginhard French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1272 Re Enzo Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
1298 Petrus Johannis Olivi South France theologist, dies
1490 Charles I Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
1559 Jacques d'Auchy Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1573 Claude II of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered Admiral Coligny, dies
1590 Philip van Egmont General/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30
1612 Philip Galle Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
1647 Frederik Hendrik count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63
1682 Jacob I van Ruysdael physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53
1757 John Byng English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52
1760 Anton Filtz composer, dies at 26
1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello composer, dies at 58
1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel composer, dies at 63
1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German poet, dies at 78
1811 August Henry Fitzroy English premier (1768-70), dies at 75
1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer composer, dies at 58
1883 Karl Marx German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1899 Emile Erckmann French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
1903 Johannes H Weissenbruch Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
1925 Walter Camp father of American football, dies at 65
1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
1944 Pavel Grigor'yevich composer, dies at 66
1953 Klement Gottwald premier/President of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1954 Ludomir Michal Rogowski composer, dies at 72
1958 Eugeen Van de Velde Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78
1968 Erwin Panofsky German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
1969 Ben Shahn US painter, dies at 70
1973 Murat B "Chic" Young US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
1975 Susan Hayward actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
1976 Alberta Franklin silent screen actress, dies at 79
1976 Busby Berkeley US choreographer/director (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1976 Martha Saalfeldt writer, dies
1981 Ken Barrington cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1981 René Clair French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82?
1982 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov composer, dies at 59
1983 Maurice Ronet actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1984 Aurelio Peccei Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75
1986 Benno Ammann composer, dies at 81
1986 Edith Atwater Chicago IL, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1986 Jozef Kresanek composer, dies at 73
1986 Marlin Perkins TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author) dies after surgery at 62
1989 Zita Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
1991 Howard Ashman song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 Jef Houthuys Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1991 Jerome "Doc" Pomus lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1991 Robert Maroff dies at 57
1992 C V Wood Jr theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
1992 Jean Poiret French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65
1992 Ralph James actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
1992 Steven Brian Pennell 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years, at 34
1994 Abdelkader Alloula Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage writer, dies at 57
1995 Gerard Thomas Victory composer, dies at 73
1995 Johan W "Jo" van Marle CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
1995 William A Fowler US nuclear/astro-physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1996 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
1996 Nico Kiasashvii professor of English Literature, dies at 69
1996 Vic Marshall chemist, dies at 74
1997 Fred Zinnemann (director) dies of heart attack at 89
1997 John Curtis Jr president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58

On this day...EVENTS

1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands
1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)
1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid
1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1845 -5.3ºF (-20.7ºC) in Groningen
1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris France
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres
1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London
1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")
1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 Stanley Cup: Montréal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 US currency goes on gold standard
1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian FL
1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms
1908 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland
1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923 President Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York NY)
1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 Xavier Cugat & his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party
1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior MN (CBS) begins
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary)
1980 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1980 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic)
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (France)
1991 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev (USSR)
1991 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1991 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 New York Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km (6 :6.57)
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympics gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-11-2006, 10:01 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 15:

0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1493 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency marshal of France
1666 Georg Baehr German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)
1678 Dominique Marie Valet French Roman Catholic/old-catholic bishop
1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1733 Johann Zoffany German painter, baptized
1750 Caroline Herschel astronomer/discoverer
1754 Silvestro Palma composer
1767 Andrew Jackson Waxhaw SC, General/(D) 7th President (1829-37)
1779 William Lamb (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41)
1790 Nicola Vaccai composer
1801 Coenraad J van Houten Dutch cocoa manufacturer
1808 Gaetano Gaspari composer
1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1st President of Liberia
1810 Aernout Drost Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
1811 Robert Allen Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1824 Branko Radicevic Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1830 Paul von Heyse Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Eduard Strauss Austria, composer (318 Dance)
1836 Henrique Alves de Mesquita composer
1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher ethnologist/author/Indian music (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1844 Bransby Cooper cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
1851 Jozef Surzynski composer
1852 Lady Augusta Gregory Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1855 Lútzen Wagenaar Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1864 Johan Halvorsen composer
1864 Leslie Stuart composer
1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
1867 Will Rossiter composer
1871 Betsy van den Arend Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
1873 David Vaughan Thomas composer
1873 Lee Shubert producer (theatres in New York & Los Angeles named after him)
1874 Harold L Ickes social activist, New Deal politician
1878 Hanson Carter cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie wicketkeeper of early 20th century)
1879 Gerrit J Heering Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
1884 Rudolf Piskacek composer
1894 Slava Vorlova composer
19-- Robert Milli actor (All My Children)
19-- Sergio Vargas Dominican Republic, Spanish singer (Aquiestá El Merengue)
1900 Gilberto Freye Brazilian sociologist/writer
1901 Colin McPhee Montréal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 J Pat O'Malley Burnley England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1901 Theo Uden Marsman Dutch orchestra leader
1902 Kitty Masters actress
1902 Zarah [Stina Hedberg] Leander Karlstad Vämanland Sweden, singer/actress (Gabriela)
1904 George Brent Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
1905 Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 Joe E Ross comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1907 Jimmy McPartland jazz trumpeter/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 Paul Maxey Wheaton IL, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau children book writer (Skating Race)
1912 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald fighter pilot
1912 Louis Paul Boon Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
1912 Sam [Lightnin'] Hopkins Centerville TX, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1913 Lex Goudsmit Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1913 MacDonald Carey Sioux City IA, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1915 David Schoenbrun CBS broadcast bureau head (Washington DC, Paris France)
1915 Richard Ward Glenside PA, actor (Beacon Hill)
1916 Geert Lubberhuizen publisher (Busy Bee)
1916 Harry James Albany GA, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1918 Janet Leach potter
1918 Richard Ellmann US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
1919 John Gregson Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
1919 Lawrence Tierney Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
1920 Ranganandhan Francis India, field hockey (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1922 Louis Boon writer
1923 George Vogel race horse trainer
1923 Laurence A Tisch New York NY, CEO (Loews Corp)
1924 Juij Bondarew writer
1924 Lockrem Johnson composer
1926 Benjamin Burwell Johnson composer
1926 Norm Van Brocklin NFL QB/coach (Los Angeles Rams), hall of famer
1926 Tim Valentine (Representative-Democrat-NC, 1983- )
1927 Carl Smith Maynardville TN, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect
1928 Nicolas Flagello composer
1929 Tiezo Matsumura composer
1932 Alan Lavern Bean Wheeler TX, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
1932 David Alliance Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1933 Cecil Perceval Taylor composer/jazz pianist (University of Wisconsin)
1933 Ronald Roseman composer
1933 Roy Clark country singer (Hee Haw)
1934 Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar composer/songwriter
1934 Wolfgang Hufschmidt composer
1935 Jimmy Lee Swaggart evangelist
1935 Judd Hirsch Bronx NY, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1936 Donald K Sundquist (Representative-Republican-TN, 1983- )
1938 Dick Higgins composer
1939 Robert Nye writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
1940 Phil Lesh [Chapman] Berkeley CA, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1941 Dick Top Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
1941 Mike Love Los Angeles CA, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, Surfin' USA)
1942 Hughie Flint London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
1943 Brenda Scott Cincinnati OH, actress (Midge-Road West)
1943 David Cronenberg Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
1944 Chi Cheng Taiwan, sprinter/80 meter hurdler (Olympics-Bronze-68)
1944 David Costell Pittsburgh PA, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1944 Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
1944 Ralph MacDonald rock percussionist (Graceland)
1944 Sly Stone Dallas TX, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 Jörgen Sundelin Sweden, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1968)
1945 Mark J Green Brooklyn NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
1945 Tracy Smith runner
1946 Bobby Bond baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1946 David Wall English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 Howard Scott San Pedro CA, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
1947 David Colley cricketer (New South Wales quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya Russian cosmonaut
1947 Ry[land] Cooder Los Angeles CA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 Stomu Yamash'ta composer
1947 Tomas Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympics-silver-1968)
1949 John Duttine actor (Day of the Triffids)
1953 Colin Croft cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
1953 Judi Spiers TV presenter
1954 Craig Wasson Eugene OR, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
1955 Dee Snider Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1955 Marcia McCabe Bryn Mawr PA, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
1955 Mohsin Khan cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
1956 Clay Matthews NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1957 Park Overall Nashville TN, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
1958 Laura Carrington actress (Simone Hardy-General Hospital, Louisa-Alphabet City)
1959 Eliot Teltscher California, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1959 Harold Baines Easton MD, outfielder (Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers)
1960 Donna Smith Portland OR, playmate (March, 1985)
1961 Craig Ludwig Rhinelander, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 Fabio [Lanzoni] Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1961 John Melendez jockey
1961 Terry Cummings NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers)
1962 Igor Aleinikov film Maker
1962 Jimmy Baio Brooklyn NY, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
1962 Steve Coy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 Terrence Trent D'Arby New York NY, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
1963 Bret Michaels Harrisburg PA, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1963 Don Simington jockey
1963 Frans Koenn Dutch rock bassist (Loïs Lane-Precious)
1963 Jimmy Baio Brooklyn NY, actor (Billy Tate-Soap)
1964 Alison Johnson Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
1964 Rockwell [Kennedy Gordy] Detroit MI, rock vocalist (Somebody's Watching Me)
1964 Ron Hall NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1965 Marianne Morris Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
1966 Chris Bruno actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
1966 Karen Weiss St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
1967 Kirk Scrafford NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1968 John Tardy US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 Rob Anderson Kamloops British Columbia, Canadian Tour golfer (British Columbia Amateur-1990, 92)
1968 Sabrina Salerno Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
1969 Louis Riddick NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Chris Dalman NFL guard/center (San Francisco 49ers)
1970 Diego Nargiso Naples Italy, tennis pro
1970 Eric Castle NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Paul Kruse Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1971 Patrick Reidy Melbourne Victoria Australia, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1971 Reyna Royo Miss Panamá-Universe (1996)
1971 Robbie Pratt jockey
1972 Casey Cristin Mizell Miss South Carolina-USA (1997)
1972 David Rhodes WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 Filip Dewulf Belgium, tennis star
1972 Oliver Gibson NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Steve Danielson Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1973 Franca Fehlauer Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian International Jr champion 1991)
1974 Imad Baba Humble TX, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 Cornell Brown linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1976 Laurent Gras hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1980 Deidra Graham Salt Lake City UT, gymnast (alternate-Olympics-96)
1986 Tyler Noyes actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
1989 Caitlin Wachs actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)

Deaths which occurred on March 15:

0044 -BC- Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey
0493 Odiaker German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
0752 Zachary Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
0963 Romanus II Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 Mieszko II King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1673 Salvatore Rosa Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
1723 Johann C Günther writer, dies at 27
1731 Adolf H van Rechteren Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1842 Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1880 Jan K J de Jonge Dutch historian, dies at 51
1881 Emory Upton US Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1883 Karol Studzinski composer, dies at 55
1905 Arnold Kerdijk Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver Norwegian author (Paa St Jørgen), dies at 58
1906 Alfred Gilpin Jones Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer, dies at 82
1918 Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger composer, dies at 24
1918 Lili Boulanger composer, dies at 24
1929 Pine-Top Smith jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1930 Antonio Beltramelli writer, dies at 51
1938 Edmund Tylecote cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
1940 Alfred Marr cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies
1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky Austrian/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
1944 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI), dies at 86
1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41
1954 Arthur Fickenscher composer, dies at 82
1962 Sam Wren actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
1964 Paul Cavanagh actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
1966 Abe Saperstein founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1966 Heinrich Lemacher composer, dies at 74
1969 Miles Malleson actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80
1970 Josef Martin Bauer writer, dies at 68
1970 Tarjei Vesaas Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
1971 Jean-Pierre Monseré Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
1973 Carl Benton Reid actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 Antonino Rocca professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 Aristotle S Onassis Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 Kamal Joemblat Lebanese politician, murdered
1983 José Luis Sert Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
1984 Tommy Cooper comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1987 Sterling W Cole (Representative-Republican-NY), dies at 82
1988 Dmitri F Polyakov Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed
1990 Tom Harmon NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies in Los Angeles at 70
1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1991 Eileen Sedgwick silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
1992 Helen Deutsch screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 Jack Washburn actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1992 Vanessa Lee actress (Split), dies at 71
1993 Anthony Bowles music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1993 Dennis Gregory actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1993 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa President of Panamá (1955-56), dies
1994 Mae Zetterling Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1995 Carlos Menem Jr son of Argentine President, dies at 26
1996 Helen Chadwick artist, dies at 42
1996 Olga Rudge violinist, dies at 100
1996 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
1997 Gail Davis ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72

On this day...March 15 Events

0493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
0752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 General François de Guise enters Paris France
1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827 University of Toronto is chartered
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia vs England at MCG
1885 1st performance of César Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
1889 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th
1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 1st Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months
1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate
1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)
1922 1st southern radio station begins radio transmissions (WSB-AM, Atlanta GA)
1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington NY
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 US Information Service opens
1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs England at Kingston
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
1940 Göring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going my Way", Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WWII veteran) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs Western Australia
1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" premieres at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
1952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La Réunion, Indian Ocean
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champion
1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 points
1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 minutes 42.5 seconds
1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 points in an NBA season
1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1965 TGIFriday's 1st restaurant opens in New York NY
1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Streisand
1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75")
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 Uprising in South Yemen
1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (37.99 seconds)
1976 Failed coup in Nigeria
1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
1977 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1978 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1979 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (4 years after his death)
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¼'
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from American League certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-11-2006, 10:05 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 16:

1585 Gerbrant A Bredero Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 Michael Franck composer
1634 Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette novelist
1651 Zaccaria Tevo composer
1663 Nicholas Siret composer
1729 Georg W "Franz" Panzer German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 George Clymer US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer
1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel Hanover, Germany, 1st modern woman astronomer
1751 James Madison Port Conway VA, (D-R), 4th US President (1809-17)
1757 Bengt Lidner Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1774 Matthew Flinders English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 Georg Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1802 George Archibald McCall Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1806 Norbert Rillieux inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 Henry Dwight Terry Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer
1821 Ernest Feydeau French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 John Pope Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 Rosa Bonheur French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 William Henry Monk composer
1832 Charles Camp Doolittle Brevet Major General (Union volunteer)
1836 Andrew S Hallidie inventor (cable car)
1839 René François Armand Sully Prudhomme France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1849 James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1849 Reverend James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte French/English prince
1868 Maxim Gorki USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum)
1873 Hippoliet Daeye Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 Charles Halton Washington DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-Nazi
1878 Henry B Walthall Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
1884 Harrison Ford Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Just Married, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear , Rubber Tires)
1885 Giacomo Benvenuti composer
1885 Sydney Chaplin South Africa, actor (Limelight)
1892 César Vallejo Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1893 Isobel Elsom actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 Conrad Nagel Keokuk IA, actor (Celebrity Time)
1901 Walter E Schäfer German playwright
1902 Lucie Rie potter
1903 Mike Mansfield (Senator-Democrat-MT) majority whip
1903 Morgan Conway actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 Nicolai Lopatnikoff Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 Clive Morton London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1906 Francisco Ayala writer
1906 Henny Youngman London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 Aladar Gerevich Hungary, sabres (Olympics-gold-1948)
1910 Andrew Miller-Jones British TV pioneer
1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 Martijn Lijnema boer/resistance fighter (WWII)
1910 Norman Wooland Düsseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1912 Patricia Nixon [Thelma Catherine] Ely NV, 1st lady (1969-74)
1916 Lloyd McBride union president (United Steelworkers)
1918 Aldo E van Eyck Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 Howard Boatwright composer
1919 Erno Kiraly composer
1920 John Addison Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Academy Award)
1920 Leo McKern Sydney Australia, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 Percy Mansell cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for South Africa)
1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen railway writer
1922 Harding Lemay North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 George Bean cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for England vs Australia)
1925 Cornell Borchers [Cornelia Bruch] Heydekrug Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1926 Jerry Lewis [Joseph Levitch] Newark NJ, entertainer/fund raiser (MDA), especially loved in France
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan US ambassador to UN/(Senator-Democrat-NY, 1977-2001)
1927 Karlheinz Böhm Darmstadt Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 Olga San Juan New York NY, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1927 Vladimir M Komarov Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1928 Christa Ludwig Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 Ramon Barce composer
1929 Edwin London composer
1930 Minoru Miky composer
1931 Betty Johnson Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 Don Richard Carpenter novelist
1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham Creston IA, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg justice (US Supreme Court)
1936 Thelma Hopkins England, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1956)
1937 Constanca Capdeville composer
1937 David Del Tredici Cloverdale CA, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1940 Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 Jan P Pronk Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 Jan Schaefer Dutch Assistant Secretary of State (PvdA)
1942 Chuck Woolery Kentucky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1942 Jerry Jeff Walker composer (Mr BoJangles)
1945 Börries von Münchhausen writer, dies
1946 Erik Estrada New York NY, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 Michael Bruce rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey welfare & tenement rights for urban women
1949 Elliott Murphy US singer/songwriter
1949 Victor Garber Montréal Québec Canada, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1951 Kate Nelligan London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 Ray Benson Philadelphia PA, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 Ritchie Teeter rocker
1954 Dav Whatmore cricketer (Colombo Australia bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 Hollis Stacy Savannah GA, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 Jimmy Nail singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 Nancy Wilson San Francisco CA, rocker (Heart-These Dreams, Never, What about Love)
1955 Isabelle Huppert Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1956 Ozzie Newsome NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1957 Pearl Moore WBL guard (New York Stars)
1959 Michael J Bloomfield Flint MI, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 Stan Thorn Kenosha WI, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1961 Mel Gray NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 Marcel Brands soccer player (RKC)
1963 Phung Vuong Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 Cindy Brown US, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1988)
1966 Brad Bergen Prince Albert Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 Catarina Pollini WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1966 David Nascimento soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1966 Rodney Peete NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Dan Owens NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 John Mangum NFL safety (Chicago Bears)
1968 Jason van Blerk soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Ottis Gibson cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, West Indies 1995)
1969 Pat Harlow NFL tackle (New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 Steve Israel NFL cornerback (San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 Kelli James Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 Brett Carolan NFL tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
1971 Eric Ravotti NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 Bert Zuurman soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 Heath Streak cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 Lamont Burns guard (New York Jets)
1976 Michelle Rae Collie Miss Bahamas-Universe (1996)
1991 Wolfgang Van Halen son of Eddie Van Halen & Valerie Bertinelli.

Deaths which occurred on March 16:

0037 Tiberius Claudius Nero emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77
1072 Adalbert archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
1536 Ibrahim Pasha grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1629 Emilia of Nassau daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
1736 Giovanni B Pergolesi Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26
1738 Georg Baehr German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright, dies at 75
1806 Giuseppe Colla composer, dies at 74
1819 Nicolas Sejan composer, dies at 73
1838 Nathaniel Bowditch astronomer & navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 Félix Savart French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1867 Benjamin Hanby composer, dies at 33
1878 William Banting English undertaker, dies
1881 Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
1882 Charles R Darwin English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73
1887 Emanuel Kania composer, dies at 59
1898 Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
1909 George Thorndike Angell lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
1910 Eduard FW Pflüger German physiologist, dies at 80
1914 Gaston Calmette editor (Le Figaro), killed by Madame Caillaux at 55
1914 Sir John Murray piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
1919 Sigurd von Koch composer, dies at 39
1930 Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1933 Alfred Her Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1935 John J R Macleod Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1937 J Austen Chamberlain English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1938 Egon Friedell writer, dies
1940 Selma O Lagerlöf Swedish author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81
1941 John Murray Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
1946 Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1955 Mayhew Lake composer, dies at 75
1956 Joseph John Richards composer, dies at 77
1957 Mosa Pijade Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1958 Leon J Cadore pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
1959 John Sailling last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1962 John Owen Jones composer, dies at 85
1964 Nicholas Joy actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
1967 James Friskin composer, dies at 80
1968 Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf Swedish poet (Nun Serviam), dies at 60
1968 June Collyer actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composer, dies at 72
1970 Arthur Adamov Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1970 Tammi Terrell singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough, You're All I Need), dies from brain tumor at 23
1971 Bebe Daniels actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70
1971 Chuck Fleetwood-Smith cricketer (Victoria & Australia), dies
1971 Thomas E Dewey US Presidential candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1972 Harold "Pie" Traynor hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 72
1973 Carl Benton Reid actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
1973 M Revis [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
1975 T-Bone Walker blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
1978 Aldo Moro 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1979 Jean Monnet French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90
1983 Arthur Godfrey TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
1985 B V A Röling Dutch lawyer (WWII Tokyo trials), dies at 78
1985 Roger Huntington Sessions US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
1987 Scott McKay actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
1988 Dorothy Adams Foulger actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
1990 Ernst Bacon composer, dies at 91
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash
1991 Jan H van Roijen Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1991 Wim van den Brink Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
1992 Renzhong Weangn China politician (1934-45), dies
1993 Chishu Ryu Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993 Djilalli Lyabès Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
1993 Don Randolph actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
1993 Giovanni Testori Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
1993 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1995 Albert Maurice Hackett playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995 Clan Fraser of Lovat soldier/Landowner, dies at 83
1995 Lord Lovat [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
1995 Sydney Simone band leader, dies at 80
1996 Joseph Lee Pope singer, dies at 62
1996 Olive Netta Parsons co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104
1996 Peter Clemoes Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76

On this day...March 16 Events[/b]

1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1345 Holy spirit glides above fire; "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth MA
1641 General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 English Long Parliament disbands
1690 French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point NY)
1802 US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1822 Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1827 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York NY), begins publishing
1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 Texas approves a constitution
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1862 Battle at Pound Gap KY: Confederates separate battles
1865 Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1869 Hiram R Revels makes the 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York)
1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs England
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris France
1896 Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 American League meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an American League teams will be in Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland & Buffalo
1900 Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1907 1st first-class cricket game between New South Wales & Western Australia
1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ontario) 13-4
1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington DC
1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella" premieres in London
1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung" premieres in Hamburg
1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meter)
1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 Noël Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London
1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington DC
1943 Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sinks
1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Réunion (world record)
1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 American League rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1
1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 New English Bible published
1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty
1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
1986 Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 7 members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 New Jersey Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery
1995 World best 7th wicket stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
1997 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 New Jersey Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1997 Toshiba Senior Golf Classic
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 17:

1473 James IV king of Scotland (1488-1513)
1578 Francesco Albana Italian painter (Mary's Ascension)
1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1664 Georg Osterreich composer
1675 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss composer
1685 Jean-Marc Nattier French portrait painter
1746 Jan David Holland composer
1777 Roger Brooke Taney Calvert MD, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision)
1780 Thomas Chalmers 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
1781 Dominique J de Eerens Governor-General of Netherland Indies
1787 George Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 Edmund Kean London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1804 James Bridger scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellence
1820 Patrick Edward Connor Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Rodolphe Bresdin French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1826 Oskar Peschel German journalist/geography (Völkerkunder)
1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne the "Stonewall" of the West (Major General-Confederate Army)
1832 Moncure Daniel Conway US, clergyman/author/abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 Walter Quintin Gresham Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 Gottlieb Daimler Germany, engineer/inventor/auto pioneer-designed 1st motorcycle
1839 Josef Rheinberger Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1846 Kate Greenaway England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
1848 Horace Wadham Nicholl composer
1872 Billy Quaife cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
1873 Chard Somerset 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
1873 Margaret Bondfield British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1874 Kincsem horse that never lost a race
1874 Stephen Samuel Wise US, president of Zionist Organization of America
1876 Frederic Ayers composer
1877 Albert P Hahn Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1880 Guillermo Uribe Holguin composer
1881 Kristian Elster Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1887 Ben Sajet Dutch physician/politician
1888 Frank Buck actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
1890 Harold Morris composer
1892 Sayed Darwish composer
1894 Paul Green US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
1895 Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz] Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (3 Stooges, Bank Dick)
1899 Gloria Swanson Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees)
1900 Alfred Newman New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1901 Eisaku Sato premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1902 Bobby Jones Jr Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
1906 Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim] Berlin, actress (Gloria, Gold)
1906 Michael O'Shea Hartford CT, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
1906 Tamara Geva dancer
1907 Jan M J van Houtte premier Belgium (1952-54)
1908 Boris N Poveloi [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer
1908 Radie Britain composer
1909 Patrick Reilly British diplomat
1909 Greta Lillian Griffithies Bob Maar's Mother born Aurora,Ont.
1910 Bayard Rustin civil rights leader
1911 Raffaele d' Alessandro composer
1914 Sammy Baugh Temple TX, NFL hall of famer QB (Washington Redskins)
1915 Hans Namuth German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915 William Roycroft Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympics-bronze-1976)
1917 Arthur Basil Cotle medievalist
1917 Brian Boydell composer
1918 D Arendo [Arend Honhoff] Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1918 Mercedes McCambridge Joliet IL, actress (Exorcist, All the King's Men)
1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1919 Hank Sauer baseball player (National League MVP 1952)
1919 Nat "King" Cole Montgomery AL, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
1920 John La Montaine Oak Park IL, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1921 Mick Harvey cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
1922 Megan Bull British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1923 Margaret Bondfield 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
1924 Stephen Dodgson composer
1925 G M Hughes British zoologist
1925 Jerome Lejeune physiologist
1926 Siegfried Lenz German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1927 Kenneth S Goldstein folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927 Maurice Ingvar Karkoff composer
1927 Nancy Sheehan writer
1927 Patrick Allen Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
1927 Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze composer
1928 Edino Krieger composer
1930 James Benson Irwin Pittsburgh PA, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1931 Eunice Gayson London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1932 Dick Curless singer/songwriter
1934 Erhard Grosskopf composer
1934 Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar
1935 Adam Wade Pittsburgh PA, actor/singer (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1935 H Wollschläger writer
1935 Renee Taylor actress/comedian (Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
1936 Ladislaw Kupkovic composer
1936 Thomas K Mattingly II Chicago IL, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1937 Galina Samsova ballerina
1938 Rudolf Nureyev Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1939 Shahid Mahmoud cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pakistan Test)
1940 Vito Picone rocker (Elegants)
1941 Clarence Collins US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1941 Edward Harper composer
1941 Gene Pitney Hartford CT, rock singer (Town without Pity)
1942 John Wayne Gacy Jr Chicago IL, serial killer (32 boys)
1942 Paul Kantner rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit)
1942 Sidney K Barthelmy US politician(?)
1943 Don Mitchell Houston TX, actor (Mark-Ironside)
1944 Cito Gaston MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1944 Danny DeVito Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
1944 John Sebastian New York NY, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1944 Pat McCauley N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 Patti Boyd Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1945 Paco Gonzalez race horse trainer
1946 Harold Brown Long Beach CA, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1946 Michael Peter Finnissey composer
1947 Ian Gomm rock guitarist
1948 Fran Byrne rocker
1948 Pat Lloyd rocker
1948 Robert Braunwart who added thousands of dates to this database
1948 William [Ford] Gibson Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1949 Patrick Duffy Townsend MT, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1951 Kurt Russell Springfeild MA, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
1951 Scott Gorham Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns, Jailbreak)
1954 Lesley-Anne Down London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 Rena Jones rock vocalist
1954 Wally Stocker London England, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 Bill Beyers actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1955 Cynthia McKinney (Representative-Democrat-GA)
1955 Gary Sinise actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
1955 Paul Overstreet Van Cleave MS, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1956 Will Rigby rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1957 Robin Cousins Bristol England, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1980)
1959 Brian Douglas Jones Auckland New Zealand, tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 Danny Ainge NBA coach (Phoenix Suns)
1959 Mike Lindup British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 Terry Hall (Specials Fun Boy 3)
1960 Lee Ann Michelle Surrey England, playmate (February 1979)
1960 Vicki Lewis Cincinnati OH, actress (Beth-Newsradio)
1961 Casey Siemaszko Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
1962 Clare Grogan rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 Janet Patricia Gardner Juneau AK, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 Patrick Thomas Burke Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1962 Roxy Dora Petrucci Rochester MN, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 Rebeca Arthur actress (Mary Anne-Perfect Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1963 Roger Harper cricketer (Guyana & West Indies off-spinner Extraordinary field)
1964 Alex Shoumidoub NHL goaltender (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1964 Don Griffin NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1964 Rob Lowe Charlottesville VA, actor (St Elmo's Fire, West Wing, Wayne's World, Class)
1964 Ron Warren Jr jockey (Bay Meadows)
1965 Caitlin Bilodeaux Boston MA, US fencer (Olympics-92)
1965 John Smiley Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1966 Andrew Hudson cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs West Indies 1992)
1967 Chris Luongo Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (New York Islanders)
1967 Kim Cathrein Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester International-24th)
1967 Melissa Allen Portland OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994)
1967 Van Conner rocker (Screaming Trees)
1968 Judy Mosley McAfee WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1968 Tyrone Hill NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 Andrew McMarlin Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 Domenic "Filane" Figliomeni Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1969 Gilbert Schaller Bruck Austria, tennis star
1970 Shannan Mitchem Decatur GA, female infielder (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1971 Katrina Colleton WNBA guard/forward (Los Angeles Sparks)
1971 Tommy Thigpen WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Mia Hamm Selma AL, soccer forward (Olympics-96, US Women's World Cup-99)
1973 Amelia Weatherly actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 Jerome Woods safety (Kansas City Chiefs)
1974 Eric Lane running back (New York Giants)
1974 John Hall kicker (New York Jets)
1976 Stephen Gately Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1977 Hadeel Abol-Naga Miss Egypt-Universe (1996)
1977 Iveta Jankularova Miss Slovak Republic-Universe (1996)

Deaths which occurred on March 17:

0180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58
0461 St Patrick patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
0659 Gertrudis van Nijvel saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32
1040 Harold British King (1035-40), dies
1516 Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence, dies at 37
1565 Alexander Alesius [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64
1588 Petrus Dathenus Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
1605 Pieter Bast [Bastius], Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34
1640 Philip Massinger dramatist, dies
1649 Gerardus Johannis Vossius [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
1653 Johan van Galen Admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48
1680 François Duc de La Rochefoucauld writer, dies
1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1764 George Parker English astronomer, dies
1796 Pieter Paulus lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
1801 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer, dies at 64
1803 Candido Jose Ruano composer, dies at 42
1806 David Dale industrialist & philanthropist, dies
1846 Friedrich W Bessel German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
1849 Willem II Frederik GL King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
1853 Christian Doppler physicist, dies
1855 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle composer, dies at 65
1857 Adolph Trube composer, dies at 42
1861 Petter Conrad Boman composer, dies at 56
1862 Fromental Halevy [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
1863 John Pelham US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
1864 Alexandre Calamo Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte Fren prince/member National Convention, dies at 68
1898 Blanche Kelso Bruce (Senator-MS, 1875-1881), dies in Washington DC at 57
1901 Franz Melde German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
1902 George William Warren composer, dies at 73
1906 Carlos Calvo Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82
1910 Joaquin Valverde composer, dies at 64
1915 Walter Crane English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
1927 James Scott Skinner composer, dies at 83
1933 Ferdinand Von Alten actor (Champagne), dies at 48
1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel Russian writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
1941 Joachim Schepke German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
1949 Felix Bressart actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
1953 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta composer, dies at 73
1954 Victor Rousseau Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
1956 Fred Allen comedian (Colgate Comedy Hour, Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61
1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro composer, dies on 48th birthday
1961 Suzanna Salter 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1962 Frank Orth actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82
1963 William Henry Squire composer, dies at 91
1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102
1965 Quentin Reynolds newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62
1966 Walter Lang composer, dies at 69
1967 Frank Wisbar director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
1967 Richard Reeves actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
1970 Fernand Crommelynck Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
1971 Ernst Bachmeister writer, dies
1972 Manny Martindale cricketer (10 Tests for West Indies, 34 wickets), dies
1973 Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1974 Carroll Nye actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 Louis I Kahn Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69
1978 George Dickinson cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for New Zealand), dies
1979 Merv Inverarity cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
1980 Rudolf G Escher Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68
1982 Hans ter Laag Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Jan Kuiper Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1982 Joop Willemsen Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Koos Koster Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1985 Dattu Phadkar cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies
1986 Hal Buckley actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1988 Reg Sinfield cricketer (one Test for England vs Australia 1938), dies
1989 Merritt Butrick actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre] actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet, Curse of the Pink Panther), commits suicide in Lausanne Switzerland at 57
1990 Marí Mejía Guatemalian feminist, murdered
1990 Rick Grech rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1992 Charles Rea British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
1992 George Lovi US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
1992 Grace Stafford Lantz cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1992 Jack Arnold actor/director (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
1993 Helen Hayes actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
1993 Laadi Flici Algerian MP, murdered
1993 Skip Young actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
1994 Arthur C Jacobs poet, dies at 57
1994 Harold Myers film journalist, dies at 81
1994 Mai Zetterling actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at 68
1994 Walter Janka German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79
1995 Ahmad Khomeini youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1995 Donald Baverstock television Producer, dies at 71
1995 Marcus Jan Adriani biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
1995 Rick Aviles US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
1995 Ronnie Kray English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
1995 Sunnyland Smart jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
1996 Bela Szigeti theoretical physicist, dies at 83
1996 Kenneth Jameson art educationalist, dies at 83
1996 Rene Clement film director, dies at 83
1996 Thomas Enders diplomat, dies at 64
1997 Gail Davis actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71

On this day...March 17 Events

0432 St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
0455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
1526 French king François I freed from Spain
1537 French troops invade Flanders
1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1672 England declares war on Netherlands
1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
1836 Texas abolishes slavery
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky
1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1847 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester MA
1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1870 Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay CA
1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 Stanley Cup: Montréal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1902 Stanley Cup: Montréal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in New York
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"
1906 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montréal outscores Ottawa 12-10
1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)
1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
1918 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1918 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day & minimum wages
1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in New York NY
1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in New York NY
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines IA call sign is given to KWCR
1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montréal
1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US & 6 European nations
1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.76)
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in New York NY
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1996 Montréal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena
1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympics Gold medal
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 18:

1380 Liduina van Schiedam Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint
1483 Raphael painter (Sistine Madonna)
1548 Cornelis Ketel Dutch portrait painter/poet
1556 François-Hercule de Valois French duke of Anjou/Brabant
1578 Adam Elsheimer German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1609 Frederick III king of Denmark & Norway (1648-70), absolutist
1644 Gottfried Wegner composer
1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer
1690 Christian Goldbach German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1734 Joseph Schmitt composer
1756 Johann Christoph Vogel composer
1765 David H Chassé Dutch baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1781 Gustave Vogt composer
1782 John Caldwell Calhoun Abbeville SC, Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1829-37)
1809 Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido], Cuban poet
1813 Friedrich Hebbel writer
1829 William Robertson Boggs Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges French historian/sociologist
1837 [Stephen] Grover Cleveland Caldwell NJ, 22nd & 24th President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
1838 Jan B Stobbaerts Flemish painter
1838 Sir Randal Cremer Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1839 Francis Fessenden Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1842 Stéphane Mallarmé French poet (L'Après-midi d'un faune)
1843 Jules Vandenpeereboom premier of Belgium (1899)
1844 Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov Tikhvin Russia, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade)
1848 Nathaniel Herreshoff America Cup yacht designer
1858 Rudolph C K Diesel German engineer (Diesel motor)
1864 Karl M Lybeck Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer
1866 John Loudon Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
1867 Michael G de Boer historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
1869 [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40)
1872 Frank Hoyt Losey composer
1877 Clem Hill cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1880 Christopher K H de Nerée tot Babberich cartoonist
1881 Oliver Seibert hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
1881 Paul Le Flem composer
1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero composer
1886 Edward Everett Horton Brooklyn NY, actor/narrator (Bullwinkle Show)
1886 Kurt Koffka Germany, Gestalt psychologist
1886 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1888 Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor
1889 F Rijkens oldest living person in Netherlands
1890 Gerardus van der Leeuw Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin poet/reporter (WWII)
1893 Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
1897 Betty Compson actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)
1898 Otto Jochum composer
1899 Lavrenti Beria chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
19-- Geoffrey Owens actor (Elvin-Cosby Show)
19-- Jeff LaBar rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
19-- Margueritte Ray actress (To Sleep With Anger)
1901 Piotr Perkowski composer
1905 John Kirkpatrick New York NY, pianist (Concord Sonata)
1905 Mollie Parnis New York NY, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
1905 Robert Donat Withington Manchester England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
1906 Roy L Johnson US Admiral (WWII-Pacific Ocean)
1907 Eleanor L "Betty" Compton US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
1908 Louis Gaste songwriter
1910 Chiang Ching-huo son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek
1911 Smiley Burnette Summum IL, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1913 Margaret Hesse princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 Rene Clement Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author
1914 Cesar Guerra Peixe composer
1914 James Pack naval officer museum curator
1915 Richard Thomas Condon author
1916 Louis Toebosch composer
1919 Laila Schou Nilsen Norway, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1936)
1919 Len Johnson cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1920 Eric Halsall sheepdog trial commentator
1920 John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla], Poland, Pope (1978- )
1922 Egon Bahr German journalist/politician
1924 Madhussudan Rege cricketer (15 runs in only Test India vs West Indies 1948-49)
1925 Peter Graves Minneapolis MN, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1927 George Plimpton New York NY, sports writer (Paper Lion)
1927 John Harold Kander composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1928 Fidel V Ramos President (Philippines)
1928 William R Boggs Georgia, Brigadier General/chief of engineers under Bragg
1929 Christa Wolf German novelist (Divided Heaven)
1929 Ctirad Kohoutek composer
1929 Kai Winding rocker
1930 Maurice Peress New York NY, conductor (Kansas City Philharmonic 1974-80)
1931 Howard Coble (Representative-Republican-NC, 1985- )
1932 F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk President South Africa (1989-94)
1932 John Updike Shillington PA, poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil, The Centaur, Rabbit Run)
1933 Unita Blackwell 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1934 Pavle Despalj composer
1936 Hans Peter Bleuel writer (Sex and Society in Nazi Germany)
1936 Robert Lee Smith US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
1936 Tony Nash England, bobsled (Olympics-gold-1964)
1937 Mark Donohue auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1937 Robin Wright race horse trainer
1938 Carl Gottlieb comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1938 Charley Pride Sledge MS, country singer (Just Between You And Me, Sweet Country)
1938 Shashi Kapoor Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939 Travis Pritchett rocker (Travis & Bob)
1940 Kathy Hutchinson race horse trainer
1941 Wilson Pickett Prattville AL, R&B singer (Funky Broadway)
1941 Wolfgang Bauer writer
1942 Ann Packer England, 800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Kevin Dobson Jackson Heights NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1945 Aleksey Vakhonin USSR, bantam weight (Olympics-gold-1964)
1945 Eric Woolfson Glasgow Scotland, composer/musician (Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson Entertainment Group)
1946 Michael Reagan talk show host, Ronald's son
1947 Barry Wilson England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 David Lloyd cricketer (England opener, 214 vs India 1974)
1947 Robert Harrison rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 Steven H Schiff (Representative-Republican-NM)
1948 Eknath Solkar cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1949 Alex "Hurricane" Higgins Irish snooker player (2X world-champion)
1949 Starr Danias New York NY, ballerina (Turning Point)
1950 Brad Dourif Huntington WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
1950 James Conlon New York NY, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
1950 John Hartman Falls Church VA, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers-Taking it to the Streets)
1953 Helmer C Koetje Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1953 Jamie West-Oram rocker (Fixx)
1953 Margaret L Augustine Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1953 Nicholas Wisdom cricketer (son of comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
1954 James F Reilly II Mount Home AFB ID, PhD/astronaut (STS 89)
1955 Graham Porter cricketer (1 day international for Australia 1979)
1956 "The Model" Rick Martel [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1956 Ingamar Stenmark Sweden, slalom (Olympics-2 gold-1980)
1957 Christer Fuglesang Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957 Melvin Gentry vocalist/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1958 Andreas Wenzel Liechtenstein, skier (Olympics-silver-1980)
1959 Irene Cara Bronx New York NY, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)
1960 Claudia Udy Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1960 Guy Carbonneau Sept-Iles Québec Canada, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1960 Patricia Farinelli Los Angeles CA, playmate (December, 1981)
1960 Richard Biggs Columbus OH, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives)
1961 Kevan James cricketer (all-rounder 4 wickets/4 balls & ton vs India 1996)
1961 Mark Van Thillo Wilrijk Belgium, co-captain (Biosphere 2)
1961 Todd Nelson Dalles OR, tennis star
1962 Thomas Ian Griffith actor (Vampires, Catlin-Another World)
1962 Trevor Franklin cricketer (opened for New Zealand mid-80's)
1963 Vanessa L Williams Tarrytown NY, 1st black Miss America (1984)/singer (Colors of the Wind)/actress (Eraser)
1964 Bonnie Blair Champaign IL, speed skater (Olympics-5 gold/bronze-88, 92, 94)
1964 Christina Ferguson Phoenix AZ, playmate (April 1983)
1965 Geronimo Berroa Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1965 Jeff Labarr rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 Jerry Cantrell US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1967 Andre Rison NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs)
1967 Derrick Graham NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Car Panthers, Seat Seahawks)
1968 Joseph Ouellet hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1968 Pat Terrell NFL strong safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1969 Michael Dumas NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Shaun Udal cricketer (Hants off-spinner, England tourist to Australia 1994-95)
1969 Sheila Taormina 4X200 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 Michael Rapaport actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1970 Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] Newark NJ, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)
1970 Sarah Thorsett Winona MN, 1.5k runner
1971 Mariaan de Swardt Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Australia)
1973 Marlon Kerner NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1973 Rob Johnson NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Petra Kamstra Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Tina Krizan Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Torrian Gray safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 Claude N'Goran Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1975 Kimmo Timonen hockey defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998)
1978 Dionne Bainbridge Brisbane Queensland Australia, New Zealand 200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1996 ? son of woman in coma raped by John Horace

Deaths which occurred on March 18:

978 St Edward the Martyr king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies
0235 Marcus Aurelius Alexander Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered
0978 Edward the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15
1227 Honorius III [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies
1314 Jacques De Molay the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies
1493 John of Lannoy Flemish Governor/viceroy of Netherlands/Zealand, dies at 82
1582 Jean Jaurequi Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched
1584 Ivan IV the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53
1690 Charles duke of Lutherans, dies
1745 Robert Walpole 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1768 Lawrence Sterne writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies
1799 John Randall composer, dies at 82
1816 Johann Paul Schulthesius composer, dies at 67
1817 Johann Jakob Walder composer, dies at 67
1823 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval composer, dies at 69
1870 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide composer, dies at 48
1875 Ferdinand Laub composer, dies at 43
1876 F Freiligrath writer, dies at 65
1882 Morgan Earp brother of Wyatt Earp, shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone
1886 Leopold Zunz German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91
1889 William Henry Monk composer, dies at 66
1899 Douglas Strutt Galton English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
1899 Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
1900 António Nobre Portuguese poet (Só [Lonely]), dies at 32
1913 George I king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1917 William Shalders South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
1918 Willem Coenen composer, dies at 80
1924 John Frederick Bridge composer, dies at 79
1928 Paul van Ostaijen Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32
1933 Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
1936 Egon Friedell Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58
1938 Cyril Rootham composer, dies at 62
1944 Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor, dies at 79
1954 Walter Mead cricketer (one Test for England 1899), dies
1956 Friedrich Panzer German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85
1956 Louis Bromfield writer, dies at 59
1964 Norbert Wiener US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69
1965 Farouk I last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45
1967 Jimmy Blaine singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
1968 Manuel Gomez Carillo composer, dies at 85
1969 Barbara Bates actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43
1971 George Wood England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies
1973 Lauritz L H Melchior Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82
1974 David C Imboden actor (King of Kings), dies at 87
1976 James McCartney father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1976 Robert de Roos composer, dies at 69
1977 Marien Ngouabi President of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
1978 Faith Baldwin US author (They Who Love), dies at 84
1978 Peggy Wood actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
1980 Erich Fromm German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
1980 Herman Griffith cricketer (13 Tests for West Indies, 44 wickets), dies
1982 Georg G Lampe Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60
1983 Umberto of Piemonte King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies
1984 Charlie Lau White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50
1984 Paul Frances Webster lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
1985 Jack Miller orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89
1986 Bernard Malamud US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71
1987 Bil Baird puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
1989 Piet Kruiver Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
1989 William Challee actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
1990 Robin Harris actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
1991 Jack McCoy Radio/TV personality, dies at 72
1991 Vilma Banky actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
1992 Cornelis B Vaandrager [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
1995 Charles Drain singer, dies at 65
1995 Frederic Ramsey Jr folklorist/author, dies at 80
1995 Heinrich Sutermeister Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
1996 Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis poet, dies at 84
1996 Hawkes Jessie Jacquetta Priestley archaeologist, dies at 85
1997 ? raped comatose woman who bore a child 1 year earlier, dies at 30
1997 Willem de Kooning (abstract artist) dead Alzheimer's at 92

On this day...March 18 Events

0417 St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0731 St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1543 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1754 Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1766 British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act
1773 Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer" premieres in London
1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1810 "Converse", 1st US opera, premieres in New York
1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
1847 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramón (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland CA)
1871 Communards revolt in Paris France
1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC
1881 [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden)
1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1891 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1895 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia
1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1902 Schönberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna
1904 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1910 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York NY
1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1915 Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War
1918 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1919 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City
1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 Steamer "Hong Kong" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
1925 (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, & Tennessee killing 689
1929 Dmitri Shostakovich's "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad
1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US)
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
1933 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1937 Gas explosion in school in New London TX; 296 die
1938 New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL department store
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1948 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified
1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1950 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1951 Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1952 Communist offensive in Korea
1953 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1953 KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 National League approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus MS (NBC) begins
1958 Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
1959 Boston Celtics' Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1962 Algerian War ends after 7½ years of fighting (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR
1963 "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers
1963 WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances
1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
1966 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1
1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil
1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1968 WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
1972 AIAW 1st basketball championship, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston University)
1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 points in a game
1972 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1973 "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA
1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1979 "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 performances
1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
1982 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
1985 Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
1986 Exciting draw in final gives New South Wales the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 points in a game
1989 Investor group led by George W Bush & Edward W Rose purchases controlling interest of Texas Rangers
1990 1st free elections in German Democratic Republic, Conservatives beat Communists
1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
1990 Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1990 Loyola Marymount beats Michigan Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score
1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
1991 Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 performances
1992 Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
1992 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
1993 "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 performances
1993 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record ƒ12.2 billion
1993 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
1993 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 19:

1503 Benedetto Varchi Italy, humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina)
1589 William Bradford Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)
1593 Georges de la Tour French painter
1601 Alonzo Cano Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1604 Johan IV composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1610 Hasegawa Tohaku Japanese painter
1629 Aleksei M Romanov 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
1673 Pedro Vaz Rego composer
1715 Charles-Joseph van Helmont composer
1716 Guillaume Coustou Jr French sculptor (Mausolée du Dauphin)
1721 Tobias Smollett Scottish writer, baptized
1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter
1734 Thomas McKean US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)
1740 Johann Georg Roser composer
1740 Joseph F Weigl Germany, violin cellist
1742 Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch literary/poet
1745 Nicolas Sejan composer
1752 Jose Mauricio composer
1767 Leonhard von Call composer
1777 Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Education/diplomat
1785 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann composer
1809 Fredrik Pacius composer
1813 David Livingstone Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa)
1816 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst composer
1817 Lewis Henry Little Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1819 David Henry Williams Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 Francis Barretto Spinola Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1821 Sir Richard Burton explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1821 William Allingham Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1823 Cornelis A van Sypesteyn Dutch Governor of Surinam (1873-82)
1827 Alexander Shaler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911
1837 Robert Daniel Johnston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1844 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown Finnish playwright (Kovan onnen lapsia)
1845 Willem H de Beaufort Dutch historian/politician
1847 Constantin Dimitrescu composer
1848 Wyatt Earp Monmouth IL, marshall-fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral
1851 Roque Sáenz Peña President of Argentina (1910-14)
1860 William Jennings Bryan "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman
1871 Joseph McGinnity Rock Island IL, baseball pitcher (New York Giants)
1871 Schofield Haigh cricketer ("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11")
1872 Sergei Diaghilev Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1873 Max Reger Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/professor (Leipzig University)
1874 Arthur Hoyt Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
1879 Joseph Haas German (opera) composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1882 Gaston Lachaise US sculptor (Standing Woman)
1883 Josef Matthais Hauer composer
1883 Joseph W Stilwell US General (China)
1888 Josef Albers German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1889 Manoel II last king of Portugal (1908-10)
1891 Earl Warren California, (Governor-Republican-CA)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
1892 Robert Denzler composer
1892 Siegfried T Bok neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1894 Jackie "Moms" Mabley Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 Betty Compson Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1897 L O'Flaherty writer
1900 [Jean] Frédéric Joliot-Curie French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1900 Roy Roberts Tampa FL, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart Dutch Minister of Justice (Nobel 1954)
1901 Jo Mielziner Paris France, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
1903 Benjamin M Telders President of Dutch Liberal States Party
1903 James Bullock colliery manager
1904 John J Sirica US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
1904 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer
1905 Albert Speer German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
1906 Adolf Eichmann Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
1906 Normand Lockwood composer
1907 Cor Treslem [Cornelis L Melsert], actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
1907 Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy composer
1907 Kent Smith New York NY, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
1907 Marc Vaubourgoin composer
1907 Nakagawa Soen Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
1909 Louis Hayward Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
1910 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin cosmonaut
1911 Kenneth Robinson politician/businessman
1912 Adolf Galland fighter Pilot
1912 Russ Case Hamburg IA, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 William Chatterton cricketer (48 in only Test for England 1892)
1914 J Jay Berwanger 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
1914 Patricia Morison actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
1915 Norman Yardley England cricket captain (late 40's)
1916 Irving Wallace author (People's Almanac, The Man)
1917 Dino Lipatti composer
1919 Cornelis Berkhouwer Member of 2nd chamber (Dutch Liberal Party)
1923 Janine Dacosta French pianist
1923 Tige Andrews Brooklyn NY, actor (Captain Adam Greer-Mod Squad)
1925 Brent Scowcroft Ogden UT, Lieutenant General (USAF)/National Security Council
1927 Richie Ashburn baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
1928 Clive Van Ryneveld cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58)
1928 Hans Kung theologian
1928 Patrick McGoohan Astoria NY, actor (#6-Prisoner, Secret Agent)
1929 Herman van San composer
1929 Michael Ryan actor (John Randolph-Another World)
1929 Robert Muczynski composer
1930 Bill Henderson Chicago IL, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
1930 Ornette Coleman jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1931 Bill Hoskyns England, épée fencer (Olympics-silver-1964)
1932 Gay Robert Brewer Middletwon OH, PGA golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 Philip Roth Newark NJ, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1934 Börge Andersen Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68)
1935 Burt Metcalfe Saskatchewan Canada, actor/director (Father of the Bride)
1935 Phyllis Newman Jersey City NJ, actress (Coming of Age, TW3)
1935 Renee Taylor New York NY, actress (Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny)
1936 Amancio D'Silva musician
1936 Ursula Andress Berne Switzerland, actress (Dr No, She, Sensuous Nurse)
1937 Clarence "Frogman" Henry musician (You Always Hurt the One You Love)
1939 Abbas Ali Baig cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut vs England 1959)
1939 Joe Kapp NFL QB (Minnesota Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1941 Lord Vestey British food magnate/billionaire (Union International)
1942 David Minge (Representative-Democrat-MN)
1942 Jeff Neighbour US bassist (Joy of Cooking)
1942 Robin Luke rocker (Susie Darlin')
1942 Ross Valory rocker (Journey)
1944 Joseph Celli composer
1944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb LBJ's daughter
1944 Myung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1945 Lisa Nicole Baker Detroit TX, playmate of the year (Nov 1966)
1946 Bigas Luna director/writer (Anguish)
1946 Mohammad Ilyas cricketer (Pakistani batsman in ten Tests 1964-69)
1946 Paul Atkinson rock guitarist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1946 Ruth Pointer singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So Exicted)
1947 Earlie Fires jockey (Hialeah Park)
1947 Glenn Close Greenwich CT, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
1947 John Beckwith English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1947 Vince Martino Schenectady NY, WLAF offensive assistant (Barcelona Dragons)
1948 Vintcent Van der Bijl Natal cricket bowler (superb 2 meter of 70's & 80's)
1949 Denny Albee Oklahoma City OK, actor (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1952 Derek Longmuir Edinburgh Scotland, rock drummer (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1952 Warren Lees New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1953 Billy Sheehan rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1953 Hans Rinn German Democratic Republic, 2 man lugist (Olympics-gold-1976, 80)
1953 Ricky Wilson Athens GA, rock guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
1954 Charles Pinnell horse trainer
1955 [Walter] Bruce Willis PennsGrove NJ, actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard)
1956 Alina Castro Havana Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1957 Blake Passey horse trainer
1959 Shelly Burch Tucson AZ, actress (Delila-One Life to Live, Identity Crisis)
1959 Terry Hall rocker (Colourfield-Animal Liberation)
1966 Paul Devenport New Zealand, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
1968 Liam Jewell Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1968 Tyrone Hill NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1969 Arjan Vermeulen soccer player (Vitesse)
1969 Michael Bergin model (Coca Cola)/actor
1969 Scott Alexander Brownlee Hamilton New Zealand, rowing coxless 4 men (Olympics-96)
1970 Errol Refos soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 Janne Laukenen Lahti Finland, NHL defenseman (Finland Olympics-B-98, Senators)
1970 Rick Mirer NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 Sean Fleming CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 Cory Fleming NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Dalton James actor (My Father the Hero, Mark-Beverly Hills 90210)
1971 Kirk Botkin NFL tight end (New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Louie Debrusk Cambridge, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Marty Moore NFL inside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 Taase Faumui NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Whitney Hedgepeth 100 meter/200 meter backstroke (Olympics-2 silver-96)
1972 Maria Maunder St John's Newfoundland, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 John Michels NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Jennifer Lynn Drayton Saginaw MI, Miss Michigan-America (1996)
1974 John Coppinger El Paso TX, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1975 Antonio Daniels NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1976 Rachel Blanchard Toronto, actress (Cher Horowitz-Clueless)
1982 Che'Vonne Burton Miss Michigan Teen-USA (1997)/Miss Michigan-USA (2000)
1992 Henry & Angus Bernsen twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays

Deaths which occurred on March 19:

1263 Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro French cardinal, dies
1556 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor Dutch historian, dies
1638 Paul Moreelse Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1644 Si Sang last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1687 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle French explorer (Louisiana), murdered in what is now Texas at 43
1702 Willem III Henry [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1721 Clement XI [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 Adrien Trudo Sale composer, dies at 59
1782 Louis-Henry Paisible composer, dies at 33
1796 Stephen Storace composer, dies at 33
1797 Philip Hayes composer, dies at 58
1811 Frantisek Adam Mica composer, dies at 65
1845 George Augustus Kollmann composer, dies at 56
1850 Adalbert Gyrowetz composer, dies at 87
1862 F Wilhelm von Schadow German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 Louis Clapisson composer, dies at 57
1869 Guillaume Nerenburger Belgian General (triangulatie), dies at 64
1876 Jozef Stefani composer, dies at 75
1884 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback composer, dies at 54
1893 Karel Komzak composer, dies at 69
1897 Antoine T d'Abbadie French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 Joao da Cruz Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1905 Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer, dies at 49
1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 John Thomas composer, dies at 87
1918 Willem H de Beaufort Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 Arthur J Balfour British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1934 Anthony J Block lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
1936 John Larkin IV actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panamá), dies at 63
1937 Horacio Quiroga Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1940 Gustaaf Sap Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1943 Vicente Ripolles composer, dies at 75
1945 Fritz Fromm German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1946 Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
1947 Willem F J Pijper Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1951 H Zur Mühlen writer, dies
1954 Walter Braunfels composer, dies at 71
1958 Vernon Ransford cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 Edric Cundell composer, dies at 68
1969 Theodor Schaefer composer, dies at 65
1971 Jan Greshoff Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 Mary Dorna Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 Anne Klien fashion designer, dies at 51
1974 Edward Platt actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1974 Hertha Kuusinen Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 John A DeMott dies at 63
1976 George Sklavos composer, dies at 87
1976 Paul Kossoff rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1979 Al Hodge actor (Captain Video), dies at 65
1979 Richard Beckinsale actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 Alan Badel actor, dies of a heart attack at 58
1982 Randy Rhoads heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), dies in plane crash at 25
1987 Arch Oboler radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
1987 Emile Meyer actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
1987 Louis Broglie French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987 Tony Stratton-Smith journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1991 John Russell Thomas NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 Ron Pagano dies after lengthy illness at 37
1991 Sunday Wilshin actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1992 Cesare Danova actor (Cleopatra, Viva Las Vegas), dies from a heart attack at 66
1993 Barend P Tammeling journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 Jeff Ward drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1994 Giuseppe Diana Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1994 Jose Coronel Urtecho poet, dies at 87
1995 Fernand Lodewick literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 Gerard Tebroke 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
1995 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 Christopher John Magenis Headington musician, dies at 65
1996 William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 Willem De Kooning artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92

On this day...March 19 Events

0721 -BC- 1st recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon
1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1563 Peace of Amboise; Rights for Huguenots
1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1702 James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1799 Joseph Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna
1803 Johann von Schillers "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar
1822 Boston MA incorporated as a city
1831 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000)
1859 Charles François Gounod's opera "Faust" premieres in Paris France
1864 Charles François Gounod's opera "Mireille" is produced (Paris France)
1865 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 Antônio Carlos Gomes's opera "Il Guarany" premieres in Milan Italy
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan
1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs SA (Cape Town)
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1906 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi" premieres in Munich
1907 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch NV (state record)
1914 Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)
1918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1925 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940 French government of Daladier, falls
1941 Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestraestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time" premieres in London
1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities
1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Réunion become overseas departments
1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as President of USSR
1947 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN
1950 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny" is published
1953 25th Academy Awards: "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)
1953 Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real" premieres in New York NY
1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, New York NY
1954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo NM
1954 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1954 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings vs England
1955 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle 77-63
1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory: Minnesota Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1958 Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
1958 Sobers completes a century in each innings vs Pakistan
1959 "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
1962 "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
1964 Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger"
1965 Chivu Stoica becomes President of the Council of Romanian People's Republic & Nicolae Ceausescu appointed 1st Secretary of Romanian communist party
1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record ƒ7,770,000
1966 "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65
1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 Howard University students seize administration building
1969 British invade Anguilla
1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt & East German Premier Willi Stoph meet
1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1972 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972 Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 points
1973 Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1975 "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in High School sports
1976 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
1977 "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes at Music Box NYC after 390 performances
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.33)
1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1978 Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
1981 Emmy 8th Daytime Awards: Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1984 "Kate & Allie" premieres
1984 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
1984 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1984 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1985 New South Wales wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15 :5.25)
1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1989 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 Kansas City Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1992 "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1993 World Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (Russia)
1993 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (Canada)
1993 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (Ukraine)
1993 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands
1994 Lara scores 167 for West Indies vs England at Georgetown
1994 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 New Jersey Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 :4.08)
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 "Ah Wilderness!" opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-20-2006, 06:32 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 20:

1634 Balthasar Bekker Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)
1680 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga Italian composer (Stabat mater)
1725 Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89)
1728 Franciscus L Kersteman Dutch lawyer/astrologist
1739 Eligio Celestino composer
1750 Martinus van Marum Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
1770 Johann Friedrich Hölderlin Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein, Andenken)
1774 John Braham composer
1804 Neal Dow Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1811 George Caleb Bingham US, politician/painter (Country Election)
1811 Napoleon Bonaparte II Napoleon's son/King of Rome
1812 George Bibb Crittenden Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1813 Matthias Keller Ulm Germany, hymn writer (O Farther un High)
1820 Alexander J Cuza monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania
1823 John Echols Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1825 William Nelson Rector Beall Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1826 Carel Vosmaer Dutch art historian/poet/editor
1828 Henrik Ibsen Norway, dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
1829 Charles Albert White composer
1830 Eugene Asa Carr Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1833 Henry Southwick Perkins composer
1834 Charles William Elliot Boston MA, President of Harvard (1869-1909)
1846 Auguste Bender writer
1853 George Godfrey Chelsea MA, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)
1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor father of scientific management
1863 Ernesto Nazareth composer
1868 Obe Postma Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian General/politician (East Africa)
1872 Bernhard Seklas composer
1872 Karin Michaelis writer
1882 René Coty Le Havre France, President of France (1953-58)
1883 Colin Campbell Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
1883 Karl Hasse composer
1885 Eugen Herrigel Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1885 Hendrik A de Fish [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist
1888 S V Vegesack writer
1890 Lauritz Melchior Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (National Symphony)
1896 Hal Walker Ottumwa IA, director (I Married Joan)
19-- Big Bird muppet (Sesame Street)
1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1902 Kathryn Forbes short story writer (Mama's Bank Account)
1903 Vincent Richards hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961)
1904 B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner Susquehanna PA, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)
1906 Abraham Beame (Mayor-Democrat-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1906 Pavel P Parenago Russian astronomer
1908 Frank Stanton Muskegon MI, broadcasting executive (CBS)
1908 Philip "Felix" Bekkers actor (Czardasvorstin)
1908 Sir Michael Redgrave Bristol England, actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
1911 Mieke Verstraete Belgian/Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled)
1913 Judith Evelyn Seneca SD, actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window)
1914 Sviatosiav Richter Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1914 Wendell Corey Dracut MA, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
1914 William Baddeley rector (St James' Piccadilly)
1915 Dr Rudolf Kirchschläger President of Austria (1974-86)
1916 Pierre Messmer Prime Minister (France)
1917 Dame Vera Lynn singer (Anniversary Waltz)
1917 Dolf Verspoor literary/interpreter (M Nijhoff Prize 1958)
1917 Kalervo H Hortamo Finnish poet (Sydänmaa)
1917 Peter Caddy founder (Findhorn Community)
1918 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann German composer (Soldiers)
1918 Jack Barry Lindenhurst NY, game show emcee (Joker's Wild)
1920 Bryan Genesse actor (Bold & Beautiful)
1920 Douglas G Chapman biomathematical statistician
1920 Marian McPartland jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
1920 Werner Klemperer Cologne Germany, actor (Colonel Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow Senegal, director general of UNESCO
1921 Primoz Ramovs composer
1922 Carl Reiner Bronx NY, comedian/actor (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 Doug Barnard Jr (Representative-Democrat-GA, 1977- )
1922 Jack Kruschen Winnipeg Canada, actor (Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)
1922 Larry Elgart New Haven CT, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orchestra)
1922 Ray Goulding Lowell MA, comedian (Bob & Ray)
1922 Sir Arnold Burgen college president (Academia Europaea)
1923 Marc Saporta French writer/essayist (Le Grand Défi)
1925 James Pickles judge
1925 John D Erlichman Politician (Nixon aide, Watergate conspirator)
1927 John Pierre Herman Joubert composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1928 Anthony Blond British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)
1928 Christopher Benstead race horse trainer
1928 Hans Küng Swiss religious theologist
1928 Jerome Cousins Biffle Denver CO, long jumper (Olympics-gold-1952)
1928 Mr [Fred McFeely] Rogers Latrobe PA, children's television host (Mr Roger's Neighborhood)
1930 Michel Magne composer
1931 Antonio Tauriello composer
1931 Dr John Rae British educator (Conscience & Politics)
1931 Hal Linden [Harold Lipshitz] Bronx NY, actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic, Rothchild)
1931 Sir David Montgomery chairman (British Forestry Commission)
1932 Tod Dockstader composer
1933 David James Moore educationalist
1933 Jacquez Guyonnet composer
1934 Eric Hebborn artist/faker
1934 Marion Conti arch bishop (Aberdeen England)
1935 Ted Bessell Flushing Queens NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1936 Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate British high court judge
1937 Elizabeth Gille writer translator/editor
1937 Helmut Recknagel Germany, 90 meter ski jump (Olympics-gold-1960)
1937 Jerry Reed Atlanta GA, singer/actor ('Gator, Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1937 Joe Rivers rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1937 Mark Saville QC, British high court judge
1938 Frans J van der Heijden Dutch journal/Dutch MP (CDA)
1939 Brian Mulroney (P-C) 18th Prime Minister of Canada (1984-93)
1939 Earl of Seafield [Ginger] English large landowner
1940 Mickey Preger horse trainer
1941 Carlos Lopez jockey
1945 Larry Combest (Representative-Republican-TX, 1985- )
1945 Pat Riley Schenectady NY, NBA star/coach (San Diego Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, Miami Heat)
1945 Tim Yeo British MP/Under-Secretary (State of Environment)
1946 Ranger Doug [Douglas Green], Illinois, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)
1947 Carl Palmer drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
1947 John Eastburn Boswell medievalist
1948 Bobby Orr Parry Sound Ontario, Hall of Fame NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins)
1948 John de Lancie actor (Q-Star Trek Next Generation, Eugene Bradford-Days of our Lives)
1948 Pamela Sargent US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)
1949 Chip Zien Milwaukee WI, actor (Love Sidney, Reggie)
1950 William Hurt Washington DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
1951 Guy Perry rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1951 Jimmie Vaughan guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951 John Wetton rocker (Asia, UK, King Crimson)
1951 Madan Lal Britishcricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's)
1951 Tanya Boyd Detroit MI, actress (Celeste-Days of our Life)
1952 Anand Armitraj India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
1954 Charlie Simmer Ontario, NHL Left winger (Los Angeles Kings)
1954 Jim Seales Hamilton AL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1956 Phillip Oppenhein British MP
1957 Spike Lee Atlanta GA, director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1957 Theresa Russell [Paup] San Diego CA, actress (Black Widow, Straight Time, Razor's Edge)
1958 Holly Hunter Conyers GA, actress (The Piano, Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade)
1958 Rickey Jackson NFL defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1959 Dale Reid Ladybank Scotland, LPGA golfer (European Solheim Cup team)
1959 Richard Drummie rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1961 John Clark Gable Los Angeles CA, actor (Bad Jim)
1961 Kathy Guadagnino Albany NY, LPGA golfer (1985 US Women's Open)
1961 Slim Jim Phantom [Jim Mcdonnell] rock drummer (Stray Cats-Stray Cat Strut)
1963 Paul Annacone Southampton NY, tennis star
1963 Paul Mirkovich rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 Ramon Andersson Middle Swan Australia, canoeist (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1964 Ruth Davidon Baltimore MD, rower (Olympics-6th-96)
1965 Chris Hoiles Bowling Green OH, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 Danielle Woodward Melbourne Victoria Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1966 Blas Minor Merced CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 Giulio Caravatta CFL quarterback (British Columbia Lions)
1967 Bryan Genesse actor, (Rocco-Bold & Beautiful, Grady-Street Justice)
1967 Dana Rinehart Dalton Orlando FL, Miss Florida-America (1990)
1967 Mookie Blaylock NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1967 Randy Gullatt horse trainer
1968 Eric Viscaal Dutch soccer star (PSV/AA Gent)
1968 Jurgen Rumrich Miesbach Germany, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1968 Sheree Megan Higgins Matamata New Zealand, golfer (1991 Bridgestone)
1969 Caroline Brunet Québec City Québec Canada, kayaker (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 Konstantine Starikovitch Podolsk Russia, 238lbs US weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1969 Paul Atkinson jockey
1969 Sharon Manning WNBA center/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 Thang Thanh Nguyen Soc Trang Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1970 Kristin Klein Santa Monica CA, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 Ralph Dawkins NFL running back (New Orleans Saints)
1970 Ron George NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Todd Burger NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1971 Janis Kelly Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 Manny Alexander Dominican Republic, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 Ajah Wilson-Ogechukwu soccer player (Roda JC)
1973 Jane March Edgeware England, actress (Lover)
1973 Nico Boje cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996)
1973 Norman Tome Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 P J Bogart New York NY, diver (Olympics-96)
1975 Brian Buetsch Rockford IL, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes Sr champion)
1976 Arno Knapen Dutch soccer player (Holten, FC Twente)

Deaths which occurred on March 20:

0842 Alfonso II the Chaste king of Asturia (791-842), dies
1191 Clement III [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq sultan of Delhi India, dies
1393 Johannes Nepomucenus [Jan Nepomucky], Czechoslovakian saint, killed
1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45
1501 Jean Carondelet lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded
1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely English Lord Admiral, beheaded
1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77
1617 Franciscus Aguilon physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
1619 Matthias II Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies
1646 Matthew Vossius historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
1727 Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1751 Frederick Louis English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies
1757 Johann Paul Kunzen composer, dies at 60
1767 Firmin Abauzit French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87
1804 Ignaz Malzat composer, dies at 47
1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1866 Rikard Nordraak composer, dies at 23
1871 Antonio Buzzolla composer, dies at 56
1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis composer, dies at 52
1874 Hans Christian Lumbye composer, dies at 63
1887 Pavel Annenkov Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1892 Arthor Goring Thomas composer, dies at 41
1894 Lajos Kossuth Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
1898 Luis Palés Matos Puerto Rican poet (Tuntún the paso y grifería), dies
1899 Martha M Place of Brooklyn NY, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution
1910 Félix Tournachon [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89
1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux composer, dies at 75
1913 Christian Barnekow composer, dies at 75
1913 Song Jiao-ren leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies
1920 Venustiano Carranza President of Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
1925 George N Curzon British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1929 Ferdinand Foch Marshal of France (WWI), dies at 77
1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
1934 A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont Dutch queen (& regent), dies at 76
1936 Durant Clifford Parkin cricketer (Tests for South Africa 1891-92), dies
1941 D A van den Bosch anti-Nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
1942 Theodoro Valcarcel composer, dies at 41
1944 Felix Woyrsch composer, dies at 83
1950 Walter Eucken German economist, dies at 59
1951 Jan Ingenhoven composer, dies at 74
1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning composer, dies at 60
1953 Graciliano Ramos Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1962 C Wright Mills US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
1962 Dr Andrew E Douglass Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings) dies
1963 Karl Otten writer, dies at 73
1964 Brendan Behan Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
1964 Jean Rogister composer, dies at 84
1967 A J F Moody 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
1968 Carl T Dreyer Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
1972 Aad de Haas Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1972 Jan Engelman Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71
1972 Marilyn Maxwell actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50
1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe Black US advocate in Virginia, dies at 83
1974 Chet Huntley newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
1974 Edward Platt actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1976 Michael Goodliffe actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
1982 Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at 52
1987 Norman Harris guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1988 Gil Evans Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal Dutch writer, dies at 90
1990 Jev Jasjin Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 4
1992 Avonne Taylor actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
1992 Frank Westbrook dancer/choreographer, dies at 82
1992 Georges Delerue French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1993 Claudia Yeltsin mother of Russian President Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 Jonathan Ball English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
1995 Merv Harvey cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Australia vs England 46-47), dies
1995 Rachida Hammadi Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
1995 Sidney Kingsley US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1996 Alan Ridout composer, dies at 61
1996 Claude Bourdet human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 Victor Zorza journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
1997 ? Hefner mother of Hugh Hefner (playboy), dies at 101
1997 Carlo Fassi figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67

On this day...March 20 Events

0141 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé
1598 French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism
1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1833 US & Siam conclude commercial treaty
1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1863 Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals
1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville KY of $14,000
1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
1885 Yiddish theater opens in New York with Golldfaden operetta
1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Massachusetts
1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1890 General Federation of Womens' Clubs founded
1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
1896 Uprising in Matabeleland
1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats University of Pennsylvania 32-10
1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York
1897 France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1906 George B Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" premieres in London
1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York NY)
1911 Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1½ months)
1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
1920 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
1924 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) in 2
1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed
1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany
1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
1942 Major German assault on Malta
1943 British offensive against Mareth-line
1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks
1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscanini on NBC
1948 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win
1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
1952 24th Academy Awards: "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1952 US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole right to ban radio-TV broadcasts of major league games in their own territory
1954 "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st Secretary of Polish CP
1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
1963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (New York NY)
1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
1965 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi
1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1967 Supremes release "The Happening"
1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1973 Roberto Clemente elected to hall of fame, 11 weeks after his death
1976 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.70)
1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1981 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón sentenced to 8 years
1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor
1982 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Islands vs Barbados
1982 France performs nuclear test
1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks
1982 Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
1983 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1984 Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
1986 Jacques Chirac become Prime Minister of French government
1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
1987 NASA launches Palapa B2P
1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :0.36)
1988 David Henry Hwang's "M Butterfly" premieres in New York NY
1988 Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open
1988 Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
1990 Los Angeles Lakers retire Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records
1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 meter (36.02 seconds)
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1994 "Cyrano: The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
1994 El Salvador's 1st Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship
1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single since their 1970 breakup
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)
1997 "Play On!" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-21-2006, 08:50 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 21:

1466 French van Brederode leader Hoeksen
1474 Angela Merici Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 Mauritius duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53)
1527 Hermann Finck composer
1609 Jan II Kazimierz cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
1624 François Roberday composer
1642 Georg Schmezer composer
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach Eisenach Germany, composer (Matthäus-Passion)
1708 Caspar Ruetz composer
1713 Francis Lewis signed Declaration of Independence
1716 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer
1763 Jean Paul writer
1765 Henry Fagel Dutch/English baron/diplomat
1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier mathematician/Egyptologist
1779 Alexis Garaude composer
1806 Benito Pablo Juárez Oaxaca Mexico, President of México (1858-72)
1813 James Jesse Strang king of Mormons on Beaver Island MI (1850-56)
1816 Charlotte Bronte novelist/poet
1820 Frank Mori composer
1836 Jesus Monasterio composer
1839 Modest Mussorgsky composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mountain)
1854 Alick A C Bannerman cricketer (brother of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1863 Hugo Kaun composer
1866 Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury astronomer
1869 Albert Kahn architect, originated modern factory design
1869 Florenz Ziegfeld producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1878 Thurlow Weed Lieurance composer
1880 Hans Hofmann German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880 Wilhelm Pessler German sociologist
1881 Hermann Sandby composer
1882 Gilbert M Anderson [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR
1883 Jules van Nuffel composer
1884 George D Birkhoff US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1887 Edwin Scharff German "entartet" painter/sculptor
1891 Jonathan Hale actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1893 Geoffrey Dearmer poet
19-- Ira Elliot rocker (RU Ready)
19-- Lorene Yarnell Los Angeles CA, mime (Shields & Yarnell)
19-- Robert Sweet rock drummer (Stryper-Against the Law)
1900 Eugenie Leontovitch Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1901 Carmelita Geraghty Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1901 Richard Leslie Hill historian
1902 Carl Jaffe Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement)
1902 Eddie James "Son" House folk blues musician (Delta Blues)
1902 William Downie Forrest journalist
1904 Nikolaos Skalkottas composer
1905 Phyllis McGinley US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1906 John D Rockefeller III billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1908 Maurice Stans rocker
1910 Nick Castle Brooklyn NY, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1911 John Paxton screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1912 Peter Bull actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
1913 George Ghita Ionescu academic
1913 Max Youngstein New York NY, producer (United Artists)
1914 Herman Siles Zuazo politician
1914 Paul Tortelier composer
1916 Harold Robbins US, novelist (The Carpetbaggers) [or 0521]
1918 Howard Cosell Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1918 Joe Carveth NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons)
1919 Geoffrey Pinnington journalist
1919 Lois Collier Salley SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl)
1921 Antony Hopkins composer
1921 Arthur Grumiaux Belgian violinist
1921 Logan Ramsey Long Beach CA, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1923 Mort Lindsey Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show)
1923 Philip Abbott Lincoln NE, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1924 Karl Heinz Fussl composer
1925 John E Grotberg (Representative-Republican-IL, 1985-86)
1925 Peter Brook London, director (1776)/TV writer
1926 André Delvaux Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1926 Virginia Weidler Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway)
1927 Hans-Dietrich Genscher German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1928 Evelyn Ruth Anderson composer
1928 James W Kinnear Pittsburgh PA, CEO (Texaco)
1928 Peter Hacks German playwright (Tie Windloch)
1929 James Coco Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 Jules Bergman space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1931 Ivan William Hannaford sociologist
1932 Joseph Silverstein Detroit MI, violinist (Denver Symphony Orchestra)
1933 John Hall English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1933 Michael Heseltine Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
1934 Al Freeman Jr San Antonio TX, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie)
1934 Lister Carney Bellaire OH, 200 meter runner (Olympics-silver-1960)
1935 Brian Clough soccer manager
1935 Hubert Fichte writer
1936 Marek Stachowski composer
1937 Tom Flores Fresno CA, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders)
1938 Grahame Thomas cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's)
1938 Wilf Corrigan English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic)
1939 Kathleen Widdoes Wilmington DE, actress (Without a Trace)
1939 Martha Hudson Eastman GA, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1960)
1941 Dirk D Frimout Belgium, cosmonaut
1941 Malcolm Francke cricketer (leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Queensland 1984)
1942 Françoise Dorléac Paris France, actress (That Man From Rio)
1943 Antal Dunai Hungary, soccer player (Olympics-gold-1968)
1943 Viv[ian] Stanshall Shillingford Oxon England, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-I'm the Urban Spaceman)
1944 Charles Edward Greene Pine Bluff AR, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1968)
1944 Henrik Colding-Jorgensen composer
1944 Jamary Oliveira composer
1944 Marie-Christine Barrault Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
1945 Charles E Greene US, 100 meter sprinter (Olympics-bronze-1968)
1945 Rose[mary] Stone Dallas TX, vocalist/pianist (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 Vernon Guy US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees)
1946 Ray Dorset rocker (Cold Blue Excursion)
1946 Timothy Dalton Colwyn Bay Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights, License to Kill)
1948 Nancy Addison Altman New York NY, actress (Jillian Coleridge Ryan-Ryan's Hope)
1949 Alvin Kallicharran cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)
1950 Roger Hodgson London England, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
1951 Helena Antonaccio playmate (June, 1969)
1951 Russell Thompkins Jr US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing)
1952 Chris O'Connell rocker
1953 Carl Wolfson Washington DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
1953 Robert "Shotgun" Johnson Miami FL, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Band-Give it Up)
1954 Mary Jane Smith Van Nuys CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1993)
1955 Barbel Wockel-Eckert German Democratic Republic, track star (Olympics-4 gold-1976, 1980)
1955 Jean Marie Hon San Francisco CA, actress (Jane-Man From Atlantis)
1956 Ingrid Kristiansen Norway, marathoner (Olympics-4th-1984, Boston-86, 89)
1957 Sabrina Le Beauf New Orleans LA, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show)
1958 Brad Hall Santa Barbara CA, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1958 Gary Oldman actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace)
1958 Marlies Göhr German Democratic Republic, sprinter (Olympics-gold-1976, 80)
1960 Ayrton Senna Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champion)
1960 Dale Baze jockey
1960 Guy Chadwick English singer/songwriter (House of Love)
1961 Kassie DePaiva [Wesley] Morganfield KY, actress (Chelsea-Guiding Light, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live)
1961 Slim MacDonnell Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats)
1961 Wei Wang Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 Matthew Broderick New York NY, actor (Inspector Gadget, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
1962 Rosie O'Donnell comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
1963 Ronald Koeman Dutch soccer star (Ajax, PSV, Barcelona, Feyenoord)
1963 Sharon June Howe Pederson Glencoe MN, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 Shawon Dunston Brooklyn NY, infielder (San Francisco Giants)
1966 Al Iafrate Dearborn MI, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
1966 Karen Lunn Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
1966 Matthew Maynard cricketer (big hitting Glamorgan & England player)
1967 Elaina Oden Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1967 Troy Westwood CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1968 Erwin Vanderbroeck Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 Jeff Lazaro Waltham MA, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1968 Johan Garpenlov Stockholm Sweden, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1968 Mark Sander WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1968 Samantha Leah Dorman Lakeland FL, playmate (Sept, 1991)
1968 Scott Williams NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
1969 Jennifer Lyn Jackson Cleveland OH, playmate (April, 1989)
1969 Mark Allen Australia, Australasia golfer
1971 Hason Graham NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 Boris Mironov Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Olympics-S-98, Edmonton)
1972 Chris Ball Costa Mesa CA, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96)
1972 Frank West CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 John Leach CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Michele Michael Miss Maryland-USA (1996)
1973 Chiou Hai Ta Miss Taiwan Republic Of China-Universe (1997)
1973 Larry Bowie running back (Washington Redskins)
1975 Vitaly Potapenko NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)

Deaths which occurred on March 21:

1487 Nicholas van Fluë Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies
1538 Hugo earl of Leisnig, Governor of Frisia, dies at about 79
1556 Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66
1652 Vredius [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55
1654 Johann Neukrantz composer, dies at 51
1656 Armagh James Ussher Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
1729 John Law Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1734 Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus composer, dies at 48
1768 Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
1793 Johann Michael Schmidt composer, dies at 51
1801 Andrea Lucchesi composer, dies at 59
1810 Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe Brabants ships, dies
1844 Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt Dutch politician, dies at 65
1857 Abraham J van der Aa lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
1863 Edwin Vose Sumner US Union-General-Major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1894 Jacob Rosenhaim composer, dies at 80
1916 Victor de Stuers Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1920 Federigo Tozzi Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
1921 "Big Jim" Colisimo US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1934 Franz Schreker composer, dies at 55
1934 Lilyan Tashman actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1936 Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
1938 Oscar Apfel actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
1939 Evald Aav composer, dies at 39
1941 Robert Liefmann German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1942 Captain Morávec Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide
1945 J Woortman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
1952 A J Pieters SS-Untersturmführer, executed
1952 Wilhelm Albrecht German SD-chief, executed
1954 Harry Lawrence Freeman composer, dies at 84
1955 Muriel Aked dies at 67
1958 Cyril M Kornbluth US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
1969 Gerhart Fritsch writer, dies at 44
1970 Marlen Haushofer writer, dies at 49
1973 Antoni Szalowski composer, dies at 65
1974 Candy Darling [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1975 Berend Giltay composer, dies at 64
1975 Ralph Hawtrey economist (multiplier), dies at 95
1980 Gideon Fagan composer, dies at 75
1982 Harry H Corbett British actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
1985 Michael Redgrave actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77
1985 Salvador Ley composer, dies at 78
1986 August de Boodt Belgian politician, dies at 90
1987 Dean Paul Martin actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
1987 Robert Preston actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), diesfrom lung cancer in Montecito CA at 68
1989 Milton Frome actor (Family Jewels), dies
1991 Leo Fender inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1991 Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46
1992 John Ireland actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78
1994 Dack Rambo actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
1994 Lili Damita wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89
1994 Macdonald Carey actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81
1995 Daan Wildschut Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
1995 Etienne Martin French sculptor, dies at 82
1995 Norman Schwartz record Producer, dies at 66
1995 Robert Urquhart actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
1996 Eric Brand diplomat, dies at 73
1996 Frank Murray police Officer, dies at 51


On this day...March 21 Events

1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premieres in Vienna
1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today
1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1)
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, is founded in New York NY
1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1871 Otto von Bismarck elevated Fürst
1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London
1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
1899 British & French accord about West-Africa
1907 US invades Honduras
1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) win Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1914 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott
1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of Netherland Indies
1917 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1918 During WWI Germany launches Somme offensive
1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, New York NY)
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1933 Hitler, Göring, Prince Ruprecht, Brüning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1935 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris France
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand vs England at Christchurch
1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1952 "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths
1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 Brooklyn Bulletin asks Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 28th Academy Awards: "Marty", Ernest Borgnine & Anna Magnani win
1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in New York NY
1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1962 Dutch Roman Catholic bishop Beckers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands in favor of birth control
1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' #36
1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
1963 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
1964 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83
1964 Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL
1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise
1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
1971 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-year residency to vote
1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1980 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1984 Border scores 100 vs West Indies Trinidad after 98 in 1st cricket innings
1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame
1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Karin Kania (German Democratic Republic) skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.52 seconds) & 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (ƒ17 million)
1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances
1990 "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
1990 "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1992 2nd WLAF season begins
1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi
1993 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1994 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1994 Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
1995 NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
1996 "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1997 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
1997 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (Germany)
1997 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
1997 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1997 Wrestlemania XIII
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-22-2006, 05:02 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 22:

1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1599 Sir Anthony Van Dyck Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1609 John II Casimir Vasa cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1700 Giuseppe Sellitto composer
1728 Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 Giacomo Insanguine composer
1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler composer
1767 Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance
1771 Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1785 Adam Sedgwick Dent Yorkshire England, British geologist
1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I German emperor (1871-88)
1799 F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 Anthonie Waldrop Dutch painter/lithographer
1813 Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1814 Thomas Crawford US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 Braxton Bragg General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1819 William Wirt Adams Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 Isaac D Fransen van de Putte Dutch premier (1866)
1822 Seth Williams Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 William Henry Chase Whiting Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 Francis Asbury Shoup Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1842 Carl A N Rosa German violinist/composer
1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko composer
1846 Randolph Caldecott England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 Paul Doumer Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32)
1865 Theophile Ysaye composer
1867 Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
1868 Hamish MacCunn composer
1868 Henry W Methorst lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 Robert A Millikan US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1874 Ellen Glasgow novelist
1885 Adriano Lualdi composer
1885 Jakabs Medins composer
1887 Chico [Leonard] Marx New York NY, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1895 Joseph Schildkraut Vienna Austria, actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents)
1896 Giulia D De Albertis writer
19-- Veleka Gray New Orleans LA, actress (Young & Restless)
1902 Ellin Berlin [MacKay] Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1903 James S Russell US pilot/Admiral (WWII Pacific Ocean)
1903 Jochen Klepper writer
1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini composer
1905 Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director
1905 Phyllis McGinley poet
1905 Ruth Page US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 James Gavin US, 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 Paul J Steenbergen Netherlands, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1908 Albrecht Goes writer
1908 Louis D L'Amour Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 Maurice H Stans Shakope MN, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 Gabrielle Roy French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1909 Jack Popplewell composer/playwright
1910 Nicholas Monsarret England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 Henri Rousselot Admiral
1912 Lord Alport
1912 Wilfrid Brambell Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
1913 James Westerfield Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 Karl Malden Chicago IL, actor (Mike-Streets of San Francisco, American Express)
1913 Martha Mödl German singer/soprano (Wagner)
1914 Cec Burke cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner vs Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 Lord Stokes
1914 Masao Maruyama social scientist
1915 Forest Sagendorf cartoonist
1915 George Cresswell cricketer (3 Tests for New Zealand aged 35)
1916 George Wyle New York NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 C S Pick publisher
1917 Paul Rogers Plympton Devon England, actor (Looking Glass War, Billy Budd)
1917 Virginia Grey Los Angeles CA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho)
1918 Cheddi B Jagan dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 Harry Kay vice-chancellor (Exeter University)
1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer
1920 Fanny Waterman concert pianist & teacher
1920 James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Targets)
1920 Ross Martin Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer Netherlands, foreign minister (KVP)
1922 Mujib ur-Rahman Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 Stewart Stern screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts lawyer/civil servant
1923 Cor N van Dis Jr Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 Marcel Marceau Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
1924 Al Neuharth newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 Bill Wendell New York NY, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
1925 Colin Spedding CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes)
1925 Wolfgang Bächler writer
1926 Julius Marmur biochemist/geneticist
1926 Lawrence Jackson Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
1927 George Thoms cricketer (1 Test Australia against West Indies 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1927 Viscount Bolingbroke
1928 Betty Callaway figure skating trainer
1928 Bill Archer (Representative-Republican-TX, 1971- )
1928 DC Ingman CEO (British Waterways Board)
1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov soldier/historian
1928 Ed Macauley NBA'er (Boston Celtics)
1930 Derek Bok college president (Harvard)
1930 Lynden O Pindling Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 Pat Robertson televangelist (700 club, Presidential candidate-Republican-1989)
1930 Stephen Sondheim New York NY, lyricist/composer (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, West Side Story, A Little Night Music)
1931 Igor Hajek translator/writer
1931 Leslie Thomas author
1931 William Shatner Montréal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1932 Richard Thomas Admiral
1933 Buddy MacKay (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- )
1933 Chris Duckworth cricketer (South African batsman vs England 1956-57)
1934 Leslie Turnberg President (Royal College of Physicians)
1934 Orrin G Hatch (Senator-Republican-UT, 1977- )
1934 Sheila Cameron QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1935 M[ichael] Emmet Walsh Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1936 Alan Bleasdale author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)
1936 May Britt [Maybritt Wilkens] Lidinga Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 Philip Ely President (British Law Society)
1936 Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
1936 Ron Carey union president (Teamsters)
1937 Jon Hassell composer
1938 Vivian Pulliam horse trainer
1940 William Ritchie vice-chancellor (Lancaster University)
1941 Bruno Ganz Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 Gary Lewis horse trainer
1942 Barbara Parkins Vancouver British Columbia, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum)
1942 Jon Arthur English composer
1943 George Benson Pittsburgh PA, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
1943 Joseph Schwantner composer
1943 Keith Relf Richmond London England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1944 Jeremy Clyde Buckinghamshire England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1944 R P Mardling headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
1944 T S "Tony" McPhee rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 Alan Opie baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1945 Charles "Chuck" Jackson US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 Paul Schockemöhle showjumper
1946 Don Chaney NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 Laraine Ashton fashion models' agent (London)
1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1946 Serge [Ruud Schaap] Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 Harry Vanda [Vandenberg] Hague Netherlands, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 Patrick Olive percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1947 Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber London England, composer (Evita, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar)
1948 Randy Hobbs rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1949 Brian Hanrahan British TV newsman (BBC)
1949 D Watson director (Brighton University)
1949 Fanny Ardant Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1950 Mary Tamm Dewsbury Yorkshire England, actress (Odessa File, Doctor Who)
1951 Howard Reitzes Southgate CA, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 Musa Khiramanovich Manarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1952 Bob Costas Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1953 Peter McEvoy Australia, actor (Against the Innocent)
1953 Thomas H Andrews (Representative-Democrat-ME)
1956 Lena Olin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1956 Lyndsay Stephen Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer
1957 Stephanie Mills singer/actress (Wiz)
1958 Joyce Lester Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 Pete Wylie Liverpool England, rocker (Sinful)
1959 Matthew Modine Loma Linda CA, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights)
1960 Laurie Sargent rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1962 Diane Pavich Melbourne Australia, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Australia Ladies)
1962 Juan Aguilera Spain, tennis star
1962 Tim Elliott Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1963 Hannu Virta Turku Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 Rich Monteleone Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 Suzanne Sulley Sheffield South Yorkshire, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 Jeffrey Wagner Sydney New South Wales Australia, Australasia golfer
1966 Brad Edwards NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Brian Shaw NBA guard (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors)
1966 Sean Berry Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Todd Ewen Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 Yahya Ayyash militant
1968 Ramon Martinez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1969 Russell Maryland NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders)
1970 Jason Rouser Tucson AZ, 200 meter/400 meter runner
1970 Reggie White NFL nose tackle (New England Patriots)
1970 Travis Richards Crystal MN, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 Richard Castillo jockey
1972 Elvis Stojko Richmond Hill Ontario, (Olympics-silver-94)
1972 John Farquhar tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Mikhail Sloutsky WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Pieter Christiaan Prince of Netherlands
1972 Shawn Bradley NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey Nets, Space Jams)
1973 Joe Nedney kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Luther Elliss NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1974 Kim Yun-Jung Miss Korea-Universe (1996)
1974 Marcus Camby NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 Tuomas Gronman NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1975 Chris Bayne safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Dax Griffin Atlanta GA, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach)
1975 Jiri Novak Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams Washington DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1979 Mariah Leanne Bergmann Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on March 22:

0337 Constantine Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
1471 George van Podiebrad king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1589 Lodovico Guicciardini Ital historian, dies at 67
1627 Cornelis van Aerssen Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81
1639 Thomas Carew English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh art dealer, buried at about 73
1743 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77
1758 Jonathan Edwards theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1771 Gottlieb W Rabener German author (Bremer Beiträge), dies at 56
1777 John Bartram father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 Gaspare Gabellone composer, dies at 68
1798 Justin Morgan composer, dies at 51
1820 Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41
1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at 76
1832 J W Goethe writer, dies at 82
1838 Hendrik Fagel Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1845 Franz Joseph Volkert composer, dies at 67
1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti composer, dies at 70
1871 Johnny Cuzens cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1890 Désiré de Haerne Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1906 Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 Gyula Erkel composer, dies at 66
1922 Louis A Ranvier French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
1923 Theophile Delcassé French statesman, dies at 71
1924 R G Nivelle French General (Verdun), dies at 67
1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun composer, dies at 64
1931 Ban Johnson founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1944 ... Pucheu French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 J Postuma Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1946 Clemens A von Galen bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1951 J Willem Mengelberg Dutch conductor (Matthäus Passion), dies at 79
1953 James Anderson II (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1956 George A L Sarton Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1958 Michael Todd producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1962 Aura Abranches Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
1964 Addison Richards actor (Colonel-Pentagon), dies at 76
1969 Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 Martin Bodmer writer, dies
1974 Peter Revson US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr Secretary of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 Cass Daley actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 Paul Verhoeven German director, dies at 73
1978 Karl Wallenda falls to death walking high-wire in Puerto Rico, at 73
1979 Ben Lyon actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1986 Charles Starrett actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
1987 Joan Shawlee actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1991 Gloria Holden actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1993 Cec Pepper cricketer (New South Wales & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
1993 Gret Palucca German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout Dutch harpist, dies at 83
1993 Steve Olin pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 27
1993 Tim Crews pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 31
1994 Dan Hartman US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 Igor Aleinikov Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 Luther Diamond radio Personality, dies at 89
1994 Walter Lantz US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1995 Peter Woods newsreader, dies at 64
1996 Claude Mauriac writer, dies at 81
1996 Robert Franklin Overmyer astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
1996 Robert Mellors gay activist, dies at 47
1996 Ronald George Hayward political manager, dies at 78

On this day...March 22 Events

1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris France
1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands
1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA; 347 slain
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists
1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1822 New York Horticultural Society founded
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 1st US nursing school chartered
1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 William Holden of North Carolina is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York NY
1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories
1888 English Football League established
1894 Stanley Cup: Montréal AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1927 Federico García Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid
1928 Noël Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London
1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1934 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta GA
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)
1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1953 Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield MI
1956 Death penalty against KPrime Minister-director Léon Jungschlaeger
1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes
1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances
1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section
1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title in 1st Madison Square Garden fight
1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France
1969 "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls
1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
1977 Uyl government falls
1978 France performs nuclear test
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated
1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is shown on NBC-TV
1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
1981 1st class postage raised to 18¢ from 15¢
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 Andrea Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :0.99)
1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1986 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 :9.30)
1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
1986 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
1986 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
1986 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1987 Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1988 Western Australia beat Queensland by 5 wickets to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate
1990 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
1990 "Les Miserables" opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston MA
1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs
1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with New York"
1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
1992 "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
1992 Joseph A Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner
1992 Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die
1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter butterfly (23.68 seconds)
1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
1997 "Sunset Boulevard" closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins
1998 Liselotte Neumann wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 23:

1599 Thomas Selle composer
1638 Frederik Ruysch Dutch anatomist
1699 John Bartram naturalist/explorer, father of American botany
1736 Iman Willem Falck Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1749 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer
1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace mathematician/astronomer/physicist
1750 Johannes Matthias Sperger composer
1761 John W de Winter Dutch Vice-Admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
1769 William Smith geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
1795 Leopold Jansa composer
1801 Peterus D Regout Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
1808 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)
1811 Camille Marie Stamaty composer
1811 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer
1818 Don Carlos Buell Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1821 Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper)
1823 Schuyler Colfax (R) 17th Vice President (1869-73)
1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898
1826 Leon Minkus composer
1834 Julius Reubke composer
1837 Joseph Wieniawski composer
1844 Eugene Gigout composer
1847 Alexandru D Xenopol Romania, historian
1854 Alfred Milner Giessen Germany, British Governor (Cape colony)
1857 Fannie Farmer actress (namesake of a candy company)
1858 Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
1860 Horatio W Bottomley British journalist/swindler
1863 Godfried CE van Daalen Dutch General/Governor of Atjeh
1864 Hjalmar Borgstrom composer
1876 Sir Muirhead Bone Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
1878 Franz Schrecker composer
1881 Hermann Staudinger Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1881 Roger Martin du Guard France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)
1882 C Montague Shaw Adelaide Australia
1883 Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali 1st king of Iraq/Syria
1884 Glauco Velasquez composer
1887 Anthony van Hoboken Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887 Felix Felixovitch Yussupov Russian prince/murderer of Rasputin
1887 Juan Gris Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
1887 Sidney Hillman union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation)
1891 Catherine Murphy Urner composer
1895 Dane Rudhyar composer
1898 Georgios Grivas Greek General/opposition leader on Cyprus
1898 Hazel Dawn [LaTout] Ogden UT, actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl)
19-- Ken Michelman New York NY, actor (Abner-White Shadow)
19-- Terry Alexander Detroit MI, actor (Troy-One Life to Live)
1900 Erich Fromm Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
1900 Jose Antonio Calcano composer
1901 Jan H de Groot Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
1902 Philip Ober Fort Payne AL, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)
1905 Paul Grimault animator
1905 Ralph Perring Lord Mayor (London)
1906 George Posford composer
1907 Daniel Bovet Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
1907 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay politician
1908 Dominique de Menil arts patron/human rights advocate
1908 Joan Crawford [Lucille Fay LeSueur] San Antonio TX, actress (Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?)
1910 Akira Kurosawa Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1910 Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson Bremerhaven Germany, singer/actress (Der Pott)
1911 Augustus John "Gus" Risman rugby league player
1911 Charles Joseph A Russhon USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison (James Bond films)
1911 Denis Wright diplomat
1911 Edward Warner diplomat
1911 Richard Chapman golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1912 Alfred Schwarzmann Germany, gymnast (Olympics-2 golds-1936)
1912 John Payne Roanoke VA, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge)
1912 Werner von Braun Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
1914 Robert Gross composer
1915 Francis Berry poet/Shakespearean scholar
1917 H C Allen American historian
1917 Johnny Guarnieri New York NY, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1917 Kenneth Tobey actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders)
1917 Patricia Burke Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden)
1919 Michael Lyne British air Vice-marshal
1920 Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan composer
1920 Geoffrey Bush composer
1920 James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Lieutenant Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin)
1920 Jimmy Edwards comedy actor (Barnes)
1920 Neal Smith (Representative-Democrat-IA, 1959- )
1921 Donald Malcome Campbell Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1921 Ian Todd President (Royal College of Surgeons)
1921 Wolfgang Altendorfer writer
1922 Marty Allen Pittsburgh PA, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere"
1922 Ugo Tognazzi Cremona Italy, actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles)
1923 Arnie Weinmeister AAFC, NFL defensive tackle (New York Yankees, Giants)
1924 Peter Godfrey chartered accountant
1925 Cees de Ruyter European champion billiards player
1925 David McNee commissioner (Metropolitan Police)
1926 Martha Wright Seattle WA, singer (Let's Dance, The Martha Wright Show)
1927 Osvaldo Lacerda composer
1928 11th duke of Beaufort English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1928 Alfred Morris British MP
1929 Albert H Crews astronaut
1929 Gerrit den Braber Dutch composer/producer
1929 James Ackley Maxwell actor/director (Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley)
1929 Michael Manser architect
1929 Roger Bannister England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
1931 Norman F Lent (Representative-Republican-NY, 1971- )
1933 Geoffrey Leigh CEO (Allied London Properties)
1933 Monique van Vooren Belgium, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
1933 Norman Bailey British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
1934 Bryan Bass headmaster (City of London School)
1934 Mark Rydell New York NY, actor (Havana, Punchline, Long Goodbye)
1935 Barry Cryer comedian/writer (Goodies Rule-OK, All You Need is Cash)
1935 Desmond Pitcher CEO (Merseyside Development Corporation)
1935 Szilárd Kun Hungary, rapid fire pistol (Olympics-silver-1952)
1937 Craig Breedlove Los Angeles CA, auto-racing champion (600 MPH-Spirit of America)
1937 Heinz Martin Lonquich composer
1938 Christopher Glenn New York NY, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1938 Kenneth J Gregory warden (Goldsmiths' College)
1939 Bert Berdis Pittsburgh PA, comedian (Tim Conway Show)
1939 Boris Ivanovich Tischenko composer
1940 Brian Hastings cricketer (New Zealand batsman in 70's)
1940 Luis Gasca rocker
1940 Tariq Yunus actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers)
1942 Jimmy Miller US pop drummer (Rolling Stones, Motörhead)
1943 Gail Goodrich NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
1943 Peter Graves supt minister (Westminster Central Hall)
1944 Michael Nyman composer (Mesmer, Carrington)
1944 Salim Altaf cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
1947 Barbara Rhodes Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
1948 Michael Gleeson otolaryngologist
1948 R J Bennett FBA/geographer
1948 Wasim Bari cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful)
1949 Karen English (Representative-Democrat-AZ)
1949 Ric Ocasek Baltimore MD, rocker (Cars-Double Life, All Mixed Up, Bye Bye Love)
1950 Corrine Clery Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
1950 P R Scott Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green)
1951 Dick Mast Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast)
1951 Lis Howell director of programs (GMTV)
1952 Patricia Richardson Bethesda MD, actress (Jill-Home Improvement)
1953 Chaka Khan [Yvette Marie Stevens] Great Lakes IL, rocker (Rufus-I'm Every Woman)
1953 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown British MP
1953 Louie Anderson Minneapolis MN, comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys)
1954 Moses Malone NBA all star center (Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia '76ers)
1955 Cindy Olavarri Pleasant Hills CA, cyclist (7-Eleven team)
1956 Andrew Mitchell British MP
1956 Laura Thorne chef (named one of 10 best American chefs)
1957 Amanda Plummer New York NY, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1957 Sheila Rena Ingram Washington DC, 4X400 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1976)
1957 Teresa Ganzel Toledo OH, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory)
1958 Serena Grandi [Fagioli], Bologna Italy, actress (Miranda)
1960 Oscar Michael Moore journalist
1960 Terry Sweeney St Albans NY, writer/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1962 Johan Steur soccer player (FC Volendam)
1963 Ana Quirot Cuba, 800 meter runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1963 Kim Williams Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th)
1965 Dante Jones NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1965 Daren Puppa Kirkland Lake, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 Richard Grieco Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
1965 Wayne Presley Detroit MI, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 James Saxon NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Marti Pellow rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1966 Mike Remlinger Middletown NY, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 David Ford Edmonton Alberta, kayaker (Olympics-15-92, 96)
1967 Duncan Macrae actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1967 Sandra Ferguson [Reinhardt] Pittsburgh PA, actress (Amanda-Another World, Illegal in Blue)
1968 Atul Wassan cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90)
1968 Curtis Mayfield CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 David Maeva CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1968 Mark Maddox linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Mike Atherton cricketer (Lancashire batsman & England captain)
1970 Carl Pickens NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 Turhon O'Bannon CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Alexander Selivanov Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 Chris Lipuma Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 Demetrius DuBose NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Hiroyoshi Yamamoto wrestler (NJPW)
1971 Karen McDougal Gary IN, playmate (December 1997)
1971 Renette Cruz Miss Canada-Universe (1996)
1971 Yasmeen Ghauri Montréal Canada, model (Valentino Perfume)
1972 Jennifer K Chapman Miss Massachusetts-USA (1997)
1972 Jonas Bjorkman Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (Davis Cup 1994)
1972 Ryan Kuwabara hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1973 David Vaughn NBA forward (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors)
1973 Igor Nikitin hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1973 Jason Kidd NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1973 Kathy Carboy Cincinnati OH, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 Naoko Sawamatsu Nishinomiya Japan, tennis star (1994 Singapore)
1973 Ninya Perna Miss Nevada-USA (1997)
1973 Rob Lazeo CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1974 Eric Washington NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 Scott Galyon linebacker (New York Giants)
1974 Tony Alberda Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Emmen)
1975 Rita Grande Napoli Italy, tennis star (3rd round 1996 Australian Open)
1976 Keri Russell actress (Mickey Mouse Club, Lottery, Daddy Girls)
1976 Nolan Baumgartner Calgary, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1977 Josh Ackerman actor (Mickey Mouse Club)
1978 Nicholle Tom Hinsdale IL, actress (Beethoven, Maggie-Nanny, Beverly Hills 90210)
1990 Eugenie Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguson

Deaths which occurred on March 23:

1169 Shirkuh Kurd General/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies
1237 Jan of Brienne King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1369 Pedro the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered
1555 Julius III [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1606 Justus Lipsius [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1653 Johan van Galen Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1658 Valentin Dretzel composer, dies at 79
1669 Philipp Buchner composer, dies at 54
1676 Paulus Wirtz [Würtz], German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63
1748 Johann Gottfried Walther German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1756 Georg Gottfried Wagner composer, dies at 57
1783 Gaspard Fritz composer, dies at 67
1786 Patience Wright 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1801 Paul I tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46
1806 George Frederic Pinto composer, dies at 20
1809 Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer, dies at 60
1816 Ignaz Vitzthumb composer, dies at 95
1818 Nicolas Isouard composer, dies at 42
1819 August v Kotzebue writer, dies
1821 Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
1832 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, dies at 41
1842 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1862 Karl Robert von Nesselrode German chancellor, dies at 81
1869 Charles Lucas composer, dies at 60
1880 Gustav Adolf Mankell composer, dies at 67
1881 Nikolay Rubinstein composer, dies at 45
1902 Kálmán Tisza premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71
1906 Victor Barton cricketer (scored 23 in Test England vs South Africa 1892), dies
1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1914 Teunis Stoel actor, dies at 62
1918 Cesar Cortinas composer, dies at 27
1919 Jean HL Bossard actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin Russian General/minister of War, dies at 76
1937 Helge Rode Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
1943 André Lichtenberger French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
1943 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger composer, dies at 47
1944 O C Wingate British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash
1946 Alexandru Zirra composer, dies at 62
1950 Douglas Carr England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1952 Klaas Schilder Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1953 Raoul Dufy painter, Forcalquier, France
1957 L Patrick Abercrombie English architect, dies at 77
1958 Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1960 Franklin P Adams columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 A C Russell cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies
1961 James Edward Murray (Senator-Democrat-MT) (1935-61), dies
1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1962 Josephus RH van Schaik lawyer/vice-premier of Netherlands, dies at 80
1962 Val Paul producer (F-Man), dies at 73
1963 Davey Moore dies seconds after being KOed in feather-weight championship
1964 Peter Lorre actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59
1964 Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1965 Mae Murray actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
1966 Johannes W Elsensohn Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82
1967 Duncan Macrae actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1968 Edwin O'Connor US writer, dies at 49
1969 Rudolf Pannwitz German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
1971 Armin Loos composer, dies at 67
1971 Simon Vestdijk Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
1973 Ken Maynard actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77
1979 Philip Bourneuf actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
1982 Mario Praz Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1983 Dr Barney Clark 1st artificial heart recipient , dies after 112 days at 62
1985 Anton Constandse Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85
1985 Patricia Roberts Harris (Representative-D), dies at 60
1985 Singing Nun [Janine Deckers] commits suicide in Belgium at 52
1987 Dean Paul Martin musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1991 Dominic Bellissimo created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 Fons Jansen Dutch night club performer, dies at 65
1991 Mona Maris actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
1992 Friedrich A von Hayek British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1993 Hans Werner Richter German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
1994 Alvara del Portillo Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1994 Giulietta Masina wife of Federico Felini/(La Strada), dies at 74
1994 Jim Moloney dies of Parkinson's disease
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at 44
1995 Alan Barton singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar composer/songwriter, dies at 61
1995 Davie Cooper soccer star, dies at 39
1995 Irving Shulman author/screenwriter, dies at 81
1995 Ripley L Ingram singer, dies at 65
1995 Robert Turner winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 Russell Reading Braddon author, dies at 74
1996 Jay D Miller record producer, dies at 73
1996 Peter Baer artost/printmaker, dies at 72

On this day...March 23

1026 Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
1534 Aragón legal
1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander
1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 George Frideric Händel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I
1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1832 British Parliament passes reform bill
1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1836 Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating
1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Encounter at Camden AR
1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
1868 University of California founded (Oakland CA)
1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1891 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall
1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier" premieres in Milan
1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US
1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
1918 Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed
1918 Lithuania proclaims independence
1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)
1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC
1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1923 Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1926 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens outscore Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
1929 1st telephone installed in White House
1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
1930 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1946 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40
1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 meter))
1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" premieres in New York NY
1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1950 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win
1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established
1951 Wages in France increase 11%
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1956 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71; this is San Francisco's 2nd consecutive national basketball championship
1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
1956 Sudan becomes independent
1957 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 overtimes)
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 JFK visits San Francisco
1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs West Indies age 21 years 77 days
1962 Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach
1962 William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000
1963 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT)
1963 Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" premieres in Berlin
1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
1968 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55
1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational
1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1972 New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
1973 After a 5½ year run, soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1975 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify)
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
1980 Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs Pakistan
1980 Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1981 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
1981 Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
1982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1984 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :0.91)
1984 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (Great Britain)
1984 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (Canada)
1984 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1984 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
1985 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
1985 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio TX)
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo; First Blood Part II wins
1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
1986 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1987 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Durham 9-3 & Montréal beats Birmingham 20-5
1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12 meter)
1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
1993 Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
1993 New York Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1994 Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11 :8)
1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor
1994 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev
1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
1995 "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances
1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins
1997 Laura Davies wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1997 Liberty Legends of Senior Golf
1997 Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational
1997 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-24-2006, 07:33 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 24:

1188 Ferrand of Portugal earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1441 Ernst I elector of Saxon (1464-86)
1494 Georgius Agricola Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)
1607 Michiel A de Ruyter Dutch Rear Admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1630 José Saenz d'Aguirre Spanish cardinal
1703 José F de Isla [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori composer
1732 Gian Francesco de Majo composer
1740 John Antes composer
1749 Bernard Jumentier composer
1755 Rufus King framer of US constitution/(Senator-F)
1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
1802 Jacob van Lennep attorney/Dutch MP
1809 Joseph Liouville St Omer Pas-de-Calais France, discover of transcendental numbers
1814 Galen Clark US, naturalist, discovered Mariposa Grove
1817 Aime Maillart composer
1821 [George] Hector Tyndale Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 Elisa Felix [Rachel] tragedienne
1834 John Wesley Powell US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1834 William Morris England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
1835 Josef Stefan Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1837 Philips Count of Flanders Belgium
1855 Andrew W Mellon founder (Mellon Bank)/US Secretary of Treasury
1855 Olive Schreiner South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
1866 Jack McAuliffe US lightweight boxing champion, hall of famer
1869 Émile Fabre France, playwright, administrator of Comédie Française
1871 Sir Ernest Rutherford nuclear scientist
1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz] Budapest Hungary, magician/escape artist
1874 Luigi Einaudi economist/1st President of Italy (1948-55)
1878 Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff] Dutch writer
1883 James I Wedgwood British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1884 Gino Marinuzzi composer
1884 Peter Debye Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1885 Charlie Daniels US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Smith Center KS, actor (Keystone comedies)
1888 Jameson Thomas London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
1890 Miguel Suriel Netherland Antillian writer (Muhé culpabel)
1891 Annie "Charley" Toorop Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1891 John Knittel writer
1893 George Sisler baseball hall of fame 1st baseman (257 hits in 1920)
1895 Arthur Murray dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
1895 Sid Saylor Chicago IL, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 Gianna Manzini writer
1897 Charles Eyck Dutch painter/sculptor
1897 Wilhelm Reich Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
1898 Dorothy Stratton organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)
1898 George Alpert railroad executive
19-- Crissy Wilzak Comstock Elyria OH, actress (Crissy-Mork & Mindy)
19-- Kim Ulrich Ripon CA, actress (Diana-As the World Turns)
19-- Terrell Anthony Illinois, actor (Rusty-Guiding Light)
1900 June [Algeria Junius] Clark musician trumpet
1902 Thomas E Dewey Ohio, 1st Catholic Presidential candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1903 Adolph F J Butenandt German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1903 John Patrick Sutton Ludlow actor (Agatha)
1903 Malcolm Muggeridge English writer (Observer of Life)
1905 André Christiaens Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
1906 John Cameron Swayze news correspondant, Timex spokesman
1907 Janet Harmon Bragg US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 Lauris Norstad US General (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1907 Lucia Chase US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
1907 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya writer
1907 Martin Kosleck [Nicolaie Yoshkin] Barkotzen Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
1909 Clyde Barrow bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1909 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
1910 Jacques Chailley composer
1910 Richard Conte Jersey City NJ, actor (Four Just Men, 13 Rue Madeleine, Hotel, Jean Arthur Show)
1911 Enrique Jordá San Sebastian Spain, conductor (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1970)
1911 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)
1911 Jane Beverly Drew architect
1911 Joseph Barbera animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1914 Lilli Palmer Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1918 Englebert van Anderlecht Belgian painter
1919 John J Duncan Jr (Representative-Republican-TN, 1965- )
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti author (Coney Island of the Mind)
1920 Gene Nelson [Berg], Seattle WA, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
1921 Wilson Harris Guayanese author
1922 Dave Appell singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour)
1922 Dorothy Irene Height president (national council of negro women)
1923 Edna Jo Hunter expert on military families & prisoners of war
1923 Murray Hamilton Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1924 Lois Andrews actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
1924 Lorraine Gourley Los Angeles CA
1924 Norman Fell Philadelphia PA, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1925 Duncan Wood TV director/producer
1925 Mai Zetterling Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer)
1926 Dario Fo Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997)
1927 Janos Decsenyi composer
1927 Martin Walser writer
1928 Byron "Yanks" Janis McKeesport PA, pianist (NBC Symphony Orchestra)
1928 Vanessa Brown Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 Cuan McCarthy cricketer (36 Test wickets for South Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1930 Kenneth Nelson Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1930 Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1931 Thelma Kalama US, 4 X 100 meter relay swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948)
1932 William Smith Columbia MO, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii Five-0)
1932 Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1933 David Harries composer
1935 Peter Bichsel writer
1936 Fredrick Kaufmamn composer
1937 Benjamin Luxon Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1937 Bill Tillman baseball player
1937 Billy Stewart US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1937 Erskine Sandiford premier (Barbados, 1987-94)
1938 Larry Wilson NFL back (Cardinals)
1940 Bob Mackie Monterey Park CA, designer (Streisand, Cher)
1943 H Martin Lancaster (Representative-Democrat-NC)
1943 Jesus Alou baseball outfielder (San Francisco Giants)
1943 Marika Kilius German Federal Republic, pairs ice skating-Franz Ningel/Hans Jurgen Baumler, (Olympics-silver-1960, 64)
1944 Denny McLain baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
1944 Patti Labelle singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon)
1946 Lee Oskar Copenhagen Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends)
1946 Paul Williams climber
1947 Alan Sugar English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1947 Mike Kellie rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1947 Paul McCandless rocker (Torches on the Lake)
1947 Pieter W Coetzer South African journalist/MP (NP)
1949 Nick Lowe vocalist/producer (I Knew the Bride)
1949 Steve Lang Montréal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine-Just Between You and Me)
1951 Dougie Thompson rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right)
1951 Earl Williams NBAer
1951 Kenneth S Reightler Jr Patuxent MD, Commander USN/astronaut (STS 48, 60)
1951 Pat Bradley Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open)
1952 Nicholas Campbell Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-The Insiders)
1953 Steve Lubbers cricketer (captain of Dutch World Cup team 1996)
1954 Donna Pescow Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1954 Irina Ratushinskaya Odessa Ukraine, dissident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1954 Robert Carradine Los Angeles CA, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
1956 Ijaz Faqih cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
1957 Scott J Horowitz Philadelphia PA, PhD/Captain USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82)
1959 Renaldo Nehemiah US, hurdler (110 meter at 12.93)/NFLer (San Francisco 49ers)
1960 Kelly LeBrock New York NY, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red)
1961 Dean Jones cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92)
1961 James T Gallagher Jr Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milwaukee)
1962 Penny Hammel Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89)
1962 Star Jones attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
1963 Raimond van der Gouw Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester)
1963 Sammy Giammatva Houston TX, tennis star
1964 Hans Schwaier West Germany, tennis star
1965 Angela Zuckerman St Louis MO, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965 Ben Torriero WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1965 Jeff Reese Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 Marian Vajda Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1966 Penny Toler WNBA guard (Los Angeles Sparks)
1966 Tatjana Patitz Hamburg German Federal Republic, model/actress (Rising Sun)
1967 Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel Florida, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Arkansas 1987)
1967 Richard Gillam Atlanta GA, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1969 Yoko Zetterlund San Francisco CA, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1970 Lara Flynn Boyle Davenport IA, actress (The Practice, The Temp, Twin Peaks)
1970 Marques Bragg NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 Mike Vanderjagt CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 Shannon Lemora Baton Rouge LA, 1.5k runner
1973 Atle Larsen WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1973 Chip McCaw Chicago IL, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1973 David Moravec hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakia Olympics-gold-1998)
1973 Josh Lakatos Pasadena CA, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996)
1973 Philippe Boucher St Apollinaire CA, NHL defense (Los Angeles Kings, Olympics-G-98)
1974 Terry Killens linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1975 Debbie Keller Winfield IL, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 Julia Bikbova Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee)
1976 Danielle Garrett Camp Hill PA, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1977 Olivia Burnette San Clemente CA, actress (Torkelsons)
1980 Luke Edwards Nevada City CA, actor (Newsie)

Deaths which occurred on March 24:

0809 Harun al-Rashid caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44
1400 Florens Radewijns Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
1455 Nicholas V [Tommaso Parentucelli] Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57
1455 Rudolf van Diepholt bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies
1471 Sir Thomas Malory author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
1558 Anna van Buren countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies
1603 Elizabeth I Tudor [Maiden Queen] UK queen (1558-1603), dies at 69
1631 Philipp Dulichius composer, dies at 68
1635 Jacques Callot French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
1644 Cecilia Renata arch duchess of Austria, dies
1654 Samuel Scheidt German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
1661 William Leddra last Quaker, hanged in Boston
1755 Theodor Christleib Reinhold composer, dies at 72
1823 Cornelis van Foreest Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer, dies at 64
1838 Thomas Attwood composer, dies at 72
1842 Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle] French writer (The Love), buried at 59
1866 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies
1877 Walter Bagehot English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51
1878 Albin Masek composer, dies at 73
1881 Friedrich Hecker German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1894 Robert Prescott Stewart composer, dies at 68
1899 Billy Barnes cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies
1905 Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
1909 John Millington Synge Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1911 Matthew Stanley Robison president (Cardinals), dies
1916 Enrique y Campina Granados Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1918 Theophile Ysaye composer, dies at 53
1921 Deodat de Severac composer, dies at 48
1932 George Robert Canning cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies
1937 Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Pauline Flatbread), dies at 76
1945 J S Nicklin Lieutenant-Colonel/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies
1945 Thomas Rennie General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
1946 Alexander A Aljechin world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53
1946 Gustaf Heintze composer, dies at 66
1953 Felix M Abel French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
1953 Mary [Victoria of Teck] queen of Great Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 86
1953 Queen Mary of Britain dies
1960 Paul Joostens Flemish painter, dies at 70
1962 Auguste Picard Swiss explorer, dies at 78
1964 Peter Lorre Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59
1967 Marc Lavry composer, dies at 63
1968 Howard Petrie actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
1969 Joseph Kasavubu President of Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
1974 Doris Deane dies at 74
1974 Yoshida Isoya Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1975 Muriel Hutchinson actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
1975 Oscar Rasbach composer, dies at 86
1976 Bernard L Montgomery British General, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1976 Nelson Case TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
1977 Saburo Moroi composer, dies at 73
1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
1979 Yvonne Mitchell writer, dies at 53
1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated while conducting mass in San Salvador
1982 Ace Goodman Kansas City MO, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83
1984 Sam Jaffe actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93
1986 Sarah Cunningham actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
1990 Alice Sapritch actress (European Vacation), dies
1990 An Wang computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 from cancer
1990 Ray Goulding comedian (Bob & Ray), dies from kidney failure at 68
1990 Rene Enriquez actor (Hill St Blues), dies from pancreatic cancer at 56
1993 Erik Andriesse Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
1993 John Hersey Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
1993 Peter Roovers Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1993 Taylor Reed actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60
1994 Edith Porada art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican politician, assassinated
1994 Tommy Benford jazz drummer, dies at 88
1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal businessman, dies at 88
1995 Joey Long blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62
1995 Trevor Oswald Ling religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga singer, dies at 66

On this day...March 24 Events

1379 End of Gelderse war victory
1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS
1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago
1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA
1898 1st automobile sold
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1924 Greece becomes a republic
1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty
1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS, New York NY)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1930 Rÿnsburgse Boys soccer team forms
1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker, WABC from Maryland)
1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons in 16 minutes & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0
1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL)
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1941 British troops defeat British Somalia
1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 Long Island University beats Ohio University 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in New York NY
1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency
1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1949 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
1949 Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")
1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances
1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene
1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59
1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champion
1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1973 San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7 year reign as NCAA basketball champions
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military
1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 points
1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center
1980 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline with Ted Koppel"
1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :4.52)
1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14 :1.51)
1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)
1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", 1st time seen on TV since 1973
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50 meter freestyle (21.81 seconds)
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win
1991 Barcelona Dragons beat New York/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991 New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3
1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship
1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel
1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-25-2006, 07:26 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 25:

1133 Henry II King of England (1154-89)
1252 Konradijn Hohenstaufen [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV
1495 Leonhard Paminger composer
1528 Jacob Andreae German theologist (Schwäbische Konkordie)
1532 Pietro Pontio composer
1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher Dutch writer
1653 Joseph Sauveur French physicist/mathematician
1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler composer
1699 Johann Adolf Hasse composer
1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler composer
1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas composer
1723 Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery composer
1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini composer
1767 Joachim Murat marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1769 Salvatore Vigano composer
1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers composer
1782 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon)
1784 François-Joseph Fétis Belgian musicology/composer
1786 Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1797 John Winebrenner US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1800 Paulin Paris French historian
1808 José de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1820 Xavier F M G Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1823 William Thompson Martin Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1830 Julius Caesar cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey)
1839 William Bell Wait US, educated the blind
1867 Arturo Toscanini Parma Italy, temperamental conductor
1867 Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore)
1868 Bill Lockwood cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
1869 Gustaaf Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer
1871 John Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore)
1872 Vito Pardo Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1873 Rudolf Rocker German/US anarchist
1875 Spencer Charters Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1877 Alphonse de Châteaubriant French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas)
1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour Belgian President of IOC (1925-42)
1878 Theodore Samuel Holland composer
1879 Otakar Zich composer
1881 Béla Bartók Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1881 Louis Dosfel Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1882 Haydn Wood composer
1885 Veit Valentin German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1887 Josef Capek Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutník)
1890 Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1892 Andy Clyde Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1893 Edward Hart (Representative-Democrat-NJ)/1st chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities
1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen composer
1897 John Laurie Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1899 Bella Spewack Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
1899 Jacques Audiberti French poet (Race of Men)
1901 Ed Begley Hartford CT, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
1902 Sten Broman composer
1903 Frankie Carle Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch)
1905 Binnie Barnes London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1906 Alan J P Taylor British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906 Howard Pyle (Governor-Republican-AZ, 1951-55)
1906 Jean Sablon crooner
1908 Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte British theater & hotel director
1908 David Lean Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
1908 Helmut Käutner Düsseldorf Germany, director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
1909 Dutch (Emil) Leonard baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1909 Jay Blackton New York NY, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 Mario Peragallo Italian composer
1911 Willy Anthoons Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1914 Marthe Robert essayist/translator
1914 Norman E Borlaug US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko composer
1919 Jeanne Cagney actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand)
1920 Patrick Troughton actor (Doctor Who)
1921 Nancy Kelly Lowell MA, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
1921 Simone Signoret Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1922 Bruno VeSota Chicago IL, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers)
1922 Eileen Ford modeling agency head (Ford Modeling Agency)
1923 Lee Hale Tacoma WA, choral director (The Entertainers)
1923 Wim Van Est [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist
1924 Julia A Perry Lexington KY, US composer (Cask of Amontillado, Selfish Giant)
1924 Machiko Kyo Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1925 Flannery O'Connor Georgia, novelist (A Good Man Is Hard to Find)
1926 Hans Rausing Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
1926 Laszlo Papp Hungary, Olympics Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956)
1927 Leslie Claudius India, field hockey (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1928 James A Lovell Jr Cleveland OH, USN/astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
1929 Harris W Fawell (Representative-Republican-IL, 1985- )
1929 Kenneth Haigh Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1930 David Russell Burge composer
1931 Bohumil Golián Czechoslovakia, volleyball player (Olympics-bronze-1968)
1932 Wes Santee miler
1932 Woody (Woodson) Held baseball player
1934 Gloria Steinem Toledo OH, feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1934 Johnny Burnette Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1935 Susan Engel Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy)
1936 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales bassist
1938 Hoyt Axton Duncan OK, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
1939 Toni Cade Bambara director
1940 Anita Bryant Barnsdall OK, Miss Oklahoma-America (1958)/singer (George Gobel Show)/homophobe
1942 Aretha Franklin Memphis TN, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
1942 Paul Michael Glaser Cambridge MA, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
1943 Pavel Lednev USSR, pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1980)
1943 Ronald Jeffers composer
1944 Frank Oz muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
1944 Ross Duncan cricketer (one Test Australia vs England 1971, 0-30)
1944 Terry L Bruce (Representative-Democrat-IL, 1985- )
1946 Bonnie Bedelia [Culkin] New York NY, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel, New Land)
1947 Claudine Schneider (Representative-Republican-RI, 1981- )
1947 Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] Pinner Middlesex England, singer (Rocketman, Your Song, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
1948 Kelly Garrett actress/singer (Holdin)
1948 Michael Stanley Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1948 Richard Lundy horse trainer
1949 Jean Potvin NHLer
1949 Neil Jones musician (Bend Me Shape Me)
1949 Nick Lowe Woodchurch Suffolk England, rocker (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1951 Bob Pelander rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 Maisie Williams Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 Ken Boyd basketball
1953 Haroon Rashid cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's)
1953 Mary Gross Chicago IL, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Club Paradise, Feds)
1956 Sonia M Lannaman England, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-bronze-1980)
1958 James McDaniel Washington DC, actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue)
1958 María Caridad Colón Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympics-gold-1980)
1958 Yograj Singh cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's)
1959 Vince Guerra jockey
1960 Haywood Nelson New York NY, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening)
1960 Robert Green Omaha NE, tennis star
1960 Steve Norman London England, rock saxophone player (Spandau Ballet-True)
1961 John Stockwell Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits)
1961 Mark David Brooks Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open)
1964 Alex Solls jockey
1964 Eric Woods California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Xerox British Columbia Open)
1964 Ken Wregget Brandon Manitoba Canada, NHL goalie (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1965 Avery Johnson NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker Nelsonville OH, actress (Square Pegs, LA Story)
1965 Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1966 David Hohl Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1966 Jeff Cross NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 Jeff Healey Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1966 Tom Glavine Concord MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991)
1967 Debi Thomas US, figure skater (Olympics-bronze-1988)
1967 Takayuki Miura hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1968 Dixon Edwards NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Errol Martin CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 Peter Blackburn Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 Dale Davis NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1969 Dan Wilson Arlington Height IL, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 Guy Newman Australian water polo goalie (Olympics-96)
1969 Scott Sanders Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 Magnus Larsson Sweden, tennis star
1970 Shawn Antoski Brantford, NHL left wing (Philadelphia Flyers)
1971 Aashish Kapoor cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- )
1971 AndrÄ Bolduc CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 Cammi Granato ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1971 Perry Klein NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 Sheryl Swoopes Lubbock TX, WNBA forward (Houston Comets, Olympics-gold-96)
1972 Demet Edwards WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Howard Battle Biloxi MS, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 Lawrence Moten NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 Andrei Nikolishin Vorkuta Russia, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1973 Bob Sura NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1973 Ray Zellars NFL fullback (New Orleans Saints)
1974 Mike Adams wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Vyninka Arlow Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1975 Miguel Mejia San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1976 Monica Croscicka-Wnetrzak Miss Poland-Universe (1996)
1989 Chicken Kentucky 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)

Deaths which occurred on March 25:

1223 Afonso II 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1458 Inigo López de Mendoza Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 Georges d'amboise French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1609 Johan Willem duke of Jülich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies
1692 Gerardus L Blasius Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 Hendrik Casimir II King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1751 Frederik of Hessen Kassel King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1766 Johannes Ritschel composer, dies at 26
1799 Constantin Reindl composer, dies at 60
1801 Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1801 Novalis writer, dies at 28
1823 Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at 75
1825 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63
1835 Friederike Blum writer, dies
1852 Alexis Garaude composer, dies at 73
1880 Joseph Rummel composer, dies at 61
1880 Ludmilla Assing writer, dies
1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, dies at 57
1910 Kálmán Mikszáth Hungarian author (Szent Péter Esernyöje), dies at 63
1914 Frédéric Mistral French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
1918 Claude A Debussy French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris France at 55
1924 John Reedman cricketer (Test for Australia 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
1937 John Drinkwater English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1940 Ion Nonna Otescu composer, dies at 51
1948 Warren Hymer actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 Hanns A Rauter German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at 54
1951 Edward Collins Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63
1954 Gertrud Bäumer writer, dies
1956 George Luther Foote composer, dies at 70
1956 Robert Newton actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 Fud Livingston composer, dies at 50
1958 Emerson Whithorne composer, dies at 73
1959 Billy Mayerl composer, dies at 56
1962 Auguste Piccard Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78
1963 David Moore US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini composer, dies at 72
1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo US civil rights activist, murdered
1966 Colin Campbell actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1968 Douglas Evans actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 Alan Mowbray actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 Max F Eastman US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies at 86
1969 Norman Gallichan cricketer (one Test for New Zealand, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1973 Edward Steichen pioneer of American photography, dies at 92
1974 Otto Waldis actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia shot to death by his nephew
1978 Jack Hulbert actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 ... Sykes British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 Anton Heiller composer, dies at 55
1983 Martha Sleeper actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 Henry R LaBouisse headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 Eileen Joyce pianist, dies at 78
1991 Lee Donn pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1992 Nancy Walker actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1992 Noémie Perugia French mezzo soprano, dies
1994 David Miles Bensuan-Butt Economist , dies at 79
1994 Michel R Vassallucci French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1995 James Gardner designer, dies at 87
1995 Peter Herbert Penwarden priest, dies at 73
1995 Warren E Burger chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 Roberto Sanchez Vilella Governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies

On this date...Mardh 25 Events

0001 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
0031 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
0421 Friday at 12 Prime Minister: city of Venice founded
0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th)
1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1409 Council of Pisa opens
1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies
1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1647 Cape of Good Hope; tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington
1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 Netherlands Bank established
1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich
1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 Skirmish at Brentwood TN
1864 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 Battle of Bluff Spring FL
1865 Battle of Fort Stedman VA: in front of Petersburg
1865 Battle of Mobile AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York NY)
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England
1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC
1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece
1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York NY
1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis
1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown IA
1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champion
1911 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York NY
1911 L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1913 Great Dayton Flood
1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (New York NY) starring Ed Wynn
1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY)
1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1920 Greek Independence Day
1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriótis as premier
1924 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 (2nd of 1924)
1931 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1934 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
1934 Horton Smith win 1st Masters golf championship
1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons in NHL longest game (2 hours 56 minutes 30 seconds)
1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon SC, incorporated
1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration
1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47
1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia IL, claims 111 lives
1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v New Zealand, Christchurch)
1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win
1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 26th Academy Awards: "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win
1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champion to win 5 times
1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1959 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York NY)
1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1960 Italian government Tambroni forms
1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances
1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
1961 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
1962 French OAS-leader ex-General Jouhaud arrested
1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy
1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL
1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1967 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
1967 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1
1967 UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold
1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76; UCLA's 6th consecutive national basketball title
1972 America's LP "America" goes #1
1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1973 Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England
1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew
1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
1976 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 meter ladies (39.69 seconds)
1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.58)
1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1990 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win
1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 vs West Indies at Bourda (!), Georgetown
1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839)
1992 Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI
1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1993 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.37)
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
1996 World Ice Dance Championship in Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (Russia)
1996 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (Russia)
1996 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
1996 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
1997 "Barrymore" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
1997 Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-26-2006, 09:16 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 26:

1479 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 Konrad von Gesner Zürich Switzerland, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis)
1577 Elisabeth of Nassau daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 William Wollaston Coton England, philosopher
1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer
1684 Johann Graf composer
1717 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer
1753 Benjamin Thompson physicist (Royal Institute of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg composer
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 Johann Baptist Weigl composer
1806 Josef Slavik composer
1813 Thomas West Sherman Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 Herman Haupt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa composer
1819 Louise Otto Germany, author/feminist
1821 Earnest Angel German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 Emanuel Kania composer
1830 Eliza Laurillard Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 John Rogers Thomas composer
1833 Betsy Perk [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 Carli Zoeller composer
1840 George Smith London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 Edward Bellamy author (Looking Backward)
1854 Braulio Dueno Colon composer
1856 David Alfred Thomas Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 A[lfred] E[dward] Housman England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer
1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall composer
1863 Henry Royce founder (Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884)
1868 Fuad I king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo)
1873 [Louise] Sophie de Vries actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 Gerald du Maurier London England, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
1874 Oskar Nedbal composer
1874 Robert Frost San Francisco CA, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 Syngman Rhee President of South Korea (1948-60)
1880 Duncan Hines US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1884 Wilhelm Backhaus Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 Julius Harrison composer
1885 Robert Blackburn British aviation pioneer
1888 Sigurd Erixon Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture)
1889 Vaclav Kapral composer
1890 Jozef Arras Flemish writer
1893 Palmiro Togliatti founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 Will Wright San Francisco CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1896 Richard Flury composer
1897 Jean Epstein French director (Sa tête/Eau vive)
1898 Renzo Massarani composer
1899 James B Connant chemist/college president (Yale)
1899 William Baines composer
19-- Robert Shields mime (Shields & Yarnell)
1900 Isadore Freed composer
1902 Leslie Melville economist
1904 Emilio Fernandez El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
1904 Hermann Schroeder composer
1904 Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image)
1905 Pablo Garrido composer
1905 Viktor Emil Frankl pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1907 Leigh Harline composer
1907 Louis Saguer composer
1908 Betty MacDonald [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
1908 Dr Kenneth Mellanby entomologist
1908 Hank Sylvern Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
1908 Robert William Paine architect
1909 Chips Rafferty Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
1909 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer Dutch opera singer
1911 Bernard Katz biophysicist
1911 Tennessee Williams Columbus MS, dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1913 Paul Erdos mathematician
1914 Ian McGeoch Vice-Admiral
1914 William Westmoreland Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1916 Bill Edrich cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate)
1916 Christian B Anfinsen US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 Harry Rabinowitz British composer/conductor
1916 Mort Abrahams producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 Sterling Hayden Upper Montclair NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1916 Vic Schoen Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 Jean Graham Hall circuit court judge (England)
1917 Rufus Thomas Cayce MS, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 Strother Martin Kokomo IN, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1920 George E Brown Jr (Representative-Democrat-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1921 George Jefferson CEO (British Telecom)
1921 Joe Loco [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 Peter Horsley CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1922 William Milliken actor (Drive-in)
1923 Bob Elliot Boston MA, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
1923 Clifton Williams Traskwood AR, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard British novelist (After Julius)
1925 Claudio Spies composer
1925 Lord Graham of Edmonton House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 Lord Hooson QC crown court recorder
1925 Maqsood Ahmed cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1925 Pierre Boulez Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1926 Ann Curtis US, 400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948)
1927 Jonathan Tod Vice-Admiral (England)
1928 Carole Carr singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
1929 Amédée Turner QC/MEP
1929 Maurice Simon jazz musician
1930 Cristobal Halffter composer
1930 Gregory Corso beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor El Paso TX, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 Leonard Nimoy Boston MA, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1932 Dick Nolan football coach
1934 Alan Arkin New York NY, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 G T Pryce CEO (Dalgety)
1934 Gino Cappelletti ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 Earl of Kinnoull
1936 Erich Urbanner composer
1936 Fred Paris rocker (Five Satins)
1937 Barbara Pearl Jones Chicago IL, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1952, 60)
1937 Lord Chetwode
1937 Wayne Embry holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1939 Colin Webb general manager (Press Association)
1939 James Caan Bronx NY, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather)
1939 Phillip R Allen Pittsburgh PA, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1939 Stuart Sutherland Professor Emeritus (Sussex University)
1940 Bill Ind Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 Braulio Baeza jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 Nancy Pelosi (Representative-Democrat-CA)
1940 Rod Lauren rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1940 Servaes [J S] Huys Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 Barclay Plager hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager
1941 Bob Plager hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager
1942 Erica Jong [Mann] New York NY, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 Robert Woodward investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1944 Diana Ross [Earle] Detroit MI, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)
1945 Mikhail Voronin USSR, horse vault gymnast (Olympics-gold-1968)
1946 Johnny Crawford Los Angeles CA, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1947 Carmen Krolis Suriname/Netherlands singer
1948 Kyung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 Richard Tandy rock bassist (ELO)
1948 Steven Tyler New York NY, rock vocalist (Dream On, Walk This Way, Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun)
1949 Baroness Hayman
1949 Fran Sheehan Boston MA, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 Vicki Lawrence Inglewood CA, actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family)
1950 Ernest Thomas Gary IN, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
1950 Graham Barlow cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1950 Martin Short Hamilton Ontario, comedian (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1950 Ronnie McDowell Fountain Head TN, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 Teddy Pendergrass Philadelphia PA, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1950 Tony Papenfuss Minneapolis MN, (Daryl-Newhart)
1951 Richard B Shull US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1952 David Amess MP
1953 Michael Bonagura Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
1953 Tatyana Providokhina Russian 1K runner (world record)
1954 Curtis Sliwa founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1954 Piers Gardner director (British Institute of International & Comparative Law)
1955 Dean Dillon Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1956 Charly McClain Jackson TN, country singer (Radio Heart)
1956 Tatyana Kochergina USSR, team handball (Olympics-gold-1976, 80)
1957 Leeza Gibbons Hartsville SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1957 Walter Rohlfing Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1958 Philip Brown Coalinga CA, actor (Doris Day Show, Colbys)
1959 David Delong Portland OR, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 British Columbia Open)
1960 Billy Warlock Hawthorne CA, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
1960 Debbie Hall LPGA golfer
1960 Marcus Allen NFL running back (Los Angeles Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1960 Michael Evans Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympics-silver-88)
1961 Leigh Bowery designer
1961 William Hague Secretary of State for Wales
1962 John Stockton Spokane WA, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96)
1962 Kevin Seitzer Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1962 Maarten de Young soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 Richard Coles rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Russia, Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut
1963 Paul de Leeuw Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1963 Rebecca Twigg Seattle WA, 79K cyclist (Olympics-silver-1984, 92, 96)
1963 Susan Sulley rocker (Human League-Human)
1964 Ab Plugboer soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 Ulf Samuelsson Fagersta Sweden, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, New York Rangers)
1966 Lee Porter Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
1966 Mike Remlinger Middletown NY, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1966 Wesley Walls NFL tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1968 Edward Kaminski Kansas City KS, javelin thrower
1968 Ian Hutchings Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic)
1968 Jose Vizcaino San Cristobal Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Mets)
1968 Kari Gronroos WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1968 Mike Trevathan CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions)
1968 Shane Reynolds Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1969 Elizabeth Howell Clinton MS, Miss Mississippi-America (1990)
1969 Luke Richardson Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 Vikram Rathour cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1970 Evan Richards Los Angeles CA, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
1970 Paul Bosvelt soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1971 Dave DeGraaf Lansing MI, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1971 Jesus Tavarez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1971 Rennae Stubbs Sydney Australia, tennis star
1971 Tommy Fagan CFL/NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Naoko Kijimuta Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta)
1972 Steve Anderson CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Marshall Faulk running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Alfred Shipman CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions)
1974 Hakeem Abdul-samad rocker (Boys)
1974 Irina Spirlea Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island)
1974 Mike Peca Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1979 Heidi Zeigler actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1986 Jessica McClure baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
1988 Jose Vizcaino San Cristobal Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Mets)
2233 James T Kirk science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)

Deaths which occurred on March 26:

0752 Pope Stephen II dies only 4 days after his election
0809 Liudger missionary/1st bishop of Münster/saint, dies at about 66
1258 Floris the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1350 Alfonso XI King of Castile & León, dies
1546 Thomas Elyot British diplomat, dies
1566 Antonio de Cabezon composer, dies
1638 Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz painter, dies at about 30
1649 John Winthrop Puritan & 1st Governor (Massachusetts), dies
1657 Jacob van Eyck Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
1713 Pal Esterhazy composer, dies at 77
1726 John Vanbrugh Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 Georg Balthasar Schott composer, dies at 49
1797 James Hutton geologist, dies
1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi composer, dies at 68
1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at 71
1827 Ludwig van Beethoven German composer (Appassionata), dies in Wien (Vienna) at 56
1831 Richard Allen AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1837 Joseph Lincke composer, dies at 53
1865 Thomas Hancock pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1871 François-Joseph Fétis Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87
1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, dies at 62
1892 Anton Wallerstein composer, dies at 78
1892 Walt Whitman poet, dies in Camden NJ at 72
1896 Nanny v Hof writer, dies
1900 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
1902 Cecil Rhodes Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1909 Nikolai Arkas composer, dies at 56
1918 César A Cui Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1923 Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette-Rosine Bernard] actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77
1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, dies at 78
1926 Georges Vezina NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Montréal Canadiens), dies
1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1932 Jean Cartan composer, dies at 25
1934 Grete Gulbransson writer, dies at 51
1937 Albert Relf cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide
1944 Benjamin Crémieux French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55
1945 David Lloyd George British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945 Isaack Stouten resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 Helen Ernst German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1953 Albert Spalding composer, dies at 64
1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann composer, dies at 70
1957 Max Ophüls [Maximilian Oppenheimer] German/French director (Caught, Exile), dies
1958 Phil Mead cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
1959 Raymond T Chandler US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71
1960 Ian Keith actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61
1962 Marjorie Colton inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1969 B[runo] Traven writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87
1969 Günther Weisenborn German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66
1973 George Sisler hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
1973 Noel Coward English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1973 Safford Cape US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68
1976 Richard Arlen actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1979 Jean Stafford US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
1980 Jon-Jon Poulos rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1981 Cyril Dean Darlington biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
1981 Tim Wall cricketer (SA vs New South Wales 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies
1982 Agathe "Henriëtte" de Beaufort writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91
1983 Anthony F Blunt British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1986 Bartlett Robinson actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1987 Walter Abel actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
1990 International Chrysis Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
1990 Roy "Halston" Frowick fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
1991 Frans Dohmen union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1993 Luis Falco US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
1993 Roy Riegels University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1994 Constantine Koukouchkine Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41
1994 Jan Bor Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
1995 Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright) dies at 31
1996 (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton football matriarch, dies at 83
1996 David Packard electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83
1996 Edmund S Muskie Vice Presidential candidate/(Governor-Democrat-ME), dies at 81
1996 Thomas Wakefield writer, dies at 60

On this day...March 26 Events

1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1526 King François I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 England takes control of Bombay India
1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die
1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna
1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 Joseph Francis, New York NY, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1856 New South Wales' 1st first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 Paris Commune founded
1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1878 Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
1886 1st cremation in England
1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England
1889 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) vs South Africa at Newlands
1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England
1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam)
1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm
1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US
1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3
1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montréal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1; Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London
1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies
1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain OH
1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies
1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 "RvJ" Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio
1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech
1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye
1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York NY
1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA
1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel
1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 Venray soccer team forms
1949 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 USAF flag approved
1952 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 F Dürrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" premieres in Munich
1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US
1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win
1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days
1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem
1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature
1964 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres
1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President
1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY
1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15 :2.10)
1989 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY
1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14 :2.60)
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7 :3.26)
1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1995 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria)
1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan

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Birthdates which occurred on March 27:

1416 Antonio Squarcialupi composer
1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst Dutch lawyer
1665 Benjamin Neukirch German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin composer
1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco composer
1746 Augustin Ullinger composer
1746 Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens composer
1760 Ishmail Spicer composer
1760 MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers
1765 Franz Xaver von Baader German philosopher/theologist
1772 Giovanni Liverati composer
1780 August L Crelle German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 Louis XVII pretender to the throne during the French Revolution (1793-95)
1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny French musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton)
1809 Georges Eugene Haussmann Paris France, architect
1810 A Glabbrenner writer
1813 Nathaniel Currier lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 George Elvey composer
1818 Jakob Axel Josephson composer
1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 Adolphus Washington Greely US, Arctic explorer, US Army General Greely was a Medal of Honor recipient, decorated by Great Britain and France to acknowledge his numerous contributions to telecommunications; General Greely was an outstanding soldier/communicator to whom Greely Hall, Fort Huachuca, Arizona was rededicated in a bicentennial year observance on 21 June 1976; His nineteen year service as Chief Signal Officer (1887-1906) represents the longest continuous period an incumbent has occupied
1845 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 Otto Wallach Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy Paris France, composer (Symphonie Cévenole)
1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer
1851 Vincent d'Indy Paris France, dandy composer (Symphonie Cévenole)
1854 Edgar Tinel Flemish composer (Le Chant Grégorien)
1857 Karl Pearson London England, mathematician
1858 Peter Christian Lutkin composer
1859 George Giffen cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
1863 Sir Henry Royce automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1867 Edyth Walker US singer
1868 Patty Smith Hill author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1871 Heinrich Mann Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); brother of Thomas
1871 Petrus J M Aalberse Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 Edward Steichen pioneered American photography
1883 Jan Kunc composer
1886 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu Turkish writer/diplomat
1891 Lajos Zilahy Hungarian/US author (Ararát/Süd a nap)
1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofé New York NY, composer
1892 Thorne Smith author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic Yugoslavian General/Nazi collaborator
1893 Karl Mannheim Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1893 William Harrigan New York NY, actor (Affair of Three Nations, Cabaret)
1897 Carlo Mierendorff German politician/anti-fascist
1897 Douglas Rayner Hartree mathematician
1899 Gloria Swanson Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
19-- Brian Tarantina New York NY, actor (Uncle Buck, Lucky-One Life to Live)
19-- Michael Palance Long Island NY, actor (Dan-One Life to Live, Robert-Ryan's Hope)
1901 Albert Henneberg composer
1901 Erich Ollenhauer German politician (SPD)
1901 Sato Eisaku (Liberal) Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1902 Mary Armour artist
1903 Walt Kiesling NFL guard/coach (Hall of Fame)
1905 László Kalmár Edde Hungary, mathematician/promoted the development of computer science in Hungary
1907 Mary Treen St Louis MO, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 Jacques [Izaäk] den Haan Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 Ben[jamin F] Webster US tenor saxophonist
1909 Golo Mann [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 Rudi Ball Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympics-bronze-1932)
1912 James Callaghan (L) British Prime Minister (1976-79)
1912 Reuel Lahmer composer
1912 Robert Watson Hughes composer
1913 Godfrey Turner composer
1914 Budd Schulberg New York NY, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 Richard Denning Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 Snooky Lanson Memphis TN, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 Richard Sharp civil servant
1917 Cyrus R Vance US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 Harry West Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 Julian Amery conservative minister
1919 Simon van Collem Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 Richard Hayman bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1921 Tom Bevill (Representative-Democrat-AL, 1967- )
1922 Margaret Stacey sociologist
1923 Louis Simpson Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 Shusaku Endo writer
1923 Victor Hochhauser British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra)
1924 Harold Nicholas US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 Sarah L Vaughan Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 Lord Plumb MEP
1925 Robert P Cohan artistic director/choreographer (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC press arbiter
1927 Anthony Lewis newspaper columnist (New York Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 Cecil Bödker writer
1927 Lord Fanshawe of Richmond MP
1927 Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich Baku USSR, cellist/conductor/teacher (Moscow Conservatory)
1928 Douglas Applegate (Representative-Democrat-OH, 1977- )
1930 Bob den Uyl Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 David Janssen [Meyer] Naponee NE, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 Richard Hayman Cambridge MA, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 Burt Collins trumpeter
1931 R P Bauman CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira composer
1932 Junior Parker blues musician (Driving Wheel, Outside Man)
1932 Wes Covington baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 DRG Andrews CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 Frank Taylor Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 J Geoffrey Parker high master (Manchester Grammar School)
1934 Arthur Mitchell choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 David Hancock secretary (British Department of Education & Science)
1935 Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 Julian Glover London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1936 Jerry Lacy Sioux City IA, actor (Play it Again Sam, Reverend Trask-Dark Shadows)
1936 Malcolm Goldstein composer
1937 Johnny "Clyde" Copeland US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1938 A J Bellingham president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 Jock Slater Admiral
1938 P Daubeny CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 Jay C Kim (Representative-Republican-CA)
1939 Judy Carne comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 Lord Lyell
1939 Ruth Ashton general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 Austin Pendleton Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 Cale Yarborough auto racer (Won Daytona 500 4 times-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1940 June Wilkinson Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamorous, Pajama Tops)
1941 Charles Pashayan Jr (Representative-Republican-CA, 1979- )
1941 Liese Prokop Austria, pentathlete (Olympics-silver-1968)
1942 Michael York Fulmer Buckinghamshire England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 Raymond J McGrath (Representative-Republican-NY, 1981- )
1943 M Robert Carr (Representative-Democrat-MI, 1975-81, 83- )
1945 Briton Selby NHLer
1946 Bill Sudakis baseball player
1946 Carl Weintraub actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1947 Daphne Todd president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 Dough Wilkerson football
1947 Tom Sullivan Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1949 Patrick Deuchar CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 Maria Ewing opera singer
1950 Tony Banks East Heathly Sussex England, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Invisible Touch, Misunderstanding)
1950 Vic Harris baseball
1951 Bobby Lalonde NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1952 Chick Vennera Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 Maria Schneider Paris France, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 Rocky Maffit rocker (Champaign)
1953 Annemarie Moser-Pröll Austria, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1980)
1953 Pamela Roylance Seattle WA, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 Kim Brassey racehorse trainer
1955 Patrick McCabe novelist
1956 Brian Kelly CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 Thomas Wassberg Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1980)
1957 Billy MacKenzie rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 Duncan Goodhew England, 100 meter breast stroke swimmer (Olympics-Gold-1980)
1957 Nicholas Hawkins MP
1958 Bart Connor gymnast/sportscaster (Olympics-gold-1984)
1958 Michael O'Leary St Paul MN, actor (Guiding Light, Fatal Games)
1958 Shaun Cassidy rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
1958 Susan Molinari (Representative-Republican-NY)
1960 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans historian
1960 Jennifer Grey actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 Steve Jarvin Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1961 Ellery Hanley rugby league player
1963 Dave Koz saxophonist
1963 Ed Pinckney NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
1963 Quentin Tarantino director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
1963 Randall Cunningham NFL QB (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
1963 Todd Graves Laurel MS, skeet (Olympics-1992, 96)
1963 Xuxa [Maria da Graca Meneghel] Brazil, actress (Xuxa Park)
1964 Clark Datchler vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Shattered Dreams)
1966 Kate Donahoo Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympics-92)
1967 Jaime Navarro Bayamon PR, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Talisa Soto [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
1967 Tom Hammonds NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets)
1968 Irina Belova Russian pentathlete (world record 1992)
1969 Tom Beer NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1970 Anthony Prior NFL cornerback/safety (New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
1970 Corey Page actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
1970 Ed Philion NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Mariah Carey New York NY, singer (Vision of Love, Love Takes Time, Hero)
1972 Kirby Dar Dar wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1973 Serge Tremblay La Malbaie Québec Canada, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1974 Rosanna Gimenez Miss Paraguay-Universe (1997)
1975 B J Gallis CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1975 Gregory DuBois hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1976 Danny Fortson NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1976 Roberta Alma Anastase Miss Romania-Universe (1996)
1977 Tom van der Leegte Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1984 Emily Ann Lloyd actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
1984 J P Steur actor (Grace Under Fire)
1986 Melissa Stern aka "Baby M" aka Sara Whitehead, surrogate baby, awarded to her dad William Stern
1988 Kerri Ann Darling actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)

Deaths which occurred on March 27:

0922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
0965 Arnulf I the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
1211 Sancho I King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56
1378 Gregory XI [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1472 Janus Pannonius Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1482 Maria duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25
1625 James I Stuart king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
1668 Clemens Thieme composer, dies at 36
1679 Abraham Mignon Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin count of Tourville/French Admiral, dies at 58
1714 Anton Ulrich German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39
1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner composer, dies at 72
1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky composer, dies at 60
1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
1809 Joseph M Vien French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
1826 Jakob Haibel composer, dies at 63
1850 Wilhelm Bear German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1875 Edgar Quinet French writer/historian (Ahasvérus), dies at 72
1878 Dobri Voynikov composer, dies at 44
1878 George Gilbert Scott architect, dies
1889 Moritz Furstenau composer, dies at 64
1894 Verney L Cameron English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet] South African General, dies at 69
1910 Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
1910 David Duffle Wood composer, dies at 72
1920 Johan G Danser Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer, dies at 63
1924 Walter Parratt composer, dies at 83
1925 Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1928 Leslie Stuart composer, dies at 64
1929 ... Shatunovsky mathematician, dies
1931 Arnold Bennett novelist, dies
1933 Lionel Palairet cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
1938 Louis William Stern German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1945 Jørgen Nielsen Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
1946 Gabriela Preissová writer, dies
1947 Charles Smith cricketer (batted for South Africa in 1902-03), dies
1948 Karel Candael Flemish composer, dies at 64
1953 Narciso Garay composer, dies at 76
1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1959 Grant Withers actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1960 Ian Whyte composer, dies at 58
1961 Jack Kane orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
1966 Mien Labberton Dutch poet, dies at 82
1967 Gerardus H de Vet the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
1968 Yuri Gagarin 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, dies in plane crash at 34
1972 Maurits C Escher Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov composer, dies at 72
1975 Arthur Bliss English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
1975 Gertrude Niesen actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1977 Diana Hyland actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
1977 Eve Meyer [Turner] Playboy Playmate/actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1977 Lodewijk de Vocht composer, dies at 89
1978 Wilfred Pickles actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
1979 Ronald Adam actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1982 Joris Noë Flemish literary, dies at 68
1983 James Hayter actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
1983 Janis Ivanovs composer, dies at 76
1986 Cass Canfield US publisher, dies at 88
1987 Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1988 Jan van den Weghe Flemish writer, dies at about 67
1989 May Allison actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1991 Aldo Ray western actor (Battle Cry), dies of cancer at 64
1991 Elinor Remick Warren composer, dies at 91
1991 Leueen McGrath actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
1991 Ralph Bates British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1992 Anita Colby US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
1992 Easley Blackwood expert bridge player, dies at 89
1992 Gerry Duggan dies at 82
1992 James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
1992 Martin Engelman Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
1993 Carlos Gimenez director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
1993 Clifford Jordan tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
1993 Kate Reid British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993 Katherine Hynes De Groot dies of stroke at 88
1993 Wilhelmus M J Russell Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
1994 Dennis Hartas flier, dies at 69
1995 Albert Drach writer, dies
1995 Bernard Cornfeld Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
1995 Chet Gierlach music publisher/composer, dies at 75
1995 Rene Allio film Director, dies at 70

On this day...March 27 Events

1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida
1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland
1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne
1668 English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1790 The shoelace invented
1794 Congress authorizes the President "to provide a naval armament" (US Navy)
1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland OH)
1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, New York NY
1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment
1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York
1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
1920 Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 Canada recognizes USSR
1924 New French government of Poincaré begins
1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City MO goes off the air
1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)
1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1950 Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleveland OH)
1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH
1955 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 French commandos land in Algeria
1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1957 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win
1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 Havana Hilton opens
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st Secretary of Communist Party
1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
1961 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus
1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia
1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62; this is UCLA's 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
1973 45th Academy Awards: "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash, Tenerife
1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1978 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1981 John Lennon's "Watching the Wheels" is released in UK
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances
1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 Randy Holt sets Washington Capital record of 34 penalty minutes
1983 13th Easter Seal Telethon
1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC
1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express" premieres
1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1987 President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1988 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 World Ice Dance Championship in Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
1988 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (USSR)
1988 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
1988 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV
1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1990 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1994 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
1994 Church in Piedmont AL collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
1994 World Ice Dance Championship in Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (Russia)
1994 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (Russia)
1994 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (Japan)
1994 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1995 67th Academy Awards: "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win
1996 "State Fair" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
1997 "Young Man From Atlanta" opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
1998 Soul Train Awards
2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

[ 03-27-2006, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]
 

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Birthdates which occurred on March 28:

1468 Charles I Duke of Savoy
1472 Fra Bartolomeo monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
1483 Raphael Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens)
1515 Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus Spanish mystic writer/saint
1592 Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer
1603 Stephan Otto composer
1615 Pieter de Groot Dutch regent/diplomat
1621 Heinrich Schwemmer composer
1643 Jose Solana composer
1660 Arnold Houbraken Dutch schilder/writer
1660 Georg Ludwig German monarch of Hanover/King George I of Great Britain
1727 Maximilian III Jozef Elector of Bayern (1745-77)
1729 Pieter Fouquet Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet)
1731 Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/interpreter
1737 Francesco Zannetti composer
1741 Johann Andre composer
1750 Francisco A G de Miranda Venezuelan freedom fighter
1760 Thomas Clarkson English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)
1766 Joseph Weigl Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline)
1770 Sophie Mereau writer
1779 Angelo Maria Benincori composer
1799 Karl Adolph von Basedow German artist (Ziekte van Basedow)
1806 Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1861-66)
1817 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer
1818 Wade Hampton Charleston SC, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1840 Mehemed Emin Pasja German explorer/Governor (Equatoria)
1853 Rudolf Kittel German theologist (Psalms)
1859 Joséphin Péladan French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians)
1862 Aristide Briand France, premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
1868 Cuno Amiet Swiss painter
1868 Maxim Gorki [Aleksei Peshikov] Russia, writer (Mother)
1868 Wojciech Gawronski composer
1871 Willem Mengelberg Utrecht Netherlands, conductor (New York Philharmonic 1922-30)
1872 José Sanjurjo y Sacanell Spanish General (Morocco)
1880 Rosina Lhévinne Kiev Ukraine, pianist/professor (Juilliard Graduate School)
1883 William H Harris composer
1885 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas composer
1886 Jaroslav Novotny composer
1887 Rudolf F W Boskaljon Curaçao, musician/composer
1890 Paul Whiteman Denver CO, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)
1891 Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author
1891 Peter Suhrkamp German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag)
1895 Spencer W Kimball 12th prophet of Mormon church
19-- Elvera Roussel actress (Hope-Guiding Light)
19-- Stephanie Dunnam Oak Harbor WA, actress (Kay-Emerald Point NAS)
19-- Tom O'Rourke New York NY, actor (Justin Marler-Guiding Light)
1900 Achille Longo composer
1900 Robert Harris actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne)
1902 Dame Flora Robson South Shields England, actress (Dominique is Dead, The Years Between)
1902 Paul Godwin [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist
1903 Rudolf Serkin Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro School of Music)
1904 Fosco Giachetti Livorno Italy, actor (Wastrel, We the Living)
1905 Marlin Perkins Carthage MO, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)
1905 Pandro S Berman film producer
1906 Joseph Wright Canada, oarsman (Olympics-gold-1928)
1906 Robert (Bob) Allen actor (Texas Rangers)
1907 Herbert "Herb" Hall clarinetist/saxophonist
1909 Nelson Algren US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm)
1910 Ingrid Queen Mother of Denmark
1911 Myfanwy Piper librettist
1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space)
1914 Bohumil Hrabal writer
1914 Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Senator-Democrat-ME), US Secretary of State (1980)
1914 Frank Lovejoy Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw)
1915 Jay Livingston composer (Buttons & Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy)
1915 Raymond Emery cricketer (New Zealand Test batsman vs West Indies 1952)
1918 Youly Algaroff ballet dancer
1919 Jacob Avshalomov Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)
1919 Tom Brooks cricketer (New South Wales fast bowler of the 30's, later Test umpire)
1920 Gene Chappie (Representative-Republican-CA, 1981-86)
1920 Lord Butterfield
1921 Dirk Bogarde Hampstead London England, actor (Death in Venice, The Servant)
1924 Freddie Bartholomew Dublin Ireland, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield)
1924 Gerhart Fritsch writer
1924 Peter Baer artist/printmaker
1925 Innokenti Smoktunovsky actor (Bely Prazdnik, Zakoldovannye)
1926 Francis Burt composer
1926 Polly Umrigar cricketer (Indian batsman & captain)
1928 Jose Luis de Delas composer
1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski Warsaw Poland, national security advisor (Carter)
1929 Aubrey J Watson Sr bishop
1930 Amelia Rosselli poet
1930 George Bruce painter
1930 Robert Ashley composer
1932 Sven Oskar Lindqvist Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu)
1933 Frank Murkowski (Senator-Republican-AK)
1934 Siegfried Thiele composer
1936 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/Presidential candidate
1940 J Michael Plumb Islip NY, equestrian (Olympics-2 gold/4 silver-1976,84)
1940 Kevin Loughery NBA star/coach (Baltimore, Philadelphia)
1941 Alf Clausen Minneapolis MN, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons)
1941 Charlie McCoy Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw)
1942 Brian Jones [Lewis B Hopkin] Cheltenham Gloucestershire England, pop guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1942 Neil Kinnock Wales, leader of the British opposition (Labour)
1942 Samuel Ramey Colby KS, bass (La Scala)
1943 Conchata Ferrell Charleston WV, actress (Deadly Hero, For Keeps, Susan-LA Law)
1943 Mike Newell director (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck)
1943 Richard Eyre British director (National Theatre)
1944 Ken Howard El Centro CA, actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776)
1944 Rick Barry ABA/NBA forward (New York Nets, Golden State Warriors)
1945 Chuck Portz Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
1945 Hans Brunhart leader of Liechtenstein (1978-93)
1946 Richard Sussman rocker
1947 Bruce Gilbert producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond)
1948 Dianne Wiest Kansas City MO, actress (Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters, Footloose)
1948 John Evans [Evan] rock drummer (Jethro Tull, Blades-A Song for Jeffrey)
1944 Rick Barry Elizabeth NJ, basketball player (San Francisco Warriors/1966 NBA rookie of the year)
1948 Wubbo J Ockels Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22)
1949 Milan Williams US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady)
1949 Ronnie Ray Smith 4 X 100 meter relay runner (Olympics-gold-1968)
1949 Shafiq Ahmed cricketer (Pakistani batsman during the 70's)
1953 Nydia M Velazquez (Representative-Democrat-NY, 1993- )
1955 Reba McEntire McAlester OK, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
1956 Asoka De Silva cricket leg-spinner (Sri Lanka in 10 Tests 1985-91)
1956 Evelin Jahl German Democratic Republic, discus thrower (Olympics-2 gold-1976)
1956 T A Sekar Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact)
1957 Harvey Glance Phoenix City AL, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1976)
1958 Bart Wayne Conner Morton Grove IL, gymnast (Olympics-2 gold-1984)
1959 Petra Delhees Jauch Switzertand, tennis star
1959 Todd Curtis actor (Capitol, Skip-Young & Restless)
1961 Byron Scott NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1962 Ged Grimes [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer)
1963 Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr
1963 Therese Washtock Vancouver British Columbia, 3 day equestrian (Olympics-96)
1965 Jeff Beukeboom Ajax, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers)
1966 Jason Garrett NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 Nathalie Herreman France, tennis star
1966 Serge Djelloul hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1967 David Lang NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 Ed[ward] Grose Juneau AK, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Shawn Boskie Hawthorne NV, pitcher (California Angels)
1968 Chad Biafore hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1968 Dennis Postlewait Jacksonville NC, Nike golfer (1994 Wichita Open)
1968 Max Perlich actor (JH Brodie-Homicide)
1968 Nasser Hussain cricketer (Essex & England batsman)
1968 Teee Williams Los Angeles CA, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969 Cheryl "Salt" James rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 Craig Paquette Long Beach CA, infielder (Kansas City Royals)
1969 Earnest Stewart soccer player (Willem II)
1969 Elliot Perry NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks)
1969 Scottie Graham NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 James Johnson NFL/WLAF running back (Tampa Buccaneers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Jason B Gailes Taunton MA, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 Shawn Price NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers, Buffalo Bills)
1971 Damien Marsh Georgia, Australian 100 meter/200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 Wesley Person NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 Derek West offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Jonathan Edwards Boston MA, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1972 Keith Tkachuk Melrose MA, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix, USA)
1972 Michael Smith NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1972 Mike Morton linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1972 Shannon Mitchell NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1973 Andrew Whittall cricketer (cousin of Guy Zimbabwe off-spinner 1996)
1974 K C Jones NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1975 Atta-ur-Rehman cricketer (Pakistani quickie, debut vs England 1992 age 17)
1977 Angelo Garcia Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1978 Nafisa Joseph Miss India-Universe (1997)
1979 Juli Keech Miss South Dakota Teen-USA (1997)
1980 Cara Lewis Miss Mississippi Teen-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on March 28:

0193 Publius Helvius Pertinax Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
0193 Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
0593 Guntram French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67
1134 Stefanus Harding 3rd abbott of Cîteaux/saint, dies
1285 Martinus IV [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies
1566 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein Austrian diplomat, dies at 79
1673 Adam Pijnacker Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51
1677 Wenzel Hollar Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69
1687 Constantine Huygens diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1701 Domenico Guidi Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1712 Jan van der Heyden Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1758 Jonathan Edwards US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54
1799 Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55
1801 Ralph Abercromby English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1818 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi composer, dies at 62
1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma composer, dies at 67
1849 Stephan L Endlicher Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44
1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer, dies at 76
1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner composer, dies at 73
1863 James Cooper US attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52
1865 Albert G Bilders Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
1868 James Thomas Brudenell 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti composer, dies at 77
1880 Achille Peri composer, dies at 67
1880 Eelco Refer linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at 49
1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky composer, dies at 42
1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman composer, dies at 53
1887 Ditler G Monrad Danish bishop/premier (1863- ), dies at 75
1889 Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler killed by husband William Kemmler
1891 Dick Pilling cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", England 1881-88), dies
1896 E Rundle Charles writer, dies
1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg composer, dies at 65
1908 John Eliot English meteorology, dies at 68
1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor, dies
1914 Hanus Trnecek composer, dies at 55
1927 Karl Prohaska composer, dies at 57
1928 Giuseppe Ferrata composer, dies at 63
1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen author (To Lighthouse), commits suicide at 59
1942 Herman A van Karnebeek Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
1943 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1944 Rabbi Chayyim Most Maggid of Kovono, killed by Nazis
1944 Stephen Butler Leacock writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer, dies at 57
1949 Grigoras Dinicu composer, dies at 59
1950 Georgine M "May" Basting actress (Occupier), dies at 67
1953 James Francis Thorpe decathlete (Olympics-gold-12), dies at 64
1954 Francis B Young British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69
1956 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup vocalist, dies of a heart attack
1958 Chuck Klein Philadelphia Phillie homerun hitter, dies at 53
1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84
1959 James Neblett cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1935), dies
1960 Ian Keith US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61
1963 Alec A Templeton composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
1965 VAA Mary English princess, dies at 67
1969 Dwight D Eisenhower 34th President/General (WWII), dies in Washington DC at 78
1971 Felix Wolfes composer, dies at 78
1973 Hakuun Yasutani Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
1974 Dorothy Fields US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
1974 Françoise Rosay actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1975 Renzo Massarani composer, dies at 77
1979 Emmett Kelly circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
1980 Dick Haymes actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
1980 Jesse Owens (Olympics-gold-36), dies in Tucson AZ at the age of 66
1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
1983 Martinus A Jansen bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
1984 Kenneth Whitty 1st Secretary at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1985 Marc Chagall French painter, dies at 97
1985 Nand Baert Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53
1986 Victor J Lopez actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
1986 Virginia Gilmore actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1987 Maria Augusta Trapp singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
1987 Patrick Troughton actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
1991 Carlos Montalban actor (Bananas), dies at 85
1992 Wendell Mayes writer, dies of cancer at 72
1994 Albert Goldman US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 Eugene Ionesco playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
1994 John Logan Gorlay journalist, dies at 74
1995 Hugh Edward R O'Connor actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
1995 Jack Regan broadcaster, dies at 53
1995 Vivienne Byerley publicist, dies at 88
1996 Barbara McLean film Editor, dies at 86
1996 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey soldier, dies at 95
1996 David Band banker, dies at 53
1996 Edith Fowke folklorist, dies at 82
1996 Hans Blumenberg philosopher, dies at 75
1996 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell bishop, dies at 89
1996 Ken Dibbs actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1996 Shin Kanemaru Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
1996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith British bibliophile, dies at 87

On this day...March 28

1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed
1556 Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain
1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India)
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1799 New York State abolished slavery
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US
1837 Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud
1844 José Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" premieres in Madrid
1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate
1854 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1859 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra
1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1871 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
1896 The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville TN (state record)
1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martigues France (Henri Fabre)
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1917 Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo
1920 Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1920 Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia
1922 1st microfilm device introduced
1922 Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1924 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1927 Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC
1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
1930 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1939 Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story" premieres in New York NY
1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1942 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck
1942 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1944 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London
1948 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win
1950 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes 1st to win NCAA & National Invitation Basketball in same year
1952 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1952 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1953 "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 performances
1953 "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises Æ’5,200,000
1953 7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win
1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
1953 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs England at Eden Park
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)
1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India
1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets
1965 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1974 Rock group Raspberries break up
1975 Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses
1977 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59
1977 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
1977 Morarji Desai forms government in India
1979 British government of Callaghan falls
1979 Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres
1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths)
1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 meter 40.18 seconds)
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :1.70)
1981 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (36.91 seconds)
1982 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
1982 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1982 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador
1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet
1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in New York NY
1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court
1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
1992 6th American Comedy Awards: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
1992 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3 :5 :1)
1992 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1993 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
1993 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson
1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
1994 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1995 Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up
1995 Queensland beat South Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
1995 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
1996 "Seven Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America
1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose CA
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-29-2006, 07:47 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 29:

1484 Johann Spangenberg composer
1519 Carlo Caraffa Italian cardinal
1561 Santorio Sanctorius Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic
1602 John Lightfoot English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae)
1616 Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer
1636 Esaias Reusner composer
1725 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer
1752 Edward Jones composer
1790 John Tyler Charles County VA, (D/W) 10th President (1841-1845)
1799 Edward Stanley Earl Derby (C), British Prime Minister (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
1813 John Letcher Governor (Confederacy), died in 1884
1816 James Gallant Spears Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1817 Constantine S Aksakov Russian historian/poet
1819 Edwin Drake drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi, founded American Hebrew Congregations
1821 Joshua Thomas Owen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1822 Joseph Quinaux Belgian painter
1826 Wilhelm Liebknecht German MP (social-democratic)
1829 Ritta & Christina Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1829 Robert Emmet Rodes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1831 Amelia Barr writer
1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin Russian General/minister of War
1867 Cy [Denton True] Young Gilmore OH, winningest pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911)
1869 Ales Hrdlicka US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum)
1869 Edwin Lutyens architect, London
1871 Tom Hayward cricketer (great England batsman of the Golden Age)
1875 Lou Henry Hoover 1st lady-Herbert Hoover (1929-33)
1875 Paul Rubens composer
1876 Jan Ingenhoven composer
1876 Joseph Schmidlin German church historian/antifascist
1883 Donald Dexter Van Slyke US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1886 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson composer
1888 Adrianus M de Jong Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak)
1888 James E Casey founder (United Parcel Service)
1889 Howard Lindsay Waterford NY, playwright/actor/director (State of Union)
1889 Warner Baxter Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
1891 Ivan Goll writer
1892 József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
1895 Ernest Jünger German philosopher (Anschwellender Bocksgesang)
1898 Cecil Lewis airman/writer
19-- Brenda Brock Beaumont TX, actress (Brenda-One Life to Live)
1901 Frans U Kailas Finnish poet
1902 Marcel Aymé French writer (Jument Verte)
1902 Onslow Stevens Los Angeles CA, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life)
1902 Sir William Walton Oldham Lancashire England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins)
1905 Annunzio Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1906 E Power Biggs Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
1908 Arthur O'Connell New York NY, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years)
1908 Dennis O'Keefe Fort Madison IA, actor/director (T-Men, Fighting Seabees)
1909 Moon Mullican hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock)
1909 Yvonne Waegemans Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
1911 Philip Ahn Los Angeles CA, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu)
1913 Jack Jones British trade unionist (CH)
1913 Niall MacGinnis Dublin Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon)
1913 Phil Foster Brooklyn NY, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley)
1914 Chapman Pincher British journalist/author (about secret service)
1915 George Chisholm Scottish jazz trombonist
1916 Eugene J McCarthy Watkins MN, (Senator-Democrat-MN, Presidential candidate 1968)
1916 John Paul Governor-General (Bahamas)
1917 Arthur Knight CEO (Courtaulds)
1917 Man O'War racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465)
1918 John Read CEO (TSB Group)
1918 Pearl Bailey Newport News VA, singer (Hello Dolly)
1918 Sam Walton billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart)
1919 Eileen Heckart Columbus OH, actress (Doll's House, Trauma Center)
1921 Hugh Neill Lord-Lieutenant (South Yorkshire)
1921 Sam Loxton cricketer (flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's)
1923 Julia Montgomery Walsh political consultant/writer
1924 Jules de Corte blind Dutch ballad singer
1925 Emlen Tunnell NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
1925 Lord Justice Beldam
1927 Arthur Ravenel Jr (Representative-Republican-SC)
1927 John McLaughlin TV commentator (McLaughlin Group)
1927 John Vane FRS/pharmacologist
1927 Lord Ross
1928 Vaclav Felix composer
1929 Robert E Rodes led Jackson's flank at Chancellorsville, Major General
1929 Ronald Clive Williams actor/comedian
1929 Sheila Kitzinger author, anthropologist & child birth educator
1930 Donny Conn rocker (Playmates)
1930 G R Sunderam cricket pace bowler (2 Tests India vs New Zealand 1955-56)
1930 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour marquis of Hertford
1930 Marquess of Hertford
1931 Evelyn de Rothschild English banker/multi-millionaire
1931 James Weatherhead moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1931 Lord Tebbit British CH
1931 Sylvia Law British town planner
1934 Ernstalbrecht Stiebler composer
1935 Ruby Murray Irish pop singer (Softly Softly)
1936 Richard Rodney Bennett Broadstairs Kent England, composer
1937 Anne Stoddart diplomat
1937 Billy Carter Plains GA, brother of President Carter
1938 Bert de Vries Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA)
1938 Margaret Howard British broadcaster
1939 Hanumant Singh cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut)
1939 Nancy Kwan Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature)
1940 Raymond Davis US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 Terence Hill Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)
1942 Larry Pressler (Senator-Republican-SD, 1979- )
1943 Eric Idle South Shields Durham England, comedian/actor (Monty Python)
1943 John Major British Prime Minister (C, 1990-97)
1943 Vangelis [Evangelos Papathanassiou] Valos Greece, composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire)
1944 Denny McLain Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 American League MVP/Cy Young/31 wins)
1944 James Diggle FBA, classicist
1944 John Suchet British TV journalist (Independent TV News)
1945 Julie Goodyear British actress (Bet Lynch-Coronation Street)
1945 Walt "Clyde" Frazier NBA guard (New York Knicks)
1945 Willem Ruis Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show)
1946 Bruce Weber director (Broken Noses)
1946 Ronald Farrow radio producer/priest
1947 Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20)
1947 Bobby Kimball [Robert Toteaux] Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseanna. Africa)
1947 Peter Hinchcliffe co-founder (Iceland Frozen Foods)
1948 Bud Cort New Rochelle NY, actor/director (Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud, MASH)
1949 Michael Brecker jazz musician (The Brecker Brothers)
1949 Uton Dowe cricketer (West Indies pace bowler 1972-73 "Dowe shall not bowl")
1951 Barry Goudreau rocker
1951 Geoff Howarth cricketer (New Zealand captain early 80's)
1952 Teofilo Stevenson Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1954 Karen Anne Quinlan Scranton PA, famous comatose patient (right to die case)
1955 Christopher Lawford actor (Charlie Brent-All My Children)
1955 Dianne Kay Phoenix AZ, actress (Nancy-8 is Enough, Reggie, Glitter)
1955 Earl Campbell NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman)
1955 Henry Bellingham MP
1956 Kurt Thomas US, gymnast (Olympics), actor (Gymkata)
1956 LaToya Jackson singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy
1956 Lisa J Allen TV reporter/lawyer
1956 Sue Fogleman LPGA golfer
1957 Christopher Lambert Great Neck Long Island NY, actor (Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me)
1958 Fiona Reynolds director/Council for Protection of Rural England
1959 Brad McCrimmon Dodsland, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1959 Marina Sirtis London, actress (Deanna Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1961 Ane-Marie Sanches newscaster (Suriname TV/Radio)
1961 Mike Kingery St James MN, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 Kirk Alan Triplett Moses Lake WA, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston-2nd)
1964 Elle Macpherson Sydney Australia, model (Sports Illustrated 1986, 87, 88)/actress (Sirens)
1964 Jill Goodacre Connick Lubbock TX, model (Victoria Secrets)
1966 Dwayne Harper NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1966 Eric Gunderson Portland OR, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 Robb Thomas NFL receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1967 Brian Jordan Baltimore MD, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 Jerry Olsavsky NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Chris Calloway NFL wide receiver (New York Giants)
1968 James Williams NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1969 [Jane] Kim[berly] Batten McRae GA, 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 Darren Chandler WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 James Atkin rocker (EMF-Unbelievable)
1969 Jeff Blackshear guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1969 Jimmy Spencer NFL cornerback (New Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 Kai Nurminen Turku Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1969 Perry Farrell rocker (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros)
1971 Lennart van Reen son of author Ton v R/publisher Corrie Zelen
1971 Ryan Mark Lambert Cleveland OH, actor/singer (Kids Incorporated, Freeze Frame)
1972 Alex Ochoa Miami FL, outfielder (New York Mets)
1972 John Rothell Titusville FL, 400 meter hurdler
1972 Paul Michael Kent Australia, New Zealand breast-stroker (Olympics-96)
1972 Trevor Kidd Dugald Manitoba, NHL goalie (Calgary Flames)
1973 Brad Bridgewater US, 200 meter backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 John Oppio Sparks NV, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1973 Marc Overmars Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1973 Mark Platt Peterborough Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1975 Christopher Yule hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1976 Jennifer Capriati Long Island NY, tennis pro (Federation Cup-1990, Olympics-gold-92)
1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
2334 Beverly Crusher Copernicus Luna, fictional doctor-Star Trek Next Generation
2336 Deanna Troi Betazed, fictional counsellor-Star Trek Next Generation.

Deaths which occurred on March 29:

1058 Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies
1546 Cardinal Beaton English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1650 Cornelis Galle I Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1655 Valerius Andreas Flemish historian, dies at 66
1697 Nikolaus Bruhns composer, dies
1745 Robert Walpole 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1788 Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies
1792 King Gustav III King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1802 Frederic Thieme composer, dies at 51
1826 J H Voß writer, dies at 75
1837 Maria Fitzherbert morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
1839 Bernardus JC Dibbets Dutch baron/General-Major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1847 Auguste De Polignac premier France, dies at 66
1848 John Jacob Astor chartered American Fur Company, dies at 84
1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
1880 Jakob Axel Josephson composer, dies at 62
1886 John Keble theologian, Bournemouth
1888 Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan composer, dies at 74
1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1892 William Bowman English anatomist, dies at 75
1911 Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, dies at 74
1912 Robert F Scott British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1917 Fran Gerbic composer, dies at 76
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1930 Anton Bettelheim writer, dies
1933 Alexander Schmuller Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52
1937 Karol Szymanowski Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1945 Karl T Sapper German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1955 Everard Verachtert Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1957 Joyce A L Cary English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1959 Barthelemy Boganda Central African Republic's 1st President, dies
1959 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter composer, dies at 84
1963 Pola Gojawiczynska Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
1964 Ted Collins pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
1966 Harry Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50
1972 J Arthur Rank 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1974 Seton I Miller writer, dies at 71
1978 Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
1979 Melville Cooper TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
1980 [Annunzio Paolo] Mantovani orchestra leader, dies at 74
1981 Eric Williams Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
1982 Carl Orff German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
1982 Rudy Bond character actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of a heart attack at 68
1982 Walter Hallstein West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80
1983 Richard O'Brien actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65
1986 Harry Ritz actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
1989 Bernard Blier actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
1990 Germaine Montenesdro 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
1991 Lee Atwater political strategist (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 Matt Bennett actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
1992 Earl Spencer father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1994 Bill Travers actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
1994 Paul Grimault animator, dies at 89
1994 William Natcher (Representative-Democrat-KY), dies at 84
1995 Carl E Jefferson record company owner, dies at 74
1995 Eddie Williams Wiggins alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
1995 James Eric Storrar fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1995 John Elliott Terry film financier, dies at 82
1996 Maggie Donnelly bag lady, dies at 46
1997 Eddie Ryder actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
1997 Ellen Clara Pollock actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94

On this day...March 29 - Events

0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholic excluded of public functions
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend AL: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in New York NY
1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR
1865 Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
1865 Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed
1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)
1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1919 Stanley Cup: Montréal (NHL) & Seattle (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie; 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord
1927 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)
1929 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)
1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & New Zealand
1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances
1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 Yankees & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins
1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President
1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army
1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mount Pleasant MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1971 1st Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP
1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1976 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA
1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London
1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
1981 "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110 meter
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62
1982 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win
1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44
1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)
1989 61st Academy Awards: "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win
1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France
1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
1990 Houston's Akeen Olajuwan scores the 3rd NBA quadruple double 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists & 11 blocks vs Milwaukee
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro
1992 "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1992 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie
1992 Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in New York NY
1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
1992 World Ice Dance Championship in Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
1992 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
1992 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1993 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1993 Queensland all out for 75 vs New South Wales in Sheffield Shield Final
1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1996 New York Yankees beats New York Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1997 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yankees 2-0 (exhibition)
1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena Kansas City,Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75
1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-30-2006, 07:47 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on March 30:

1135 Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon] Còrodoba Spain, philosopher/physician
1222 Nichiren Japan, Buddhist priest/saint
1432 Mehmed II [Fâtih] Sultan of Turkey (1451-81)
1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1674 Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1681 Pieter Snyers Flemish painter/engraver
1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich composer
1697 John-Baptist Xavery Flemish sculptor
1719 Sir John Hawkins England, wrote 1st history of music
1727 Tommaso Traetta Italy's opera composer/band leader (Farnace)
1746 Francisco Jose de Goya Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja)
1750 John Stafford Smith composer
1772 Johann Wilhelm Wilms composer
1790 Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
1804 Salomon Sulzer composer
1805 Adrien de La Fage composer
1811 Angelo Catelani Italian composer/conductor
1815 Wincenty Studzinski composer
1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1824 Innis Newton Palmer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1830 Auguste Tolbecque composer
1830 Julius F A Bahnsen German philosopher
1835 Bernhard Scholz composer
1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg German industrialist/politician
1842 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green] US historian/philosopher
1844 Paul M Verlaine France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
1853 Vincent van Gogh Zundert Netherlands, artist who always lent an ear (Irises)
1864 Franz Oppenheimer German sociologist/politician
1865 Heinrich Rubens German physicist
1872 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko composer
1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers US, mental hygiene pioneer
1880 Sean O'Casey Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
1882 Melanie Klein Austrian/British psycho analysis
1883 Jo Davidson US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski Poland, logician/mathematician
1887 Albert P Termote Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
1888 Anna Q Nilsson Ystad Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1891 Jan B Cammans Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
1892 Erwin Panofsky German/US art historian
1894 Sergei Ilyushin Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
1895 Jean Giono French writer (World Chant)
1898 Heinz Risse writer
1898 Joyce Carey London England, actress (Black Windmill)
1899 Irving Thalberg US producer (MGM)
19-- Steve Summers rocker (Pretty Boy Floyd-Rock & Roll)
1903 Countee Cullen US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl)
1903 Sol C Siegel US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes)
1904 Akarova [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches)
1905 Mikio Oda Japan, triple jumper (Olympics-gold-1928)
1908 Camille Schmit composer
1908 Kurt Bruggemann composer
1908 Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith Chinese cricket bowler
1909 Ernst Gombrich OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
1911 Dennis Gomm musician
1912 Andrew Rodger Waterson scholar/naturalist
1912 Jack Cowie cricketer (successful New Zealand fast bowler either side of WWII)
1913 Frankie Laine [Frank Paul LoVecchio] Chicago IL, singer (Hey, Good Lookin', That's My Desire)/ actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide)
1913 Gottfried Reinhardt theatre producer
1913 Richard Helms CIA head (1966-73)
1914 Sonny Boy Williamson [John Lee] blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
1917 Els Aarne composer
1917 Herbert Anderson actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace)
1917 Rudolf Bruci composer
1918 John Gray FRS/marine biologist
1918 Joseph Allen Jr Boston MA, actor (Death of a Champion)
1919 McGeorge Bundy Boston MA, national security adviser under JFK
1919 Ramsay Ames actress (G-Men Never Forget, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1920 Turhan Bey Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1921 Countess of Sutherland English great land owner/multi-millionaire
1921 Kan Ishii composer
1921 Oto Ferenczy composer
1922 German Germanovich Galinin composer
1922 J F Coates naval architect
1922 Peter Jona Korn composer
1923 Herbert Asmodi writer
1924 Milko Kelemen composer
1925 Ivo Malek composer
1925 John Wells MP
1926 John Heddle Nash singer
1926 Lord Rayner
1926 Ray McAnally Buncrana County Donegal Ireland, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian)
1926 Werner Torkanowsky Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symphony)
1927 Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
1927 Wally Grout cricketer (great Aussie wicket-keeper)
1928 Diether de la Motte composer
1928 Richard Trant British General
1928 Tom Sharpe English historian/author (Riotous Assembly, Want)
1929 Richard Dysart Brighton MA, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
1929 Shirley Stoler Brooklyn NY, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties)
1930 Browne-Wilkinson lord
1930 David Staple joint president (Council of Churches for Britain & Ireland)
1930 John Astin Baltimore MD, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Gomez-Addams Family)
1930 Peter Marshall [Pierre LaCock] Huntington Long Island NY, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
1930 Rolf Harris Bassendean Western Australia, Australian/British cartoonist/singer (Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport)/actor (The Little Convict)
1931 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin Russian cosmonaut
1931 Harold Burrage US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
1931 Sandor Szokolay composer
1932 A J Zuckerman Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine)
1933 Jean-Claude Brialy Aumale Algeria, actor (Circle of Love, Cousins)
1934 Lord Tanlaw
1935 Alan Jackson CEO (BTR)
1935 Gordon Mumma composer
1935 John Charles Eaton composer
1936 Mark Burns British director (Juggernaut)
1936 Richard Baker Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha)
1937 J S Jennings CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Co)
1937 Jay W Macintosh Gainesville GA, actress (Sons & Daughters)
1937 Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth
1937 Warren Beatty Richmond VA, actor (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
1938 Martin Dunne Lord-Lieutenant (Warwickshire)
1940 Astrud Gilberto Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema)
1940 Jerry Lucas Middletown OH, NBA center (New York Knicks, NBA rookie of year 1964, Olympics-gold-60)
1940 Norman Gifford cricketer (respected England slow left-armer 1964-73)
1941 Brendan O'Friel CEO (Prison Governors Association)
1941 Robert C Smith (Representative-Republican-NH, 1985- )
1941 Ron Johnston Vice-Chancellor (Essex University)
1941 Sven Hamrin Sweden, road race cycler (Olympics-bronze-1964)
1942 George Esson Chief Constable (Dumfries & Galloway)
1942 Graeme Edge Rochester Staffordshire England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin, Your Wildest Dreams)
1943 Bob Blewett cricketer (father of Greg South Australia batsman 1975-79)
1944 Gerrit Komrij Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo)
1945 Eric Clapton [Eric Patrick Clapp] Ripley England, legendary guitarist/singer (Yardbirds, Cream, Tears in Heaven)
1948 Dave Ball rocker (Procul Harum)
1948 Jim Dandy Mangrum vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy)
1948 Justin Deas Connellsville PA, actor (Buzz-Guiding Light, Dream Lover, As the World Turns, Santa Barbara)
1948 M A King FBA, economist
1948 Nigel Jones British MP
1949 Leslie Joan Corn theatre producer/director/writer
1949 Sue Cook British broadcaster
1950 Dave McCurdy (Representative-Democrat-OK, 1981- )
1950 Eugene Bowen composer (Wonder's Edge)
1950 Joseph Cali New York NY, actor (Nick-Today's FBI)
1950 Rupert Greenall rock keyboardist (Fixx)
1951 John Gosden racehorse trainer
1955 Randy Van Warmer Indian Hills CO, vocalist (Just When I Needed You Most)
1957 Elena V Kondakova Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (STS 84)
1957 Paul Reiser New York NY, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You)
1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84)
1958 Joseph Paul Sindelar Fort Knox KY, PGA golfer (British Columbia Open-1985, 87)
1959 Daniel Seifried Kitchener Ontario, Canadia Tour golfer (1981 Thunder Bay)
1960 William D Johnson US alpine skier
1962 M C Hammer [Stanley Kirk Burrell] Oakland CA, rapper (U Can't Touch This)
1963 Jenny Lidback Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1995 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1963 Lomas Brown NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1964 Corey Millen Cloquet MN, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 Dave Ellett Cleveland OH, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 Tracy Chapman US singer/songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car)
1965 Karel Novacek Prostejov Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1994 Hilversum)
1965 Piers Morgan editor (Daily Mirror)
1967 Ian Ziering West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 Julie Richardson Auckland New Zealand, tennis star (1992 Futures-Canberra)
1968 Celine Dion Québec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman)
1968 Donna D'Errico Dothan AL, playmate (September 1995)/actress (Baywatch)
1969 Marco Foddis pop drummer (Pestilence)
1969 Mark Astley Calgary, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1970 George Coghill WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Mark Consuelos Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
1970 Secreteriat race horse, triple crown (1973)
1970 Shane Bertsch Denver CO, Nike golfer (1994 Permina Basin Open-14th)
1971 Mari Holden Milwaukee WI, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 Brenden Stai NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Matt Joyce NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Cardinals, Seahawks, Claymores)
1972 Peggy Zlotkowski Miss France-Universe (1989)
1973 [Kirk] Kareem Streete-Thompson Ithaca NY, 100 meter/long jumper
1973 Caroline Ramagos Miss Mississippi-USA (1996)
1973 Melinda Penn Miss British Virgin Islands-Universe (1997)
1973 Rodney Thomas running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 Martin Love cricketer (high scoring Queensland batsman, Australia 1995)
1976 Chris Canty cornerback (New England Patriots)
1976 Toby Gowin punter (Dallas Cowboys)
1978 Wendy Christina Roberts Miss South Carolina Teen-USA (1996)
1980 Liriel Higa Los Angeles CA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1983 ? California condor chick, San Diego CA, 1st born in captivity hatches

Deaths which occurred on March 30:

0988 Arnulf II count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1202 Joachim Van Fiore Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies
1547 François I of Valois-Angoulême King of France (1515-47), dies at 52
1707 Sébastien le Prestre Vauban French fortress architect, dies at 73
1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39
1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1840 George (Beau) Brummell Dandy, dies
1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer, dies 52
1871 W F A A Louisa/Lovisa queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42
1872 Nicolaos Mantzaros composer, dies at 76
1873 Benedict Augustin Morel psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63
1875 Marie Moke Pleyel composer, dies at 63
1879 David van der Kellen Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
1879 Thomas Couture French painter/author, dies at 63
1884 Hans Hampel composer, dies at 61
1906 Betsy Perk [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73
1910 Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at 53
1912 Karl May German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70
1925 Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64
1926 Feliks E Dzerzjinski Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
1935 Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan composer, dies at 51
1942 Alfred Coville French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
1945 Karel Moor composer, dies at 71
1946 John S S P V Gort viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1949 Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1949 Friedrich C R Bergius chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1950 Léon Blum French premier (People's Front Govt), dies at 77
1953 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer, dies at 75
1955 Harl McDonald US composer (Santa Fé Trail), dies at 55
1960 Fritz Klimsch German sculptor/painter, dies at 90
1960 Joseph Haas German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1961 P J Melotte discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
1963 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk composer, dies at 69
1964 Willem CN Andriessen Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76
1966 Erwin Piscator German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72
1966 Maxfield Parrish US painter, dies at 95
1969 Lucien Bianchi Belgian auto racer, dies at 34
1971 Selmer Jackson actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82
1972 Gabriel Heather US news anchor, dies at 81
1972 Peter Whitney actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55
1974 Ludovicus J Rogier Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79
1975 Peter Bamm writer, dies
1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky composer, dies at 88
1978 George Paine lefty cricket spinner (for England in West Indies 1935), dies
1978 Harold Gimblett cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
1979 Airey Neave British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1981 Dewitt Wallace US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
1981 Noel Harford cricketer (8 Tests for New Zealand 1955-58), dies
1983 Pál Kadosa Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at 79
1984 Peter Yarrall strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies
1985 Harold Peary actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76
1986 James F Cagney actor (Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
1986 John Ciardi US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
1989 Dort Clark actor (In Harm's Way), dies
1991 Jan Willem Hofstra Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
1992 Art Hannes announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72
1992 Luigi De Laurentiis Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies
1993 Jeremy Siegrist actor (Adventures of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20
1993 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70
1994 Albert Goldman rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 Sid Weiss bassist, dies at 79
1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock cricketer, dies at 65
1995 Paul A Rothchild record producer, dies at 59
1995 Rozelle Claxton pianist/arranger, dies at 82
1995 Tony Lock cricketer (174 wickets for England), dies
1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78
1996 Ryoei Saito businessman, dies at 79
2002 HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother dies at Royal Lodge, Windsor, at 101

On this day...March 30 Evenys

0239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster
0988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris France
1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 Stanley Cup: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montréal Maroons (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42
1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII
1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ
1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs England at Kingston
1955 27th Academy Awards: "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles)
1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY)
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain
1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-31-2006, 06:05 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on March 31:

1499 Pius IV [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian lawyer/pope (1559-65)
1519 Henry II King of Germany (1547-59)
1570 Louise Juliana countess of Nassau
1596 René Descartes France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was)
1621 Andrew Marvell England, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
1675 Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58)
1684 Francesco Durante composer
1717 Florian Wrastill composer
1723 Frederik V King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn Austria, composer, helped develop classical style
1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen)
1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer
1809 Edward FitzGerald England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
1809 Nikolai Gogol father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
1809 Otto Jonas Lindblad composer
1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1822 Rafael Hernando composer
1831 Archibald Scott Scottish chemist
1835 John La Farge US painter
1837 Robert Ross McBurney 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1838 Léon Dierx French poet
1839 Nikolay Przhevalsky naturalist, explorer of east central Asia
1840 John Herbert Kelly Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 Andrew Lang Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
1847 Jarolslaw Zielinski composer
1848 John Henry Roberts composer
1854 Sir Dugald Clerk inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
1868 Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist
1872 Arthur Griffith Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Féin
1872 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
1878 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915)
1885 Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist
1887 Jose Maria Usandizaga composer
1887 Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger], French poet (Nobel 1960)
1891 Erich Walter Sternberg composer
1891 Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
1891 Victor Varconi Hungary, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City)
1892 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek Polish/British General-Major/commandant
1893 Clemens Krauss Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orchestra-1937)
1895 John Jay McCloy lawyer/banker (Assistant Secretary of War 1941-45, president-Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60))
1895 Vardis A Fisher US author (Darkness & Deep)
19-- Evan Cohen Los Angeles CA, actor (David-The Ropers, Johnny-It's Not Easy)
19-- Mirla Castellanos Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer
19-- Peggy Rea Los Angeles CA, actress (Red Skelton Show, Waltons)
1900 Henry WFA English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters
1900 Lörinc Szabó Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik év)
1903 Arthur Godfrey New York NY, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts)
1906 Lauri Saikkola composer
1907 Eddie Quillan Philadelphia PA, actor (Julia, Hell Town)
1909 Pieter Jongeling Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Netherlands Daily)
1909 Robert Brasillach French author/Nazi collaborator
1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans civil servant/resistance fighter
1914 Octavio Paz Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)
1915 Eliseo Morales Pajaro composer
1915 Henry Morgan New York NY, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena)
1915 Jack Perry businessman
1916 John Vivyan Chicago IL, actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky)
1918 Ted Post Brooklyn NY, director (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke)
1920 Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco Dutch writer (Bitter Herb)
1922 Patrick J G McGee North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange)
1922 Richard Kiley Chicago IL, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love)
1923 Donald Argee Barksdale Berkley CA, basketballer (Olympics-gold-1948)
1923 Lawrie Miller New Zealand cricketer (opening bat in 13 Tests)
1924 Harry Cubitt 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner
1924 Leo Buscaglia Los Angeles CA, "Dr Hug", psychologist (Love)
1926 John Fowles England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman)
1926 Sydney Chaplin son of Charlie/actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters)
1927 Cesar Chavez Yuma AZ, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers)
1927 William Daniels Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776)
1928 Gordie Howe Floral Saskatchewan, NHL right wing (Detroit Red Wings)
1929 Lee Patterson Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World)
1929 Liz Claiborne Brussels Belgium, fashion designer
1931 Miller Barber Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1968 Byron Nelson Classic)
1932 Godfrey Lawrence cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 vs New Zealand 1961)
1932 John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
1932 Nagisa Oshima Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope)
1933 Bob Simmons Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
1933 Shirley Jones Smithton PA, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)
1934 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov Russia, cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup)
1934 John D Loudermilk rock drummer/vocalist (Language of Love, Norman)
1934 Wim H Sinnige Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic)
1935 Herb Alpert bandleader/trumpeter (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)
1935 Judith Rossner US, writer (August)
1935 Richard Chamberlain Beverly Hills CA, actor (Dr Kildare)
1936 Marge Piercy author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
1937 Willem Duyn [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
1938 John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
1938 Nathaniel Taylor St Louis MO, actor (Rollo-Sanford & Son)
1940 Barney Frank (Representative-Democrat-MA, 1981- )
1940 Jim Criner WLAF head coach (Scottish Claymores)
1940 Patrick J Leahy (Senator-Democrat-VT, 1975- )
1943 Christopher [Ronald] Walken Astoria Queens NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
1944 Rod Allen [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)
1945 Valerie Curtin Jackson Heights NY, actress (Judy-9 to 5)
1946 Aftab Gul cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in six Tests 1969-71)
1946 Al Nichol Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles)
1946 Gabe Kaplan Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1947 Al Goodman rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 César Gaviria Trujillo President (Colombia, 1990-94)
1947 Jon-Jon Poulos Chicago IL, rocker (Buckinghams)
1948 Albert Gore Jr Washington DC, (Senator-Democrat-TN, 1985-92)/45th US Vice President (1993- )
1948 David Eisenhower Eisenhower's grandson (married Julie Nixon)
1948 Mick Ralphs Hereford & Worcester England, guitarist (Bad Company, Mott the Hoople)
1948 Rhea Perlman Brooklyn, actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers)
1948 Thijs van Leer Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
1950 Alison McCartney pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner
1950 Ed Marinaro New York NY, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)
1950 Richard Hughes rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
1953 Greg Martin Louisville KY, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1953 Sean Hopper California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1954 Tony Brock England, rock drummer (Babys-Missing You)
1957 Marc McClure San Mateo CA, actor (Ross-California Fever)
1957 Mary Cadorette East Hartford CT, actress (Vicky-Three's a Crowd)
1957 Patrick G Forrester El Paso TX, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut
1958 Jay Feenan Windham NH, rower (Olympics-1996)
1958 Ken Meeker New York NY, actor (Rafe Garretson-One Life to Live)
1958 Pat McGlynn Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1959 Angus Young Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1960 Anne Howard San Diego CA, actress (Nicole Love-Another World)
1960 Mark Tuinei NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 Ron Brown Los Angeles CA, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1962 John Taylor NFL wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers)
1964 Dave Wyman NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1964 David Diaz-Infante NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 Erik Turner Omaha NE, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 Isabelle Ferrari Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager)
1964 Rod Jones NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1965 Marlon Vonhagt cricketer (1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup)
1965 Patty Fendick Sacramento CA, tennis star (1989 Auckland)
1965 Tom Barrasso Boston MA, NHL goalie (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1965 William McNamara Dallas TX, actor (Texasville, Beat, Stealing Home)
1966 Natalie Gosselin Levis Québec Canada, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1966 Thomas Fitzgerald Brooklyn NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
1967 Glenn Montgomery NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks, Oilers)
1967 Nanci Bowen Tifton GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1968 J R Reid NBA forward (New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
1969 Kevin Sargent NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 Steve Smith NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1970 Derek Brown NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Oleg Romanov NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1970 Stuart Carruthers Australian field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1971 Ewan McGregor Perth Australia, actor (Trainspotting)
1971 Pavel Bure Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Team Russia Olympics-Silver-1998, Vancouver Canucks)
1972 John Godina Fort Sill OK, shot putter/discus thrower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 Kelly O'Leary Halifax Nova Scotia, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1973 Vanessa Mambi Miss Curaçao-Universe (1996)
1974 Anthony Hicks NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Carol Ann Plante actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons)
1974 James Burgess linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Jason Odom tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Nina Georgala Miss Greece-Universe (1996)
1976 Amanda Moody Orem UT, Miss Utah-America (1995)
1976 Josh Saviano actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years)
1980 Jenny Smith Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1982 Jessica Joseph Royal Oak MI, dance skater (& Butler-1997 National)

Deaths which occurred on March 31:

1201 Absalon Asserssön Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies
1340 Ivan I Kalita grand-duke of Vladimir, dies
1389 Everhard Tserclaes sheriff of Brussels, murdered
1567 Philip the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62
1578 Juan de Escobedo Secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1621 Felipe III King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42
1631 John Donne Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1656 Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at 64
1722 Campegius Vitringa Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
1741 Peter Burmannus [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72
1809 Franz Joseph Haydn composer, dies on 77th birthday
1837 John Constable English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60
1850 John Calhoun dies at 68
1855 Charlotte Brontë English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
1877 Antoine A Cournot French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
1880 Henryk Wieniawski Polish violist/composer, dies at 44
1881 Gaetano Gaspari composer, dies at 73
1884 Jan T Beelen Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77
1885 Franz Wilhelm Abt German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
1885 Philipp Fahrbach composer, dies at 69
1886 Giovanni Rossi composer, dies at 57
1892 Adolf Rzepko composer, dies at 66
1898 Edward Noyes Westcott US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies
1900 Frank Milligan cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests England vs South Africa 1898-99), dies
1901 John Stainer composer, dies at 60
1913 John Pierpont Morgan US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75
1914 Ch Morgenstern writer, dies at 42
1928 Gustave Ador President of Austria (1919), dies at 82
1928 Medardo Rosso Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69
1931 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1934 Franz Ehrle German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88
1938 Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78
1939 Indrið Einarsson Iceland playwright (Skipið Sekkur), dies at 87
1944 Mineichi Koga Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1945 Hans Fischer German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945 Maurice Rose 1st US General in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45
1948 Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
1951 Ralph Forbes actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45
1957 Gene Lockhart New York NY, actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
1959 Peter Suhrkamp German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68
1960 Joseph Haas German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1961 Seerp Anema Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85
1967 Don Alvarado actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62
1967 Hieronim Feicht composer, dies at 72
1970 Semjon Timoshenko Russian Marshal/Inspector-General (WWII), dies at 75
1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas composer, dies at 68
1974 Andrea Checci actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
1978 Astrid Allwyn actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68
1980 Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame, dies in Arizona at 66
1982 Fritz Eberhard West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85
1983 Stephen Murray actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70
1986 Harry Ritz comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79
1986 Jerry Paris director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60
1986 O'Kelly Isley US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48
1988 Talib Rasul Hakim composer, dies at 48
1990 Lillian "Miss" Miller audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight Show), dies
1991 John Carter US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies
1993 Brandon Lee US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1993 Jose Maria Lemus President of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
1994 Léon J Ramirez Reine [Degrelle], Belgian/Spanish Nazi (Rex), dies at 87
1995 Carl M Story fiddler, dies at 78
1995 Selena [Quintanilla Perez] Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1996 Dante Giacosa engineer/designer, dies at 91
1996 Dario Bellezza poet, dies at 51
1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce musician, dies at 37
1996 Julius Young fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73
1997 Edwin Alberian TV celebrity (Clarabell), dies at 76
1997 Laxmishankar Pathak food retailer, dies at 62

On this day...March 31 Events

1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont" premieres in Weimar
1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Québec & Montréal incorporated
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877 Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Australia vs England MCG
1878 Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)
1883 1st performance of César Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1889 300 meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
1906 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin
1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1921 British coal miners goes on strike
1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours
1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
1924 Croydon Airport; 1st British air company merger - Imperial Airways Ltd established
1924 London public transport strike ends
1925 WOWO-AM, Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)
1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begain radio transmission (Indonesia)
1935 Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2 :7 :9)
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York NY
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1946 Belgian government of Acker, forms
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 US tanks exceed 38º of latitude in Korea
1953 Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld Secretary-General
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
1954 USSR offers to join NATO
1955 Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut West Indies vs Australia, Kingston
1955 US Assay Office in Seattle WA closes
1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1959 Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in New York NY
1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY
1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar
1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open
1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (New Zealand) begins transmitting
1968 Seattle's American League club is named Pilots
1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre
1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
1973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55; this is John Wooden's final game & UCLA's 10th NCAA championship in 12 years
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff berth
1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in New York NY
1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1978 Wings release "London Town" album
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title
1980 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1981 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek win
1982 Arkas tanker at Montz LA, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in New York NY
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65
1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
1988 New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20 km (57:18.4)
1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
1991 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ
1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in New York NY
1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra
1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
1995 1st game at Coors Stadium Colorado (replacement Rockies beat Yankees 4-1)
1995 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65
1996 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1996 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1996 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1997 59th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arizona beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT)
1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
 

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Birthdates which occurred on April 01:

1283 Ludwig IV of Baveria Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)
1578 William Harvey England, physician (discovered blood circulation)
1582 Gaspar de Crayer Flemish painter
1582 Thomas Simpson composer
1643 Christian Demelius composer
1697 Abbé Prévost French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut)
1721 Pieter Hellendaal Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
1725 François Bainville composer
1732 Franz Josef Haydn Austria, composer (Die Schöpfung)
1755 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French politician/author (Physiologie du Goût)
1772 Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer
1785 J H Ferdinand Olivier German painter
1793 Edouard Corbière French captain/writer (Le negrier)
1802 Hubert Reis composer
1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic
1809 Nikolai Gogol writer
1809 Willem Ruys J Dz Dutch ship owner
1815 Otto Von Bismarck Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
1817 Johannes J van Oosterzee Dutch theologist
1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1914
1834 Isidore Edouard Legouix composer
1843 Ludwig Enneccerus German jurist
1847 Gavriil Musicescu composer
1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux French explorer (South America)
1852 Edward Austin Abbey US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
1858 Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
1858 Gaetano Mosca Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
1864 Marie Jungius Dutch fairy tale writer
1865 Richard Zsigmondy Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
1866 Ferruccio D M B Busoni Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
1866 Johannes C H de Meÿere Dutch zoologist
1866 Sophonisba Breckenridge scholar/teacher/social activist
1868 Edmond Rostand France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1869 Peter A Egge Norwegian writer (De Droom)
1871 F Melius Christiansen composer
1872 Tadeusz Joteyko composer
1873 Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov Novgorod Provine Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
1875 Edgar Wallace England, novelist/playwright/journalist (The Terror)
1878 Carl Sternheim German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
1883 Lon Chaney Colorado Springs CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov Russian composer/conductor
1884 Laurette Taylor [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier) British barones
1886 Wallace Beery Kansas City MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness)
1886 Casimir von Paszthory composer
1887 Leonard Bloomfield US linguist
1893 Cicely Courtneidge Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure)
1895 Alberta Hunter African-American blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
1897 Willem H van de Pol Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma)
1898 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley] New York NY, actress (Blood & Sand)
1898 Pola Gojawiczynska Polish writer (Stolica)
1898 Roger Bastide French sociologist
1901 Boris Koutzen composer
1902 L P Jai cricketer (one Test India vs England 1934, scored 19 & 0)
1904 Juan Gil-Albert poet
1905 Gaston Eyskens PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
1905 "Mother" Clara Hale US social worker (founded Hale House)
1905 Winfried P I Zillig German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica)
1906 Ned Glass Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie)
1906 Sigve Lie Norway, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1948, 52)
1907 Walter Kaufmann composer
1908 Abraham H Maslow US psychologist (humanistic psychology)
1909 Abner Biberman Milwaukee WI, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak)
1911 Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys Dutch soccer star/writer
1911 Ferdinand J Kranenburg Dutch Secretary of Defense (Socialist Democrat)
1911 Günther Rennert Essen Germany, opera director/producer
1914 Carla van Neste Belgian violinist
1915 Art Lund Salt Lake City UT, singer (Ken Murray Show)
1915 Willy Dixon blues artist (Mellow Down Easy)
1917 Leon Janney Ogden UT, actor (Hawk)
1917 Johnny Andrews Boston MA, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
1920 Toshiro Mifune Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
1920 Joan Frances Will actress
1921 Douglas Allenbrook composer
1921 William L Bergsma Oakland CA, composer (Fortunate Island)
1922 William Manchester Attleboro MA, historian (Death of a President)
1923 Bobby Jordan Harrison NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild)
1924 Gunther Becker composer
1925 Sala Burton (Representative-Democrat-CA, 1983- )
1926 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey US, sci-fi author (Crystal Singer, Dragonflight, Dragondrums)
1926 Lyndon Brook actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
1927 Amos Milburn rocker
1928 George Grizzard Roanoke Rapids NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica)
1928 Herbert Klein newscaster/press secretary
1928 Jane Powell Portland OR, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa)
1929 Milan Kundera Czechoslovakia, poet/writer (Unbearable Lightness of Being, L'art du Roman, Joke)
1930 Grace Lee Whitney Ann Arbor MI, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek)
1930 Joan Franks-Williams composer
1931 George Baker Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly)
1931 Rolf Hochhuth German playwright (Deputy)
1932 Debbie Reynolds El Paso TX, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
1932 Gordon Jump Dayton OH, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains)
1932 Alex[ander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka] Tetteh-Lartey broadcaster, lawyer and actor (Caught, Laughter of God)
1932 Jiri Smutny composer
1933 Dan Flavin US minimalist sculptor
1934 Don Hastings Brooklyn NY, actor (Captain Video, Bob-As the World Turns)
1934 Jim Ed Brown Sparkman AR, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1935 Hans H Boswinkel actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love)
1935 John Murray cricketer (England 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests)
1939 Ali MacGraw Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
1939 Phil Niekro knuckleball pitcher (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
1939 Rudolph Isley Cincinnati OH, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
1941 Ajit Wadekar cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & captain)
1942 Alan Blakley rocker (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1942 Danny Brooks rocker (Dovells)
1942 Phil Margo Brooklyn NY, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Dhalgren, Neveryona)
1944 Carol White England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
1945 Heather Young Bremerton WA, actress (Betty-Land of Giants)
1946 John Barbata drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1946 Arthur Conley US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music)
1946 Ronnie "Plonk" Lane London England , rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)
1946 William Frederick Fisher Dallas TX, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)
1947 David Eisenhower grandson of President Dwight, married Julie Nixon
1948 Jimmy Cliff Reggae singer
1948 Simon Crowe rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
1948 Y Y Williams Welsh rugby player
1949 Gill Scott-Heron US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon)
1950 Ed[uardus] Nijpels Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
1950 Leonard van Spirit Dutch/British fruit/food magnate
1952 Annette O'Toole Houston TX, actress (Cat People, Superman III)
1952 Billy Currie rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1952 Rey Robinson US, 100 meter sprinter (Olympics-1972)
1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103)
1953 Aftab Baloch cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428 for Sind 74)
1953 Barry Sonnenfeld director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery)
1954 Jeff Porcaro Los Angeles CA, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
1955 Danny Joe Pohl Mount Pleasant MI, PGA golfer (1986 Colonial)
1955 Stan Ridway rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
1957 David Gower cricketer (elegant England left-handed batsman 1978-92)
1957 Donald William Hammond Frederick MD, PGA golfer (1986 Bob Hope)
1957 Peter Deutsch (Representative-Democrat-FL)
1958 Anton Innauer Austria, 70 meter ski jumper (Olympics-gold-1980)
1961 Mark White rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1961 Jennifer Runyon actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas, Gwendolyn-Charles in Charge)
1961 Jim Jeffcoat NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1962 Phillip Schofield TV personality/designer (Nightfire)
1962 Rich Amaral Visalia CA, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 John Morris cricketer (England right-hand batsman vs India 1990)
1964 Kevin Duckworth NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 Scott Stevens Kitchener, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team Canada)
1965 John "Jumbo" Elliot NFL tackle (New York Giants, New York Jets)
1965 Mark Jackson NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1965 Peter O'Toole Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People, Home, Don't Go)
1966 Dave Vankoughnett CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1966 Odie Harris NFL safety/defensive back (Houston Oilers)
1968 Joel Smeenge NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Traci Lin-Tavi New York NY, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2)
1969 Andrew Vlahov Australian basketball forward (Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
1969 Arnaud Boetsch Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior)
1969 Frank Castillo El Paso TX, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1969 John Forest soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Kevin Dean Madison, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils)
1970 Mark Wheeler NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New England Patriots)
1970 Wes Barnett St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1970 Wyatt Jones Honolulu HI, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96)
1971 Daniel Vacek Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1971 Ernest Jones NFL defensive end (Saints, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 Jessica Collins [Capogna] actress (Dinah Lee Mayberry-Loving)
1972 Kenny Gales NFL/WLAF cornerback (Chicago Bears, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Mike McCoy WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Ferdy Vierklau soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1973 Stephen Fleming cricketer (New Zealand left-handed Test batsman 1994-)
1975 Kristine Quance 100 meter breaststroke/200 meter medley (Olympics-96)
1975 Magdalena Maleeva Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1995 Chicago Moscow)
1976 Clarence Seedorf Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax, Real Madrid)
1980 Bryan Buffinton Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light)
1982 Sam Huntington actor (Jungle 2 Jungle)

Deaths which occurred on April 01:

1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81
1205 Amalrik II King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies
1548 Sigismund I the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81
1611 Gillis van Valkenborch Flemish painter, buried at about 72
1734 Louis Lully composer, dies at 69
1799 Narciso Casanovas composer, dies at 52
1807 Louis François Chambray composer, dies at 69
1807 Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57
1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner composer, dies at 61
1814 Jozef de Ferraris French/Austrian General/cartographer, dies at 87
1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner composer, dies at 51
1832 Robert the Hermit US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies
1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer, dies at 98
1866 Johannes C H de Meijere Dutch zoologist, dies
1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at 69
1870 Patrick Gass Sergeant of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98
1878 Eugene Gautier composer, dies at 56
1901 François M Raoult Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
1910 Andreas Aschenbach German painter/engraver, dies at 94
1914 Rube Waddell baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
1915 Johann Joseph Abert composer, dies at 82
1916 Gabrielle Petit Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1916 Sjoerd van der Schaaf Frisian journalist/writer (Abbingawâld), dies
1917 Scott Joplin ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin composer, dies at 64
1922 Charles I emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
1925 Francis William Davenport composer, dies at 77
1930 Zawditu 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
1930 Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford viceroy of British-India (1916-21), dies at 64
1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky composer, dies at 61
1941 Hippolyte Delehaye Flemish historian, dies at 81
1946 Noah Beery actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62
1947 George II king of Greece, dies at 56
1950 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
1951 Clement D'Hooghe composer, dies at 51
1952 Ferenc Molnár Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76
1955 Silvio d'Amico Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68
1957 Gheorge Tatarescu premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1960 Piet[er O] Bakker Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at 62
1964 Bozidar Kunc composer, dies at 60
1965 Henry D G Crerar Canadian General (WWI, Normandy), dies at 76
1966 Karl B Adam German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89
1968 Lev D Landau Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
1969 Helena Rubinstein US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89
1973 Arthur Wood cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead composer, dies at 86
1975 Eugeen Yoors Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95
1976 Freddie Lennon father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
1976 Max Ernst German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85
1976 Miroslav Ponc composer, dies at 73
1976 S Constantine Timoshenko Russian marshal, dies at 75
1979 Marinus Peijnenburg Dutch politician, dies at 51
1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65
1984 Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in Los Angeles CA at 44
1988 Jim Jordan actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91
1988 Marius W Holtrop economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
1989 Henk Gortzak Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
1991 Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95
1991 Martha Graham US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
1991 Paulo Muwanga chief of Uganda (1980), dies
1992 Juanito soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
1993 Alan Kulwicki stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem [Yunis Awad] Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
1993 Juan of Borbon y Battemberg father of king Juan Carlos I, dies
1993 Wayne Mack sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68
1994 Leon Degrelle Belgium General, dies
1994 Robert Doisneau French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1994 Rosalind Laura Burke aviatrix, dies at 86
1994 Stuart Sloan war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1995 Cheryl Waltz author/film producer, dies at 50
1995 Francisco Moncion dancer, dies at 73
1995 Johnny Nicholss footballer, dies at 63
1995 Lucie Rie potter, dies at 93
1995 Richard Pool naval Officer, dies at 75
1995 Sampson DeBrier actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86
1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast PM of Portugal (1978), dies
1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris music publisher, dies at 89
1996 John Alwyne Kitching zoologist, dies at 87
1996 John McSheery dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51
1996 Mario Viegas actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
1997 Jolie Gabor mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97
1997 Nancy Woodhull news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52

On this day...April 1 Events

0374 Halley's Comet approaches within 0.0884 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
0527 Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium
0705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control
1572 Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1581 Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang", premieres in Leipzig
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1789 House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York NY, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
1803 French law rules the use of intention
1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1850 San Francisco County government established
1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary
1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock VA
1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1865 Battle of 5 Forks VA, signalling end of Lee's army
1865 Battle at Blakely AL
1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia AL
1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris France
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1868 Hampton Institute opens
1872 1st edition of The Standard
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 550+ die
1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1876 1st official National League baseball game (Boston-6, Philadelphia-5)
1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1899 North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1916 1st US national women's swimming championships held
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St New York NY
1920 Church disestablished in Wales
1920 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 Imperial Airways is formed in Britain
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted
1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1926 Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1929 Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate to form Atlanta University Center
1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1929 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou", 24-minute film
1930 "Blue Angel", starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes 1st female in professional baseball
1931 Earthquake devastates Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1933 Hammond scores 336 vs New Zealand at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady NY
1936 Orissa constitutes a province of British India
1937 Aden becomes British crown colony
1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay)
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine", premieres in NYC
1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafés
1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1942 México changes from 3 time zones to 2
1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WWII
1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen
1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo HI
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1946 Weight Watchers forms
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1948 H H H Johnson bowls West Indies to win vs England 10-96 match on debut
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 J van Bale appointed Governor of New Guinea
1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings vs India
1954 1st army helicopter battalion is formed, Fort Bragg NC
1954 US Air Force Academy established
1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 10th Tony Awards Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, at least 380 killed
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1960 RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" & "The Doctors" premier on TV
1963 New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 10ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in April
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno", premieres in NYC
1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
1970 John Lennon & Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000; although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt
1970 President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic
1974 Pioneer Hall opens
1974 Yourdon, Inc forms
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1976 Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs originate Apple Computer
1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games
1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1980 Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 France performs nuclear test
1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicts that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panamá
1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1983 New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons
1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1984 3rd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1986 Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy
1989 1st New York Mets-New York Yankees game in NYC since 1983, Yankees win 4-3
1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball
1990 "Ha!" the Comedy Channel on cable tv begins transmitting
1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1990 It becomes illegal in Salem OR to be within 2' of nude dancers
1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1990 Wrestlemania VI (67,678 in Toronto); Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for championship
1990 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus wins
1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
1990 Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1991 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week schedule instead of expanded 18 games
1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1992 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years probation
1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 Western Australia beats New South Wales by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24 billion aid for former USSR
1993 Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III", premieres in London
1993 Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
1994 Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morning)
1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze win
2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at St Louis
2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at Georgia Dome Atlanta
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-01-2006, 04:08 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred April 02:

0742 Charlemagne 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
1602 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel] Spanish franciscan
1618 Francesco M Grimaldi mathematician/physicist (light defraction)
1628 Constantin Christian Dedekind composer
1632 Georg Caspar Weckler composer
1711 Jan Punt Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool)
1713 Onno Zwier van Haren Frisian poet (Fatherland)
1725 Casanova writer
1728 Franz Asplmayr composer
1733 Giacomo Tritto composer
1735 Christian Gotthilf Tag composer
1735 Franz Volrath Buttstett composer
1740 Armand-Gaston Camus French CEO (Council of 500)
1763 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari composer
1798 Hoffmann von Fallersleben writer
1803 Franz Paul Lachner composer
1805 Hans Christian Andersen Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
1806 Giacomo Antonelli Italian cardinal/Assistant Secretary of State for Pius IX
1814 Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1817 Teodulo Mabellini composer
1826 Philip Dale Roddey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1827 William Holdman Hunt English painter (Light of the World)
1833 Thomas Howard Ruger Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 Frédéric-Auguste Bertholdi France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1840 Émile Zola France, novelist (Nana, J'Accuse)
1841 Clément Ader French engineer
1862 Nicholas Murray Butler US, Columbia University president/pacifist (Nobel 1931)
1863 Henry C Van de Velde Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau)
1868 Eduard Jacobs singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
1875 Walter Chrysler founded Chrysler car company
1877 Arnold Schering German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
1891 Max Ernst Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)
1894 Rudolph P Cleveringa Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
1894 Walter Mittelholzer Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
19-- Sam Anderson Wahpeton ND, actor (Sam Gorpley-Perfect Strangers)
1900 Heinrich Besseler German musicologist
1901 Anis Fuleihan composer
1902 Danilo Svara composer
1905 Serge Lifar Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opéra Ballet)
1905 Edmond Jouhaud General
1905 Kurt Adler therapist/writer
1907 Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire)
1908 Buddy Ebsen Belleville IL, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
1909 Jean Kurt Forest composer
1910 Arnie Herber NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, New York Giants)
1910 Joeri German Russian writer
1911 Charles "Honi" Coles tap dancer (Tap)
1914 Sir Alec Guinness [de Cuffe] London England, thespian (Colonel Nicholson-Bridge on River Kwai, Obi-Wan Kenobi-Star Wars, George Smiley-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
1915 Antony Dornhorst professor of medicine
1915 Arthur Ballard artist
1917 Dabbs Greer Fairview MO, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie)
1917 Lou Monte Lyndhurst NJ, singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse)
1919 Sir Ian Hunter England, impresario
1919 Antoon J Hubben Dutch mayor (Maasbree)/trade union leader
1920 Jack Webb Santa Monica CA, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
1920 Lambertus van Straaten geologist (Waddenzee, Rhône-delta)
1922 Nikolaj G Bassov Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964)
1923 Sir Hugh Overton British diplomat
1923 Jacob "Jaap" Firet Dutch theologist (Agogisch Moment)
1924 Sir Denis Rooke CEO (British Gas)
1925 George MacDonald Fraser poet/author (Flashman at the Charge)
1926 Michael Rizzello sculpter/coin designer
1926 Elena Verdugo Hollywood CA, actress (Consuelo-Marcus Welby MD)
1927 Billy Pierce pitcher (Chicago White Sox) seven time all star
1928 Joseph "Cardinal" Bernardin of Chicago
1928 Rita Gam Pittsburgh PA, actress (Distortions, Hannibal, Sierra Baron, Mohawk)
1928 Serge Gainsbourg [Ginsburg] Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang)
1929 Catherine Gaskin romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
1929 Frans HJJ Andriessen Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1930 Girolamo Arriego composer
1930 W Hambleden Smith English newspaper magnate
1931 Imre Olsvai composer
1932 Mahmood Hussain Pakistani cricket swing bowler (68 wickets in 27 Tests)
1934 Brian Glover actor (McGuffin)
1934 Christopher France British permanent secretary (Department of Health)
1934 Sir Peter Middleton British permanent secretary (Treasury)
1934 Diane Cilento Rabaul,, actress (Hombre, Tom Jones, Wicker Man)
1935 Sharon Acker Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason 1973)
1936 Jack Brabham Australia, race car driver (world champion 1966)
1937 Paul E Kanjorski (Representative-Democrat-PA, 1985- )
1939 Marvin P Gaye Jr Washington DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
1940 Penelope Keith British actress (Norman Conquests, Priest of Love)
1940 Peter Haining writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft)
1941 Leon Russell Lawton KS, pianist/singer (Carny)
1942 Graham Bright private secretary to British PM
1943 Glen Dale [Richard Garforth] rock vocalist (Fortunes Deal)
1943 Larry Coryell Galveston TX, jazz guitarist (11th House)
1945 Don Sutton baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1945 Linda Hunt Morristown NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1945 Lord Skelmersdale British minister (C)
1946 Kurt Winter rocker (The Guess Who)
1946 Lynda Carr educationist
1946 Richard Collinge cricketer (New Zealand record wicket-taker (116) before Hadlee)
1947 Emmylou Harris Birmingham AL, country singer (Together Again)
1947 Camille Paglia Endicott NY, actress (Female Misbehavior, It's Pat)
1948 Joan D Vinge American writer (Tangled Up In Blue, The Snow Queen, Catspaw)
1948 Eleanor Margaret Burbridge astronomer/educator
1948 Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune)
1948 Kerry Minnear rocker (Gentle Giant)
1948 Marlene Floyd LPGA golfer
1949 Paul Gambaccini British disc jockey
1949 Pamela Reed Tacoma WA, actress (Grand, Kindergarten Cop, Home Court)
1951 Ayako Okamoto Hiroshima Japan, LPGA golfer (1990 Sara Lee)
1952 Dan Halldorson Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 World Cup)
1952 Joseph Kent Massey Oklahoma City OK, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1952 Leon Wilkerson rocker (Lynard Skynard)
1953 Debralee Scott Elizabeth NJ, actress (Cathy-Mary Hartman, Angie)
1953 David Robinson drummer (Cars)
1954 Ron Palillo Cheshire CT, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter)
1956 Farrukh Zaman lefty cricket spinner (bowled 10 overs Pakistan vs New Zealand 1976)
1959 Adrian Meagher Australian baseball pitching coach (Olympics-1996)
1959 Brian Goodell US, 400 meter/1500 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1976)
1959 Carmen Ayala-Troncoso New York NY, 5K runner
1959 Dean Townson St Petersburg FL, singer (Pirates of the Mississippi-Fred Jake)
1959 Gelindo Bordin Italian marathon runner (Olympics-gold-1988)
1959 Ken Macleay cricketer (at Bedford-on-Avon Australian ODI medium pacer)
1959 Victoria Jackson Miami FL, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Casual Sex)
1960 Linford Christie St Andrews Jamaica, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold 1992
1961 Cindy Mackey Athens GA, LPGA golfer (1986 MasterCard International Pro-Am)
1961 Gijs Steinmann Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1961 Keren Jane Woodward Bristol England, rock vocalist (Bananarama-Venus)
1962 Alex Tripolski Israel, Men's Shooting 50 meter air pistol (Olympics-16th-1996)
1962 Billy Dean Quincy FL, country singer (Billy the Kid)
1962 Bruce Kozerski NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1963 Dermot Reeve England, cricketer (in Hong Kong England all-rounder 1992)
1964 Pete Incaviglia Pebble Beach CA, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Rodney King Sacramento CA, black motorist beaten by Los Angeles cops
1966 Andrei Kovalev NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1966 Bill Romanowski NFL linebacker (Eagles, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 Willie Green NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1969 Yj Nagata [Yuji] wrestler (NJPW)
1970 Jerry Reynolds NFL guard/tackle (New York Giants)
1970 Jon Lieber Council Bluffs IA, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 Marcus Christensen Toronto Ontario Canada, figure skater (1995 Canadian-2nd)
1970 Tammi Reiss WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1971 James Ransom Toronto Ontario Canada, Epee fencer (Olympics-96)
1971 Jenny Craig Miss Georgia-USA (1996)
1971 Todd Woodbridge Sydney Australia, tennis star ('95 doubles Wimbledon)
1972 Graham Hood Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, 1.5k runner (Olympics-92, 96)
1975 Deedee Magno rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)

Deaths which occurred on April 02:

1118 Boudouin I of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies
1416 Ferdinand I the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52
1502 Arthur English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragón, dies
1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45
1657 Ferdinand III King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48
1705 Johann Lohner composer, dies at 59
1747 Johann J Dillenius German botanist, dies at 63
1758 Johann Balthasar Konig composer, dies at 67
1784 Pierre Leclair composer, dies at 74
1803 Hieronymus van Alphen Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56
1831 Charles Felix blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
1852 Theodor Althaus writer, dies
1865 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
1865 Ambrose Powell Hill Confederate General, killed in action at 39
1872 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
1876 Paul van Vlissingen Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
1890 Marinus Campbell bibliographer, dies at 70
1892 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79
1910 Boyd Alexander English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
1910 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh German theologist, dies at 79
1928 Theodore Richards US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies
1932 Hugo Kaun composer, dies at 69
1933 K S Ranjitsinhji cricketer (989 Test runs, 1st-class average 56), dies
1937 Nathan Birnbaum Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72
1938 Alice Berend writer, dies
1941 Paul Teleki premier Hungary, dies
1944 Mikulas Moyzes composer, dies at 71
1947 Joseph Hardstaff cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies
1951 Simon Barere pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall
1952 Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55
1953 Jean Epstein French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
1956 Albert de Bassompierre Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82
1956 Chester Clute actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65
1956 Philippo de Pisis Italian painter, dies at 59
1959 Benjamin Christensen Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79
1961 August Defresne Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
1961 Wallingford Riegger US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75
1965 Renzo Bossi composer, dies at 81
1966 Cecil Scott Forester English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66
1969 Fortunio Bonanova actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74
1972 Gil Hodges manager (New York Mets), dies of heart attack at 57
1974 Douglass Dumbrille actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84
1974 Georges Pompidou French President, dies in Paris at 62
1976 Ray Teal actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74
1979 Carroll D Rosenbloom Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72
1979 Ivan Barrow cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies
1980 Dick Howorth cricketer (England slow lefty all-rounder late 40's), dies
1987 Buddy Rich drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
1990 Aldo Fabrizi actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
1992 Paula Kelly singer/actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72
1993 Eugenie Leontovitch actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93
1993 Klaas Schenk Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86
1994 Richard Davies actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 Hannes Alfven physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1995 Harvey Penick premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90
1995 Julius Arthur Hemphill saxophonist, dies at 57
1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86

On this day...April 2 Events

0999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragón
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1559 England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1819 1st successful agricultural journal ("The American Farmer") begins
1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1845 H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1863 Bread revolt in Richmond VA
1864 Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine AR
1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
1865 General A P Hill is killed by a Federal Picket
1865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg
1865 Battle of Fort Blakely AL & Selma AL
1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
1866 President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1876 Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st National League game, in Philadelphia
1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1883 Battle at Bamako French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1902 1st motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA)
1902 Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 South Africa completes a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st woman member of US House of Representatives
1921 Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity
1926 Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta
1930 1st New York-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga TN
1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1939 6th Golf Masters Championship Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony, premieres in New York
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1947 Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta", premieres in Rome
1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premiere on TV
1956 Peter Ustinov's "Romanoff & Juliet" premieres in Manchester England
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record)
1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world
1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1972 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt
1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1972 Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" premieres in NYC
1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
1974 Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 46th Academy Awards - "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs West Indies Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inning)
1976 A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell
1976 Cambodia's Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors", album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977 Montréal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1978 TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs Australia Georgetown
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets President Sadat
1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1981 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
1984 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1986 George Corley Wallace (Governor-Democrat-AL) announces retirement plans
1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1987 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, West Indies vs Pakistan, Georgetown
1989 Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games
1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1989 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
1990 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Nevada-Las Vegas beats Duke 103-73
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship University of Connecticut Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64
1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus
1995 New York Police Department & New York Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to delay start of season until April 26
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 Wrestlemania XI in Connecticut-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore
1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
1997 "Doll's House", opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russian Alexei Yagudin wins
2000 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at Corel State Spectrum
2001 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at Metrodome Minneapolis
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-01-2006, 04:19 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 03:

1367 Henry IV Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413)
1438 John III van Egmont [Manke John], viceroy of Holland
1485 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius] South Netherlands poet
1569 Giovanni Battista Massarengo composer
1593 George Herbert English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
1603 William Smith composer
1617 Antimo Liberati composer
1627 Johann Caspar Kerll composer
1649 Joseph-François Salomon composer
1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber German benedictine/composer
1715 John Hanson Port Tobacco MD, 1st US President under Articles of Confederation
1720 Elia van Vilnius [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman] Latvian rabbi
1727 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt Flemish painter/engraver
1751 Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne composer
1757 Ferenc Verseghy composer
1764 John Abernethy London, surgeon
1783 Washington Irving New York NY, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle)
1798 Charles D Wilkes Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877
1812 Louisa Maria Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
1822 Edward Everett Hale US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country)
1823 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed corrupt NYC political boss
1825 Adolf Rzepko composer
1837 John Burroughs writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1838 Léon Michel Gambetta French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1842 Ulric Dahlgren Colonel (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1858 Matthew Ricketts 1st Black man elected to Nebraska State Legislature
1859 Reginald De Koven composer
1860 Frederik W van Eeden Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
1866 James B Hertzog South African General/premier (1914-39)
1871 José Juan Tablada Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
1874 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes composer
1881 Alcide de Gasperi Italian premier (1945..53)
1881 Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford English author (Young Sisters)
1882 Simon Elzinga Dutch educator
1884 Jackie Matthews cricketer (Australia leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
1885 Harry St John Philby [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1888 Neville Cardus cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
1889 Grigoras Dinicu composer
1893 Leslie Howard [Stainer] London England, actor (Ashley Wilkes-Gone With the Wind)
1894 Dooley Wilson Tyler TX, actor (Bill-Beulah, Sam-Casablanca)
1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1895 Bjarne Brustad composer
1896 Douwe Kalma Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
1898 George Jessel toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic)
1898 Henry R Luce Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life, 1965 Fisher Award)
1899 Cees Lasseur Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
19-- John Laughlin Memphis TN, actor (White Shadow)
19-- Kuan Yin buddhist/taoist deity
1900 Camille Chamoun President of Lebanon
1902 Henri Garat Paris France, actor (Congress Dances)
1902 Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson composer
1903 Peter Huchel writer
1904 Peter Van Steeden Amsterdam Netherlands, orchestra leader (Break the Bank)
1904 Sally Rand US, actress/ecdysiast/fan dancer (1933 Chicago World Fair)
1904 Iron Eyes Cody Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1906 Kathleen Tillotson Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College)
1907 Isaac Deutscher Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1911 Harold Watkins Shaw musicologist
1911 Michael Woodruff FRS, surgeon
1911 W R Lee language teacher
1912 Addeke H Boerma Dutch Director-General (FAO)
1912 Bert Bakker Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands)
1913 F H Tate vice-CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1913 George Barati composer
1914 Katherine Stammers Menzies England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
1915 Paul Touvier war criminal
1916 Herb Caen Sacramento CA, columnist (San Francisco Chronicle)
1916 Robert Jesse Charleston museum Curator
1917 Bill Finegan Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1917 Tibor Andrasovan composer
1918 Sixten Ehrling Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1918 Enrique Iturriaga composer
1918 Louis Applebaum composer
1919 Duke of Grafton KG
1920 Stan Freeman Waterbury CT, pianist (Melody Tour)
1921 Harry Landers New York NY, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey)
1921 Marilyn Maxwell Clarinda IA, actress (Grace-Bus Stop)
1923 Jan Sterling New York NY, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
1923 John Smith English large landowner/financier/MP (C)
1924 Doris Day Cincinnati OH, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
1924 Marlon Brando Omaha NE, actor (Superman, Godfather)
1924 Canon A D Caesar Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
1924 Murray Dickie opera singer/director
1925 Tony Benn British minister of technology (1968)
1926 Virgil Grissom Mitchell IN, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1926 Andrew Keir actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics)
1927 Bud Levy, Flushing New York,President Trans-Lux Theatres,Chairman MPAA Ratings system, President Showeast, CATO, ITOA,etc. The honors go on and on.
1927 Eva Székely Hungary, 200 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1952)
1929 Miyoshi Umeki Otaru Hokkaido Japan, actress (Best Supporting Actress Oscar-1957-Sayonara, Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1929 Dennis Farr director (Courtauld Institute Galleries)
1930 Max Frankel journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
1930 Helmut Kohl chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
1930 Lawton Chiles (Senator/Governor-Democrat-FL, 1971-89/91- )
1931 Alex Cord Floral Park NY, actor (Jack-WEB, Michael-Airwolf)
1931 Johnny Nicholss soccer star
1932 Janet Bately Professor of English Language (King's College London)
1932 Nourse British lord justice
1933 Robert K Dornan (Representative-Republican-CA, 1977-83, 85- )
1934 Jane Goodall London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1934 Jim Parker NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
1934 David Jones British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School)
1934 John Lelliott English contractor/multi-millionaire
1935 Jeffery Bowman CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1937 Simon Brown British high court judge
1937 William Gaunt Leeds England, actor (The Champions)
1937 Sandra Spuzich LPGA golfer
1938 Jeff Barry Brooklyn NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1938 Philippe Wynne Detroit MI, US soul singer (Spinners, Parliament, Ghetto Child)
1939 Vitaliy Davidov USSR, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1939 Malcolm Thornton MP
1940 Lino Brocka San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar)
1940 R S Burman CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce)
1941 Eric Braeden Kiel Germany, actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless)
1941 Jan Berry Los Angeles CA, rock vocalist (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve)
1942 Michael Elliott US, skier (Olympics-1968)
1942 Rick Sylvester parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300')
1942 Billy Joe Royal Valdosta GA, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1942 Marsha Mason St Louis MO, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
1942 Wayne Newton Roanoke VA, singer (Danke Schön)
1943 Jonathan Lynn Bath England, writer/actor (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy)
1944 Tony Orlando New York NY, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1944 Barry Pritchard rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1945 Catherine Spaak Boulogne-Billancourt France, actress (Empty Canvas, Hotel, Libertine, Circle of Love)
1945 Richard Manuel rock pianist/vocalist (The Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1945 Wim J Deetman Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA)
1946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari President (México, 1988-94)
1946 Dee Murray rocker (Elton John Band)
1946 John Virgo British snooker player
1947 Pat[rick] Proft Minneapolis MN, comedy writer (Naked Gun, Airplane)
1948 Garrick Ohlsson Bronxville NY, pianist (International Busoni winner 1969)
1948 Mary Gordon-Watson England, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-gold-1972)
1948 H C Tomlinson Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School)
1948 Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer Dutch MP (CDA)
1949 Anne De Salvo Philadelphia PA, actress (Compromosing Positions)
1949 Richard Thompson vocalist/guitarist (Shoot out the Lights)
1949 Jan Keizer Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 Lyle Alzado NFLer (Los Angeles Raiders)/actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire)
1950 Curtis Stone North Hollywood CA, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1951 Mel Schacher Owosso MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1951 Gwen Welles US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville)
1953 Huub van der Lubbe Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1955 Mick Mars [Bob Allen Dale] Terra Haute IN, guitarist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls)
1955 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev Russian Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut
1956 Miguel Bosé Aries Panamá, Spanish singer (Lo Mejor del Año)/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot)
1957 Charles Jones NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1958 Alec Baldwin Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)
1959 David Hyde Pierce Saratoga Springs NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
1961 Eddie Murphy Brooklyn NY, actor (Saturday Night Live, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
1961 Melissa Etheridge rock guitarist/vocalist (Come to My Window)
1962 John Griffith rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 Mike Ness rocker (Social Distortion)
1962 Nancy Filteau Swift Current Saskatchawan, 72k judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 Chris Bosio baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 Zakir Khan cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89)
1964 Ajay Sharma cricketer (Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988)
1965 Laura Bryan Birn actress (Lynne-Young and the Restless)
1966 Bo Orlando NFL safety (San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 Shelley Michelle Hollywood CA, actress (Golden Eye)
1967 Brent Gilchrist Moose Jaw, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1967 Pervis Ellison NBA forward/center (Boston Celtics)
1968 Sebastian Bach [Bierk] Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-18 and Life, I Remember You)
1968 Bernd Karbacher Germany, tennis star
1968 Mike Lansing Rawlins WY, infielder (Montréal Expos)
1969 David Morland North Bay Ontario Canada, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year)
1969 Reid Hayston Hamilton New Zealand, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1969 Rodney Hampton NFL running back (New York Giants)
1970 Keith Franklin WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Matt Gay WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 Anthony McClanahan CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 Kevin Farkas WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Peter Schwab Boston MA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 Picabo Street skier (Olympics-gold-94)
1971 Quilvio Veras Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1972 Jennie Garth Urbana IL, actress (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 Sandrine Testud Lyon France, tennis star (1993 Strasbourg)
1973 Greg DeLong NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Jim Campbell Worchester MA, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1973 Kelly Lochbaum CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1975 Thomas Hamilton NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1976 Keith Closs NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers)
1977 Veronique De Kock Miss Belgium-Universe (1996)
1979 Esmeralda Gonzales Miss Wyoming Teen-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on April 03:

0033 Christ crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington)
0628 Chosroes II emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
1287 Honorius IV [Giacomo Savelli], Italian Pope (1285-87), dies
1512 Richard Pafraet Dutch printer, dies
1525 Giovanni Rucellai Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49
1581 Huibert Duifhuis Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies
1682 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Spanish painter, dies
1694 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere Flemish painter, buried at 64
1695 Melchior de Hondecoeter Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58
1769 Gerhard Tersteegen German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1797 Nonnosus Madlseder composer, dies at 66
1811 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83
1822 Friedrich Bertuch writer, dies
1826 Reginald Heber bishop & hymn writer, dies
1838 Francesco Antommarchi Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57
1849 Juliusz Slowacki Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39
1850 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75
1858 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm Austrian composer, dies at 79
1862 James Clark Ross Arctic explorer, dies
1868 Franz Adolf Berwald Swedish composer, dies at 71
1876 Henriette Davidis writer, dies
1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken composer, dies at 71
1882 Jesse James outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph MO by Robert Ford
1884 Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59
1897 Johannes Brahms German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63
1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
1909 Benjamin Johnson Lang composer, dies at 71
1915 Andrew Stoddart cricketer (England captain at turn of century), suicide
1919 Paul Geisler composer, dies at 62
1920 Homer Newton Bartlett composer, dies at 74
1936 Bruno Hauptmann convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
1941 André Michelin French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1942 Albert Siklos composer, dies at 63
1942 Paul Gilson composer, dies at 76
1943 Conrad Veidt German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
1945 Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43
1946 Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1949 Basil Harwood composer, dies at 89
1950 Carter G Woodson "father of black history", dies in Washington DC at 74
1950 Adolf Wiklund composer, dies at 70
1950 Kurt Julian Weill German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1951 Johannes C Kielstra Dut economist/Governor (Suriname 1933-44), dies at 72
1956 T Kostov Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
1958 Theodor Kramer writer, dies
1960 Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1962 Benny "Kid" Paret US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1962 Manolis Kalomiris Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1966 Russel Crouse US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73
1969 Rex Evans actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65
1971 Joseph Valachi US gangster, dies at 66
1971 Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65
1972 Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80
1975 Mary Ure actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42
1976 Maurice Johnstone composer, dies at 75
1977 Jack Ryder cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1394 runs), dies
1980 Luella Gear actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
1982 Warren Oates actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53
1982 Herman W Filarski Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69
1986 Peter Pears English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1986 Richard Manuel rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday
1988 Milton A Caniff US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81
1989 Norman Woolard actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79
1990 Sarah Vaughan jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1990 Katharine Balfour actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
1991 Graham Greene British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1992 Lloyd "Slim" Andrews actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
1992 Margaret Barker actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
1993 Alexander Mnouchkine French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
1993 Dieter Plage German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
1993 Eduardo Cabellero Calderon Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
1993 Pinky Lee kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 Betty Furness actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
1994 Frank G Wells US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
1994 Jerome Lejeune French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
1994 Pat Harper NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
1995 David Alexander Reginald Herbert writer, dies at 86
1995 Harvey Pennick golfer/teacher, dies at 89
1996 Carl Stokes 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleveland OH), dies
1996 Christopher John Seward aid worker, dies at 45
1996 Ronald Harmon Brown Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident at 54
1996 Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes bluesman, dies at 59
1997 Judy Flannery master triathlete, killed by a car at 56

On this day...April 3

0309 -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era
0245 -BC- Origin of Era of Arsaces
0419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1559 Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher
1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph MO & Sacramento CA
1864 Skirmish at Okolona AR
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA
1865 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1889 Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond VA
1893 1st New South Wales vs Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours
1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed
1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh", premieres in NYC
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1927 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1930 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of the 1st round (shortest boxing bout with gloves)
1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 Waltons overture "Scapino", premieres in Chicago
1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1946 Netherlands-German postal relations resume
1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 performances
1948 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1948 US female Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 US male Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners", premieres in Oxford
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1954 "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)
1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rühl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed
1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame", premieres in London
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1960 Earthquake at Havré, Belgium
1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances
1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 Lieutenant General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1964 Beatles hold the top 6 spots on the Sydney Australia record charts
1964 US & Panamá agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched
1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris France
1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win
1978 European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami FL to Washington DC
1979 Belgium's Martens government forms
1979 Jane M Byrne (D) elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago IL
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg
1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area
1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 UN Security Council demands Argentina's withdrawal from Falkland Islands
1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1983 2nd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Southern California beats Los Angeles Tech 69-67
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
1987 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak
1988 New Jersey Devils beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT, to clinch their 1st ever playoff spot
1988 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1988 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Louisiana Tech beat Auburn 56-54
1988 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for the Bronx
1989 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stadium
1991 "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC
1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1992 1st exhibition game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards-Baltimore Orioles beat New York Mets
1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition Ray Floyd
1995 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs Western Australia to win Sheffield Shield
1996 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical", opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win
2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at RCA Dome Indianapolis
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-04-2006, 01:44 PM:
 
Rated G



Birthdates which occurred on April 04:

0188 Caracalla [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius] Roman emperor (211-17)
1527 Abraham Ortelius [Ortels/Hortels] South Netherlands geographer
1646 Antoine Galland French oriëntalist/interpreter
1648 Grinling Gibbons sculptor/woodcarver
1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepoldo painter
1716 John Evangelist Schreiber composer
1731 Francisco Morera composer
1740 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer
1752 Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli composer (Andromeda)
1755 Vincenc Masek composer
1758 John Hoppner portrait painter
1762 Stephen Storace composer
1785 Bettina von Arnim German writer (This Book Belongs to the King)
1785 Bettina Brentano composer
1786 John Franklin British explorer (Arctic)
1792 Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-R)
1802 Dorothea Dix US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
1804 Joseph Fischhof composer
1809 Benjamin Pierce US mathematician/astronomer
1814 John Blair Smith Todd Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1817 John Wilson Sprague Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1820 Charles Devens Jr Major General, Brevet (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens inventor (laid undersea cables)
1823 Robert Byington Mitchell Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 Zénobe Théophile Gramme inventor (electric motor)
1828 Margaret Oliphant Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City)
1831 Edward Cary Walthall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido)
1836 Jerome Hopkins composer
1843 Hans Richter Györ (Raab/Gyoer) Hungary, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
1843 Hans Richter composer
1858 Rémy de Gourmont French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour)
1866 George P Baker US playwright (47 Workshop)
1870 George A Smith Salt Lake City UT, 8th president of Mormon church
1872 Nikolai Amani composer
1872 Pauline de Haan-Manifarges Dutch singer
1875 Pierre Monteux Paris France, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-24)
1875 Jozef Szulc composer
1875 Samuel S Hinds Brooklyn NY, actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery)
1876 Maurice de Vlaminck Paris France, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
1879 Gabriel Groulez composer
1881 Charles Funk Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1882 Mary Howe composer
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1888 Tris Speaker baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1892 Cyril Smith Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot)
1892 Esther Howard Montana, actress (Born to Kill, Murder My Sweet, A Fool's Advice)
1895 Arthur Murray New York NY, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1895 Charlie Hallows cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
1896 Robert Sherwood dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
1896 Tristan Tzara [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
1897 Pierre Fresnay Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion)
1899 William Brann cricketer (South African batsman vs England 1922-23)
19-- Tacey Phillips Montclair NJ, actress (Hope-Coed Fever)
1901 Carmel Myers San Francisco CA, actress (Carmel Myers Show)
1902 Louise L de Vilmorin French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)
1905 Eugene Bozza composer
1906 Bea Benaderet New York NY, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 John Cameron Swayze Wichita KS, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg)
1907 Nathan M Pusey Council Bluffs IA, educator (1963 National Association for Social Sciences Medal)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
1910 [Marcelle] Georgette Hagedoorn actress/chansonnière
1910 Agnes Patrick campaigner
1913 Frances Langford Lakeland FL, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1913 Jerome Weidman US writer (Tenderloin)
1913 Rosemary Lane Indianola IA, actress (4 Mothers, Harvest Melody)
1914 Marguerite Duras France, novelist/playwright (The Sea Wall)
1914 Richard Coogan Short Hills NJ, actor (Captain Video)
1914 Sir John Beith British diplomat
1914 Gustave Camus Belgian painter
1914 John Beith British diplomat
1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)
1915 Jan Drda Czechoslovakia, writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani)
1915 Lars G Ahlin Swedish writer (Death of Me)
1916 David White actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched)
1916 Herbert Eugene Caen columnist
1917 Joseph Ortiz French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising)
1918 Earl Jellicoe chancellor (University of Southhampton)
1918 Margaret Dupont tennis champion
1919 Antony Tudor England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957)
1920 Eric Rohmer Nancy France, director (Claire's Knee)/ actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval)
1921 Willem J "Wim" the Villiers South Africa minister of Administration
1922 Elmer Bernstein New York NY, movie music composer (Robot Monster)
1923 Manon H E Alving Dutch actress (Short American)
1924 Gil Hodges baseball player/manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Mets)
1924 Peter Vaughan actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
1924 Christopher Prater screen printer
1924 Eva Marie Saint Newark NJ, actress (Sandpiper, Loving, Exodus)
1925 Elizabeth Wilson Grand Rapids MI, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)
1925 Erna Spoorenberg Dutch singer
1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines IA, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1927 Bob Stump (Representative-Republican-AZ, 1977- )
1928 Bill Ryan Brooklyn NY, newscaster (Smithsonian)
1928 Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson] St Louis MO, poet (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1928 Monty Norman composer/writer
1928 Jimmy Logan British comedian (Mad Death)
1929 William F Clinger Jr (Representative-Republican-PA, 1979- )
1930 David Sexton soccer manager
1931 Denis Frank Owen Natural historian
1931 Harold L Volkmer (Representative-Democrat-MO, 1977- )
1932 Anthony Perkins New York NY, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1932 Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Solaris, Stalker)
1932 Bapu Nadkarni cricketer (economical Indian slow left-armer 1956-68)
1932 Richard G Lugar (Senator-Republican-IN, 1977- )
1933 Fritz Bolkestein Dutch CEO (Shell)/Minister of Defense (VVD)
1933 Robin Phillips English multi-millionaire manufacturer (hand-dryer)
1933 Seoirse Bodley composer
1934 Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams broadcaster
1935 Lord Ichayra Secretary-General (British Banking Association)
1935 Trevor Griffiths playwright (Absolute Beginners)
1935 Easton Dudley Ashton St John McMorris cricketer (West Indies batsman of 60's)
1935 François-Bernard Mache composer
1936 Margo J Sylvia rocker (Tune Weavers)
1937 Ian St James novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
1937 J Hans van den Doel economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti Boston MA, president of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 Michael Parks Corona CA, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1938 Peter Attenborough British headmaster (Charterhouse)
1939 Joanne Carner Kirkland WA, LPGA golfer (US Open 1970, 76)
1939 Hugh Masekela Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1940 Bijan Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, New York, London)
1940 Robby Mueller cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak)
1940 Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov Russia, cosmonaut
1941 Major Lance US boxer/dancer/singer (Hey Little Girl)
1942 Kitty Kelley author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1942 Kris Jensen rocker
1943 Ian Robertson British museum director (National Army Museum)
1944 David Melville professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
1944 Lawrence A Hough US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 Olympics-silver)
1945 Caroline McWilliams Seattle WA, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson)
1945 Catherine Spaak actress (Hotel, Weekend at Dunkirk, Circle of Love)
1945 Bryan Andrews cricketer (New Zealand medium-pacer, toured Australia 1973-74)
1945 Walter Charles East Strousberg PA, actor (Fletch Lives, Weeds)
1946 Craig T Nelson Spokane WA, actor (Chief Jack Mannion-The District, Hayden Fox-Coach, Poltergeist)
1947 Salvatore Sciarrino composer
1948 Luke Halpin Astoria NY, actor (Sandy Ricks-Flipper)
1948 Berry Oakley Chicago IL, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
1948 Gail Davies Broken Bow OK, country singer (Blue Heartache)
1948 Pick Withers rocker (Dire Straits)
1949 Larry Lingle rocker
1950 Christine Lahti Detroit MI, actress (Dr Kathryn Austin-Chicago Hope, Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
1951 Steve Gatlin Olney TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady)
1952 Dave Hill England, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
1952 Gary Moore Irish rock guitarist ("Still Got the Blues", Thin Lizzy, Skid Row)
1952 Peter Haycock rock guitarist (All Along the Watchtower)
1952 Rosemarie Ackermann German Democratic Republic, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1976)
1954 Julie Carmen Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
1955 Mick Mars rocker
1956 Evelyn Hart prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
1956 Lamen Khalifa Fhimah Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103)
1957 Graeme Kelling British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid)
1957 Paul Downton cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 80's)
1958 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon painter
1958 Derek Kallicharran cricket all-rounder (Guyana, USA 1994 ICC Trophy)
1958 Hrvoje Horvatic video artist
1958 John Wesley Jones Lawton OK, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1976)
1960 Jon[athan] Agnew British broadcaster/cricketer (England pace bowler late 80's)
1960 Bev Smith Armstrong British Columbia Canada, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1961 Matt Cole Stratford Ontario Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Space Coast)
1962 Ava Fabian Brewster NY, playmate (August 1986)/actress (Cafe Nostra)
1962 Sherrin Smyers Newcastle Australia, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1962 Tina Tombs Montréal Québec Canada, LPGA golfer (1990 Jamie Farr Toledo)
1963 Anthony Clark comedian (Boyd Pritchett-Boston Common)
1963 Dale Hawerchuk Toronto Ontario Canada, NHL center (Philadelphia Flyers)
1963 David Gavurin English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blind)
1963 Jack Del Rio NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 Paul Parker soccer player
1964 Gregory Thomas Kraft Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-2nd)
1964 Robbie Rist California, actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch)
1965 Robert Downey Jr New York NY, comedian/actor (Larry Paul-Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, Less than Zero, Back to School)
1965 Black Francis [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1965 Tony Burse CFL fullback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 Zwart Francis [Charles Thompson] US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1966 Nancy McKeon Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
1966 Michal Clingman Indio CA, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-9th-1994)
1966 Myriam Schropp West Germany, tennis star
1966 Stanislav Medrik Nitra Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1967 Juliana "Juli" Furtado New York NY, cyclist (Olympics-10th-96)
1968 Andre Bowden WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 Anthony Tucker NBA forward (New York Knicks)
1969 Carlos Reyes Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 Dennis de Nooijer Dutch soccer player/twin brother of Gerard (Sparta)
1969 Gerard de Nooijer Dutch soccer player/twin brother of Dennis (Sparta)
1970 Barry van Galen Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 Jason Stoltenberg Australia, tennis star
1971 Allan Houston NBA guard (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons)
1971 Felipe Lira Miranda Venezeula, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 Jaime Fernandez Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 Yanic Perreault Sherbrooke, NHL center (Los Angeles Kings)
1972 Chad Eaton defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1972 Jim Werland Ventura CA, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96)
1972 Matt Wagner Cedar Falls IA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1973 Damon Allen Winston-Salem NC, figure skater (1997 Midwestern champion)
1973 Peter Hoekstra Dutch soccer player (PSV, Ajax)
1973 Ryan Coughlin CFL offensive linebacker (Montréal Alouettes)
1973 Tiffany Woosley WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1974 O J Santiago tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Kisha Ford WNBA guard/forward (New York Liberty)
1976 Alicia Silverstone San Francisco CA, actress (Clueless)
1978 Irene Skliva Athens Greece, Miss World (1996)
1979 Charles Butler Salt Lake City UT, dance skater (& Joseph-1997 National)
1979 Rebecca Stoyel South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)

Deaths which occurred on April 04:

0397 Ambrosius Governor of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
0896 Formosus Pope (891-96), dies
1229 Hugo van Pierrepont bishop of Liege, dies
1284 Alfonso X "El Sabio" King of Castilië/León (1252-84), dies at 62
1292 Nicholas IV [Girolamo Masci] Pope (1288-92), dies
1393 Floris van Wevelinkhoven bishop of Utrecht, dies
1406 Robert III King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies
1417 John van Touraine 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies
1585 Caspar de Robles Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57
1588 Frederik II King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53
1604 Thomas Churchyard poet/pamphleteer, dies
1617 John Napier Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1643 Simon Episcopius [Bisschop] Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1662 Davis Mell composer, dies at 57
1662 Leonhart Kern German sculptor , dies at about 73
1664 Adam Willaerts Dutch seascape painter, dies
1714 Karel duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies
1734 Johann C van Erckel old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79
1774 Oliver Goldsmith Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1784 Mary Mead wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies
1806 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer, dies at 84
1807 Joseph Jérôme Le Francais de Lalande French astronomer, dies
1817 André Masséna Duc de Rivoli soldier, dies
1817 Prince d'Essing dies
1841 William Henry Harrison becomes 1st US President to die in office, at 68
1844 Charles Bulfinch 1st US pro architect (Massachusetts State House), dies at 80
1862 Harmen S Sytstra Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1889 Thomas T H Jorissen historian, dies at 56
1893 Alphonse de Candolle Swiss botanist, dies at 86
1900 Edward VII King, assassinated
1905 Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
1908 Josef Sucher composer, dies at 64
1919 William Crookes English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1923 L Martov [Joulij O Tsederbaum] Russian revolutionary, dies at 49
1929 Karl Friedrich Benz automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84
1930 Vladimir Majakovski Russian poet, dies
1931 Andre Michelin CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
1931 George Whitefield Chadwick composer, dies at 76
1932 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz Austrian minister, dies at 59
1932 Wilhelm Ostwald physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1934 Braulio Dueno Colon composer, dies at 80
1937 Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakia, writer/critic, dies at 69
1938 Cyril Christiani cricket wicket keep (West Indies 1935), dies of malaria at 24
1939 Ghazi I King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident
1941 Max Frisch writer, dies at 29
1943 Oskar Schlemmer German painter/sculptor, dies at 54
1943 Raoul Laparra composer, dies at 66
1944 John Peale Bishop US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
1944 Karel Weis composer, dies at 82
1953 Carol II King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59
1953 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery] French author, dies at 93
1956 Fritz Künkel German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66
1958 Hendrik Heyman Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
1959 Stanley Snooke cricketer (brother of S J, duck in South African Test), dies
1963 Jason Robards Sr actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1963 Endzion Barelli dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1967 Mischa Elman Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
1968 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis at 39
1970 Byron Foulger actor (Captain Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Representative-Democrat-NY), dies at 63
1972 John A H J S Bruins Slot co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1972 Stefan Wolpe German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69
1977 Jeno Zador composer, dies at 82
1978 Gino Contilli composer, dies at 70
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1981 Brad Johnson actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
1982 Tsvetan Tsvetanov composer, dies at 50
1983 Jacqueline Logan silent film leading lady, dies at 78
1983 Gloria Swanson actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84
1984 John Arnold cricketer (England bat vs New Zealand 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies
1986 Frank Mortelmans Belgian painter, dies at 87
1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1991 John Heinz (Senator-Republican-PA), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
1991 Luc de Rijck Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
1991 Max Frisch Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
1992 Karl Tunberg US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
1992 Samuel Reshevsky Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1992 Sy Kramer singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
1993 Alfred Mosher Butts US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
1993 Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop [Rita la Roche] singer, dies
1994 Olga Lowina Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
1994 Virginia "Ginny" Simms actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
1995 Kenny Everett disc Jockey, dies at 50
1995 Peter Brinson dance educationalist, dies at 67
1995 Priscilla Lane actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77
1996 Carl Burton Stokes politician, dies at 68
1996 David Keylsey actor/director, dies at 63
1996 David Whitton campaigner, dies at 44
1996 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist, dies at 97
1996 Joy Newton dancer, dies at 82
1996 Larry Laprise songwriter, dies at 83
1996 Seamas NacNeill piper, dies at 79

On this day...April 4 Events

0896 Formosus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-General of the Jesuits
1552 Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1558 Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1581 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted
1588 Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1625 Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1660 English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1687 English King James II orders his Declaration of Indulgence read in church
1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1737 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
1859 The opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris France)
1862 Battle of Yorktown begins
1862 US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
1864 Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800
1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)
1896 Announcement of Gold in the Yukon
1899 South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer General De Wet
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1914 "The Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles CA
1916 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
1918 Battle of Somme ends
1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1921 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge LA) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1930 Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
1930 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh
1932 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good", premieres in NYC
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die
1937 4th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
1938 5th Golf Masters Championship Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1940 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher", premieres in NYC
1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Liberation Day)
1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1945 US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC)
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949 WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Perón in Buenos Aires Argentina
1953 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton GA Golf Open
1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq
1956 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden", premieres in London
1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris France
1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1958 Eugène Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
1959 Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win
1960 Senegal declares independence from France
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Dutch De Young government forms
1967 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Québec)
1971 "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1976 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago IL
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1982 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1983 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1984 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 points
1988 Eddie Hill becomes 1st to drag race a ¼ mile in under 5 seconds
1988 Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Cincinnati Reds vs St Louis Cardinals)
1988 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79
1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1988 New York Mets set Opening Day record with 6 homeruns
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yankees beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1990 "The Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Gloria Estefan released from the hospital after her accident
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yankee Stadium
1992 Jury deliberations begin in the Noriega case
1992 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1993 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Texas Tech beats Ohio State 84-82
1993 5th Seniors Golf Tradition Tom Shaw
1993 Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
1993 Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
1994 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 innings
1994 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1994 Los Angeles Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1996 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM
1997 Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
1997 Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
1997 DMSP Titan 2 launched
1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-05-2006, 07:19 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 05:

1588 Thomas Hobbes England, philosopher (Leviathan)
1595 John Wilson composer
1598 Laurentius Erhard composer
1626 Jan van Kessel Flemish painter
1643 Charles V Leopold Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria
1649 Elihu Yale England, philanthropist founded Yale
1698 Georg Gottfried Wagner composer
1725 Giacomo Casanova Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
1727 Pasquale Ankossi composer
1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard France, painter
1752 Sébastien Erard piano/harp manufacturer
1784 Ludwig [Louis] Spohr Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
1788 Franz Pforr German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1795 Sir Henry Havelock British soldier (War in Afghánistán 1838-39)
1799 Vincenzo Fioravanti composer
1811 Jules Dupré landscape painter
1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 Nadar [Félix Tournachon] French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist
1822 James Nagle Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1824 Sydney Thompson Dobell poet (The Roman)
1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones Major General (Confederate Army)
1827 Joseph Lister England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
1828 Pietro Plantania composer
1830 Alexander Muir Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (The Maple Leaf Forever)
1832 Jules-François Camille Ferry French statesman
1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
1838 Alpheus Hyatt US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 Robert Smalls Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Representative-SC)
1839 Stanislaw Pilinski composer
1845 Jules M Cambon French Governor-General of Algeria/ambassador
1853 Alfonso Randano composer
1854 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer
1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)
1857 Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
1859 Wilhelm Harteveld composer
1862 Louis Ganne composer
1868 J F "Flooi" Du Toit cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
1869 Albert Roussel Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamande)
1869 Karl Wagenfeld Low German writer (Daud un Düwel)
1871 Jeanne Bougeois [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
1876 Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer
1882 Don Blackie cricketer (Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46)
1885 Dimitrie Cuclin composer
1886 Jacques Handschin Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
1890 Fie Carelsen Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1893 Clas Thunberg Finland, speed skater (Olympics-gold-1924, 28)
1893 Pál Szabó Hungarian farmer/author (Talpalatnyi Föld)
1899 William Hornby Steer barrister/judge
19-- Chao Li Chi actor (Falcon Crest)
19-- Cindy Weintraub New York NY, actress (Terry-Baker's Dozen)
19-- Shawn Stevens Morristown NJ, actor (Oliver Martin-Days of Our Lives)
19-- Willy Chirino Spanish singer
1900 Spencer Tracy Milwaukee WI, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
1901 Chester Bowles Massachusetts, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 Melvyn Douglas [Hesselberg] Macon GA, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
1901 Alexander Alexeieff Russian/French painter/graphic artist
1903 Thomas Baron Pitfield composer
1905 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1905 Jef Maes composer
1906 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock English agronomist
1907 J Zeldenrust Dutch pathologist/anatomist
1908 Bette Davis Lowell MA, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1908 George Schick Prague Czechoslovakia, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908 Grady Sutton Chattanooga TN, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
1908 Herbert von Karajan Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor/Nazi
1908 Mary Hemingway writer (Ernest Hemmingway Biography)
1909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli New York NY, film producer (James Bond)
1909 Gerald Bond cricketer (one Test South Africa vs England 1938, 0 & 0-16)
1911 Goddard Lieberson Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
1911 Gordon Jones Alden IA, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1912 John Le Mesurier Bedford England, actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army)
1913 Alan Cheales dominican priest
1914 Frederick Angus Armstrong journalist
1916 Gregory Peck La Jolla CA, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1916 Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
1916 Bernard Baily comic artist
1917 Richard Yardumian Philadelphia PA, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
1917 Robert [Albert] Bloch US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
1919 Sir Douglas Henley British auditor-general
1920 Arthur Hailey Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
1920 Barend Biesheuvel Dutch premier (1971-73)
1921 Lady Fisher founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921 Robert Q Lewis New York NY, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
1921 Les Jackson cricket bowler (England twice, 1949 & 1961)
1922 Christopher Hewett Worthing Sussex England, actor (Mr Belvedere, The Producers)
1922 Gale Storm Bloomington TX, actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
1922 Tom Finney British soccer star
1922 Harry Freedman composer
1923 Nguyen Van Thieu president of South Vietnam (1965-75)
1923 Stanley Orme chairman (British Labour Party)
1923 Ernest Mandel Belgian philosopher/economist
1923 Michael V Gazzo Hillside NJ, actor (Cookie, Fear City)
1924 Mart Kempers Dutch graphic artist/sculptor
1925 Oldrich Flosman composer
1926 Roger Corman Detroit MI, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1926 Milton O Thompson astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1927 John Gilbert MP
1928 Will Gaines jazz dancer
1928 David Farquhar Andress composer
1928 Michael Bryant London England, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
1928 Peter Moore Principal (London Business School)
1928 Tony Williams Elizabeth NJ, singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights)
1929 Nigel Hawthorne actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
1929 Hugo Claus Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar)
1931 Denis Lawton director (London University Institute of Education)
1934 Frank Gorshin Pittsburgh PA, impressionist/actor (Riddler-Batman)
1934 Tina Maria Stone runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
1934 Stanley Turrentine jazz saxophonist (Wonderland)
1935 Donald Lynden-Bell British astronomer
1935 Peter Grant rock band manager
1936 John Albert professor (Master of University College Oxford)
1936 John White composer
1936 Michael Livesay British Admiral/president (RN College Greenwich)
1937 Colin Powell Bronx NY, General/advisor to President George Bush (Nat Security Affairs)/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93)/Secretary of State (2001- )
1937 Stuart May senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1938 Colin Bland cricketer (South African bat Maybe the best cover field)
1938 Ronald Anthony White Jr singer
1939 David Winters London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1939 Lonnie White vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
1939 Andrew Buxton CEO (Barclays Bank)
1940 Aliza Kashi Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941 David LaFlamme New Britain CT, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
1941 Michael Moriarty Detroit MI, actor (Ben Stone-Law & Order, Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1941 Dave Swarbrick rocker (Fairport Convention)
1941 Eric Burdon England, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Roman Balayan Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk)
1942 Allan Clarke Salford Lancashire England, rock vocalist (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
1942 Arthur Barrett cricketer (West Indies leggie early 70's)
1943 Jonathan Lynn Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
1943 Max Gail Detroit MI, actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
1944 Dave Holland heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1944 Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1944 Crispian St Peters rocker
1944 James Buckley CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1944 Nicholas Caldwell rocker (Whispers)
1944 Peter T King (Representative-Republican-NY)
1944 Willeke van Ammelrooy Amsterdam, actress (Cidke de Rat, Antonia)
1946 Jane Asher Paul McCartney's former girlfriend/actress (Deep End)
1946 Jennifer Penney ballerina
1946 Larry Frederick Wendt composer
1946 Robert E McKee CEO/managing director (Conoco-UK)
1949 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron OH, astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog Jonkoping Sweden, rocker (ABBA-Waterloo)
1950 Franklin R Chang-Diaz Costa Rica, PhD/astronaut (STS 61C, 34,46,60,75)
1950 Mildred Douglas Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Everett Morton rocker (English Beat)
1951 Roosevelt Ferguson Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 John Buchanan cricketer (Queensland batsman 78-79, Shield coach 1995)
1954 Christopher S Nelson New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1954 Stan Ridgeway rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale)
1955 Janice Long British radio host (Crash FM)
1955 Renate Bruemmer astronaut/cosmonaut
1957 Vince Gill Norman OK, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1958 Cammie Lusko Los Angeles CA, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1958 Johan Kriek South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
1963 Jimmy Osmond singer (Donny & Marie Show)
1964 Martha Faulconer Indianapolis IN, golfer (1993 ShopRite LPGA-5th)
1964 Robert "Bob" Kaehler Burlingame CA, rower (Olympics-5th-1992, 96)
1966 Brent Hughes New Westminster Canada, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 Larry Norman Toronto Ontario Canada, canoeist (Olympics-92, 96)
1966 Scott Dill NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Gianna Amore Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
1968 Tasia Valenza New York NY, actress (Dottie Thornton Martin-All My Children)
1970 Erlan Sagymbayev hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1970 Tim Jacobs NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins)
1971 Bob Kuberski NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Finidi George soccer player (Ajax)
1971 Stuart Peele Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Shigemasa Ito WLAF offensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1973 Ed Hobbs WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1973 Emile Palmer WLAF DT (London Monarchs)
1973 Estefania Knuth Barcelona Spain, LPGA golfer (1992 French International)
1973 Spencer Folau NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens, Rhein Fire)
1973 Tony Banks quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1973 Yutaka Kawaguchi hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1974 Mike DuHaney New Haven CT, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 Rick Terry NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets)
1975 Nikki Dryden Calgary Alberta, 800 meter swimmer (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1976 Ike Hilliard NFL wide receiver (New York Giants)
1976 Ryan Drese San Francisco CA, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 JoAnn Sevin Dubois PA, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1977 Sevilay Ozturk Miss Turkey-Universe (1996)
2173 Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)

Deaths which occurred on April 05:

0828 Nicephorus patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77
1258 Julian of Cornillon/Liege Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1270 Ramban Nachmanides Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies
1531 Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1649 John Winthrop 1st Governor Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 61
1673 François Caron Admiral/Governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72
1684 William Brouncker 2nd viscount/1st president of Royal Society, dies
1693 Anne M L of Orléans duchess (Grande Mademoiselle), dies at 65
1695 George Savile 1st marquis of Halifax, dies at 61
1697 Charles XI King of Sweden (1660-97), dies at 41
1712 John Luyken poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63
1723 J Fischer von Erlach Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66
1732 Johann Christian Schieferdecker composer, dies at 52
1765 Edward Young English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81
1794 Georges-Jacques Danton French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
1794 Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles French author/politician, dies
1811 Robert Raikes founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1820 Henrik C Cras lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at 81
1869 Daniel Bakeman last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War, dies at 109
1871 Georg Andreas Henkel composer, dies at 66
1878 Wilhelm Speyer composer, dies at 87
1884 John Wisden publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies
1896 John Rogers Thomas composer, dies at 66
1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil French/South African General, dies in battle
1907 Anton G van Hamel founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at 65
1908 Gaetano Coronaro composer, dies at 55
1918 Paul Vidal de la Blanche French geographer, dies at 73
1921 Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
1922 Charles F A Woeste Belgian count/minister of Justice, dies at 85
1923 George Edward Stanhope Molyneúx Herbert 5th Earl of Carnarvon/egyptologist, dies at 56
1928 Jane Ellen Harrison scholar/archaeologist, dies
1928 Roy Kilner cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at 38
1934 Salvatore Di Giacomo composer, dies at 74
1935 Emil Mlynarski composer, dies at 64
1939 William Cooper cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1882-84), dies
1944 Isolde Kurz German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944 Willy Derby [Dieben] singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies
1945 Huldreich Georg Fruh composer, dies at 41
1946 Vincent Millie Youmans US composer (Tea For Two), dies from tuberculosis at 47
1951 Edward Rigby dies at 72
1952 Henri Vandeputte Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75
1954 Claude Delvincourt composer, dies at 66
1958 Jozef Brems Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at 87
1960 Alma Kruger actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88
1963 Jacobus JP Old architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73
1963 Julius Harrison composer, dies at 78
1964 Douglas MacArthur US General (Pacific theater-WWII), dies at 84
1966 Sven Fleuron writer, dies at 91
1968 Lois Andrews dies of lung cancer at 44
1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier French author (La Peur), dies at 73
1969 Rómulo Gallegos Venezuela author/President (1947-48), dies at 84
1970 Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn oboist/conductor, dies at 78
1972 Brian Donlevy actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
1972 Isabel Jewell dies at 62
1974 William Hudson actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
1975 Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies from a heart attack at 87
1975 Inez Courtney dies at 67
1975 Victor Marijnen Dutch premier (1963-65), dies at 58
1976 Howard Hughes reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1977 John Marriott dies at 83
1981 Bob "Bear" Hite rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36
1981 Cornelis Verolme Dutch ship builder, dies at 80
1982 Abe Fortas Supreme court justice, dies at 71
1984 Arthur Travors Harris marshal of British RAF, dies
1984 Theo Koomen Dutch sportscaster, dies in auto-accident at 54
1985 Tyrell Johnson cricketer (West Indies left-arm quickie, one Test 1939), dies
1986 Colin McCool cricketer (14 Tests for Australia, 36 wickets), dies
1986 Manly Wade Wellman sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82
1988 Alf Kjellin Swedish actor/director (Juggler), dies
1990 Nico Scheepmaker Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
1991 John Tower (Senator-Republican-TX), dies in a plane crash at 65
1991 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr USN/astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
1992 Anthony "Tony" Papa big band leader, dies at 65
1992 Sam Walton Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
1992 Samuel H Reshevsky Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1994 Andre Victor Tchelistcheff winemaker, dies at 92
1994 Aubrey J Watson Sr bishop, dies at 65
1994 Marlon Riggs US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
1994 Roy Smeck guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
1995 Christian Pineau French politician, dies
1996 Peter Nailor civil servant/historian, dies at 67
1997 Allen Ginsberg beat poet, dies at 80
1997 Alparslan Turkes Turkish politician (MHP), dies

On this day...April 5 EVENTS

2348 -BC- Noah's ark grounded, Mount Ararat (calculated date)
0823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France
1058 Bishop John "Minchio", [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
1603 New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1614 2nd parliament of King James I begins session (no enactments)
1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1722 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1739 French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1753 British Museum forms (opens in 1759)
1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (New York NY)
1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1812 British storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
1814 Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
1861 Federals abandon Fort Quitman TX
1862 Siege of Yorktown VA
1865 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus", premieres in Vienna
1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Copper Beeches" (BG)
1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville PA
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG)
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens
1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte", premieres in Paris France
1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25
1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire", premieres in London
1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer
1911 MCC tour match vs Jamaica finishes in a tie
1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1915 French begin Woëvre-offensive
1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1923 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100 & 200 meter freestyle
1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
1930 England out for 849 vs West Indies Kingston, Sandham out for 325
1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1936 Tupelo MS virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1941 In San Francisco, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham IL)
1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1959 Art Wall wins golf's Masters
1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Jack Paar Show"
1961 Dutch Governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 54,600 meters
1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns", premieres in NYC
1962 Manager J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews win
1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Fort Pierce-Vero Beach FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1967 Philadelphia '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 US Lieutenant Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
1971 WNJT TV Channel 52 in Trenton NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19)
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen", premieres in London
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Pioneer 11 launched towards Jupiter
1979 Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign secretary resigns due to Falkland Islands war
1982 St Louis Cardinals' Jim Kaat pitches in record 24th consecutive season
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1983 New York Mets' Tom Seaver's sets record 14th National League Opening Day assignment
1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121 meters)
1986 2 US soldiers & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin discotheque bombing
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1987 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 Solidarity granted legal status in Poland
1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminaries
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1991 US begins air drops to Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq
1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1992 Comedian Sam Kinison marries live-in girlfriend Malika Souiri
1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea Stadium
1992 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 46 performances
1992 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
1992 4th Seniors Golf Tradition Lee Trevino
1992 Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
1992 Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title, Hulk Hogan disqualifies Sid Justice
1993 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0
1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Crowd of 73,293 watches New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 9-1
1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3
1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
1994 Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-06-2006, 06:22 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 06:

1483 Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio] Urbino Italy, painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
1631 Vincenzo De Grandis composer
1660 Johann Kuhnau composer
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1672 Andre Cardinal Destouches composer
1708 George Reuter composer
1741 Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright (Maximes)
1752 Johann Friedrich Kranz composer
1757 Alessandro Rolla composer
1773 James Mill Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1778 Joseph Funk composer
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)/Mrs Robert Browning
1810 Philip Gosse intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1812 Aaron Bernstein writer
1812 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin composer
1815 Friedrich Robert Volkmann composer
1818 Francis Henry Brown composer
1819 Johann A H Scheler Belgian librarian
1823 Joseph Medill St John New Brunswick Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1826 Gustave Moreau French painter
1828 Charles William Field Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1830 James Augustine Healy Macon GA, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1833 Johan H C Kern Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1835 Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer
1844 Joseph Ludwig composer
1860 René Lalique French jewel designer
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1866 Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker] US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1869 Louis Raemakers Dutch draftsman/painter
1871 Alexander grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1878 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer
1878 Erich Mühsam writer
1883 Mien Labberton Dutch poetress
1884 Walter Huston Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1885 Carlos Leon Salzedo composer
1888 Daniel Andersson Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1889 Barry Macollum Northern Ireland
1889 Gabriela Mistral writer
1890 André L Danjon French astronomer
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
1892 Lowell Thomas Woodington OH, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 Donald Wills Douglas US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 Mateusz Glinski composer
1896 Juan Tomas Perez composer
1898 Bobby Gilbert Pennsylvania, actor (Rebel Set, Marcus Welby MD)
1900 Andrés Sas Perú, composer
1900 Leo Robin US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
1901 Willem Pelemans Flemish composer/music reviewer
1902 Gertrude Short Cincinnati OH, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus)
1903 Harold Edgerton foremost high-speed photographer
1903 Mickey Cochrane baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 average)
1904 Kurt G Kiesinger German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1906 John Betjeman English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1908 Vano Il'ich Muradov [Muradeli] Russia, composer
1910 Desmond Dreyer British Admiral
1911 Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate composer
1912 Endre Szekely composer
1912 Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar actor/director (Don Carlos)
1914 George Reeves Ashland KY, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1917 Julian Faber CEO (Willis Faber)
1917 Walter "Shakey" Horton Mississippi, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1918 Joan Bernard Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
1918 Karen Verne Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X)
1920 Bernard Carter British painter/etcher
1921 Andrew Welsh Imbrie composer
1921 Franta Belsky British sculptor
1921 Lord Moore of Wolvercote
1922 Barry Levinson Baltimore MD, director (Homicide@Life on the Street, Avalon, Rain Man, Diner)
1925 Arthur D Larsen tennis champion (US Open-1950)
1925 John Knox British supreme court justice
1925 Marcus Worsley Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire
1926 Ian Paisley North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1927 David Ingram Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury)
1927 Gerry Mulligan British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
1928 Joi Lansing Salt Lake City UT, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1928 James Dewey Watson chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1929 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster
1929 André Previn Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/composer/pianist
1929 Arthur S Taylor Jr US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
1929 Edison Vasalievich Denisov composer
1929 Li Yuan-chia artist
1929 Willis Hall British writer
1931 Ivan Dixon New York NY, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1931 Joan Carlyle British soprano
1933 Dudley Sutton British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Antonius Geesink Holland, judo (Olympics-gold-1964)
1934 Reijo Jyrkiainen composer
1935 John Pepper Clark Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat)
1936 Manfred Schoof composer
1937 Billy Dee Williams Harlem New York NY, actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back, Double Dare)
1937 Merle Haggard Bakersfield CA, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1937 Tom Veivers cricketer (Australian off-spinner in the 60's)
1938 Paul Daniels British magician
1938 Roy Thinnes Chicago IL, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital)
1940 Anne Campbell MP
1940 Homero Aridjis Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
1941 Hans W Geissendorfer Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof)
1942 Phil Austin comedian (Firesign Theater)
1943 Susan Tolsky Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Come the Brides)
1943 Harry Conroy trade unionist
1943 Joaquin Agostinho Portuguese cyclist
1943 Roger Cook investigative journalist/broadcaster
1944 John Stax rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
1944 Judith McConnell Pittsburgh PA, actress (Sophia-Santa Barbara)
1944 [Holly] Michelle [Gilliam] Phillips Long Beach CA, singer (Mama & Papas)/actress (Knots Landing)
1944 Felicity Palmer British mezzo-soprano
1945 Bob Marley reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)
1945 Rodney Bickerstaffe trade unionist
1946 Paul Beresford MP
1947 Jan Kees Wiebenga Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 Tony Connor Romford Essex England, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1949 Jane Actman New York NY, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
1949 Mary Maples Dunn college president (Smith College)
1950 Dennis E Eckart (Representative-Democrat-OH, 1981- )
1951 Ralph Cooper Australia, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
1952 Marilu Henner Chicago IL, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Evening Shade)
1952 Udo Dirkshneider heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)
1952 Judith McConnell actress (Sophia Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1953 Janet Lynn ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1954 Judi Bowker Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans)
1956 Dilip Vengsarkar cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92)
1956 Mudassar Nazar cricketer (son of Nazar Mohammad Pakistani bat)
1957 Maurizio Damilano Italian speed walker (30K World Record)
1959 Dianne Brill Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1961 Mike Schuchart Omaha NE, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Tour Championship)
1961 Rory Bremner impressionist
1962 Stan Cullimore bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1963 Lorenzo Lynch NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals, Oakland Raiders)
1964 Johnny Dee heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra)
1964 Bill Brooks NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1965 Rica Reinisch German Democratic Republic, 100 meter/200 meter backstroke (Olympics-gold-1980)
1965 Gerald Diduck Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1965 Virginia Lee Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 Kymberly Paige Newport Beach CA, playmate (May 1987)
1967 John Ratzenberger Bridgeport CT, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1967 Derrick Fenner NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Chris Anderson Australian high jumper (Olympics-96)
1969 Ari Meyers San Juan Puerto Rico, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie)
1969 Andy Harmon NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 Bret Boone El Cajon CA, infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1969 Brian Williams NBA center/forward (Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers)
1970 Olaf Kolzig Johannesbourg Saf, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1970 Oliver Miller NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
1971 Anthony Redmon guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Tamara Henry Miss Arkansas-USA (1997)
1971 Tom Sorensen Racine WI, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 Vivian Y Herding Albuquerque NM, Miss New Mexico-America (1996)
1972 Jason Hervey actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
1972 Dickey Simpkins NBA forward (San Francisco Warriors, Chicago Bulls)
1972 Donald Blair CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 Hurvin McCormack NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 Donnie Edwards linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1973 Randall Godfrey linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 Damon Phillip Pampolina rapper/drummer (Party)
1976 Candace [Helaine] Cameron Bure Panorama City CA, actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
1976 Soleil Moon Frye Glendora CA, actress (Punky Brewster)
1976 Simon Coombes Melbourne Victoria Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1979 Ali Burr Miss North Carolina Teen-USA (1997)
1979 Frederick MGDL Windsor son of English prince Michael
1980 Matthew Thomas Carey actor (Once You Meet a Stranger)

Deaths which occurred on April 06:

0885 Methodius Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
0912 Nottker "the Stamelaar" benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71
1199 Richard I the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1252 Peter of Verona [Peter Martyr] Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1348 Petrarch's Laura dies of plague
1362 Jacques de Bourbon count of Marche, killed in battle
1472 Pieter Bladelin Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1489 Hans Waldmann Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1490 Matthias Corvinus king of Hungary, dies
1520 Raphael [Sanzio] artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1528 Albrecht Dürer German painter/graphic artist, dies in Nürnberg Germany at 56
1551 Joachim Vadianus Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66
1590 Francis Walsingham English Secretary of State, dies at about 57
1593 Henry Barrow English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
1593 John Greenwood English Congressionalist, hanged
1605 John Stow British historian, dies
1674 Charles de Méan Belgian lawyer (Observations), dies at 69
1707 Willem Van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73
1779 Tommaso MFS Traetta Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
1782 Rynoldus Popma van Oevering composer, dies at 90
1805 Lorenz Justinian Ott composer, dies at 56
1817 Bonaventura Furlanetto composer, dies at 78
1822 Franz Xaver Partsch composer, dies at 62
1829 Niels H Able Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1838 José B de Andrada e Silva premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
1854 William Strickland US architect, dies
1862 Adley Hogan Gladden Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 51
1862 Albert Sidney Johnston US Confederate General, dies in battle at 59
1865 John Austin Wharton US Confederate General-Major, dies at 36
1865 Reuben B Boston US Confederate cavalry Colonel, dies in battle
1884 Emanuel Geibel writer, dies at 68
1906 Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
1913 Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer, dies on 78th birthday
1919 Stefan Surzynski composer, dies at 63
1926 Giovanni Amendola antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
1931 Giuseppi Radiciotti composer, dies at 73
1935 Edward Arlington Robinson US poet, dies
1939 Robert Courtneidge British theater producer, dies
1940 Andres Isasi composer, dies at 49
1945 Benjamin M Telders president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
1947 Vaclav Kapral composer, dies at 58
1949 Stanley Christopherson cricketer (1884, MCC President during WWII), dies
1951 Halfdan Cleve composer, dies at 71
1961 Jules J B V Bordet Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1962 J C Heldring Dutch businessman, dies at 74
1966 Julia Faye actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
1968 Bobby Hutton US Black Panther leader, shot to death
1971 Igor F Stravinsky Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies in New York at 88
1972 Heinrich Lübke West Germany President (1959-69), dies at 77
1974 Willem Dudok Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89
1976 Ruth P Thomson writer, dies
1978 Nicolas Nabokov composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1978 Reinoud Anders Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
1979 M Marie Widlow softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
1979 Milton Ager US composer, dies at 85
1981 Bob "The Bear" Hite singer (Canned Heat-Goin' up the Country), dies
1983 Ana Maria Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1984 Jimmy Kenndy British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 Ral Donner singer/narrator, dies at 41
1990 Lady Nancy Hawkes (1946 best-dressed woman) dies at 73
1990 Ronald E Evans astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
1991 Bill Ponsford cricketer (Test average 48 22, 1st-class average 65 18), dies
1992 Isaac Asimov science fiction writer (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1992 Molly Picon yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
1993 Divya Bharati "Baby Doll" Indies actress (Diwana), dies in car at 19
1993 Hedi Amira Nouira PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1994 Cyprian Niayamira President of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 Dick Cary jazz musician, dies at 77
1994 Juvénal Habayarimana President of Rwanda (1973), assassinated
1994 Patricia Louise Dalton chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
1994 Theo Bosch humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
1995 Vieno J Sukselainen PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
1996 Greer Garson actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92
1997 Jack Kent Cooke NFL owner (Washington Redskins), dies at 84

On this day...April 6 Events

0648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
0402 Battle at Pollentia Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
0610 Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the koran descended to Earth
0774 Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
1106 Fire in Venice
1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1362 Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1516 A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1634 Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curaçao"
1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by John of Riebeeck
1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1664 France & Saksen sign alliance
1672 France declares war on Netherlands
1712 Slave revolt in New York
1722 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1727 Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York NY
1815 English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organize Mormon church in Seneca County, New York
1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo IL
1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophète", premieres in Paris France
1859 US recognizes Liberal government in México's War of the Reform
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1866 G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) is established
1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1869 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Speckled Band" (BG)
1886 City of Vancouver British Columbia Canada incorporated
1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1889 George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hours 19 minutes to no decision in St Louis (111 rounds, longest bout in boxing history)
1893 Mormon temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 1st modern Olympic games begin in Athens Greece; American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in modern history
1900 James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 1st credit union established in US
1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1912 Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1920 French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 Italian fascists receive 65% of vote of parliament
1924 Völkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1926 Stanley Cup Montréal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 1st Scottsboro (Alabama) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1936 Tornado kills 203 & injures 1,800 in Gainesville GA
1936 3rd Golf Masters Championship Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1938 Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Islands (Pacific)
1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1941 Italian-held Addis Ababa capitulates to British & Ethiopian forces
1941 8th Golf Masters Championship Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280
1941 Beginning of 3 day bombardment of Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 British General Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1943 British & US offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazi's
1945 Coevorden freed from Nazi's
1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1947 11th Golf Masters Championship Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament, shooting a 281
1947 1st Tony Awards Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win
1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Dean Acheson
1952 16th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament, shooting a 286
1954 Montréal Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 seconds in playoff game against Detroit Red Wings
1954 TV Dinner is 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Yemen failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 NYC ends trolley car service
1957 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-the Masters
1959 31st Academy Awards "Gigi", Susan Hayward & David Niven win
1964 Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite
1966 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Gunpowder stock at a sporting-goods store explodes, killing 43 (Virginia)
1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio TX
1968 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1973 Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1973 Indies troops invade Sikkim
1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number
1973 US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter & Saturn
1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1974 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction CO
1975 Fastest hat trick by a Washington Capital 3 minutes 26 seconds (Stan Gilbertson)
1975 "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1975 "The Night That Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
1976 1st quadraphonic movie track "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1977 Judge rules the Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1977 Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
1978 Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inning & 193 to win Ranji Trophy
1979 Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1980 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1980 Post It Notes are introduced
1981 Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1982 Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279
1983 Washington Capitals 2-New York Islanders 5-Patrick Division Semifinals- Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)- Challenger 5 is launched; 1st time 11 people in space
1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1985 Bombay beats Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under General Swarreddahab
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hours
1986 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equipped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1988 New Jersey Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to New York Islanders 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
1988 North pole explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 New York-New Jersey Knights 1st home game (Giants Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1992 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 Duke beats Michigan 71-51 for NCCA basketball championship
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Duke beats Michigan 71-51
1992 Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1992 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, Baltimore Orioles beat Cleveland Indians 2-0
1992 Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1993 Florida Marlins 1st loss ever (4-2 to Los Angeles Dodgers)
1994 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs Wade) resigns
1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1995 "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
1997 "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 9th Seniors Golf Tradition Gil Morgan wins
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
1997 Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
1997 Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-07-2006, 06:15 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 07:

1506 St Francis Xavier Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
1534 José de Anchieta Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
1613 Gerard Dou Dutch painter (Night School)
1622 Louise Hollandine daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
1629 Juan José of Austria, Spanish General/Governor of Netherlands
1648 Ferdinand van Kessel Flemish painter
1694 Coelestin Praelisauer composer
1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer composer
1727 Henri Hardouin composer
1727 Michel Adanson French biologist (Natural History of Sénégal)
1745 Georg Druschetzky composer
1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter composer
1756 Charles Felix King of Sardina (1821-31)
1763 Domenico Dragonetti composer
1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi composer
1770 William Wordsworth England, poet laureate (The Prelude)
1772 F M Charles Fourier French socialist
1775 Francis C Lowell founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1780 William Ellery Channing US, Unitarian clergyman
1786 William Rufus DeVane King (D) 13th US Vice President (1853)
1801 Henry Eagle Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1803 Flora Tristan writer
1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Governor-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
1819 Hubert Leonard composer
1820 György Klapka Hungarian General/MP (Komárom-castle)
1822 Gershom Mott Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Johann Hermann Berens composer
1841 Alfred Cogniaux Belgian botanicus
1841 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys painter
1847 J P Jacobsen writer
1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell composer
1858 Adrien H Gerhard Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1859 Walter Camp Connecticut, father of American football (Yale)
1860 W K Kellogg a real corn flake
1869 David Grandison Fairchild US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
1870 Gustav Landauer German socialist
1870 Joseph Ryeland Belgian composer/Baron
1872 William Monroe Trotter famous African
1878 C M M Hathorn cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
1878 Jozef C Bittremieux Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
1882 Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger cricketer (belated Australian representative 1928-33)
1882 Kurt von Schleiger German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1884 Charles Dodd English new testament authority
1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal Dutch politician/resistance fighter
1889 Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Desolación, Tenderness)/Nobel 1945
1890 Marjory Stoneman Douglas environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
1893 Allan W Dulles US diplomat/CIA head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground)
1893 Irene Castle dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
1894 Gerald Brenan English writer
1895 Eduardo Toldra composer
1895 Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer
1896 Benny Leonard lightweight boxing champion (1917-25)
1897 Walter Winchell Harlem New York NY, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud composer
1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus French pianist/composer (Prix Diémer)
19-- Elaine Miles actress (Marilyn-Northern Exposure)
19-- Morris Johnson Jr drag race car driver
19-- Shane rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson England, 50K walker (Olympics-bronze-1952)
1903 Willi Forst Austrian actor/director (Im weissen Rössl)
1908 Percy Faith conductor (Summer Place)
1908 Le Duan Vietnamese politician
1912 John Adrian Hope politician/businessman
1912 Valère Depauw Flemish writer
1914 Sydney Thompson rock climber
1915 Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan] Philadelphia PA, singer (Ain't Nobody's Business)
1915 Henry Kuttner US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were, Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner)
1917 R G Armstrong Birmingham AL, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
1918 Peanuts Hucko Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1918 Ronald Howard Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1918 C B Bertie Clarke cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
1918 Peter Aryans [PCJ Vander] Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy, épée (Olympics-gold-1952)
1919 Ralph Flanagan Loraine OH, orchestra leader (Let's Dance)
1920 Ravi Shankar Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
1920 Terence Edward Armstrong polar geographer
1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock composer
1924 Nick Perito Denver CO, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1924 Harry Cordon comic/host (Fred Haché Show)
1924 Ikuma Dan composer
1926 Johannes Rood Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
1928 Alan J Pakula director (All the President's Men, Klute)
1928 James [Scott Bumgarner] Garner Norman OK, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
1928 James White UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
1930 Andrew Sachs actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
1931 Donald Barthelme Philadelphia PA, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
1931 Daniel Ellsberg whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
1932 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins Indianola MS, blues singer (If Trouble Was Money)
1933 Wayne Rogers Birmingham AL, actor (MASH, House Calls, Chiefs)
1934 Ian Richards Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
1935 Hodding Carter III press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
1935 Bobby Bare Irontown OH, country singer (Detroit City)
1935 Yvonne Fedderson co-founder (Childhelp USA)
1937 [Big] Charlie Thomas New York NY, jazz/rock singer (Drifters)
1938 Freddie Hubbard Indianapolis IN, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
1938 Yvonne Lime Glendale CA, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
1938 [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr San Francisco CA, (Governor-Democrat-CA, 1975-83)
1939 David Frost Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
1939 Donald L Holmquest Dallas TX, astronaut
1939 Francis Ford Coppola Detroit MI, film maker (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti)
1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson composer
1940 Patricia Paay Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1942 Edda Barends actress (Arthur & Eva)
1943 Roberta Shore [Schourup] Monterey Park CA, actress/singer (Virginian)
1943 Dennis Amiss cricketer (prolific English batsman)
1943 Mick Abrahams Luton Bedfordshire England, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-This Was)
1943 Spencer Dryden New York NY, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1946 Bill Kreutzmann Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1946 Barbara Benary composer
1947 Patricia Bennett US singer (He's So Fine)
1949 John Oates guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
1951 Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17)
1951 John Dittrich Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1952 Bruce Gary Burbank CA, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1952 Jane Frederick US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
1953 Everard Endt US, yachting (Olympics-gold-1952)
1954 Donna White LPGA golfer
1954 Jackie Chan martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
1954 Tony Dorsett NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
1955 Andrea Fisher artist
1956 Gail Lee Hirata LPGA golfer
1958 Alexandra Neil Boston MA, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
1958 Tony Ayre rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1960 Simon Climie rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1962 Andy Hampsten Columbus OH, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 Bonny Warner Mount Baldy CA, lugist
1962 Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor actor (In the Heat of the Night)
1964 Helen Wadsworth S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
1964 Joe Durant Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
1965 Alexander Mronz Cologne Germany, tennis star
1965 Kaushik Amalean cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
1966 Teri Ann Linn Honolulu HI, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
1967 Steve Wisniewski NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Bill Bellamy actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
1968 Don[ald] Smith North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1969 Clark Sheehan Denver CO, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 Jeremy Lincoln NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1969 Peggy Clasen St Paul MN, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1969 Ricky Bones Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees)
1969 Ricky Watters NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Alexander Karpovtsev Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers)
1970 Kevin Smith NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Cara Kendra Bernosky Miss Pennsylvania-USA (1997)
1971 Mark Thompson Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 Stephen Brimacombe Australian 100 meter/200 meter (Olympics-96)
1971 Victor Kraatz Berlin Germany, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World Champions-4th)
1972 Greg Clark tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 Joanne Brown Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Lovett Purnell wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 Malcolm Huckaby NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1972 Shana Williams Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
1974 Anita Maxwell WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 Beverly Peele super model (Elle)
1975 Ronde Barber cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 Tiki Barber running back (New York Giants)
1975 Victoria Adams "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 Erich Goldmann Dingolfing Germany, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1978 Siobhan Drake-Brockman Bunbury Australia, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie)

Deaths which occurred on April 07:

0030 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer)
0924 Berengarius I Emperor of Italy, murdered
1444 John Capreolus French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
1498 Charles VIII King of France (1483-98), dies at 27
1524 Philip of Burgundy bishop of Utrecht, dies
1614 El Greco Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch classicist, dies at 81
1767 Franz Sparry composer, dies at 51
1768 Michel Mathieu composer, dies at 78
1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl composer, dies at 52
1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer composer, dies at 71
1789 Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64
1789 Peter Camper anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
1803 [François Dominique] Toussaint L'Ouverture Haitian revolutionary, dies
1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
1850 William Lisle Bowles English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
1858 Anton Diabelli Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
1862 Sydney Nelson composer, dies at 62
1871 Alexander grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43
1875 Georg Herwegh writer, dies at 57
1877 Errico Petrella composer, dies at 63
1880 Diederich Krug composer, dies at 58
1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte Corsican MP, dies at 65
1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
1891 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80
1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer, dies at 53
1932 Erv A Kelley US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1933 Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
1934 William Monroe Trotter civil rights activist/journalist, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
1943 Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
1950 Walter Huston dies at 66
1955 Theda Bara actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
1958 Judge Jackson composer, dies at 75
1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov composer, dies at 58
1961 Marian Jordan radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
1961 Jesus Guridi composer, dies at 74
1961 Yusef Greiss composer, dies at 61
1967 Anne Morrison Chapin dies in West Hollywood
1968 Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champion, dies in race car at 32
1970 Josina Machel wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies
1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges (Olympics-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 Abeid Karume Tanzanian sheik/President, murdered
1972 Victor Wong actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
1973 Nick Stuart bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
1976 Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76
1977 Siegfried Buback German Federal Republic procureur-General, murdered Attorney-General
1978 Ernest Kanitz composer, dies at 83
1979 Bruno Apitz writer, dies at 78
1982 Brenda Benet actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1983 Gavin Gordon television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
1984 Samuel G Engel screenwriter/poet, dies of heart failure at 79
1984 Frank Church (Senator-Democrat-OH, 1957-81), dies at 59
1987 Maxine Sullivan [Williams] American actress (Going Places), dies at 75
1988 Cesar Bresgen Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
1989 Tikhon Toropets patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
1992 Alix Talton former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
1992 Clovis Ruffin fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
1992 Rick Emery dies after long illness at 39
1993 Max Croiset Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
1993 Richard Schmiechen dies of AIDS at 45
1993 S C (Billy) Griffith cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC secretary), dies
1994 Agathe Uwilingiyimana PM of Rwanda, assassinated
1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann German/US historian, dies at 85
1994 Arthur Gordon Clough journalist, dies at 59
1994 Evert Hartman Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994 François de Grossouvre President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 Kurt Cobain grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
1994 Lee Brilleaux British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1995 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect, dies at 68
1996 Ian Spurling ballet designer, dies at 59

On this day...April 7 EVENTS

0451 Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence Italy
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 Slave revolt (New York NY)
1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 Territory of Mississippi is organized
1805 Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; Island #10 falls
1863 Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 Battle of Farmville VA
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
1891 Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day
1901 SDAP demands General voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1917 De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos", premieres in Madrid
1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her", premieres in London
1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome", leased to Harry F Sinclair
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA)
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York NY
1928 44-year old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montréal Maroons 2-1
1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 Italy annexes Albania
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1940 7th Golf Masters Championship Jimmy Demaret beats Lloyd Mangrum, shooting a 280
1941 British Generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded in allied air raid
1944 General Montgomery speaks to Generals about invasion plan
1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 US B-17's bombs range at Lüneburg
1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission; superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers are sunk
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 10th Golf Masters Championship Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1948 World Health Organization established by UN
1949 Rogers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater (for 1928 performances)
1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 15th Golf Masters Championship Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden elected 2nd UN General-Secretary
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1956 10th NBA Championship Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1957 21st Golf Masters Championship Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1957 Last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run
1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at Los Angeles Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford CA
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1962 Umrigar slams 172 vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1963 27th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs Pakistan
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1969 Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4
1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds", premieres in NYC
1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seattle Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by Supreme Court
1971 President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free
1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs West Indies Georgetown
1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves", premieres in NYC
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical "TRIS"
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1978 President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch pitches no-hitter against Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 seconds
1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 1-New York Islanders 8-Preliminary-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris pitches no-hitter against Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1987 National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington DC
1988 New Jersey Devils 3-2 over New York Islanders, 1st NHL playoff round tied 1-1
1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghánistán
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand; Appeals court eventually overrules
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary NHL playoff
1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in Los Angeles CA, actually performed 03/24
1991 "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances
1991 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus
1991 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie homerun (Shea Stadium, New York)
1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 8th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus wins
1996 Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs Pakistan, Singapore
1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fort Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
 

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Birthdates which occurred on April 08:

0563 -BC- Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)
1460 Ponce de León San Tervas de Campos Spain, Spanish conqueror/explorer, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1533 Claudio Merulo organist/composer
1582 Phienas Fletcher poet
1605 Philip IV king of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
1605 Louis de Vadder Flemish painter
1614 El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos] Iráklion Crete Greece, painter (View of Toledo)
1631 Cornelis de Heem painter
1642 Gerard Callenbach Dutch Admiral
1655 Louis Willem I Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1692 Giuseppe Tartini Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo)
1695 Johann C Günther writer
1697 Pierre Prowo composer
1708 Georg Zarth composer
1726 Lewis Morris Bronx NY, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1731 William Williams Lebanon CT, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1741 José B da Gama Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
1756 Joseph Gehot composer
1775 Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1776 Thaddaus Weigl composer
1783 John Claudius London England, horticulturist
1798 Dionysios Solomos poet
1816 Frederick William Burton painter
1818 Christaan IX king of Denmark (1863-1906)
1828 George Baird Hodge Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 Allard Pierson Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
1832 Alfred von Waldersee Prussian fieldmarshal
1843 Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], composer
1850 William Henry Welch US, pathologist, founded John Hopkins
1859 Edmund Husserl Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology)
1869 Harvey Cushing US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
1875 Albert I von Saksen-Coburg king of Belgium (1909-34)
1878 Rudolf Nelson composer
1880 Victor Schertzinger composer/director (Uptown NY)
1881 Fernand Lamy composer
1885 Dimitrios Levidis composer
1886 Margaret A Barnes writer
1887 Walter Connolly Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
1889 Sir Adrian Boult Chester England, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
1892 Richard J Neutra Austrian/US architect (Who Built America?)
1893 Mary Pickford [Gladys Louise Smith] Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs)
1893 Grace Cunard Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
1893 Henri Puvrez Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
1895 Bert I[ra] Gordon Kenosha WI, diector/producer (Empire of the Ants, Magic Sword, Amazing Colossal Man)
1895 Sigurdur Thordarson composer
1896 Karl Hermann Pillney composer
1897 Herbert Eimert German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1898 E Y "Yip" Harburg [Isidore Hochberg], lyricist/librettist
1898 Achiel H Acker Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1898 Cecil [Maurice] Bowra British classics expert (Greek experience)
1902 Josef Krips Vienna Austria, conductor (London Symphony 1954-63)
1902 Arthur Wellard cricketer (big hitting Somerset & England batsman)
1903 Ilka Chase New York NY, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien)
1904 John Antill composer
1904 John R Hicks British economist (Nobel 1972)
1905 George Baxter Paris France, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged)
1905 Hans Scherfig Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm)
1905 Helen B M Fennell Joseph anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side)
1905 Pierre Wigny Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1906 Charles J B Jonckheere Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
1907 Maurice Stacey chemist
1908 Neil Lawson British high court judge
1909 George Dixon trumpet/sax
1909 Olavi Pesonen composer
1909 William James Millar Mackenzie political scientist
1910 George Musso NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1910 Wendell Bill cricketer (New South Wales bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
1911 Douglas Hyde socialist/Christian
1911 Émile Michel Cioran Romania, writer (The Trouble With Being Born, Anathemas and Admirations)
1911 Melvin Calvin US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912 Sonja Henie Oslo Norway, ice skater/actress (Olympics-gold-1928,32,36)
1912 Josef Gabcík Czechoslovakia, resistance fighter (attacked Heydrich)
1913 H Ernst bishop (Breda Netherlands)
1914 John Cameron cricketer (brother of Jimmy, West Indies vice-captain 1939 England tour)
1919 [Douglas] Ian Smith premier of Rhodesia (1964-..)
1920 Carmen [Mercedes] McRae New York NY, US jazz singer/pianist (Downbeat's New Star of 1954)
1920 Erik Pausin Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1921 Alfie Bass London England, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served)
1921 Betty [Bloomer] Ford 1st lady (1975-76)/namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1921 Jan Novak composer
1921 Virginia O'Brien Los Angeles CA, actress/singer (Gus, Ziegfeld Follies, Thousands Cheer)
1923 Edward Mulhare Cork Ireland, actor (Daniel Gregg-Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1923 Franco Corelli Ancona Italy, tenor (Don José-Carmen)
1925 Shecky Greene Chicago IL, comedian/actor (Love Machine, Combat)
1928 Eric Porter London England, actor (Antony & Cleopatra, 39 Steps)
1928 John Gavin Los Angeles CA, actor (Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale)
1928 Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus CEO (NVSH)
1928 Monty Sunshine jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
1929 Jacques Brel Brussels Belgium, songwriter/singer/actor (Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Pain in the A__)
1929 Renzo de Felice historian
1929 Walter Berry Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
1929 William K Everson film historian
1930 Dorothy Tutin London England, actress (Importance of Being Earnest, Cromwell)
1930 John Bartholomew Tucker Pennsylvania, TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)
1930 John Reardon New York NY, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus)
1930 Mary Moore principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
1930 Julien Van Remoortere [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist)
1932 John Gavin Los Angeles CA, actor (Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows)
1933 Fred Ebb lyricist (Cabaret)
1933 Jaroslav Smolka composer
1935 Donald Thompsett cricket umpire
1935 Albert G Bustamante (Representative-Democrat-TX, 1985- )
1935 Elizabeth Barrett-Connor epidemiologist (Living legacy award-1984)
1936 Klaus Lowitsch Berlin, actor (Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun)
1937 Seymour Hersh award winning investigative reporter (New York Times)
1937 Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg property trader
1938 Lory Patrick Beckley WV, actress (Trina-Tales of Wells Fargo)
1938 Barton Keith McLean composer
1938 Mohammad Farooq cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 7 Tests 1960-65)
1940 John Havlicek Martin's Ferry OH, NBA hall-of-famer (Boston Celtics)
1941 Peggy Lennon Los Angeles CA, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 Douglas Trumbull director (Silent Running, Brainstorm)
1942 Eduard Visser Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita)
1943 J P Kavanaugh racehorse trainer
1943 Michael Bennett aids victim/choreographer (A Chorus Line)
1943 Robby Weaver actor (Stone)
1943 Tony Banks English politician (Labour Party)
1943 William Garth Morrison Chief scout
1943 Carol Lavell Fairfax VT, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1944 Anthony Farrar Hockley military historian
1944 Roger Chapman Leicester Leicestershire England, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1944 Christoph Hein Heinzendorf Silesia (now in Poland), writer
1944 Hywel Bennett South Wales, actor (Family Way, Shelley)
1944 Santiago Jimenez Jr US accordionist (El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin)
1945 Ian White Member of European Parliament for Bristol
1946 Jim "Catfish" Hunter major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)
1946 Stuart Pankin Philadelphia PA, comedian (Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs)
1947 Cindy Pickett Norman OK, actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere)
1947 Peter Banks England, guitarist (Yes)
1947 Steve Howe London England, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
1947 Gerald McRaney Collins MS, actor (Rick-Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1947 Hsiao-hsien Hou director (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster)
1947 Thomas D Delay (Representative-Republican-TX, 1985- )
1948 Richard Alan Litchfield Massachusetts, bank robber (FBI most wanted)
1949 Jim Lampley Hendersonville NC, newscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1951 Mel Schachter rocker (Grand Funk Railroad)
1952 Adam Woods rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
1954 Gary Carter catcher (Montréal Expos, New York Mets)
1954 John Schneider Mount Kisco NY, actor (Bo-Dukes of Hazzard)
1955 John Campbell harness racer (3-time winner of Hambletonian)
1957 Michael Spound Santa Monica CA, actor (Dave-Hotel)
1959 Martin John Weston Worcester England, cricketer
1959 Franklyn Stephenson cricketer (great all-rounder)
1962 Izzy Stradlin [Jeff Isabelle] Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns N' Roses-Welcome to the Jungle)
1963 Julian Lennon Liverpool England, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)/subject of Beatles' "Hey Jude"
1963 Alec James Stewart Merton England, cricketer (son of Mickey/opening bat/occasional wicket keeper)
1963 Erica Terwillegar Nelsonville NJ, lugist
1963 Terry Porter NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1964 Biz Markie rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
1964 Valinda Hilleary Littleton CO, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1993)
1966 Robin [Virginia] Wright Penn Dallas TX, actress (Jenny-Forrest Gump, Kelly-Santa Barbara, Princess Bride)
1967 Kenneth [Kenny] Charlie Griffith Benjamin St John's Antigua, cricketer (West Indies like his namesake)
1968 Don Davey NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 Patricia Arquette New York NY, actress (Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
1969 Steve Jackson NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 Derek D Brown Washington DC, team handball right wing (Olympics-1996)
1970 Gerald Vaughn CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 Harold Bishop NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Edward Fryatt Rochdale England, Nike golfer (1994 NCAA West Regional)
1971 Marc Peers Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 Damon Watts NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Isaac Davis NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Katrina Powell Canberra Australia, field hockey striker (Olympics-96)
1973 Alex Gonzalez Miami FL, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 Joel Davis guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue Auckland New Zealand, 50 meter/100 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Jim Farnum Honolulu HI, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96)
1981 Rebecca Wilson Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1984 Taran Noah Smith San Francisco CA, actor (Mark Taylor-Home Improvement)

Deaths which occurred on April 08:

0217 Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoniius] Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
1143 John II Comnenus Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident
1364 Jan II the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44
1492 Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico" ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies
1498 Charles VIII King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27
1537 Willem Aerts Flemish architect, dies
1629 Willem Teellinck Dutch theologist/vicar, dies at 50
1697 Niels Juel Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht), dies at 67
1736 Pedro Vaz Rego composer, dies at 63
1759 François de La Croix composer, dies at 76
1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
1794 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat mathematician dies
1844 Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer, dies at 72
1848 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti Italian composer, dies at 50
1851 John Parry composer, dies at 75
1853 Jan W Pieneman historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73
1858 Anton Diabelli Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76
1861 Elisha G Otis US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
1863 Joseph Netherclift composer, dies at 70
1865 John Park composer, dies at 61
1870 Charles-Auguste de Beriot Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1871 Charles-Louis Hanssens composer, dies at 68
1889 Henry Jupp cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for England in 1877), dies
1890 Junius Morgan philanthropist, dies at 76
1894 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
1897 Heinrich von Stephan UK politician, dies
1897 George Garrett composer, dies at 62
1902 Sipyagain Russian minister of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1914 Jakub Arbes Czechoslovakia, author (Andél Miru), dies at 73
1919 Roland baron Eötvös Hungarian physicist, dies at 70
1920 Charles Tomlinson Griffes US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35
1921 Earnest von Possart German actor/stage manager, dies
1931 Eric Axel Karlfeldt poet, dies
1935 Edwin Cannan economist, dies
1937 Arthur William Foote US organist/composer, dies at 84
1937 William Henry Hadow composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1938 Harold Baumgartner cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies
1941 Eugène-Marcel Prévost novelist, dies
1942 Alfred Mombert writer, dies
1943 Richard Sears 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1943 Paul Colin Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1947 Henry Ford US industrialist (Ford cars), dies
1948 Josef B Kjellgren Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
1950 Albert Ehrenstein Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63
1950 Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London
1957 Frank Chester cricketer (distinguished 1-armed England Test ump), dies
1959 Gustave Charlier Belgian literature historian, dies
1963 Len Tuckett cricketer (no runs no wickets in 1 Test for S A), dies
1965 Erik A Blomberg Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70
1965 Jack Durston cricketer (one Test for England, 4-102 & 1-34), dies
1965 Lars Hanson Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78
1966 George Creten Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1969 Arthur Walter Kramer composer, dies at 78
1969 Denton Cooley got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48
1970 Marie V Felix Prince of Luxemburg, dies
1973 Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies near Mougins France at 91
1976 Phil Ochs rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35
1977 Frank Milan actor (The Witness), dies at 71
1978 Ford C Frick baseball commissioner, dies at 83
1981 General Omar Bradley last 5-star General, dies in New York at 88
1981 Norman Taurog dies
1981 Omar Bradley last US 5-star General, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88
1987 Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer (WWI, WWII, Korea) dies at 90
1990 Ryan White hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18 - The Ryan White Foundation was founded later in 1991 by Jeanne White and Phil Donahue
1990 Doreen Sloane dies
1990 Jose De Vega dies of AIDS at 56
1992 Nelson Olmstead dies at 78
1993 Arleen Whelan dies of stroke at 78
1993 H Earnest bishop of Breda, dies
1993 Marian Anderson US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96
1994 Frank Wells president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
1994 Irene Eisinger singer, dies at 91
1994 Walter Arnold German theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
1995 Maurice Allom cricketer (14 Test wickets-New Zealand debut hat-trick), dies
1996 Basil Hembry farmer/campaigner, dies at 80
1996 Ben Johnson cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77
1996 Charles Donald Adams singer, dies at 67
1997 Laura Nyro singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49

On this day...April 8 Events

1195 Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaäk II as Byzantine emperor
1341 Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 Battle at Novara King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1716 Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
1730 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1781 Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1832 Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York NY)
1848 1st battle at Gioto Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 US mint at Dahlonega GA seized by confederacy
1862 John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1864 Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by General Richard Taylor
1865 General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1869 American Museum of Natural History opens (New York NY)
1876 Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda", premieres in Milan
1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879 Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1893 The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink
1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 Great Britain & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1908 Lord Herbert Henry Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Prime Minister
1912 Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200
1913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1913 Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1914 US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning the Panamá Canal Zone
1916 Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1920 LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
1931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1931 Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "The Arrow", premieres
1933 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1935 2nd Golf Masters Championship Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
1935 Bartóks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington DC
1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire", premieres in NYC
1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1948 Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in San Francisco
1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
1952 President Harry Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike
1953 Dag Hammarskjöld chosen as Secretary-General of UN
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway for 270 performances
1956 20th Golf Masters Championship Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289
1956 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island SC
1956 M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 Netherlands & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1961 "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 performances
1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1963 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win
1963 Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1966 OAO 1, the 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched
1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of communist party
1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of Martin Luther King Jr
1968 Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King Jr assassination
1968 Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1968 WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 1st Baseball game in Canada - Montréal Expos beats New York Mets 10-9
1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games
1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1970 "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
1971 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1972 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs New Zealand
1974 Discovery Island opens
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th homerun, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball manager (Cleveland, beats New York 5-3)
1977 Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1979 "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1979 People's Republic of China joins IOC
1980 Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL record of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
1981 Islanders score 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 4-Preliminary; Islanders hold 2-0 lead
1982 Tracy Caulkins (19) wins her 36th US swimming title
1984 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1984 4th Golden Raspberry Awards Lonely Lady wins
1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 performances
1985 Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel CA
1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but had returned after only three months.)
1989 Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
1989 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 innings
1990 "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
1990 "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1990 54th Golf Masters Championship Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1990 Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas
1991 Oakland A's Stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
1991 "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
1991 Jockey Bill Shoemaker paralyzed in a car accident
1991 Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1992 "Five Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill theater on Broadway for 445 performances
1992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit homeruns in same inning (vs Yankees)
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-0
1994 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
1994 Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1995 BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
1995 Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
2001 65th Golf Masters Championship
 

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Birthdates which occurred on April 09:

1598 Johann Crüger German organist/composer/music theorist
1611 Giacomo Maria Predieri composer
1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll composer
1634 Albertine Agnes princess of Orange-Nassau
1649 James Scott Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
1716 Johann Georg Zechner composer
1717 Georg Matthias Monn composer
1754 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer
1754 Pieter Paulus Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
1757 Wojciech Boguslawski composer
1785 Sibrand Acker Stratingh Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1794 Theobald Böhm flautist/composer
1798 Giuditta Pasta [Negri] soprano
1802 Elias Lönrot folklorist
1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
1806 Louis count of Barrthyányi premier of Hungary
1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1821 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
1826 Thomas Hewson Neill Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1830 Eadweard Muybridge England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1835 Leopold II King of Belgians (1865-1909)
1847 Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti composer
1847 Francis William Davenport composer
1848 F A MacKinnon cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon)
1848 Helena Lange German feminist
1850 Herman Zumpe composer
1851 C E Arthur Wichmann German/Dutch geologist (Netherlands Indies)
1854 Seaborn M Denson composer
1855 Gyula Reviczky Hungarian author/poet
1861 Charles Holroyd painter/etcher
1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz Germany, experiment with AC electricity
1865 Erich Ludendorff General (Germany)
1871 Arthur Fickenscher composer
1872 Léon Blum statesman
1872 Léon Blum French premier (People's front government)
1874 Julius Bittner Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1879 Gerald Festus Kelly artist
1883 Renzo Bossi composer
1884 Franco Vittadini composer
1888 Sol Hurok theatrical impresario
1888 Florence Smith Price US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1889 Efrem Zimbalist Rostov-on-Don Russia, composer/concert violinist
1891 John Gobau Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
1894 Ernest Kanitz composer
1895 Mance Lipscomb Navasota TX, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 Michel Simon [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
1895 Rudolf Kattnigg composer
1898 Earl (Curly) Lambeau NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1898 Paul Robeson Philadelphia PA, singer (Old Man River)/actor/football player
1898 Julius Patzak Austrian tenor singer
19-- Christopher Durham actor (Ryan's Hope)
19-- Vincent Bufano New York NY, actor (Turtle-Flatbush, Rick-Eischied)
1900 Allen Jenkins Staten Island NY, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit)
1902 Frantisek Suchy composer [or April 21, 1891]
1903 Ward Bond Benkelman NE, actor (Quiet Man, Fort Apache, Seth-Wagon Train)
1903 Willem Pée Belgian linguist
1904 Lyle Latell Elma IA, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon)
1905 J William Fulbright (Senator-Democrat-AR)
1906 Antal Dorati Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29)
1906 Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell MP (Labour Party)
1908 Fred Lohse composer
1908 Victor Vasarely Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art)
1909 Domenico Enrici Apostolic Nuncio
1909 Robert Murray Halpmann dancer
1909 Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky composer
1909 Robert Helpmann Mount Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)
1910 Abraham A Ribicoff (Senator-Democrat-CT)
1910 Sharon Lynn Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1911 Lord Deramore architect
1911 Albert Remy Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)
1914 Richard Young CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
1917 Vincent O'Brien racehorse trainer
1917 Johannes Bobrowski writer
1918 Jörn Utzon Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
1919 John Presper Eckert co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
1920 Art Van Damme Norway MI, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1920 David Walker Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
1920 Alexander Moulton English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
1920 F Don Miller Racine WI, Boxing coach (Olympics-1956)
1921 Frankie Thomas New York NY, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
1922 Gerald Moverley Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
1922 Michael Palliser head of British diplomatic service
1922 Carl Amery writer
1923 Bruno Kiefer composer
1924 Harald Heilmann composer
1925 Tom Jackson British union leader (Post Office)
1925 Michael Richardson vice CEO (N M Rotschild)
1926 Graham Hills principal (Strathclyde University, England)
1926 Lord Fitt MP (Belfast Ireland)
1926 Michael Ogden QC
1926 Harris Wofford (Senator-Republican-PA)
1926 Hugh [Marston] Hefner Chicago IL, magazine publisher (Playboy)
1928 Brian Cubbon British senior civil servant
1928 Floyd D Spence (Representative-Republican-SC, 1971- )
1928 Tom Lehrer parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
1929 Harvey Lichtenstein president (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
1931 Bill Gilbert Washington DC, sports author (They Also Served, The Big E)
1931 Martin Rogers director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)
1932 Carl Perkins Jackson TN, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
1932 Jim Fowler Albany GA, naturalist (Wild Kingdom)
1932 Paul Krassner comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies)
1932 Peter Moores director (Littlewoods)
1932 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov cosmonaut
1933 Richard Rose Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
1933 Gian Maria Volontè [John Welles] Milan Italy, actor (Fistful of Dollars)
1933 Jacques Molicard translator/navigator
1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
1935 Avery Schreiber Chicago IL, comedian (My Mother the Car)
1935 Aulis Sallinen composer
1936 Michael Somare British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
1936 Jerzy Maksymiuk composer
1937 Valerie Singleton British broadcaster
1937 Barrington J[ohn] Bayley UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
1939 Michael Learned Washington DC, actress (Olivia-The Waltons, Nurse)
1940 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov Russian cosmonaut
1941 Hannah Gordon actress (Oh Alfie)
1942 Brandon De Wilde Brooklyn NY, actor (Jamie, Wild in the Sky)
1942 Earl F Hillard (Representative-Democrat-AL)
1942 Galina A Kulakova USSR, nordic skier (Olympics-3 golds-1972, holds 9 world titles)
1943 Terry Knight rock vocalist (Gloria, Terry Knight & the Pack)
1944 Gene Parsons Los Angeles CA, rock drummer (Byrds, Gene Clark Group)
1945 Gus Hardin [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa OK, country singer
1946 Les Gray vocalist (Mud-The Cat Crept In)
1946 Philip Wright rocker (Paper Lace)
1946 Alan [Philip Eric] Knott Belvedere Kent England, great English cricket wicketkeeper (1967-81)
1948 Chico Ryan Arlington MA, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
1949 Steve Gadd jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz)
1950 Nathan Cook Philadelphia PA, actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
1950 Ehtesham-ud-din cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 5 Tests 1980-82)
1950 Kenneth D Cockrell Austin TX, astronaut (STS 56, 69, 80)
1952 Magnar Am composer
1953 Hal Ketchum Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night)
1954 Dennis Quaid Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
1957 Ednita Nazario Ponce Puerto Rico, Spanish singer
1957 Sevériano Ballesteros Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)
1958 Tony Sibson boxer
1959 Dave Innis Bartlesville OK, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 Mark Kelly Dublin Ireland, rock keyboardist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1961 Kirk McCaskill Kapuskasing Ontario Canada, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1962 Freddie Joe Nunn NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1962 Jeff Turner NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1964 Shane Robinson Adelaide SA, Australasia golfer
1965 Paulina Porizkova Prostejov Czechoslovakia, model/Sports Illustrated swimsuit covergirl
1965 Hal Morris Fort Rucker AL, infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1965 Helen Alfredsson Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1993 Dinah Shore)
1965 Paolo Cane Itaty, tennis star
1966 Cynthia Nixon New York NY, actress (Addams Family Values, Pelican Brief)
1966 Oliver Barnett NFL defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1967 Graeme Lloyd Australia, pitcher (New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers)
1968 Janne Ojanen Tampere Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1968 Terry Brands Omaha NE, 125½ lbs/57 kg freestyle wrestler/identical twin of Tom (Olympics-96)
1968 Tom Brands Omaha NE, 136½ lbs/62 kg freestyle wrestler/identical twin of Terry (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 Amy Feng Tianjin China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 Karl Krikken cricketer (Derbyshire 1989-, wicketkeeper)
1969 Timothy Young Philadelphia PA, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 Chuck Bradley CFL/WLAF tackle (British Columbia Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1970 Neal Caloia Torrance CA, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1970 Olaf Kolzig Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington)
1971 Wang Yang youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (Olympics-1988)
1971 Anthony Redmon NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Austin Peck Hawaii, actor (Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives)
1971 Derwin Gray NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 James Hundon wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Mujaahid Maynard Brooklyn NY, 105½ lbs/48 kg greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1972 Brian DeMarco NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Craig Jones Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Jeff Wilkins kicker (St Louis Rams)
1972 Jeffrey van As soccer player (MVV)
1972 Karen Clark Calgary Alberta, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1974 Ben Bordelon tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Kevin Mathis cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Sharon Pelletier Madawaska ME, Miss Maine-America (1996)
1979 Keshia Knight Pulliam Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby)
1980 Kristin Lee Bethesda MD, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1990 Marston Glenn Hefner son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad

Deaths which occurred on April 09:

0715 Constantine I Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1024 Benedict VIII [Theophylactus van Tusculum] Pope (1012-24), dies
1483 Edward IV King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38
1492 Lorenzo de' Medici Florentine statesman, dies
1553 François Rabelais French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
1557 Michael Agricola Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
1626 Francis Bacon Viscount St Albans, statesman, dies
1681 Alfonso Marsh composer, dies at 54
1747 Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat) 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
1754 Christian von Wolff German philosopher, dies at 75
1761 William Law theologian, dies
1765 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77
1793 Ernestus Weinrauch composer, dies at 62
1804 Jacques Necker financier/statesman, dies
1806 Willem V Batavus prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58
1807 John Opie England, painter/illustrator; Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
1821 Felix Maximo Lopez composer, dies at 78
1850 William Prout physician/chemist, dies
1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant composer, dies at 80
1852 John Howard Payne actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1862 George W Johnson US planter/Confederate (Governor-KY), dies at about 50
1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth Irish/US Union General-Major, dies at 32
1879 Ernst Friedrich Richter composer, dies at 70
1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti poet/pre-Raphaelite painter, dies at 53
1882 Jules Quicherat French historian/archaeologist (Mélanges), dies at 66
1886 Joseph V von Scheffel German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
1893 Disma Fumagalli composer, dies at 66
1904 Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1909 Charles Conder artist, dies
1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer, dies at 62
1917 Edward Thomas poet, killed in WWI
1923 Mauritius H Binger director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
1931 Paul Antonin Vidal composer, dies at 67
1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert composer, dies at 55
1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer, dies at 89
1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies
1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski composer, dies at 59
1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologist/antifascist, hanged
1945 Hans Oster German Major-General/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1945 Hans von Dohnanyi "July 20th plotter", hanged
1945 Theodor Haecker German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65
1945 Wilhelm Canaris Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel composer, dies at 43
1948 Jorge Elecier Gaitán Colombian politician, murdered
1951 Sadiq Hidajat Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies
1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
1954 Philip Greeley Clapp composer, dies at 65
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (Guggenheim Museum, New York), dies at 89
1961 Zog I [Ahmed Zogu] King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1962 Juan Belmonte famed bullfighter, dies at 70
1966 Sutan Sjahrir premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1976 Akio Yashiro composer, dies at 46
1976 Phil Ochs singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1979 Staats Cotsworth dies at 71
1980 Kathleen Burke dies
1982 Wilfrid Pelletier symphony conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
1982 Robert H G Havemann German chemist/dissident, dies
1984 Basil Henry Blackwell British publisher, dies
1986 Jean Mogin Belgian poet, dies at 64
1988 Brook Benton singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies of meningitis at 56
1988 Dave Prater rocker (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash at 50
1991 Maurice Binder title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1992 Gale McGee Senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1992 Ruth Hammond dies in her sleep at 96
1993 Wouter Perquin journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
1994 Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
1994 Keith Watson British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994 Marcel Ichac French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
1994 Raouf Khayrat Egyptian General-Major, murdered
1995 James Bullock colliery manager, dies at 92
1996 James William Rouse US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81
1996 Maisie Fitter editor/conservationist, dies at 83
1996 Richard Thomas Condon author, dies at 81
1996 Sandy Becker NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
1997 Helene Hanff author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
1998 Tammy Wynette [Virginia Wynette Pugh] country singer (Stand By Your Man), dies from a blot clot at 55

On this day...April 9 Events

0715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1454 Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris France)
1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 French troops occupy Mons
1770 Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1783 Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Philadelphia PA)
1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough NH)
1838 National Galley opens in London
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
1865 Federals capture Fort Blakely AL
1865 Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1878 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1906 Intercalated Games opens in Athens - special Olympic gathering that helped get the Olympic movement back on track
1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1913 Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
1914 1st full color film shown "The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in México
1917 Battle of Arras begins
1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 Latvia proclaims independence from Russia
1923 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman", premieres in Dublin
1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1927 Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed", premieres in Pasadena
1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state
1931 Chicago's Cy Wentworth beats Montréal Canadiens at 13:50 of the 6th period
1932 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs sweep New York Rangers in 3 games
1935 Stanley Cup Montréal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
1940 German cruiser Blücher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1946 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1947 Atomic Energy Commission is formed
1947 Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1949 UN International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1950 14th Golf Masters Championship Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
1950 4th Tony Awards Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia
1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1953 Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1957 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy", premieres in Washington DC
1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
1959 Bill Sharman hits an NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1959 13th NBA Championship Boston Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games; this is Celtics' 8th consecutive title
1960 14th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3; this is Celtics' 9th consecutive title
1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1962 Arnold Palmer wins his 3rd Masters golf tournament
1962 JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington DC's new Stadium
1962 26th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Max Schell win
1963 Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1965 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1965 India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1966 Anaheim Stadium for the California Angels opens
1966 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris France
1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1967 "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 performances
1967 31st Golf Masters Championship Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
1968 Minnesota's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1968 Ralph Abernathy elected to head Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1968 German Democratic Republic adopts constitution
1968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta GA
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1969 Chicago Cubs' Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Philadelphis Phillies 11-3
1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles
1971 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1972 "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
1972 36th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1972 Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand vs West Indies
1972 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 Otto Kerner, former Governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1973 37th Golf Masters Championship Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283
1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1974 San Diegp Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"
1976 US & Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1977 Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years
1978 Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in seperate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter)
1978 42nd Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
1978 Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins
1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1980 Kings tie NHL record with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a period vs Islanders
1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1980 Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1982 Los Angeles Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1983 Washington Capitals 2-New York Islanders 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
1984 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley Maclaine win
1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive the killed Bobby Ewing character
1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game
1987 Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champion
1988 Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panamá
1988 "Les Miserables", opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
1989 53rd Golf Masters Championship Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
1989 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1989 Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in New York's 4-3 loss to Cleveland
1989 Washington DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with the Yankees
1990 New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
1990 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from the USSR
1991 Release of Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0
1992 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Nederlander theater on Broadway
1992 John Major, (Conservative Party) elected Prime Minister of England
1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in the 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
1992 Florida drops rape charges against New York Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
1992 US Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
1992 William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Montréal Expos
1994 BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1995 "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
1995 59th Golf Masters Championship Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
1997 Cleveland Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
1997 NFL announces it will give $3 million to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl"
2000 64th Golf Masters Championship Vijay Singh wins with 10-under-par 278
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-10-2006, 06:02 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on April 10:

0401 Theodosius II the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor
1512 James I king of Scotland (1513-42)
1569 Emilia van Nassau daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
1583 Hugo Grotius Holland, jurist, father of international law
1633 Werner Fabricius composer
1695 Balthazar Huydecoper Dutch translator/historian
1737 François Giroust composer
1755 Samuel Hahnemann German physician/originator of homeopathy
1778 William Hazlitt Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1783 Hortense E de Beauharnais French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1794 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened Japan
1797 Claude Ambroise Seurat Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1806 Leonidas Polk Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1808 Auguste Franchomme composer
1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1827 Lewis Wallace Major General (Union volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur)
1829 William Booth founder (Salvation Army)
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 James Edward Rains Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1847 Joseph Pulitzer Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World)
1847 Charles Swinnerton Heap composer
1854 Jozef M T Orelio baritone
1857 Henry Ernest Dudeney mathematician/puzzle maker
1864 Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864 Tully Marshall Nevada City CA
1868 George Arliss London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
1877 Alfred Kubin writer
1880 Frances Perkins 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor)
1882 Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel theologist (Fear & Religion)
1886 Val[entine] Paul Denver CO, silent film actor (Red Red Heart, Lair of the Wolf)
1887 Bernardo A Houssay Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
1887 Heinz Tiessen composer
1891 Tim McCoy Saginaw MI
1892 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
1892 Victor de Sabata Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1894 Ben Nicholson English painter/sculptor (Circle)
1896 Edith Day Minneapolis MN
1898 Hans Ehrke German writer/poet (Narrenspiegel, Füer)
19-- Claudette Nevins Birmingham AL, actress (Dark Side of Innocence)
19-- Dale Pulde drag race car driver
19-- Lee Weaver Fort Lauderdale FL, actor (Bill Cosby, Easy Street)
1900 Jean Duvieusart premier (Belgium 1950)
1903 Clare Boothe Luce former US ambassador to Vatican
1903 Nick Stuart Romania, bandleader
1905 Jan H van Roijen diplomat/Netherlands foreign minister
1906 Kathleen Major principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 Fud Livingston composer
1906 Lili Darvas Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1907 Pete Desjardins US, platform/springboard diver (Olympics-gold-1928)
1908 Aidan Crawley CEO (London Weekend TV)
1910 Abu-Bakr Khairat composer
1910 David Gilroy Bevan politician
1910 Eddy Duchin Cambridge MA, society pianist/bandleader (Eddy Duchin Orchestra)
1911 Maurice Schumann French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1912 Clarke Hinkle NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 Martin Denny rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
1912 Roy Hofheinz engineer (Houston Astrodome)
1913 Stefan Heym German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1914 E A V "Foffie" Williams cricketer (West Indies all-rounder 1939-48)
1914 Jack Badcock cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
1915 Harry Morgan Detroit MI, actor (December Bride, MASH, Dragnet)
1915 Leo Vroman Dutch/US poet/biologist
1917 Robert Burns Woodward organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1921 Chuck Connors Brooklyn NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 Sheb Wooley Erick OK, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1921 Peter Herbert Penwarden priest
1923 Floyd M Simmons actor/decathlete (Olympics-bronze-1948, 52)
1923 John Watkins cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57)
1924 Lee Bergere Brooklyn NY, actor (Joseph-Dynasty)
1924 Johanna M van de Berg actress (What See I?)
1926 Jacques Casterede composer
1926 Johnnie Tillmon civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association)
1927 "Alvin" Junior Samples Cummings GA, country performer (Hee Haw)
1929 Max [Carl Adolf] Von Sydow Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1929 Dusan Radic composer
1930 Lord Morton of Shauna, Senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1930 Shuja-ud-Din cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
1931 Marcel van Maele Belgian poet
1932 Adrian Henri poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 Hari Rhodes Cincinnati OH, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 Omar Sharif [Michael Shalhoub] Alexandria Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1932 Delphine Seyrig Beirut Lebanon, actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages)
1932 Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr New Jersey, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1952)
1932 Nathaniel Nelson rocker (Flamingos)
1933 [Ponciano] Poncie Ponce Maui HI, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
1933 Philip Corner composer
1933 Robert Rhodes James historian (Gallipoli)
1934 David Halberstam New York Times international correspondent (New York Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1934 Zsolt Durko composer
1935 Jorge Mester México City México, conductor (Louisville Orchestra 1967-79)
1935 Patrick Garland director (Doll House)
1936 John Madden NFL coach (Oakland Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX)
1936 Michael Naylor insurance broker
1936 Robert "Bobby" Smith US singer (Spinners)
1937 Stan Mellor British racehorse trainer/jockey
1938 Don Meredith Mount Vernon TX, NFL quarterback (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1939 Alan Rothenberg US Soccer president (1990- )
1939 Daniel Oliver New York NY, CEO (Federal Trade Commission)
1940 Gloria Hunniford British broadcaster/actress (Old Curiosity Shop)
1941 Paul Theroux American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
1944 Danny Woods US musician (CEO of the Board)
1945 Vera Misevich USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympics-gold-1980)
1946 Armand [Herman van Loenhout] singer (Blommenkinders)
1947 Bunny Waller vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1947 Karl Russell rocker
1948 Thomas Spencer Member of European Parliament (Conservative)
1949 Frank de Leeuw Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color)
1950 Dave Peverett rocker (Foghat)
1950 Eddie Hazel US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
1951 Mark Roth bowler (4-time PBA Player of Year)
1951 Steven Seagal Detroit MI, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
1953 David Moorcroft British athlete
1953 Terre Roche rocker (Roches)
1954 Jouko Törmänen Finland, 90 meter ski jumper (Olympics-gold-1980)
1954 Peter MacNicol Dallas TX, actor (John Cage-Ally McBeal, Alan Birch-Chicago Hope, Dragonslayer, Sophie's Choice)
1955 Cary Middlecoff golfer (Masters)
1958 Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds Indianapolis IN, singer/producer/songwriter (Boyz II Men, Bobby Brown)
1959 Brian Setzer Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats)
1960 Julie Fulton Evanston IL, actress (Lime Steel)
1961 Jeb Adams Hollywood CA, actor (Lieutenant Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1961 Olivia Brown Frankfurt German Federal Republic, actress (Detective Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
1962 Cathy Turner Rochester NY, short track skater (Olympics-gold-1994
1962 Jukka Tammi hockey goaltender (Team Finland Olympics-bronze-1998)
1962 Steve Tasker wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1963 Warren DeMartini heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt)
1963 Claire Smith Ottawa Ontario Canada, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1963 Kirk Lowdermilk NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Marvin Freeman Chicago IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1963 Mike Devereaux Casper WY, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 Alan "Reni" Wren English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
1964 Felicia Collins Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman)
1964 Manon Bollegraf den Bosch Netherlands, tennis star (semi 1996 Australian doubles)
1965 Karen Booker WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1965 Tim "Herb" Alexander US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda)
1966 Neil Smith NFL defensive end (Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 Donald Dufresne Rimouski, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1967 Kay Whitmore Sudbury, NHL goalie (New York Rangers)
1969 Billy Jacoby Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
1969 William Jayne actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1969 Dennis Vial Sault Ste-Marie Canada, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1969 Wayne Lammle WLAF kicker/punter (Scotland Claymores)
1970 Enrico Ciccone Montréal Québec Canada, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 J J McCleskey NFL safety (New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Sean Gilbert defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1970 Wesley Barnett St Joseph MO, Olympic weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
1971 Karl Williams wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Mihai Bagiu Timisoara Romania, US gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 Nana Miyagi Seattle WA, tennis star (1995 final Surabaya doubles)
1972 Maurice Harrell NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Richard Wearne Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Sue Merz Greenwich CT, ice hockey defense (USA, Olympics-98)
1974 Sherry Johnson Owatonna MN, Miss Minnesota-America (1996)
1975 Eric Den Besten Bettendorf IA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1975 Floris Prince of Netherlands
1975 Steve Washburn Ottawa, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1977 Claudia Delpin Miss Chile-Universe (1997)
1978 Jessica Davis Greenbrae CA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-27th-96)
1984 Zoe Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
1988 Haley Joel Osment Los Angeles CA, actor (Cole Sear-The Sixth Sense, Trevor 'Trev' McKinney-Pay It Forward)

Deaths which occurred on April 10:

0879 Louis II the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies
0947 Hugo van Arles count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
1008 Notger bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
1362 Machteld countess of Holland, dies
1533 Frederik I King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
1585 Gregory XIII [Ugo Buoncampagni] Italian Pope (1572-85), dies
1640 Agostino Agazzari Italian composer, dies at 61
1640 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
1712 Yusuf Nabi Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1723 Claude F Tserclaes South Netherlands earl of Tilly, dies at 74
1731 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich composer, dies at 58
1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti Italian composer, dies at 94
1760 Gerard George Clifford head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
1784 Simon Fokke book illustrator, dies at 71
1807 Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbüttel duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies
1810 Konrad Back composer, dies at 60
1825 Paul-Louis Courier (Méré), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
1848 Godert AGP baron van Capellen Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
1862 William Harvey Lamb Wallace US lawyer/Brigadier-General, dies at 40
1863 Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1885 John H Scholten theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet, dies at 72
1911 Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composer, dies at 35
1919 Emiliano Zapata Mexican leader, murdered at 39
1920 Moritz B Cantor German mathematician, dies at 90
1920 Tryggve Andersen Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1927 Ivo Bligh cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
1929 Edmond Thieffry Belgium, WWI pilot, dies at 36
1932 André Baillon Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1937 Algernon Ashton composer, dies at 77
1938 Nana Annor Adjaye Pan-Africanist, dies in West Nzima Ghana
1939 Alfredo Panzini Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 Hendrik N Werkman resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63
1954 Auguste Lumière French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1954 Ludwig Curtius German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1955 Oskar Frederik Lindberg composer, dies at 68
1956 Clarence Beaumont 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 Bozidar Sirola composer, dies at 66
1956 Jozef Szulc composer, dies at 81
1958 Chuck Willis rocker, dies at 30
1960 Arthur Benjamin Australian composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1961 Irene Warfield silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65
1962 Stuart Sutcliffe original Beatles bassist, dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1965 Linda Darnell dies from burns received in a fire at 41
1966 Christian J Modeste Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 Evelyn Waugh British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1970 Charles Paton dies at 96
1974 Patricia Collinge dies at 81
1974 Roger Bastide French sociologist, dies at 76
1975 Marjorie Main actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
1975 Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 Walker Evans US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1979 Henriëtte P "Hetty" Beck actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 Nino Rota Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67
1980 Kay Medford actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1983 Issam Sartawi PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1983 Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin Swedish physiologist, dies at 78
1984 Nate Nelson R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1984 Ray Middleton dies at 75
1986 Joseph P Addabbo US defence specialist/(Senator-D), dies at 61
1988 Cliff Gladwin cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies
1989 Joan Barry dies at 85
1991 Natalie Schafer actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
1991 Kevin Peter Hall actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1992 Sam Kinison loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38
1993 Chris Hani Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1994 James L Lyons jazz promoter, dies at 77
1994 Victor Afanasiev Russia, editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1995 Chen Yun Vice-Premier of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1995 Glyn Jones writer, dies at 90
1995 Gunter Guillaume German politican, dies
1995 Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards singer/actor (Colorado Ranger), dies at 44
1995 Morarji Desai PM of India (1977-79), dies
1996 Jessica Dubroff attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7

On this day...April 10

0837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
0847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0879 Louis III, crowned King of France
1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
1790 US Patent system is established
1790 Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1816 2nd Bank of US chartered
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at León
1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1841 New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh PA
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York NY); sold rights for $100
1863 Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin TN
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of México
1865 At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last
1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1868 British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1868 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to April 22
1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1878 California State Cable Car Railroad Company starts service
1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL
1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins 1st modern Olympic marathon in Athens (2:58:50)
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1913 Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1916 1st professional golf tournament held
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1923 Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"
1925 Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1930 George Headley scores 223 vs England at Kingston
1932 Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany
1934 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1936 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazi's
1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazi's
1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet "Undertow" premieres in NYC
1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st black in modern major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1949 13th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
1953 "House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie is released (New York NY)
1953 7th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1955 19th Golf Masters Championship Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
1955 9th NBA Championship Syracuse Nationals beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
1955 Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer", premieres in London
1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 24th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1961 25th Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 280
1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to President John F Kennedy about New Guinea
1961 New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to Chicago White Sox
1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt 45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th homerun
1962 1st baseball game at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Cincinnati Reds
1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1967 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons", E Taylor & P Scofield win
1968 "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1968 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katharine Hepburn win
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 1st baseball game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phillies beat Montréal Expos 4-1
1971 US table tennis team arrives in People's Rebublic of China
1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1973 BEA Vanguard Turboprop flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes into wooded hillside during landing, killing 107 of 143
1973 Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Texas Rangers
1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 American Boccaccio Association is established
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1974 Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1975 New York Rangers score 8 goals against New York Islanders in playoffs
1976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yankees win 9-7
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1977 41st Golf Masters Championship Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
1977 Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inning game (3:17)
1978 Formation of the Major Indoor Soccer League is announced
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979 J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1981 France performs nuclear test
1982 Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton Oilers in the 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT) - Preliminary - Islanders hold 2-1 lead
1983 Washington Capitals 3-New York Islanders 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Islanders win series 3-2
1983 Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1983 Jordan's King Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 At 80, Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Capitals hold 1-0 lead
1986 "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Herschel Walker performs the Fort Worth Ballet
1988 New York Islanders beat New Jersey Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1988 52nd Golf Masters Championship Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281
1988 8th Golden Raspberry Awards Leonard Part 6 wins
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards Hank Williams Jr, Alabama win
1989 H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they will not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, New York NY)
1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:52.51)
1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at the Hague, Netherlands
1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1993 BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (New York Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1994 "Les Miserables", opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka Japan
1994 58th Golf Masters Championship Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
1995 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 performances
1995 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-11-2006, 06:22 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on April 11:

1370 Frederick I the Warlike elector of Saxony
1586 Pietro Della Valle composer
1602 Johann Neukrantz composer
1638 Diogo Diaz Melgaz composer
1661 Antoine Coypel French painter/poet
1681 Anne Danican Philidor composer
1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret composer
1715 John Alcock composer
1722 Christopher Smart English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1735 Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye composer
1769 Johann Georg Lickl composer
1770 George Canning (C) British PM (1827)
1772 Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1775 Charles-François Dumonchau composer
1779 Louise Reichardt composer
1793 Nicolaas C Kist Dutch church historian/archivist
1794 Edward Everett Dorchester MA, (Governor-MA), statesman/orator
1801 Claude Tillier French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1815 Klara Fey German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1825 Ferdinand Lassalle French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth Colonel (Union Army), died in 1861
1838 Joseph Leopold Rockel composer
1840 John Conrad Nordqvist composer
1854 Hugh Massie cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1856 Arthur Shrewsbury cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent)
1856 Constantly Lievens Flemish missionary in India
1859 Basil Harwood composer
1862 Charles Evans Hughs 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 William W Campbell US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1866 Carla Ford Henry's wife
1867 John P Lotsy Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1879 Leendert Round Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1881 Harvey Bartlett Gaul composer
1883 Leonard Mudie England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1888 Donald Calthrop London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1889 Nick La Rocca US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag)
1893 Dean G Acheson statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 Johannes T Thijsse Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1897 Caspar Neher German set designer/librettist
1898 Lou Holtz comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1899 Percy L Julian chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
19-- Cathie Shirriff Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Ripley's Believe It or Not, Shaping Up)
1901 Glenway Wescott American writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 Theodor Rogalski composer
1902 Quentin Reynolds New York NY, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1904 Arthur Ernest Mourant haematologist
1904 Paul McGrath Chicago IL, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1907 Paul Douglas Philadelphia PA, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1907 William Henry Swinburne music teacher
1908 Karel Ancerl Czechoslovakia, conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1908 Leo Rosten writer/humourist
1908 Masura Ibuka industrialist
1910 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spínola General/President of Portugal
1910 Henry William Collins artist
1911 Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz Poland, sprinter (Olympics-gold-32, won 41 AAU track titles)
1912 John Larkin Oakland CA, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1913 Oleg Cassini Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1915 [Hanlon] Pat Clarke cyclist
1916 Alberto E Ginastera Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 Dan Fortmann NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1916 Howard Koch producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1918 Cameron Mitchell actor (Hombre, How to Marry a Millionaire)
1918 Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber journalist
1918 Richard Wainwright MP
1918 William Perrie British prison governor
1919 Hugh Carey (Governor-Democrat-NY)
1919 Raymond Carr Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1920 Marlen Haushofer writer
1921 Jeff Stollmeyer cricketer (West Indies batsman pre/post-war)
1921 Virginia O'Brien Los Angeles CA, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1921 Viscount Buckmaster
1922 Alexander Raichev composer
1922 Antoine Blondin writer
1925 Johan van Zonderen painter
1925 Oscar De Ville CEO (Meyer International)
1925 Rik Kuijpers Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor)
1926 Gervase de Peyer clarinettist
1926 Robert Hall Lewis composer
1927 Domenico Guaccero composer
1928 Ethel [Skakel] Kennedy Chicago IL, wife of Bobby
1929 Lawrence Coughlin (Representative-Republican-PA, 1969- )
1930 Carl Franklin Richmond CA, actor (Fantastic Journey)
1930 Nicholas F Brady US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1930 Clive Exton scriptwriter & playwright
1930 James Alan Ferman secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1930 Joseph Burnett-Stuart CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1930 Kazuo Fukushima composer
1930 W G [Bill] Hefner (Representative-Democrat-NC, 1975- )
1931 John[ny] Sheffield Pasadena CA, actor (boy in many Tarzan movies)
1932 F Gregory Neubeck USAF pilot
1932 Joel Grey [Joe Katz] Cleveland OH, actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1932 Max Schubel composer
1933 Tony Brown Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1934 Mark Strand American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1934 Dame Anne Poole chief nursing officer (Department of Health)
1934 Richard A Garland artist/photographer
1935 Pierre Kartner [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song)
1935 Richard Berry musician
1936 Janet Allen Headmistress (Benenden School)
1938 Michael Deaver politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1939 Louise Lasser New York NY, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
1941 Frederick "Rick" Hauck Long Beach CA, astronaut (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1941 David Lyle Boren (Senator-Democrat-OK, 1979- )
1942 Anatoli Nikolayevich Berezovoi Enem Adygeya Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1943 E J Dommering Dutch lawyer
1943 Elmer R Wilsoe Island mayor (Curaçao)
1944 John Milius writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1944 R J B Knight deputy director (National Maritime Museum)
1945 Robert Fripp guitarist (King Crimson)
1947 Peter Riegert New York NY, actor (Americathon, Animal House, Crossing Delancey)
1947 Michael Hindley British Member of European Parliament
1947 Michael Wright Vice-Chancello, (Aston University)
1947 Ulrich Edel Neuenburg am Rhein West Germany, film director (The Little Vampire, Body of Evidence)
1948 Ellen Goodman syndicated columnist
1950 Bill Irwin Santa Monica, actor (My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall)
1951 Robbie House rocker (Snuff)
1952 Michael Daly Toronto Ontario Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 British Columbia Winter Tour)
1954 Chris Difford rocker (Squeeze)
1955 Michele Scarabelli Montréal Québec Canada, actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation, Dallas)
1955 Piers J Sellers Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1957 Everton Mattis cricketer (West Indies batsman early 80's)
1958 [William] Stuart Adamson Manchester England, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 John Castellanos San Diego CA, actor (John Silva-Young and Restless)
1958 Sally Clark Feilding New Zealand, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-silver-96)
1961 Lucky Vanous Lincoln NE, model (GQ, Diet Coke)
1962 André Wasiman soccer player (FC Volendam)
1962 Terry Hoage NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 Eddy Moya El Paso TX, actor
1963 Elizabeth Smylie Perth Australia, tennis star (1987 Oklahoma City)
1966 Dave Richards NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Kara McGaw Toronto Ontario Canada, softball rightfielder (Olympics-96)
1966 Lisa Stansfield English pop singer (Around the World)
1966 Mark Higgs NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 Steve Scarsone Anaheim CA, infielder (San Francisco Giants)
1967 Lachlan Dreher Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1967 Mark Seay NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Stefan Johnstown Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1967 Wendel Suckow Marquette MI, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 Eric Moten NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1969 Gavin Briant cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 J Nick Adamson Freeport Bahamas, US laser yachter (Olympics-21st-1996)
1969 Janeth Arcain WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1969 Jesse Campbell NFL safety (New York Giants, Washington Redskins)
1970 Delroy Pearson Romford Essex England, rocker (Five Star-Between the Lines)
1970 Joe Vitiello Cambridge MA, infielder (Kansas City Royals)
1970 Sean Bergman Joliet IL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 Trevor Linden Medicine Hat, NHL right wing (Canucks, New York Islanders)
1972 Avo Avetisyan WLAF defensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Dietrich Jells wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 Kunihiko Sakurai hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 Nicole Levesque WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1972 Ted Johnson linebacker (New England Patriots)
1973 Blake Brockermeyer NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1973 Monica Chala Miss Ecuador-Universe (1996)
1973 Reggie Tongue NFL safety (Kansas City Chiefs)
1974 Alex Corretja Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1990 Orange Bowl boys 16)
1974 Sascha van Wissen Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1975 Terry Cousin NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1978 Victor Sikora soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1984 ? 1st deep freeze baby, in Australia

Deaths which occurred on April 11:

0678 Donus Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 Romanus III Argyrus Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1500 Michael T Marullus Greeks poet, drowns
1512 Gaston de Foix French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1648 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern composer, dies at 53
1729 Manuel de Egues composer, dies at 71
1783 Nikita I Panin Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1810 Jakob Zupan composer, dies at 75
1812 Gottlieb Schick German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1838 Pieter L Uys South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1839 John Galt Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1842 John England bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1853 Louis Emmanuel Eadin composer, dies
1854 Karl Adolph von Basedow German Democratic Republic (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1875 Heinrich Schwabe discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies
1881 Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1887 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky composer, dies at 54
1901 Ivar Christian Hallstrom composer, dies at 74
1902 Hendrik Potgieter South African Boer General, dies in battle
1903 Gemma Galgani Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1906 Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon Russian-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1916 Richard Harding Davis journalist, dies at 52
1918 Arthur Ochse cricketer (WWI played for South Africa in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 Virginia O'Brien Los Angeles CA, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1921 Augusta Victoria Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1936 Mitya Stillman composer, dies at 44
1939 SS Van Dine [William Huntingdon Wright] detective writer, dies at 50
1945 Kamiel van Baelen Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1952 Wadi' Sabra composer, dies at 76
1961 Francis de Bourguignon composer, dies at 70
1969 Ludvig Irgens Jensen composer, dies at 74
1970 Cathy O'Donnell dies at 66
1970 John H O'Hara US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1973 Ted Decorsia actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1974 Curt Conway dies
1975 Dorothy Patten dies at 70
1976 Liam Dunn dies a 59
1977 Jacques Prévert French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77
1980 Charlotte Henry dies
1980 Florence Lake dies
1981 Marie Ney dies at 85
1983 Dolores Del Rio actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 Enver Hoxha party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1987 Erskine Caldwell novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 Kent Taylor actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1988 David Prater US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50
1988 Jeff Donnell actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies of a heart attack at 66
1989 Henk van Galen Last Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1990 Barbara Ann Miller dies
1991 Tom Rosqui dies at 62
1992 Adele Dixon singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 Eve Merriam poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1992 James Brown actor (Rip-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1993 Mohammed el-Himi Brigadier-General of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 Rachmon Nabiyev President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1994 Johan Block Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1996 Daniel Wolf journalist, dies at 80
1996 Edwin Clarke historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1996 Jessica Dubroff hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1996 Louis Osman artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet advertising magnate, dies at 89
1997 Michael Dorris writer, commits suicide at 52

On this day...April 11 Events

0672 Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0678 Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1471 King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
1512 Battle at Ravenna France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
1551 English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes
1564 Liege Prince-Bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
1567 Dutch Prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1579 Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
1580 Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty
1801 Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans", premieres in Leipzig
1814 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1830 Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria
1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1862 Rebels surrender Fort Pulaski GA
1863 Battle of Suffolk VA (Norfleet House)
1865 Battle of Mobile AL - evacuated by Confederates
1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1876 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is organized
1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ontario, 180 die
1881 Spelman College founded
1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system
1898 President William McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1899 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1900 US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
1902 Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
1907 New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1912 Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
1914 George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", premieres
1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
1921 Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
1921 KDKA broadcast the 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1921 Turkestan ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
1924 WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1924 Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1926 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1927 Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
1929 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1933 Hermann Göring becomes premier of Prussia
1936 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes", premieres in NYC
1936 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazi's
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany
1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
1945 US troops conquers Mülheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
1948 12th Golf Masters Championship Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279
1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1951 President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
1953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
1954 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
1955 Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for West Indies uninterrupted
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1956 French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco)
1959 "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
1959 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day homerun
1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman WWII crimes trial
1961 15th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1
1961 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
1962 New York Mets make a losing debut
1963 John XXIII encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty"
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1965 29th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1966 30th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288; Jack Nicklaus is the 1st man to win consecutive Masters
1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
1967 "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances
1967 Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead", premieres
1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968 West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
1968 WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 South African President Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1970 San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
1971 "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
1971 35th Golf Masters Championship Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279
1971 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore MD (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1975 JP Parise 11 second OT goal-Islanders 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1975 Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewers)
1976 40th Golf Masters Championship Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271
1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1981 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
1981 Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-New York Islanders 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
1982 46th Golf Masters Championship Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284
1983 NASA launches RCA-F
1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards Inchon! wins
1983 47th Golf Masters Championship Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280
1983 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win
1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 General Secretary Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1985 Washington Capitals 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT)-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-0 lead
1986 Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 million km
1986 KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
1986 A Canadain 1921 50¢ piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
1987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals
1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
1989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalee, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers
1989 Philadelphia Flyers score short-handed into an empty net beating Capitals 8-5
1990 California Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle Mariners, 1-0
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winners (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1991 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1991 "Miss Saigon", opens at Broadway Theater NYC
1992 Boston Red Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 7-5, in 19 innings
1992 BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
1992 Cleveland Indians set team record for long game lose to Boston Red Sox (19 innings - 6½ hours)
1992 Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris France
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1993 57th Golf Masters Championship Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
1993 Jeff Rouse swims world record 100 meter backstroke (51.43 seconds)
1993 Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as President of Kalmukkie
1996 "King & I", premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 performances
1996 Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
1999 63rd Golf Masters Championship
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-12-2006, 06:31 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 12:

1500 Joachim Camerarius [Liebhard Kammerer] German humanist
1573 Jacques Bonfrère Dutch bible expert
1579 François de Bassompierre marshal of France
1626 Paul Hainlein composer
1692 Giuseppe Tartini composer, Istria
1695 Caspar Burman historian/mayor (Utrecht Netherlands)
1716 Felice de' Giardini composer
1722 Pietro Nardini composer
1724 Lyman Hall US physician (signed Declaration of Independence)
1727 Gaspare Gabellone composer
1760 Juan Manuel Olivares composer
1764 Dirk van den Boetzelaer regent of Holland
1769 Giovanni Agostino Perotti composer
1777 Henry Clay [the Great Compromiser] US politician
1788 Johann Erik Nordblom composer
1791 Francis Preston Blair newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
1792 John George Lambton London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham)
1793 Ferdinand I the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary
1794 Germinal P Dandelin Belgian mathematician (geometry)
1801 Henry de Cock Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader
1801 Josef Franz Karl Lanner Austria, composer/violist
1802 François MP Liberman French relig leader (Congregation of Heart)
1815 Henry Hugo Pierson composer
1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
1827 Edward Mollenhauer composer
1831 Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor
1831 George Burgwyn Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 John Shaw Billings US, librarian/army physician
1839 Victorin de Joncieres composer
1840 Edmond Audran composer
1851 Emil Liebling composer
1852 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann German mathematician
1856 William M Conway English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)
1863 Raul d'Avila Pompeia Brazilian writer (Boarding School)
1869 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer
1871 Ioannis Metaxas Greek General/dictator (1936-41)
1878 Richard B Goldschmidt German/US zoologist
1879 Frederick G Melcher US, publisher/editor/founded children book week
1883 Imogen Cunningham photographer (1965 ASMP award)
1884 Otto Meyerhof Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922)
1885 Robert Délaunay French painter
1889 Pierre-Étienne Flandin French premier (1934-35)/Minister of Foreign affairs
1892 Johnny Dodds early jazz clarinettist
1894 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes Portuguese General/President (1951-58)
1898 Sir Grantley H Adams President of Barbados
1902 Louis J M Beel premier of Netherlands (1946-48, 58-59)
1903 Jan Tinbergen Dutch economist/UN advisor (Nobel 1969)
1904 Harald James Penrose pilot
1905 Inger J Hagerup-Halsír Norwegian poet
1908 Carlos Lleras Restrepo President of Colombia
1908 John T Hughes Bishop to Forces
1908 Virginia Cherrill actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights, Delicious)
1910 Jürgen Rausch German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys)
1911 Darrell A Amyx US archaeologist (Greek Ceramics)
1911 Geoff Chubb cricketer (South Africa pace bowler vs England 1951-52 aged 40)
1912 Georges Franju France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage)
1912 Herbert Mills singer, (Mills Brothers)
1912 Eric Feldary Budapest Hungary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep)
1912 Harold Maguire British air marshal
1913 Gabor Jodal composer
1915 Emil [Theodore] Petaja US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane)
1916 Brian Connell writer/broadcaster
1917 M Marie Widlow St Louis MO, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957)
1917 Vinoo Mankad cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time)
1918 Edward John Stanley 18th Earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1919 Istvan Anhalt composer
1919 Lady Ricketts CEO (National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux)
1919 Maurice Girodias French publisher
1919 Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin hero
1920 Robert Fizdale Chicago IL, pianist (Misia)
1920 H R Hewitt CEO (Johnson Matthey)
1921 A W Mabbs archivist
1923 Ann Miller [Lucille Ann Collier] Houston TX, dancer/actress (On the Town)
1923 Maria Callas opera singer (Carmen)
1923 E C Meade British chartered accountant
1924 Julius Moormann student/resistance fighter (WWII)
1924 Sergiu Natra composer
1925 Johnny Jordan England, cameraman (You Only Live Twice)
1927 Jane Withers Atlanta GA, actress (All Together Now, Josephine the plumber)
1927 Patrick Meehan petty criminal
1928 Brooklyn Supreme Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)
1928 Hardy Kruger Berlin Germany, actor (Barry Lyndon, Wrong is Right)
1928 Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College-Oxford)
1929 Elspet Gray (Lady Rix), actress (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Solo, Tenko)
1930 Betty Clooney Maysville KY, singer (Jack Paar Show)
1930 Bryan Magee writer
1930 Lou A de Graaf Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs (VDA)
1930 Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College, Oxford)
1931 Billy Vaughn Glasgow KY, singer (Chapel by the Sea)
1931 Martin Boykan composer
1932 Tiny Tim [Herbert Butros Khaury] New York NY, singer (Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips With Me)
1932 Henri Lazarof composer
1932 Jack Gelber US, playwright (Connection, Apple)
1933 Montserrat Caballé Barcelona Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme)
1935 Wendy Savage obstetrician/gynaecologist
1936 Charles Napier actor (Night Stalker, Rambo)
1936 Kennedy A Simmonds premier (St Kitts & Nevis, 1983-95)
1937 Igor Petrovich Volk Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12)
1937 Raymond Ceulemans Belgian world champion billiards player
1939 Alan Ayckbourn London, playwright
1940 Herbie Hancock Chicago IL, pianist (I Thought it was You)
1941 Julio B Euson Aruban singer (I Use the Soap)
1942 Frank Bank Hollywood CA, actor (Lumpy-Leave it to Beaver)
1942 Bill Bryden theatre director
1942 Daniel Winslow Schmidt composer
1943 Charles Ludlam New York NY, playwright/actor (Big Easy)
1944 John Kay [Joachim F Krauledat] Tilsit East Prussia Germany, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World)
1944 Karel Kryl folk singer
1945 Hilary Nicolle educationist
1946 Ed[ward] O'Neill Youngstown OH, actor (Michael Mooney-Big Apple, Al Bundy-Married with Children)
1946 Peter L de Baan Dutch actor/director/playwright (Leonce & Lena)
1946 René Krijnen Dutch keyboardist (Les Baroques)
1947 Dan Lauria actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years) (1947 approximately)
1947 David Letterman Indianapolis IN, comedian (Late Night)
1947 Wayne Northrop Sumner WA, actor (Michael-Dynasty)
1948 Raphick Jumadeen cricketer (West Indies slow left-armer of the 70's)
1950 David Cassidy New York NY, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family)
1950 Tom Werner owner (San Diego Padres)/producer (Roseanne, Cosby Show)
1951 Jakson Spires rock drummer/songwriter (Blackfoot)
1952 Alexis Arguello Managua Nicaragua, featherweight boxer (1974 champion)
1952 Fred McCarren Butler PA, actor (Free Country, Amanda's)
1952 J D Nicholas English guitarist (Heatwave, Commodores)
1954 Marvin Johnson US, middleweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1954 Pat Travers Toronto Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights)
1956 Andy Garcia [Andrés Arturo García Menéndez] Havana Cube, actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die)
1956 Alexander Briley vocalist (YMCA-Village People)
1956 Doris Baaten Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien)
1958 Tony James rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1958 Will Sergeant rock guitarist (Echo & Bunnymen-Killing Moon, Heaven Up Here)
1959 Elissa Leeds New York NY, actress (Cissy-Dorothy)
1959 Pascal Barré France, sprint relay team/twin brother of Patrick (Olympics-bronze-1980)
1959 Patrick Barré France, sprint relay team/twin brother of Pascal (Olympics-bronze-1980)
1961 D D Verni heavy metal rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1961 Julius Kariuki Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympics-gold-1988)
1964 Mike Macfarlane Stockton CA, catcher (Kansas City Royals)
1965 Elaine Zayak New Jersey, figure skater (Olympics-6th-1984)
1966 Jeffrey Hunter WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs)
1966 Lorenzo White NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1966 Theo Blanco WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 Bobby Abrams NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1967 Donna Andrews Lynchburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1967 Kirk Everist Houston TX, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1967 Mellow Man Ace [Ulpiano Sergio Reyez] Havana Cuba, Spanish rapper/actor (Only the Strong)
1968 Adam Graves Toronto Ontario Canada, NHL left wing (New York Rangers)
1968 Alicia Coppola actress (Lorna Devon-Another World)
1968 Neal Fort CFL tackle (Montréal Alouettes)
1969 Michael Jackson NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1970 Patrick Brugnoli hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1971 Shannen Doherty Memphis TN, actress (Little House, Bev Hills 90210)
1971 Fernando Meligeni Argentina, tennis star
1971 Kent Manderville Edmonton, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Tyrone Chatman CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1973 Antonio Osuna Sinaloa México, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1973 Claudia Jordan Miss Rhode Island-USA (1997, top 10)
1973 Pamela Polk Berlin WI, Miss Wisconsin-America (1996)
1974 Kabir Khan cricketer (Pakistani slow left-armer 1994- )
1974 Roman Hamrlik Gottwaldov Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Lightning, Olympics-gold-98)
1975 Marcie Alberts WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 Sofie Rahman Miss Hong Kong-Universe (1996)
1978 Eddie Robinson actor (Neil Atwater-Swan's Crossing)
1979 Claire Danes New York NY, actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet)

Deaths which occurred on April 12:

0352 Julius I pope (337-52), dies
1550 Claude of Lorraine duke of Guise, dies at 53
1555 Johanna de Wanzinnige Queen of Castilie (1504-20), dies at 75
1690 Miguel Gomez Camargo composer, dies at 71
1704 John Hudde 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76
1748 William Kent English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies
1760 Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer, dies at 64
1777 Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon French writer (Le sopha), dies at 70
1788 Carl Joseph Toeschi composer, dies at 56
1788 Carlo Antonio Campioni composer, dies at 67
1795 Rainieri de Calzabigi Italian literary, dies at 80
1797 Josef Antonin Stepan composer, dies at 71
1817 Charles Messier "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects", dies
1828 Jean Henri Appelius Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60
1845 Henry M baron the Kock officer/politician, dies at 65
1859 John Emde German evangelist, dies at about 84
1864 Thomas Green US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50
1878 William M "Boss" Tweed New York politician, dies
1896 Alexander Ritter composer, dies at 62
1909 Hermann Kotzchmar composer, dies at 79
1910 William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69
1912 Clara Barton organized American Red Cross, dies at 90
1914 Josef Nesvera composer, dies at 71
1922 Frantisek Ondricek composer, dies at 64
1938 Feodor Chaliapine Russian author (Man & Mark), dies at 65
1938 Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67
1942 Johannes E Akkeringa Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd US President (1933-1945, Democrat), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs GA at 63
1946 August Borms Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67
1946 F Guicciardi writer, dies
1947 Christian F L Leipoldt South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies
1951 Harold Vincent Milligan composer, dies at 62
1954 Pim [Willem JH] Mulier Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89
1956 José Moscardo Ituarte Spanish General (Alcázar 1936), dies at 77
1959 Ernest Willem Mulder composer, dies at 60
1959 James Gleason dies at 76
1961 Nils-Eric Fougstedt composer, dies at 50
1961 Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk] actress, dies at 93
1965 Linda Darnell US actress (Dakota Incident), dies at 43
1966 Sumokil President of Republic South Moluccas, executed
1972 C W Ceram [Kurt Marek] German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57
1972 Henri Potiron composer, dies at 89
1974 Carl Jaffe dies at 72
1975 Joséphine Baker US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergère), dies at 68
1976 Paul Ford actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74
1977 Philip K Wrigley baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
1980 William R Tolbert Jr Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup
1980 Stanley De Silva cricketer (motor bike Sri Lanka '79 World Cup), dies
1981 Hans Chemin-Petit composer, dies at 78
1981 Hendrik F Andriessen Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88
1981 Joe Louis [Brown bomber] US heavyweight champion (1937-49), dies at 66
1984 Ruth Taylor actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76
1987 Ewan Calague economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90
1988 Alan Stewart Paton writer, dies
1989 Abbie Hoffman yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52
1989 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walker Smith Jr] world welterweight champion (1946-51)/5-time middleweight champion, dies of Alzheimers at 67
1990 Henry Kendrick dies
1991 James Schuyler US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
1992 Joe Medwick vocalist, dies at 61
1993 Isaac Rojas Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies
1993 Patience Jarvis dies of melanoma at 56
1994 Harry la Fontaine Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81
1994 Jean Carmet dies at 72
1994 Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
1995 Chris Pyne trombonist, dies at 56
1996 Marthe Robert essayist/translator, dies at 82
1996 Nancy Sheehan writer, dies at 69
1996 William Wilkinson businessman/conservationist, dies at 63
1997 George Wald scientist, dies at 90

On this day...April 12 Events

0352 St Julius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1065 Pilgrims under bishop Günther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor
1204 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople
1229 Queen Blanche of Castilië & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1385 Willem van Oostervant weds Philip the Stout's daughter Margaretha (10)
1545 French king François I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
1583 William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny
1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag
1648 University of Harderwijk Netherlands solemn opens
1654 England, Ireland & Scotland unite
1709 1st edition of Tattler magazine in England
1713 Dutch State-General signs peace with France Netherlands loses Orange Princedom
1770 Townsend Acts repealed
1776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
1782 Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies British fleet beats French
1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment WA
1826 Weber's opera "Oberon", premieres in London
1844 Texas became a US territory
1857 Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published
1858 1st US billiards championship is held in Detroit (Michael J Phelan wins)
1859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates
1861 Fort Sumter SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War
1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw GA
1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski GA
1863 Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche LA
1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow TN
1864 Battle of Blair's Landing LA
1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
1872 Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia KY (1 dead/$1,500)
1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1883 French troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1887 Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm", premieres in Oslo
1892 George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1893 Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
1894 British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
1896 Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy
1905 Hippodrome arena opens (New York NY)
1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1907 Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns
1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea MA
1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
1911 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3 hours 56 minutes)
1917 Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St New York NY (Demolished in 1982)
1917 Domenico Scarlatti & Jean Cocteau's ballet premieres in Rome
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1926 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1927 General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
1928 Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
1930 4th Test Cricket West Indies vs England ends in a draw after nine days
1930 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
1931 Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankee manager
1931 Spanish voters reject the monarchy
1932 Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
1933 Moffatt Field commissioned
1934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington NH, 231 mph
1935 "Your Hit Parade", debuts on radio
1935 Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1935 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
1938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (New York)
1938 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1940 NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
1940 Italy annexes Albania
1941 Stanley Cup Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1941 Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler
1942 9th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280
1942 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1943 Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
1943 Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
1944 Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind", premieres in NYC
1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands
1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd US President
1945 Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis"
1946 Syria gains independence from France
1951 Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
1953 Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston
1953 17th Golf Masters Championship Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274
1953 KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Bill Haley & the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock"
1954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
1954 18th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead beats Ben Hogan to win his 3rd Masters tournament, shooting a 289
1954 8th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
1955 1st game in Kansas City, Kansas City A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2
1955 Salk polio vaccine safe & effective; 4 billion dimes marched
1956 Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon
1957 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 12th NBA Championship St Louis Hawks beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
1959 13th Tony Awards J B & Redhead win
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1960 Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debut the "Exploding Scoreboard"
1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1961 3rd Grammy Awards Theme From a Summer Place wins, Ray Charles wins 4
1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (San Francisco Bay area)
1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
1963 Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
1964 28th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276
1964 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
1965 1st National League game at Houston's Astrodome (Philadelphia Phillies beat Houston Astros 2-0)
1966 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Atlanta Braves 3-2
1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his Corvette into a parked truck
1966 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "The Boxer"
1970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
1973 France recognizes North Vietnam
1973 Sudan adopts constitution
1973 Swaziland suspends constitution
1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
1976 India set 403 to win by West Indies; they get them, 6 wickets 7 overs spare
1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
1980 Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
1980 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games
1980 BCMA (Black Consciousness Movement of Azania) forms
1981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
1981 45th Golf Masters Championship Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1981 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
1983 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy
1987 51st Golf Masters Championship Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285
1987 Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1988 Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of the Baltimore Orioles
1988 New Jersey Devils 4-2 over New York Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round
1988 Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)
1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs CA
1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
1989 3rd Soul Train Music Awards Anita Baker wins
1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgiveness
1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
1990 James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
1991 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
1991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 137 performances
1992 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, New York Knicks 61
1992 Earthquake rocks Germany
1992 Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
1992 Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1
1992 New York Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
1992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
1992 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship Lee Trevino wins
1992 56th Golf Masters Championship; Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275
1992 Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
1998 62nd Golf Masters Championship Mark O’Meara wins
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 06:55 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 13:

1519 Catherine de Médici Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II
1545 Elisabeth van Valois French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II
1593 Thomas Wentworth London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1626 Aert Jansz van Nes Lieutenant-Admiral, baptised
1648 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon French mystic (quiétisme)
1713 Pierre de Jelyotte composer
1729 Thomas Percy English literary/bishop of Dromore
1732 Frederick Lord North (C) British PM (1770-82)
1733 Johann Heinrich Zang composer
1743 Thomas Jefferson Shadwell VA, (D-R) 3rd US President (1801-09)
1749 Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt Dutch count/Vice-Admiral
1756 Louis H J Condé French prince
1762 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 Karl Friedrich Horn composer
1771 Adam FJA van der Duyn Dutch Governorernor (South Holland)
1771 Richard Trevithick Illogan Cornwall England, inventor (steam locomotive)
1784 Cornelis Smit Dutch ship builder
1791 Félix Earl de Merode Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 Heinrich F L Rellstab German music theorist
1799 Joseph Rastrelli composer
1810 Félicien C David French composer (Perle du Brésil, Désert)
1816 William Sterndale Bennett composer
1817 Alphonse Wauters Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1822 William Stephen Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1828 Joseph B Lightfoot English theologist/bishop of Durham
1830 Eduard Lassen composer
1832 James Wimshurst British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1847 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk Governor-General (Netherlands East-Indies)
1849 Enrique José Varona Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1852 Frank W Woolworth 5¢ & 10¢ King (Woolworths)
1854 Richard T Ely US economist (Hard Times)
1860 James Ensor Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1865 Heinrich Reinhardt composer
1867 Sammy Woods cricket bowler (Australia & England Rugby wing-forward)
1868 John Blackwood McEwen composer
1872 A Roda Roda writer
1873 Theodore Morse composer
1881 Ludwig Binswanger Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht)
1883 Alexander Alexandrov composer
1883 Demjan Bednyi writer
1885 György Lukács Hungarian philosopher (Zerstörung der Vernunft)
1885 Pieter S Gerbrandy Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1886 Ethel Leginska composer
1892 Arthur Harris Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 Robert A Watson-Watt England, physicist (radar)
1894 Ludvig Irgens Jensen composer
1895 Olga Rudge violinist
1895 Olof R Jändel Swedish poet
1899 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko composer
1899 Alfred Moser Butts game inventor (Scrabble)
1899 Alfred Schutz Austrian/US architect/philosopher
19-- Jean Carol Hillsdale NJ, actress (Nadine-Guiding Light)
19-- Michael Leon actor (Pete Jannings-Days of Our Life)
19-- Richard Karron New York NY, actor (Fatso, Charlie & Company, Teacher's Only)
19-- Ruben Rabassa Havana Cuba, Spanish personality
1901 René-Jean Pleven French premier (1950-52)
1902 Philippe de Rothschild Paris France, manager (Bordeaux Vineyard)
1902 Godfrey Kenton actor (Well's Theater)
1903 Rex Evans actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 Georges Yves Marie Congar dominican Theologian cardinal
1906 Samuel Beckett Irish playwright (Waiting for Godot/Nobel 1969)
1906 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1907 Harold Stassen West St Paul MN, (Governor-Republican-MN) perennial presidential candidate
1909 Eudora Welty Jackson MS, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973)
1909 Jan Veldkamp Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 Mervyn Hugh Cowie willife conservationist
1911 Nino Sanzogno composer
1912 Roy Winsor Chicago IL, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life)
1913 Bernard Chacksfield Air Vice-Marshal
1913 David Donald Albritton Danville AL, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1936)
1915 Bert [Albert L F] Peleman [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer
1915 R N Coote Bishop (Colchester)
1915 Stephan Hermlin writer
1915 Stephen Roberts CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 Tom Greenshields sculptor
1918 Audrey Barker writer
1919 Howard Keel [Harry Clifford Leek] Gillespie IL, actor/singer (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
1919 Madalyn Murray O'Hair American atheist (opppsed prayer in school)
1920 Liam Cosgrave leader (Fine Gael Party)
1921 Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza industrialist
1921 Carlo Prosperi composer
1921 James Wilson British Lieutenant-General
1921 Maxwell Henley Harris Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 John Braine English novelist (Life at the Top)
1922 John George Vanderbile Henry Spencer-Churchill [11th Duke of Marlborough] English large landowner
1924 Stanley Donen Columbia SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
1925 Frank Chamberlain CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson physicist
1925 Hilda Dianda composer
1926 Don [James Yarmy] Adams New York NY, actor/comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 Godfrey Kenton actor
1927 Mari Blanchard Long Beach CA, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC
1927 Maurice Ronet Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love)
1927 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie conservation scientist
1929 Marilynn Smith Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 Justice Harman
1931 Beverley Cross playwright
1931 Michael Burchill actor
1932 Barney Simon theatre director/writer
1932 Karl Kroeger composer
1933 Shani Wallis Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1933 Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Senator-D-CO)
1934 Horace Kay US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 Siegfried Matthus composer
1935 Erich von Däniken author (Chariots of the Gods)
1935 Lyle Waggoner Kansas City KS, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman)
1935 Kenneth Hayr air marshal
1935 Peter Heap diplomat
1937 Lanford Wilson US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 Edward Fox London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 Peter M Harris Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1938 Frederic Rzewski Westfield MA, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 John Weston diplomat
1939 Paul Sorvino Brookyn NY, stage/screen actor, (Law and Order, Reds, Goodfellas, A Touch of Class, That Championship Season, An American Millionaire, The Mating Dance, Skyscraper, King Lear)
1939 Barbara-Rose Collins (Representative-Democrat-MI)
1939 Seamus Heaney poet
1939 Wijnie Jabaaij Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 Lester Chambers Flora MS, vocalist (Chambers Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1941 Margaret Price Tredegar Wales, soprano (Pamlina-Die Zauberflöte)
1942 Bill Conti Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1943 Bill Koch US skier
1943 Eve Graham rocker (New Seekers)
1944 Brian Pendleton Wolverhampton West Midlands England, rocker (The Pretty Things)
1944 Charles Burnett director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 Jack Casady Washington DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1944 Michael Saunders barrister
1945 Lowell George rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero)
1945 Tony Dow Hollywood CA, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1945 Carlos Gimenez Argentina/Venezuela, founder (Theater festival of Caracas)
1945 Edward J Caruthers Jr Troy AL, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1968)
1945 Raymond van Geytenbeek Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 Stacy Johnson US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1946 Al Green Forest City AR, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1946 Jim Pons rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1946 Roy Loney rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1948 Amy Robinson Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 Kathleen Battle US soprano (Tannhäuser)
1948 Peter Swevel rocker
1949 Philippe Petit Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1949 Jean-Jacques Favier Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1950 Terry Lester Indianapolis IN, actor (Royce Keller-As The World Turns, Mason Capwell-Santa Barbara, Jack Abbott-Young & Restless)
1950 Riff West rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 Ron Perlman Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast)
1951 Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba Austria, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 Jack Quinn (Representative-Republican-NY)
1951 Max Weinberg rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 Peabo Bryson Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I'm So into You)
1951 Peter Davison actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1952 Jonjo O'Neill racehorse trainer
1953 Stephen Byers MP
1954 Barbara Roche MP
1954 Jimmy Destri rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture)
1955 Kabaka of Buganda
1955 Louis Johnson Los Angeles CA, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
1956 Michael Nikolay German Democratic Republic, gymnast (Olympics)
1957 Saundra Santiago Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 Wayne Lewis keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 Gary Kroeger Cedar Falls IA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Return of Shaggy Dog)
1958 Randy Piper heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (August 1978)
1961 Tammy Stephens Arlington TX, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1963 Gary Kimovich Kasparov USSR, world chess champion (1985- )
1963 Jan Willem van Ede Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 Mark Leiter Joliet IL, pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
1964 Bill D'Angelo heavy metal rocker
1964 Page Hannah Chicago IL, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1964 Davis Milton Love III Charlotte NC, PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 Doug Strange Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 Jose Rijo pitcher (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds)
1965 Quinn Early NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1966 Rodney Smith Washington DC, 149½ lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-92, 96)
1967 Dana Barros NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1968 Tami Lyn Jameson Minneapolis MN, team handball goalie/twin sister of Toni (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Ted Washington NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Toni Lee Jameson Minneapolis MN, team handball back court/twin sister of Tami (Olympics-96)
1969 Harold Pruett rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 Rick Schroder Staten Island NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
1970 Eddie Robinson NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Monty Brown NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Ramona Reuter Miss New York-USA (1997)
1971 Corey Yothers Los Angeles CA, actor (Off the Rock)
1971 Charles Outlaw NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1972 Dave Wohlabaugh NFL center/guard (New England Patriots)
1972 Jeroen Thesseling pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 Mariusz Czerkawski Radomsko Pol, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Mike Kennedy Vancouver British Columbia Canada, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 Aaron Hayden NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Dave Wohlabaugh corner (New England Patriots)
1974 Sergei Gonchar Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Capitals, Olympics-silver-1998)
1976 Everton Matambanadzo Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (vs Pakistan 1996)
1976 Jonathan Brandis Danbury CT, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV, Never Ending Story II)
1978 Grace Murray Tubbs Miss Montana Teen-USA (1996)
1979 Monica Ivey Miss Hawaii Teen-USA (1996)
1991 Dylan Frances Penn Los Angeles CA, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright
1992 Jet Travolta daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston

Deaths which occurred on April 13:

0799 Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi Longobardisch writer, dies
1475 Matteo Palmieri Italian writer (Città di Vita), dies at 69
1517 Tuman Bey last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1638 Henri II duke of Rohan-Gié, French hugenot leader, dies at 58
1695 Jean de La Fontaine poet, dies
1722 Charles Leslie Irish controversialist, dies
1728 Johann Christoph Schmidt composer, dies at 63
1742 Giovanni Veneziano composer, dies at 59
1756 Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1794 Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright, commits suicide at 53
1806 Jean-Jacques Bachelier French painter, dies at about 82
1822 Gaetano Valeri composer, dies at 61
1825 Josef Gelinek composer, dies at 66
1826 Franz Danzi composer, dies at 62
1831 Ferdinand Kauer composer, dies at 80
1864 Johann Schneider composer, dies at 74
1868 Theodorus [Kasa] emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1873 Carlo Coccia composer, dies at 90
1886 Karoly Thern composer, dies at 68
1903 Derk J A Haspels Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1910 William Orchardson British painter, dies
1928 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre composer, dies at 36
1932 Johannes T de Visser 1st Dutch minister of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
1936 Demertzis Greek premier, dies
1941 Annie Jump Cannon US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
1942 Henk Sneevliet leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 Cecile Chaminade composer, dies at 86
1944 Paul Hazard French literature historian, dies at 65
1946 William Henry Bell composer, dies at 72
1949 C V France dies at 80
1952 [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1959 Eduard A van Beinum Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout Giant of Rotterdam (2.375 meters tall), dies at 38
1967 Luis Somoza Debayle President of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1973 Alexandre A M Stols publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1974 Stanley Smith actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1975 Larry Parks actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 N'garta Tombalbaye President Chad, dies
1978 Paul McGrath actor (The Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1984 Christopher Wilder FBI's "most wanted man", accidentally kills self
1986 Stephen Stucker actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 Luis Trenker dies at 97
1990 Ronald Ibbs dies
1992 Brian Oulton dies at 84
1992 Wallace Stegner novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 Walter Stuart Surridge cricketeer (Captain of Surrey), dies at 74
1993 Barry Karas dies of leukemia at 49
1993 Henny Budie Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 Max Tripels Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 Donald Benjamin Harden archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 Nikolai Afanassyevich Kryuchkov actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 P J Engels Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 Robert O van Gennep Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandèl), dies at 56
1994 Rudolf Hrusinsky Czechoslovakia, actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994 Taleb Ali al-Suheil Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 Edward Firth Henderson arabist, dies at 77
1995 Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott script writer, dies at 87
1996 Denis Sargan econometrician, dies at 71
1996 George Mackey Brown poet, dies at 74
1996 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke criminal, dies at 64
1997 Ann Craft researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 George Wald scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80

On this day...April 13 Events

0837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
0989 Battle at Abydos Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstätt named Pope Victor II
1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
1180 Republic day of Gelnhausen
1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1241 Battle at Theiss Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1367 Battle at Nájera Spain Castilië & England beat Aragón & France
1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1640 English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
1742 George Frideric Händel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin)
1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
1796 1st elephant arrives in US from Bengal India
1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy Napoleon beats Austrians
1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects the tap dance
1829 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento CA
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1863 Battle of Irish Bend LA (Fort Bisland)
1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 Battle of Raleigh NC
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC
1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish LA (60 blacks killed)
1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
1902 JC Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer WY
1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa Herero's chase away German army
1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
1911 Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1914 1st Federal League Game Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1919 Amritsar Massacre - British Army fires on hundreds of Indian Nationalist rioters in India
1920 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1923 Army wins the 1st college three-weapon fencing championship
1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic
1925 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St New York NY
1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
1926 Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
1927 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hünefeld-Köhl)
1932 Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1933 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1934 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1936 Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
1938 Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life", premieres in NYC
1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands", premieres in NYC
1940 Cornelious Warmerdam becomes the 1st man to pole vault 15 feet, Berkeley CA
1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1940 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes
1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
1944 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Netherlands from Nazi's
1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champion Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham AL
1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
1949 Minneapolis beats Washington, 4 games to 2, for the NBA championship
1949 3rd NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Washington Capitals, 4 games to 2
1953 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0
1954 Baltimore Orioles 1st game, lose to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
1954 Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis AL (state record)
1956 KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is temporarily halted
1957 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1957 11th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1957 11th Tony Awards Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
1958 12th Tony Awards Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
1962 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new National League record
1962 US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1963 Pittsburgh Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1964 Sidney Poitier becomes 1st black man to win Oscar for best actor
1964 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones", Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal win
1964 Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 Beatles record "Help"
1965 Lawrence Bradford Jr (age 16), of NYC became 1st black congressional page
1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits
1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship George Archer wins, shooting a 281
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
1970 34th Golf Masters Championship Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
1970 Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis is freed
1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener; Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
1975 39th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar
1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1976 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Washington
1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1978 New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day; Jackson slugs a 3-run homerun in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1980 "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
1980 "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
1980 44th Golf Masters Championship Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1980 "TASS" denounced US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics
1981 Washington Post's Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize for "Jimmy's World" (later admits story was a hoax and returns prize)
1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Islanders win series (3-2)
1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st National League to get get 4,000 hits in a career
1984 India beats Pakistan by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-1 lead
1985 Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1986 50th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1987 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit homeruns off San Francisco starter Roger Mason
1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
1988 Italy government of De Mita forms
1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 performances
1990 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
1990 Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
1991 BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
1992 "Two Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 performances
1992 American Airlines reduces its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
1992 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
1992 Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1993 Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia", premieres in London
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1995 Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
1996 En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
1996 Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup champions New Jersey Devils from playoff
1997 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city - San Francisco Giants vs New York Mets & Oakland A's vs New York Yankees in New York
1997 "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
1997 48th time opposing pitchers hit homeruns, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
1997 61st Golf Masters Championship Tiger Woods at 21 (270-18 under par)
1997 Hartford Whalers last NHL game
1997 NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:00 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 14:

1578 Philip III king of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
1592 Abraham Elsevier book publisher/publisher
1629 Christiaan Huygens Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1676 Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer
1710 Marie A C de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer
1718 Emanuele Barbella composer
1721 William August [Duke of Cumberland] English army leader
1723 John Wainwright composer
1738 Duck of Portland (C) British PM (1783, 1807-09)
1762 Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist
1770 George Canning London, British PM (1827)
1782 Carlo Coccia composer
1797 Adolphe Thiers 1st President of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1803 Friedrich von Amerling Austrian painter
1809 George W Vreede Dutch lawyer/politician
1813 Junius S Morgan US, merchant/philanthropist (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1819 Charles Halle pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orchestra)
1820 Harry Thompson Hays Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1831 Gerhard Rohlfs German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
1832 James Hewett Ledlie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1842 Sven August Korling composer
1843 Gustave Leon Huberti composer
1852 Henrique Oswald composer
1857 Edgar Stillman Kelley Sparta WI, composer (Gulliver)
1862 Pyotr A Stolypin premier Russia (1906-11)
1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan US, educated Helen Keller
1870 Syd Gregory cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912)
1873 Viktor Joseph Keldorfer composer
1874 Count Alexander of Athlone, Governor-General (South-Africa/Canada)
1876 Murray Bisset cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910)
1877 Daniël Plooy Dutch new testament scholar
1879 James Branch Cabell American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1881 Anton Wildgans Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
1886 Edward C Tolman US psychologist (behaviorism)
1886 Ernst R Curtius German literature historian
1889 Arnold Toynbee England, historian (A Study of History)
1889 Efim D Bogoljubov Russian chess player
1889 James Stephenson actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
1892 Giorgio Cesana Italy, coxswain, (Olympics-gold-1906)
1892 Vere G Childe British archaeologist/prehistorian
1895 Mary Marquet St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
1895 Wiktor Labunski composer
1897 Barbara Baroness Wootton of Abinger English Lower house leader
1898 Lee Tracy Atlanta GA, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)
19-- John Diaquinto Brooklyn NY, actor (Varges-Wild Side)
1900 Salvatore Baccaloni Rome, actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby)
1901 Alfred West champion cyclist/record hair splitter (17 splits)
1901 Martin Kessel writer
1902 Menachem A Schneerson rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1904 Sir John Gielgud London England, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
1904 Lionel Birkett cricketer (West Indies vice-captain on Australian tour 1930-31)
1904 Reinout W van Bemmelen Dutch geologist
1904 Sonia Gaskell Russian/Netherlands choreographer
1905 Frits Philips Dutch engineer/CEO (Philips)
1905 Holmesdale Charles "Slinger" Nitschke cricket batsman (South Australia & Test)
1906 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75)
1906 Hunter Johnson composer
1907 François "Doc" Duvalier dictator of Haiti
1907 Otto F A H van Nispen Dutch mayor (Pannerden)/MP (KVP)
1907 Phyllis Konstam London England, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
1910 Werner Wolf Glaser composer
1912 Belinda Quirey dance historian/teacher
1912 Piet van Egmond Dutch organist/conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra)
1912 Robert Doisneau photographer
1913 John Howard Cleveland OH, actor (Dave-My Three Sons)
1913 Everhard van Royen Dutch flautist/founder (Alma musica)
1913 Jean Fournet French conductor
1916 Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari cricketer (India 1947-48)
1916 Denis ApIvor composer
1916 Emerson Buckley composer
1917 Valerie Hobson North Ireland, actress (Great Expectations)
1918 Mary Healy New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married his Wife)
1920 Eduardo Maturana composer
1920 John Paul Stevens Supreme Court Justice
1922 David Alexandrovich Toradze composer
1922 Maria Luisa Bemberg film maker
1923 William Darling journalist
1924 Shorty Rogers [Milton M Rajonsky] composer
1925 Abel Muzorewa bishop/premier (Rhodesia)
1925 Bill Harris US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin')
1925 H G Kischenchand cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52)
1925 Rod Steiger West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker, Chosen)
1926 Jan Carl Christian Maegaard composer
1927 Gloria Jean Buffalo NY, actress (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break)
1927 Dany Robin actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta)
1928 Robert Mugabe President (Zimbabwe, 1988- )
1929 William Edgar Thornton Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
1930 Bradford Dillman San Francisco CA, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
1930 Jay Robinson New York NY, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1930 George W Gekas (Representative-Republican-PA, 1983- )
1933 Buddy Knox Happy TX, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey)
1933 Morton Subotnick Los Angeles CA, composer (Wild Bull)
1934 Bruce Pairaudeau cricketer (West Indies opening bat in 13 Tests, 115 on debut)
1935 Joan Darling Boston MA, actress (Frieda-Owen Marshall)
1935 Loretta Lynn Butcher's Hollow KY, country singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1936 Robert Herman Nichols Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1986 Showdown)
1938 Gloria Dean Randle Scott educator/president (Beaumont College)
1939 Jennifer Fowler composer
1940 Patricia Bruder Brooklyn NY, actress (Ellen-As the World Turns)
1940 George Takei actor (Hikaru Sulu-Star Trek)
1941 Julie Christie Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
1941 Pete Rose Cincinnati OH, baseball player/manager (Cincinnati Reds, Charlie hustle, most hits in majors)
1941 Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov cosmonaut
1941 Ryan O'Neal actor (Love Story, Paper Moon)
1942 Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
1943 Clarice Elaine Gaylord director of research grants (EPA)
1943 Yvonne Vriens-Auerbach Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 Ritchie Blackmore England, guitarist (Rainbow-Stone Cold, Deep Purple)
1945 Uwe Beyer German Democratic Republic, shot-putter (Olympics-gold-1976)
1945 Derek Leckenby rocker/actor (Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter)
1945 Steve Martin Waco TX, writer/actor (Jerk, Housesitter)
1946 Patrick Fairley guitarist (Marmalade-Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da)
1946 Tom Monteleone American writer (Dark Star & Illumination)
1947 Bob Massie cricketer (Australian swing bowler, 16 wickets on debut vs England 1972)
1948 Chester G Atkins (Representative-Democrat-MA)
1948 John Shea North Conway NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark)
1948 Larry Ferguson Nassau Bahamas, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 Ty Grimes rocker (Captain Beefheart Band Drums
1950 Randolph Powell Iowa City IA, actor (Alan-Dallas, Logan's Run)
1950 Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes actress (Blindgangers)
1951 Matima Kinuani Mpiosso musician
1952 Kenny Aaronson rocker
1953 Irina Rudolfovna Pronina Russian cosmonaut
1954 Bruce Sterling US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)
1955 Simone Griffeth Savannah GA, actress (Death Race 2000, Bret Maverick, Amanda's)
1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Prince of Monaco
1958 Michael Patrick Hulbert Elmira NY, PGA golfer (1989 British Columbia Open)
1960 Brian Forster rocker (Partridge Family Drums)
1960 Pat Symcox cricketer (South African off-spinner 1993- )
1961 John Clarke South Bend IN, actor (Michael-Days of Our Lives)
1962 James Carpenter Canton CT, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1963 Cynthia Cooper WNBA guard (Houston Comets/Olympics-gold-1988)
1963 Meg Mallon Natick MA, LPGA golfer (1991 US Women's Open)
1964 Allen James Sacramento CA, 50K walker (Olympics-24th-92, 96)
1964 Greg Battle CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1964 Jim Grabb Tucson AZ, tennis star
1965 Craig McDermott cricket pace bowler (tireless Australian since 1984)
1965 Stan Humphries NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1966 David Justice baseball player (Atlanta Braves)/husband of Halle Barry
1966 Greg Maddux San Angelo TX, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1966 Greg Myers Riverside CA, catcher (Minnesota Twins)
1966 Ricky Andrews WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1967 Marla Wynne Easton PA, Miss Pennsylvania-America (1991) (top 10)
1967 Barret Martin rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 Jeff Finley Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Steve Chiasson Barrie, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1968 Anthony Michael Hall Boston MA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Breakfast Club)
1968 Andrew Trim Sydney New South Wales Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1968 Jesse Levis Philadephia PA, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Brad Ausmus New Haven CT, catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 Brad Pennington Salem IN, pitcher (California Angels)
1969 David Archibald Chilliwack, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1969 Mark Macon NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1969 Tim Roberts NFL defensive end (New England Patriots)
1970 Brian Stablein NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Jan Siemerink Netherlands, tennis star
1970 Steve Avery Trenton MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 Antonio London NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1971 Gregory Zaun Glendale CA, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 Jason Mallett CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Zev Lumelski WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1974 Mike Allen Lambert Honolulu HI, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
1975 Petra Begerow Germany, tennis star (1996 quarter Hilton Head)
1976 Baedon Choppy Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Jason Wiemer Kimberley, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy)

Deaths which occurred on April 14:

0711 Childebert III king of French, dies at about 27
0911 Sergius III Italian Pope (904-11), dies
1099 Conrad bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death
1240 Llywelyn ap Iorwerth Prince of Wales, dies
1427 John IV duke of Brabant, dies
1433 Liduina van Schiedam Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53
1471 Richard Neville Warwick 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42
1552 Laurentius Andreae [Lars Andersson] Swedish church reformer, dies
1574 Christoffel Palts German General strategist, dies in battle
1574 Hendrik count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle
1574 Louis earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35
1655 Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer, dies at 39
1692 Carlos de Gurrea Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
1695 Jean de la Fontaine French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1759 Georg Frideric Händel organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1764 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer, dies at 84
1768 François de Cuvilliés Belgian architect of Bayern, dies
1813 Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer, dies at 34
1843 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1874 Hermanus J Abbring Dutch author/engineer on Curaçao, dies at 86
1888 William Fisk Sherwin composer, dies at 62
1913 Karl Hagenbeck German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68
1914 Paul Ehrenreich German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58
1915 James Hutton Brew "Pioneer of West African Journalism", dies
1917 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
1924 Louis H Sullivan architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67
1924 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65
1925 Pieter D van Essen Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54
1930 W Majakowski writer, dies at 36
1934 Gerald du Maurier British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
1934 Karl Dane dies at 57
1941 Jack Edmonson Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
1943 Asser B Kleerekoper SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
1943 Geoffrey Turton Shaw composer, dies at 63
1948 Gerhard Anschütz German professor, dies at 81
1948 Walter P Reuther President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1949 Joseph A Cushman US paleontologist, dies at 68
1953 Emmanuel K de Bom Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
1960 Archibald McIndoe plastic surgeon, dies
1964 Earle Hodgins actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
1964 Bert McGirr cricketer (2 Tests for New Zealand, 51 runs), dies
1964 Rachel L Carson US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56
1965 Leonard Mudie dies of heart ailment at 82
1965 Perry E Smith US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1965 Robert E Hickok US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1971 Armand Spitz developer of small educational planetarium, dies
1973 Magda Janssens Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
1973 Minna Gombell dies in Santa Monica CA
1975 Fredric March actor, (Inherit the Wind, The Iceman Cometh, Death of a Salesman), dies from cancer at 77
1976 Maude Prickett actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60
1976 Gerard Romsée Flemish nationalist, dies at 74
1977 Riekus Waskowsky Dutch poet, dies at 44
1980 Tom Fadden actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
1983 Nina Dumbadze Russian discus thrower (Olympics-bronze-1952), dies at 64
1983 Pete Farndon rock bassist (Pretenders), dies
1983 Willem F Bon Dutch composer, dies at 42
1985 Reginald Beane pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1985 Enver Hoxha Albanian leader (1944-85), dies
1986 Jean Genêt French, playwright (Lesson Nègres), dies at 75
1986 Simone de Beauvoir French author (Deuxième Sexe), dies at 86
1987 Karl Holler composer, dies at 79
1988 Herbert Reynolds Inch composer, dies at 83
1988 Johan Franco composer, dies at 79
1989 Lance Pierre cricketer (Test West Indies vs England 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies
1990 Martin Kessel writer, dies on 89th birthday
1990 Peter Dunn actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
1992 David Miller dies of cancer at 82
1992 Sammy Price US boogie-woogie pianist, dies
1993 Jo Boer Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85
1993 Sam Ntombani ANC-Secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1994 Harry Touw Dutch comic (Fred Haché Show), dies at 70
1994 Selometsi Baholo vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
1995 Brian Coffey poet, dies at 89
1995 Burl Ives folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
1995 Donald Keech entrepreneur, dies at 74
1995 James Daniel "Danny" Turner saxophonist, dies at 75
1995 Michael Scott Montague Fordham jungian analyst educator, dies at 89
1996 Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi politician, dies at 91
1996 Gaylord Birch drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
1996 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill record producer, dies at 80
1996 Mervyn Levy artist/critic, dies at 81
1996 William K Everson film historian, dies at 67

On this day...April 14 Events

0193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
0754 Pact of Quierzy between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
0972 Notger becomes bishop of Liege
0979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1471 Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1536 English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
1544 Battle at Carignano French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1614 Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe
1629 England & France sign Peace of Susa
1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1756 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia Indians
1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia PA
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1814 Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba
1818 US Medical Corp forms
1828 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1836 Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue", published
1847 Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1853 Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco CA from St Joseph MO
1861 Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter
1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 Battle of Fort Pillow TN
1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 Mobile AL is captured
1865 President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
1868 South Carolina voters approve constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé", premieres in Paris France
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington DC)
1894 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1896 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan", premieres (NYC)
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley is established
1900 President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris France
1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (New York NY)
1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida", premieres in London
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 President William Howard Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1912 The Titanic, launched on 31 May 1911, on route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30pm, and sinks early the next morning (1500+ death toll)
1912 Pan American Union forms
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1917 Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1920 Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1921 NHL Championship Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games
1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1925 1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN)
1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco & Los Angeles
1928 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Montréal Maroons, 3 games to 2
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe", premieres in NYC
1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1931 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2
1932 Bizet, Massine & Miró's "Jeux d'Enfants", premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1940 RCA demonstrates its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 1st massive German raid in Paris France, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 Generals Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World", premieres in NYC
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikine" explodes in Bombay India, killing 960+
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 American B-29 incendiary raids on Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
1945 Arnhem/Zwolle freed from Nazis
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 performances
1946 Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final homerun
1948 A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon
1948 NYC subway fares jump from 5¢ to 10¢
1948 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
1950 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1953 WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke MA (ABC) begins
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for political asylum in Canberra
1955 Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1955 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat Montréal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1955 WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1956 "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington DC
1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
1961 1st live television broadcast from the Soviet Union
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 Georges Pompidou becomes President of France
1963 George Harrison is impressed by the unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1964 Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes President of Togo
1967 In the Vietnam War, US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time
1967 Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch
1968 Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1968 1st NBA game at Madison Square Garden, Knicks beat San Diego Clippers
1968 32nd Golf Masters Championship Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277
1968 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open
1969 1st major league baseball game outside US played in Montréal Québec Canada
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1969 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn/Barbra Streisand win
1969 KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site
1971 President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies", premieres in NYC
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1974 38th Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
1977 Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas TX changes call letters to KAAM
1978 David Hare's "Plenty", premieres in London
1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1979 Susan Horvath, of Pennsylvania, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1983 New York Islanders tie own record with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a period vs New York Rangers
1983 North Carolina State beats Houston for NCAA basketball title
1983 New York Rangers 1-New York Islanders 4-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1984 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Netherlands
1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 6-Patrick Division Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 49th Golf Masters Championship Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1985 Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards George Strait, Alabama, Reba McEntire
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1988 New Jersey Devils 6-5 over New York Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1988 "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghánistán sign Afghánistán treaty
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 performances
1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 55th Golf Masters Championship Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
1991 Chicago Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minnesota North Stars)
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 UN-imposed embargo against Libya takes effect
1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC on Broadway for 1143 performances
1992 "Les Miserables", opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1993 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1994 Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announce plans to divorce
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 New Jersey Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1995 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship
1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 60th Golf Masters Championship Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276
1996 Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games
2002 66th Golf Masters Championship
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:07 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 15:

1452 Leonardo da Vinci Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 Nanak 1st guru of Sikhs
1588 Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumaise] French linguist
1637 Valentin Molitor composer
1651 Domenico Gabrielli composer
1682 John van Huysum Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 Catherine I empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 Johann Friedrich Fasch composer
1689 Ferdinand Zellbell composer
1707 Leonhard Euler Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1741 Charles Willson Peale US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 George Knowil Jackson composer
1766 Friedrich Bouterwek German philosopher/critic
1793 Friedrich Struve Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1800 Sir James Clark Ross explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 Hermann Günther Grassmann mathematician
1812 Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau painter
1814 John Lothrop Motley US, historian/author (Rise of the Dutch Republic)
1820 Evander McNair Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 Emerson Brown Joseph (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 Julius Tausch composer
1829 Mary Harris Thompson 1st American woman surgeon
1837 Horace Porter Brevet Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
1843 Carl Eilhardt composer
1843 Henry James New York NY, US/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians)
1845 Dave Gregory cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captainain)
1850 John Munroe Longyear US, capitalist/bank president
1856 Jean Moréas [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet
1858 Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 Emile Durkheim French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1874 Johannes Stark Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1878 Robert Walser writer
1882 Giovanni Amendola Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1888 Florence Bates San Antonio TX, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1889 Asa Philip Randolph labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 Thomas Hart Benton Neosho MO, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 Alvin P[leasant Delaney] Carter Maces Springs VA, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 Vaino Raitio composer
1891 Wallace Reid St Louis MO, actor/director/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1894 Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1895 Corrado Alvaro Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 Harry F V Edward British Guiana, 100 meter/200 meter runner (Olympics-bronze-1920)
1897 Marian Jordan actress (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 Nini de Boël Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
19-- Art Ford New York NY, DJ (Art Ford Show)
19-- Derrel Maury Los Angeles CA, actor (Mario-Joanie Loves Chachi, Apple Pie)
19-- Rod McCary St Cloud MN, actor (Bobby-Harper Valley PTA)
1901 Joe Davis English snooker/billiards-world champion (1927-46)
1903 John Williams England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1903 Erich Arendt German writer
1906 A J "Sandy" Bell South Africa cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 Susan Walker vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 Gerald Abrahams Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 Nicholas Tinbergen Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 Eden Ahbez songwriter
1908 Louise Chaplin actress
1910 Lord Grey of Naunton chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 Jacob Fresco Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 Kim II Sung President of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 Peter Menzies CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 John Gregory dancer
1915 Ernest Borneman sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1917 Hans Conried Baltimore MD, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 Pietro Grossi composer
1918 John Baragrey Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of New York)
1919 Clive Beadon airman
1919 Elizabeth Catelett sculptor/lithographer
1919 Meriol Trevor novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 Richard von Weizsäcker baron/President (Germany, 1984-94)
1921 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 Norman Ewart Thurston musician
1922 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 Michael Ansara Lowell MA, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 Douglas Wass CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 Neville Marriner Lincoln England, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra 1978)
1924 John Grigg British historian
1927 Abha Gandhi servant to Gandhi
1928 Norma Merrick Sklarek 1st black woman architect in New York & California
1928 Richard Evans British diplomat
1929 Adrian Cadbury candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 Jocelyn Barrow deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 Vigdis Finnbogadóttir President of Iceland (1980- )
1930 Elijah Barayi head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1931 Florian Zabach Chicago IL, violinist (Hot Canary, Club Embassy)
1931 Kenneth Bloomfield BBC governor (Ireland)
1931 Tomas G Tranströmer Swedish psychologist/poet (Mörkerseende)
1932 David Bolton director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin Russian cosmonaut
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery Los Angeles CA, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)
1933 Roy Clark Meherrin VA, country singer (Hee Haw)
1933 Boris Strugatski USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1935 Gene Cherico bassist
1936 Hector Quintanar composer
1936 Jack Noreiga cricketer (9-95 West Indies vs India 1971)
1936 Maurice Shock rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1937 Earl Russell historian
1938 Carles Marsden professor (neurology)
1939 Claudia Cardinale Tunis, actress (Blindfold, 8½, Pink Panther)
1939 Marti Wilder father of rocker Kim Wilde
1940 Edy Hubacher Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympics-gold-1972)
1940 Jeffrey Archer England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
1940 Phil Lesh Berkeley CA, bassist (Grateful Dead-Truckin')
1940 Robert Walker Jr New York NY, actor (Ceremony, Don Juan 73, Ensign Pulver)
1941 Howard L Berman (Representative-Democrat-CA, 1983- )
1942 Julie Sommars Fremont NE, actress (Governor & JJ, Herbie Goes to MC)
1942 Kim Il Jong son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung (1972-94)
1942 Walter Raphael Hazzard Wilmington DE, basketball (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Riem de Wolff Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 Dave Edmunds Cardiff Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1944 Dzhokhar Dudayev separatist leader
1944 Gerard Schoenaker Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 Jos F B van Rey Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 Wayne Gilchrest (Representative-Republican-MD)
1947 Michael DeBello singer (Maniac)
1947 Wooly Wolstenholme keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1947 Bojoura [Raina GB van Melzen] Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 DeDe Lind Los Angeles CA, playmate (August 1967)
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
1947 Mike Chapman Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1950 Amy Wright Chicago IL, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)
1951 Hansel Cuba, Spanish personality
1951 Marsha S Ivins Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1951 Heloise II columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 John L Phillips Fort Belvoir VA, PhD/astronaut
1952 Sam McMurray actor (Tracey Ullman)
1954 Emmanuel México City México, Spanish singer
1955 Barbara Barrow LPGA golfer
1955 Enith Salle Brigitha Netherlands, 100 meter/200 meter swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1976)
1956 Michael Cooper NBA star (Los Angeles Lakers)
1956 Gregory J Harbaugh Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1957 Evelyn Ashford Shreveport LA, 100 meter runner (Olympics-4 gold-1976, 84)
1958 John Bracewell New Zealand cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 Matt Reid rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1959 Emma Thompson Paddington London England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
1959 Kevin Lowe Lachute, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers)
1960 Marvin Clyde Goodwin New Orleans LA, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 Philip Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola
1961 Lynne Austin Plant City FL, playmate (July 1986)
1961 Tiina Lillak Finland, javelin thrower (Olympics-silver-1984)
1963 Manoj Prabhakar cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 Teresa Wentzel DeWitt Fort Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1964 Lydie Denier St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital, Blood Relation)
1964 Nadeem Abbasi cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan vs India 1989)
1965 Anthony Miller NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 Kevin Stevens Brockton, NHL left wing (Los Angeles Kings)
1965 Mark Dennis NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 Michele Redman Zanesville OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd)
1965 Soichi Noguchi Yokohama Japan, astronaut
1966 Andrei Olhovskiy Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1966 Graeme Clark bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 Samantha [Karen] Fox East End London England, singer (Touch Me, I Wanna Have Some Fun)
1967 Dara Torres Beverly Hills CA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympics-gold-84)
1967 Lance Zeno NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 Mark Mortimer actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 Suzy Green Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th)
1968 Billy Brewer Fort Worth TX, pitcher (New York Yankees)
1968 Stacey Williams Philadelphia PA, model (SI Swimsuit 1996)
1969 Chris Smith Indianapolis IN, Nike golfer (1993 British Columbia Open-8th)
1969 Jeromy Burnitz Westminster CA, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1969 Michael Jones NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 Phillippi Sparks NFL cornerback (New York Giants)
1970 Darrin Smith NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Craig Whelihan NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Derek Brown NFL running back (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Guivi Sissaouri Tbilisi Georgia, Canada freestyle wrestler (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 Jason Sehorn NFL cornerback/safety (New York Giants)
1971 Rich McKenzie NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Tim Tindale NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Peter Billingsley New York NY, actor (Real People)
1972 Melvin Johnson NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Ricky Otero Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 Ronald Cherry NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Vickie Johnson WNBA guard/forward (New York Liberty)
1973 Jeremy Burkett NFL/WLAF tight end (New York Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 Marena Bencomo Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 Mike Quinn quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Sergei Krivokrasov Angarsk Russia, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Olympics-silver-98)
1977 Lisa Bell Rockford IL, figure skater (1997 Midwestern Senior Champion)
1982 Mark Pugh rocker (Another Bad Creation)
1982 Mark Mizzark [Marlis Pugh], Akron OH, rapper (Another Bad Creation)

Deaths which occurred on April 15:

1220 Adolf I archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 Manuel Chrysoloras Byzantine leader/diplomat (Erotèmata), dies
1472 Leon B Alberti Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 Jan IV Chalon prince of Orange, dies
1605 Boris Godunov tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 Cornelius Kilianus Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 Johan van Duivenoorde mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1659 Simon Dach German poet, dies
1719 Johann Friedrich Treiber composer, dies at 76
1756 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg composer, dies at 29
1764 Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles Marquis de Pomador, dies
1765 Michail von Lomonosov Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1772 Karel Jozef ruler of Batthyányi, dies at 73
1788 Giuseppi Bonno composer, dies at 77
1811 Ernest Louis Muller composer, dies at 70
1824 Theodorus F van Capellen Vice-Admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 Johann Leopold Fuchs composer, dies at 67
1863 Jan Nepomuk Kanka composer, dies at 90
1865 President Abraham Lincoln dies, at 7:22 am, morning after being shot by John Wilkes Booth
1866 William Jackson composer, dies at 51
1888 Matthew Arnold English poet, dies at 65
1891 Stephen Albert Emery composer, dies at 49
1911 Georg Knorr German engineer, dies
1916 Alfred Cogniaux Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 Jacob van Stolk Azn art collector, dies at 74
1924 Eduardo Caudella composer, dies at 82
1925 John Singer Sargent US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 Frank Iredale cricketer (14 Tests for Australia, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
1927 Francesco Gaeta Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1929 Antonio Smareglia composer, dies at 74
1937 Nikolai Artzibushev composer, dies at 79
1938 César Vallejo Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 Robert Musil Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri composer, dies at 62
1947 Wolstenholme rocker, dies
1949 Wallace Beery US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 Juan Vicente Lecuna composer, dies at 54
1956 Emile Nolde [Hansen] German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1958 Estelle Taylor dies at 64
1962 Clara Blandick committed suicide at 80
1962 Esther Minciotti dies at 74
1965 Syd Chaplin dies at 80
1966 Joseph Crehan dies of stroke at 81
1967 Antonio de Curtis Toto comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshynsky composer, dies at 73
1969 Victoria von Battenberg wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1972 Otto Brenner German trade union leader, dies at 64
1975 Richard Conte actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1975 Charles Marshall dies
1975 John B McKay US test pilot (X-15), dies
1976 Gerald Smith antisemite/catholic (National Christian Crusade), dies at 78
1980 Jean-Paul Sartre existentialist philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 Marshall Reed actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 Paul Langton actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 Raymond Bailey actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 French Duynstee Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 5 Muslim extremist murderers of Egyptian President Sadat executed
1982 Arthur Lowe British actor (Captain Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 Louis M de Guiringaud Fren forgn minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1983 Rodolfo Hoyos actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1983 Gyula Illyes Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1984 Tommy Cooper comedian, dies at 61
1986 Tim McIntire actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1986 Jean Genet French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin cosmonaut, dies at 76
1988 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 Kenneth Williams dies at 61
1989 Hu Yaobang General Secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 Charles Vanel dies at 96
1990 Greta Garbo actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
1991 Marjorie Warfield dies at 88
1991 Martin Ashe dies
1993 George Ives dies at 111
1993 H H "Bull" Alexander cricketer (Test for Australia 1933, average 154), dies
1993 Leslie Charteris British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 William Bakewell dies of leukemia at 84
1994 John Curry English figure skater (Olympics-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 Cleo Brown pianist, dies at 91
1995 Denis Harding soldier, dies at 79
1997 Sam Moskowitz San Francisco fandom historian, dies at 76
1997 Zdenek Mlynar Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies

On this day...April 15 Events

0069 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1045 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
1205 Battle at Adrianople Bulgaria beats Emperor Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1581 Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1621 Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1654 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 Uprising of Yamasse-Indians in South Carolina
1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 Johann S Bachs "Matthäus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 Bottle opener invented
1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1788 England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 Bank of England hands out 1st £5-note
1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford CT)
1850 City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 Earl G Andrássy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III Roman Catholic bishops
1858 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln
1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden AR
1865 Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1870 Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 New York legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 1st telephone installed Boston-Somerville MA
1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 General Electric Company forms & is incorporated in New York
1895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hours
1900 International Exposition opens in Paris France
1901 1st British motorized burial
1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On the Church in the US"
1909 New York Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1910 William Howard Taft is 1st US President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1911 Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St New York NY
1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM in North Atlantic as the band plays on
1915 New York Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Brooklyn, 2-0
1915 Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo", premieres in Madrid
1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 Black Friday-Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1922 Frederick Banting, John MacLeod & Charles Best discover insulin
1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1924 WHO-AM in Des Moines IA begins radio transmissions
1924 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1925 NHL's New York Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 homeruns of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms
1931 The 1st walk across America backwards began
1937 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 Albert Lebrun elected President of France
1940 British troops land at Narvik Norway
1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford CT
1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta
1943 Metropolitan Life Insurance issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, Arabs defeated
1948 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curaçao
1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings sweep Montréal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Orioles 1st game in Baltimore; beat White Sox 3-1
1954 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1954 KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs Post Office $41 million
1958 10th Emmy Awards Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win
1958 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0
1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University
1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (Bridge-Tunnel measures 17.6 miles (28.4 km) and is considered the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex)
1964 Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1965 James Baldwin's "Amen Corner", premieres in NYC
1966 The Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1966 KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances
1968 Houston Astros beat New York Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 Libyan leader Qadhafi launches "Green Revolution"
1970 WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce Puerto Rico ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
1973 Walt Disney Story opens
1973 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1974 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11
1974 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed
1975 1st appearance of the San Diego Chicken
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1975 Gabon amends constitution
1976 Yankee Stadium reopens, Yankees beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 1st baseball game at Montréal's Olympic Stadium
1978 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna Italy
1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 43rd Golf Masters Championship Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 New York Rangers 0-New York Islanders 5-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 2-0 lead
1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 48th Golf Masters Championship Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1985 Geoff Smith wins his 2nd straight Boston Marathon
1985 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 South Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs England in Antigua Test Cricket
1987 "Barbara Cook A Concert For Theatre, Grand Hotel, and The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
1987 Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy", premieres in NYC
1988 Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles", premieres in NYC
1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 Then largest lottery in North America ($69 million) drawn in Illinois
1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1990 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England), their best
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
1991 Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight Show
1992 Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 New York Islander, Al Arbour, coaches the most NHL games (1,438)
1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1994 Indians lose 1st game at Jacobs Field, Kansas City wins 2-1
1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
1994 WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 America OnLine, begins service in Japan
1997 Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
 

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Birthdates which occurred on April 16:

1628 Cornelis Evertsen de Young Vice Admiral of Zealand
1635 Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter
1648 John Luyken poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre)
1652 Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40)
1660 Hans Sloane England, physician/naturalist; founded British Museum
1673 Francesco Feroci composer
1682 John Hadley mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)
1696 Giovanni Battista Tupolo Italian painter
1697 Johann Gottlieb Gorner composer
1703 Caffarelli [Gaetano Majorano] Italian castra singer/duke
1728 Joseph Zwart Scottish chemist/physicist
1800 Jozef Stefani composer
1800 William Chambers author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding)
1808 Caleb Blood Smith Secretary of Interior (Union), died in 1864
1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 Georg Curtius German classical linguist
1821 Ford Maddox Brown painter
1823 Mother Joseph [Esther Pariseau] religious leader (US capital)
1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1907
1832 John A Neuhuys painter
1838 Karel Bendl composer
1844 Anatole France writer (Thaïs, The Wickerwork Woman)/Nobel 1921
1850 Herbert Baxter Adams US, historian (American Historical Association)
1851 Ernst Josephson Sweden, artist
1861 Isaac Murphy US jockey (won 628 races)
1867 José de Diego Puerto Rico, patriot/Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice
1867 Wilbur Wright of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers)
1868 Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer
1868 Spottiswoode Aitken Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
1871 John Millington Synge Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea)
1871 Martin Lunssens composer
1878 R E "Tip" Foster cricketer (287 on debut England vs Australia SCG 1903)
1881 Edward Frederick Wood 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)
1882 Seth Bingham composer
1885 Leo Weiner Hungary, composer (Fasching)
1886 Ernst Thälmann German communist presidential candidate
1886 Jekabs Graubins composer
1886 Konstantin Mostras composer
1889 Charlie Chaplin [The Little Tramp] Lambeth London England, comedian/actor/director (City Lights)
1893 Federico Mompou composer
1893 Joseph Yasser composer
1897 Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree composer
1897 Jaap Vranken Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater)
1897 John B Glubb British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1898 Marian Jordan Peoria IL, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly)
1900 Polly Adler Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home)
1901 Karel Albert Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1901 Leo Poos nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents)
1904 Clifford Case (Senator-Republican-NJ)
1904 Lily Pons Draguignan France, soprano/diva (Hitting a New High)
1904 Fifi D'Orsay Montréal Québec Canada, actress (Life Jimmy Dolan, Girl from Calgary)
1905 John Lee-Barber Admiral
1906 Pigmeat Markham Durham NC, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In)
1906 Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis Dutch soccer star/writer
1906 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar Dutch peace activist
1906 Marion Lloyd Vince Brooklyn NY, fencer (National champion 1928, 31)
1909 Herman Uyttersprot Flemish literature historian
1911 Christine McIntyre actress (3 Stooges movies)
1911 William Stearn botanist
1912 David Langton Scotland, actor (Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship)
1912 John Halas animator
1913 Les Tremayne London, actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds)
1913 Constance Shacklock opera singer
1913 Lord Aberconway CEO (John Brown & Company)
1914 John Hodiak Pittsburgh PA, actor (A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat)
1915 Dany [Daniël S] Tuijnman head of Dutch traffic & water
1915 Gerard McLarnon actor/writer
1918 Spike Milligan Ahmed Nagar India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1919 Merce Cunningham choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus)
1920 Barry Nelson Oakland, actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband)
1920 John William Farr Detroit MI, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1920 Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb prison governor
1920 Kees Scherer Dutch photographer (World Press Photo)
1921 Peter Ustinov London England, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)
1922 Kingsley Amis London England, novelist (Lucky Jim, The James Bond Dossier)
1922 Christopher Samuel Youd UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy)
1922 Leo Tindermans British statesman
1924 Geoffrey Johnson Smith actor (Norman Loves Rose, Drinking Games)
1924 Henry Mancini Cleveland OH, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
1924 John Harvey-Jones CEO (ICI)
1926 Barbara Tizzard British educator
1927 Peter Mark Richman Philadelphia PA, actor (Andrew-Dynasty)
1927 Joseph Ratzinger German theologist/dogmaticus
1928 Dick [Night Train] Lane NFL defensive back (St Louis Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1929 Roy Hamilton singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
1930 Herbie Mann Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1930 Frank Page British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
1930 John Robson British ambassador (Norway)
1931 Edie Adams [Elizabeth Edith Enke] Kingston PA, actress/Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Ernie Kovacs Show, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Haunting of Harrington House)
1931 Piet de Visser economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 Imre Polyak Hungary, featherweight (Olympics-gold-1964)
1932 Vince Hill singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose)
1933 Perry Botkin Jr New York NY, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show)
1933 Joan Bakewell British broadcaster/actress (Cold Comfort Farm)
1933 Joseph Bottoms Santa Barbara CA, actor (Blind Date, Braker)
1934 Brian Peppiatt joint CEO (SG Warburg Securities)
1934 Geoffrey Owen British editor (Financial Times)
1934 Richard Kenshaw British broadcaster
1934 Robert Stigwood producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease)
1935 Bobby Vinton Pittsburgh PA, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1935 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist
1936 James Rand British judge (Advocate General)
1938 Michael Hirst chief constable (Leicestershire England)
1939 Dusty Springfield [Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien] Hampstead London England, rock vocalist (Growing Pains)
1939 Donald MacCormick British broadcaster
1939 John DeLaFose zydeco Musician
1939 Margaretha de Boer Dutch minister (PvdA)
1939 Reinier Lucassen Dutch painter (Kuifje contra James Union)
1940 Margrethe II queen of Denmark (1972- )
1940 David Holford cricketer (cousin of G S Sobers West Indies leg-spin all-rounder)
1940 Lord Camoys deputy CEO (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1940 Paul Cox actor (Exile, Golden Braid, Touch Me)
1940 Stephen Lawrence Pruslin composer
1941 Cliff Stearns (Representative-Republican-FL)
1943 Ewald Vanvugt author (Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love)
1943 Johnny Watkins cricketer (New South Wales leg-spinner, bowled 6 overs for Australia)
1943 Ruth Madoc actress (Hi Di Hi)
1944 Dennis Russell Davies composer
1945 Goran Antunac Yugoslavia, International Chess Master (1975)
1945 Stefan Grossman New York NY, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie)
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [Lew Alcindor] NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers)
1947 Gerry Rafferty Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
1950 David Graf Lancaster OH, actor (Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6, Councilman Nash-He's the Mayor)
1951 John Bentley rocker
1952 Peter Westbrook St Louis MO, US fencer (Olympics-bronze-88, 92, 96)
1953 Jay O Sanders Austin TX, actor (Meeting Venus, V I Warshawski)
1955 Ellen Barkin Bronx NY, actress (Big Easy, Sea of Love, Switch)
1955 Charlotte Morrison English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1955 Henri Heir Apparent Prince of Luxembourg
1956 David M Brown Arlington VA, Commander USN/astronaut
1956 Marty Dickerson Middletown OH, golfer (1994 ShopRite Classic-22nd)
1958 Philip Bainbridge British cricketeer
1959 Anne Kursinski equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1962 David Pate Los Angeles CA, tennis star
1962 Ian MacKaye rocker (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1962 Jeanne Golay Coral Gables FL, cyclist (Olympics-16th-92, 96)
1963 Jimmy Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Donnie & Marie)
1963 Nick Berry Britain, actor (Wicksy-EastEnders)
1963 Garry Galley Montréal Québec Canada, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1963 Hu Na China, tennis star
1963 Salim Malik cricketer (memorable Pakistani & Essex batsman)
1964 Dave Pirner rocker (Soul Asylum)
1964 Robert Kelker-Kelly Wichita KS, (Bo-Days of our Live)
1965 Jon Cryer actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)
1965 Caren Kemner Quincy IL, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1965 Gerardo rocker
1965 Martin Lawrence comedian (Martin)
1966 Lewis Tillman NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1967 Charles Evans NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Grace Kim Korea, tennis star
1969 Fernando Vina Sacramento CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Melinda Rich Muskegon MI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1993)
1970 Fran Robinson California, actress (Lauren-Charlie & Company)
1970 Ian Franklin CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1970 Steve Emtman NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 Walt Williams NBA forward/guard (Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat)
1971 Frederik Nilsson Stockholm Sweden, IHL forward (Team Sweden, Kansas City (IHL))
1971 Natasha Zvereva Minsk Belarus, tennis ace (finals 1995 Indian Wells)
1971 Selena [Quintanilla Perez] Lake Jackson TX, tejano singer (Grammy-1994)
1971 Trey Maples Wheat Ridge CO, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Canadian)
1972 Conchita Martinez Monzon Spain, tennis star (1996 final Indian Wells)
1972 Jim Ballard NFL/WLAF quarterback (Scottish Claymores, Buffalo Bills)
1972 Mario Bradley WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1975 Nicky Sualua NFL fullback (Dallas Cowboys)
1976 Lukas Haas West Hoolywood CA, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box, Testament, Leap of Faith)
1980 Jesse Tendler Madison WI, actor (Nick-Ellen Burstyn Show)
1987 Milton J Cross New York NY, TV announcer (Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air)

Deaths which occurred on April 16:

1115 Svjatopolk II great monarch of Kiev, dies [or 1113]
1446 Filippo Brunelleschi architect, dies
1496 David van Bourgondie Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69
1529 Louis de Berquin French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1619 Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert [Dionisio Fiamingo] Flemish painter, dies
1687 George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham dies at 59
1743 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69
1756 Jacques Cassini French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79
1760 Laurence 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1825 John Henry Fuseli painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
1828 Francisco Goya y Lucientes Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82
1846 Domenico Dragonetti composer, dies at 83
1850 Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud maker of wax figures, dies
1858 Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87
1860 Carolina duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies
1865 Robert C Tyler US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1870 Anatoli O Demidov Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
1876 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer, dies at 83
1879 Bernadette saint/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France
1881 George William Martin composer, dies at 56
1914 George W Hill US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76
1916 Tom Horan cricketer (15 Tests for Australia, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies
1920 John Conrad Nordqvist composer, dies at 80
1924 Jack Board cricket wicket-keeper (England in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies
1929 Abraham van Stolk Jzn art collector, dies at 57
1938 Bertram Wagstaff Mills circus proprietor, dies
1941 Josiah Charles Stamp 1st baron/statisician, dies
1948 Babe Ruth baseball legend, dies
1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka Indon communist, executed at 54
1951 Emile Erens Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85
1955 Abdullah Seif el-Islam brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1959 Charles Halton dies at 83
1968 Fay Bainter actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
1968 Edna Ferber author (American Beauty), dies at 78
1970 Péter Veres Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73
1970 Richard Josef Neutra Austria/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78
1971 Mihály Váci Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46
1972 Yasunari Kawabata Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1973 István Kertész Hung/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43
1978 Lucius D Clay General/Governor US zone West Germany (airlift), dies at 80
1980 Alf Sjöberg director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76
1981 Eric Hollies cricketer (13 Tests for England, 44 wickets), dies
1985 Scott Brady [Gerald Tierney] actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60
1987 Anthony Tudor dancer/choreographer (American Ballet Theater) dies at 78
1988 Abu Jihad [Khalil al-Wazzir] PLO-leader, murdered
1988 Clifford Roach cricketer (16 Tests early in West Indies cricket history), dies
1988 Jacques de Kadt Dutch 2nd chamber member (Socialist-Democrat), dies at 90
1988 Khalil al-Wazir PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1988 Warde Donovan dies at 72
1989 Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad Lebanese writer, dies
1991 David Lean director (2 Academy Awards-Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 Andy Russell drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
1992 Frank Killmond dies at 58
1992 Neville Brand actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71
1993 John P W Meefout sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77
1994 John McLiam dies of Parkinson's disease at 75
1994 Ralph Waldo Ellison US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
1994 Ron Vawter US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
1994 Samuel Selvon author, dies at 70
1995 Arthur English comedian, dies at 75
1995 Cheyenne Brando daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
1995 Cy[ril Raker] Endfield film director (Universal Soldier), dies at 80
1995 Stewart Myles MacPherson broadcaster, dies at 86
1996 Lucille Bremer dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
1996 Madeleine Bourdouxhe writer, dies at 89
1996 Raymond Earl Hill saxophonist, dies at 62
1996 Stavros Spyros Niarchos Greek shipowner, dies at 86
1997 Emilio Azcarraga Milmo media tycoon, dies at 66
1997 Mae Boren Axton song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82
1997 Michael Stroka actor (Aristede-Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 57

On this day...Events

0556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1346 King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 1st Easter observed
1746 Battle at Culloden Troops of "James VIII & III" defeat Charles Stuart
1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout British
1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast", makes its debut in NYC
1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1849 The opera "Il Profeta" premieres (Paris France)
1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
1854 Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa", premieres
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves conscription act for white males between 18-35
1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1865 Battle of Columbus & West Point GA (Fort Tyler)
1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Company office explodes
1866 Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1870 Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1874 Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
1883 Paul Kruger chosen President of Transvaal
1888 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell UT)
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the English Channel
1912 Pittsburgh Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1924 1st radio-transmission of wireless Matthäus Passion
1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1929 Cleveland Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st in American League to hit a homerun on 1st at bat
1929 New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1935 Babe Ruth's 1st National League game, for Boston Braves, included a homerun
1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1939 Stanley Cup Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0
1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht", premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1941 Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942 King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
1943 40 New Zealand bombers attack Haarlem Netherlands (85 killed)
1945 German troops in Groningen surrender
1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
1945 US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude
1946 NSB mayor of Rotterdam Netherlands, FE Müller sentence to 100 years in jail
1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York NY)
1947 Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City TX
1947 Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1949 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game
1953 British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
1953 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open
1953 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1953 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat Montréal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1957 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 22nd Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1959 New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1959 Phillies' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1961 15th Tony Awards Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1961 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
1967 "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
1970 70 die in an avalanche (France)
1972 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China
1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 performances
1972 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
1974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario CA
1974 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1978 St Louis Cardinal Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
1978 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1979 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees & Mets tie 1-1
1979 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:09:27
1979 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried Child"
1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980 Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Columbia space shuttle returns
1981 "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1983 Steve Garvey sets National League record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1984 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of New Zealand in 2:29:28
1984 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
1984 Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 homeruns including a grand slam
1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-Islanders win series 3-2
1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV
1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1987 Michael Jordan, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 1st Seniors Golf Tradition Don Bies wins
1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
1989 Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
1990 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
1990 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
1990 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1991 Mike Leander & Edward Seago's musical "Matador", premieres in London
1991 St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
1992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
1992 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 Afghánistán President Najibullah resigns
1992 New York Rangers win team record 50th game
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1994 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
1994 Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodacre (30)
1995 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Ray Floyd wins
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St Paul MN on WRQC 100.3 FM
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:15 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 17:

1539 Tobias Stimmer Swiss painter/cartoonist (Comedia)
1573 Maximilian I duke/ruler of Bayern (Catholic League)
1586 John Ford English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
1587 Marco Ivan Lukacic composer
1622 Henry Vaughan English poet (Silex Scintillans)
1644 Abraham Jansz Storck painter, baptized
1666 François Valentijn Dutch vicar/writer
1676 Frederik I [van Hessen Kassel] King of Sweden (1720-51)
1683 Johann David Heinichen composer
1699 Robert Blair Scottish poet (Grave)
1715 Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht composer
1719 Christian Gottfried Krause composer
1738 Philip Hayes composer
1741 Johann Gottlieb Naumann composer
1741 Samuel Chase judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1774 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer
1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1864
1797 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque Belgian composer/conductor
1809 Philip St George Cocke Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 Ann Sheppard Mounsey composer
1813 Henry Washington Benham Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1884
1820 Gottfried Conradi composer
1827 French C Baeckelmans Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp)
1837 John Pierpont Morgan US banker/CEO (US Steel)
1845 Isabel Barrows US, editor/penologist (Conference on Negro Question)
1863 Johannes P Boskaljon Curaçao composer/conductor
1868 Charles R Gallas Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary)
1869 Johannes M Meulenhoff Dutch publisher
1870 Ray Stannard Baker US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940)
1876 Ian Hay Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)
1881 Anton Wildgans writer
1882 Artur Schnabel Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas)
1883 Hermann Darewsky composer
1885 Isak Dinesen Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
1885 Cecil Burleigh composer
1885 Karen Blixen-Finecke [Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa)
1886 Otto Lederer Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
1890 Art Acord Glenwood Sevier UT, western actor (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists)
1892 Jean Haesaert Flemish lawyer/sociologist
1894 Nikita S Khrushchev 1st Secretary USSR (1953-64)
1895 Bert Wheeler actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
1896 Senor Wences ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
1897 Harald Saeverud Bergen Norway, composer (Saline)
1897 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen Dutch author (Village by the River)
1897 Thornton N Wilder US, novelist/playwright (Our Town)
1899 Vincent Wigglesworth entomologist
19-- Dennis Dun actor (Midnight Caller, Big Trouble in Little China)
19-- Ralphy Rodriquez rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1901 George Keyt artist
1902 Anton Beuving lyricist (Ketelbinkie)
1903 Gregor Piatigorsky Ekaterinoslav Russia, cellist
1903 Nicolas Nabokov Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer (The Holy Devil)
1904 Edward Chodorov playwright/director (Story of Louis Pasteur)
1904 Naoomal Jeoomal cricketer (pioneer Indian Test opening batsman)
1905 Arthur Lake Corbin KY, actor (Dagwood-Blondie)
1905 Louis Jean Heydt Montclair NJ, actor (Joe-Waterfront)
1906 M Rooi editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily)
1909 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher politician
1909 Humphrey Sims Moore pacifist/journalist
1909 Patrick Reilly diplomat
1911 Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
1911 Earl of Lauderdale
1911 Jean-Pierre Herve Bazin writer
1912 Isador Caplan lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival Pioneer
1913 Paul Langton Salt Lake City UT, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place)
1913 Richard Travis Carlsbad NM, actor (Missile to the Moon)
1916 Azijn Banana [Oscar Enau], Antillean publicist
1916 David Stafford-Clark psychiatrist
1916 Donald Gibson British Vice-Admiral
1916 Ryoei Saito businessman
1916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike world's 1st woman PM (Sri Lanka, 1960..77)
1918 William Holden [Franklin Beedle Jr] O'Fallon IL, actor (Stalag 17, Bridge Over the River Kwai, SOB)
1918 Anne Shirley UK, actress (Devil & Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas)
1920 Bengt N Anderberg Swedish poet/writer (Kain)
1920 Joan "Maudie" Warburton painter
1921 Donald Barron CEO (Midland Bank)
1923 Harry Reasoner Dakota City IA, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC, CBS)
1923 Lindsay Anderson Bangalore India, director (Thursday's Children)
1923 Lloyd Biggle Jr US, sci-fi author (Silence is Deadly)
1923 Norman Potter cabinetmaker designer/writer
1924 Patrick Sergeant founder (Euromoney Publications)
1925 Anne Harris CEO (National Federation of Women's Institutes)
1925 John Yates bishop (Lambeth England)
1925 Joyce Buck actress/interior designer
1926 Arthur Hockaday director-General (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
1926 G M Hughes professor/zoologist
1926 Michael Vernon CEO (RNLI)
1927 Christopher Whelen composer
1927 Tadeusz Mazowiecki premier of Poland (1989-90)
1928 Cynthia Ozick US, author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories)
1929 Eileen Stamers-Smith headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1929 James Last orchestra leader/composer/arranger
1929 Lady (James) Mellon CEO (Volunteer Development Scotland)
1930 Chris Barber jazz trombonist
1930 Genevieve Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
1931 Joan Clague director of nursing services (Marie Curie Foundation)
1931 John Bartlett tennis player (Davis Cup captain-Britain)
1931 John Chalstrey alderman/Lord Mayor (London)
1931 Joyce Molyneux chef
1931 Ruth Etchells principal (St John's College-Durham)
1932 Graziella Sciutti Italian opera singer
1932 Han J A Hansen [Jansen] Dutch journalist (King Comes!)
1932 Ramsay Melhuish diplomat
1933 Monique Van Vooren Brussels Belgium, actress (Warhol's Frankenstein)
1933 Penelope Lively writer
1933 Tim Rathbone MP
1934 Don Kirshner rock & roll producer (invented bubblegum music)
1936 Lord Justice Aldous
1936 Pete Graves rocker (Moonglows)
1937 Brian Sedgemore British MP
1937 Daffy Duck animated character
1937 Eduard N Stepanov Russian cosmonaut
1937 Galina Samsova ballerina
1937 Terry Dicks British MP
1938 David Dilks vice-chancellor (Hull U)
1938 K M P O'Brien archbishop (St Andrews & Edinburgh)
1939 Robin Knox-Johnston yachtsman
1941 Bill Fury Liverpool England, vocalist/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You)
1941 Adolphus Hailstork composer
1941 Max Stafford-Clark artistic director (Royal Court Theatre)
1942 Mario Brenta writer/director (Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains)
1943 Roy Estrada rocker (Morthers Of Invention)
1944 John Lill professor/pianist
1945 Vincent A M van der Burg Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 Clare Francis yachtswoman/novelist (Come Hell or High Water)
1946 Henry Kelly British broadcaster
1946 J R Baines professor (Egyptologist)
1947 Charles Frank Olympia WA, actor (Chisholms, Emerald Point NAS)
1948 Jan Hammer composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice)
1948 Viscount Bridport
1949 Heini Hemmi Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1976)
1949 John Oates New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
1951 Olivia Hussey Buenos Aires, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Death on Nile)
1954 Kim Tyler Hollywood CA, actress (Kyle-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1954 Riccardo Patrese driver (Grand Prix)
1955 Pete Shelley vocal/guitar (Buzzcocks-Going Steady, Love Bites)
1955 Peter Michalke journalist
1955 Rob Bolland Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
1956 Kaye Young Cowher WBL forward (New York Stars, New Jersey Gems)
1956 Pillow [Therese Joan Bell] California, bodybuilder (Gold Classic 1983)
1958 Byron Cherry Atlanta GA, actor (Coy-Dukes of Hazzard)
1958 Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov Russian Major/cosmonaut
1959 Teri Austin Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Terminal Choice, Knots Landing)
1959 David Hearn Washington DC, slalom single canoe (Olympics-9th-96)
1959 Elizabeth Lindsey actress (China Beach)
1959 Stephen Singleton Sheffield, rocker (ABC)
1960 Michael Whitaker showjumper
1961 [Norman] Boomer Esiason West Islip NY, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets)
1961 Norman Cowans cricketer (England fast bowler in 19 Tests 1982-85)
1962 Nancy Hogshead Iowa City IA, swimmer (Olympics-gold-1984)/model (jockey)
1964 Ken Daneyko Windsor, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils)
1964 Raye Hollit American Gladiator (Zap)
1966 Lela Rochon actress (Waiting to Exhale)
1966 Susie Redman Salem OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore-2nd)
1967 Leslie Bega Los Angeles CA, actress (Maria Tomlinson-Head of the Class)
1967 Timothy Gibbs Burbank CA, actor (Father Murphy, Santa Barbara)
1967 Aaron Wallace NFL defensive end/linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1967 Marquis Grisom Atlanta GA, outfielder (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians)
1968 Maurits Prince of Netherlands
1968 Ritchie Woodhall boxer
1968 Roger Twose cricketer (Warwickshire batsman, New Zealand 1995)
1969 Alexander McQueen fashion designer
1970 Tony Sacca WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 David Oliver Sechelt, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Benjamin Dodwell Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Gordon Laro NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Keith Lyle safety (St Louis Rams)
1972 Muttiah Muralitharan cricketer (leading Sri Lankan Test off-spinner)
1972 Tony Boselli NFL offensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 Brett Maher Adelaide SA Australia, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1973 Gene Makowsky CFL offensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 Jeff Lewis NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark, tennis star
1973 Ross Aloisi Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Theo Ratliff NBA forward/center (Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers)
1974 James Hamilton linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Marcel Nijenhuis soccer player (NEC)
1975 Trifun Zivanovic Santa Monica, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Jr champion)
1976 Nadine Thomas Miss Jamaica-Universe (1997)
1977 Pascal de Vries soccer player (FC Twente)
1978 Bilal Abdul-samad rocker (Boys)
1979 Tram-Anh Tran actress (Ghostwriters')
1980 Crystal Carlson Miss Maine Teen-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on April 17:

0485 Proclus Greek mathematician, dies in Athens
0818 Bernhard I King of Italy, dies
0858 Benedict III Italian Pope (855-58), dies
1272 Zita/Cita Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59
1297 Willem van Afflighem Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86
1427 Jan IV duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies
1574 Joachim Camerarius [Liebhard Kammerer] German philologist, dies
1630 Christian I ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mountain), dies
1679 John van Kessel Flemish painter, dies at 53
1711 Jozef I [Habsburg] emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32
1714 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach composer, dies at 56
1726 Henriëtte Amalia ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49
1764 Johann Mattheson German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
1790 Benjamin Franklin US, (Poor Richard's Almanac), dies at 84
1835 William Henry Ireland forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies
1837 Edouard viscount de Walckiers very wealthy slave trader, dies
1838 J Schopenhauer writer, dies at 71
1854 Gottlob Wiedebein composer, dies at 74
1863 Daniel Smith Donelson Confederate General/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61
1873 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky composer, dies at 60
1890 John Barnett composer, dies at 87
1891 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer, dies at 77
1899 Hans Balatka composer, dies at 74
1915 Johannes P Kelly [Kellij] Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60
1936 Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies
1944 J T Hearne cricketer (took 49 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies
1945 Hannie Schaft "Girl with red hair", executed
1945 Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/Senator (Umbra timpului), dies
1945 Walter Model German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
1946 John Iddon cricketer (car accident 5 Tests for England 1934-35), dies
1948 Johan P Earl of Limburg Stirum diplomat, dies at 75
1948 Percy Sherwell cricketer (South Africa captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies
1960 Eddie Cochran rocker, dies in an auto accident at 21
1962 Louise Fazenda dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66
1968 Margaret Seddon dies at 95
1970 Sergei Aleksi patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92
1971 Roberto Lupi composer, dies at 62
1974 Frank McGee Today show host, dies of cancer at 52
1974 Herbert Elwell US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
1974 Vinnie Taylor rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
1976 Jean-Jacques Gailliard Belgian painter, dies at 85
1977 Marjorie Gateson actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86
1983 Felix Pappalardi rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies
1983 Peter Potter DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78
1983 Mark W Clark US General (WWII), dies at 87
1985 Ilona Bodden writer, dies
1986 Bessie Head writer, dies
1987 Dick Shawn comedian (Producers), dies on stage from a heart attack at 63
1987 Carlton Barrett Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
1988 Eva Novak actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90
1988 Louise Nevelson sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88
1989 Charles Lampkin dies
1990 Reverend Ralph David Abernathy civil rights activist, dies at 64
1991 Jack Yellen US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
1992 Hank Penny country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure
1993 Turgut Özal President of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1994 Peter Hacker US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
1995 A R A (Anton) Murray cricketer (289 runs & 11 wickets in 10 Tests), dies
1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman artist/educator, dies at 88
1996 Eva Jones poet/novelist, dies at 82
1996 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren philosopher, dies at 86
1996 Michele Carew daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18
1997 Chaim Herzog President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78

On this day...Events

0858 Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1421 Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown
1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1534 Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower
1555 Siena surrenders for Spanish troops
1596 Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais
1629 1st commercial fishery established
1704 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1711 Charles VI Habsburg becomes king of Austria
1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1758 Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems
1793 Battle of Warsaw
1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships
1817 1st US school for the deaf founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc (American School for the Deaf-Hartford CT)
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54º 40' N
1839 Guatemala forms republic
1853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio (San Francisco) established
1853 Thorbecke government resigns
1861 Virginia become 8th state to secede
1861 Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1863 Grierson's Raid La Grange TN to Baton Rouge LA
1864 Battle of Plymouth NC
1864 Bread revolt in Savannah GA
1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1869 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
1875 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
1892 1st Sunday National League baseball game, Cincinnati Reds beat St Louis Cardinals 5-1
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
1905 US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
1907 11,745 immigrants arrive at Ellis Island NY
1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1923 Longest National League opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Company merged to form MGM
1925 New York Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
1925 Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier
1927 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1930 Abkhazian ASSR established in Georgian SSR
1932 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
1933 Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating New York Giants 23-21
1934 The new Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5
1935 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs)
1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut
1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman's "No Time for Comedy", premieres in NYC
1939 Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact
1941 Office of Price Administration established (to handle rationing)
1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to Nazi's
1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 SS-Lieutenant-General Jürgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Netherlands
1945 Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1945 US troops lands in Mindanao
1946 Last French troops leave Syria (National Day)
1946 Syria declares independence from French administration
1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit
1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4
1953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 meter) homerun in Washington DC's Griffith Stadium
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1956 USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
1956 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
1956 Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1956 Kominform disbands
1956 Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain
1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
1960 Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment", Burt Lancaster & Liz Taylor win
1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1964 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
1964 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 375 performances
1964 1st game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3
1966 100th international soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)
1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1968 A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Baltimore Orioles
1968 "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 72 performances
1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969 Montréal Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F Kennedy
1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert
1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British House of Commons
1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
1971 Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR)
1971 People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillies' Veterans Stadium crashes into the centerfield seats
1972 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of New York in 3:10:26
1972 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39
1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1973 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59
1973 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oregon in 2:16:03
1974 Ted Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from Central Washington State College, Ellensburg WA
1974 Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt
1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 6-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead
1975 Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
1976 National League greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 the Phillies win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive homeruns
1977 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
1977 Christian-Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
1978 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52
1978 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:10:13
1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
1979 Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?", premieres in London
1981 Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers
1981 Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1982 Canada adopts its constitution
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 1st National Coin Week begins
1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers; Rangers 7-Islanders 6-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 2-1 lead; Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals
1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter
1983 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
1983 Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic
1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage
1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
1986 Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
1987 Julius Erving becomes the 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points
1987 Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)
1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
1989 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:33
1989 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06
1989 Polish labor union granted legal status
1990 Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in the US
1991 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney King's civil rights
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1994 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 performances
1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 performances
1994 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Lee Trevino wins
1994 Aruba government of Oduber falls
1994 Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark
1994 Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1995 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11
1995 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22
1997 John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker
1997 New Jersey Devil Martin Brodeur is 2nd NHL goalie to score in a playoff game
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:19 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 18:

1480 Lucretia Borgia murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1521 François de Coligny ruler of van Andelot, French General (Jarnac)
1580 Thomas Middleton English playwright (Game of Chess)
1590 Ahmed I 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)
1605 Giacomo Carissimi composer
1729 Gaetano B Vestris Italian/French ballet dancer
1732 George Colman "the Elder", playwright (baptised)
1740 Francis Baring banker/merchant
1744 Pieter 't Hoen Dutch journalist/patriot
1759 Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr composer
1764 Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer
1777 Ignac Ruzitska composer
1786 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee composer
1797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers President of France
1803 Charles F Pahud de Montagnes Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies (1856-61)
1806 Ludwig Schuberth composer
1817 George Henry Lewes English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
1819 Franz von Suppé Spalato Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Over)
1839 Frantz Jehin-Prume composer
1839 Henry Clarence Kendall New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1842 Antero Tarquinio de Quental Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
1845 Wilhelm Gericke composer
1852 George Clausen painter
1855 Abraham Bredius Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
1855 Josef Gruber composer
1857 Clarence S Darrow defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial
1859 Eduard G H H Cuypers architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
1863 Felix Blumenfeld composer
1864 Richard Harding Davis US, journalist/author (In The Fig)
1868 Didericus G van Epen genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
1871 Henry Stephenson British West Indies, actor (Conquest, Little Old New York, Mr Lucky)
1873 Jean Roger-Ducasse composer
1881 Hermann KJ Zilcher German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1881 Max Weber Polish/Russian/US painter
1882 Leopold Stokowski London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
1884 Magda Janssens Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
1888 Arnold Henry Moore Lunn skier
1889 Jessie Street Australian pro women's/aborigine rights fighter
1889 John Kilbane US, featherweight boxing champion (1912-23)
1890 James Rennie Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
1895 Anton F Pieck Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) [or April 19]
1896 C Eugène Wegmann Swiss geologist (Le Jura plissé)
1897 Pedro Regas Sparta Greece, actor (Pat Paulsen's ½ Comedy Hour)
1898 Lord Leatherland British journalist/Labour peer
19-- Anna Kathryn Holbrook Fairbanks AK, actress (Sharlene-Another World)
19-- Bill Lazarus Washington DC, actor (Bad News Bears)
1900 Louise Tazewell [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer
1901 László Németh Hungarian physician/author (Gyász/Galilei)
1903 Leonid Kinskey St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1903 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin composer
1906 Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1906 Edgar Unsworth Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
1907 Stephen Longstreet American writer (All or Nothing)
1907 Miklós Rózsa Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
1908 Edward Roberts bishop (Ely)
1908 Henry Guinness missionary
1908 Joseph Keilberth German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
1910 Jamie L Whitten (Representative-Democrat-MS, 1941- )
1910 Sylvia Fisher soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
1911 Francis Frederick Johnson architect
1911 George Huntington Hartford II New York NY, A&P heir
1912 Wendy Barrie Hong Kong, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show)
1912 John Lapworth Holt boat Designer
1913 Al Hodge actor (Captain Video)
1913 Kent Wheeler Kennan composer
1913 Milos Sokola composer
1913 Susan Bosence textile designer
1914 C S Nayudu cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
1914 Henk Lankhorst pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
1917 Louise Frederika Queen of Greece
1918 Robert Zimonyi Hungary, cox (Olympics-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
1918 Tony Mottola Kearney NJ, president of Sony Music Entertainment/guitarist/host (Melody Street)
1918 Roger de Grey president (Royal Academy)
1920 Walter Clegg MP
1921 Barbara Hale Dekalb IL, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1922 Avril Angers actress (Brass Monkey)
1923 Baroness Platt of Writtle British CEO (Equal Opportunities Commission)
1923 Leif Panduro Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions)
1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
1924 Buxton Daeblite Orr composer
1924 Henry J Hyde (Representative-Republican-IL)
1924 Lord Mason of Barnsley MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
1924 Raf de Linde [Raphaël van Hecke] author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
1925 Bob Hastings Brooklyn NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
1925 Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor musician
1925 Robert Caldwell Crawford composer
1926 Gunter Meisner Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum)
1926 Doug Insole cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests)
1927 Jim De Courcy cricketer (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953)
1928 Jean-François Pailliard Vitry-le-François France, conductor
1929 Peter Hordern British CEO (Fina)
1929 Peter Jeffrey actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity)
1930 Clive Revill Wellington New Zealand, actor (Legend of Hell House)
1931 Klas Lestander Sweden, 20K biathlon (Olympics-gold-1960)
1932 Dominic Milroy OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England)
1933 Alan Devereux CEO (Scottish Tourist Board)
1934 James Drury New York NY, actor (Virginian)
1934 Jaap F Scherpenhuizen Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 Jan Klusak composer
1934 Jap F Scherpenhuizen Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 Mark Kingston actor (Intimate Contact)
1935 Joel Hefley (Representative-Republican-CO)
1935 Paul A Rothchild record producer
1936 Brian Fuller commandant (Fire Service College, England)
1936 Harold Innocent [HS Harrison] English actor (Tall Guy)
1936 Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson medical administrator
1937 Robert Hooks Washington DC, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
1937 Tatyana Shchelkanova USSR, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1964)
1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg supreme commander (South Africa army)
1939 Glen Hardin rocker
1939 Von McDaniel baseball player
1940 Ed Garvey labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Association)
1940 Joseph L Goldstein Sumter SC, physician (Nobel-1985)
1940 Ira von Furstenberg [Virginia Caroline] Rome Italy, Princess (Monaco)
1940 Skip Stephenson Omaha NE, comedian (Real People)
1941 Mike Vickers guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 Dick K J Tommel chemist/(D66) Dutch Assistant Secretary of State (1994- )
1942 Jochen Rindt German race car driver
1944 Irvine Shillingford cricketer (cousin of Grayson, 4 Tests for West Indies)
1944 Rudy Shackelford composer
1946 Hayley Mills London England, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
1946 [Alexander] Skip Spence Windsor Ontario Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
1946 Anne Boyd composer
1946 Harvey Kagan rocker
1946 Lenny Baker rocker (Sha Na Na)
1947 Cindy Pickett actress (Ferris Bueller, Hot to Trot, St Elsewhere)
1947 Dorothy Lyman Minneapolis MN, (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)
1947 James Woods Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
1947 Lori Martin Glendale CA, actress (Velvet-National Velvet)
1947 David Gee director (Friends of the Earth)
1948 "Tiny" Nate Archibald NBA guard (Cincinnati)
1948 Catherine Malfitano New York NY, soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
1948 Skip Stephenson Omaha NE, comedian (Real People)
1950 Bill Sudderth III trumpeter (Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover)
1952 Jim Scholten Midland MI, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1953 Rick Moranis Toronto Ontario Canada, (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
1954 Kim Stone bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1955 Amschel Rothschild banker
1955 Anne-Marie Palli Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite)
1956 Eric Roberts Biloxi MS, actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies)
1956 John James Minneapolis MN, actor (Jeff Colby-Dynasty)
1956 Melody Thomas Scott Los Angeles CA, actress (Nikki-Young & Restless)
1956 David Wayne Edwards Neosho MO, PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney)
1958 Les Pattinson Ormskirk Merseyside England, rock bassist (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1958 Bernadette Robi model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
1958 Malcolm Marshall cricketer (West Indies quickie 1978-91, West Indies top wicket-taker)
1959 Jim Eisenreich St Cloud MN, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins)
1961 Kelly Hansen heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I'm on to You)
1961 Ian Doig Seaforth Ontario Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic)
1961 Jane Leeves London England, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser)
1961 Jeff Cook Muncie IN, Nike golfer (1990 Greater Ozarks Open)
1961 Pamella Bordes New Dehli India, British parliament prostitute
1962 Mick Sweda heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike)
1962 Shirlie Hollman rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
1962 Wilber Marshall NFL linebacker (New York Jets)
1963 Conan [Christopher] O'Brien Brookline MA, TV host (Late Night)
1963 Phil Simmons cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)
1964 Robert Kelker-Kelly actor (Another World)
1965 Diana Villegas México, rocker (Triplets-You DOn't Have To Go)
1965 Sylvia Villegas México, rocker (Triplets-You DOn't Have To Go)
1965 Vicky Villegas México, rocker (Triplets-You DOn't Have To Go)
1966 Chuck Wade Menomonee Falls WI, diver (Olympics-96)
1966 Michelle Chryst WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-17th-1994)
1966 Valeri Kamensky Voskresensk Russia, NHL left wing (Avalanche, Olympics-silver-98)
1967 Jayce Fincher Jr heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1967 Kenneth Gant NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1967 Marcel Valk soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Vladimir Tsyplakov Inta Russia, NHL left wing (Los Angeles Kings, Belarus 1998)
1970 Carl Simpson NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1970 Francois Leroux Ste-adele, NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1970 Heike Friedrich East Germany swimmer (world record 200 meter)
1970 Peter Giles London Ontario Canada, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1970 Vladimir Antipin hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1970 William Roaf NFL tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Dan Kordic Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers)
1971 Kerry Lynn Kemper Miss Nebraska-USA (1996)
1971 Oleg Petrov Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Montréal Canadiens)
1972 Jeff Traversy CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Derrick Brooks NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Haile Gebresleassie Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 James "Jamie" Koven Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1976 Melissa Joan Hart Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
1992 Frances Bean Cobain daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love

Deaths which occurred on April 18:

0680 Mu'awijja kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
1504 Filippino Lippi painter, dies at about 52
1530 François Lambert d'Avignon French church reformer, dies at about 43
1552 John Leland antiquary, dies
1556 Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach German military man, dies at 63
1587 John Foxe author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1610 Robert Parsons English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1612 Emanuel Van Meteren merchant/historian, dies
1679 Hofmannswaldau writer, dies
1684 Gonzales Cocx [Coques] painter, dies
1689 George Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
1690 Charles V Leopold Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
1710 Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at 75
1800 John Evangelist Schreiber composer, dies at 84
1800 Pieter Fouquet art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
1807 Erasmus Darwin physician/writer (Influence), dies
1818 Pieter Ondaatje Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
1824 Edward Jones composer, dies at 72
1830 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia composer, dies at 62
1845 Nicholas T the Saussure Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1853 William King US Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration
1854 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner composer, dies at 84
1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey painter, dies
1860 Count István Széchenyi statesman, commits suicide
1861 Heinrich August Neithardt composer, dies at 67
1867 Robert Smirke architect, dies
1871 Omar Pasha [Michael Lats] Croatian Governor, dies at 64
1873 Justus Freiherr von Liebig German chemist, dies at 69
1874 David Livingstone buried in Westminster Abbey
1879 Anthony Pannizim principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1883 Agnes Tyrrell composer, dies at 36
1898 Gustave Moureau painter, dies
1905 Juan Valera bon Alcalá Galiano Sp author (Pepita Jiménez), dies at 80
1917 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
1919 Enny Vrede [Maria M Müller] Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1921 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
1925 Charles Ebbets president (Dodgers), dies
1928 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski composer, dies at 58
1935 Ignazio Guidi Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
1936 Ottorino Respighi Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
1936 Seaborn M Denson composer, dies at 82
1938 Richard Runciman Terry musicologist, dies
1939 Theo Mann actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
1940 Florrie Forde music hall artist, dies
1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher historian, dies
1941 Alexander Korysis PM of Greece, commits suicide
1943 I Yamamoto Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 Cécile Chamindale composer, dies
1945 Ernest T Pyle British/US newscaster, killed in WWII at 44
1945 John Ambrose Fleming electrical engineer, dies
1947 Benny Leonard lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), dies at 51
1949 Leonard Bloomfield linguist/philosopher, dies
1955 Albert Einstein German/US physicist (E=MC²), dies
1955 Don Blackie cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
1955 Eugen Herrigel Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at 85
1958 Richard B Goldschmidt German zoologist (butterflies), dies
1959 Irving Cummings Sr actor/director (In Old Arizona), dies at 70
1960 Emory Johnson director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
1963 Henrietta Kreis 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1964 Ben Hecht playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1964 Albe Vidakovic composer, dies at 49
1969 Piotr F Scharoff Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82
1971 Masao Oki composer, dies at 69
1974 Betty Compson actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
1974 Marcel Pagnol French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1975 Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet) chansonnier/director, dies at 38
1976 Percy Julian holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1983 Alan Melville cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
1984 John Lee Mahin screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
1986 Marcel Dassault [Bloch] French airplane builder, dies at 94
1990 Robert D Webb director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
1992 Florence Randall model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
1993 Arthur P Smith US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1994 Ken Oosterbroek South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 Arturo Frondizi President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1996 Kalim Siddiqui islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1996 Michael Leander Farr record producer, dies at 55
1996 Piet Hein architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 Robert William Paine architect, dies at 88
1997 Edward Barker cartoonist, dies at 46

On this day...Events

0310 St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0387 Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1521 Parliament of Worms Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther
1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1599 Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain
1663 Osman declares war on Austria
1666 Peace of Kleef Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Münster
1676 Sudbury MA attacked by Indians
1775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
1797 France & Austria sign cease fire
1809 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1834 Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1835 William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government
1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1839 Henry Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1856 Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1861 Battle of Harpers Ferry WV
1862 Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA
1864 Battle of Poison Springs AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, is won by Californian
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 minutes
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins
1881 Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1890 New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1899 John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 San Francisco earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1906 San Francisco Earthquake (one of the most significant earthquakes of all time) kills over 700 people
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens
1907 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour", premieres in NYC
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 Joan of Arc declared a saint
1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs CO
1921 Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy", premieres in NYC
1922 Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1923 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 World's fair opens in Chicago
1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
1927 Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China
1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth TX)
1934 Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament
1935 General Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1935 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco CA to Honolulu HI
1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939 Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1942 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1944 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:31:50.4
1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free" premieres in NYC
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945 1 armed outfielder, St Louis Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
1945 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)
1946 "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1946 Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montréal Royals
1946 Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister", premieres in NYC
1946 US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1950 New York Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
1950 1st opening night-game, St Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2
1950 Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1950 Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
1951 "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1951 Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951 France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1953 "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1955 "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 performances
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1955 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1956 Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1958 Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
1958 National League single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles
1959 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1962 16th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1963 "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1963 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1963 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1964 "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
1964 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
1964 Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1964 Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1964 Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane"
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 1st ABA basketball championship begins
1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1968 Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band", premieres in NYC
1968 Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII", premieres in London
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1971 Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning vs West Indies after 124 in 1st
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1972 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi
1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
1976 30th Tony Awards Travesties & Chorus Line win
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten - Ping Golf Open
1977 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33
1977 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46
1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray hits his 1st homerun
1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1977 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Side by Side" premieres at Music Box NYC for 390 performances
1978 Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on Dec 31, 1999
1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1981 Pawtucket & Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Houston Astros)
1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare
1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon
1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma WA changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)
1983 Rangers 3-Islanders 1-Patrick Division Finals-Series tied at 2-2
1983 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43
1983 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Massachusetts in 2:09:00
1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
1984 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 Flyers 3-Islanders 0-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1986 Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA
1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
1987 Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs. Robinson-Pirates)
1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
1987 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1988 Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"
1988 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30
1988 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43
1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
1990 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in the WLAF
1990 Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1991 Congress ends railroad workers' 1 day strike
1991 Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1991 John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v West Indies Bridgetown)
1992 Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1993 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Tom Wargo
1993 Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
1993 David Lee Roth arrested in New York NY for purchasing marijuana for $10
1993 Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1994 "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
1994 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
1994 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15
1994 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
1994 Brian Lara scores 375 for West Indies vs England to beat Sobers' world record
1994 Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later
1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approximately]
1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years
1995 Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1996 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", opens at St James Theater NYC for 715 performances
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:23 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 19:

1320 Pedro I King of Portugal (1357-67)
1605 Orazio Benevoli composer
1660 Sebastian Duron composer
1700 Georg Abraham Schneider composer
1715 James Nares composer
1721 Roger Sherman signer (Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
1721 Thomas McKean attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19]
1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright
1737 Geert Reinders Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist
1768 Adrian H Haworth English entomologist/botanist
1771 Giuseppe Cartufo composer
1772 David Ricardo economist
1775 Battle of Lexington & Concord-American Revolution
1785 Alexandre Pierre François Boely composer
1795 Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg German zoologist
1798 Franz Joseph Glaser composer
1798 Heinrich Maria von Hess historical painter
1801 Gustav T Fechner [Dr Mises] German philosopher/physicist
1805 Charles Edmond-Hénri de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian
1817 John Philip painter
1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 Rudolf Cornely German bible expert/jesuit
1832 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904)
1832 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield US 1st lady (1881-1885)
1838 August[us] Allebé Dutch painter/lithographer
1840 Andrea Bezzola writer
1850 Edward John Gregory painter/engraver
1850 Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
1857 Lucien Levy-Bruhl philosopher
1858 May Robson [Mary J Robison] Melbourne Australia, actress (Apple Annie)
1858 Siegfried Ochs composer
1861 Warden Oncle [Edward Vermeulen] Flemish farmer/writer
1863 Felix Blumenfeld composer
1866 Henri Deterding Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1868 Max Von Schillings German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1873 Sydney Barnes cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
1874 Firmin Baes Flemish painter
1876 Hendrik Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
1877 Ole Evinrude inventor (outboard marine engine)
1879 Richard Scheibe German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
1883 Getúlio Vargas President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
1888 William L Axt composer
1890 Lou Bandy [Lodewijk F Dieben] revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
1891 Francoise Rosay Paris France, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband)
1891 Ricardo Bacchelli Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
1892 Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six] Pau-St-Maur France, composer
1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney sculptor/art benefactor
1897 Vivienne Segal Philadelphia PA, Broadway actress (Pal Joey)
1898 Constance Talmadge Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance)
1898 Sybil Andrews English/Canadian painter
19-- Robert Tyler [Barry Kaufman] Stockton CA, actor (Trucker McKenzie-Loving)
1900 Allen Jenkins New York NY, actor (Girl Habit, Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
1900 Richard Arthur Warren Hughes English writer (Fiction as Truth)
1903 Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, Untouchables)
1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach US pilot/Admiral (WWII)
1905 Tommy Benford jazz drummer
1907 Alan Wheatley England, actor (Adventure of Robin Hood)
1907 Gino Contilli composer
1907 Lina Basquette San Mateo CA, actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, Goldie)
1910 Andrew Gilchrist historian/diplomat
1911 Francesco Maria Saraceni composer
1912 Glenn T Seaborg head of Atomic Energy Commission/chemist/discovered Plutonium/Nobel 1951
1912 William Murray teacher/educationalist
1913 Cyril English British educator
1914 Andrew Wilkinson pediatrician
1915 Dorian Le Gallienne composer
1915 Harry Craft baseball manager
1917 Johnny Hoes Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom)
1919 Gil Langley cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1951-56)
1920 Frank Fontaine Cambridge MA, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
1921 Glyn England CEO (CEGB, Windcluster Ltd)
1921 Will Ogdon composer
1922 Erich Hartmann German WWII pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts)
1922 Luigi Barbbarito reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
1925 Hugh O'Brian [Krampke] Rochester NY, actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
1927 Don Barbour Greencastle IN, singer (4 Freshmen)
1928 Alexis Korner Paris France, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
1928 John Horlock British vice-chancellor (Open College)
1929 Edward Crook Detroit MI, middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1960)
1931 Alex Webster football coach (New York Giants)
1931 Denis Henry British high court judge
1931 Garfield Morgan Brtish actor (Odessa File, To Catch a Spy)
1931 Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee South Africa minister of Defense/Justice
1932 Andrea Mead Lawrence Rutland VT, alpine slalom skier (Olympics-2 gold-52)
1933 Dick Sargent Carmel CA, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)
1933 Jayne Mansfield [Vera Jane Palmer] Bryn Mawr PA, actress (Guide for the Married Man, Girl Can't Help It, Too Hot to Handle)
1933 Harold "Dickie" Bird cricketer (noted England Test umpire)
1934 Dickie Goodman parody singer (Flying Saucer)
1934 Jan Helge Guttorm Bark composer
1934 John Roch high court judge
1935 Dudley Moore London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks)
1936 Csaba Szabo composer
1936 Ruby Johnson US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away)
1936 Wilfried Martens premier (Belgium, 1979-81, 1981-92)
1937 Elinor Donahue Tacoma WA, actress (Betty Anderson-Father Knows Best, Gladys Peterson-Get a Life)
1938 Jonathan Tunick composer
1939 Ellen Weston New York NY, actress (Betty-SWAT)
1939 E Clay Shaw Jr (Representative-Republican-FL, 1981- )
1939 Michael John Macaulay cricketer (Transvaal, Western Province, Orange Free State, North Eastern Transvaal, Eastern Province & South Africa)
1940 Algy Cluff CEO (Spectator, Cluff Resources)
1941 Alan Price Fatfield Durham England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Michel Roux chef de cuisine
1943 Mike Kelly rocker (Duprees)
1944 Mark "Flo" Volman rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK)
1944 Bernard Worrell US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop)
1944 Margo MacDonald Scottish national broadcaster
1945 Nuria Ortiz México, skeet shooter (Olympics-13th-1968)
1946 Leon Wessels South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law & Order
1946 Tim Curry Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
1946 Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1947 Frits Castricum journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1947 Murray Perahia New York NY, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988)
1947 Wilf Stevenson director (British Film Institute)
1949 Myra McCulloch teacher academic/administrator
1949 Paloma Picasso [Gilot] Paris France, artist/jewelry designer/actress (Immoral Tales)
1950 Jeff Hammond cricketer (Australian fast bowler on 1973 West Indies tour)
1950 Marc Demeyer Belgian bicyclist (Paris-Brussel '74)
1952 Adny Shernoff rocker
1953 Sara Simeoni Italy, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1980)
1954 Trevor Francis British soccer manager
1956 Lori West Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1994 State Farm-5th)
1956 Sue Barker England, tennis star
1957 [Boaz] Boo Watson keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 Belinda Lipscomb vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 Rod Morgenstein rocker (Winger)
1960 Frank Viola Hempstead NY, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, New York Mets/Cy Young-1988)
1961 Richard Phelps British pentathlete
1962 Al Unser Jr Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1962 Christa Teno Tecumseh Ontario Canada, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi-44th)
1964 Harris Barton NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1964 Scott Kamienicki pitcher (New York Yankees)
1965 Melita Rühn Romania, horse vaulter (Olympics-bronze-1980)
1966 Paul Reiffel cricketer (Victorian & Australian pace bowler)
1966 Randolph Keys NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 Ashley Taylor Judd [Ciminella] Granada Hills CA, actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
1968 Brent Mayne Loma Linda CA, catcher (New York Mets)
1968 Keith McCants NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Roger Reinson CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1968 Thomas Nock Zurich Switzerland, actor (Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars)
1969 Carlos Reyes Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 Danelle Marie Folta Hammond IN, playmate (April 1995)
1969 James Westphal Oak Park IL, 10k runner
1970 Luis Miguel Vera Cruz México, Spanish singer
1970 Michael Barrow NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Carolina Panthers)
1970 Rick Hamilton WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 Otis Scott Gainesville FL, 400 meter/800 meter runner
1972 Eric Jack NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Jeff Wilkins NFL kicker (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 Ante Moric Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 Jason Gillespie cricketer (SA fast bowler, Australia 1996)
1975 Nazarena Almada Miss Argentina-Universe (1997)
1975 Temoc Suarez Greenwood SC, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Vanessa Guzman Miss México-Universe (1996)
1978 Adrienne Parker Miss Tennessee Teen-USA (1996)
1978 Whitney Metzler 400 meter medley swimmer (Olympics-8th-96)
1979 Challen Sievers Downers Grove IL, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 Mariah Billado Miss Vermont Teen-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on April 19:

0843 Judith French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
1044 Gothelo duke of Netherlands-Lotharingen, dies
1054 Leo IX [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg] Pope (1049-54), dies at 51
1390 Robert II King of Scotland, dies
1529 John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer] German physician, dies at about 55
1560 Philipp Melanchton [Schwazerd] church reformer, dies at 63
1567 Michael Stifel German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1588 Paolo Veronese [Cagliari] painter, dies
1608 Earl of Dorset poet/statesman, dies
1645 Anton van Diemen Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at about 51
1645 William Smith composer, dies at 42
1658 Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70
1689 Christina Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies
1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen Dutch baptist leader, dies
1739 Nicholas Saunderson mathematician, dies
1768 Filippo della Valle Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
1770 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer, dies at 74
1772 Johann Peter Kellner composer, dies at 66
1773 Florian Johann Deller composer, dies at 43
1776 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi] German rabbi, dies at 78
1791 Richard Price nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
1799 Pieter Hellendaal violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 78
1813 Benjamin Rush physician/abolotionist (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 67
1824 [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron poet, dies at 36
1852 Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69
1862 Simon Fraser Canadian explorer, dies
1862 Louis Powell Harvey US Governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1867 Robert Smirke British architect, dies
1870 Andreas Schelfhout painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
1870 Camille Marie Stamaty composer, dies at 59
1870 William Henry Havergal composer, dies at 77
1874 Owen Jones architect, dies
1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley composer, dies at 65
1881 Benjamin Disraeli 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
1881 Michel Abeloos Flemish sculptor, dies at 53
1882 Charles Robert Darwin evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies
1889 Warren De La Rue astronomer/chemist, dies
1893 John Addington Symonds critic/poet, dies
1895 George Scharf critic, dies
1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
1900 Ivan K Aïvazovski Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at 82
1906 Pierre Curie French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1914 Charles Pierce philosopher/scientist, dies
1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf composer, dies at 75
1926 Squire Bancroft [Butterfield] actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
1932 Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, dies at 77
1937 William M Conway English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
1938 Henry John Newbolt poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
1938 Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon French acrobat/model, dies at 72
1941 Johanna Muller-Hermann composer, dies at 63
1943 Alexander Schmorell German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Gustave Doret composer, dies at 76
1943 Kurt Huber German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Willy Graf German resistance fighter, beheaded
1944 Tommy Hitchcock polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
1945 J P Heyboer resistance fighter, executed
1950 Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66
1954 Joe Laurie Jr comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61
1956 Ernst R Curtius German literature historian, dies at 70
1956 Léon N H Jungschlaeger head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, dies at 52
1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb British diver (WWII), dies at 47
1957 Charles Funk Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
1957 Johan W Albarda 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
1964 Cyril Merry cricketer (West Indies batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies
1965 George Davis actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
1966 Väinö A Tanner Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85
1967 Conrad Adenauer West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1968 Tommy Bridges US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
1969 Casper Höweler music critic, dies at 71
1972 Adolf Bach German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
1978 Emile de Strijker Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
1980 Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80
1980 Ethel Wilson actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1980 Tony Beckley actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
1981 Ernst Levy composer, dies at 85
1983 Lorene Scott actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
1986 Alvin Childress actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
1986 Dag Ivar Wiren composer, dies at 80
1987 Maxwell D Taylor US commander 101st airborne (WWII), dies at 85
1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
1989 Daphne Du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
1992 Alice Mary Riley entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
1992 Frankie [Francis Alex] Howerd actor (Mr Mustard-Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Carry on Doctor, Up the Front, That Was the Week That Was), dies from a heart attack at 70
1992 Pat Thompson actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
1992 Robert F Clayton drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1992 Robert Paul Haynes bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1993 David Koresh [Vernon Howell] cult leader (Davidians), suicide
1993 George Mickelson Governor of South Dakota, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
1994 Frederick Ferrari crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
1994 Larry Davis blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
1994 Louis Simmonds bookseller, dies at 87
1994 Michael Carreras film Director, dies at 67
1994 Michel van Rooy Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker tenor sax, dies at 66
1995 Igor Hajek translator/writer, dies at 64
1995 J[oseph] Peter Grace CEO (W R Grace), dies at 82
1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
1996 Bernard Edwards bass player, dies at 44
1996 Norman Oldfield cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), dies
1996 Peg Ridge peace campaigner, dies at 72

On this day...Events

0607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-General French Van de Holly
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions
1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis", premieres in Paris France
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor", premieres in St Petersburg
1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom and Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
1852 California Historical Society forms
1853 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1877 The opera "Les Cloches de Corneville" is produced (Paris France)
1890 Henry Morton Stanley is inaugurated in Brussels
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther", premieres in NYC
1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"
1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Massachusetts in 2:42:00
1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Massachusetts in 2:54:38
1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:39:44.4
1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phillies beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1901 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of New York in 2:43:12
1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of New York in 2:38:04.4
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of New York in 2:38:25.4
1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Massachusetts in 2:45:45
1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8
1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint
1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:21:39.6
1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play", premieres in London
1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2
1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minnesota in 2:25:14.8
1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Massachusetts in 2:27:16.4
1916 Italians troops conquer Colonel di Lana at Merano
1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of New York in 2:28:37.2
1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Massachusetts in 2:29:13.4
1919 André Messager 's opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of New Jersey in 2:18:57.6
1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:18 10
1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:23:37.4
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:29:40.2
1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4
1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:40:22.2
1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:37:07.8
1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
1930 Clarence DeMar wins his 7th Boston Marathon
1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:34:48.2
1932 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1933 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:31:01.6
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Massachusetts in 2:32:07.4
1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:35:34.8
1938 Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:28:51.8
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:28:28.6
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:30:38
1941 Bertolt Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder", premieres in Zürich
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1941 Milk rationed in Holland
1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Massachusetts in 2:26:51.2
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
1943 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:28:25.8
1944 Gerard Cote wins his 2nd straight & 3rd career Boston Marathon
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Massachusetts in 2:30:40.2
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
1947 AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montréal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:31:02
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (civil ceremony)
1956 1st major league baseball game in New Jersey, Dodgers beat Phillies in Roosevelt Stadium
1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
1961 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
1962 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48
1963 "Hot Spot" opens at the Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma", premieres in West-Berlin
1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die and eventually led to the installation of Astroturf
1966 Roberta Bignay becomes the 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chicago
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon
1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
1967 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot (1st American to win since 1957) of Connecticut in 2:22:17
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1968 National League owners approve expansion for 2 new teams
1969 "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn win 51st Academy Awards
1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1970 24th Tony Awards Borstal Boy & Applause win
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1971 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1972 Hungary revises constitution
1972 Micki Grant's musical "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 performances
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"
1973 George Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park homerun against the New York Yankees
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wisconsin in 2:47:10
1976 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Washington DC in 2:20:19
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yankees Goose Gossage & Cliff Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf
1981 Oakland A's runs record to 11-0
1981 Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)
1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos", premieres in NYC
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33
1982 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oregon in 2:08:51
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1983 France performs nuclear test
1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)
1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record (124.902 mph)
1987 Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201 on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka vs New Zealand)
1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1987 Milwaukee Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight American League win
1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 Kevin Elster (New York Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1990 Detroit Pistons & Philadelphia 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 in fines (an NBA record)
1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
1993 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
1996 Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles
1996 South Africa defeats Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
1997 Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
1997 San Diego Padres & St Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:28 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 20:

0121 Marcus Aurelius 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher
1442 Edward IV King (England, 1461-83)
1494 John Agricola [Schneider] German theologist/prime minister
1592 John Eliot St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
1594 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern composer
1705 Balthasar Schmid composer
1725 Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer
1726 Jozef de Ferraris French/Austrian earl/General/cartographer
1745 Philippe Pinel physician, founder of psychiatry
1748 Georg Michael Telemann composer
1748 Guillaume Albert Teniers composer
1761 Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier composer
1808 Louis-Napoleon [Napoleon III] emperor of France (1852-71)
1809 John Smith Preston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1826 Dina M Craik writer
1827 John Gibbon Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1839 Carol I King of Romania (1881-1914)
1840 Odilon Redon French painter/author (La nuit, Rêves)
1850 Daniel Chester French/American sculptor (The Minute Man)
1857 Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken painter/author (HW Knife Day)
1857 Hermann Bang writer
1858 Auguste Chapuis composer
1860 Charles Gordon Curtis US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine)
1860 Pieter Jelles Troelstra Dutch MP (SDAP)
1865 Max HHR Nettlau Austrian historian (Le Première Internationale)
1866 Victor Hollaender composer
1870 Simeon Roncal composer
1871 William Henry Davies Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
1876 Gerard J Arbous actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)
1879 Robert Lynd Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)
1881 Nikolai Miaskovsky Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
1881 Sem Dresden composer/conductor
1889 Adolf Hitler Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
1890 Adolf Schärf President of Austria (1957-65)
1893 Harold Lloyd Burchard NE, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
1893 Joan Miró Spain, painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon)
1893 Hermann Ungar writer
1894 Martinus Nijhoff poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
1896 Senor Wences ventriloquist (Close the Door)
1897 Bernard Verhoeven poet/literature (About the Laugh)
1897 Gregory Ratoff Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers)
1900 Fred Raymond composer
1900 Kees Verwey painter/water colors painter/cartoonist
1901 Michel Leiris French cultural anthropologist
1902 Donald Wolfit England, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed)
1902 Vesselin Stoyanov composer
1903 Dagmar Edqvist Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade)
1904 Bruce Cabot Carlsbad NM, actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong)
1907 William Dollar St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
1907 Alan Reed actor/voice (Fred Allen Show, Fred Flintstone)
1907 Miran Bux cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55)
1908 Wilhelmus M Bekkers bishop of Hertogenbosch
1909 Guido Alberti literary patron/businessman
1909 Lionel Hampton orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below)
1909 Richard Stubbs publicity adviser
1911 Kukrit Pramoj politician
1912 David Townsend cricketer (3 Tests England vs West Indies 1935)
1912 Ed Jones (Representative-Democrat-TN, 1969- )
1912 Frederick Craig Riddle violist
1912 Soewarsil Djojopoespito Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line)
1913 Dick Wessel Wisconsin, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie)
1920 John Paul Stevens Chicago IL, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
1921 Donald Gunn MacRae sociologist
1923 Tito Puente Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)
1924 Nina Foch Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)
1924 Gerhard Samuel composer
1924 Paul M Van Buren US theologist (Theological Explorations)
1925 Ernie Stautner NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)/WLAF head coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1925 Richard Hoffmann composer
1926 Harriett Elizabeth Byrd politician (Wyoming House of Representatives)
1927 Karl Müller Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1929 Bob Braun Ludlow KY, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
1930 Alan Oakman cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956)
1931 Lee H Hamilton Daytona Beach FL, (Representative-Democrat-IN, 1965- )
1934 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton furniture historian
1936 Pat Roberts (Representative-Republican-KS, 1981- )
1938 Bernard Malivoire France, cox pair (Olympics-gold-1952)
1938 Betty Cuthbert Australia 100 meter/200 meter/400 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1956, 64)
1938 Johnny Tillotson Jacksonville FL, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion)
1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland Norwegian premier (1981-82, 86-89, 90- )
1940 George Takei Los Angeles CA, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
1940 James Gammon Newman IL, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges)
1940 Jan Cremer Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)
1940 Pilar Miro director (Wether, Beltenebros)
1941 Joni Evans New York NY, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House)
1941 Ryan O'Neal Los Angeles CA, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story)
1943 Michael Greer Galesburg IL, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
1943 Edie Sedgwick Santa Barbara CA, actor (Ciao Manhattan)
1943 Ian Watson UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon)
1945 Jimmy Winston London England, organist (Small Facres-Itchycoo Park)
1947 David Leland Cambridge England, actor/director (Nothing But Trouble)
1948 Craig Frost keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1949 Jessica Lange Cloquet MN, actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
1949 Michal Israel, rocker (Sky with Stars)
1950 Itumeleng J Mosala South Africa President (Azanian People's Organization)
1951 Luther Vandross Bronx NY, rock vocalist (Here and Now, Never Too Much)
1951 Geraint Wyn Davies Wales, actor (Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes)
1952 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova Russian cosmonaut
1952 Toine van Benthem dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper)
1954 Peter Toohey cricketer (New South Wales & Australian batsman 1977-80)
1955 Donald R Pettit Silverton OR, PhD/astronaut
1957 Graeme Fowler cricketer (England left-handed opener early 80s)
1957 Richenel [Hubertus R Baars] singer/performer (Dance Around The World)
1958 Viacheslav Fetisov Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Detroit)
1959 Clint Howard Burbank CA, actor (Gentle Ben)
1960 Rodney Holman NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1961 Don "Hitman" Mattingly Evansville IN, New York Yankee 1st baseman (MVP 1985)
1961 Marci Bozarth Lampasas TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone Open-37th)
1963 Brett Edward Garsed Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
1963 Kal Swan heavy metal rocker
1964 John Carney NFL kicker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 Paul Nobes cricketer (prolific opening batsman for Victoria & SA)
1965 Jim Terrell Cincinnati OH, sprint canoe (Olympics-96)
1967 J D Roth Beverly Hills CA, TV host (Fun House)
1967 Lara Jill Miller Allentown PA, actress (Samantha-Gimme a Break)
1967 Miroslav Stefanovic soccer player (FC Volendam)
1967 Townsend Saunders White Sands NM, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1968 LeShundra Nathan Birmingham AL, heptathlete
1969 John van Halst soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 Takayuki Kobori hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1970 Ben Weir Rock Island IL, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Bogey Hills-2nd)
1970 Shemar Moore Oakland CA, actor (Malcolm-Young & Restless)
1971 Chris Penn NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Bears)
1971 Grant Smith Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 John Senden Brisbane Queensland, Australasia golfer
1971 Terry Smith NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Yonel Jourdain NFL running back/kick returner (Buffalo Bills)
1973 Itula Mili tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Lamond Murray NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers)
1973 Todd Hollandsworth Dayton OH, outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1974 Ben[jamin] Lincoln Holbrook Hartland WI, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 Kevin Sullivan Brantford Ontario Canada, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1974 Paul Bradford cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1975 Joey [Joseph Mignogna Jr] Lawrence Philadelphia PA, actor (Brotherly Love, Joey-Gimme a Break, Blossom)
1976 Lenka Nemeckova Brno Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Maribor-SLO)
1977 Lisa Ervin figure skater (US Nationals-4th-1992)

Deaths which occurred on April 20:

1164 Victor IV [Ottaviano Montecello] Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
1314 Clement V [Bertrand Got] pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies
1317 Agnes van Montepulciano Italian mystic/saint, dies
1534 Elizabeth Barton [Nun of Kent] British prophet, is executed
1632 Nicolas Antione converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
1643 Christoph Demantius composer, dies at 75
1662 Gerard Terborch the elder, painter, dies
1695 Georg Caspar Weckler composer, dies at 63
1759 Georg Friedrich Händel buried in Westminster Abbey
1768 Giovanni AC Canaletto Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70
1769 Pontiac Indian chief to Ottawa, murdered
1786 John Goodricke English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21
1812 George Clinton 4th US Vice President, dies at 73 1st Vice President to die in office
1820 Arthur Young author (Annals of Agriculture), dies
1821 Franz K Achard German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1836 Johan I Jozef monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75
1839 Giuseppe Rossini father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1869 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe composer, dies at 72
1869 Piotr Studzinski composer, dies at 42
1872 Ljudwit Gaj Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
1899 Edouard Pailleron French attorney/comedian (voice où), dies at 64
1900 Mabel Mercer popular British singer, dies
1906 Australian wombat oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
1908 Henry Chadwick sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
1912 Bram Stoker Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies
1918 Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands cricketer (1 Test for South Africa), dies
1932 Giuseppe Peano mathematician, dies
1935 Juliaan de Vriendt Flemish painter, dies at 92
1941 Barend ter Haar Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
1947 Christian X King of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
1953 Erich Weinert writer, dies at 62
1956 Jaap Vranken organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies
1956 Lieven Duvosel Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78
1962 Jesse G Vincent engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82
1962 Arthur Harmat composer, dies at 76
1965 Richard Wessell actor (Carney-Riverboat), dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
1968 Marion Weeks singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81
1971 Cecil Parker actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73
1973 Robert Armstrong actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82
1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan premier/President (Pakistan), dies
1977 Bryan Foy director/writer, dies at 80
1977 Len Johnson cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8), dies
1979 Peter Donald host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
1982 Andrew Sandham cricketer (325 England 1930, 879 runs in 14 Tests), dies
1982 Archibald MacLeish US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89
1982 Mimi Boesnach actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82
1983 Jerzy Andrezjewski writer, dies
1984 Mabel Mercer English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
1990 Horst Sinderman RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
1991 Don[ald] Siegel US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78
1991 Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal Mongolian politician, dies
1991 Sean O'Faolain [J Whelan] Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
1991 Steve Marriott English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44
1991 Yumzhagin Tsendenbal PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
1992 Benny [Alfred Hawthorn] Hill comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
1992 Johnny Shines Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76
1993 Cantinflas [Mario Moreno] Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
1994 Jean Carmet French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
1995 Milovan Djilas Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies
1995 R E S Wyatt cricketer (England captain 16 times), dies
1995 Sunil Jayasinghe Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1995 Tessie O'Shea entertainer, dies at 81
1996 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie BBC Executive, dies at 88
1996 Christopher Robin Milne bookseller/son of writer A A Milne (Winnie the Pooh), dies at 75
1996 Tran Van Tra soldier, dies at 77

On this day...April 20 Events

0295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines
1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray", premieres in London
1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod", premieres in Weimar
1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published
1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1861 Battle of Norfolk VA
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1872 San Francisco Bar Association organized
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitán", premieres in NYC
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens
1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8
1903 New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington Nationals
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida", premieres in London
1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2
1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow CO
1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916 1st National League game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 7-6
1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1920 7th modern Olympic games open in Antwerp Belgium
1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1920 Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-run homer and beats New York Giants 3-0
1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic
1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Massachusetts in 2:46:45.8
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1935 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:33:40.8
1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Atlanta Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench
1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1946 1st televised baseball broadcast in Chicago, St Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs
1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark
1948 UAW president Walter P Reuther shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5¢ to 10¢
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany CA
1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05
1958 Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM
1958 Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters
1962 New Orleans Citizens Company gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers
1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1964 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1967 French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967 New York Mets' Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Chicago Cubs, 6-1
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1969 23rd Tony Awards Great White Hope & 1776 win
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 (new US marathon record)
1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
1975 29th Tony Awards Equus & The Wiz win
1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1976 George Harrison sings the lumberjack song with Monty Python
1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses
1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1980 Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of New Zealand in 2:26:46
1981 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1983 Rangers 2-Islanders 7-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 3-2 lead
1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghánistán
1985 Karyn Marshall of New York NY lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-jerk lift
1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1986 Michael Jrdan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
1987 Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1988 New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
1988 New York Yankees homerun 9,999 (Dave Winfield) 10,000 (Claudell Washington) 10,001 (Jack Clark)
1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1990 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of the Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1991 "Les Miserables", opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1991 Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 points on a dive (101.85)
1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1992 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium London
1992 Joan Lunden breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)
1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, St Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Padres in doubleheader
1997 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
1997 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Hale Irwin
1997 Chicago Cubs beat New York Mets ending National League worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1997 DL Coburn's "Gin Game", opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to homerun on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
1997 Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
1997 Noël Coward's "Present Laughter", closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1997 PGA Seniors Championship; Hale Irwin wins
1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-13-2006, 07:32 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 21:

1488 Ulrich von Hutten German poet/humanist/patriot
1546 Arcangelo Crivelli composer
1619 John A van Riebeeck colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1672 Johann Philipp Kafer composer
1713 Louis Duke de Noailles marshal of France
1729 Catharina II the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96)
1730 Antonin Kammel composer
1749 Johann Michael Malzat composer
1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1775 Alexander Anderson US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1779 William Knyvett composer
1782 Friedrich W A Fröbel Germany, educator (founded kindergarten)
1795 Vincenzo Pallotti Italian saint
1803 Levin Minn Powell Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1806 Peter van Schendel Dutch painter
1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Secretary of State (Confederacy)
1814 Beni Egressy composer
1816 Charlotte Brontë Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall Confederate Army, died in 1874
1824 Anselmo Clave composer
1828 Hippolyte Taine French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
1834 William Rufus Terrill Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1837 Fredrik Bajer Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1838 John Muir US, naturalist (discovered glaciers in High Sierras)
1838 Nat Thompson cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match)
1840 Franz Xaver Haberl German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1849 Oskar Hertwig Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1853 Charles-Theodore Malherbe composer
1854 Eusapia Palladino Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons
1854 Wladyslaw Rzepko composer
1864 Max Weber German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1867 Benjamin A Jesurun Antillian literary
1871 Leo Blech composer
1871 Vojtech Rihovsky composer
1872 G W Bitzer [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer] Roxbury MA
1878 Albert Weisgerber German painter/graphic artist
1881 Jules-Marie Canneel Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
1886 Charlie Naughton Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits)
1887 Lillian Walker Brooklyn NY, entertainer
1892 ? 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Jaroslav Kvapil composer
1896 Attila Hörbiger Austrian actor (Die Grosse Liebe, Die Julika)
1896 Henry M de Montherlant French stage author (La Reine Morte)
1898 Steve Owen NFL tackle, coach (New York Giants)
1899 Randall Thompson New York NY, composer (Trip to Nahant)
1899 Clement D'Hooghe composer
19-- Christopher [Chip] Mayer New York NY, actor (Vance-Dukes of Hazzard, Glitter)
1901 Julian Bautista composer
1902 Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard)
1903 Hans Hedtoft premier Denmark (1947..55)
1904 Jean Hélion artist/author (They Shall Not Have Me)
1904 Gijsbert van Hall banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)
1905 Edmund G "Pat" Brown (Governor-Democrat-CA)
1906 Tom Burns editor
1907 Beatrice Kay New York NY, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Colonel)
1907 Antoni Szalowski composer
1908 Louis Hostin France, Light Heavyweight (Olympics-gold-1932, 36)
1909 Rollo May US, psychologist (Love & Will)
1911 Leonard Warren New York NY, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) died on stage
1912 Feike P Asma Dutch organist
1912 Marcel Camus French director, Orfeu negro)
1912 Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen actress, Kniertje-Op Hoop van Zegen)
1913 Choh Hao Li biochemist professor (isolated growth hormones)
1913 Norman Parkinson England, fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar)
1913 Kai-Uwe von Hassel German politician
1915 Anthony Quinn Chihuahua México, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 Andor Kovach composer
1915 Frick [W Groebli] Swiss clown (Frick & Frack)
1916 Sidney Clute Brooklyn NY, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey)
1917 Emanuel Vardi Jerusalem Israel, violist (San Diego Symphony 1978-82)
1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper)
1919 John Goddard cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57)
1920 Bruno Maderna Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Hyperion)
1920 Christopher Dark New York NY, actor, (Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
1921 Jack Fletcher Forrest Hills NY, actor (Grady, Bob Crane Show)
1922 Allan Watkins cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s)
1923 Andrea Domburg Dutch actress, (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel)
1924 Ira Louvin Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1924 Daniel Melnick New York NY, producer, Get Smart)
1926 Elizabeth [Alexandra Mary Windsor II] queen of England (1952- )
1927 Robert Brustein New York NY, dean (Yale School of Drama)
1930 Silvana Mangano Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas)
1930 Don Tyson founder, Tyson Foods)
1930 Margaret Rose London England, Princess of York [or Aug 21]
1932 Elaine May Philadelphia PA, comedienne/writer/actress (New Leaf)
1932 Angela Mortimer English tennis player, Wimbledon)
1933 Easley Blackwood Indianapolis IN, composer (Un Voyage á Cythere)
1934 Martin Horton cricketer, England off-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 1959)
1935 Charles Grodin Pittsburgh PA, actor (Beethoven, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1935 Robin Dixon England, 2 man bobsled (Olympics-gold-1960)
1936 Bob Cleary US, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1960)
1936 Anthony Joseph Gnazzo composer
1937 Charles Lee Herron Kentucky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
1939 Ernie Maresca singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
1939 John McCabe composer
1940 Souleymane Cisse director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara)
1942 Bobby McClure US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing)
1946 S Venkataraghavan cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test ump, ICC referee)
1947 Iggy Pop [James Newell Osterberg] Ypsilanti MI, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1947 John Weider bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1947 Alan Warner rocker (Foundations)
1948 Claire Denis Paris France, actress (Boom Boom, Chocolat)
1948 Gary A Condit (Representative-Democrat-CA)
1948 Lord Egremont English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1948 Paul Davis Meridian MI, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
1949 Patti LuPone Northport NY, stage/screen actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
1951 Tony Danza Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2)
1951 Nicoel Barclay rocker
1951 Paul Carrack Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Mike + the Mechanics-All I Need Is A Miracle, Squeeze/Ace-How Long)
1953 Edward Ray Fiori Lynwood CA, PGA golfer (1979 Southern Open)
1954 Dale Eggeling Statesboro GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile Classic)
1956 Rick DeMont US, 400 meter swimmer, drug disqualification (1972 Olympics)
1957 Jesse Orosco Santa Barbara CA, baseball relief pitcher (New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers)
1958 Andie [Rosalie Anderson] MacDowell Gaffney SC, actress (Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Greystoke)
1958 Kyle Stevens LPGA golfer
1959 Robert Smith Sussex England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Just Like Heaven )
1960 Julius Korir Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympics-gold-1984)
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin Russia, Major/cosmonaut
1963 John Cameron Mitchell El Paso TX, actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand)
1963 Ken Caminiti Hanford CA, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1964 Louise Mullard Kurri Kurri New South Wales, golfer (1990 T3 Coca Cola Classic)
1965 Karen Foster Lufkin TX, playmate (October 1989)
1965 Ed Belfour Carman, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1965 Gary Grant NBA guard (New York Knicks)
1966 Judy Diduck ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Olympics-98)
1968 Peter van Foxes soccer player (Ajax)
1969 Conrad Clarks NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Dwight Hollier NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1970 Israel Stanley NFL/WLAF defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Rhein Fire)
1970 Stewart Malgunas Prince George, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1971 Samantha Druce youngest woman to swim the English Channel
1971 Jennifer Reed Miss Michigan-USA (1997)
1971 Tom Cavallo NFL/WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, San Francisco 49ers)
1971 Tony Mcgee NFL tight end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 David Williams Bedford PA, outfielder (San Francisco Giants)
1972 Lori Flick Boston MA, Miss Massachusetts-America (1997)
1972 Tia Jackson WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1974 Brice Hunter wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 Angela Michelle Hughes Anderson SC, Miss South Carolina-America (1997)
1975 Danyon Joseph Loader Dunedin New Zealand, 200 meter/400 meter swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-96)
1977 Karen Ann Peterson Miss Aruba-Universe (1997)
1978 Avi Phillips Ontario Canada, actor (Maniac Mansion)
1978 Aimee Delatte Miss Arkansas Teen-USA (1996)
1978 Melissa Coish Miss New Hampshire Teen-USA (1996)
1984 Ashley Peldon Staten Island NY, actress (Marah Lewis-Guilding Light, Deceived)

Deaths which occurred on April 21:

1073 Alexander II [Anselmo da Baggio] Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 Anselmus philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 Pierre Abélard French philosopher (Sic et Non, Héloïse), dies at 62
1509 Henry VII 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1552 Peter Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz] German astronomer, dies at 50
1574 Cosimo de Medici Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1652 Pietro Della Valle composer, dies at 66
1696 Andres de Sola composer, dies at 61
1699 Jean Racine French playwright (Phèdre), dies at 59
1730 Jan Palfijn Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1736 Frans Eugenius duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1780 Ferdinand Zellbell composer, dies at 60
1871 Elisabeth Grube writer, dies
1878 Temistocle Solera composer, dies at 62
1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy composer, dies at 78
1899 Heinrich Kiepert German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1900 Heinrich Vogl composer, dies at 55
1910 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding CT at 74
1918 "Red Baron" [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI at 25
1924 Eleanora Duse Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1930 Robert S Bridges poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1938 Muhammad Iqbal Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1939 Herman Finck composer, dies at 66
1945 John Poston British Major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1946 John M Keynes English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1946 Robert Graham cricketer (3 wickets for South Africa in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo composer, dies at 66
1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1952 Leslie Banks actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1961 James Melton opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1962 Frederick Handley Page designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1965 Edward V Appleton English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1967 André L Danjon French astronomer, dies at 77
1968 Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1968 Norman Demuth composer, dies at 69
1971 Edmund Lowe actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1971 François "Doc" Duvalier dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1973 Ursula Jeans [McMinn] actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1975 Jack Allan Westrup composer, dies at 70
1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1978 Sandy Denny country singer, dies at 37
1981 Harry Lee cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies
1982 Joe Sawyer actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1983 Walter Slezak actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80
1985 Rudi Gernreich US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1985 Tancredo Neves President-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
1987 Edith S Green (Representative-Democrat-OR), dies at 77
1989 James Kirkwood actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1990 Erté art deco stylist, dies at 97
1990 Johnny Beagley winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1991 Richard Bolling (Representative-Democrat-MO), dies at 74
1991 Willi Boskovsky Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
1992 Robert Harris murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39
1992 Vladimir K Romanov Grand Duke/Russian pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1993 Hal Schumacher baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1994 Clement Merk animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt cricketer, dies at 93
1995 Stafford Heginbotham toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1996 A H Kardar cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pakistan 1946-58), dies
1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev President of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies at 52
1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1996 Robert Hersant press baron, dies at 76
1996 Rodney Meredith Thomas architect/painter, dies at 93
1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov engineer, dies at 86
1997 Andres Rodriguez Paraguayan President (1989-93), dies
1997 Diosdado Macapagal Philippine President (1961-65), dies

On this day...Events

0753 -BC- Traditional date of the foundation of Rome
0953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1477 Maximilian of Habsburg marries Maria of Bourgondië at proxy
1521 Battle at Villalar Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1526 Battle at Panipat Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1572 France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant
1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1654 England & Sweden sign trade agreement
1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1739 Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord
1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1818 Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho", premieres in Vienna
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from México
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi River, Rock Island IL-Davenport IA
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver CO
1862 Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston
1863 Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í Feast of Ridván (Jalâl 13, 20)
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man", premieres in London
1898 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1910 Cleveland Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Detroit Tigers 5-0
1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz México, stay 6 months
1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game", premieres in London
1921 Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
1925 No baseball games played in National League due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
1925 Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels", premieres in London
1930 Fire (set as part of an escape attempt) at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid", premieres in Moscow
1934 Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays American League record 117th cons errorless game
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
1944 NFL Chicago Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream", premieres in London
1945 Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold in US
1948 2nd NBA Championship Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 4 games to 2
1951 5th NBA Championship Rochester Royals beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
1951 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montréal Canadiens, 4 games to 1
1952 BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers win 10th straight game to begin a season (this was a record at the time)
1955 Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee's "Inherit the Wind", premieres in NYC
1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1959 Alf Dean (using a rod and reel) hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" great white shark (largest fish ever caught on a rod)
1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
1961 French army revolts in Algeria
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,000 meters
1961 Dirk U Stikker chosen as Secretary-General of NATO
1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle WA
1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1963 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open
1963 Dr Michael Ellis De Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1964 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 homeruns, Pirates win 8-5
1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1967 Los Angeles Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1967 EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1968 22nd Tony Awards Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49
1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explore Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1974 28th Tony Awards River Niger & Raisin win
1974 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1975 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of West Germany in 2:42:24
1975 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:09:55
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
1977 Charles Strouse & Martin Charnins musical "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed President of Bangladesh
1979 "Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances
1980 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:12:11
1980 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Canada in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champion; she hadn't run entire course
1980 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit MI
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1982 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
1982 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
1983 £1 coin introduced in United Kingdom
1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour
1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"
1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1984 Montréal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inning game
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1985 Flyers 5-Islanders 2-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1985 Ingrid Kristiansen wins the London Marathon in a record 2:21:6
1985 Bomb attack in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona)
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1986 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55
1986 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51
1987 Dow Jones Average soars 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose, ending American League season-opening winning streak at 13 games
1987 Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151 (v Sri Lanka)
1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1988 Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"
1988 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1990 "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
1990 Cincinnati Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1991 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship Jack Nicklaus wins
1991 Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pittsburgh scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Chicago Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th
1991 Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)
1991 Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Square NYC for 30 performances
1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy
1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
1994 "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit homeruns in a games (11 times)
1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1995 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, New York Knicks win 98-92
1995 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1996 57th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Hale Irwin
1996 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
1996 Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8)
1996 Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance", opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 Matabeleland beat Mashonaland Country Dist to win Logan Cup
1996 Wayne James scores 99 & 99 & ct 11 stp 2 in Logan Cup Final
1997 101st Boston Marathon won by Lameck Aguta of Kenya in 2:10:34
1997 26th Boston Women's Marathon won by Fatuma Roba of Ethopia in 2:26:23
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-22-2006, 10:09 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 22:

1357 Johan I King of Portugal (1383-1433)
1451 Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
1515 Antoine of Bourbon duke of Vendôme/king of Navarra
1610 Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni] Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91)
1640 Mariana Alcoforado Portugal, nun
1658 Giuseppe Torelli Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi op 8)
1682 Willem I Kerricx the Young Flemish architect/sculptor/painter
1690 John Carteret Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
1707 Henry Fielding England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)
1724 Immanuel Kant Konigsberg Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
1766 Madame de Stael Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman)
1773 Jean V baron de Rebecque Swiss/Dutch army leader
1775 Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
1777 Henry Clay the great compromiser
1781 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer
1799 Jean Poiseuille physician/physiologist (blood pressure)
1816 Philip James Bailey English poet (Festus)
1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 Alfred Gibbs Major General (Union Army), died in 1868
1827 William Hopkins Morris Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1828 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul composer
1831 Alexander McDowell McCook Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 Julius Sterling Morton Adams NY, (Governor-NE), started Arbor Day
1839 August W Eichler German botanist
1853 Alphonse Bertillon France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
1856 [Marie] Louise Hens Flemish actress (Two Orphans)
1858 Ethel Mary Smyth composer
1863 Cornelis A J van Dishoeck Dutch publisher
1864 Phil May Wortley Yorkshire, cartoonist
1866 Hans von Seeckt German General (Future of the Reich)
1868 Jose Vianna da Motta composer
1870 Nikolai Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov] Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist
1873 Ellen Anderson Glasgow US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
1876 O E Rölvaag Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
1876 Robert Bárány Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
1878 Kitty Gordon Folkestone England, entertainer
1881 Alexander Kerensky Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
1884 Armas Emmanuel Launis composer
1884 John van Capel oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3, 1992)
1884 Otto Rank [Rosenfeld] Austria, psychoanalysist (Künstler)
1889 Ludwig Renn writer
1891 Belle Bennett Milcoon Rapids IA, actress (Stella Dallas, Iron Mask)
1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Sontsovka Ukraine, composer
1892 Nikolai Obouhov composer
1899 Martyn Green London, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh)
1899 Vladimir Nabokov St Petersburg, novelist
19-- Mark Davis rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1902 Megan Lloyd George English politician
1904 J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer New York NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
1906 Eric William Fenby composer/president (Delius Society)
1908 Eddie Albert [Heimberger] Rock Island IL, actor (Oliver-Green Acres)
1909 Ralph Byrd Dayton OH, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
1910 Eric Scowen physician
1910 R J Ritchie tennis player
1912 Gavalda Miguel Querol composer
1912 Kathleen Mary Ferrier England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice)
1914 Charles Hubert Sisson author/poet (Christopher Homm)
1914 Hans Baumann writer
1914 Jan de Hartog Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
1915 Dick Dudley Tennessee, TV host (Village Barn)
1915 Lord Airedale British Lord (Socialist Democrat)
1916 Yehudi Menuhin New York NY, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata)
1916 Earl of Oxford & Asquith Governor (Seychelles)
1917 Leo Abse biographer/MP
1917 Mile Yvette Chauviré France, ballerina assoluta (Sleeping Beauty)
1917 Sidney Nolan Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
1918 Robert Wadlow Alton IL, world's tallest man (8'11.1")
1919 Donald Cram US, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1920 Hal March San Francisco CA, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
1920 Jos de Haes Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word)
1922 Charles Mingus Arizona, jazz musician (Pithecanthropus Erectus)
1922 Lou Stein Philadelphia PA, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
1923 Aaron Spelling Dallas TX, TV executive producer (Charlie's Angels, Melrose Place, Dynasty, Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch, Mod Squad)
1923 Betty Page Kingsport TN, playmate (January 1955)/model (Dark Angel)
1923 Hugh Lloyd actor (Punch & Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising)
1923 Paula Fox US children's books author (Poor George)
1923 Peter Bowring CEO (C T Bowring)
1925 Christopher Ball Oxford, warden (Keble College)
1925 George Cole London England, actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers)
1926 Bob Flannigan Greencastle IN, singer (4 Freshmen)
1926 Charlotte Rae Milwaukee WI, actress (Edna-Facts of Life)
1926 James Stirling Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight
1927 Pascal Bentoiu composer
1928 Margaret Pereira forensic scientist
1929 Geoffrey Marshall Provost (Queen's College, Oxford)
1929 Margaret Pereira forensic scientist
1929 Michael Atiyah educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England)
1929 Robert Wade-Gery diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1929 Victoria Opoku-Ware Ghanaian queen
1931 Robert Dickson Canada, ice hockey player (1948)
1931 Henk Gortzak Dutch MP (CPN/PSP)
1931 Ronald Hynd British choreographer (English National Ballet)
1931 Siem Vroom Dutch actor (The Lift, Bridge Too Far, Mysteries)
1932 Michael Colgrass Chicago IL, composer (Best Wishes)
1933 John A Llewellyn Cardiff Wales, astronaut
1933 Robin Hutton merchant banker
1934 David Ratford diplomat
1934 John K Barlow English rubberplanter/financier/multi-millionaire
1934 Nico Ladenis British restauranteur (Nico at 90)/=
1934 Viscount Portman British landowner/multi-millionaire
1935 Christopher Ball linguist/warden (Keble College-Oxford)
1936 Glen Campbell Delight AR, actor/singer (Rhinestone Cowboy, By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston, Wichita Lineman)
1937 Jack Nicholson Neptune NJ, actor (As Good As It Gets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
1937 Bobbi Fiedler (Representative-Republican-CA, 1981- )
1937 David Summerscale head master (Westminster School England)
1937 Jack Nitzsche composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman)
1937 Ken[neth] Palmer cricketer (1-190 in only Test for England, now Test umpire)
1938 Alan Bond tycoon/yachtsman
1939 Jason Miller Scranton PA, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day)
1939 John Chilcot civil servant
1939 John Foley Major-General
1940 Peter Goldstein joint founder (Superdrug)
1943 Mel Carter singer (Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me)
1943 Steve Dunne cricketer (New Zealand Test umpire on international panel)
1944 Joshua Rifkin composer
1945 Alan Dukes Irish President (Fine Gael
1945 Donald Graham US businessman(?)
1945 Gielijn Escher Dutch postage stamp artist
1945 Robert Key MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage
1946 Dectuplets Bacacay Brazil, 8 males & 2 females
1946 Archy Kirkwood MP (L-D)
1947 Barry Guy composer
1948 Carole Drinkwater actress (Father, All Creatures Great & Small)
1949 Spencer Haywood Silver City MS, NBA star (Seattle Supersonics, New York Knicks, Olympics-gold-1968)
1950 Jancis Robinson wine writer/broadcaster
1950 Lewis Biggs curator (Tate Gallery-North Liverpool)
1950 Peter Frampton Kent England, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
1952 Steve Bond Haifa Israel, actor (Jimmy Lee Holt-General Hospital, To Die For)
1954 Joseph Bottoms Santa Barbara CA, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date)
1955 Arthur Baker rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock)
1957 Alan Campbell Homestead FL, actor (EZ-3's a Crowd)
1957 Ethel White WBL guard (New York Stars)
1958 Ashraf Ali cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistani mid-80s)
1958 Ken Olandt actor (April Fool's Day, Imposter, Leprechaun)
1959 Catherine Mary Stewart Edmonton Alberta Canada, actress (Passion & Paradise, Riding the Edge)
1959 Nicky Le Roux South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta champion-15th)
1959 Ranjan Madugalle cricketer (pioneer of Sri Lanka's Test teams)
1959 Ryan Stiles Seattle WA, actor (Lewis-Drew Carey Show)
196- Brooke McCarter Philadelphia PA, actor (Paul-The Lost Boys)
1960 Lloyd Honeyghan English welterweight boxing champion (1986)
1961 Byron Allen Los Angeles CA, comedian (Real People, Byron Allen Show)
1961 Jeff Hostetler NFL quarterback (New York Giants, Raiders, Redskins/1990 Superbowl)
1961 Jimmy Key Huntsville AL, pitcher (Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Orioles)
1962 David Wettlaufer Kitchener Ontario Canada, golfer (Ontario Beefeater-1986, 87)
1962 Denise Baldwin Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury)
1964 Bob McCann NBA forward (Washington Bullets)
1964 Chris Makepeace Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs, Oasis)
1966 Glenn Parker NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs)
1966 Serge Poudrier hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1967 Bart Bowen Albuquerque NM, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1967 Harvey Williams NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1967 Mike Buck NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 Sheryl Lee Boulder CO, actress (Twin Peaks, Love Lies & Murder)
1968 Bimbo Coles NBA guard (Golden State Warriors)
1968 Carlos Costa Spain, tennis star
1968 Jo Angel cricketer (big Western Australia right-arm fast bowler, Australia 1993-)
1968 Vernell Coles basketball player (Olympics-bronze-1988)
1968 Zarley Zalapski Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1969 Craig Logan Scotland, rock bassist (Brothers Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey)
1969 Bobby Olive NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 George Williams Lacrosse WI, catcher (Oakland A's)
1969 Roger Jones NFL center (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 Claus Biedermann WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 Coleman Bell NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1971 Ingo Rademacher German Federal Republic, actor (Jasper Jacks-General Hospital)
1971 James Burton NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1971 Milos Holan Bilovec Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 Nicklas Kulti Sweden, tennis star
1972 Anna Falchi Tampera Finland, actress (La Dolce Vita '90)
1972 Sabine Appelmans Aalst Belgium, tennis star (Strasbourg doubles final)
1973 Christopher Sanders tight end (Washington Redskins)
1973 Scott Fields NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 Scott Nemes actor (Ricky Halsenbach-The Wonder Years, Grant Schumacker-It's Garry Shandling)
1974 Adam Parfitt Victoria British Columbia Canada, rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Georgia Goettmann model (Cosmopolitan-May 1995)
1975 Brian Manning wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1975 Stijn Haeldermans Belgian soccer player (MVV)
1976 Milena Mayorga Miss El Salvador-Universe (1996)
1980 Aaron Metchnik Santa Barbara CA, actor (Stephen-Torkelsons)
1980 Monica Flammer Gainesville FL, gymnast (alternate-Olympics-96)
1985 Lauri Hendler Fort Belvoir VA, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)

Deaths which occurred on April 22:

0536 Agapitus I Italian Pope (535-36), dies
1253 Elias van Cortona Italian General (1232-39), dies at about 53
1355 Eleonora Plantagenet daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36
1462 Gilbert of Lannoy master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies
1521 Juan de Padilla Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded
1592 Bartolommeo Ammanati Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80
1648 Catharina Belgian van Nassau daughter of Willem, dies at 69
1662 John Tradescant traveller/gardener, dies
1672 Georg Stiernhielm Swedish scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
1677 Wenzel E Fürst von Lobkowitz Austria chancellor (16..-74), dies at 68
1699 Hans A baron von Abschatz Silesian poet, dies at 53
1722 Pieter Erberfeld German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
1778 James Hargreaves inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1782 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer, dies at 66
1788 Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch poet, dies 46
1821 John Crome [Old Crome] English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52
1827 Thomas Rowlandson caricaturist, dies
1830 Knud L Rahbek Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1833 Richard Trevithick inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1844 Henri-Montan Berton composer, dies at 76
1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten US Union General-Major, dies at 76
1865 Francis Washburn US Union Colonel/General Major, dies of injuries
1883 Octave Fouque composer, dies at 38
1892 Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo composer, dies at 69
1899 E J [Ned] Gregory cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
1901 William Stubbs historian/bishop, dies
1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman British premier (1905-08), dies
1929 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich composer, dies at 86
1930 Jeppe Aakjær Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63
1933 Frederick Henry Royce motorcar pioneer, dies
1941 Arthur Briscoe cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies
1944 Mezio Agostini composer, dies at 68
1945 Käthe Kollwitz German graphic artist, dies at 77
1946 Harlan Fiske Stone Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73
1946 Lionel Atwill actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
1950 Charles H Houston architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
1951 Stanley Ridges actor (possessed, Sergeant York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
1953 Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N] Dutch writer, dies at 75
1957 Ignatius Roy D Campbell British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1961 Maria Radulphus [Adrian Hermus] Curaçao school inspector, dies at 91
1962 Solomon Pimsleur composer, dies at 61
1962 Vera Reynolds actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
1967 Tom Conway actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
1975 Mary Philips actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
1976 Frutuoso de Lima Viana composer, dies at 79
1977 Charles Sanford orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
1978 Will[iam Auge] Geer actor (Grandpa-The Waltons), dies from a respiratory ailment at 75
1980 Jane Froman singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor president (National Geographic Society), dies at 80
1983 Earl "Fatha" Hines US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
1984 Ansel Adams US photographer, dies at 82
1986 Mircea Eliade writer, dies
1988 Irene Rich US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
1989 Huey Newton US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1990 Bertil Unger actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
1992 Billy Wayne White murderer, executed in Texas at 34
1992 Joop [Joseph] van Santen Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
1992 Youcca Troubatzkoy actress (Flower of the Night), dies
1993 Andries Treurnicht founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72
1993 Cesar Chavez US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1993 Mark Koenig baseball shortstop (New York Yankees), dies at 88
1994 D Nauta theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
1994 Denis Pitts journalist, dies at 64
1994 Jack Alexander Bently trombonist, dies at 80
1994 Richard Milhous Nixon 37th US President (1969-74), dies of stroke at 81
1994 Schmidt Hans Burkhardt artist, dies at 89
1995 Don Pullen pianist/composer, dies at 53
1995 Maggie Kuhn activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
1996 David Shipman film historian, dies at 63
1996 Erma Bombeck humorist (Grass is Greener over the Septic Tank), dies at 69
1996 Hiteshwar Saikia PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies

On this day...Events

0687 -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra
0296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0536 St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1073 Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1370 Bastille begins being built in Paris France
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1509 Henry VIII ascends to throne to become King of England
1521 French king François I declares war on Spain
1526 1st slave revolt occurs in South Carolina
1529 Treaty of Saragosa Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
1648 English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed
1659 Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1662 Royal Society incorporates
1671 King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1674 Netherlands & Münster sign peace treaty
1676 Battle of Etna - Netherlands/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1677 Battle at Catania between French & Dutch fleet
1692 Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft
1722 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
1728 Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus", premieres in Paris France
1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1793 President George Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1796 Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
1804 Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1809 Battle at Eckmühl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl
1817 Curaçao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
1823 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1823 R J Tyers patents roller skates
1838 English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
1861 Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces
1864 US mints 2¢ coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1876 1st National League game, Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5; Philadelphia Athletics Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1876 Tchaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bicycle trip around the world (2 years 9 months)
1884 US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; as many as nine out of ten of these settlers had jumped the gun, earning themselves the name "Sooners"
1893 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1893 Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time
1897 NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (stiil active)
1898 1st Spanish-American War action USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1898 Baltimore Oriole James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
1898 Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1898 Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1898 US President William McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1903 American Power Boat Association forms
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
1905 Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature Monument in Amsterdam
1906 Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC
1906 New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
1908 Queensland beat New South Wales by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1914 Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
1914 México ends diplomatic relations with US
1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI
1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
1915 New York Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
1916 France battles at Fort Douaumont
1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region is established in Georgian SSR
1924 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms, Netherlands
1926 Persia, Turkey & Afghánistán sign treaties of security
1927 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1930 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty to reduce naval forces
1931 Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1933 Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1943 German counter attack in North-Tunisia
1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
1944 Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
1945 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1946 SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1947 1st NBA Championship Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2
1948 WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob NV
1952 Eugène Ionesco's "Les Chaises", premieres in NYC
1954 NBA adopts the 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
1954 Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
1954 USSR joins UNESCO
1955 Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
1955 Kansas City Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2
1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1957 All National League teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
1959 Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors
1959 New York Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Washington Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
1961 Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria
1962 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open
1962 New York Mets tie a National League record by losing 9 straight to start season
1962 Pittsburgh Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
1962 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
1964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens
1966 Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4
1966 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1967 Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1969 1st human eye transplant performed
1969 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1:36 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1970 New York Mets' Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
1970 New York Mets' Tom Seaver consecutively strikes out 10 San Diego Padres, for a total of 19
1970 Washington Senators beat New York Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
1970 "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1970 Flat Earth celebrated
1971 Soyuz 10 launched
1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon
1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1977 Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
1978 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1978 'The Blues Brothers' (Dan Akroyd and John Belushi) make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live
1979 Keith Richards and The New Barbarians give a concert to benefit the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Ottawa Canada
1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers on strike
1981 Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton
1983 New York Rangers 2-New York Islanders 5-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders win series 4-2
1983 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1983 Stern magazine announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1983 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1984 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1988 Women are allowed to compete in the Little 500 bicycle race in Bloomington IN, for the 1st time
1988 New Jersey Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 points in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1989 "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances
1990 "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
1990 Lebanon releases US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1991 Intel releases the 486SX chip
1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
1991 Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panamá, kills 95
1991 Frank Thomas is 1st Chicago White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
1992 "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at Helen Hayes NYC 14 performances
1992 6.0 earthquake in California
1992 Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara México
1992 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport, California, kills 16 parachutists
1993 "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
1993 Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington DC
1993 Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
1993 Tennis star Björn Börg divorces Loredana Berte
1994 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
1994 Børge Ousland reaches North pole
1994 Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds is made
1994 Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1995 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
1995 George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-23-2006, 12:01 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 23:

1464 Johanna van Valois Queen of France
1464 Robert Fayrfax composer
1484 Julius Cæsar Scaliger Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1500 Alexander Alesius [Aless/Alane] System theologist/physician
1551 Boris Godunov tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles
1564 William Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon England, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Cæsar)
1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp naval commander
1623 Jan Adam Reincken composer
1629 John Commelin director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 Andreas Kneller composer
1697 George Baron Anson British Admiral/explorer
1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 Johann Friedrich Doles composer
1728 Samuel Wallis explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 Ildephons Haas composer
1747 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer
1756 Alexander Reinagle composer
1775 Joseph Mallord Turner England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
1791 James Buchanan Cove Gap PA, (Federalist/Democrat), 15th US President (1857-61)
1791 W Friedrich Olivier German landscape painter/cartoonist
1803 Jules J baron d'Anethan Belgian minister of Justice
1804 Guillaume Nerenburger Belgian General (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1809 Eugene-Prosper Prevost composer
1810 Thomas Wright historian
1812 Louis-Antoine Julien conductor
1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] US Senator (Lincoln debates)
1818 James Anthony Froude historian
1818 John Gill Shorter Governor (Confederacy), died in 1872
1821 Pierre Dupont song writer
1823 Abdül-Medjid 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61)
1827 Johann F Ritter von Schulte German Catholic lawyer
1828 Albert king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1838 Alfred J Verwee Flemish painter
1852 Edwin Markham US, poet (1st winner of Amer Academy of Poets Award 1937)
1855 Ernst L Wolzogen German writer/founder (Cabaret Überbrettl)
1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo Naples Italy, composer (I Medici)
1858 Max Ludwig Planck German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1861 Edmund Henry Hynman 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1867 Simon Abramsz Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1877 Arthur Farwell composer
1881 Claude Carter South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 Otakar Sini composer
1882 Albert Coates St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien Belgium, architect (WWII)
1889 Charles Warrell big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1890 Donald Nichols Tweedy composer
1890 Marcel L'Herbier French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 Sergey Prokofiev Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1891 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1892 Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Voort] Flemish writer
1892 R Huelsenbeck writer
1893 Frank Borzage Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1894 Basil Sydney St Osyth Essex England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 George Renevant Paris France, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1896 Margaret Kennedy novelist
1897 Lester Bowles Pearson (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 Lucius D Clay US, General (WWII)
1897 Harold French director (Encore)/actor
1897 John Wengraf Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay US, General (WWII)/Governor (West Germany)
1898 Edwin E Dwinger German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh Christchurch New Zealand, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew)
1899 Vladimir Nabokov St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
19-- Tina Andrews Chicago IL, actress (Sanford Arms, Valerie-Falcon Crest)
1900 Ary Verhaar composer
1900 Henry Barraud composer
1900 Joseph Green film maker
1902 Halldór Laxness Iceland, novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
1904 Duncan Renaldo Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 Leslie French actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 Lord Carew Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 Marcel Hillaire Cologne Germany, actor (Adventures in Paradise)
1906 Maria Arnoldo [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1907 Baroness Dudley
1908 Frederick Hawkins dancer
1908 Herbert Telley British actuary
1909 Thomas Padmore senior civil servant
1910 Simone Simon France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1911 Ronald Neame director (1st Monday in October, Poseidon Adventure)
1913 Jan Meyerowitz composer
1914 John Hubbard Indiana Harbor IN, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 Andrew Martin Lord-Lieutenant (Lechestershire England)
1914 Mitsu Suzuki teacher of tea ceremony at San Francisco Zen Center
1915 Arnold Hall CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
1916 Bud Wilkinson college football coach (Oklahoma)
1917 Jacob Kistemaker nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1918 Anthony Craxton British TV producer
1918 Maurice Druon [Kessel] French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
1919 Dorian Leigh San Antonio TX, model, sister of Suzy Parker
1919 Talivaldis Kenins composer
1920 Eric Yarrow CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
1920 Louis Barron composer
1921 Janet Blair Altoona PA, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family)
1921 Warren Spahn left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
1922 Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury Aruba, resistance fighter
1922 Diarmuid Downs auto engineer
1923 Avram Davidson American sci-fi writer (Joyleg, Phoenix & the Mirror, Peregrine Primus, Rork!)
1923 James Kirkup travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1923 Nathan "Dambuzza" Mdledle singer (played a major role in the evolution of South African music)
1924 Arthur Frackenpohl Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 James Colin Ross Welch columnist/critic
1924 Malcolm Anson CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
1926 James P Donleavy Brooklyn NY, novelist (The Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926 Virgil I [Gus] Grissom astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3)
1926 Richard Laws Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
1927 Russell Smith composer
1928 Shirley Temple Black Santa Monica CA, child actress (Heidi)/ambassador (UN)
1928 Bill Cotton CEO (Noel Gay TV)
1928 Okke Jager Dutch theologist/writer/poet
1929 George Steiner professor (English)
1930 Alan Oppenheimer New York NY, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
1930 Michael Bowen Roman Catholic Archbishop (Southwark)
1932 Halston [R Halston Frowick] fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
1932 Jim Fixx jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
1933 Roger Wittevrongel Flemish painter
1935 David Evans MP
1936 Elias [Etienne Michiels] Flemish painter
1936 Estelle Harris actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld)
1936 John D'Arcy cricketer (New Zealand Test batsman on 1958 England tour)
1936 Joseph Willaert Flemish painter
1936 Roy Orbison Vernon TX, rocker (Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely)
1937 Barry Shepherd cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
1937 Don Massengale Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
1937 Victoria Glendinning author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
1938 Leonard Ernest John Chant social worker
1938 Russell Hillhouse under-secretary Scottish Office
1938 Steven D Symms (Senator-Republican-ID, 1981- )
1939 David Birney Washington DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
1939 Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yearly] Wyandotte MI, TV actor (Big Valley, $6,000,000 Man, Fall Guy)
1939 Ray Peterson Denton TX, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1939 William Hagerty editor (People)
1940 Richard Monaco US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1941 Ed Stewart British DJ
1941 Hal Daub (Representative-Republican-NE, 1981- )
1943 Herve Villechaize France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1943 Tony Esposito Ontario Canada, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1943 [Gerardus] Bob van Toll actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
1943 Carmen von Thyssen Barcelona Spain, Baroness
1943 Hugh Davies composer
1944 Sandra Dee [Alexandra Zuck] Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, A Summer Place, Tammy and the Doctor, Imitation of Life)
1944 Niklaus Schilling Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold)
1947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Ireland, political activist
1947 Saskia [Trudy van den Berg] singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1948 Richard Day engineer/development expert
1948 Tessa Wyatt actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
1949 Blair Brown Washington DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
1949 John Miles vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
1949 Joyce DeWitt Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1949 Walter Sweeney MP
1951 Loek Hermans Dutch MP (VVD)
1952 Lionel Johnston Augusta GA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1952 Narada Michael Walden Kalamazoo MI, rocker/producer (I Don't Want Nobody Else, I Shoulda Loved Ya)
1952 Tony Maselli (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1952 Terry Moor Hartford CT, tennis star
1953 Fred Upton (Representative-Republican-MI)
1953 James Russo New York NY, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
1955 Captain Sensible bassist (Damned-Happy Talk)
1955 Judy Davis Perth Australia, actress (Husbands & Wives)
1955 Mike Smith British DJ
1955 Su Ingle London England, British TV hostess (Tomorrow's World)
1955 Tony Miles chess player
1956 Peter Teravainen Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer
1957 Jan Hooks Decatur GA, comedienne actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women)
1957 Kathleen Lynch Motueka New Zealand, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1959 Terri Luckhurst LPGA golfer
1960 Steve Clark Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli Wilmington DE, actress(One Day at a Time, Sydney)/ Mrs Eddie Van Halen
1960 Joseph Martin Mudd Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express)
1963 Benoit Doucet Montréal Québec Canada, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1964 Dan Frischman Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class)
1964 Gen [Simon Matthews] English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
1964 Martin Lopez-Zubero Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200 meter)
1965 Donna Weinbrecht skier (Olympics-gold)
1966 Jacques "Jacq" Koumans soccer player (NAC)
1966 Richard Greenwood Los Angeles CA, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley)
1966 Wayne Drinkwalter CFL defensive tackle (British Columbia Lions)
1967 Brent Muscat rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1967 Melina Kanakaredes Akron OH, actress (Dr Sydney Hanson-Providence, Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)
1967 Rheal Cormier New Brunswick, pitcher (Montréal Expos)
1968 Susan Emily Savastano East Providence RI, Miss Rhode Island-America (1991)
1969 Nadeem Shahid cricketer
1970 Cristiano Caratti Italy, tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles)
1970 Frank Temming WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Chuck Adams Pacific Palisades CA, tennis star (1989 USTA Boys)
1972 Rachel Hetherington Port Macquarie New South Wales, golfer (1993 New South Wales champion)
1973 Derek Armstrong Ottawa, NHL center (New York Islanders)
1973 Patrick Poulin Vanier, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Joey Kent wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 Sam Madison cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1975 Bret Anderson CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions)
1976 Tamas Buday Jr Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1981 Gabriella Windsor daughter of English prince Michael

Deaths which occurred on April 23:

0034 Christ crucified, according to Isaac Newton
0303 George knight of Cappadocië/saint/patron of England, beheaded
0871 Ethelred I king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies
0990 Ekkehart II [Palatinus] monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies
0997 Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40
1014 Brian Boru king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87
1014 Sweyn Forkbeard Viking king of England (1013-14), dies
1016 Aethelbred II "the Unready" king of England (979-1016), dies
1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616 William Shakespeare English author (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet), dies on his 52nd birthday
1625 Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange, dies at 57
1670 Loreto Vittori composer, dies at 69
1691 Jean-Henri D'Anglebert composer, dies
1695 Henry Vaughan poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
1728 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco composer, dies at 83
1732 Cajetan Kolberer composer, dies at 63
1740 Thomas Tickell poet, dies
1742 Mihael Omerza composer, dies at 62
1762 Johann Samuel Endler composer, dies at 67
1774 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich painter, dies
1786 Alexander Cozens English water colors painter, dies at about 68
1812 Franz Sebastian Haindl composer, dies at 85
1827 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
1838 John W Janssens Governor-General of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75
1847 Erik Gustaf Geijer composer, dies at 64
1850 William Wordsworth poet, dies at 80
1853 Auguste Laurent chemist, dies
1865 James Dearing US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 24
1878 Friedrich Preller landscape painter, dies
1880 Guess Saleh [Sarief Bastaman] Javanese painter, dies
1885 William Henry Holmes composer, dies at 73
1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig physiologist, dies
1897 Clement Harris composer, dies at 25
1905 Karel Komzak composer, dies at 54
1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
1918 Percy Thomson Dean Lieutenant-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
1925 André Caplet French composer (Le miroir de Jésus), dies at 45
1926 Joseph Pennell artist/author, dies
1929 Rudolf W Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
1943 Fréderic baron d'Erlanger French composer/banker, dies at 74
1945 Albrecht Haushofer writer, dies at 42
1946 Jesus Castillo composer, dies at 68
1952 Elisabeth Schumann singer, dies
1952 Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Neart] Flemish writer, dies at 60
1955 Robert H Woltjer classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
1957 William Orlamond actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1960 Toyohiko Kagawa Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1962 Stirling Moss auto racer, killed while racing at 32
1965 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
1969 Krzystzof Komeda composer, dies at 37
1970 Herb Shriner humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1971 William Tubman President of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
1973 Otto Eissfeldt German old testament scholar, dies at 85
1975 Pete Ham rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
1975 R D Brinkmann writer, dies
1975 William Hartnell actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
1976 James Flavin actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
1976 Shimen Ruskin actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
1976 Ronald Radd actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
1980 Jane Froman US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1983 Buster Crabbe 400 meter US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor, dies from a heart attack in Scottsdale AZ at 76
1983 Selena Royale actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
1984 August "Guus" Oster actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
1985 Kent Smith actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
1985 Sam J Ervin Jr (Senator-Democrat-NC), dies at 88
1986 Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck] US composer, murdered at 81
1986 Jim Laker cricketer (193 wickets for England at 21 24), dies
1986 Otto Preminger director (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1988 Arthur Michael Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1990 Albert Salmi (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
1990 Palmer Deane actor (Still of the Night), dies
1990 Paulette Goddard actress (Hazard), dies of heart failure in Ronco Switzerland at 78
1991 Peter Bailey Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
1992 Deron Johnson 1965 National League run leader, dies of cancer at 53
1992 Satyajit Ray Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
1992 Victoria Kellem Lederman model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
1993 Bertus Aafjes poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
1993 Lalith Athulathmudali Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
1994 Cecile Dreesmann son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
1995 Howard Cosell sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 John Stennis (Senator-Democrat-MS), dies at 93
1995 Lonesome Sundown blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
1995 Robert Selby Taylor bishop, dies at 86
1996 Leonard Kuntstat blues discographer, dies at 70
1996 Pamela Lyndon Travers writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96

On this day...Events

1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
1500 Pedro Álvarez Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1705 Richard Steele's "Tender Husband", premieres in London
1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1775 The opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks
1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York NY
1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1860 Democratic convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith
1861 Battle of San Antonio TX
1864 Battle of Cane River LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience or Bunthorne's Bride" produced in London
1883 John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
1900 1st known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal)
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2
1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn", premieres in NYC
1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends
1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1918 National Urban League forms
1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1921 Charles Paddock runs world record 100 meter (10.4 seconds)
1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
1925 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1936 Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1939 1st performance of Béla Bartók's 2nd Concerto for violin
1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st homerun
1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez MS)
1940 New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazi's RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco
1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phillies 6, Braves 5)
1950 4th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2
1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1950 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
1952 Bob Cain of St Louis Browns & Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only homerun
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1954 NBA adopts the 24-second shot clock rule
1955 "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1955 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances
1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1960 1st performance of Ferde Grofé's "San Francisco Suite"
1961 "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1
1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1963 Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me", premieres at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 performances
1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Cincinnati Reds win 1-0
1964 James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie", premieres in NYC
1964 New York State Theater opens
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty when its parachute lines became tangled and the parachutes failed to open properly upon return to Earth
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1968 "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
1969 Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1971 Soyuz 10 launched; soft docked with Salyut 1
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore Moon surface
1972 26th Tony Awards Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
1972 Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", premieres in London
1977 Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms
1977 Military workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1978 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1978 Cincinnati Red Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143 vs Sri Lanka
1984 AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 New Coke debuts
1985 Philadelphia Flyers 5-New York Islanders 3-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7 seconds)
1987 28 construction workers killed in an apartment building collapse in Bridgeport CT
1987 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47:06)
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker
1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
1990 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
1991 Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs Australia, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1993 Mötley Crüe's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy", premieres in NYC
1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
1995 President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM
1996 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-takes in $34.5 million
1997 "Titanic", opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards LeAnn Rines, Brooks & Dunn win
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-24-2006, 01:53 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 24:

1538 Gugliemo Gonzaga composer
1576 San Vicente de Paúl
1594 Benedikt Lechler composer
1620 John Graunt statistician, founder of science of demography
1660 Cornelis Dusart Dutch painter/engraver
1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg composer
1706 Giovanni Battista Martini composer
1721 Johann Philipp Kirnberger German composer, baptised
1742 Roman Hoffstetter composer
1743 Edmund Cartwright England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier Swiss mathematician
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas founded Farmer's Almanac
1769 Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington
1773 Harman W Muntinghe lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1791 Nikolaj A Bestuzhev Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796 K L Immermann writer
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge Commander (Union Navy)
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts philanthropist extrordinaire
1814 Vincente F López Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815 Anthony Trollope England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 James Edward Harrison Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 Fournier Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828 Robert Brank Vance Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 George Peabody Estey Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper Dutch feminist
1837 Friedrich von Holstein German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 Carl Spitteler Switzerland, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus/Nobel 1919)
1849 Joseph S Galliéni General (Battle of Marne)/military governor (Paris)
1851 Eduardo Acevedo Díaz Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856 Henri POBJ Pétain French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864 George Alting van Geusau Director-General (PTT)/Dutch Minister of War (1918-20)
1867 Fannie Thomas became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873 Theodor Körner von Siegringen Austrian General/President
1874 John Russell Pope US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 Willem E Roelofs Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875 Jeno Huszka composer
1877 Charles Cuvillier composer
1883 Jaroslav Hasek Czechoslovakia, writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886 Kurt Pinthus writer
1886 R Pelgrom oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1889 [Richard] Stafford Cripps English Minister of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1892 Jack Hulbert Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893 Robert Harron New York NY, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895 S Constantine Timoshenko Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf linguist (or 1797)
1897 Gyorgy Kosa composer
19-- Colleen Quinn actress (Carly Rescott-Loving)
19-- John Vargas actor (Lorenzo Delgado-Primary Colors)
1903 Mike Michalske NFL guard (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903 José A Primo de Rivera y Saénz de Heredia founder (Spanish Falange)
1903 Siegfried F Nadel Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1904 Friedrich Siemens German industrialist (Siemens), dies
1904 Willem De Kooning Rotterdam Netherlands, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1905 Robert Penn Warren 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1907 Vaclav Trojan composer
1909 Bernhard Grzimek zoologist (West Germany)
1909 Irven Spence animator
1911 Jack E Leonard Chicago IL, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911 Karl O Schiller German economist (Minister of Economics)
1911 Robert Joseph Kane Ithaca NY, President of US Olympic Committee (1976)
1911 Sigursveinn David Kristinsson composer
1914 Bernard Caulfield judge
1914 Justin Wilson cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914 Ruth White Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1916 Stanley Kauffmann New York NY, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1917 Len Creed bookmaker
1921 Laci Boldemann composer
1922 J D Cannon Salmon ID, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1924 Marilyn Erskine Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924 Yehoshua Lakner composer
1927 Josy Barthel Luxembourg, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1952)
1927 Pasqualino de Santis cinematographer
1927 Patrick Bowles writer/translator
1928 Gustav Krivinka composer
1929 Ferit Tuzun composer
1930 Conn Findlay Stockton CA, coxswain (Olympics-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
1931 Bridget Riley British painter (op-art)
1932 Coen[rad] Flink Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1933 Freddie Scott US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1934 John Barbour Toronto Ontario Canada, TV host (Real People)
1934 Shirley MacLaine Richmond VA, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
1935 Louis Keith Chicago IL, physician (expert on multiple-births)
1936 Jill Ireland London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
1940 David Larter cricketer (two-metre tall England pace bowler)
1941 John Williams Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Academy Award)
1942 Barbra [Joan] Streisand Brooklyn NY, singer/actress/award winner (Funny Girl, The Way We Were)
1942 Richard M Daley (mayor-Democrat-Chicago)
1942 Valeri Abramovich Voloshin Russian cosmonaut
1943 Richard Sterban Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun] US singer (Rock the Boat)
1945 Doug Clifford Palo Alto CA, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 Eugene O'Brien composer
1945 Robert Knight Franklin TN, rocker (Everlasting Love)
1946 Bruce Stuart Saylor composer
1947 Glenn Cornick rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1947 Hubert Ann Kelly US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
1948 Benzion Freshwater English multi-millionaire
1948 Eddie James Hart Martinez CA, 4x100 meter relay runner (Olympics-gold-72)
1949 Wilfrido [Radamés] Vargas [Martínez] Altamira Puerto Plata Dominican Republic, Spanish singer (El Barbarazoí)
1951 Andrew John Fairclough trade union educator
1953 Porter Carroll Jr drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1953 Eric Bogosian Woburn MA, actor (Talk Radio)
1953 John P Hiler (Representative-Republican-IN, 1981- )
1954 Captain Sensible [Raymond Burns] Balham London England, rocker (Women & Captains First)
1954 Jack Blades rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger)
1954 Vince Ferragamo NFL/CFL quarterback (Los Angeles Rams, Montréal Alouettes)
1955 Jack Kingston (Representative-Republican-GA)
1955 Michael O'Keefe Mount Vernon NY, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife)
1957 Tricia Lange Hollywood CA, playmate (June 1984)
1958 Fernando Luna Spain, tennis star
1959 Yvonne D Cagle West Point NY, MD/astronaut
1960 Paula Yates London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes)
1963 Joey Vera heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
1963 Billy Gould Los Angeles CA, rock bassist (Faith No More)
1965 Mike Blowers Wurlzburg Germany, infielder (New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers)
1966 Margashayam Venkataramana cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989)
1966 Pascale Paradis-Mangon France, tennis star
1966 Theo Adams WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 Dino Radja NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1967 Leslie M Marx Fort Belvoir VA, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1967 Pam[ela] Bustin Somerset MA, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1968 Aaron Comes rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968 Mark Vanderloo Waddenveen Netherlands, model
1968 Todd Jones Marietta GA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 Tracy Gravely CFL linebacker (Montréal Alouettes)
1970 Damien Fleming Australian cricket pace bowler (hat-trick on Test debut)
1970 Emanuela Zardo Switzerland, tennis star
1971 Jeff Brohm quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1971 Ken Klee Indianapolis IN, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1971 Kumara Dharmasena cricketer (Sri Lankan off-spinner)
1971 Phil Rogers Adelaide SA Australia, 100 meter breaststroker (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1972 Chipper Jones Deland FL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1972 Jamie Brown NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Nicolas Gill Montréal Québec Canada, 86kg judoka (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1973 Eric Snow NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers, Seattle Supersonics)
1973 Jamie Brown NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1973 Mark Babic Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Melissa Short Kaaawa HI, Miss Hawaii-America (Top 10-1997)
1973 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian captain at 23)
1973 Ville Peltonen hockey forward (Team Finland Olympics-bronze-1998)
1974 Jared Tomich defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1974 Marc Collins NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 Toine Rorije soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1975 Justin Boocock Launceston Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1975 Michael Stewart NBA center (Sacramento Kings)
1976 Shane McDermott actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing)
1976 Sonya Jeyaseelan Newestminster British Columbia Canada, tennis star (1995 Futures Florida)
1977 Ryan Mitchell Port Augusta SA Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1987 Michael [Mickey] Tylo son of US actor Michael Tylo/actress [Deborah] Hunter Tylo
1992 Sean Rademaker actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World)

Deaths which occurred on April 24:

0709 Wilfried bishop of York, dies at about 76
0729 Egbert[us] English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
1077 Geza I King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
1185 Antoku Taira emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1530 Jacopo Sannazaro Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
1617 Carlo Concino French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered
1731 Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1758 Florian Wrastill composer, dies at 41
1776 Carolus van de Abeele Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1776 Giuseppi Paolucci composer, dies at 49
1824 Herman Muntinghe theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1827 Pierre Joseph Candielle composer, dies at 82
1848 François van Campenhout Belgian composer (Brabançonne), dies at 69
1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni composer, dies at 70
1855 Walenty Karol Kratzer composer, dies at 75
1875 Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura composer, dies at 58
1891 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke Prussian General/fieldmarshal, dies
1900 George J D Campbell British minister of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
1904 Friedrich Siemens German industrial, dies at 77
1912 Justin M'Carthy politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81
1917 Oskar Blumenthal writer, dies
1922 Richard Batka composer, dies at 53
1924 George Street English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies
1928 Ferdinand B Hummel composer, dies at 72
1935 Paul Klengel composer, dies at 80
1936 Alphons Diepenbrock composer, dies at 73
1936 Bernard van Dieren composer, dies at 51
1939 John Foulds composer, dies at 58
1943 Gerardus H de Hare socialist vicar, dies at 63
1945 Anton de Kom Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1945 Hubert Bath composer, dies at 61
1948 Joseph Wihtol composer, dies at 84
1948 Manuel Marua Ponce Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
1948 Rosita Marstini actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1952 Jules Poncelet Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1955 Alfred Polgar Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
1956 Albrecht G Alt German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
1956 Henry Stephenson actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
1957 Andries CD de Graeff Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1959 Jef van Hoof composer, dies at 72
1960 John P "John" Musch actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
1961 Lee Moran actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1965 Louise Dresser actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1967 Frank Overton actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
1967 Vladimir M Komarov cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 at 40
1968 Norman McKaye actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
1968 Tommy Noonan actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
1974 Bud Abbott comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1975 William Hartnell actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67
1976 Mark Tobey US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85
1979 John Carroll actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
1980 Alentejo Carpentier Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75
1985 Sergei Yutkevich Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1986 Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) dies
1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1986 Bill Edrich cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies
1988 E S "Bob" Newson cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies
1990 Joseph Leberman entertainer, dies
1990 Tom Rolfing actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
1991 J de Graaf ethicus/president church & peace, dies
1993 Oliver R Tambo chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1995 Douglas Gunsekera banker, dies at 77
1996 Donald Cammell film director, dies at 62
1996 Preston Lockwood actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
1997 Pat Paulsen comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69

On this day...Events

0858 Nicolas I succeeds Benedict III as Catholic Pope
1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1185 Battle at Danoura Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311 General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1524 Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547 Battle of Mühlberg Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1558 Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince François
1570 Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596 Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 "Boston News-Letter", 1st successful newspaper in US, is established
1762 Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation
1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1823 Eugène Scribes "Le Menteur Véridique", premieres in Paris France
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty
1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham MS (Grierson's Raid)
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (San Francisco)
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond VA streetcars
1871 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta GA)
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1894 Philadelphia Phillies' Lave Cross hits for the cycle vs Brooklyn Dodgers
1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901 1st American League game, Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905 Washington Senators execute a triple-play & beat New York Yankees 4-3
1905 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey vs Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes
1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100 meter 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 Pittsburgh's Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1923 General harbor strike begins in New York NY
1925 88ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in April
1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings (Dick Bartell)
1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 RAF bombs Munich
1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1949 3rd Tony Awards Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
1950 "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
1951 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P R Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination ends
1955 Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 American League umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1957 Chicago Cub pitchers walk National League record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958 Lee Walls hits 3 homerunS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959 Netherlands Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 14th Tony Awards Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960 Record 4 grand slams hit today
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963 Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy retires
1963 17th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1965 New York Mets' Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1966 Atlanta Braves win National League-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1967 21st NBA Championship Philadelphia 76ers beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 2
1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York NY
1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead
1969 General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
1970 People's Rebublic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 Senegal adopts constitution
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1971 "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 performance
1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1978 Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1982 St Louis Cardinals win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Philadelphia Phillies
1983 "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 Edmonton Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1989 Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China
1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa", premieres in Dublin
1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins
1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater NYC for 108 performances
1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992 Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
1993 ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1993 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
1994 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1994 Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1994 Armando Calderón Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994 David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1994 New York Rangers sweep New York Islanders in NHL playoffs
1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1995 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1996 "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 performances
1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards Shania Twain wins
1996 Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
1997 "Steel Peer", opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:27 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 25:

1214 Louis IX king of France (1226-70)
1228 Koenraad IV Roman Catholic German king (1237-54)
1284 Edward II king of England (1307-27)
1567 Aurelio Signoretti composer
1599 Oliver Cromwell Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1608 Jean duke of Orléans brother of French King Louis XIII/General
1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini composer
1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer
1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)
1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat composer
1710 James Ferguson astronomer
1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini composer
1730 Fedele Fenaroli composer
1769 Mark Isambard Brunel engineer/inventor
1792 John Keble Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer
1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger painter
1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd US, standardized time zones
1837 William Charles Levey composer
1840 James Dearing Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 Pauline Lucca soprano
1842 Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1849 Felix Klein German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
1862 Edward Grey English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
1867 Jean Demoor Belgian physician/physiologist
1869 Karl Prohaska composer
1871 Sara Amsel Indonesian/Dutch actress
1872 Charles Burgess Fry cricketer/world record long jumper
1873 Walter De la Mare English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer)
1874 Guglielmo Marconi Bologna Italy, inventor (radio/Nobel 1909)
1876 Ruben Marcos Campos composer
1881 Hans Windisch German new testament expert
1883 Elsa Maxwell Keokuk IA, writer (Jack Paar Show)
1889 Charles Kellaway cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
1895 Stanley Rous British soccer official
1897 Haro Levoni Step'anyan composer
1897 VAA Mary English princess
19-- Pamela Brull Monterey Park CA, actress (Princess Maya-Secret Empire)
1900 Lord [Hubert Miles] Gladwyn [Jebb] MP (Liberal)
1900 Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Austria, physicist (Pauli inhibition/Nobel 1945)
1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann composer
1903 Camilla Horn actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol)
1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen composer
1905 Hugh Willatt solicitor/public servant
1905 Walter Hassan engineer
1906 Sally Salminen writer
1906 William J Brennan Jr Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90)
1906 Zoltan Gardonyi composer
1907 Paula Trueman New York NY, actress (Gran-Billy)
1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer
1908 Edward R Murrow Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
1909 Jaroslav Doubrava composer
1912 Gladys L Presley mother of Elvis
1913 Earl Bostic Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1913 Russ Conway Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
1914 Claude Mauriac writer
1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez President/dictator Venezuela
1915 A J A Quintus Bosz Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1915 William Goyen writer
1918 Astrid Varnay Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Metropolitan Opera 1941-56)
1918 [Ibolyka] Astridm Varnay Hungarian/US singer (Walküre)
1918 Ella Fitzgerald Newport News VA, jazz singer (The First Lady of Song, Is it live or Memorex, A-Tisket A-Tasket)
1919 Heinz Wunderlich composer
1920 Jean Carmet actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
1920 Marre reformer of the bar
1921 Jean Mogin Belgian poet
1921 Karel Appel painter (Vragende Children)
1923 Albert King Indianola MS, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1923 Anita Bjorak actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
1923 Melissa Hayden Toronto Ontario Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
1923 Aafje J R Bouber [Blom] actress (Traveller Without Baggage)
1923 Francis Graham-Smith British astronomer
1924 Erzsebet Szonyi composer
1924 Franco Mannino composer
1925 Flannery O'Connor short story writer (or 03/25)
1925 Anthony Christopher British trade unionist
1926 Paul Walter Furst composer
1927 Ernst Widmer composer
1929 José Angel Valente Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza)
1929 Yvette Corlett athlete
1929 Yvette Williams New Zealand, long jumper (Olympics-gold-52)
1930 Dotty Mack Cincinatti OH, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
1930 Lynn Hamilton Yazoo City MS, actress (Alice Morgan-Port Charles, Donna-Sanford & Son)
1930 Paul Mazursky Brooklyn NY, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
1930 Roy Marshall cricket opener (prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for West Indies)
1931 David Shepherd painter
1932 Lia Manoliu Romania, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-1968)
1932 Meadowlark [George] Lemon basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter)
1932 William Roache England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street)
1933 Helen Paling British circuit judge
1933 Jerry Leiber songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
1934 Denny "Scott" Miller Bloomington IN, actor (Wagon Train)
1934 David de Peyer cancer research campaigner
1937 Bo Brundin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
1937 Thomas Faber publisher
1939 Richard Earl of Lichfield English photographer
1939 Veronica Sutherland British diplomat
1940 Al Pacino New York NY, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
1940 Marian Norrie
1940 O B McClinton [Burnett] Senatobia MS, country singer (Keep your arms around me)
1941 Bertrand Tavernier actor (Captain Conan, L627, Daddy Nostalgie)
1941 Chris Augustine rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1941 Lawrence J Smith (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- )
1942 John Martin Dalby composer
1942 Jon Kyl (Representative-Republican-AZ)
1944 John Bryant editor (Europeans)
1945 Björn Ulvaeus Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)
1945 Stu Cook Oakland CA, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 Walt Wesley NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers)
1945 Michael Kogel rocker
1946 Talia [Rose Coppola] Shire Jamaica NY, actress (Adrian-Rocky, Constanzia Corleone-Godfather)
1946 Digby Fairweather jazz trumpeter
1946 Peter Sutherland CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
1946 Ronnie Gilbert rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1946 Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
1947 Bill Fontana composer
1947 Jeffrey DeMunn Buffalo NY, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City)
1947 Johan Cruyff Dutch soccer player/coach (Ajax/Barcelona)
1948 Mike Selvey cricketer (England pace bowler of late 70's)
1949 Michael Brown New York NY, keyboardist/songwriter (The Left Banke-Walk Away Renee)
1950 Steve Ferrone Brighton England, drummer (Average White Band)
1951 Ian McCartney MP
1951 Linda Stone pharmacist
1952 Cory Day Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1952 Vladislav Tretiak USSR hockey player (Olympics-gold-1972, 76)
1953 Gary Cosier cricketer (Australian batsman 1975-78, 109 on debut vs West Indies)
1954 Rob Crosby Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
1955 Buster Mottram tennis player
1955 Joanne Abbott Sarnia Ontario Canada, yachter (Olympics-96)
1955 John Nunn British chess player
1957 Eric "The Crafty Cockney" Bristow London England, dart thrower (5 World Masters titles)
1958 Fish [Derek William Dick] Edinburgh Scotland, rock vocalist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1958 Chris Johnson Arcata CA, LPGA golfer (1990 Atlantic City Classic)
1958 Flab rocker
1959 Billy Rankin Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1959 Tony Phillips Atlanta GA, baseballoutfielder Chicago White Sox
1964 Andy Bell rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour)
1964 Jackie Campbell Los Angeles CA, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-5th-1993)
1964 Jamie Siddons cricketer (Victorian & SA batsman ODI for Australia 1988)
1965 Denis Perez hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1965 Mark Bryant NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets)
1966 Darren Holmes Asheville NC, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Isabelle Pasco France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
1967 Angel Martino Americus GA, 50 meter/100 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold/2 bronze-92, 96)
1969 Darren Woodson NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Gavin Bruk-Jackson cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 Jon Olsen US, 100 meter freestyle/400 meter/800 meter medley (Olympics-gold-1992, 96)
1969 Marisa Pedulla Bellefonte PA, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 Nir Shental Israel, Men's 470 yachter (Olympics-15th-1996)
1969 Sanjeeva Ranatunga cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman 1994- )
1969 Travis Fryman Lexington KY, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 Corwin Brown NFL safety (New York Jets, New England Patriots)
1970 Steve Tovar NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Andrew Grigg CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Brad Clontz Stuart VA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 Eric England NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Joël Bourgeois Moncton New Brunswick, 3000 meter Steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1971 Michelle Harris Newark DE, Miss Delaware-America (1996)
1971 Pam Schaffrath Chicago IL, female catcher (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1972 Percell Gaskins linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Alek Stojanov Windsor, NHL right wing (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1973 Barbara Rittner Krefeld German Federal Republic, tennis star (1992 Schenectady)
1973 Paige Gordon North Vancouver British Columbia Canada, diver (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1973 Wes Martin Calgary Alta, golfer (1990 Alberta Jr Masters-2nd)
1974 Brad Hassell Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 Libor Prochazka hockey defenseman (Team Czechoslovakia Olympics-gold-1998)
1974 Tricia Dunn ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1974 Twan Russell linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1975 Ruben Gomez rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1975 Jacque Jones San Diego CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Tim Duncan NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1977 Jonathan Angel San Francisco CA, actor (Tommy Delucca-Saved By The Bell)
1977 Marguerite Moreau actress (Connie-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1985 Jonathan Halyalkar Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)

Deaths which occurred on April 25:

0974 Ratherius of Verona/Liege bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
1295 Sancho IV the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/León, dies
1342 Benedict XII [Jacques Fournier] Pope (1334-42), dies
1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
1482 Margaret of Anjou Queen (Henry VI), dies
1566 Diane de Poitiers lover of French King Henry II, dies
1595 Torquato Tasso Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51
1607 Don Juan Alvarez Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
1607 Jacob van Heemskerck Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
1635 Alessandro Tassoni Italian political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69
1647 Matthias Gallas Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62
1663 Heinrich Pape composer, dies at 53
1690 David Teniers the Younger Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
1728 John Woodward geologist/physician, dies
1744 Anders Celsius Swedish astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42
1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann composer, dies at 54
1792 Nicolas J Pelletier Frenchman, first to be guillotined
1800 William Cowper English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini composer, dies at 66
1813 Louis-Sébastien Mercier French poet (Le Déserteur), dies at 73
1822 Frederick "William" Herschel German/British astronomer, dies at 83
1828 John Goldberg Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64
1840 Siméon-Denis Poisson French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies
1845 Thomas Duncan painter, dies
1853 William Beaumont physiologist, dies
1862 Charles Ferguson Smith US Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55
1873 Walter de la Mare English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
1882 Johann CF Zöllner German astronomer (astro photography), dies
1905 Jacob Olie Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
1906 John Knowles Paine US composer, dies at 67
1915 Nicola d' Arienzo composer, dies at 72
1925 George Stephanescu composer, dies at 81
1926 Ellen K S Key Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76
1928 Pjotr N Wrangel Russian baron General, dies at 49
1931 A J Y [Bert] Hopkins cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 509 runs), dies
1937 Clem Sohn air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
1942 Paul Kornfeld writer, dies at 52
1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko playwright/director, dies
1946 Albert Knight cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies
1946 Joseph Vine cricketer (batted in two Tests England vs Australia 1911-12), dies
1951 Jerzy Fitelberg composer, dies at 47
1954 Joseph Hergesheimer novelist (Java Head), dies
1955 Constance Collier actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
1955 Paulus B Barth Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73
1960 Hope Emerson actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
1960 Amanullah emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn composer, dies at 92
1961 Hans F Blunck writer, dies
1966 Maurice Roelants Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70
1969 Margarita Xirgu actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80
1970 Anita Louise actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55
1971 Max Drischner composer, dies at 80
1972 George Sanders actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65
1976 Carol Reed director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies
1976 Margaret Bannerman actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
1981 Dixie a mouse who lived 6½ years, dies
1982 Don Wilson TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
1982 Celia Johnson actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73
1982 John Cody US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74
1982 Paul de Vree Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies
1982 William R Burnett US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82
1984 Richard Benedict actor (Okinawa), dies of a heart attack at 64
1985 Murray Matheson actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
1985 Richard Haydn British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
1988 Boris Kremenliev composer, dies at 76
1988 Carolyn Franklin singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43
1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
1989 George Coulouris actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
1990 Dexter Gordon jazz saxophonist, dies in Philadelphia of kidney failure at 67
1991 Frank Hamilton actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
1991 Theo Laseroms [Tank] Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
1992 Brian Macleod Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
1992 Dany [Daniël S] Tuijnman Dutch minister of traffic & water, dies at 77
1992 Panos Christi entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
1992 Yutaka Ozaki Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
1993 Rosita Moreno actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 David Langton British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
1994 George Gennimatas Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
1995 Art Fleming game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74
1995 Francis Henry Smith librarian, dies at 85
1995 Ginger Rogers actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
1995 Joseph Heifitz film director, dies at 89
1996 John Eustace Theodore Brancker lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87
1996 John Lorne Campbell folklorist, dies at 90
1996 Saul Bass designer, dies at 74

On this day...Events

1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1507 Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1541 Liege flooded after heavy down pour
1604 Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
1607 Battle at Gibraltar Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
1626 Battle at the Dessauer bridge Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld
1660 London Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
1678 French troops conquer Ypres
1684 Patent granted for the thimble
1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese
1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
1861 7th New York arrives to reinforce Washington DC
1861 Battle of Lavaca TX
1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans LA
1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
1864 Battle of Marks' Mill AR (Camden Expedition)
1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
1876 Chicago Cubs 1st National League game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st National League shutout)
1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1881 French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco
1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek CO)
1896 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
1898 US declares war on Spain over Cuba
1901 Erve Beck hit the 1st home run in the American League
1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of the greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game
1904 New York Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Australia season (New South Wales vs Queensland)
1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa
1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected 2nd President of Germany (Adolf Hitler is 3rd)
1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot", premieres in Milan
1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1932 Rose Franken's "Another Language", premieres in NYC
1933 New York Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard
1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
1941 Operation Merkur Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 46 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco CA
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
1945 Allied air raid on Surabaja Java
1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville IL, killing 48
1946 Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent", premieres in London
1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
1947 Trial against WWII mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voûte begins
1949 Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse", premieres in Basel
1950 Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st black to play in the NBA
1950 Ambon proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1952 6th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
1952 German "Country" Bathe-Württemberg forms
1953 Scientists identify DNA
1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (New York NY)
1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects are arrested)
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1956 Noël Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble", premieres in London
1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 performances
1961 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 Premier Moïse Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
1962 Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1964 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1965 19th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1
1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
1967 Abortion legalized in Colorado
1967 Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders", premieres in NYC
1968 "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances
1969 5,400th and last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBC Radio
1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
1970 "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 NFL moves the goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt Secretary Günther Guillaume found to be a spy
1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal; he is exiled to Madeira and later to Brazil (Carnation revolution)
1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1976 India all out for 97 vs West Indies
1976 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 Portugal adopts constitution
1977 Cincinnati Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Atlanta Braves 23-9
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
1979 Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1980 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb
1980 Oakland A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
1981 Seattle Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot
1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
1982 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 Yankees fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
1983 "Nightline" expands from ½ hour to a full hour
1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 Rock group Wings disbands
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
1985 Philadelphia Flyers 2-New York Islanders 6-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1985 Roger Miller's musical "Big River", premieres at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
1988 "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1989 Penguin Mario Lemieux ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period
1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's President
1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL New England Patriots for sexual harassment
1991 "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
1991 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical "The Secret Garden" premieres in NYC
1992 "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1992 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell
1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
1993 Willy Russell's "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
1994 14" of snow in Southern California
1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
1994 Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped
1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
1995 "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater NYC for 79 performances
1995 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1996 "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk", opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 250th homerun
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:32 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 26:

0121 Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus A Verus], Emperor of Rome (161-180)
1319 Jean II the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1538 Giovanni P Lomazzo Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1567 Nicolas Forme composer
1573 Marie de'Medici Queen of France
1603 Francesco Nigetti composer
1637 Philip J van Lichtenbergh Governor of Suriname, baptized
1648 Pedro II King of Portugal (1683-1706)
1711 David Hume England, empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 Esek Hopkins US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1726 Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter
1776 Joan M Kemper Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1782 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1785 John James Audubon Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1787 Ludwig Uhland writer
1796 Auguste-Matthieu Panseron composer
1798 Ferdinand Eugène Delacroix French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch composer
1808 Martha Finley children's book author
1812 Alfred Krupp German arms merchant
1820 Alice Cary Cincinnati OH, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1822 Jan Albert van Eyken composer/organist
1827 Charles Edward Hovey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] humorist
1834 Horatio Richmond Palmer composer
1836 Erminnie Adelle Platt US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
1839 Cyrus Hamblin Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1841 Wilhelm Scherer German literature historian
1860 Alphonse Ariëns Dutch pastor
1863 Arno Holz writer
1863 Charles Haslewood Shannon lithographer/painter
1868 Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1868 Robert Herrick US writer (Common lot)
1873 Otto zur Linde German author (Charon)
1874 J H "Biddy" Anderson cricketer (one Test South Africa vs Australia 1902)
1875 Syngman Rhee Whanghai Province South Korea, President of South Korea (1948-60)
1878 Ethel Griffies actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again)
1879 Sir Owen Williams Richardson England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
1880 Mikhail Fokine Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1884 Harry Sothern actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
1886 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett] "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer
1888 Aleksandr Mikhailov USSR, astronomer
1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
1890 Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
1893 Anita Loos author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1895 Rudolf Hess Hitler's Deputy Führer, only prisoner at Spandau
1897 Olga Chekova Russia, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children)
1898 Vicente Aleixandre Spain, poet (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977)
1898 Edward PF Eagan Denver CO, boxer (Olympics-gold-20)/bobsledder (Olympics-gold-32)
1898 John Grierson documentary film maker
1899 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Decatur TX, actor (Circus Boy, Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)
19-- Diego Verdaguer Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer (Estoy Celoso)
19-- Ron McLarty Providence RI, actor (Sergeant Frank Belson-Spenser For Hire)
1900 Charles Richter Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale)
1900 Douglas Sirk director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje)
1900 James Sutherland English literature scholar/actor (Rob Roy 1953)
1903 Geoffrey Worthington Air vice-marshall
1903 Niven Busch US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1904 Paul E "Cardinal" Leger archbishop (Montréal Québec Canada)
1904 William "Count" Basie jazz pianist (Policy Man, Blazing Saddles)
1905 Charles K Feldman [Gould] New York NY, producer (Casino Royale)
1905 Denis O'Dea Dublin, actor (Esther & the King, Treasure Island)
1905 Jean Vigo France, actor/director (Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante)
1906 Gracie Allen Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show)
1906 Leopold Spinner composer
1907 Theun de Vries writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981)
1909 Richard Howorth cricketer (English all-rounder, three county doubles)
1910 Erland von Koch composer
1910 Ernst Tittel composer
1910 Johan Doorn Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka director (Godzilla)
1911 Marianne Hoppe Rostock Germany (Bei Thea, Liebrauen)
1912 A[lfred] E[lton] Van Vogt Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, science fiction writer (Cosmic Encounter)
1914 Bernard Malamud Brooklyn NY, novelist (Fixer, The Natural Pulitizer 1967)
1914 Charlie Chester British comedian (Never Say Die)
1914 Horace Leonard Gold Sci-Fi writer/editor
1914 James William Rouse US builder (shopping malls/Columbia MD)
1914 Wilfred Howard Mellers composer
1916 Morris L West Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1916 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk composer
1917 I[eoh] M[ing] Pei Canton China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
1917 Sal "The Barber" Maglie pitcher (New York Giants, 8th best won-lost percentage)
1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen Holland, 100 meter/200 meter dash, Hurdler (Olympics-gold-1948)
1918 Stafford Repp California, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman, Plunder Road)
1918 Jack Morpurgo American Literature scholar (Leeds University)
1920 Juan C Lampe Aruba, pianist/composer
1921 Harry Knutton Major-General/Director-General (London City & Guilds Institute)
1921 Jimmy Giuffre jazz musician
1921 Margaret Gowing professor (history, science)
1922 Mike Kellin Hartford CT, actor (Honestly Celeste, Fitz & Bones)
1922 James Holt medieval historian
1922 Jeanne Sauvé 1st female Governor-General (Canada, 1984-90)
1922 Margaret Scott founder (Australian Ballet School)
1922 Paul-Andre Gaillard composer
1922 Pol Bury Belgian sculptor
1923 Oliver Millar Surveyor (Queen's Pictures)
1924 Russell Nype Zion IL, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy)
1926 Preston "Bob" Tisch NFL co-owner (New York Giants)
1926 Anton PO Ekström Swedish writer (Summer Dances)
1926 David Coleman sports commentator
1926 Michael Joughin CEO (Scottish Hydro-Electric)
1926 Oldrich Frantisek Korte composer
1927 Anne McLaren biologist/zoologist/actress (Things to Come)
1927 Jack Douglas comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show)
1928 Gordon Downey British Comptroller General/Reader Representative (Independent)
1928 Hertha Kräftner writer
1930 Roger Moens Belgium, 800 meter runner (Olympics-silver-1960)
1930 Derek Waring actor (Barnacle Bill, Arthur-Heart of the Country)
1930 Justin Gosling principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford)
1933 Carol Burnett San Antonio TX, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
1934 J Micheal McCloskey environmentalist, Sierra Club chairman
1936 Edward Cazalet British High Court Judge
1937 Robert Boozer Omaha NE, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1960)
1938 Duane Eddy Phoenix AZ, guitarist (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
1938 Maurice Williams rocker
1938 Willie Wood bowler
1939 Roger Buckley British High Court Judge
1940 Giorgio Moroder Ortisei Italy, composer/producer/singer (Top Gun, Metropolis, Electric Dreams, Cat People, Let it Ride)
1941 John Battle MP
1942 Bobby Rydell Philadelphia PA, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
1942 Claudine Auger Paris France, Miss France-Universe (1958)/actress (Thunderball)
1942 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Russia, cosmonaut
1943 Gary Wright Creskill NJ, singer/keyboardist (Dream Weaver, Spooky Tooth-Love Is Alive)
1944 David O'B Martin (Representative-Republican-NY, 1981- )
1944 Martha Rockwell Providence RI, skier (Mount Washington)
1945 V K Ramaswamy cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup)
1947 Donna Elizabeth De Varona Greenwich CT, swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-64)
1947 Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops architectural adviser
1948 Boyd Matson TV host/correspondent (National Geographic Explorer)
1948 Gerry Sikorski (Representative-Democrat-MN, 1983- )
1949 Jimmy Hall rocker (Wet Willie)
1950 Howard "Leon" Reeder rock guitarist (Champaign)
1950 Peter Schaufuss director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin)
1951 Lynne Jones MP
1952 Popo Simon Molefe Secretary-General (South Africa UDF)
1956 Koo Stark [Kathleen Dee-Anne] photographer/actress (Emily)
1958 Giancarlo Esposito actor (Bob Roberts, School Daze, King of New York)
1958 Johnny "Earl of" Dumfries racing driver
1959 Ann O'Neill Toowoomba Queensland, golfer (1989 Downs District Champion)
1960 Roger Taylor England, rock drummer (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1961 Albert Lawrence Jamaica, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1984)
1961 Joan Chen [Chen Chong] Shanghai China, actress (Heaven & Earth)
1961 Nancy Scranton Centralia IL, golfer (1991 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1962 Graham "Skin" Skinner rocker (Hipsway)
1962 Michael Damian San Diego CA, actor/singer (Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat/Young & the Restless)
1963 Bill Wennington NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1963 Thomas Searle hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1964 Tod Bass Los Angeles CA, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)
1966 Heather Rattray Moline IL, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
1966 Andrea Temesvari Budapest Hungary, tennis star (1983, 1984, 1985 US Clay Courts)
1967 Klaus Merk Augsburg Germany, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998)
1967 Matt Peterson Chicago IL, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-7th)
1968 Ahmed Elmaghraby Suez Egypt, US field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 Ryan Yarborough NFL wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets)
1972 Francisco Cordova Veracruz México, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1972 Marco Rivera NFL/WLAF guard (Scottish Claymores, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Natrone Means NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 Damien Munoz Miss Colorado-USA (1997)
1973 Mark Davis NBA guard/forward (Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1973 Tracy Kathleen Hayes Wheaton IL, Miss Illinois-America (5th-1996)
1975 Jabbar Threats defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1975 Trudi Ferguson Miss Jamaica-Universe (1996)
1976 Sarah Tueting ice hockey goalie (USA, Olympics-98)
1979 Sean Fox actor (3 Ninjas Kick Back, Calendar Girl)
1980 Jordana Brewster Panamá, actress (Nikki Graves-As the World Turns)
1980 Marne Patterson Sherman Oaks CA, actress (Nicole-Something So Right)
1984 Ryan O'Donohue Pomona CA, actress (Byrds of Paradise, Boys are Back)

Deaths which occurred on April 26:

0757 Stephen II Pope (752-57), dies
1196 Alfonso II King of Aragon (1162-96), dies
1444 Robert Campin South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65
1478 Giuliano de' Medici Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24
1558 Jean François Fernel French physician, dies
1648 Christoph Thomas Walliser composer, dies at 79
1703 Georg Christoph Leuttner composer, dies at 58
1726 Jeremy Collier English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 Daniel Defoe English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff composer, dies at 40
1789 Peter I Panin Russian General (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67
1805 Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55
1827 Bernardo Ottani composer, dies at 90
1865 Charles J Sax Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74
1865 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27
1907 Pietro Plantania composer, dies at 79
1910 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77
1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan Indian math genius ('pi'/Notebooks), dies at 32
1922 Hans Sommer composer, dies at 84
1924 Josef Labor composer, dies at 82
1932 Bill Lockwood cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies
1938 Edmund Husserl German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79
1940 Carl Bosch German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1941 Jean Demoor Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74
1946 Hermann Keyserling count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65
1951 John Alden Carpenter US composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75
1952 Charles L Baars Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59
1956 Edward Arnold actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
1958 Joe Small cricketer (West Indies all-rounder in 1928 series), dies
1958 Johan N C "Joan" Collette painter, dies at 68
1960 Wander J de Haas Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82
1961 Gail Russell actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at 36
1964 Edwin John Pratt Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81
1964 Pieter van der Lijn Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93
1965 Aaron Avshalomov composer, dies at 70
1970 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] stripper/actress (Pruitts of Southampton), dies rom cancer at 56
1970 John Knittel writer, dies at 79
1970 Paul Celan writer, dies at 49 [or May 5]
1972 Margaret A R Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59
1973 Irene Ryan actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1976 Allan Jackson newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
1976 Neil McCallum actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
1976 Sidney James actor (Lavander Hill Mob, Carry On), dies at 65
1980 Cicely Courtneidge actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
1981 Jim Davis actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
1981 Madge Evans TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71
1981 Robert Davi dies at 54
1982 Dame Celia Johnson British actress, dies of a stroke at 73
1982 Celia Johnson British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
1982 Ville Ritola Finnish 5/10km runner (Olympics-gold-1924, 28), dies
1983 Bronislaw Kaper composer, dies at 81
1983 Vaughn Taylor actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
1984 Count Basie jazz piano great, dies at 78
1984 Henry Rowland actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70
1984 May McAvoy actress (Ben Hur), dies after a heart attack at 82
1984 William "Count" Basie jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
1986 [William] Broderick Crawford actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
1986 Bessie Love actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87
1989 Lucille Ball comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy), dies of a massive heart attack at 78
1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez Colombian presidential candidate, assassinated
1991 Carmine Coppola composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies
1991 Emily McLaughlin US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61
1992 Alberta Vaughn actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
1992 Clyde Hartley entertainer, dies at 68
1995 Alexander Knox actor/writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88
1996 Burton Stein historian, dies at 69
1996 John Norrie McArthur malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94
1996 Stirling Silliphant screenwriter, dies at 78
1997 Joey Faye comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes), dies at 86
1997 Peng Zhen mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies
1997 Yegorov Russian leader (1994-95), dies

On this day...Events

0757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1532 Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1564 William Shakespeare baptized
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry VA
1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1677 Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Connecticut rallying her father's militia
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge is established
1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1835 Frédéric Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante", premieres in Paris France
1841 "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1853 Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Fort Tobacco VA
1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham NC
1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
1893 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1900 American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500
1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at the plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 Jamestown VA Tercentenary Exposition opens
1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1913 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1920 H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1923 English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1926 Karachai Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1943)
1926 Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a homerun but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him American League home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
1932 Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine", premieres in Paris France
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1935 Frank Boucher is given the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WWII, arrested for treason
1947 "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run
1950 University of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp", kills 176
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1957 Jamestown VA 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1959 Cuba invades Panamá
1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0
1962 US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)
1964 18th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1
1964 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1967 "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 performances
1967 KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours
1971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona", musical opens in London
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 Nw York Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Cleveland Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 0-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Islanders win series 4-3
1975 Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 homeruns ties National League record of 11 homeruns in April
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York-Tokyo
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1978 France sends troops to Chad
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1980 Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats St Louis Cardinals)
1980 Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1981 Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 Largest US bank robbery (Tucson AZ), more than $33 million stolen
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1983 Boston Bruins 2-New York Islanders 5-Wales Conference Championship-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986 Baseball game between California Angels & Minnesota Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
1987 "Barbara Cook A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
1988 1st TNN Viewers Choice Awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
1988 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in the 1988-89 season
1988 New York Mets' Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
1990 New York court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of the case
1990 Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1990 "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
1991 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
1991 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
1992 "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 performances
1992 "Growing Pains", final episode on ABC TV
1992 "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
1992 "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
1992 "Who's The Boss", final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1992 Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1992 Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1993 "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is 1st black South African to vote
1994 26.9ºC in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1994 Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1995 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1995 Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
1996 Shaun Pollock takes 4 wickets in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 "Life", opens at Barrymore Theater NYC
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:35 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 27:

1410 John Van Lannoy Flemish Governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia
1623 Johann Adam Reincken composer
1701 Charles Emanuel I King of Sardinia
1707 John Burman Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens
1724 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz composer
1737 Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)
1767 Andreas Jakob Romberg German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock)
1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse US painter/inventor (telegraph)
1802 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer composer
1803 Alfred Julius Becher composer
1812 Friedrich von Flotow composer
1820 Herbert Spencer Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics)
1822 [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant Point Pleasant OH, 18th US President (1869-77, Republican)
1824 William Richard Bexfield composer
1828 Gerben Colmjon Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher
1835 John Murray Corse Pittsburgh PA, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1840 Edward Whymper 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
1861 Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer
1861 Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
1865 Emile Erens Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
1869 William Victor Harris composer
1871 Arthur Finlay Nevin composer
1873 Harry M O'Connor Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)
1875 André Baillon Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
1875 Freddie Fane cricketer (Hobbs' 1st Test opening partner)
1875 Lumsden Hare Ireland, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess)
1883 Hubert Harrison St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter
1884 Louis de Bree [Louis C Davids] actor (Bluejackets)
1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer
1892 Louis Victor de Broglie physicist (studied electrons)
1893 Norman Bel Geddes Adrian MI, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End)
1894 Nicolas Slonimsky composer
1896 Rogers Hornsby Winters TX, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cardinals)
1896 Wallace Hume Carothers inventor (nylon)
19-- Ellen Regan Long Island NY, actress (Irma-Ted Knight Show, Me & Mrs C)
1900 Walter Lantz animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator)
1902 Kitty Kelly New York NY, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors)
1903 Frank Belknap Long American writer (Rim of the Unknown)
1903 Hans Walter Kosterliz biochemist
1904 Arthur F Burns economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board)
1904 Cecil Day-Lewis England, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake)
1904 Ragnar Skrede Norwegian poet (Lauvfall)
1905 Julian Stryjkowski writer
1905 Philip Radcliffe composer
1906 Mark Alexander Abrams market researcher
1909 Muriel C Bradbrook English writer (That Infidel Place)
1911 Colin Gordon Ceylon, actor (John-The Baron)
1911 Georges Dargaud French publisher (Asterix, Tintin)
1912 Franz Weyergans Belgian literary (Les Gens Heureux)
1912 Frederick Rand Weissman philanthropist
1912 Renato Rascel actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria)
1914 Albert Soboult French historian
1916 Jan Rychlik composer
1918 John Alfred Scali journalist/correspondant (ABC)
1918 Kirby Stone New York NY, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
1918 Willem N "Pim" Koot pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
1919 Walter Ritchie sculptor
1922 Jack Klugman Philadelphia PA, actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus)
1922 Daphne Anderson London, actress (Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice)
1927 Connie Kay jazz drummer
1927 Coretta Scott King Marion AL, civil rights leader
1927 John Joseph Moakley (Representative-Democrat-MA, 1973- )
1929 Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova USSR, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-1952, 60)
1930 Roelof F "Pik" Botha South African minister of Foreign affairs
1931 Robert Donner New York NY, actor (Yancy-The Waltons, Exidor-Mork & Mindy)
1931 Igor Oistrach Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
1931 Krzystzof Komeda composer
1932 Anouk Aimee [Françoise Dreyfus] Paris France, actress (8½, La Dolce Vita)
1932 Casey Kasem Detroit MI, radio personality (American Top 40)
1932 Charles Adkins US, welterweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1952)
1932 Chuck Knox NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
1932 François Bayle composer
1932 Maxine Brown rocker (Browns)
1932 Petar Ozgijan composer
1936 Khalid Wazir cricketer (son of S Wazir Ali 2 Tests for Pakistan 1954)
1937 Phil Jones newsman (CBS)
1937 Sandy Dennis Hastings NE, actress (Honey-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1938 Earl Anthony bowler (PBA money champion 1974-6, 1981-3)
1939 Judy Carne Northhampton England, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange)
1939 Jerry Mercer Montréal Québec Canada, rock drummer (April Wine)
1941 Judith Blegen Missoula MT, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute)
1941 Friedrich Goldmann composer
1941 Jan D Blaauw Dutch MP (VVD)
1942 Gordon Roddick English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6, TM-18)
1943 Helmut Marko auto racer (Le Mans Grand Prix)
1943 Eugene Polyakov dancer
1944 Michael Fish British TV weatherman
1944 Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
1944 Herb Pedersen Berkley CA, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1945 August Wilson US, playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987)
1946 John Maclean cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1978-79)
1947 Ann Peebles St Louis MO, soul singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
1947 Jim Ryun middle distance runner/world's outstanding athlete (1966)
1947 Pete Ham Swansea South Wales, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1947 Herbie Murrell US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything)
1947 Peter Gena composer
1948 Kate Pierson Weehawken NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
1949 Douglas Sheehan Santa Monica CA, actor (Ben-Knots Landing, Joe Kelly-General Hospital)
1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF)
1951 Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet)
1951 Boris Kinberg rock percussionist (Mink Deville)
1953 Dr Ellen L Shulman Baker Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50, 71)
1955 Cora Ann Mahalick New Jersey, news anchor (WNYW-TV)
1956 Dennie Shupryt-Knoop Chicago IL, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1958 Keith Denunzio rocker
1959 Marco Pirroni London, rock guitarist (Adam & The Ants)
1959 Sheena [Shirley Orr] Easton Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only)
1962 Denise Baldwin Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury Classic)
1962 Grant Show Detroit MI, actor (Jake-Melrose Place, Rick-Ryan's Hope)
1962 Patricia Susan Plumer Levere Covina CA, 1.5k/3K/5k runner
1963 Schae Harrison [Deborah Schaeffer] Anaheim Hills CA, actress (Darla-The Bold & Beautiful)
1963 Arther van Dijk drummer (Ivy Green)
1964 Paul Osbaldiston CFL kicker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 Courtenay Becker-Dey Greenwich CT, Europe yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1966 Peter McIntyre cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1995)
1967 Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Dutch crown prince/son of Queen Beatrix of Netherlands/heir apparent
1967 Bridgette Gordon WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs, Olympics-gold-88)
1968 Adrian Cooper NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Mica Paris rocker (So Good)
1969 Brett Steven Bermuda, New Zealand tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 Francine "Frankie" McRae Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 Tyrone Rodgers CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 Mikiko Hagiwara WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1970 Tim Hanshaw NFL guard (San Francisco 49ers)
1971 Hayley Barr [Sparks] Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
1971 Craig Keith NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 James Burton cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1971 Ricky Sutton WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Alison McKnight Bakersfield CA, 100 meter hurdler/heptathlete
1972 David Lascher New York NY, actor (Josh-Clueless, Kidz in the Wood)
1972 Ethan Brooks NFL/WAFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Rhein Fire)
1972 Silvia Farina Milan Italy, tennis star (1995 Maria Lankowitz doubles)
1972 Tim Ruddy NFL center (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Tommy Thompson NFL punter (San Francisco 49ers)
1973 André Gower Culver City CA, actor (Monster Squad, Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President)
1973 Sébastien Lareau Montréal Québec Canada, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1974 Carlos Fortes soccer player (Sparta)
1974 Pete Chryplewicz tight end (Detroit Lions)
1975 Kenny Harris safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1975 Michael Booker cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1992 James Duke Mason son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason

Deaths which occurred on April 27:

1076 Willem bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies
1124 Alexander I king of Scotland (1107-24), dies
1404 Philip the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62
1521 Ferdinand Magellan world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50
1605 Leo XI [Alessandro O de' Medici] Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69
1656 Gerard van Honthorst painter, dies at 65
1656 Jan J van Goyen Dutch landscape painter, dies at 60
1682 Theodorus III czar of Russia (1676-82), dies
1694 Johan Georg IV elector of Saxony (1691-94), dies at 25
1695 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [Asbaje] Mexican poetress/nun, dies at 44
1702 Jean Bart French captain/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies at 51
1758 Jan Francisci composer, dies at 66
1764 Jaime de Casellas composer, dies at 73
1794 William Jones British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47
1806 Amalia Fürstin Gallitzin Prussian daughter of Golitsyn, dies at 57
1813 Zebulon M Pike US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
1871 Sigismond Fortune François Thalberg composer, dies at 59
1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
1881 Ludwig A Benedek Austrian General, dies at 76
1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson US poet (Representive Men), dies
1893 John Murray Corse US General (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
1901 Richard Redhead composer, dies at 81
1902 Julius Sterling Morton who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
1915 Alexander N Skriabin Russian pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at 43
1932 Harold "Heart" Crane US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at 32
1936 Frederik A Stoett linguist (Dutch Proverbs), dies at 72
1936 Karl Pearson mathematician, dies
1937 Antonio Gramsci Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46
1938 Edmond Rubbens Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at 44
1950 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski composer, dies at 70
1950 Karl Straube German organist/conductor, dies
1951 Philip Albert Myburgh Hands cricketer (7 Tests for South Africa), dies
1957 Mario A Gianini creator of the maraschino cherry, dies
1959 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies
1961 Roy Del Ruth director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
1964 Georg Britting writer, dies at 73
1965 Alan Bunce actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61
1965 Edward R Murrow newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57
1969 Dino Terranova actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65
1970 Arthur Shields actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73
1972 Kwame Nkrumah President of Ghana, dies at 62
1972 Phil King rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling
1973 Jim Sims cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies
1973 Libbe de Wal founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72
1975 Nicholas Soussanin actor (Last Command), dies at 86
1977 Stanley Adams actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61
1978 Mohammed Daud premier/President of Afghánistán, murdered
1982 Tom Tully actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85
1984 Piet Kraak Dutch soccer player, dies at 63
1991 Ken Curtis actor (Lost, Freckles, California Gold Rush), dies at 74
1991 Marcus Heeresma writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies
1992 Olivier Messiaen French composer, dies at 83
1993 Hans Sahl German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90
1994 Jerome Lejeune physiologist, dies at 69
1994 John Preston US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
1994 Lynne Frederick Unger actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
1996 Joan Sterndale Bennett actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86
1996 William Egan Colby CIA Director, dies at 76
1997 Paul Lambert actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73

On this day...Events

4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1518 Treaty of St Truiden anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant
1522 Battle at Bicacca Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
1526 Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1576 Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
1643 Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez", premieres in Madrid
1646 King Charles I flees Oxford
1650 Scottish General Montrose defeated
1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant
1694 Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen
1746 Battle at Culloden Moor Duke of Cumberland beats "James VIII & III"
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16)
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D T Suzuki, found the awakening
1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL
1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1867 The opera "Roméo et Juliette" is produced (Paris France)
1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
1877 The opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris France)
1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Oussébougou West Sudan
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Philadelphia A's win 6-0
1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1905 World Exposition opens in Luik
1908 4th modern Olympic games open in London
1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
1918 Brooklyn Dodgers get 1st victory after worst major league start (0-9)
1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1922 Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
1931 100º F (38º C), Pahala HI (state record)
1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington DC
1935 Yankees pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Philadelphia A's 9-8
1935 Brussel's World Expo opens
1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0
1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1945 US 5th army enters Genua
1946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US
1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1950 "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 performances
1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins the term "Pencil neck geek"
1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1959 "Today" show goes abroad for the 1st time (Paris France)
1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1960 France grants Togo independence (National Day)
1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton OH
1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1962 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything", premieres in London
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US
1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1965 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 performances
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
1967 Expo '67 opens in Montréal
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title
1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 performances
1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsay appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1973 Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Yankees beat New York Mets 4-3 in 11
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
1978 Afghánistán revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
1980 Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 1st female soccer official is hired by the NASL
1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1982 Québec Nordiques 1-New York Islanders 4-Semifinals-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson
1984 Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake MT
1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1989 "Starmites" opens at Criter Center Theater NYC for 60 performances
1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Michigan)
1990 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 meter relay world record of 17:18:10
1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 performances
1991 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
1992 "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 performances
1992 New York Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time
1992 New York Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1994 "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1994 29.0ºC in Genevad Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
1994 7th longest NHL game New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 minutes 43 seconds)
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1994 Minnesota Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
1994 President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
1995 "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
1995 Coors Field in Colorado opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
1996 Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont
1997 "Little Foxes" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
1997 "Stanley" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC
1997 Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
1997 Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
1997 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:40 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 28:

1442 Edward IV king of England (1461-70, 1471-83)
1592 George Villiers 1st duke of Buckingham/English Admiral
1698 Karel Jozef ruler of Batthyányi
1715 Franz Sparry composer
1748 Lorenz Justinian Ott composer
1750 Paul Ignaz Kurzinger composer
1753 Franz K Achard German physicist
1757 Claus Nielsen Schali composer
1758 James Monroe Westmoreland VA, 5th US President (1817-25, Democratic Republican)
1770 Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs
1774 Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
1795 Charles Sturt England, explorered Australia
1809 Conradus Leemans Dutch archaeologist
1810 Daniel Ullmann Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1812 Daniel Henry Rucker Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1815 Andrew Jackson Smith Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1825 James Winning McMillan Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Alexander Stadtfeld composer
1838 Tobias M Carel Asser Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911)
1842 Louis of Orleans Earl of Brazil (1870-89)
1846 Johann E Backlund Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)
1848 Ludvig Schytte composer
1864 William F A Ellison Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory)
1868 Émile Bernard writer
1870 Hermann Suter composer
1873 Harold Bauer English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
1874 Karl Kraus writer
1874 Sidney Toler Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
1876 Frank Cavanagh one of football's coaching greats
1878 Lionel [Herbert Blythe] Barrymore Philadelphia PA, actor (A Free Soul, David Cooperfield, Dr Kildare)
1879 Edgar Tytgat Flemish painter/etcher
1879 Franz Arnold writer
1882 Alberto Pirelli Italian industrialist
1886 Erich Salomon German photographer
1888 Henry Crerar Canadian General (WWI/Italy/Netherlands)
1889 António de Oliveira Salazar premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68)
1889 Bryant Washburn Chicago IL, actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga)
1889 Karel Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral
1892 Joseph Dunninger New York NY, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger)
1892 Georges Antoine composer
1892 John Jacob Niles composer
19-- Daniel Zippi Los Angeles CA, actor (King's Crossing)
1900 Maurice Thorez coal miner, Secretary-General of French Communist Party
1900 Bruno Apitz writer
1900 Jan Hendrik Oort Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud")
1901 Corry Vonk [Cornelia D] wife of Wim Kan (ABC-cabaret)
1906 Kurt Gödel Austria, mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem)
1906 Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way)
1906 Pierre [Louis] Boileau Paris France, novelist (Vertigo)
1907 Marion Coulon Belgian theoriest (Jeunesse à la dérive)
1908 Arnoud Breeveld Suriname bishop
1908 Jack Fingleton cricketer (Australian opener of 30's)
1908 Michael T Fitzmaurice Chicago IL, actor (Reported Missing, 14 Hours)
1911 Frans Vroons actor/tenor/director (Netherlands Opera)
1912 Odette Hallowes British classified agent in France (WWII)
1914 Skuli Halldorsson composer
1917 Robert Anderson New York NY, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father)
1917 Robert Cornthwaite St Helen OR, actor (Thing, War of the Worlds)
1917 Joop Waasdorp Dutch writer (Naked Life)
1920 Nan Merriman US/Netherlands singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra)
1921 Rowland Evans White Marsh PA, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1922 Guillaume Jorissen Flemish politician (Volksunie)
1922 Iser J Koepermann Russian/US world checkers champion (1958-68, 75-76)
1922 William S Broomfield (Representative-Republican-MI, 1956- )
1923 Adele Mara Dearborn MI, actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels)
1923 Wolfgang Steffen composer
1924 Kenneth David Kaunda founder/President (Zambia, 1964-91)
1925 Richard C Sarafian New York NY, director/actor (Foley Square)
1926 Harper Lee author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1927 Garfield Weston English industrial/billionaire (Twinings Tea)
1928 Yves Klein French sculptor/painter
1929 Carolyn Jones Amarillo TX, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
1930 James Baker 3 Houston TX, Secretary of Treasury (1985-88), Secretary of State (1989-92)
1930 Christopher John Magenis Headington composer
1932 Marek Kopelent composer
1933 Karl Heinz Wahren composer
1933 Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson drummer
1936 John Martin Tchicai composer
1937 Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti] President of Iraq (1979- )
1938 Madge Sinclair Kingston Jamaica, actress (Bell-Roots, Trapper John)
1938 Beverly F Albert architect
1941 Ann-Margret [Olsson] Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Carnal Knowledge, Viva Las Vegas, Tommy)
1941 Ann-Margret Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy)
1942 Ghislaine Hermanez architect
1942 Mike Brearley cricketer (outstanding England captainain 1977-81)
1943 John Oliver Creighton Orange TX, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48)
1943 Fantastic Johnny C[orley] US singer (Boogaloo down Broadway)
1945 Ajit Manohar Pai cricketer (one Test India vs New Zealand 1969)
1947 Steve Khan jazz musician (Christmas Waltz)
1948 Marcia Strassman New York NY, actress (Julle Kotter-Welcome Back Kotter)
1949 Jerome "Jay" Apt Springfield MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79)
1950 Willie Colon Bronx NY, actor (The Last Flight)
1950 Jay Leno New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
1952 Mary McDonnell Wilkes-Barre PA, actress (Sneakers, Independence Day)
1953 Julie Cole LPGA golfer
1955 Eddie Jobson rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure)
1956 Jeremy John Beadle writer/broadcaster
1956 Paul S Lockhart Amarillo TX, Major USAF/astronaut
1957 Leopold Eyharts France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27)
1958 Kathy Willets nymphomaniac (1991 Florida Sex Scandal)
1958 Hal Evan Sutton Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1982 Walt Disney, PGA 1983)
1958 Nancy Lee Grahn Skokie IL, actress (Julia-Santa Barbara)
1960 Wally Langdon bassist (Bob Color)
1961 Cathy Gerring Fort Wayne IN, LPGA golfer (1990 Lady Keystone Open)
1962 Evguenni Rochtchin NHL forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-98)
1964 Barry Larkin Cincinnati OH, shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
1964 Helen Marina Lucy Windsor England, daughter of Prince Edward
1964 Mark Hager Australian field hockey forward/captain (Olympics-4th-88, 96)
1966 Jim Poole Rochester NY, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1966 John Patrick Daly Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 British Open)
1967 Monique Noel Salem OR, playmate (May 1989)
1967 Pete Stoyanovich NFL kicker (Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs)
1968 Andy Flower cricketer (Zimbabwe keeper & victorious Test captain)
1968 Damion Lyons CFL cornerback (British Columbia Lions)
1968 Mark Carrier NFL safety (Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions)
1969 Merlelynn Lange-Harris Toronto Ontario Canada, basketball center (Olympics-96)
1970 Jason Belser defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Mark Harris wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers)
1970 Nicklas Lidstrom Vasteras Sweden, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, Detroit)
1970 Richard Fromberg Australia, tennis star
1971 Chris[topher Tyler] Young Chambersburg PA, actor (Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors)
1971 Meredith McGrath Midland MI, tennis star (1996 Essen doubles)
1971 Mihai Apostal Bucharest Romania, Canadian kayaker (Olympics-96)
1971 Simbi Khali actress (Nina-Third Rock From the Sun)
1972 Jan Benda Reet Belgium, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1972 Jean-Paul van Gastel soccer player (Willem II)
1972 Michelle Menzies Barrie Ontario Canada, Canadian ice pairs (1995, 96 Can champions)
1973 Earl Holmes linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 Marc[us] Blake Schneider Lubbock TX, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1973 Melvin Hayes NFL tackle (New York Jets, Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Serge Zwikker NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1974 Sergei Stas NHL defenseman (Team Belarus, Olympics-98)
1975 James Thrash wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1975 Martin Lewis NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1978 Nate Richert St Paul MN, actor (Harvey-Sabrina)

Deaths which occurred on April 28:

1089 Dirk de Grote bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies
1109 Hugo van Cluny 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies
1770 Marie AC de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60
1799 François Giroust composer, dies at 62
1804 Hans Gram composer, dies at 49
1843 William Wallace Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1853 Ludwig Tieck writer, dies at 79
1860 Isaac da Costa poet/writer (Réveil, Wachter!), dies at 62
1881 Robert W Ollinger US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies
1887 Carl Ferdinand Pohl composer, dies at 67
1896 Heinrich von Treitschke German historian, dies
1925 Louis F J Bouwmeester actor (Shakespeare), dies
1933 Robin Irvine actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31
1935 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie Scottish composer, dies at 87
1936 Foead I king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
1945 Benito Mussolini Fascist leader (Italy), captured, tried, & shot
1945 Claretta Petacci mistress of Mussolini, executed
1945 Hans Bloesch writer, dies
1955 Lode Cantens Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
1960 Anton Pancake astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1965 Ferdinand Bordewijk Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80
1966 Ralph Bunker actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
1969 Johannes Rontgen composer, dies at 70
1970 Ed Begley actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1973 Pat Henning actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62
1974 Paul Page actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70
1975 Jan A de Jonge Dutch historian, dies at 48
1976 Eugen Roth writer, dies at 81
1977 Ricardo Cortez actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87
1979 Feliks Roderyk Labunski composer, dies at 86
1980 Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1980 Dee Carroll [Betty Jean Marsh] actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies
1981 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker welterweight champion (1922-26) dies at 79
1982 Bert van Dongen [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66
1982 EW "Nobby" Clark England cricketer (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies
1983 Ron James cricketer (New South Wales's Sheffield Shield captain 1949-50), dies
1984 Glen H Taylor US Senator/vice presidential candidate (1948), dies at 80
1984 Silvia A Warner writer, dies
1987 Ben Linder development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
1989 Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude] Dutch writer, dies at 77
1990 Jean Blazer Baney entertainer, dies
1991 Floyd B McKissick US founder (CORE), dies
1991 Ken Curtis actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1992 Francis Bacon Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992 Olivier Messiaen French composer (St François d'Assise), dies at 83
1993 Jim Valvano basketball coach (North Carolina State), dies of cancer at 47
1995 Andrew Salkey author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67
1995 Henry C Rogers press Agent, dies at 81
1995 Peaches Roy Davis baseball pitcher, dies at 89
1996 Giles Grangier film director, dies at 84
1996 Henry Clarke fashion photographer, dies at 75
1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro politician, dies at 80
1996 William E Colby director of CIA (1973-76), dies
1997 Susan Seddon Boulet artist, dies of cancer at 45

On this day...Events

0357 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
0585 War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
1202 King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
1253 Utrecht destroyed by fire
1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1503 Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under G Córdoba beats France
1521 Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
1550 Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1655 English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1788 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh
1796 Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1847 George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar
1848 Free last slaves in French colonies
1855 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1865 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine", premieres in Paris France
1892 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
1901 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0)
1901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as Chicago White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
1922 WOI (Ames IA) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
1924 119 die in Benwood WV coal mine disaster
1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1930 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
1934 Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
1934 Spanish government of Samper forms
1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York NY)
1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
1943 US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1944 Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
1945 British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1947 Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1949 Brooklyn's Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 New York fan charges Leo Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to
1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1952 St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
1956 Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 homeruns
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 "Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0
1963 17th Tony Awards Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1964 Japan joins OECO
1965 Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1965 Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA
1965 William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
1966 20th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music", Julie Christie & L Marvin win
1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1967 Expo 67 opens in Montréal Canada
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old Martin Brown
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France
1969 King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black Admiral in US Navy
1971 Dutch social Democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1972 The courts awarded the Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers"
1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians
1977 Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart Germany
1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
1983 Boston Bruins 4-New York Islanders 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
1983 NASA launches Goes-F
1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1984 "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 performances
1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season
1985 Philadelphia Flyers New York Islanders 1-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers win series 4-1
1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami FL in 1988 & Minneapolis MN & Orlando FL in 1989
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row
1988 New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1988 "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1990 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128
1990 "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances (15 years)
1990 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
1990 Guns & Roses' Axl Rose marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched
1991 "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances
1991 "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 78 performances
1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1992 Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with American League record 31 hits in 9 innings
1993 "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1993 New York Islanders beat Washington Capitals 4 to 1 in playoffs, Capitals Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
1994 Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough
1995 Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
1996 "Big", opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances
1996 Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1997 "Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:43 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 29:

1584 Melchior Teschner composer
1636 Esaias Reusner composer
1642 Christian Weise German writer (Niederländische Bauer)
1660 Matthias Henriksen Schacht composer
1667 John Arbuthnot Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
1727 Jean-Georges Noverre French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)
1745 Oliver Ellsworth 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
1771 Matthaus Stegmayer composer
1780 Charles Nodier French writer (La fée aux miettes)
1783 David Cox English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
1806 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben Austria, physician/philosopher
1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch German politician/reformer [or 1883]
1815 Abram Duryee Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1818 Alexander II [N Romanov] Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
1830 Adolph Sutro San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1842 Karl Millöcker Austria conductor/composer (Beggar Student)
1854 Henri Poincaré France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
1855 Anatol K Liadov Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1855 Edmund van der Straeten composer
1857 Edouard Rod France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
1857 Frantisek Ondricek composer
1860 Lorado Taft US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
1862 Vittorio Mario Vanzo composer
1863 William Randolph Hearst publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I)
1871 Louis William Stern German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
1872 Eyvind Alnaes composer
1873 Alida J M Tartaud-Klein actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
1879 Sir Thomas Beecham England, composer, founded London Philharmonic
1882 Hendrik N Werkman painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing)
1885 Wallingford Riegger Albany GA, composer (Bacchangle)
1885 Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakia, writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1893 Elisaveta Bagrjana [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
1893 Harold C Urey Walkerton IN, physicist (discovered Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1894 Paul Hörbiger Budapest Hungary, actor (Liebelei)
1895 Malcolm Sargent English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1896 Jacques Leon Wolfe composer
1896 Walter Mehring writer
1899 Duke [Edward Kennedy] Ellington Washington DC, bandleader (Take the A Train, It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing))
1899 Karl Yngve Skold composer
1899 Natalie Talmadge actress (Our Hospitality)
19-- Greg Christian rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
19-- Mark Kendall rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
19-- Richard Kline New York NY, actor (Larry-3's Company, Dr. Mark Benson-Bold & the Beautiful)
1901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-89)
1901 George Osborne Sayles historian
1902 Theodore Chanler composer
1903 Frank Parker New York NY, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
1904 Russ Morgan Scranton PA, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1904 Enrico Mattei Italian oil magnate
1907 Fred Zinnemann Vienna Austria, movie director (From Here to Eternity, Day of the Jackal, Julia)
1907 Tino Rossi Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
1908 Jack [Stewart] Williamson US, sci-fi author (Firechild, Golden Blood, Cometeers)
1908 Philippe Brun jazz trumpeter
1909 Daniel Raphael Mayer journalist/resistance leader
1909 Tom Ewell [S Yewell Tompkins] Owensboro KY, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Year Itch, Adam's Rib)
1910 John Beavan newspaper editor
1912 Richard Carlson Albert Lea MN, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi)
1912 Italo Valenti Italian sculptor
1912 Terence de Vere White novelist/critic
1913 Jack Alexander Bently trombonist
1913 Thomas Chalmers broadcaster
1914 Ewan Roberts Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
1915 Donald Mills singer (Mills Brothers)
1918 Mervyn Roye Harvey cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
1919 Celeste Holm New York NY, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve)
1920 Edward Blishen writer teacher/broadcaster
1920 Harold Samuel Shapero Lynn MA, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1921 Cornelis de Jager Dutch astronomer (Sun)
1922 George Allen football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins)
1922 Parren J Mitchell (Representative-Democrat-MD, 1971- )
1922 Tommy Noonan Bellingham WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
1922 Toots [Jean] Thielemans Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
1923 Irvin Kershner Philadelphia PA, director (Never Say Never Again)
1923 Maxine Audley London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
1924 Al Balding Toronto Ontario Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (Québec Open-1952)
1924 Renée Jeanmaire Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1925 Ab Abspoel Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
1925 Danny Davis rocker (Nashville Brass
1926 Carie Meek (Representative-Democrat-FL)
1927 Dorothy Manley England, 100 meter sprint (Olympics-silver-1948)
1927 Betsy Ancker-Johnson physicist/auto company exec
1928 Big Jay McNeely rocker
1928 Carl Gardner Tyler TX, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
1929 [John] Jeremy Thorpe British MP (Liberal)
1929 Peter Joshua Sculthorpe composer
1929 Vaclav Kucera composer
1929 Walter Kempowski German writer (Tadellöser & Wolff)
1930 Alf[red Lewis] Valentine Jamaican cricket player (great West Indian lefty spinner)
1931 Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1931 Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan Glasgow Scotland, skiffle vocalist/guitarist
1931 William Ball actor (Suburban Commando)
1932 Alexei A Gubarev cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1932 King Hu film director
1932 Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
1933 Keith Baxter South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
1933 Darijan Bozic composer
1933 Raymond Earl Hill saxophonist
1933 Rod [Marvin] McKuen Oakland CA, singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville)
1934 Pedro Pires premier (Cape Verde, 1975-91)
1935 Len Weinrib New York NY, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
1935 Otto M Zykan composer
1936 April Stevens Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
1936 Lane Smith Memphis TN, actor (Perry-Lois & Clark, Chiefs, Nathan-V)
1936 Richard Lynch actor (Xavier-Battlestar Galactica)
1936 Zubin Mehta Bombay India, conductor (New York Philharmonic)
1936 Jacob Rothschild English banker/multi-millionaire
1940 Brian Taber cricket wicket-keeper (Australian between Grout & Marsh)
1941 Jonah Barrington British World champion squash player (1966-73)
1942 Galina Kulakova USSR, skier (Olympics-3 golds-1972)
1942 Klaus Voorman rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1943 Duane Allen Taylortown TX, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 Jim Hart Evanston IL, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals)
1944 Benedikte Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1945 [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell [Montgomery] singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
1945 Hugh Hopper rocker (Soft Machine)
1945 Richard Warwick actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If)
1946 Franc Roddam director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia)
1946 John Waters Baltimore MD, director (Hairspray)
1947 Jim Ryun US, 1500 meter runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympics-silver-1968)
1947 Tommy James singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
1947 John[ny Laurence] Miller San Francisco CA, golfer (US Open 1973, 1974 PGA Player of the Year, British Open 1976)
1948 Reb Brown Los Angeles CA, actor (Cage, Yor, Captain America, Fast Break)
1949 Anita Dobson England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
1949 Eddie Hart US, 100 meter runner (Olympics-1972)
1949 Susan Pratt actress (Barbara Montgomery-All My Children, Claire Ramsey-Guiding Light)
1951 [Ralph] Dale Earnhardt Kannapolis NC, NASCAR driver/"The Intimidator"
1952 Deborah Van Valkenburgh Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
1952 Nora Dunn Chicago IL, comedienne (Saturday Night Live, Miami Blues, Working Girl)
1953 Dale Earnhardt auto racer (6-time NASCAR national champion)
1953 Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27)
1954 Bill Paxon (Representative-Republican-NY)
1954 Deborah Iyall rocker (Romeo Void)
1955 Kate Mulgrew Dubuque IA, actress (Captain Janeway-Star Trek Voyager, Heartbeat, Kate Loves a Mystery)
1955 Jerry Seinfeld comedian/actor (Seinfeld)
1956 Ron Verlin rocker (Shooting Star)
1957 Richie C Robertson rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
1958 Eve Plumb Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka)
1958 Michelle Pfeiffer Santa Ana CA, actress (What Lies Beneath, Up Close & Personal, Ladyhawke, Married to the Mob, Grease 2)
1958 Simon Edwards rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1958 Daniel Day-Lewis England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
1960 Joseph Guzaldo Chicago IL, actor (Stir Crazy)
1960 Gerard Joling Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
1960 William Lee Glasson Jr Fresno CA, PGA golfer (1985 Kemper Open)
1962 Bruce Driver Toronto Ontario Canada, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers)
1962 Dieter Hegen Kaufbeuren Germany, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1962 Robert Druppers runner (world record 1 km indoor)
1965 Reggie Miller NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
1966 John VanderWal Grand Rapids MI, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Phil Tufnell cricketer (England slow lefty & slower fieldsman)
1967 Curtis Joseph Keswick Ontario Canada, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers)
1967 Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg Kirkland WA, rower/twin sister of Mary (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 Mary McCagg Kirkland WA, rower/twin sister of Elizabeth (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 Rachel Williams Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle)
1968 Browning Nagle NFL quarterback (New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Carnie Wilson Los Angeles CA, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 Arthur Marshall NFL wide receiver (New York Giants)
1970 Andre Agassi Las Vegas NV, tennis star (Olympics-gold-96, US Open-1994 & 1999, Wimbledon-1992)
1970 Arnaud Briand hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1970 Derrick Frazier NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 J R Phillips West Covina CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 Leuea Tagoai CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 Mark McMillian NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs)
1970 Uma Thurman Boston MA, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)
1970 William Martin III Charleston SC, Finnish yachter (Olympics-23rd-1996)
1971 Sterling Hitchcock Fayetteville NC, pitcher (New York Yankees, Sea Mariners)
1972 Gwendolyn Wentland Flint MI, high jumper
1974 Alana Blahoski ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1975 John Macready Los Angeles CA, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1976 God Shammgod NBA guard (Washington Wizards)
1976 Nayla Micherif Miss Brazil-Universe (1997)
1978 Mike Bryan Oxnard CA, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles)
1993 Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer daughter of Pieter & Mirtle

Deaths which occurred on April 29:

0852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon bishop, dies at 76
1499 John IV Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1535 John Houghton English, executed
1676 Michiel A de Ruyter Dutch Rear-Admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1699 Samuel Apostool vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles composer, dies at 67
1813 Christian Danner composer, dies at 55
1841 A Bertrand writer, dies
1864 Charles-Julien Brianchon math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
1871 John Gelinde van Blom Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1905 Ignacio Cervantes composer, dies at 57
1918 Gavrilo Princip Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1921 Arthur Mold British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1928 Henrich Federer Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1935 Leroy Carr blues singer/songwriter/pianist, dies=
1936 Florentinus M Wibaut Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1943 Joseph Achron Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart composer, dies at 68
1943 Sidney A K Keyes English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1947 Irving Fisher US economist, dies at 80
1951 Jules Verstraete [Julien G de Graef] actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1951 Ludwig J J Wittgenstein Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1953 Moïse Kisling Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1954 Ernst Heldring Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio composer, dies at 75
1957 Otallo Morales composer, dies at 82
1964 Albert Saverys Flemish painter, dies at 77
1966 Eugene O'Brien actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1967 Anthony Mann US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1968 Frankie Lymon rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25
1972 Ntare V deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 Manfred Gurlitt composer, dies at 82
1975 Charles McMahon Jr US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 Darwin Judge USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 Michael John Shea USMC-Lieutenant/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 William Craig Nystul USMC Captain, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 Wilhelm Maler composer, dies at 73
1979 Julia A Perry US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1984 Marvin Gaye rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45
1986 Seamus McElwaine Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 Andrew Cruickshank actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1988 Jan Kapr composer, dies at 74
1991 Claude Gallimard French publisher, dies
1992 Mae Clarke actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 Cy Howard director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1993 Michael Gordon actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1993 Mick Ronson English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1994 Bill Quinn US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1994 Erik Erikson anthropologist, dies at 53
1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams artist/critic, dies at 74
1995 Robert Gibb zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 David William Eric Davis broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 Jaime Garcia Terre poet/essayist, dies at 71
1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 Tony Hymphris political activist, dies at 45
1997 Keith Ferguson blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1997 Mike Royko columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1997 Peter Tali Coleman Governor of American Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies

On this day...Events

1091 Battle at Monte Levunium Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English
1522 Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-General of Netherlands
1540 Emperor Charles V declares all privileges of Gent ended
1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1623 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1628 Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
1670 Pope Clemens X elected
1701 Drenthe Netherlands adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
1706 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
1781 French fleet occupies Tobago
1781 French fleet stops Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1784 Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
1813 Rubber is patented
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1853 Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1856 End of Crimean War
1857 US Army, Pacific Division HQ is permanently established at Presidio (San Francisco)
1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth MS
1862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during Civil War
1863 Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins
1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1888 Old Kavallison, Congo Stanley meet Emin Pasha
1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
1894 Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Washington DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1901 27th Kentucky Derby Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1905 2" rain falls in 10 minutes in Taylor TX
1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1910 Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1912 108º F (42º C), Tuguegarao Philippines (Oceania record)
1912 Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel", premieres in Berlin
1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1918 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
1922 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champion (Tallinn Estonia)
1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard
1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WWI
1927 Construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed
1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1931 Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1934 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1936 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
1940 Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
1940 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night", premieres in NYC
1942 Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
1943 Dietrich Bonhöffer arrested by Nazi's
1943 Noël Coward's "Present Laughter", premieres in London
1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 Venice & Mestre are captured by the Allies
1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1948 Bradman scores 107 Australia vs Worcestershire, 152 minutes, 15 fours
1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
1955 Giovanni Gronchi elected President of Italy
1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir VA
1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
1962 16th Tony Awards Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying win
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish Prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1965 Australian government announces it will send troops to Vietnam
1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1967 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 performances
1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1971 Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East
1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1974 President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 Flyers 4-Islanders 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1975 US Forces pull out of Vietnam
1975 Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
1977 British Aerospace forms
1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
1981 Philadelphia Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 Québec Nordiques 2-New York Islanders 5-Semifinals-Islanders hold 2-0 lead
1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards Alabama, Barbara Mandrell win
1982 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1984 "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 homeruns in a game in both leagues
1985 Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing championship
1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for the cycle
1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 losses
1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
1989 2nd government of Lubbers falls
1990 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
1990 Dan Quisenberry (all-time American League save king, 238) announces his retirement
1990 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1991 "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 performances
1991 Croatia declares independence
1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
1991 Earthquake in Georgia kills 100
1992 "March of Falsettos & Falsettoland" premieres at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks
1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
1992 Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1994 Israel & PLO sign economic accord
1995 Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
1995 Kansas City Royal John Nonely is 70th to homerun on his 1st at bat
1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario Canada
1996 "Rent", opens at Nederlander Theater NYC
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM
1997 "Candide", opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances
1997 Kansas City Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 homeruns
1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-16-2006, 07:47 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on April 30:

1309 Kazimierz III de Great King of Poland (1333-70)
1602 William Lilly England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle French priest/theorist/saint
1717 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer
1743 Robert Jasper van de Capellen master of Marsch/politician
1767 Jean Henri Appelius lawyer/minister of Finance
1770 David Thompson English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss Brunswick Germany, one of the world's great mathematicians (number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, gravitation)
1790 John Cockerill English/Belgian industrialist
1792 Johann Friedrich Schwencke composer
1796 Isaäc M "Isaac A" Crémieux French lawyer/minister of Justice
1797 Andreas V Michiels Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra
1805 William Kerley Strong Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1812 Kaspar Hauser German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe
1823 George JD Campbell Scottish/British Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)
1830 Davis Tillson Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 Alfred Gaul composer
1846 Rosalie Amstein writer
1851 Indrið Einarsson Iceland playwright (Nyjársnóttin)
1853 Alfred von Berger writer
1858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison 1st lady (1889-1893)
1864 Frans Netscher Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model)
1870 Franz Lehar operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
1874 Cyriel Verschaeve Belgian priest/writer
1882 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf author (To the Invisible)
1883 David John de Lloyd composer
1884 Albert Israel Elkus composer
1885 Luigi Russolo composer
1886 Frank Merrik composer
1888 John Crowe Ransom American poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
1889 Acario Cotapos composer
1889 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer
1891 Watze Cuperus Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik)
1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop German SS führer/foreign minister
1896 Reverend Gary Davis Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1899 Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal author (regional novels)
1899 Lucie Mannheim Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps)
19-- Thom Bray Camden NJ, actor (Cyril-Breaking Away)
1902 Andre-François Marescotti composer
1902 Rudolf Wittelsbach composer
1903 Günther Raphael German composer (Symphony Breve)
1905 Henrich Schläppi Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympics-gold-1924)
1909 Queen Juliana of Netherlands (1948-80)
1910 Al Lewis actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
1911 Hans Studer composer
1911 John-Baptist J Walgrave [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist
1911 Luise Rinser writer
1912 Eve Arden Mill Valley CA, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
1912 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado soldier/politician
1913 Bernard Charles Sendall deputy director general (ITA)
1913 Edith Fowke folklorist
1914 Sid Weiss bassist
1915 Johnny Galecki actor (Danny-American Dreamer)
1916 Robert Shaw Red Bluff CA, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale)
1916 Claude Shannon information theorist
1916 Dugo D Schenker Suriname/Antillian producer
1917 Bea Wain US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
1918 W Donald McNeill tennis champion (US Open-1940)
1919 Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove Flemish writer/producer
1920 Duncan Hamilton driver
1920 Leen 't Hart Dutch organist/composer
1922 Anton Murray cricketer (South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55)
1923 Al Lewis actor (Grandpa-The Munsters)
1923 Alan Wharton cricketer (England batsman once vs New Zealand 1949, scored 7 & 13)
1923 George Byatt playwright
1924 Sheldon Harnick Chicago IL, Broadway lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)
1925 Corinne Calvet Paris France, actress (Phantom of Hollywood)
1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines IA, actress (Phyllis, Last Picture Show)
1926 Corinne Calvet France, actress (Apache Uprising)
1926 Edmund Cooper UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day)
1927 Lars Hall Sweden, Pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1952)
1927 Johnny Horton Los Angeles CA, rocker
1929 Peter Carsten Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible)
1930 Raoul de Keyser [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
1931 William L [Bill] Clay (Representative-Democrat-MO, 1969- )
1932 Anton Larrauri composer
1933 Willie Nelson Abbott TX, country singer (On the Road Again)
1936 Zohra Lampert actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra)
1938 Gary Collins Venice CA, actor (6th Sense, Home Show)
1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard Queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star, Flash Crowd)
1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich Miami FL, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982)
1939 Pieter van Vollenhoven husband of Dutch Princess Margriet
1940 Burt Young New York NY, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
1941 Johnny Farina rocker (Santo & Johnny)
1941 Wilfried Jentzsh composer
1943 Bobby Vee Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes)
1943 Robert L Livingston (Representative-Republican-LA, 1977- )
1944 Jill Clayburgh New York NY, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
1944 Richard Shoff rocker (Sandpipers)
1945 Annie Dillard American writer (An American Childhood)
1945 Michael J Smith Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astronaut (51L-Challenger disaster)
1945 Claude van de Berge [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory)
1945 Mike Beacon rocker (Ox)
1945 Mimi Farina rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1946 Carl XVI Gustav King of Sweden (1973- )
1946 Donald Schollander Charlotte NC, 100 meter/400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1964)
1947 Robert Scott (Representative-Democrat-VA)
1948 Perry King Alliance OH, actor (Cody-Riptide, Andy Warhol's "Bad")
1948 Wayne Kramer jazz artist (Dangerous Madness)
1951 Panuta Rosani Poland, discus (Olympics 1976) drug disqualified
1952 Tom Pesek PC programmer (creator of HAL 9000 program)
1953 Merrill Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1954 Günther Tiersch German Democratic Republic, 8 man cox (Olympics-gold-1968)
1955 Dimitra Papandreau Greece, wife of Greek PM Andreas Papandreau
1956 Richard Farina folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1957 Duane G Carey St Paul MN, Major USAF/astronaut
1959 Kamaran Abdalla Iraq/England/Netherlands actor (Goede Tijden Selechte Tijden)
1959 Lauren Howe LPGA golfer
1961 Isiah Thomas NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, 1990 NBA playoff MVP)
1963 Steve Smith Glasgow Sco, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 Ian Healy cricket wicket-keeper (Australian since 1988)
1964 Jeff Reboulet Dayton OH, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1965 Adrian Pasdar Pittsfield MA, actor (C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun)
1965 Daniela Costian Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96)
1966 Aundray Bruce defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1966 David Meggett NFL running back (New York Giants, New England Patriots)
1966 Jeff Brown Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1968 Babette Van Veen Netherlands, actress (Linda-GTST, Blueberry Hill)
1968 Paulo Jr Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions)
1968 Richard Pilon Saskatoon, NHL defenseman (New York Islanders)
1968 Roger Mar Seattle WA, rapid fire pistol (Olympics-1996)
1968 Sandra Beikoff Mackay Queensland, golfer (1990 Sunshine Coast Open)
1969 Joey Restivo Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1969 Dexter Rogers St Petersburg FL, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 Brad Layton Seymour IN, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 Debbie D Philadelphia PA, actress (Attack of Vampire Mermaid)
1971 B J Tyler NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1971 Matt Martin Hamden, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs, Olympics-US-94)
1971 Randy Bierman WLAF tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1971 Ryan Hawblitzel West Palm Beach FL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 Ty Hallock fullback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Kendricke Bullard NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 Mario Schaden hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1974 Cedric Jones defensive end (New York Giants)
1974 Chris Darkins NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 Beverley Peele model [or Apr 7]
1975 Johnny Galecki Bree Belgium, actor (American Dreamer, David-Roseanne)
1982 Kirsten Dunst actress (Interview with the Vampire)
1988 Molloko San Diego Zoo, 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity

Deaths which occurred on April 30:

0313 Gaius G V Maximus [Daia] Emperor of Rome, dies
0535 Amalaswintha queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
1030 Mohammud van Ghazna Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
1196 Boudouin II bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
1214 Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa Italian bishop, dies
1328 Meister Johann Eckhard German theologist/mystic, dies
1630 Ercole Porta composer, dies at 44
1632 Jean de Tilly fieldmarshal, dies
1632 Sigismund III King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65
1660 Peter Scriverius Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
1671 Péter Zrinyi Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49
1708 Simon de Vries book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
1712 Philippus van Limborch remonstrants theologist/vicar, dies at 78
1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo Peruvian playwright/poet, dies
1784 Franz K earl von Velbruck German free mason, dies
1785 Frederick Philipse 3 land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
1792 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth composer, dies at 36
1792 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich English Naval minister, dies at 73
1793 Lorenzo Fago composer, dies at 88
1795 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy French historian (Ancient Greece), dies
1800 John H Midderigh Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
1828 Shaka the great Zulu king, killed
1829 George Washington Adams son of John Q Adams, dies on City Island New York NY
1847 Charles archduke of Austria/Governor-General (Austria-Netherlands), dies
1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
1855 Henry Rowley Bishop British composer/conductor, dies at 68
1859 Sergei T Aksakov Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull composer, dies at 71
1893 Edouard Manet French painter (Olympia), dies at 61
1893 Gyula Beliczay composer, dies at 57
1895 Gustav Freytag writer, dies at 78
1896 Antonio Cagnoni composer, dies at 68
19-- Richard Farina rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1900 John Luther [Casey] Jones dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
1903 François Crépin Belgian botany, dies at 72
1912 Frantisek Kmoch composer, dies
1919 Henry Wood England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies
1922 David M Chumaceiro Curaçaos poet, dies
1929 Friedrich Lienhard German publisher (Türmer), dies at 63
1931 Sammy Woods cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies
1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
1934 Dr William Henry Welch pathologist who played a major role in the introduction of modern medical practice and education dies at 75
1942 Catherine Murphy Urner composer, dies at 51
1942 J van Hoddis writer, dies at 54
1943 Beatrice Potter Webb British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943 Etty Hillesum Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
1945 Adolf Hitler German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945 Eva Braun mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
1952 Charles Radoux-Rogier composer, dies
1956 Alben W Barkley (Vice President-Democrat-1949-53), dies at 78
1957 Ludwig Schiedermair German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
1959 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick composer, dies at 81
1963 Bryant Washburn actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74
1965 Helen Chandler actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56
1966 Richard Farina rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1968 Frankie Lymon rocker, dies of a heroin overdose
1970 Inger Stevens actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
1970 Hall Johnson composer, dies at 82
1970 Jacob Presser historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71
1971 Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
1972 Gia Scala actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38
1972 Ntare V king of Burundi, murdered
1973 Josie Sedgwick actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at 75
1974 Agnes Moorehead actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies from cancer at 67
1976 Edvard Fliflet Braein composer, dies at 51
1977 Clive Martin Douglas composer, dies at 73
1980 Mary McCarty actress (French Line), dies
1982 Albert Bird lecture artist, dies
1982 Herman Tholen Dutch cabaret performer (Juveniles), dies
1982 Taisen Deshimaru founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67
1983 George Balanchine choreographer, dies at 78
1983 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
1983 Muddy Waters US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 68
1984 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris bombed Nazi-Germany, dies
1984 Muddy Waters blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68
1985 George Pravada actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66
1987 Hugh Dempster actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
1988 James McCracken US tenor, dies at 61
1989 Sergio Leone Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 60
1991 George Sperti Sperti inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
1991 Michael G Hagerty actor (Overboard), dies at 39
1992 Daan van Driel Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 David Waymer NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34
1993 Eric Rowan cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
1994 David Langton dies of a heart at 81
1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
1994 Geoffery Michael Roberts vintner, dies at 46
1994 Richard McClure Scarry US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
1994 Roland Ratzenberger Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1995 Donald Edwin White ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59
1995 Reinaldo de Carvalho carnival king, dies at 34
1996 David Michael Ifshin British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 David Opatoshu actor (Torn Curtian, Raid on Entebbe), dies at 78
1996 Frank Henry Copplestone TV executive, dies at 71
1996 Helene Cordet entertainer/nightclub owner, dies at 78
1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies

On this day...[vents

0311 Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire
1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1506 Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
1527 England & France sign treaty of Westminster
1562 1st French colonists in US Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Island NC
1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
1695 William Congreve's "Love for Love", premieres in London
1722 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant
1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1748 Ceasefire at Aken ends
1748 French troops occupy Maastricht
1763 London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US
1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1798 Department of the Navy is established
1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1804 Hague's Theater opens
1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
1852 Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi", premieres in St Petersburg
1857 San Jose State University forms
1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires
1860 Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1862 Swift Run Gap WV skirmishes
1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1864 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry AR; General William Read Scurry is killed
1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill VA
1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1887 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
1888 Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi India
1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1898 Championship wrestling match at the Metropolitan turns into a brawl
1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1902 Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande", premieres in Paris France
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1905 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
1910 Cleveland Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage
1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
1919 Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
1922 Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1957)
1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
1934 Austria gets "Austrian facist" constitution
1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
1938 Bradman scores 258 Australia vs Worcestershire, 293 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of New York World's Fair
1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
1940 Brooklyn Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0
1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc WI
1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1943 Noël Coward's "This Happy Breed", premieres in London
1944 New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
1944 New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
1945 Concentration camp München-Allag freed
1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
1945 Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbrück concentration camp
1945 US troops attack the Elbe
1946 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0
1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia
1948 "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1954 Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Haifa
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
1955 Imperial Bank of India nationalized
1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston MA & New York NY begin (Eastern)
1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1961 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays hits 4 homeruns in a game
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 75,190 meters
1967 Baltimore Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers
1967 Highest tower in the world finished, 537 meters (USSR)
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1967 New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver wins his 1st game
1968 3 Baltimore Oriole pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9 inning game
1969 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 US troops invade Cambodia
1970 Chicago Cubs Billy Williams is 1st National Leaguer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1971 25th NBA Championship Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games
1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
1973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1976 Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
1977 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 performances
1977 Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore MD, to become WWF champion
1977 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
1978 "Elvis The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances
1978 Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
1979 Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
1980 Queen Beatrix of Netherlands, Wilhelmina Armgard, ascends to the throne
1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
1980 "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
1980 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, abdicates
1980 Ronald Harwood's "Dresser", premieres in London
1981 "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1981 16th Academy of Country Music Awards Barbara Mandrell & George Jones win
1982 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
1982 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1983 Bruins 3-Islanders 7-Wales Conference Championship-Islanders hold 2-1 lead
1984 Strong winds cause a 30 minute delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
1985 Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1986 Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
1987 New York Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
1987 Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils president
1988 New Jersey Devils beat Capitals 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
1988 New York Knights 1st arena football game; beat Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles)
1988 New York Yankee Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets American League & ties major league record
1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
1988 Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season
1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA
1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
1990 As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Atlanta Braves score
1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1990 Seattle Mariner's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1990 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone kills over 131,000 & leaves 9 million homeless
1992 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show" on NBC-TV
1994 Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
1995 "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 performances
1995 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 performances
1995 "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 performances
1995 After 120 years the last 15 A & S department stores close
1995 Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1996 "Buried Child", opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
1996 Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
1997 "London Assurance", opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1997 Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1997 President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1997 Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
1997 Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-17-2006, 08:58 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 01:

1238 Magnus VI Lagabuter King of Norway (1263-80)
1245 Philippe III Poissy Yvelines France, King of France (1270-85)
1493 Phillippus Paracelsus Switzerland, physician/alchemist
1545 Franciscus Junius [François du Jon], French/Netherlands calvinist theologist
1567 Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt Dutch royal painter
1577 François van Kinschot Dutch treasurer
1582 Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer
1592 Johann A Schall von Bell German missionaries/astronomer
1633 Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban French fortress architect
1672 Joseph Addison England, essayist (Spectator)
1735 John H van Kinsbergen Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corps
1759 Jacob Albright [Albrecht], German/US predictor
1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineer/architect (built Capitol)
1764 Gottfried Rieger composer
1769 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
1771 George Guest composer
1775 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn composer
1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin Commander (Union Navy), died in 1874
1807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 José Amador de los Ríos Spanish historian/poet
1819 William Steele Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1825 George Inness US landscape painter ("Delaware Water Gap")
1829 José M de Alencar Brazilian writer/minister of Justice
1830 Mary Harris Jones [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1839 Chardonnet inventor (rayon)
1851 Eberhard Nestle German oriëntalist/biblical scholar
1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter
1858 Anthony Johnson Showalter composer
1859 Bohuslav Jeremias composer
1859 Willem J Leyds Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat
1862 Anthony G Kröller entrepreneur/government advisor/husband of Helene Müller
1862 Marcel Prévost French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges)
1872 Hugo Alfvén Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
1880 Conrad Weiss German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
1881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin France, philosopher/paleontologist
1884 Felipe Boero composer
1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham Irish/British general/director of Palestine (1945-48)
1892 Howard Barlow Plain City OH, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1895 Leo Sowerby Grand Rapids MI, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
1898 Eugene R Black US, President of World Bank (1953-62)
1899 Jón Leifs Iceland, composer/conductor
19-- Sharon Spelman Los Angeles CA, actress (Joyce-Angie)
1900 Ignazio Silone Italy, novelist/politician (Bread and Wine)
1905 Leila Hyams New York NY, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)
1905 Nikolai Tikhonov Soviet PM (1980-85)
1907 Jan Pauw CEO (Aruban Theater Group)
1907 Kate Smith Greenville AL, singer (God Bless America)/Philadelphia Flyer luck charm
1908 Giovanni Guareschi Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone)
1909 Ethel Jane Cain original UK Speaking Clock voice
1909 George Melachrino composer
1909 Yannis Ritsos Greek poet
1910 Cliff Battles Akron OH, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
1912 Anna Pollak mezzo-soprano
1912 Felipe Padilla de Leon composer
1913 Walter Susskind Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1916 Glenn Ford Québec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
1916 Jack Parr Canton OH, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
1916 Jane Jacobs Scranton PA, urbanologist
1917 Danielle Darrieux France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
1917 John Beradino Los Angeles CA, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
1917 Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen actor/author (Amsterdam Affair)
1919 Alwyn Farquharson Scottish clan-captain/large landowner
1919 Dan O'Herlihy Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
1921 12th Lord Middleton English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1921 Paul Daels president (Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee)
1922 Louis Nye Hartford CT, comedian (Steve Allen, Happy Days)
1923 Joseph Heller Brooklyn NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 Art Fleming Bronx NY, TV host (Jeopardy)
1924 Earl George composer
1924 Enrico Josif composer
1924 Patricia Roberts Harris 1st US black woman cabinet member
1924 Terry Southern writer
1925 Chuck Bednarik Pennsylvania, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Philadelphia)
1925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter Boulder CO, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)
1927 Greta Andersen Denmark, 100 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948)
1927 Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte New York NY, calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song)
1927 Israr Ali cricket pace bowler (Pakistan in 4 Tests 1952-59)
1927 Lord Bathurst English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire
1927 Roland Verhavert Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor)
1927 William Mitchell Byers musician
1928 Raoul Servais Belgian cartoonist/president (l'ASIFA)
1929 Sonny James [James Loden] Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1929 Sonny Ramadhin cricket spin bowler (great West Indies spin bowler)
1930 Little Walter [Marion Walter Jacobs] rocker
1930 Ollie Matson NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
1933 Joan Hackett East Harlem New York NY, actress (Defenders, Another Day)
1933 Uwe Greßmann writer
1934 Alette Beaujon Curaçaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere)
1937 Bo Nilsson Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
1939 Judy Collins Seattle WA, singer (Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Clouds)
1939 Max Robinson Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1939 Ray Aranha Miami FL, actor (Nick-Married People)
1941 Barbara Barendrecht [BHM Wurfbain], actress (Dirty Picture)
1941 Juraj Hatrick composer
1942 Stephen Macht Philadelphia PA, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
1943 Joy Harmon St Louis MO, actress (Cool Hand Luke)
1944 Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
1946 Bruce Robinson actor (Story of Adele H)
1946 Jerry Weiss New York NY, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1946 Joanna Lumley Kashmir India, actress (Ab Fab, On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1946 Nick Fortune [Nicholas Fortuna], rock bassist (Buckinghams Chicago)
1946 Tony Ashton rocker
1947 Carlos Ward rocker (B T Express)
1947 Ghulam Abbas cricketer (scored 12 & 0 in only Test for Pakistan 1967)
1948 James Wise US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1949 Douglas Barr Cedar Rapids IA, actor (Howie-The Fall Guy)
1949 Margo Miller San Fransisco CA, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1950 Marina Stepanova Russian hurdler (world record 1986)
1951 Gordon Greenidge cricketer (great West Indian opener 1974-91)
1953 Elquemedo Willett cricketer (West Indies lefty spinner early 70's)
1953 Felix Hanemann rocker (Zebra)
1953 Mindy Moore LPGA golfer
1954 Michael Scott reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1954 Ray Parker Jr Detroit MI, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters-Who You Gonna Call?)
1954 Taslim Arif cricketer (Pakistan keeper/batsman, 210 vs Australia 1980)
1955 Julien Wiener cricketer (Australian opening batsman 1979-80)
1956 Byron Stewart Baxter Springs KS, actor (Warren Coolidge-St Elsewhere)
1957 Dick Swett (Representative-D-NH)
1957 Paul D Ronney Los Angeles CA, ScD/astronaut (STS 83 alternate)
1957 Rick Darling cricketer (accident-prone/dashing Aussie opener 1978-79)
1957 Steve Farris rock guitarist (Mr Mister)
1958 John Diehl Cincinnati OH, actor (Detective Zito-Miami Vice)
1959 Eddie Johnson NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers)
1959 Paul Smith rock saxophonist (Haircut 100)
1960 Albert McDonald Dartmouth Nova Scotia, US canoe (alternate-Olympics-96)
1961 Charlie O'Brien Tulsa OK, catcher (Brewers, Mets, Braves, Blue Jays)
1961 Steven Cauthen jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby-Affirmed)
1962 Gary Clark NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Paula Weishoff Hollywood CA, volleyballer (Olympics-silver-84, bronze-92, 96)
1962 Reggie Pleasant CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1963 Robert Seguso Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1964 Bruno Ravel Paris France, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1964 Carlos Aalbers Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1964 Ruth Picardie journalist
1964 Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon
1965 Jon Warren Akron OH, 1.5k runner
1966 Armando Reynoso San Luis Potosi México, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Charlie Schlatter New York NY, actor (18 Again, Heartbreak Hotel)
1966 Johnny Colt Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1966 Mark Coogan Manhaset NY, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1967 Bill Schultz NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Denver Broncos, Scot Claymores)
1967 Marvcus Patton NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 Scott Coffey Hawaii, actor (Satisfaction, Shout)
1967 Tawni Cable Salem OR, playmate (June 1989)
1967 Yael Arad Israel, Women's half middleweight judoka (Olympics-1996)
1968 Anton Scheutjens soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 Lisa Campbell Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1968 Mark Scott Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1969 Billy Owens NBA forward/guard (Sacramento Kings)
1969 Bryan Marchment Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 Carrie Stevens Buffalo NY, playmate (June 1997)
1969 Roy Rosello singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1970 Alex Van Pelt NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Allen DeGraffenreid WLAF wide receiver (Scotland Claymores)
1970 Alundis Brice NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 Damon Diletti Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1971 Ethan Albright NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills)
1971 Jamie Marie Swenson Miss USA-South Dakota (1997)
1971 Renee Poetschka Australian 200 meter/400 meter (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 Stuart Appleby Cohuna Australia, Nike golfer (1994 Victorian PGA)
1972 Bobby Chouinard Manilla Phillipines, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1973 Curtis Martin NFL running back (New England Patriots)
1973 Frank Beede NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 Keri Phebus Laguna Beach CA, tennis star
1974 Matthew Hatchette NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 Vladimir Zavyalov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1975 Austin Croshere NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1976 Darius McCrary Walnut CA, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
1977 Anna Louise Wilson Dunedin New Zealand, 100 meter breast stroke (Olympics-96)
1979 Jennifer Botterill ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-98)
1979 Kimberly Grigsby Miss Virginia Teen USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on May 01:

1171 Dermot MacMurrough last Irish king of Leinster, dies
1277 Stefanus IV Uros I de Great King of Serbia (1243-76), dies
1308 Albrecht I van Habsburg German King (1298-1308), murdered
1447 Louis VII Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
1456 Hugues de Lannoy Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
1471 Thomas a Kempis spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91
1555 Marcellus II [Marcello Cervini] Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
1572 Pius V [Antonio Ghislieri] great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
1679 Esaias Reusner composer, dies at 43
1700 John Dryden English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
1703 Kiva Yoshinaka Japanese monarch, murdered
1733 Nicolas Coustou French sculptor (Saôn), dies at 75
1772 Gottfried Achenwall German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
1831 Antonius van Alphen apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82
1863 Edward Dorr Tracy US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29
1869 ? colt reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH
1870 Francisco Solano López fieldmarshal/President of Paraguay
1872 Amalia princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
1873 David Livingstone British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
1874 Vilem Blodek composer, dies at 39
1886 Conrad Busken Huet writer (Country of Rubens)
1886 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl composer, dies at 56
1892 Willem A Scholten manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
1896 Naser ed-Din shah of Persia (1848-96), murdered at 65
1898 Alphonse Wauters Belgian historian, dies at 81
1900 Mihály von Munkácsy [Michael von Lieb], German painter, dies at 56
1902 John Glover English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1903 Arthur Haygarth cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies
1903 Luigi Arditi violist/composer, dies at 80
1904 Antonín Dvorak Czechoslovakia, composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
1917 José E Rodo Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
1921 Louis Campbell-Tipton composer, dies at 43
1924 August Cuppens Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
1926 Nicolaus Adriani translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1932 Paul Doumer President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov
1934 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko composer, dies at 35
1937 Snitz Edwards actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75
1939 Wilhelm Normann German chemist (harden van oliën), dies
1941 John R Locksmith de Brown vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71
1945 Desider Antalffy-Zsiross Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
1945 Paul Josef Goebbels Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1946 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow composer, dies at 71
1946 Percy William Whitlock composer, dies at 42
1947 Sanner leader of Norger blood bath, executed
1948 Christos Ladas Greek minister of Justice, murdered
1952 William Fox [Fried] US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1954 Tom Tyler actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
1957 Grant Mitchell actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
1959 Oscar Torp Norwegian premier, dies
1965 Leo Spies composer, dies at 65
1965 Spike Jones composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1968 Harold G Nicolson English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
1969 Ella Logan actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56
1969 George Parker cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1924), dies
1971 Edith Day actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75
1971 Glenda Farrell actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66
1972 Fernand Ansseau Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82
1976 Rex O'Malley actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
1978 Aram Katchaturian Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
1979 Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin cricketer (2 Tests for West Indies), dies
1981 Dr Clarence A Bacote historian & political scientist, dies at 75
1981 Peter Huchel writer, dies at 78
1982 Gene Sheldon actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
1983 V N Swamy Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies
1984 Gordon Jenkins orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
1988 Carroll Righter astrologer, dies at 88 of postate cancer
1988 Paolo Stoppa actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies
1989 David Webster South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
1989 Douglass Watson actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68
1989 Marion Mack actress (General), dies
1990 Sunset Carson cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62
1991 Richard Thorpe director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies
1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
1993 Pierre Bérégovoy PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1994 Ayrton Senna Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
1994 Imre Gyöngyössy Hungarian director, dies at 64
1996 Asher Wallfish journalist, dies at 67
1996 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74
1996 William Mitchell Byers musician, dies on 79th birthday
1997 Bebe AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40

On this day...Events

0305 Emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Jovius of Rome resigns
1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Netherlands
1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & its surroundings from an old badger
1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1528 Pánfilo the Narvaéz begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 Council of Trente resumes
1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1625 Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1711 Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1725 Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1757 Austria & France divide Prussia
1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati
1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal" premieres in London
1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence MO for California
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1846 Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1850 John Geary becomes 1st San Fransisco mayor
1851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, at Crystal Palace
1853 Argentina adopts its constitution
1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville VA (29,000 injured or died)
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1864 Atlanta campaign, Georgia
1864 Battle at Alexandria LA (Red River Campaign)
1864 Wilderness campaign
1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1867 Howard University chartered
1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1869 "Folies-Bergère" opens in Paris France
1869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH
1873 1st US postal card issued
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Wien (Vienna)
1875 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st National League game since 1876
1883 New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1884 Construction begins on Chicago's 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in the major league
1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
1886 US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1891 Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay
1893 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT
1900 Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in the American League
1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0
1907 Belgian Government of De Trooz forms
1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies)
1908 World's most intense rain shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panamá
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1912 Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1913 Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St New York NY
1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1915 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool
1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee homerun & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected Governor of Suwayda
1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
1923 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriótis becomes President of Greece
1925 A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1926 British coal-miners go on strike
1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1930 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs Worcestershire, his 1st f-class innings in England
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY
1931 Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1935 Boulder Dam completed
1935 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 FDR signs act of neutrality
1939 Batman Comics hit the street
1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)
1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 "Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 German assault on Tobruk
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 Food rationing begins in US
1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1944 Messerschmitt Me-262 Sturmvogel, first operational jet aircraft (twin-jet fighter), makes 1st flight
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)
1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide
1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
1946 Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"
1947 Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stadium
1947 Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 Radar for commercial & private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA
1948 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4; this is Arcaro's 4th win
1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
1948 North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1949 A's Elmer Valo is 1st American League'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st homerun
1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 Mr Potato Head, introduced
1952 TWA introduces tourist class
1954 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist organization forbidden)
1954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)
1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1955 Bobby Feller's 15th 1-hit or less game (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million
1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina
1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own homerun
1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1963 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1965 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1965 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua
1967 Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas
1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)
1968 "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 performances
1968 Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 4-0
1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
1971 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1973 San Fransisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
1975 Islanders Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1976 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1976 Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 meter, 57:24.2
1977 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1977 Empress Lilly dedicated
1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) become self-governing
1980 "Day in Hollywood, Night in Ukraine" opens at John Golden NYC for 588 performances
1980 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 American Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1980 Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 Harrison Williams (Senator-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville TN opens
1982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 "My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 William Hoffman's "As Is" premieres in NYC
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1987 46 homeruns hit in 13 baseball games
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1988 "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 performances
1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public
1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1990 "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1991 "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
1991 Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1991 A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal (vs Yankees)
1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base
1991 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
1991 Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior
1992 Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1992 New York Rangers win their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils)
1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)
1994 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1994 "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 performances
1994 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1994 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1994 Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1995 "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1995 Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs West Indies at Sabina Park
1996 "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1997 Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1999 125th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Charismatic wins in 2:03.2
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-17-2006, 09:03 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 02:

1551 William Camden English historian (Brittania, Annales)
1601 Athanasius Kircher German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)
1660 Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1729 Catherine II (the Great) empress of Russia (1762-96)
1729 Florian Johann Deller composer
1740 Elias Boudinot lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society
1752 Ludwig August Lebrun composer
1754 Vicente Martin y Soler composer
1768 Jean-Louis M Alibert French dermatologist
1772 Novalis writer
1779 John Galt Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
1810 Hans Christian Lumbye composer
1810 Leo XIII 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
1817 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky composer
1821 Abram Sanders Piatt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1837 General Henry Martyn Robert parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
1840 Theodor Herzl founded Zionist movement
1843 Carl Michael Ziehrer composer
1844 Elijah McCoy black inventor, held over 50 patents including a lubricator for steam engines ("the Real McCoy")
1846 Zygmunt Noskowski composer
1849 Fürst Bernhard HM von Bülow German chancellor/Prussian PM (1900-09)
1853 Marie Verstraete actress (Louise-Frou Frou)
1855 Theodore Moses Tobani composer
1857 Frederic Cliffe composer
1859 Eugene D'Harcourt composer
1860 Sir D'Arcy Thompson zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
1860 Theodor Herzl Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement)
1862 Marie F M Emmanuel French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1869 Tyrone Power Sr London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
1872 G G van der Hoeven Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
1884 François de Vries Dutch economist
1885 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry] Hollidaysburg PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1886 Gottfried Benn writer
1887 Edward Collins New York, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's)
1890 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary)
1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace
1893 Beppie Nooij Jr Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
1895 Alfred Kurella writer
1895 Peggy Bacon Ridgefield CT, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
1898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last Dutch poet/politician (The Spark)
19-- Matt Thorr rocker (Jailhouse-Alive in a Mad World)
1900 Helen Morgan singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
1901 Lev N Lunts Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth)
1901 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt cricketer (England batsman 1927-37)
1901 Willi Bredel writer
1902 Brian Aherne Worcestershire England, actor (Juarez)
1902 Erin O'Brien-Moore Los Angeles CA, actress (Peyton Place, Our Little Girl)
1903 Benjamin Spock New Haven CT, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1903 Oivin Fjeldstad composer
1904 Georgi Dimitrov composer
1905 Alan Rawsthorne Haslingden England, composer (Cortéges)
1906 Aileen Riggin Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympics-gold-1920, 24)
1906 Maurice Thiriet composer
1907 Pinky Lee children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
1908 William Bakewell Los Angeles CA, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
1910 Laurie Nash cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
1911 Lillian Rambach teacher violinist
1912 Axel Springer German newspaper magnate
1912 Marten Toonder writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
1913 Nigel Patrick London England, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold)
1914 Dennis Dyer cricketer (opened batting for South Africa vs England 1947)
1915 Jan Hanus composer
1915 Van Alexander New York NY, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
1918 Frederick Archibauld Warner diplomat
1919 Than Wyenn New York NY, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
1920 Jacob Gilboa composer
1921 Satyajit Ray Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
1922 Abraham Rosenthal editor (New York Times)
1923 Christina Spierenburg Dutch singer
1924 Aafje Heynis Dutch singer
1924 Theodore Bikel Austrian/US folk singer/actor (The Russians Are Coming)
1925 David Ironside cricketer (South Africa swing bowler in 3 Tests vs New Zealand 1953-54)
1925 John Neville actor (Adventures of Baron Münchausen)
1925 Roscoe Lee Browne Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
1925 Svatopluk Havelka composer
1929 Edward Levy Irving composer
1929 Luc Ferrari composer
1929 Sydney Gedye cricketer (opening batsman in four Tests for New Zealand 1964)
1930 Morris Courtright manned spaceflight pioneer and Arizona State legislator
1932 Bruce Glover Chicago IL, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
1932 Kees de Galan Dutch economist
1932 Malcolm Leyland Lipkin composer
1933 Bunk Gardner rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1935 Faisal II King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I
1935 Hussain ibn Talal King of Jordan (1952-99)
1935 Link Wray rocker (Link Wray & His Ray Men)
1936 Michael Rabin New York NY, violinist (In Memorium)
1936 Quinn Redeker Woodstock IL, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
1937 Gisela Elsner writer
1937 Lorenzo Music Brooklyn NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton the doorman-Rhoda, Garfield)
1938 Constantine Bereng Seeiso king Moshushoe II of Lesotho
1940 Bryan Davis cricketer (brother of Charlie; West Indies batsman vs Australia 1965)
1940 Roger Robinson Seattle WA, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law)
1940 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot Dutch MP (VVD)
1941 Jules Wijdenbosch premier Suriname
1944 F Innerhofer writer
1944 John Verity rocker (Argent)
1945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife
1945 Bob Henrit English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 Goldy McJohn rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 Randy Cain US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 Robert Henrit England, rocker (Argent)
1946 Lesley Gore Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
1947 Bill Lowery (Representative-R-CA, 1981- )
1947 Jo Ann Pflug Atlanta GA, actress (MASH, Candid Camera, Rituals)
1948 Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady)
1949 Joey Phillips percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1950 Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is)
1952 Christine Baranski Buffalo NY, actress (Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage)
1953 "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Year 1975)
1954 Bulelani T Ngcuka South African attorney/leader (UDF)
1955 Ian Callen cricketer (one Test Australia vs India 1978, six wickets)
1955 Jay Osmond rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 Joe Callis rocker
1957 Domonic L Pudwill Gorie Lake Charles LA, USN/astronaut (STS-91)
1958 Kim Jones Sonoma CA, 5k runner
1959 Brian Tochi Los Angeles CA, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
1960 Ravi Ratnayeke cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler & opening batsman)
1961 Doctor Robert [Bruce R Howard] rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1961 Peter Doohan Australia, tennis star
1962 Elizabeth Berridge Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
1962 Nancy Harvey Swift Current Sask, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1963 Jos van Eck Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1963 Kenton Leonard CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1964 Kelly Michael Gibson New Orleans LA, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-7th)
1967 Kerryn McCann Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1968 Reggie Slack CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 Will Furrer WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 Brian Lara cricketer (West Indies left-hand bat Smashed world records in 1994)
1969 Glen Young NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Vania Thomas Miss US Virgin Islands Universe (1997)
1971 Greg Bishop NFL guard (New York Giants)
1972 Erik Maes Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1972 Jennifer Miriam Oklahoma City OK, playmate (March, 1997)
1972 Jill Savery Fort Lauderdale FL, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 Peter Ogilvie Vancouver British Columbia, 100 meter sprinter (Olympics-96)
1973 Rich Yurkiewicz NFL/WLAF linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Amst Admirals)
1974 Miles Joseph West Springfield MA, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 Mark Johnson Dayton OH, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Murray William Burdan Wellington New Zealand, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Ailleen Damiles Miss Universe-Philippines/Miss Photogenic (1996)
1976 Nancy Feber Antwerp Belgium, tennis star
1977 Amy D'Entremont Stoneham MA, figure skater (1995 New England Jr champion)
1977 Jenna Von Oy actress (Six LeMeure-Blossom)

Deaths which occurred on May 02:

0649 Maruta of Tagrit theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
1250 Toeransa sultan of Egypt, murdered
1459 Pierozzi Antoninus Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
1488 Jacob van Horne Burgundy statesman, dies
1519 Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67
1567 Marin Drzic Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
1669 Pieter Jansz Post master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
1685 Adriaen van Ostade Dutch painter, buried
1727 Paul Aler French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
1736 Albert Seba Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
1799 Henri-Joseph Rigel composer, dies at 58
1818 Herman W Daendels Governor-General of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
1845 August Pauly German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
1849 David H Chassé Baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
1857 LC Alfred the Musset French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer composer, dies at 72
1892 Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 69
1897 William Cleaver Francis Robinson composer, dies at 63
1919 Gustav Landauer German socialist, dies
1937 Arthur Somervell composer, dies at 73
1945 Martin Bormann propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
1954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges singer, dies at 82
1955 Tadeusz Jarecki composer, dies at 66
1957 Joseph McCarthy commie hunting senator (R-WI), dies at 47
1957 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer, dies at 53
1958 Alfred Weber German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
1959 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67
1960 Caryl Chessman rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
1961 J C White cricketer (49 wickets in 15 Tests for England 1921-31), dies
1963 Jack Crawford cricketer (469 runs & 39 wickets in 12 Tests), dies
1963 Tomas Vackar composer, dies at 17
1963 Van Wyck Brooks US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
1968 Donald L Hall airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
1969 Franz von Papen German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
1972 Hugo Hartung writer, dies at 69
1972 J Edgar Hoover head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
1973 Alan Carney actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
1980 Clarrie Grimmett cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies
1982 Helmut Dantine
1982 Hugh Marlowe actor (Ellery Queen, Jim Matthews-Another World), dies at 71
1983 Marius F Duintjer architect, dies
1984 Jack Barry game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
1984 Piet van Aken Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64
1985 Hal LeRoy dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after cardiac surgery
1985 Milton S Eisenhower US diplomat, dies at 85
1990 David Rappaport 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38
1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
1990 William Levi Dawson composer, dies at 90
1991 Hal Bell dies at 65
1991 Leib Lensky dies at 82
1992 Joey Cuevas dancer, dies at 34
1992 Lee Salk baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
1992 Margareth Wallmann Austrian opera director, dies at 88
1992 Philip Dunne screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
1992 Wilbur Mills (Representative-D-AR)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
1993 Julio Gallo wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
1993 Will Weng Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
1994 Louis Calaferte writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
1994 Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin hero, dies at 75
1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton civil servant, dies at 97
1996 Emile Habibi writer, dies at 73
1996 Peter John Swales football club chairman, dies at 63
1995 Michael Hordern actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83

On this day...Events

1345 "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders & weavers
1497 John Cabot departs to North-America
1526 German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
1536 King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest
1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands
1598 France & Spain signs Peace of Vervins
1652 Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik
1668 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands
1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
1670 King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
1703 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1749 Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè" premieres in Mantua
1776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
1824 Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1845 Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
1847 Sabbath famine
1853 Franconi's Hippodrome opens (New York NY)
1863 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville VA, wounded by his own men; South defeats North
1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1876 Ross Barnes hit 1st homerun in the National League
1878 US stops minting 20¢ coin
1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
1887 G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
1887 Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1889 Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
1890 Territory of Oklahoma created
1900 George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell" premieres in London
1902 The 1st science fiction film, "A Trip To The Moon", is released
1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
1904 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08½
1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1906 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8
1907 Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian Government
1909 Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
1911 French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco
1915 Old Fordham Road in the Bronx renamed Landing Road
1916 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Place renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1917 Cincinnati's Fred Tooney & Chicago's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in the 10th, so Cincinnati wins 1-0
1919 1st US air passenger service starts
1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth TX
1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yankees 3-0
1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
1925 Kezar Stadium in San Fransisco's Golden Gate Park opens
1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth)
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1936 "Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1936 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yankees beat Tigers 22-2
1941 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in the year he hit over .400
1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York NY (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
1945 Allies occupy Wismar
1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1945 German Army in Italy surrenders
1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1947 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten" premieres in NYC
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
1949 Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1950 Carlo Terrons "Giuditta" premieres in Milan
1950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
1950 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic
1952 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service begins with a BOAC Comet
1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1953 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02
1953 Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1954 Stan Musial hits 5 homeruns in a doubleheader
1955 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1955 WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1956 US Methodist church disallows race separation
1958 Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if National League goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC
1959 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
1960 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Allen Drury (Advise & Consent)
1962 Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I
1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Albany NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
1964 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00
1964 Beatles' "Second Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champion
1965 "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1965 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
1967 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montréal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1968 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony
1968 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1968 Israeli television begins transmitting
1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1970 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine - 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
1972 Lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred
1975 Apple records closes down
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1977 "The King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1978 NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
1979 "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell win
1980 Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 Pope John Paul II begins African tour
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga CA
1984 "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 performances
1984 Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 innings)
1984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
1986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver British Columbia
1987 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
1988 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore & get a new park
1988 David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" premieres in NYC
1988 Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
1988 Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an umpire
1990 "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 performances
1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1991 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
1992 "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at Helen Hayes Theatre NYC fpr 14 performances
1992 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03
1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
1993 "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 445 performances
1993 "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1993 "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic
1993 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994 Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Brothers "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1995 "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
1995 Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
1995 Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
1997 Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating
1997 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1997 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
1998 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.4
 

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Birthdates which occurred on May 03:

1446 Margaretha English princess/duchess of Bourgondie
1455 Joâo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
1469 Niccolò Machiavelli Italy, politician/writer (The Prince)
1514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
1535 Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant)
1649 Johann Valentin Meder composer
1691 Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour)
1692 Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51)
1708 Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer
1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann composer
1737 Friedrich Schwindl composer
1742 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer
1744 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer
1752 Braz Francisco de Lima composer
1764 Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
1773 Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 Hermanus W Witteveen Dutch theologist
1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1819 Nicola De Giosa composer
1826 Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
1844 Edouard A Drumont French anti-semitic journalist
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1849 Jacob Riis Denmark, reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun)
1859 Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1867 Jack Hearne cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for England)
1867 Valère-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre)
1873 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark)
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1874 François Coty Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1876 Bert Hopkins cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's)
1876 John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer cricketer (Sussex)
1886 Marcel Dupré French organist/composer
1890 B Traven writer
1892 Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
1892 Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1893 Hope Landin Minneapolis MN
1895 Earnest Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit général)
1895 Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1897 V K Krishna Menon India, nationalist/statesman
1898 Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898 Septima Poinsette Clark civil rights activist/educator
1899 Aline MacMahon McKeesport PA, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
19-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
19-- Mark Thomas Miller Louisville KY, actor (Johnny-Misfits of Science)
1901 Gino Cervi Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
1902 Hugo Friedhofer composer
1902 Jack Larue New York NY, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
1902 Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1902 Walter Slezak Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
1903 Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor (White Christmas, Going My Way)
1904 Charles "Red" Ruffing New York Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1904 John Breeden San Fransisco CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
1905 Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria
1905 Sebastian Lewis Shaw actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1906 Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
1907 Earl Wilson Rockford OH, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1910 Alceo Galliera composer
1911 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson trumpeter
1913 Earl Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 William M Inge US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1915 Evencio Castellanos composer
1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- )
1916 Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome)
1917 James Penberthy composer
1919 Betty Comden Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
1919 Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1920 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion)
1921 Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves Portuguese leftist colonel
1922 Marina Svetlova ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1923 Ralph M Hall (Representative-D-TX, 1981- )
1924 Mary Carver Los Angeles CA, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
1925 Nina Bara Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
1928 James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
1928 Jeanne Bal Santa Monica CA, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
1929 Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral
1929 Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1930 David Evatt Tunley composer
1931 Alex Cord actor (The Dead are Alive)
1931 Joseph Lichtman Layton dancer
1933 Collie Smith cricketer (exciting West Indies all-rounder all too briefly)
1934 Georg Kroll composer
1935 Donald P Hodel Portland OR, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)
1937 Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1939 Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
1939 José Torres US, boxer (Olympics)
1939 Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Anna and the King, Collector)
1941 Nona Gaprindasvili USSR, world women's chess champion (1962-78)
1942 Lynn Farleigh Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)
1942 Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova Czechoslovakia, gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)
1943 John Costello historian
1944 Ian Peter Leslie Smith journalist
1944 Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 Sadiq Mohammad cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
1946 Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1947 Doug Henning Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1949 Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- )
1950 Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
1952 Allen Wells England, 100 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1980)
1953 Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 Van McLain rocker (Shooting Star)
1955 David Hookes cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart)
1955 Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
1957 Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1957 Rod Langway Formosa, NHL defenseman (Montréal Canadiens, Washington Capitals)
1959 Ben Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)
1959 David Ball Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1962 Anthony Gilligan Penrith New South Wales, Australasia golfer
1963 Jeff Hornacek NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1964 Ron Hextall Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders)
1966 Paul Stevenson Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1968 Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
1968 Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1969 Karen Kraft San Mateo CA, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 Alexia Dechaume-Ballert La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Australia)
1970 Ted Crowley Concord MA, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 James Roberson defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 Brett Hayman Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Josh Taves defensive end (New England Patriots)
1972 Vyacheslav Kozlov Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 Dominique Monami Verviers Belgium, tennis star
1973 Michel Traveller soccer player (Ajax)

Deaths which occurred on May 03:

1010 Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1294 Jan I duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
1410 Alexander V [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
1442 Engelbert I Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
1481 Mohammed II [Fâtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
1567 Leonhard Paminger composer, dies at 72
1614 Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
1654 François van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
1703 Eglon van de Down still-life painter, dies
1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
1707 Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1737 Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1758 Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
1764 Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
1774 Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76
1783 Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
1792 Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87
1839 Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67
1841 Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1854 William Beale composer, dies at 70
1856 Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27
1856 Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80
1863 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35
1868 Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68
1881 Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73
1902 David R Capriles Curaçaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
1916 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad
1917 Norman Callaway New South Wales bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1925 Clément Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84
1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1931 Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at 59
1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at 93
1932 Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51
1939 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener German general, dies at 71
1942 Johan H Westerveld Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed
1943 Leslie Heward composer, dies at 45
1945 Louis L H de Visser Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
1955 Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1958 Frank Foster cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
1961 Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty French philosopher, dies at 53
1964 Diana Wynyard dies at 58
1965 Howard Spring British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 Otto Forst de Battaglia Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
1966 Wylie Watson dies at 77
1968 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev composer, dies at 86
1969 Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42
1970 Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82
1972 Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1972 Les Harvey rocker, dies
1975 Samuel Gonard chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
1976 David Bruce dies at 62
1976 Ernie Nevers college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1978 Wim van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
1979 Erin O'Brien-Moore actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1982 Helmut Dantine actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
1982 Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1983 Vaughn Taylor actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 72
1986 Robert Alda actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 Dicky Fuller cricketer (one Test for West Indies 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
1987 Yolande Christina Dalida dies at 54
1989 Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1989 Muriel Ostriche dies
1990 Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at 79
1991 Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 Jersy Kosinski author (Being There), dies at 57
1991 Margaret Tallichet actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
1992 Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
1992 George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
1992 Peter Bruni dies of heart failure at 60
1994 Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
1994 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
1994 Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
1996 Jack Weston actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1996 Timothy Gullikson tennis player/coach, dies at 45

On this day...Events

1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 Jews flee Spain
1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome
1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panamá
1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals
1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die
1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France
1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1808 Goya's "Executions of the 3rd of May"
1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)
1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco)
1900 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06¼
1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL
1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 Afghánistán Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed
1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 Bradman scores 206 Australia vs Worcestershire, 210 minutes, 27 fours
1936 French People's Front wins elections
1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use
1938 Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1941 German air raid on Liverpool
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 Meat rationing ends in US
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 British troop join in Rangoon
1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1956 Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive homeruns in a doubleheader
1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC
1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 Leslie Narum is the only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles CA)
1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 National Public Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere "All Things Considered"
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters), topped out
1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
1976 Panamá 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 West Indies all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game
1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th homerun (2nd to have 300 homeruns & 300 stolen bases)
1979 Martin Sherman's "Bent" premieres in London
1980 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final homerun
1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in American League & National League
1981 "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st homerun
1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1991 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1992 Baltimore's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1992 New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 homeruns
1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
1992 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1995 "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs Glam
1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
 

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Birthdates which occurred on May 04:

1006 Abd-Allah Ansari Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
1611 Carlo Rainaldi composer
1622 Juan de Valdés Leal Spanish painter/sculptor
1631 Mary I Henriette Stuart daughter of Charles I/Queen of England
1635 Willem van Outhoorn Dutch Governor-General (Dutch East Indies)
1655 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italy, piano builder
1738 Josef Kohaut composer
1744 Marianne von Martinez composer
1763 Franz Stanislaus Spindler composer
1769 Charles Hague composer
1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer
1796 Horace Mann US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864
1820 Joseph Whitaker England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45)
1825 Thomas Henry Huxley scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1826 Frederick Church US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1835 Edmund Hart Turpin composer
1846 Emile Gallé French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gallé Glaze)
1860 Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 Dynam-Victor Fumet composer
1871 Mynona writer
1875 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
1875 Reggie Schwartz cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
1877 Arthur Lang US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
1881 Aleksandr F Kerenski Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1882 Wilhelm Lehmann writer
1889 Francis J Spellman US Cardinal
1891 Frederick Jacobi composer
1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
1893 Edgar Dearing Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
1893 Royal Butler [Edwin Richey] Atlanta GA, actor
1902 Cola [Nicolas] Debrot Bonaire Governor (Netherlands Antilles)/author
1902 Cvjetko Rihtman composer
1902 Rodney Meredith Thomas architect/painter
1903 Luther Adler New York NY, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist)
1905 Mátyás Seiber Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
1906 Esmond Knight East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
1909 Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt] Cleveland OH, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
1909 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten] Flemish playwright
1910 Mady Alfredo [Maria M the Brieder] actress (Alicia)
1912 Lou Brown Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
1914 Abdel Karim Kassem general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
1914 Emmanuel Roblès Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)
1915 Curt Conway Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal)
1915 Pedro Saenz composer
1916 Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer
1917 Edward Toner Cone composer
1918 Kakuei Tanaka Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
1919 Dimiter Petkov composer
1919 Mary Ann McCall singer
1921 John van Kesteren Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
1921 Patsy Garrett Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
1922 John Paul Hammerschmidt (Representative-R-AR, 1967- )
1924 Dennis Weaver actor (McCloud)
1924 Peter Aldersley actor/disc jockey
1924 Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva composer
1925 Peter Blum German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
1926 G Reinshagen writer
1926 Milton "Milt" Thompson US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15)
1928 Betsy Rawls Spartanburg SC, LPGA golfer (Hall of Fame, US Women's Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
1928 Hosni Mubarak Egyptian President (1981- )
1928 Maynard Ferguson Verdun Québec Canada, jazz trumpeter (Birdland, Roulette)
1929 Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston] Brussels Belgium (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
1930 Roberta Peters New York NY, operatic soprano (New York Metropolitan)
1931 Ed Cassidy Chicago IL, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1932 Fausto Razzi composer
1932 Susan Brown San Francisco, actress (General Hospital)
1934 Pete Barbutti Scranton PA, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
1936 El Cordobés [Manuel Benítez] Spanish toreador
1937 Hans Ulrich Lehmann composer
1938 Tyrone Davis US R&B singer (Are you serious)
1938 William J Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
1939 Amos Oz Jerusalem Israel, author (My Michael)
1940 Dick Curl Chester PA, offensive coordinator coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1941 George F Will political analyst (Night Line)
1942 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1943 Nickolas Ashford Fairfield SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
1943 Stella Parton sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch)
1944 Dave [Otto Levenbach] Dutch singer (Du coté the Chez Swann)
1944 Paul Gleason Jersey City NJ, actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard)
1944 Peggy Santiglia McGannon New Jersey, rocker (Angels)
1944 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 George Wadenius rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945 Monika van Paemel Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers)
1946 Renee Powell LPGA golfer
1948 Billy O'Donnell harness racer driver of the year (1984)
1949 Gerrit J P van Otterloo Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 Sybil Danning [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
1949 Zal Cleminson rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1950 Darryl Hunt English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
1950 Hilly Hicks Los Angeles CA, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
1950 René CM van Asten Dutch actor (Herenstraat 10)
1951 Gene Greenwood (Representative-R-PA)
1951 Jackie [Sigmund Esco] Jackson Gary IN, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1954 Julie Budd Brooklyn NY, singer (Child of Plenty)
1956 Jackie Bertsch LPGA golfer
1956 Michael L Gernhardt Mansfield OH, PhD/astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100)
1956 Ulrike Meyfarth Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1972)
1957 Peter Sleep cricketer (Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90)
1957 Richard E Grant Swaziland, actor (Posse, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
1958 Keith Haring Kutztown PA, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
1959 Randy Travis [Randy Bruce Traywick] Marshville NC, country singer (Forever and Ever Amen, Diggin' Up Bones)
1959 Robert Raymond Tway Oklahoma City OK, PGA golfer (1986 Shearson)
1959 Rohn Stark NFL punter (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1960 Martyn Moxon cricketer (England batsman in ten Tests 1986-89)
1961 Eugene Daniel NFL center (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens)
1961 Jay Aston rocker
1961 Mary Elizabeth McDonough Van Nuys CA, actress (Erin-Waltons)
1962 Tracy Vaccaro Glendale CA, playmate (October, 1983)
1964 Goran Prpic Yugoslavia, tennis star
1965 Adri Bogers Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1966 Monica Tranel [Michini] Billings MT, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 Derek MacCready CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 John Child East York Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1967 Matthew Crane Kimberton PA, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
1968 Andre Collins NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1968 Eddie Perez Cuidad Ojeda Venezuela, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1968 Kevin Todd Winnipeg, NHL center (Los Angeles Kings)
1970 Dawn Staley Philadelphia PA, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Derrick Clark NFL/WLAF fullback (Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 Steve Glenn CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
1972 Ethan Watts Philadelphia PA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1972 Gretchen Ulion ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1972 Marc Lamb WLAF T (London Monarchs)
1973 Edward Hervey NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 Matthew Barnaby Ottawa, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 Melissa Boyd Miss Ohio USA (1996)
1973 Michelle Martinez Dallas TX, Miss America (Texas-Top 10-1997)
1975 Pablo Ruiz Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer
1976 Heather Kozar Akron OH, playmate (January 1998)

Deaths which occurred on May 04:

1594 Paul Buys Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1604 Claudio Merulo composer, dies at 71
1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1752 Pieter Snyers Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 Christian Gottfried Krause composer, dies at 51
1832 Jan van Speyck Dutch Admiral, buried in New Church
1855 Camille Pleyel Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1860 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek composer, dies
1879 William Froude British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1885 Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 George Washington Hewitt composer, dies at 82
1928 Barry E Odell Pain English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1929 Henry Morton Dunham composer, dies at 75
1935 Lodewijk Scharpé Flemish literature historian, dies at 65
1938 Carl von Ossietzky German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1953 Edward B B Shanks British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953 Thomas Tertius Noble composer, dies at 85
1955 Georges Enescu Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
1955 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1961 Anita Stewart dies of heart attack at 66
1965 Norman Brokenshire TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1966 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer, dies at 69
1967 Bengt Axel von Torne composer, dies at 75
1969 F Osbert S Sitwell English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76
1970 Allison Krause 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 Jeffrey Miller 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 Sandy Scheuer 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 William Schroeder 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1971 Donald Dexter Van Slyke US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971 Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1971 Louis de Bree [Louis C Davids] Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
1973 Jane Bowles writer, dies at 56
1974 Israel Citkowitz composer, dies at 65
1974 John Wengraf actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
1975 Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz] comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1980 Josip Broz Tito leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80), dies at 87
1980 Kay Hammond actress (Blithe Spirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies in Brighton UK at 71
1981 Bobby Sands Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1983 Nino Sanzogno composer, dies at 72
1984 Diana Dors actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 Cathryn Damon actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
1987 Dick Hillenius Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
1987 Paul Butterfield singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
1990 Don Appell dies
1991 Dennis Crosby son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 Henri Guillemin French historian, dies at 89
1992 Ismael Galeano "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1994 Karl Francis Hettinger onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 Lewis T Preston banker, dies at 68
1995 Louis Krasner violinist, dies at 91
1996 Jean Crepin soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1996 Stanley William Reed cineaste, dies at 85
1997 Alvy Moore actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
1997 Vijayananda Dahanayake PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies

On this day...

1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg
1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides non-Christian world between Spain & Portugal
1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 Veere sides with Geuzen
1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)
1728 Georg F Händels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London
1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1780 Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY
1814 Bourbon reign restored in France
1818 Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 US state of Michigan ends death penalty
1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 1st major San Fransisco fire
1858 War of the Reform (México); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA
1862 Yorktown VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 Battle of Mobile AL
1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Fort Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Mississippi)
1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1888 Italy & Spain sign military covenant
1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 1st edition of London Daily Mail (½ penny)
1896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek CO
1897 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
1897 Fire in Paris France bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 Tel Aviv founded
1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919 FVC soccer team forms
1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
1924 8th modern Olympic games open in Paris France
1924 German Republic election fascists & communists win
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1926 General strike hits Britain
1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)
1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive homeruns, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1935 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 Food 1st rationed in US
1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1943 National League's Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Fransisco bay
1946 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 Washington Senator's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1956 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
1957 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia
1959 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 meters (record) in balloon
1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1964 "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premiere on TV
1964 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 Willie Mays 512th homerun breaks Mel Ott's 511th National League record homerun
1966 Soviet Government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1968 1st ABA championship: Pittsburgh Pipers beat New Orleans Buccaneers, 4 games to 3
1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 2:02½
1968 Dancer's Image disqualified due to drugs after winning 94th Kentucky Derby
1969 Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody" premieres in NYC
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)- Valerie Perrine
1973 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
1973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1974 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
1975 Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane" premieres in NYC
1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1975 Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time
1975 Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 performances
1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
1980 White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghánistán
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit homerun on 1st at bat
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher record of 41 consecutive scoreless innings
1990 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
1991 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
1991 Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1991 Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
1991 Morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1991 New York Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch homeruns
1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1993 "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances
1994 Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st American League team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
1997 Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-17-2006, 09:17 AM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 05:

1352 Ruprecht Roman catholic German king
1557 Emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty
1635 Philippe Quinault French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
1657 Jacques Danican Philidor composer
1680 Giuseppe Porsile composer
1715 Daniel Dal Barba composer
1749 Jean-Frederic Edelmann composer
1800 Louis Hachette French publisher (Librairie Hachette)
1804 Jacob Kats Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise)
1813 Søren Kierkegaard Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism)
1815 Eugène-Marin Labiche French playwright
1817 George Washington Julian MC (Union), died in 1899
1818 Karl Marx philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
1819 Stanislaw Moniuszko Polish composer
1823 James Allen Hardie Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1876
1826 Eugénie M de Montijo y de Guzman Empress of France
1832 H H Bancroft historian, publisher (History of the Pacific States)
1833 Ferdinand von Richthofen German geographer/explorer
1835 Leopold II Belgian crown prince, baptized
1842 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs composer
1846 Federico Chueca Madrid Spain, composer (La Gran Via)
1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
1848 Adalbert von Goldschmidt composer
1849 Hambletonian Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
1854 Antonio Smareglia composer
1862 Max Elskamp Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya)
1863 Frederik A Stoett linguist (Dutch Proverbs)
1865 Felicjan Szopski composer
1867 Nellie Bly [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman] journalist
1867 Thomas Tertius Noble composer
1869 Hans Erich Pfitzner Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrüs)
1871 Alberto Cametti composer
1879 Symon Petlyura leader Ukraine (pogroms)
1883 Charles Bender only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
1883 Leopold Samuel composer
1883 Petar Konjovic composer
1884 Wang Tjing-Wei premier China (1932-35)
1885 Henri Velge 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
1886 Manuel Borguno composer
1887 Estelle Hemsley Boston MA
1887 Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth archbishop of Canterbury
1889 Herbie Taylor cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI)
1890 Christopher Morley author (Kitty Foil)
1894 Kit Guard Denmark, actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous)
1899 Freeman Gosden Richmond VA, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
1900 Charles Jewtraw US, 500 meter speed skater (Olympics-gold-1924)
1900 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
1900 Mervyn A Ellison British astronomer (spectrohelioscope)
1900 Spencer Tracy actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1903 James Beard US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
1904 Sir Gordon Richards British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
1905 Arnold Meijer Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front
1905 Robert Houben Belgian CVP-minister of Public health (1958)
1906 Ursula Jeans Simla India, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon)
1907 Benny Baker St Joseph MO, actor (18 Again, Sting II, Thunderbirds)
1907 Kenneth Muir English scholar
1907 Yoritsune Matsudaira composer
1908 Jacques Massu French general (Algeria)
1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor (My Fair Lady, Doctor Dolittle, Cleopatra)
1909 Miklós Radnóti writer
1910 William I Martin US pilot/Vice-Admiral (WWII)
1911 Giles Grangier film director
1911 Norman Oldfield cricketer (England batsman one Test vs West Indies 1939, 80 & 19)
1911 Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr specialist in tropical medicine
1912 Alice Faye [Ann Jeanne Leppert] New York NY, actress (Barricade, State Fair)
1912 W Fenton Morley preacher
1913 Tyrone Power Cleveland OH, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
1915 Richard H Rovere Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
1916 Mutal' Burkhanov composer
1917 Ron Saggers cricket wicket-keeper (effective New South Wales & Aussie late 40's)
1918 Erbie Bowser pianist
1919 George London Montréal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto)
1919 Tony Canadeo Chicago IL, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
1920 John Hidalgo Moya architect/designer (Skylon)
1921 Sonja Oosterman Dutch singer (Marketensters)
1922 Jay D Miller record producer
1922 Phil Gordon Meridian MS, actor/singer (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
1923 Godfrey Quigley actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney)
1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child)
1924 Theo Olof German/Netherlands violinist/prodigy/concert master
1925 Monica Lewis actress (Box Office)
1926 Ann B Davis Schenectady NY, actress (Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch)
1927 Charles Rosen New York NY, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
1927 Pat Carroll Shreveport LA, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
1927 Sid O'Linn cricketer (soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960)
1929 John S Ragin Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
1930 Michael James Adams USAF pilot (X-15)
1930 Richard Schaal Chicago IL, actor (Leo-Phyllis, Trapper John MD)
1932 Aurel Stroe composer
1932 Will Hutchins Atwater CA, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
1935 Douglas Marland West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (General Hospital)
1937 Robert O "Rob" van Gennep Dutch publisher (Guevara, Gorz, Mandèl)
1938 Jerzy Skolimowski Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
1938 Johnnie Taylor US gospel singer (I Believe in You)
1938 Michael Murphy Los Angeles CA, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman)
1939 James R Jones (Representative-D-OK, 1973- )
1940 Eric Burdon Walker-on-Tyne England, rock singer (Animals-House of Rising Sun, War)
1940 Lance Henriksen New York NY, actor (Aliens, Pumpkinhead, Knights, Hard Target)
1941 Aleksandr Ragulin USSR, ice hockey play (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 Howie Komives NBA star (New York Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
1942 Amy Hill actress (Grandma-Seinfeld, Pauly Shore)
1942 Tammy Wynette Redbay AL, country singer (Stand by your Man)
1943 Michael Palin Sheffield Yorkshire England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
1944 Jean-Pierre Leaud Paris France, actor (Detective)
1944 John Rhys-Davies Salisbury Wiltshire England, actor (Sir Edward-The Quest, Sliders, Lord of the Rings)
1944 Roger Raised English actor (Nicholas Nickleby)
1945 Jiri Svoboda composer (Accumulator 1)
1945 Raphael Spain, Spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
1946 Stefania Sandrelli Viareggio Italy, actress (Lie, Conformist, 1900)
1948 Bill Ward Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath)
1948 Frank Esier-Smith rocker
1949 Anna Bergman Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
1949 Michael Murphy Los Angeles CA, actor (Dr Art Armstrong-2 Marriages)
1950 Maggie MacNeal Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
1951 Rex Goh rock guitarist (Air Supply)
1952 Louis Cortelezzi rock saxophonist (Mink DeVille)
1953 Billy Burnette Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1954 Angelo Kimball Boston MA, rock guitarist (Face To Face)
1954 Dagmar Wöhrl German Federal Republic, Miss Germany (1977)
1954 John Greg Adams Scottsdale AZ, PGA golfer (1982 Hall of Fame-2nd)
1954 Peter Erskine jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1955 Melinda Culea Western Springs IL, actress (A-Team, Brotherly Love, Glitter)
1955 Robert Feld Nashville TN, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
1956 Dick Kemper Amsterdam Netherlands, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
1957 Lisa Eilbacher Dharan Saudi Arabia, actress (Beverly Hills Cop, Officer & Gentleman)
1957 Thereza Bazaar rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
1959 Ian McCullough rocker (Echo & The Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1961 Hiro Hase wrestler (NJPW)
1964 Heike Henkel German Federal Republic, world record indoor high jumper (1992)
1964 Lorraine McIntosh British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums)
1964 Ulrich Wilson soccer player (FC Volendam)
1965 Paul Frase NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1966 Mike Stapleton Sarnia, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Brad Baxter NFL fullback (New York Jets)
1967 Charles Nagy Fairfield CT, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1968 Craig Hendrickson CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1968 Michael Titley WLAF TE (London Monarchs)
1968 Robert David Burns Mission Hills CA, PGA golfer (1994 Buick-5th)
1968 Tim Neilsen cricket wicket-keeper (South Australian 1991)
1969 Bryan Ivie Torrance CA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1970 Harold Nash CFL halfback (Montréal Alouettes)
1970 LaPhonso Ellis NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1971 Harold Miner NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1971 Keith Hamilton defensive end (New York Giants)
1971 Ken Brown NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1971 Reggie Jones wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs)
1972 Barrett Brooks NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Brigitta Boccoli Milan Italy, actress (Manhattan Baby)
1972 Janelle Lynn Canady Miss Alaska USA (1996)
1972 Mikael Renberg Pitea Swe, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers, TB Lightning)
1972 Mike Hollis kicker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Ron Snook Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Rushia Brown WNBA forward/center (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 Travis Jervey NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Wendy Kaye Memphis TN, playmate (July 1991)
1972 Zigmund Palffy Skalica Slo, NHL right wing (New York Islanders)
1973 Johan Hedberg Nacka Sweden, hockey goalie (Team Sweden, Olympics-1998)
1973 Matt Dubuc CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 Muhsin Muhammad wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Tina Yothers Whittier CA, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties)
1975 Christine Buschur Eagle River AK, Miss America-Alaska (1997)
1976 Sage Stallone Sylvester's son/actor (Rocky V)
1977 Tiffany Roberts Petaluma CA, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1980 Bonnie Lynn Gagnon Miss New Hampshire Teen USA (1997)
1981 Danielle Christine Fishel Mesa AZ, actress (Topanga-Boy Meets World)
1990 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg New York NY, daughter of Caroline

Deaths which occurred on May 05:

0311 Gaius VM Galerius emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
1028 Alfonso V King of León/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle
1194 Kazimierz II the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies
1309 Charles II the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
1504 Anton of Burgundy the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
1525 Frederik III the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62
1553 Erasmus Alberus German theologist (Barfüsser Mönche), dies at about 52
1582 Charlotte de Bourbon Princess of Orange, dies
1604 Claudio Merulo Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1613 Johann Steuerlein composer, dies at 66
1678 Anna M van Schurman Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
1702 Jacob Hintze composer, dies at 79
1705 Leopold I von Hapsburg Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
1786 Pedro III King of Portugal, dies
1801 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74
1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
1827 Frederik Augustus I Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76
1831 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel composer, dies at 65
1837 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1840 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey composer, dies at 67
1840 Matthaus Fischer composer, dies at 76
1859 Peter G L Dirichlet German mathematician, dies at 53
1864 Alexander Hays US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
1864 John Marshall Jones Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43
1864 Leroy A Stafford US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 42
1875 Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71
1885 Lauro Rossi composer, dies at 73
1886 Joseph Albert German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61
1892 Jan Nepomuk Skroup composer, dies at 80
1902 Bret Harte writer, dies at 65
1909 Pauline Staegeman German feminist, dies
1921 Alfred H Fried Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
1927 Charles Boissevain editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
1945 Guðmundur Jónsson Kamban Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at 56
1949 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
1951 Eddie Dunn comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
1956 Charles R Gallas lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
1957 Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin composer, dies at 74
1960 Sulho Ranta composer, dies at 58
1962 Ernest Tyldesley cricketer (990 runs in 14 Tests for England), dies
1963 Heinrich Gebhard composer, dies
1963 Jacobus JP Old architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
1968 Albert Dekker dies of accidental suffocation at 62
1969 Ben Alexander actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
1971 Alice Tissot actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
1971 Petro Scaglione Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
1972 Reverend Gary David vocalist, dies at 76
1976 Thomas Burnett Swann sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
1977 Ludwig Erhard German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
1978 Alfred H H Gilligan cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1979 Shirley O'Hara actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
1980 Edmond Vandercammen Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
1981 Bobby Sands IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
1982 Helmut Dantine actor, dies of a heart attack at 63
1983 John Williams actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
1986 Jon William Haussermann Jr composer, dies at 76
1986 Rui Coelho composer, dies at 94
1988 George Rose actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68
1988 Tamara Pos Suriname/Dutch activist
1989 Frank Easton cricket wicketkeeper (New South Wales 1933-39), dies
1991 William De Acutis dies at 33
1992 Ben Frommer dies at 78
1992 Dick Yarmy dies of lung cancer at 58
1992 Jean-Claude Pascal French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
1992 Stefano d'Arrigo Siciilian writer, dies at 72
1993 Balak Brahmachari [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
1993 Irving Howe US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
1993 Lenore Kingston Jenson dies of cancer at 79
1994 Hein Salomonson architect, dies at about 83
1994 Joe Layton director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
1995 Anthony Wagner genealogist, dies at 86
1995 Bernard Benjamin Gillis judge, dies at 89
1995 Esther Waterhouse doctor/methodist, dies at 86
1995 James Pack naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1995 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington engineer, dies at 75
1995 Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik world chess champion, dies
1995 Thomas Eden Binkley musician, dies at 63
1996 Ai Qing poet, dies at 86
1996 Beryl Burton cyclist, dies at 58

On this day...Events

0553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1494 Christopher Columbus 1st sights Jamaica on his 2nd voyage to the New World
1640 English Short Parliament unites
1646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opéra of Paris France
1749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year" [?]
1762 Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty
1764 Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1789 French States-General for It first since 1614 together
1797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego NY
1816 American Bible Society organized (New York)
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
1835 King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1854 English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
1855 NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1861 Alexandria VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 French army intervenes in Puebla México: Cinco de Mayo
1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA
1863 Battle of Tupelo MS
1863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH)
1867 Battle of Pueblo; Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0)
1905 Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
1908 Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco
1912 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm Sweden
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing
1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1917 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1917 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev
1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1921 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1926 Geldrop soccer team forms
1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1930 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1930 Bradman scores 185 Australia vs Leicestershire, 317 minutes, 16 fours
1932 Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1934 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04
1935 Jessie Owens of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¼"
1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are National League records off one hurler in a single inning
1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
1940 Norwegian Government in exile forms in London
1941 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850 million in damage
1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1948 Belgian Government of Spaak resigns
1949 Council of Europe established
1949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame
1950 Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
1951 "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
1951 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1952 Ron Necciai of Pittsburgh Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits the Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
1954 Military coup by General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
1955 "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1955 Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1956 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
1956 Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
1956 Jim Bailey (US) runs the mile record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles CA
1956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
1957 Adolf Schärf elected President of Austria
1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1962 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
1962 Los Angeles Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1964 Separatists riot in Québec
1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1966 Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
1966 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1966 Willie Mays hit his 512th homerun
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1971 "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1973 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4
1974 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding - He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs)
1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1976 Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II
1976 Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24
1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes the 14th player to get 3,000 hits
1979 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
1981 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
1982 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 0
1983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational
1986 Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in American League, but go on to win the American League East
1987 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1988 Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop
1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1990 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
1990 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
1990 Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
1991 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 performances
1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
1996 "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 performances
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship
1996 Renette Cruz, Vancouver British Columbia, wins Miss Canadian Universe
1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
2000 conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:16 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 06:

0973 Henry II Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
1501 Marcellus II [Marcello Cervini] Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
1581 Frans Francken the Younger, painter
1606 Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli] poet/painter
1758 Maximilien Robespierre Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
1759 François Andrieux French writer/politician
1769 Ferdinand III archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
1785 Arvir A Afzelius Swedish story teller
1786 Ludwig Börne writer
1790 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer
1800 Ferdinand Marcucci composer
1801 George Sears Greene Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer artist
1806 Chapin Aaron Harris US, founded America Society of Dental Surgeons
1809 William Walker composer
1812 Martin Robinson Delaney Charlestown VA, 1st black major in US Medical Corps
1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1814 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst composer
1825 Joseph Bailey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin 1st female ordained minister in New England
1830 Guido Gezelle Flemish priest/poet
1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease composer
1843 Grove Karl Gilbert geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville UT
1849 Wyatt Eaton artist
1856 Robert Edwin Peary US, arctic explorer (North Pole-April 6 1909)
1856 Sigmund Freud Freiberg Moravia, cigar smoker, father of psycho-analysis
1858 Georges Adolphe Hue composer
1859 Luis María Drago Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
1859 Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
1861 Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
1869 Jan R Slotemaker de Bruïne Dutch clergyman/politician (CHU)
1869 Joseph Cuvelier Belgian historian/archivist
1870 Amedos Peter Giannini San Jose CA, founded Bank of America
1870 John McClutcheon cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
1871 August Reusner composer
1871 Ch Morgenstern writer
1875 William Daniel Leahy Iowa, 5 star Admiral/chief of staff (1949)
1879 Johan H T Norlind Swedish musicologist
1880 Baron W Edmund Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
1880 Ernst L Kirchner German painter (Die Brücke)
1883 José Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
1888 Emmanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73)
1889 Arthur Morison typographer
1890 Claire Whitney New York NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
1894 Filip Lazar composer
1895 Rudolph Valentino Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
1897 Paul Alverdes German writer (Pfeiferstube)
1898 Daniel Gerber Freemont MI, beloved by babies at mealtime
19-- Tony King Alliance OH, actor (Sergeant John Webber-Bronk)
1902 Harry Golden Jewish humorist/writer (2¢ Plain, Only in America)
1902 Max Ophüls Saarland, director/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman)
1902 Walter Dawson British Air Chief marshall
1904 Catherine Lacey London England, actress (Sorcerors)
1904 Harry Martinson Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
1905 [Bernard] Toots Shor raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
1905 Norman De Tar composer
1906 André Weil [Bourbaki] French/US mathematician
1907 Weeb Ewbank NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets)
1908 Necil Kazim Akses composer
1910 Antoon Breyne Belgian journalist
1912 Barend Roest Crollius painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
1912 Bill Quinn New York NY, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
1912 Hugh Martell British Vice Admiral
1913 Carmen Cavallaro New York NY, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe)
1913 Gyula David composer
1913 Jack [John T] Aitken British anatomist
1913 Kenneth Horne English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1913 Ronald Harris British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
1913 Stewart Granger [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1915 George Perle Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
1915 John Arnold British high court judge
1915 May Henriquez-Alvarez Curaçao, sculptor
1915 Orson Welles Kenosha WI, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
1915 Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
1915 Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
1916 Adriana Caselotti animation voice (Show White)
1918 Godfrey Ridout composer
1918 Sydney Chatton England
1919 Frank Ereaut Balliff of Jersey
1920 John Henderson Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
1921 Erich Freid writer
1921 Freddy Randall jazz trumpeteer
1921 Robert Fell CEO (British Stock Exchange)
1922 Alan Ross editor (London Magazine)
1922 Carlos J Moorhead (Representative-R-CA, 1973- )
1922 John Ernest constructionist artist
1922 Pat Harder Milwaukee WI, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
1923 Elizabeth Sellars Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
1923 Guiseppe Martelli physicist
1924 Mimi Benzell Bridgeport CT, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
1925 Patrick Meany CEO (Rank Organization)
1926 [Martin] Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, actor (Ever Since Paris)
1926 John Hamilton-Jones CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Major-General
1926 Marguerite Piazza New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
1927 Ettore Manni Rome Italy, actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell)
1927 Michael Frederick cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1954, scored 0 & 30)
1929 John Polk Allen Carnegie OK, CEO (Biosphere 2)
1929 John Taylor bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
1929 Rosemary Camp president (Council for British Archaeology)
1931 Marvin Leath (Representative-D-TX, 1979- )
1931 Willie Mays Westfield AL, Hall of Fame baseball centerfielder, "Say Hey Kid" (New York Giants, New York Mets, 660 homeruns, National League MVP 1954)
1932 Gunther Hauk composer
1932 John Bond cricket umpire
1932 Viscount Coke English large landowner/art collector
1933 Lord Pender
1934 Richard C Shelby (Representative-D-AL (1979-86)/Senator-D-AL, 1987- )
1936 Joanna Dunham actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood)
1936 Sylvia Robinson rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
1938 Eleanor Platt QC
1939 Anthony Blacker master-general of Ordnance
1939 Herbie Cox rocker (Cleftones)
1939 Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina Russian cosmonaut
1940 Henry Habibe Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)
1940 Murray Sidlin Baltimore MD, conductor (National Symphony 1973-77)
1941 Fred J Eckert (Representative-D-NY, 1985-87)
1941 Ghena Dimitrova actress (Nabucco)
1942 Colin Earl rocker
1945 Bob Seger Dearborn MI, rocker (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
1945 Richard Eyers Los Angeles CA, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
1945 Victoria Bond composer
1946 Jim Ramstad (Representative-R-MN)
1946 Sydne Rome Akron OH, actress (What?, Candy)
1947 Andy Roberts cricketer (New Zealand batsman 1976)
1947 Ben Masters Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right)
1947 Dennis Cowan London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1947 Richard "Dick" Fosbury Portland OR, high jumper (Olympics-gold-68)
1947 Sandra Fisher painter
1948 Lolita [Abrázame] Spanish singer (Espérame)
1948 Richard Cox New York NY, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
1949 David Cornell Leestma Muskegon MI, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
1950 Robbie McIntosh drummer (Average White Band-Show your Hand)
1952 Chiaki Naito-Mukai Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, 95)
1953 Lynn Whitfield Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
1953 Tony Blair British PM (Labour, 1997- )
1954 Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky Russia, cosmonaut
1955 Donald A Thomas Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 94)
1955 John Hutton MP
1959 Aidan Quinn actor (Avalon, Crusoe, Desperately Seeking Susan)
1959 Charles Hendry MP
1959 Eric D Fingerhut (Representative-D-OH)
1959 Kate Collins Boston MA, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
1959 Scott Hood Seattle WA, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Montana Open-2nd)
1960 Bart de Boer Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
1960 Julianne Phillips Lake Oswego OR, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
1960 Larry Steinbacheck keyboardist (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1960 Larry Steinbachek rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1961 Clay O'Brien Ray AZ, actor (Weedy-The Cowboys)
1961 George Clooney Lexington KY, actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER, Batman)
1961 Roma Downey Derry Ire, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel)
1962 Neil Foster cricketer (England right-fast medium)
1963 Alessandra Ferri British ballerina (American Ballet Theater)
1964 Dana Hill [Goetz] Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
1964 Dana Hill Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
1964 Kim Oden Irvine CA, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
1964 Mike Grob Billings MT, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-3rd)
1964 Mike McGruder NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1964 Roma Downey Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
1965 Bob Bassen Calgary, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1965 Ken Harvey NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1965 Norman Whiteside British soccer player
1965 Paul Frase NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 Tim Simpson Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
1965 Zahid Sadiq cricketer
1967 Patrick F Manning Jr Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympics-92)
1968 Andy Kelly WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1968 Linnea Marie Fayard Shreveport LA, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
1969 Mark Thomas NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
1969 Pascall Davis WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Emerson Martin NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, Packers)
1971 Rob Holmberg NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1972 Dean Larsson British Columbia Canada, Nike golfer (1994 Monterey Open-46th)
1972 Martin Brodeur Montréal, NHL goalie (New Jersey Devils, Team Canada)
1973 Clay Williams OL (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 Joe Spiteri Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Wendy Ward San Antonio TX, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)
1976 Lindsay Page Madison WI, figure skater (1997 E Great Lakes Senior-3rd)
1977 Gabriela Aguilar Miss Costa Rica Universe (1997)
1977 Shannon Shakespeare Mission British Columbia, 100 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 Trent Steed Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1980 Brooke Bennett 800 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1980 Kasumi Takahashi Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)

Deaths which occurred on May 06:

0523 Thrasamunde king of Vandalen
0988 Dirk II West Frisian count of Holland
1085 King Alfonso VI of León conquered Toledo, dies
1124 Balak Emir of Aleppo, murdered
1475 Dieric Bouts Dutch painter, dies at about 64
1527 Karel van Bourbon military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
1540 Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
1638 Cornelius Jansen theologian (Jansenism), dies
1642 Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
1666 Paul Siefert composer, dies at 79
1667 Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50
1678 Joseph de La Barre composer, dies at 44
1727 Catharina I Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
1776 James Kent composer, dies at 76
1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier composer, dies at 59
1814 George Joseph Vogler composer, dies at 64
1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, dies at 78
1841 John Thomson composer, dies at 35
1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, dies at 75
1856 William Hamilton metaphysicist, dies
1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander explorer/scientist, dies
1862 Henry David Thoreau US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
1864 Henry Livermore Abbott US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1864 Micah Jenkins Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at 28
1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1882 Thomas Henry Burke assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1890 Hubert Leonard composer, dies at 71
1892 Ernest Guiraud composer, dies at 54
1904 Franz von Lenbach German painter, dies at 67
1908 Jean Réville French vicar (Le Prophétisme Hébreu), dies at 53
1910 Edward VII King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
1916 Dirk Bos Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1916 Earl Ross Drake composer, dies at 50
1919 Frank Lyman Baum author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
1936 Hans Jelmoli composer, dies at 59
1948 43 communist rebels executed in Athens
1949 A L Ochse cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa 1927-29), dies
1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
1950 Agnes Smedley writer, dies
1952 Alberto Savinio Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
1952 Maria Montessori Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
1960 Paul Abraham Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
1961 Lucian Blaga philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
1963 Monty Wooley actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
1964 Harold Morris composer, dies at 74
1971 Helene Weigel Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
1973 Ernest MacMillan composer, dies at 79
1975 József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
1976 Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
1978 Ethelda Bleibtrey US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
1978 Ko van Dijk Jr Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
1982 Sam Baker dies
1987 William J Casey director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
1989 Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies at 65
1990 Charles Farrell actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
1991 Anthony van Kampen writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
1991 Chucky Mullins US soccer player, dies
1991 Thomas A Carlin dies at 62
1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White British actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
1992 Jilly Rizzo restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
1992 Marlene Dietrich [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
1993 Ann Todd actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
1993 Minnie Gentry actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 77
1994 Fred Sadoff actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
1994 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
1994 Helen Lessore artist, dies at 86
1994 Montague Modlyn broadcaster, dies at 72
1994 Moses Rosen Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
1995 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
1995 Leanoard "Red" Truss R&B singer, dies at 47
1995 Nicholas Palmer TV writer/producer, dies at 57
1996 Frank Hercules writer, dies at 85
1996 Geoffrey Dawes physiologist, dies at 78
1996 Geoffrey Hodges bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
1996 Joseph Stone lawyer, dies at 79
1996 Leon Joseph Suenens cardinal, dies at 91
1996 Michael Gerzon mathematician, dies at 50

On this day...Events:

1312 Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1476 Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children
1527 Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending the Renaissance
1529 Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
1598 Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands
1626 Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets
1642 Ville Marie (Montréal) forms
1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil
1648 Battle at Zólty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
1672 Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
1733 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
1757 Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
1787 1st Black Masonic Lodge (African #459) forms at Prince Hall, Boston
1794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
1804 Suriname sold to English (until February 1816)
1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1835 1st edition of New York Herald (price 1¢)
1840 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
1851 San Fransisco Chamber of Commerce starts
1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk CT)
1860 San Fransisco Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
1861 Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA
1864 Battle of Wilderness-General Longstreet seriously injured
1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta GA
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris France; Eiffel Tower completed
1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1895 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37½
1896 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
1903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
1904 American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St San Fransisco
1907 33rd Kentucky Derby: Andy Minder aboard Pink Star wins in 2:12.6
1910 England replaces King Edward VII stamp series with King George V
1910 King George V ascends to British throne
1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st homerun, loses to Yankees 4-3 in 15
1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1917 St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa
1921 American Soccer League formed
1922 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
1925 Ty Cobb hits his 5th homerun in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
1929 American League announces it will discontinue MVP award
1929 New York to San Fransisco footrace begins
1933 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8
1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
1934 Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, & B Walters
1935 British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee
1935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst NJ (36 die)
1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
1939 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher"
1939 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4
1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1944 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2
1944 KJR-AM in Seattle WA swaps calls with KOMO
1945 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)
1948 "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 performances
1950 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6
1950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1951 Pittsburgh Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
1953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0
1954 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
1955 West Germany joins NATO
1956 Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header
1956 WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 Italian Government of Segni resigns
1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
1960 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México
1961 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04
1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos
1962 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1964 Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloan" premieres in London
1965 Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies
1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
1966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phillies score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
1967 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6
1967 Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
1967 Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem President of India
1968 Battle between students & troops in Paris France, 1000 injured
1968 Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets National League record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964)
1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mount Everest
1972 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8
1973 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Winnipeg Jets, 4 games to 1
1973 Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1974 A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis OR
1974 Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1974 West German chancellor W Brandt resigns
1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello ID
1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha NE
1977 "Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" released in UK
1978 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2
1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters
1979 Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout" premieres in NYC
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
1981 Seattle Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired & replaced by Rene Lachemann
1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
1982 Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
1984 Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for the cycle
1984 José Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards Air Force Base
1986 Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup
1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
1987 Mario Andretti sets the one-lap speed record at Indianapolis 500 at 218.204 MPH
1987 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
1987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended
1988 Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcestershire vs Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes
1989 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05
1990 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1990 Former President PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina
1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
1991 Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
1992 New York Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
1992 Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands
1994 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
1994 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
1994 House passes the assault weapons ban
1994 Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
1995 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
1995 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby
1995 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
1996 Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford CT on WCCC 106.9 FM
1997 Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
1997 Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1997 NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes
1997 Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics
2012 Transit of Venus
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:20 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 07:

1530 Louis I Condé French prince/leader of hugenots
1574 Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili] 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55)
1700 Gerard van Swieten Dutch botanist
1704 Carl Heinrich Graun composer
1763 Josef Poniatovski Polish general/marshal of France
1769 Giuseppe Farinelli composer
1774 Sir Francis Beaufort naval officer; devised wind force scale
1776 Dániel Berzsenyi [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
1795 Gerhard M Roentgen industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
1803 Johan Peter Cronhamm composer
1812 Robert Browning London England, poet (The Pied Piper)
1826 Varina Howell Davis 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
1827 Charles T H Coster Belgian literary (Légendes Flamandes) [or Aug 20]
1827 Francis Engle Patterson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1832 Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1833 Johannes Brahms Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby
1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Votkinsk Russia, composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture)
1847 Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery (Liberal), British PM (1894-95)
1861 Rabindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel '13)
1866 Cornelis J K van Aalst president (Dutch Trading Company)
1867 Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
1873 Clarence Dickinson composer
1882 Willem Elsschot [Alfons J de Ridder] Flemish writer (Mend)
1883 Gino Roncaglia composer
1883 Martin Albertz German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
1885 George "Gabby" Hayes Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
1887 Henri Pourrat French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1888 Selmer Jackson Lake Mills IA, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1890 Billy House Minnesota, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1892 Archibald MacLeish Glencoe IL, political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
1892 Josip Broz Tito WWII partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1897 Kitty McKane England, tennis (Olympics-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898 Vera Chapman writer
19-- Phil Campbell rocker (Motorhead-No Remorse)
1900 Bauke Tuinstra Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
1900 Ralph Truman London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
1901 Gary Cooper Helena MT, actor (2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon)
1901 L T Coggeshall medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901 Marcel Poot Belgian baron/composer
1902 Sal Gliatto baseball player
1903 Basil Nield judge/politician
1907 Jef van Durme composer
1908 Ed MacDonald actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908 Wouter Paap composer
1909 Edwin H Land inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
1912 Paul H F Brenneker Netherlands/Antillian photographer/folklorist
1917 Daniel Gillès Belgian writer
1917 David Tomlinson Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
1917 William Geoffrey Biddle bomb disposal expert
1918 Argeliers Leon composer
1919 Eva (Evita) [Duarte] Perón Argentina, 1st lady/actress
1922 Darren McGavin Spokane WA, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
1922 Gale Robbins Chicago IL, actress/singer (Hollywood House, Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1923 Anne Baxter Michigan City IN, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
1923 Pete V Domenici (Senator-R-NM, 1973- )
1926 Val Bisoglio New York NY, actor (Lieutenant Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
1927 Jim Lowe Springfield MA, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
1928 John Ingle actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1928 Marvin Mitchelson attorney
1929 Dick Williams baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
1929 Sally L Smith educator/founder (Lab School of Washington)
1930 Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets Russia, cosmonaut
1930 Horst Bienek German poet
1931 Gene [Rodman] Wolfe US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
1931 Nel J Ginjaar-Maas Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1931 Teresa Brewer Toledo OH, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1932 Hans Boskamp [Johan HG Hoelscher] actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
1932 Pete Domeneci (Senator-R-NM)
1933 Johnny Unitas NFL QB (Baltimore Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
1934 Ben Smith Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1934 Donald Russell Holler composer
1934 Heinz Marti composer
1934 Willard Scott weatherman (Today)
1936 Cornelius Cardew composer
1938 Johnny Caldwell Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1956)
1938 Kevin O'Connor Honolulu HI, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
1939 Jimmy Ruffin soloist (What Becomes of the Broken Hearted)
1939 Johnny Maestro New York NY, rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1939 Marco St John New Orleans LA, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
1939 Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1939 Volker Braun writer
1940 Armando Krieger composer
1940 John Irvin actor (Moment in Time)
1941 Grahame Bilby cricketer (two Tests New Zealand vs England 1966)
1943 Christopher Taylor White rocker
1943 Peter Horak jetboat jumper
1943 Rick West [Richard Westwood] rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
1944 Alison Margaret Bauld composer
1944 John Heard actor (Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big)
1944 Sivi Aberg actress (Batman TV show)
1945 Robin Strasser New York NY, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World)
1945 Wim A Mateman Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 Bill Danoff Springfield MA, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1946 Richard L Brodsky US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )
1948 Peter Wingfield Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
1949 Marilyn Cole Portsmouth England, playmate of the year (January 1972)
1949 Stuart Marshall director (Desire)
1950 Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, rock vocalist (At 17, Society's Child)
1950 Prairie Prince rocker (Tubes)
1951 David Whitton campaigner
1951 Robert Hegyes Metuchen NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
1952 Amy Heckerling Bronx NY, director (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
1952 Derek Taylor rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
1955 Peter Reckell Elkhart IN, actor (Days of our Lifes)
1957 [Christopher St John] "Sinjin" Smith Los Angeles CA, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1957 Shauna McDonald Brown TV producer
1959 Michael E Knight Princeton NJ, actor (Date with Angel, All My Children)
1959 Robin L Freeman St Charles MO, PGA golfer (1993 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1959 Tamara E Jernigan Chattanooga, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
1960 Arnon Ohad co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
1961 Linda Somers Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96)
1962 Robbie Knievel daredevil, son of Evel (Chips Something Special)
1964 Leslie O'Neal NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers, St Louis Rams)
1964 Mustapha Zerqti Moroccan/Netherlands writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
1964 Ronnie Harmon NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Oilers)
1965 Reuben Davis NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1966 Anderson Cummins cricketer (in Packer's Valley Barbados & West Indies quickie)
1968 Joe King NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Traci Lords [Nora Louise Kuzma], Steubenville OH, porn actress (Cry Baby)
1969 Katerina Maleeva Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
1969 Melanie Valerio 400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1970 Edwin Zoetebier Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 Mark Smith Pasadena CA, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1970 Sebastien Britten Brossard Québec Canada, figure skater (1995 Canadian Champion)
1971 Cameron McFadzean Melbourne Victoria Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 Dave Karpa Regina, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 José Munoz WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 Rondell Jones NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 Chris Hayes safety (New York Jets)
1972 John Holecek NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Vince Stewart WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 Dameian Jeffries NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Kristian Lundin record producer
1974 Scott Whittaker center/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1975 Jason Tunks London Ontario, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1976 Nicholas Butcher Los Angeles CA, field hockey midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1977 Marko Milic NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1987 Katie Danza daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza

Deaths which occurred on May 07:

0685 Marwan I ibn al-Hakam 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
0973 Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
1166 Willem I the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
1205 Ladislaus III Arpad King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
1523 Franz von Sickingen German knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
1617 David Fabricius German astronomer, dies at 53
1667 Johann Jakob Froberger German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50
1671 Edward Montagu English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68
1671 Pieter Stockmans Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
1673 Johannes Teellinck Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
1736 John Weldon composer, dies at 60
1792 Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
1793 Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant Admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
1793 Pietro Nardini composer, dies at 71
1800 Laurens P van Spiegel regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
1800 Niccolò Piccinni Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
1814 Franz Volrath Buttstett composer, dies at 79
1818 Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh composer, dies at 70
1825 Antonio Salieri Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1836 Norbert Burgmuller composer, dies at 26
1863 Amiel Weeks Whipple US Union general-major, dies of injuries at 46
1871 Louis Papineau political reformer, dies
1876 Franz count of Pocci German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1884 Judah P Benjamin confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1900 Richard Storrs Willis composer, dies at 81
1904 Peter Hille writer, dies
1914 Edward Mollenhauer composer, dies at 87
1915 Alfred G Vanderbilt US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
1915 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr US Lusitania officer, dies
1915 Charles Frohman dies aboard Lusitania
1928 Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan composer, dies at 56
1929 Albert Anselmi US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 John Scalise US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1932 Albert Thomas French social minister of Weapon production, dies
1934 Edward Naylor composer, dies at 67
1941 David Wijnkoop revolutionary socialist, dies
1942 Felix Paul von Weingartner Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
1946 Anton A Mussert engineer/NSB leader, executed
1946 Joe Humphries cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies
1951 Warner Baxter dies at 62
1953 Ormerod Pearse cricketer (55 runs & 3 wickets in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1958 Nyogen Senzaki 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1962 Jimmy Conlin dies at 77
1967 Judith Evelyn dies of cancer at 54
1968 Lurleen Burns wife of George Wallace/Governor of Alabama, dies at 41
1970 Carlos Estrada composer, dies at 60
1971 Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1977 Irwin Fischer composer, dies at 73
1981 Mieczyslaw Kolinski composer, dies at 79
1982 Alfred Adam dies at 72
1983 Peter Edel writer, dies
1985 Dawn Addams actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 Gaston Deferre French politician, dies at 75
1987 Colin Blakely dies at 56
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] dies of natural causes at 42
1989 Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
1990 Jessica James actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
1993 Mary Philbin actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1994 Clement Greenberg US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
1994 Margaret Skeete oldest American, dies at 115
1995 Ernest H Martin impressario, dies at 75
1995 Lawrence Josset engraver, dies at 84
1995 Maria Luisa Bemberg fil maker, dies at 73
1995 Ray McKinley drummer, dies at 84
1996 Albert Meltzer anarchist, dies at 76
1996 Henry Diamond Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 Howard Frank Trayton Smith diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76

On this day...Events

1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1663 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 French troops conquer Maastricht
1765 Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground
1771 Samuel Hearne explores the Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1789 1st inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York NY)
1792 Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1800 Indiana Territory organized
1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 Greece becomes independent republic
1832 Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1840 Tornado strikes Natchez MS, kills 317
1847 American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 US marines attack Panamá
1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1877 Cincinnati Enquirer, 1st uses the term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
1885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris France
1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
1902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1910 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
1921 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands, 1-2
1922 New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1930 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs Northants in 330 minutes
1932 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region
1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe
1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands
1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
1949 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2
1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
1955 West Europe Union established
1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
1957 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit in the face by a line drive off Gil McDougald
1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters
1959 "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in Los Angeles Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
1959 Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in Los Angeles Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
1960 "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
1960 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
1960 Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th homerun wins the game for brother Larry
1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 performances
1961 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion
1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1969 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1972 26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1972 Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
1977 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 performances
1982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2
1983 August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2
1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic
1986 Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1987 105º F in Sacramento CA
1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
1994 Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
1994 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances
1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1995 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1995 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:25 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 08:

1492 Andreas Alciatus [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer
1521 Peter Canisius [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
1527 Johann Walter composer
1592 Francis Quarles English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
1629 Niels Juel Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht)
1641 Nicolaas Witsen etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
1668 Alain R Lesage French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
1673 Johann Valentin Eckelt composer
1703 Gottlob Harrer composer
1737 Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
1742 Johann Baptist Krumpholtz composer
1745 Carl Philipp Stamitz composer
1750 Elias Mann composer
1753 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla father of Mexican independence
1763 John Goldberg Dutch patriot/statesman
1778 Johann Gansbacher composer
1786 Thomas Hancock founded British rubber industry
1803 Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova composer
1806 Jan Bedrich Kittl composer
1810 James Cooper Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin anarchist
1824 William Walker filibuster/President of Nicaragua (1856-57)
1828 Jean Henri Dunant Switzerland, writer/founder (Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901))
1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1833 Frank Wheaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1836 Bryan Morel Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1839 Francis W Warre-Cornish English vice-provost of Eton/writer
1842 Emil C Hansen Danish physiologist
1844 Hermann Gradener composer
1846 Oscar Hammerstein Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
1853 Charles Lee Williams composer
1857 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
1858 John Meade Falkner novelist (Moonfleet)
1871 [Émile M] Louis Madelin French historian (French revolutionary)
1873 Henry Leveson-Gower cricketer (England captain 1909-10 later official)
1882 Philips C Visser Dutch explorer/diplomat
1884 Harry S Truman Lamar MO, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953)
1886 Jef van Hoof composer
1891 Chet "Red" Hoff pitcher (New York Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
1892 Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1893 Francis Quimet Massachusetts shop assistant who won golf's US Open (1913)
1895 Edmund Wilson American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1895 Fulton J Sheen El Paso IL, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
1895 José Gómez [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
1899 Friedrich August von Hayek Vienna Austria, author (The Road to Serfdom)/co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1974)
1899 Jan F van Hall Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
19-- Reid Smith Burbank CA, actor (Chase, Chisholms)
1902 Andre Michel Lwoff physiologist
1902 Milford "Curly" Page cricketer (New Zealand bat early 1930's, All Black half)
1903 Fernandel [Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin] French actor (Paris Holiday)
1904 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge BBC news announcer/commentator
1905 Inglis Gundry composer
1906 David Van Vactor Plymouth IN, composer (Chaconne)
1906 Roberto Rossellini Rome Italy, director (Open City)
1908 Arturo De Cordova [Rodriguez], Merida México, actor (Medal for Benny)
1910 Mary Lou Williams US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
1910 Ronald Russell actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
1911 Robert Johnson blues singer (King of the Delta Blues Singer)
1911 Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman Dutch lawyer/foreign minister
1912 George Woodcock author
1912 Gertrud Fussenegger [Dorn] Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
1913 Sidney James [Cohen] Johannesburg, actor (Carry On)
1914 Lord Murton of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman (Comm House of Lords)
1915 John Archer Osceola NE, actor (Destination Moon)
1916 Gordon Scarrott engineer
1919 Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov composer
1920 Maurice Cranston political scientist
1920 Sloan Wilson Norwalk CT, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
1921 Graham Leonard bishop of London
1921 Saul Bass designer
1922 Brian Kellett CEO (Port of London Authority)
1922 Friedrich Döppe writer
1924 Tristan Jones sailor
1925 Ali Hassan Mwinyi President of Tanzania (1985- )
1925 Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle lord of appeal in ordinary
1926 Don Rickles Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
1926 Erico Menczer Fiume Italy, cinematographer (Chosen, Miranda)
1926 Ronald Waterhouse high court judge
1926 Sir David [Frederick] Attenborough London England, environmentalist/zoologist/TV host (BBC)
1927 Ian Denholm CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
1927 Philip Wilkinson deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
1928 Theodore Sorensen presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
1928 William Jay Sydeman composer
1929 V N M Korte-van Hemel Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
1930 Doug Atkins Humbolt TN, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
1930 Gary Snyder [Japhy Ryder] beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
1930 Heather Harper soprano
1931 Charles M Wilson composer
1933 Alistair Service writer/publisher
1934 Leonard Hoffmann high court judge
1934 Roger Kendrick governor (Dartmoor Prison)
1934 Sonny Liston US heavyweight boxing chmap (1962-64)
1935 Jack Charlton soccer manager (Republic of Ireland)
1935 Salome Jens Milwaukee WI, actress (From Here to Eternity)
1935 Viscount Falkland British peer (Liberal-Democrat)
1936 James Darren actor (Time Tunnel)
1936 Neville Purvis British Vice Admiral (Chief of Fleet Support)
1937 Daniël Robberechts Belgian writer (Labia Majora)
1937 Dennis DeConcini (Senator-D-AZ, 1977- )
1937 Michael Simmons Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
1937 Thomas Pynchon novelist (V)
1938 Javed Burki cricketer (Pakistan batsman in 25 Tests 1960-69)
1938 Pierre Lucien Claverie bishop of Oran
1939 Otis Paul Drayton Glen Cove NY, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964)
1940 James Blyth CEO (Boots)
1940 Peter Benchley New York NY, novelist (Jaws, The Deep)
1940 Rick [Eric Hilliard] Nelson Teaneck NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
1941 James A Traficant Jr (Representative-D-OH, 1985- )
1941 Jim Mitchum Bridgeport CT, actor (Blackout, Invincible 6)
1941 John Fred rocker
1942 Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1942 Norman Lamont MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
1942 Robin Hobbs cricketer (England leg-spinner 1967-71)
1942 Ruth Holland journalist
1943 Paul Samwell-Smith London England, rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 Toni Tennille Montgomery AL, female Beachboy (Captain & Tennille)
1944 Gary Glitter [Paul Gadd] Banbury Oxfordshire England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
1945 Arthur Docters van Leeuwen jurist (Holland's secret service)
1945 Keith Jarrett jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer)
1947 Felicity Lott English soprano (We come to the river)
1947 Phil Sawyer rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1947 Rick Zehringer Celina OH, rocker (McCoys)
1948 John Reid MP
1948 Maurizio Nichetti actor (Icicle Thief, Volcano)
1950 Mark Blankfield Pasadena TX, comedian (Fridays, Good & Evil)
1951 Chris Frantz Fort Campbell KY, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 Deborah Harmon actress (Ted Knight Show, MASH, Just the 10 of Us)
1951 Philip Bailey rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1952 Beth Henley Jackson MS, actress/playwright (Miss Firecracker)
1952 Charles J Camarda New York NY, PhD/astronaut
1954 David Keith Knoxville TN, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
1954 Pat Meyers LPGA golfer
1955 Alex Van Halen Nijmegen Netherlands, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
1955 Stephen Furst Norfolk VA, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
1956 Gary Wilmot British? entertainer
1956 Jeff Madrigali Walnut Creek CA, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-96)
1957 Deana Deardruff US, 4 X 100 meter swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1957 Jeff Wincott Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Night Heat)
1959 Ronnie Lott Albuquerque NM, NFL defensive back (San Fransisco 49er)
1961 Riaz Poonawalla cricketer (Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy)
1962 Terry Baker CFL kicker (Montréal Alouettes)
1963 Clemens Lothaller Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)
1964 Cheryl Richardson Palo Alto CA, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
1964 Eric Brittingham rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1964 Melissa Gilbert [Boxleitner/Brinkman] Los Angeles CA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1964 Peter Gill rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8]
1966 Eddie Brown CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 Franklin Langham Augusta GA, Nike golfer (1993 Permian Basin Open)
1968 John Johnson NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1968 Omar Camporese Italy, tennis star
1969 Brad Culpepper NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1969 Duane Forde CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 Swift Burch CFL defensive end (Montréal Alouettes)
1970 Christine Stark Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 Marco Heering soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 Michael Bevan cricketer (dashing New South Wales & Australian lefty bat)
1971 Carlos Brooks NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Chris Wolf actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1971 Stephen Ingram NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Chris Sanders NFL wide receiver (Tennessee/Houston Oilers)
1972 Keelin Curnuck Miss New York USA (1996)/Ms Venus Swimwear (1994)
1973 Wolf Wigo Abington PA, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1974 Calvin Branch cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1974 Colin Daynes Windsor Ontario, 68 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1974 Korey Stringer NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1976 Oleg Tverdovsky Donetsk Ukr, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1978 Cindy Parlow Memphis TN, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1978 Sandra Kleinova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 Futures-Turku-Finland)
1979 Jayna Cronin Geneva NY, dance skater (& Dreger-1997 National-13th)

Deaths which occurred on May 08:

0535 John [Mercurius] Italian Pope (533-35), dies
0685 Benedict II Italian Pope (683-85), dies
1319 Haakon V King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
1577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
1684 Henri Dumont composer, dies
1725 John Lovewell US Indian fighter, dies in battle
1773 Ali Bey Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
1785 Pietro Longhi painter, dies
1794 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1809 Augustin Pajou French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
1818 Franz Ignaz Kaa composer, dies at 78
1829 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani composer, dies at 47
1844 Charles XIV Johan [Jean B Bernadotte] King of Sweden/Norway, dies
1846 Giacomo Cordella composer, dies at 59
1853 Joannes P Roothaan 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel-General of Jesuits, dies at 67
1861 Láseló Teleki Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide
1864 James Samuel Wadsworth General-Major (Union), dies in battle at 56
1873 John Stuart Mill great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 Truganini last originating Tasmanian, dies
1880 Gustave Flaubert French writer (Salammbô), dies
1885 Pavel Krizkovsky composer, dies at 65
1887 Alexander Ulyanov brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky Russian theosophist, dies
1894 Klara Fey German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
1903 Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin French painter (Tahiti), dies
1904 Eadweard Muybridge English photographer (horse trot), dies
1909 Friedrich von Holstein German diplomat, dies
1915 Henry McNeal Turner 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
1924 Lev N Lunts Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1930 Lvar Henning Mankell composer, dies at 61
1932 Albert Thomas French socialist politician
1936 Oswald Spengler German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
1941 Heinrich Zollner composer, dies at 86
1943 Mordicai Anielewicz commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1948 Alfred Holy composer, dies at 81
1950 Franklin Dyall dies at 76
1957 Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters Dutch painter, dies at 75
1958 Nasni Matni Lebanese journalist, murdered
1959 Renato Caccioppoli Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 Hugo Alfven Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1961 James Fairfax actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1965 H T W Hardinge cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for England), dies
1967 Barbara Payton actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
1967 Elmer Rice New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
1967 Laverne Andrews singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
1973 Ralph Miller last 19th century baseball player, dies
1974 Graham Bond rocker, dies jumping under a train
1975 Avery Brundage CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
1976 Alan Baxter dies at 67
1976 Ulrike Meinhof lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
1979 Talcott Parsons US sociologist, dies at 76
1981 Daniel Gillès Belgian writer, dies at 64
1981 Margaret Lindsay actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies from emphysema at 40
1981 Maurice Fernandes cricket captain (West Indies in 1st Test win, 1930 vs England), dies
1982 Gilles Villeneuve Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
1985 Dolph Sweet actor (Gimme a Break, Gil McGowan-Another World), dies of cancer at 64
1985 Edmond O'Brien actor (Sam Benedict), dies at 69 of Alzheimer's disease
1985 Karl Marx German composer/conductor, dies at 87
1987 Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
1988 Robert A Heinlein sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
1990 Tomas O'Fiach [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
1991 Jean Langlais composer, dies at 84
1991 Lloyd Ford stuntman, dies at 79
1991 Ronnie Brody British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1992 Addeke H Boerma director-general (FAO), dies at 80
1992 Brian Moore writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
1992 Gul Mahomed cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink author (Fear on Java), dies
1992 Richard Derr actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
1993 Kees Deenik singer/conductor
1994 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar peace activist, dies at 88
1994 George Peppard actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
1994 Rupert Haselden journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
1994 Steven Keats actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1995 Carroll Best bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
1995 Jerry Zipkin socialite, dies at 80
1995 Prem Bhatia journalist, dies at 83
1995 Teresa Teng singer, dies at 41
1996 Jane Cowan cello teacher, dies at 80
1996 Luis Miguel Domiguin bullfighter, dies at 69
1996 Serge Chermayeff architect/designer, dies at 95
1997 Kai-Uwe Von Hassel German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies

On this day...Events

0535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0615 St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0685 St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1360 Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
1429 French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orléans
1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
1541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1624 Hung king Bethlen Gábor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1639 William Coddington founds Newport RI
1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
1741 France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier WA
1792 US establishes military draft
1794 US Post Office established
1823 "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle
1834 Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto TX
1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA
1863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
1864 Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton
1864 Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
1866 Australian Rules Football is created
1871 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1877 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1878 Paul Hines makes baseball's 1st unassisted triple play
1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1882 David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC
1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-meter jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, England
1886 Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)
1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1896 Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
1897 22nd Preakness: T Thorpe aboard Paul Kauvar wins in 1:51¼
1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
1900 John McGraw & Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals
1901 In their long-delayed American League home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4
1902 Mount Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1906 Philadelphia A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 homeruns
1907 Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 6-0
1907 Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
1915 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
1919 Appingedam soccer team forms
1920 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
1921 Sweden abolished capital punishment
1923 Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116 vs Somerset at Bath
1924 Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres
1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1925 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59
1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1929 New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
1931 Operette "Land of Smiles" premieres in London
1935 Cincinnati Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
1936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall; His wife fainted when he returned to the track
1937 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
1938 Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" premieres in Washington DC
1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack
1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1943 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1944 U-575 sinks Asphodel
1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin
1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe
1946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1948 Bradman scores 146 Australia vs Surrey, 174 minutes, 15 fours
1949 West German constitution approved
1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1952 "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1952 "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
1952 Mad Magazine debuts
1953 WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 meter)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles CA
1956 John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger" premieres in London
1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
1958 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore
1960 USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1962 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 performances
1962 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
1962 London trolley buses go out of service
1963 "Dr No" premieres in US
1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1965 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 Last game at old Busch Stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to San Fransisco
1966 Only homerun ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (Frank Robinson)
1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1969 Cambodia recognizes German Democratic Republic
1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album
1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1970 NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
1971 "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden
1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
1973 Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs manager Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager
1973 Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1974 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1974 Canadian Government of Trudeau falls
1974 FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
1976 "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 7 performances
1977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
1977 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1978 ABC TV airs "The Stars Salute Israel at 30"
1978 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
1980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
1983 Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles
1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
1984 USSR announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics
1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
1988 "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances
1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by the Devils
1988 François Mitterrand elected President of France
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
1989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1990 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns
1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1993 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 performances
1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1994 Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game
1994 Ernesto Pérez Balladares elected President of Panamá
1994 José Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica
1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1994 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1996 New York Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st American League game beating Tigers 10-3
1996 South Africa's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
1997 Tea Leoni & David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:40 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 09:

1265 Dante Alighieri Italian poet (Divina Commedia)
1596 Abraham van Diepenbeeck painter
1738 John Pindar [Peter] physician/poet
1740 Giovanni Paisiello Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1783 Alexander Ross Canada, pioneer/fur trader
1785 James Pollard Espy Pennsylvania, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
1793 Johannes C de Jonge Dutch historian/archivist
1796 August Pauly German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1800 John Brown abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
1801 Samuel Cousins mezzotint engraver
1810 Louis Gallait historical painter
1810 WFLC Marianne princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I
1814 Adolph von Henselt composer
1824 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1829 Ciro Pinsuti pianist/composer
1833 Boleslaw Dembinski composer
1837 Adam Opel German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
1843 Belle Boyd spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
1844 [Maria] Catharina Beersmans Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
1846 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov composer
1855 Julius Rontgen composer
1860 Sir James Matthew Barrie Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister)
1865 August de Boeck composer
1873 Howard Carter British archaeologist/Egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
1873 Lilian Mary Baylis manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
1882 Henry J Kaiser builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)
1883 José Ortega y Gasset Spain, philosopher (Revolt of the Masses)
1887 Jules Van de Leene Belgian writer
1892 Eric Westberg composer
1892 Zita empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
1895 Lucian Blaga Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
1895 Richard Barthelmess New York NY, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
1899 Edward Pollock saxophone/clarinet
19-- Jeanna Michaels New London CT, actress (Connie-Dallas, General Hospital)
1901 Fuzzy Knight Fairmont WV, actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowby & the Lady)
1901 George Duckworth cricket wicket-keeper (England late 20's early 30's)
1903 Walter Dehmel writer
1906 Eleanor Estes author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
1907 Baldur von Schirach German writer/Nazi politician (Frame)
1910 Barbara Woodhouse dog training expert
1910 P E Palia cricketer (appeared in India's 1st Test-Lord's 1932)
1911 Harry Simeone Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
1912 Pedro Armendariz México, actor (From Russia With Love)
1913 John Hayes Admiral
1913 Victor Smith Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
1914 Carlo Maria Giulini conductor
1914 Frank Chacksfield arranger/orchestra leader
1914 Hank Snow Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
1914 Josef Muller-Brockmann graphic designer/writer
1914 Theodore Kheel labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)
1915 Richard Janvrin British Vice Admiral
1916 Bernard William George Rose composer/organist
1916 Cyril Bowles bishop of Derby
1916 Douglas Guest organist
1917 George Fleming cyclist
1917 John Arnatt actor (Circumstantial Evidence)
1918 Mike Wallace Brookline MA, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes)
1918 Orville Freeman Minneapolis MN, (Senator-D-MN)/Secretary of Agriculture (1961-69)
1919 Arthur English comedian/actor (Malachi's Cove)
1920 Richard Adams author (Day Gone By)
1922 Sheila Burrell actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark)
1924 Bulat S Okudzjava Russian author (Student!)
1924 Connie Russell New York NY, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
1924 Gerard Wernars Dutch graphic designer (Library stamps 1991)
1924 Jean J A Girault French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
1925 Peter Leng Master General of the Ordnance
1926 Alistair MacFarlane principal (Heriot-Watt University England)
1926 Francis Kennedy British diplomat
1926 Joshua Hassan chief minister (Gibralter)
1926 Robin Cooke president (New Zealand Court of Appeal)
1927 John McDermott Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
1927 Manfred Eigen German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
1927 Ray Katt baseball player
1928 Barbara Ann Scott Ottawa Ontario Canada, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1948)
1928 Pall Pampichier Palsson composer
1928 Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez Los Angeles CA, tennis star (US 1948-49)
1929 Anthony Lloyd Lord Justice of Appeal
1930 Joan Sims actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
1931 Vance DeVoe Brand Longmont CO, astronaut (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
1932 Conrad Hunte cricketer (great West Indian opener 1958-66)
1932 David Plastow CEO (Medical Research Council)
1932 Gavin Lyall author (Conduct of Major Maxim)
1932 Geraldine McEwan actress (Henry V)
1932 J Alex McMillan (Representative-R-NC, 1985- )
1933 Johnny Grant unofficial mayor of Hollywood
1934 Alan Bennett England, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
1934 John Robertson deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1934 Roy Massey Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral)
1936 Albert Finney Salford UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
1936 Floyd Robinson baseball player (White Sox, Reds, A's)
1936 Glenda Jackson Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
1936 Terry Downes middleweight boxing champion (1961-62)
1936 Terry Drinkwater TV newsman (CBS)
1937 Dave Prater Ocilla GA, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
1937 Sonny Curtis Meadow TX, guitarist (Crickets)
1938 Geoffrey Holland civil servant
1938 Nokie Edwards rocker (Ventures)
1939 Bruce Mather composer
1939 Herbert Hippauf baseball player
1939 Jim Dent Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1989 MONY Syracuse Senior)
1939 Kenneth Warby fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
1939 Nokle Edwards rocker
1939 Ralph Boston Laurel MS, long jumper (Olympics-gold/silver/bronze-60, 64, 68)
1940 Dick Morrissey saxophonist
1940 James L Brooks producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic)
1941 Dorothy Hyman England, sprinter (Olympics-silver-60)
1941 Jan Dibbets sculptor/artist (Dutch Mountains)
1941 Pete Birrell rock bassist (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 John D Ashcroft (Governor-MO)
1942 Mike Millward rocker
1942 Tommy Roe Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
1942 William Olner MP
1943 Bruce Milner rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1943 Maurice Foster cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)
1944 Don Dannemann rocker (Cyrkle)
1944 Richard [Richie] Furay Yellow Springs OH, rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 Steve Katz New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1946 Candice Bergen Beverly Hills, actress (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
1947 Anthony Corlan Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
1948 John Drayton Mahaffey Kerrville TX, PGA golfer (1978 PGA Champion)
1949 Billy Joel Hicksville Long Island NY, singer/songwriter/piano player (Pianoman, Captain Jack, Bridge)
1949 Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
1950 James A Butts Los Angeles CA, triple jumper (Olympics-silver-1976)
1950 Matthew Kelly actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers)
1950 Tom Petersson Rockford IL, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1951 Alley Mills Chicago IL, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)
1952 Patrick Ryecart actor (Silas Mariner)
1953 Daniel Talbot Montréal Québec, golfer (Québec Open-1979, 81, 84)
1953 Gregory Beecroft Corpus Christi TX, actor (Guiding Light)
1953 Ron Jackson baseball player
1953 Scott McInnis (Representative-R-CO)
1954 Balazs Taroczy Hungary, tennis star
1955 Kevin Peter Hall Pittsburgh PA, actor (Misfits of Science)
1955 Myra Blackwelder LPGA golfer
1957 Fred Markham 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
1957 John Stuper baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1958 Esko Rechardt Finland, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1980)
1959 Andrew Jones cricketer (highly consistent for New Zealand at 1st drop)
1959 Asantha De Mel cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test opening bowler)
1960 Iain Butchart cricket all-rounder (Zimbabwe, Test vs Pakistan 1995)
1960 Jim Reilly rocker (Red Rockers)
1960 Tony Gwynn Los Angeles CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1961 Rene Capo Pinal del Rio Cuba, half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1962 David Gahan Epping Essex England, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1962 John Corbett actor/singer (Chris-Northern Exposure)
1962 Paul Heaton rocker (The Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1964 Miloslav Mecir Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympics-gold-1988)
1965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
1965 Marc Logan NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1965 Steve Yzerman Cranbrook British Columbia, NHL forward (Team Canada, Detroit)
1966 Mark Tinordi Red Deer, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1968 Bruce Pickens NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1968 David Benoit NBA forward (Utah Jazz, New Jersey Nets)
1968 Marie-José Pérec Guadeloupe, French 200 meter/400 meter runner (Olympics-2 gold-96)
1968 Vince Workman NFL running back (Packers, Panthers, Colts)
1969 Carla Overbeck Pasadena CA, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1969 Renn Crichlow Ottawa Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-92, 96)
1970 Doug Christie NBA guard/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1972 Dan Hollander Royal Oak MI, figure skater (1996 Great Lakes champion)
1972 Dave Barr WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Simon Hollingsworth Australian 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-92, 96)
1974 Pete Kelley 218¼ lbs (99 kg) US weightlifter (Olympics-14th-1996)
1974 Shin Yahata hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1974 Stephane Yelle Ottawa, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 Faye Johnstone Auckland New Zealand, archer (Olympics-96)
1980 Angela Nikodinov Spartanburg SC, figure skater (1997 Pacific Senior champion)
1980 Tatewin Means Miss South Dakota Teen USA (1996)

Deaths which occurred on May 09:

1079 Stanislaus Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered
1280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
1443 Niccoló d'Albergati Italian cardinal, dies
1460 Jean Lavite Atrechts painter, dies
1474 Peter van Hagenbach Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded
1590 Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66
1657 William Bradford Governor (Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts), dies
1667 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers French Queen of Poland (1645-48)
1688 Frederick William Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68
1707 Dietrich Buxtehude German organist/composer, dies at about 69
1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer, dies at 82
1760 Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf Austrian composer, dies at 59
1770 Charles Avison composer, dies at 61
1785 Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer, dies at 44
1791 Francis Hopkinson US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
1799 Claude-Benigne Balbastre composer, dies at 72
1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller poet/playwright, dies at 45
1822 Charles Duquesnoy composer, dies at 62
1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac chemist/physicist, dies
1853 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt composer, dies at 73
1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday US Union Colonel, dies in an accident
1880 Johann Hermann Berens composer, dies at 54
1884 Hermanus W Witteveen theologist, dies at 69
1903 Rudolf Serkin Bohemian/US pianist, dies
1905 Ernst Pauer composer, dies at 78
1926 Joseph Mallaby Dent publisher, dies
1927 Tommy Routledge cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies
1928 Constantin Dimitrescu composer, dies at 81
1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1937 Walter Mittelholzer Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43
1944 Ethel Mary Smyth composer, dies at 86
1945 Clem Hill cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies
1949 Louis II Prince of Monaco, dies
1951 Marie Ault dies at 80
1952 Canada Lee black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York NY at 45
1957 Ezio F Pinza Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Metropolitan Opera), dies
1957 Heinrich Campendonk Ger
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:49 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 10:

1536 Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall
1697 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair composer
1705 Gallus Zeiler composer
1724 Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral (battle of Doggersbank)
1727 Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1730 George Ross US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1741 Johann Michael Schmidt composer
1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens painter
1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
1760 J P Hebel writer
1769 Jean Lannes duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
1770 Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall (defeated Prussians)
1776 George Thomas Smart composer
1780 Peter Lichtenthal composer
1783 Niccola Benvenuti composer
1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel optics pioneer/physicist
1795 Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry historian
1800 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov composer
1810 James Shields Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1813 Montgomery Blair Franklin County KY, lawyer (Dred Scot v Sandford)
1822 August Ritter von Pettenkofen painter
1823 John Sherman MC (Union), died in 1900
1824 Charles Henry Van Wyck Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 Rudolf Viole composer
1830 François M Raoult French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1837 Pinckney B S Pinchback Lieutenant Governor (Louisiana)
1838 James 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
1838 John Wilkes Booth assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1843 Benito Pérez Galdós Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazáarin)
1843 Kaufmann Kohler reform rabbi/theologian
1850 Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton Glasgow Scotland, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
1855 Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov St Petersburg Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake)
1857 Hendrik Zwaardemaker Dutch physiologist (olfactometer)
1858 Frederick Zech Jr composer
1867 Jim Kelly cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905)
1873 Carl J Eldh Swedish sculptor
1873 Jan Kalf literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
1876 Ivan Cankar Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica)
1877 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer
1878 Gustav Stresemann German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
1882 Thurston Hall Boston MA, actor (Roaming Lady, In Society)
1885 Fritz v Unruh writer
1885 Mae Murray [Girl with bee-stung lips] Portsmouth VA, actress (High Stakes)
1885 Marie Benavente [Maria Wissink] actress (Scapegoat)
1886 Karl Barth Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
1886 Olaf Stapleton British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
1887 Jacobus C Bloem Dutch poet (Sintels)
1888 Max(imilian Raoul Walter) Steiner Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
1894 Dimitri Tiomkin Russia, composer (Academy Award 1954-High & Mighty)
1897 Dalton Parry Conyngham cricketer (one Test South Africa vs England 1923)
1897 Ewart Levy
1898 Ariel Durant writer (Story of Civilization)
1898 Herbert Elwell Minneapolis MN, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
1899 Fred Astaire Omaha NE, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
19-- Larry Flash Jenkins Long Island NY, actor (White Shadow, Fletch)
1901 Albert Dondeyne Belgian philosopher/theologist
1902 David O Selznick Pittsburgh PA, producer (Gone With the Wind)
1902 Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37)
1903 Kay Petre early racing driver
1904 David Brown CEO (Aston Martin Lagonda)
1905 Angus Paton civil engineer
1907 Harilaos Perpessas composer
1908 Carl Albert (D) speaker of the House
1908 Henry Diamond Irish Nationalist MP
1909 Lord Harold Francis Collison British union leader (agriculture workers)
1909 Maybelle Carter Nickelsville VA, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1910 Jimmy Demaret winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
1910 Margot Turner matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
1912 Edward Gardner Queen's Court/MP
1912 Erik Jorgensen composer
1912 Harold Myers film journalist
1914 Charles McGraw New York NY, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
1914 Lord Smith British surgeon
1915 Bert van Dongen [Abraham J Cohen], singer/impressionist/actor
1915 Christian Beyers Naudé South African anti-apartheid fighter
1915 Denis Thatcher husband of British PM Margaret (1979-90)
1915 Duke of Sutherland
1915 Monica Dickens author/founder (US Samaritians)
1915 Salah Abou Seif director
1916 Milton Babbitt US mathematician/composer (Widow's Lament)
1918 Margo singer (Golden Irish Favorites)
1918 T Berry Brazelton doctor (On Being a Father)
1919 Ella Grasso (Governor-D-CT)
1919 Louis Sen A Kaw Surinam dam builder
1919 Tibor Sarai composer
1920 Basil Kelly Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
1921 Bert Weedon rocker
1921 Nancy Walker Philadelphia PA, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife)
1922 David Orr deputy chairman (Inchcape)/CEO (British Council, Unilever)
1923 John Dugdal Lord-Lieutenant (Salop)
1925 Edward Fursdon British Major-General (defense council)
1926 Duncan Watson president (World Blind Union)
1929 Brian Corby CEO (Prudential)
1929 Fats Domino rocker (Blueberry Hill)
1929 Marquess of Downshire
1930 June Knox-Mawer British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
1930 Pat Summerall NFLer (New York Giants)/Sportscaster (CBS)
1931 Lord Michael Mustill of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal
1932 Earl of Rothes
1932 Francoise Fabian Hussein Dey Algeria, actress (Happy New Year)
1933 Barbara Taylor Bradford author
1934 Cliff Wilson snooker player
1934 William Lithgow Scottish industrialist/multi-millionaire
1935 Henry Fambrough US singer (Spinners)
1935 Larry Williams rocker
1936 Anthony Mullens British Lieutenant-General (Deputy chief of defense)
1936 Gary Owens Mitchell SD, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
1936 Michael Stone English broker/multi-millionaire (Man Group)
1936 Trevor Clay General-Secretary (Royal College of Nursing)
1937 Arthur Kopit US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis)
1937 Jim Hickman baseball player (Mets, Dodgers, Cubs)
1937 Tamara Press USSR, shot putter/discus thrower (Olympics-gold-60)
1938 Manuel Santana tennis player (US Open 1965)
1938 Maxim Shostakovich Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symphony)
1938 Merritt Ranew baseball player
1938 Michael Shea director (Hanson Trust)/Queen's press secretary
1938 Peter Davies Major-General/Director-General (RSPCA)
1938 Philip Gordon Winsor composer
1940 Arthur Alexander US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me)
1940 Taurean Blacque actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
1940 William Cash MP
1941 Danny Rapp Philadelphia PA, rocker (Danny & Juniors)
1941 Ken Berry baseball player (White Sox, Angels, Brewers, Indians)
1941 Win Bischoff CEO (Schroders)
1942 Bill Coday US singer (You're Gonna Then Me)
1942 Ingram Douglas Marshall composer
1943 Bruce Raymond jockey
1943 Donovan [Leitch] Glasgow Scotland, guitarist/folk singer (Mellow Yellow)
1943 James Earl Chaney US civil rights activist
1944 Abdul Kadir cricketer (Pakistan batsman-keeper in 4 Tests 1964-65)
1944 Jackie Lomax Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want)
1944 Jim Abrahams Shorewood WI, director (Hot Shots, Top Secret)
1944 Kathy Farrer LPGA golfer
1944 Marie-France Pisier Daclat Vietnam, actress (Scruples, Midnight)
1945 Justice Laws
1945 Pamelo Mounk'a musician
1946 Graham Gouldman Manchester England, bassist (10cc-No Milk Today)
1946 Maureen Lipman actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
1947 Dave Mason Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
1947 Jay Ferguson Burbank CA, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1947 Paul Nicholas Young architect
1948 Christopher Gent CEO (Vodafone Group)
1948 Meg Foster Reading PA, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
1951 Ron Banks US R&B singer (Dramatics-Whatcha See is Whatcha Get)
1951 Steve Gunderson (Representative-R-WI, 1981- )
1952 Sly Dunbar Kingston Jamaica, reggae drummer (Sly & Robbie)
1953 Barbara Moxness LPGA golfer
1953 Lawrence Lau actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1953 Steve Thomas rocker (Shooting Star)
1954 Jeff Apple Miami FL, producer (In the Line of Fire)
1955 Bruce Hartzler Washington DC, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96)
1955 Chris Berman sportscaster (ESPN)
1955 Homer Simpson animation (Simpsons)
1955 Laurence Lau actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1955 Mark David Chapman assassin of John Lennon
1957 Phil Mahre Yakima WA, twin alpine slalom skier (Olympics-gold/silver-80, 84)
1957 Sid Vicious [John Beverly], London England, punk rocker (Sex Pistols)
1957 Steve Mahre Yakima WA, twin alpine slalom skier (Olympics-silver-80, 84)
1958 Ellen Ochoa Los Angeles CA, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66)
1958 Jeannette Kohlhaas LPGA golfer
1958 Margaret Ward LPGA golfer
1958 Rick Santorum (Representative-R-PA)
1959 Dan Schayes NBA center/forward (Miami Heat, Orlando Magic)
1960 Bono Vox [Paul Hauson] Dublin Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
1960 Merlene Ottey Jamaican/Italian running star (Olympics)
1960 Tauseef Ahmed cricketer (leading Pakistan off-spinner of 80's)
1960 Victoria Rowell Portland ME, actress (Dr Amanda Bentley-Diagnosis Murder, Drucilla-Young and Restless)
1961 Blyth Tait England, New Zealand equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-gold-96)
1961 Randy Cunneyworth Etobicoke, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
1961 Teri Copley Arcadia CA, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
1962 Garry Daley keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
1962 Joey Meyer baseball player
1962 Robby Thompson W Palm Beach FL, infielder (San Fransisco Giants)
1963 Lisa M Nowak Washington DC, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
1964 Dean Spriddle Plymouth England, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Oak Valley)
1965 Jim Schreiner Kailua HI, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96)
1965 Linda Evangelista St Catherines Canada, model (Elite)
1965 Mike Butcher baseball player
1965 Rony Seikaly NBA center (Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors)
1965 Todd Kalis NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 Jonathan Edwards Britain, triple jumper (Olympics-gold/silver-92, 96)
1966 Mikael Andersson Malmo Swe, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1968 Julie Smith Glendora CA, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 Curtis Whitley NFL center (Panthers, Packers, Raiders)
1969 Dennis Bergkamp Amsterdam Netherlands, soccer player (Ajax)
1969 Judson Mills Purcellville VA, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
1969 Martin Driever WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1969 Pete Schourek Austin TX, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1970 Andre Stolz Brisbane Queensland, Australasia golfer
1971 Andrei Kravtsov Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 Eric Stock soccer player (NEC)
1971 Ronnie Dixon NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets)
1972 Akili Johnson NFL defensive back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Emma Ridley Hanpstead England, actress (Return to Oz)
1972 Farrell Duclair CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Stuart Carlisle cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1995-)
1973 Jerome Williams NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1974 Grant Williams NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 Janet Reasons Port Orchard WA, Miss America-Washington (1997)
1975 Adam Deadmarsh Trail British Columbia, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Olympics-98)
1977 Amanda Borden Cincinnati OH, gymnast (World-silver-94, Olympics-gold-96)
1991 Emily McEnroe daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe

Deaths which occurred on May 10:

0238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
0995 Boudouin bishop of Utrecht
1566 Leonhard Fuchs German botanist, dies at 65
1569 Juan the Avila Spanish minister/writer
1637 Susanna van Baerle Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37
1653 John Bicker ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
1696 Jean de La Bruyère French author, dies at 50
1710 Georg Dietrich Leiding composer, dies at 46
1760 Johann Christoph Graupner composer, dies at 77
1764 Picander [Christian Henrici] German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
1770 Charles Avison composer, dies at 61
1774 Louis XV king of France (1715-74), dies at 64
1784 Antoine Court de Gébelin French vicar/writer, dies at 56
1785 Etienne Joseph Floquet composer, dies at 36
1789 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer, dies at 72
1794 Elisabeth princess of France, beheaded at 30
1798 George Vancouver British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
1818 Paul Revere American patriot, dies
1820 Matthaus Stegmayer composer, dies at 49
1826 Giuseppe Sigismondo composer, dies at 86
1829 Thomas Young physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
1833 François Andrieux French writer/politician, dies at 74
1849 Katsushika Hokusai Japanese painter, dies at 89
1859 Johan archduke of Austria (Firechief & Housewife), dies
1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Confederate General (Civil War), dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville
1864 James Clay Rice lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34
1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27
1869 Wilhelm Bernard Molique composer, dies at 66
1880 John Goss composer/organist, dies at 79
1885 Edward Stephen composer, dies at 62
1885 Ferdinand Hiller composer, dies at 73
1897 William Thomas Best composer, dies at 70
1904 Henry M Stanley [John Rowlands] British explorer, dies
1909 Johannes de Koo journalist/playwright, dies
1910 Stanislao Cannizzaro Italian chemist, dies at 85
1910 William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
1915 Albert Weisgerber German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
1920 John Wesley Hyatt inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
1923 Vaslav Vorovsky Russian delegate, assassinated
1924 Adolfo Albertazzi Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58
1937 Johannes Walter German geologist (Die Denudation in Wüste), dies
1938 Percy McAlister cricketer (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies
1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56
1942 Joseph M Weber comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74
1943 André Bertulot Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 Maurice-Albert Raskin Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1950 John G Fletcher US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
1954 George Hirst cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies
1960 Juri Olescha writer, dies at 61
1964 Carol Haney dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
1964 Ignace Lilien composer, dies at 66
1965 Hubertus J van Mook Dutch minister of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70
1968 Maurie Sievers cricket medium-pacer (Australia vs England 1936-37), dies
1968 Philippa Bevans dies at 55
1968 Scotty Beckett dies at 38
1971 Mihail Jora composer, dies at 79
1971 Shukichi Mitsukuri composer, dies at 75
1973 Jack E Leonard Chicago IL, comedian, dies at 62
1973 Loren Tindall dies of heart attack at 51
1976 George Curzon dies at 77
1977 Joan Crawford actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69
1979 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton satirist (Beachcomber), dies
1979 Louis Paul Boon Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
1982 Jean C M Picart le Doux French designer, dies
1982 Peter Weiss German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65
1983 John P Strijbos writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
1984 Joaquin Agostinho Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41
1984 Robert Moore actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
1990 Susan Oliver actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61
1990 Walker Percy physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
1991 Armand Boni [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
1992 Joan Merrill vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
1992 John Lund actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81
1992 Liesbeth Saijers sculptor, dies
1992 Sylvia Sims singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
1994 John Wayne Gacy mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
1994 Lucebert [J Swaanswijk] poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
1994 Phyllis Flowerdew school Reading text author, dies at 81
1995 Harold Berens comedian, dies at 92
1995 Hilde Jarecki educationist, dies at 83
1995 Jimmy Raney jazz guitarist, dies at 67
1997 Joanie Weston roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61

On this day...Events:

1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I
1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary
1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant
1624 Jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA
1655 Jamaica captured by English
1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins
1752 Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
1774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France
1775 2nd Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for 1st time
1775 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander
1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
1787 Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings
1796 French Government arrest 10 utopists
1796 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
1796 Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam
1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States" is launched
1816 English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1849 Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in NYC (22 killed)
1857 Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerutkazerne, Delhi
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI
1862 Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)
1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Ny River VA
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Irwinsville GA
1865 Surrender of Sam Jones
1869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Point UT-Transcontinental RR
1870 Jem Mace defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champion Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour & 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch
1871 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany; France cedes Elzas
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
1876 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
1879 Meteor falls near Estherville IA
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1881 Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation
1889 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17½
1893 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39¼
1893 Imperial Institute in London opens
1905 31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75
1906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1907 Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris France
1908 1st Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia)
1909 Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 innings
1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1910 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4
1910 Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
1913 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8
1913 Yankees commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
1916 Disastrous fire in Ellendale ND
1916 Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1919 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8
1919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
1921 Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres
1922 Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar
1922 WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions
1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI
1926 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8
1928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
1929 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6
1929 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane
1930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
1930 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs Yorkshire at Sheffield
1931 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ
1932 Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem
1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France
1933 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
1936 Manuel Azaña elected President of Spain
1936 Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
1937 Busmen strike in London
1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
1940 Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
1940 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
1940 French marines stationed on Aruba
1940 French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
1940 Nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
1941 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1941 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
1941 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason
1944 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan
1944 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 Russian troops occupy Prague
1946 Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yankees 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
1946 Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 performances
1947 73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59
1948 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague
1950 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
1952 "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances
1953 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1953 KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris France
1956 French Government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 1st meeting of legislature of Cameroon
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
1959 Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released & charged with loss 2 months after his retirement
1959 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
1959 Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán
1960 John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
1961 "Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London
1963 Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
1966 25ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1967 Foundation AZ soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1967 Hank Aaron only inside the park homerun (vs Jim Bunning)
1967 Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1967 Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam
1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1969 Turtles play the White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill
1970 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1970 Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cardinals 6-5
1970 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1971 US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢
1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 27th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1
1973 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 8-4
1973 Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania
1973 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
1974 7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1
1975 Brian Oldfield of the US put the shotput 75', an unofficial record
1978 "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1978 Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I
1979 Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
1979 John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
1979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1980 "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances
1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1981 François Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France
1981 Montréal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits San Fransisco Giants, 4-0
1982 WABC-NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine) and joins ABC's All Talk radio network
1983 "Laverne & Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV
1983 Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
1984 International Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
1985 Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
1986 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart
1986 Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crüe marries Heather Locklear
1987 Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
1989 FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II
1989 General Manuel Noriega's Government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
1990 "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
1990 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella
1991 Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt
1992 "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Bible Land Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
1992 Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1993 Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145
1993 Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman
1993 Paul Cézannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in NYC
1993 Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
1994 "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font NYC for 16 per
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years
1994 Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with 5 neo-fascists
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins
1995 Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein
1995 In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
1996 "Twister" premieres
1996 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games
1997 Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs San Fransisco Giants)
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:53 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 11:

1568 Christian I ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)
1654 Cornelis van Alkemade Dutch historian
1722 Peter Camper Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
1731 Johann Gottfried Seyfert composer
1772 Henri-Jean Rigel composer
1791 Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek composer
1807 Ira Aldridge Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello)
1811 Chang & Eng Bunker Chinese Siamese twins
1821 [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 Alfred Stevens Belgian painter
1830 John Converse Starkweather Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1840 Filippo Capocci composer
1841 Ernst von Possart German actor/stage manager/reciter
1847 Godefroid Kurth Belgian historian (La cité de Liège au moyen âge)
1852 Charles Warren Fairbanks (R) 26th US Vice President (1905-09)
1854 John Blackham cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)
1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
1855 Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1858 Carl Hauptmann writer
1869 Francisco Lacerda composer
1878 Mr Reyskens oldest male resident of Netherlands, ever
1881 Jan van Gilse composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren)
1881 Pascual Rogatis composer
1882 Joseph Marx Austrian composer/critic
1888 Irving Berlin [Isadore Balin] Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas)
1888 P A J Losecaat Vermeer leader of Dutch High Council
1891 Henry Morgenthau Jr US Secretary of the Treasury (1934-45)
1892 Dame Margaret Rutherford Balham London England, actress (Murder Most Foul, Murder She Said, Arabella)
1894 Anton A Mussert Dutch Nazi leader (NSB)
1894 Florimond Cornellie Belgium, yachting (Olympics-gold-1920)
1894 Martha Graham Allegheny PA, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
1895 Jan Parandowski writer
1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
1895 William Grant Still Woodville MS, composer (Africao-American)
1896 Josip Slavenski composer
1896 Mari Sandoz Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn)
1896 Philippo de Pisis Italian painter
1897 Izak W van der Merwe [Boerneef], South African writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek)
1902 Bidú Sayao Niteroi Brazil, soprano (Mimia-La Bohéme)
1902 Kaarlo Sarkia Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo)
1903 Charlie Gehringer Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
1904 Guus Weitzel Dutch radio-announcer
1904 Salvador Dali Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
1905 Marjorie Sykes peace campaigner
1907 Kent Taylor [Louis Weiss] Nashua IA, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
1907 Rose Ausländer writer
1909 Herbert Murrill composer
1910 Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos composer
1911 Doodles Weaver Los Angeles CA, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers, Doodles Weaver)
1911 Edgar Beck president (John Mowlem)
1911 Roy James Alfred Kaulback soldier
1912 Foster Brooks Louisville KY, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
1912 Phil Silvers Brooklyn NY, comedian (Sergeant Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
1913 Clare Grundman composer
1913 Tutti Camarata Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show)
1916 Camilo José Cela Spain, author (La Colmena-1951)
1917 Hon Montague Woodhouse Greek resistance organiser
1918 Richard P Feynman physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)
1918 Robert Hunt CEO (Dowty Group)
1920 Beryl Bryden jazz singer
1920 Denver Pyle Bethune CO, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Code 3, Tammy, Doris Day Show)
1921 Ian Percival QC/MP
1923 Joan Moriarty Brigadier matron-in-chief/director (Army Nursing Services)
1923 Lord Vincent Gordon "Gordy" Lindsay White English industrialist/multi-millionaire
1924 Antony Hewish radio astronomer
1924 Jackie Milburn English soccer star (Newcastle United)
1925 Rhodes Boyson MP
1926 Ernest Harrison CEO (Racal Electronics)
1926 Frank Thring Melbourne Australia, actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur)
1927 Justice Hollis
1927 Mort Sahl Montréal Canada, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
1927 Zilpha Keatly Snyder US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
1928 Yaacov Agam Israeli sculptor
1929 Edward Anson British Vice-Admiral
1930 M J Hamlin Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University)
1930 Stanley L Elkin Brooklyn NY, writer/professor (The Living End)
1931 Stephen Smalley rev/dean (Chester)
1932 Henriette Santer clinical Psychologist
1932 Valentino [Garavani] Milan Italy, fashion designer
1933 Louis Farrakhan minister (black islam nation, million man march)
1934 James M Jeffords (Representative-R-VT, 1975- )
1935 Doug McClure Glendale CA, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
1936 Ulrich Berkes writer
1937 David Allan cricketer (West Indian wicketkeeper 1962-66)
1938 Carla Bley [Carla Borg] Oakland CA, musician (Escalator Over the Hill)
1938 Harvey Sollberger Cedar Rapids IA, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping)
1939 Milt Pappas baseball pitcher
1940 Ronald Anthony Pellegrino composer
1941 Eric Burdon Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Ian Redpath cricketer (dependable Australian opening batsman 1964-76)
1942 Rachel Billington British writer
1942 Terry McGovern Berkley CA, actor (Jim-Charlie & Company, Nine Months)
1943 Arnie Satin rocker
1943 George Edwards composer
1943 Les Chadwick Liverpool England, bassist (Gerry & the Pacemakers-Ferry Cross the Mersey)
1943 Nancy Greene Canada, giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1968)
1944 John Benaud cricketer (brother of Richie; Australian bat 1972-73)
1947 Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks drummer (Allman Brothers)
1948 Alfred Matt Austria, slalom (Olympics-bronze-1968)
1949 Joâo Botelho Lamego Portugal, director (Trafico, Hard Times)
1950 Dane Iorg baseball player (Phillies, Cardinals)
1950 Jeremy Paxman broadcaster
1951 Mike Sleman rugby player
1952 Darrow Igus Newark NJ, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out)
1953 Boyd Gaines Atlanta GA, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
1954 Edgar Riley Jr rocker (Axe K)
1954 Judith Weir composer
1955 Jos Haagmans Dutch singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
1955 Mark Herndon Springfield MA, drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
1957 Luca Urbani Rome Italy, MD/astronaut (STS 78-alternate)
1958 Peter Antonie Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1958 Walt Terrell baseball player
1959 Martha Quinn Albany NY, MTV VJ/actress (Tracey-Bradys)
1960 Jürgen Schult German Federal Republic, discus thrower (world record 1986)
1961 Cecile Licad Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
1961 Diana Lee[-Hsu] Seattle WA, playmate (May 1988)
1962 Steve Bono NFL quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 Blair Piercy Vancouver British Columbia, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Cordova Bay Open)
1963 Mark Breland Brooklyn NY, welterweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1984)
1963 Natasha Richardson London England, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale)
1964 Bobby Witt Arlington VA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1964 Drew Story San Clemente CA, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96)
1964 Floyd Youmans baseball pitcher (Expos)
1964 Jeff Sellers baseball pitcher (Red Sox)
1964 John Parrott snooker player
1964 Katie Wagner daughter of Robert Wagner/model/guest VJ (MTV)
1966 Chris Mohr NFL punter (Buffalo Bills)
1966 Trenidad Hubbard Chicago IL, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Eric Young New Brunswick NJ, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Jamie Brayshaw cricketer (son of Ian; Western Australia & South Africa right-handed batsman)
1967 Kenneth Gould Chicago IL, Welterweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1988)
1969 Amy Legacki Terrytown NY, 10k runner
1970 Dean Capobianco Australian 200 meter/400 meter (Olympics-92, 96)
1970 Michael Joubert Australian 400 meter/800 meter (Olympics-96)
1971 Corey Fuller NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 Yo Murphy WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1972 Andrew Bonhomme Melbourne Victoria, Australasia golfer
1972 Hicham El-Mashtoub NFL center (Houston Oilers)
1972 Stefen Reid CFL linebacker (Montréal Alouettes)
1973 Dean Pullar Cobram Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 Michelle Venturella US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Patrick Sapp NFL offensive linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Roger Juffing soccer player (Fortuna Sittard
1980 Matthew Lawrence Philadelphia PA, actor (Dynasty, Matthew-Brotherly Love)
1981 Austin O'Brien actor (Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man)
1982 Jonathan Jackson Orlando FL, actor (Lucky-General Hospital)

Deaths which occurred on May 11:[/b]

1610 Matteo Ricci Italian missionary (China), dies
1631 Christoph Buel composer, dies at 57
1742 Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70
1772 Joseph Kerckhoff Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged
1778 William Pitt Sr English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
1779 John Heart US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at about 68
1819 Caspar Furstenau composer, dies at 47
1845 Karoly Filtsch composer, dies at 14
1849 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai composer/conductor, dies at 38
1857 E François Vidocq French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
1871 John Herschel cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
1881 Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
1885 Ferdinand Hiller German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73
1895 Feliks Jaronski composer, dies at 71
1907 John Albert Delany composer, dies at 54
1916 Karl Schwarzschild German astronomer (s-effect), dies
1916 Max [Johann] Reger German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43
1917 Otto Adolf Klauwell composer, dies at 66
1920 William D Howells US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
1927 General Henry Martyn Robert (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
1927 Juan Gris Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40
1935 Edward H Thompson US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78
1937 Viliam Figus composer, dies at 62
1938 Alfonsina Storni Argentine poet (El dulce daño/suicide), dies at 45
1938 Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
1944 Henk Hos resistance fighter, executed at 37
1947 Else JT Rangstrøm Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies at 62
1949 Adrianus de Kleyn throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65
1952 Giovanni Tebaldini composer, dies at 87
1953 Jean Adair dies at 80
1955 G L Jessop cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
1956 Walter S Adams US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
1960 John D Rockefeller Jr philanthropist, dies at 86
1965 Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans Flemish playwright, dies at 86
1965 Roger Vailland French author, dies at 57
1973 Grigory M Kosinzev Russian director, dies
1976 Alvar Aalto architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
1976 Camille Schmit composer, dies at 68
1976 J Anaya Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered
1978 John Clinge Doorenbos Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93
1979 Joan Chandler dies at 55
1979 Lester Raymond Flatt musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64
1981 Bob Marley reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36
1981 Hoyt J Fuller editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
1982 Leigh Snowden actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies of cancer at 51
1982 Piet van Egmond organist/conductor, dies at 70
1983 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson author (Anything Box), dies at 65
1985 Chester Gould cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84
1985 Garmt Stuiveling literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77
1985 Jorja Curtright actress (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack
1985 Samuel Frith English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies
1988 H A R (Kim) Philby British double agent, dies
1991 Filip J Field dies at 67
1991 Ho Dam foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies
1992 Carlos Herrera drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
1992 Elizabeth McDonald inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
1994 Alfred James Broomhall methodist Missionary, dies at 82
1994 Danny Overbea blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
1994 Leonard Friedman violinist, dies at 63
1994 Lewis B Puller US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
1994 Timothy Carey dies of stroke at 64
1995 Arthur Lubin director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96
1995 David Avidan poet/writer, dies at 62
1995 William John Phillips actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80
1996 Bruce Boyce singer/teacher, dies at 85
1996 Joan Thirkettle journalist, dies at 48
1996 Malcolm MacEwen writer, dies at 84
1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies
1996 Walter Hyatt Musician, dies at 46
1997 Brenda Carlin TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57

On this day...Events:

1189 Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg
1330 Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire
1421 Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
1502 Columbus begins 4th & last trip to "Indies"
1548 Great fire in Brielle
1625 Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria
1674 Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty
1678 French Admiral Jean d'Estrées' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaçao
1689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
1690 English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia
1745 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1749 British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization
1751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
1752 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
1772 Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
1784 England & Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty
1792 Columbia River discovered & named by US Captain Robert Gray
1812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms - Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on!
1814 Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1816 American Bible Society forms (New York)
1818 Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 6-0
1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Fransisco
1858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
1862 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk VA
1864 General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded in Battle of Yellow Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)
1865 Jeff Thompson surrenders
1867 Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg
1875 George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout
1881 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa" premieres in Prague
1887 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39¼
1888 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
1892 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½
1893 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1897 Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
1900 James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title
1904 Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5 million to build a peace palace
1907 Bank of San Fransisco incorporated
1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1912 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1918 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8
1919 Yankees' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1923 10 homeruns hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cardinals
1924 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1925 Communist Party of Holland splits
1925 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
1927 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
1927 Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
1928 56th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2
1928 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George's
1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady NY)
1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1929 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin TX
1931 Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1935 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4
1940 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6
1940 New York World's Fair reopens
1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
1943 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
1943 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office washer
1944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
1945 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
1946 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
1946 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4
1947 BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron OH
1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
1948 Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
1948 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy
1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 Siam renames itself Thailand
1950 Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1950 Eugène Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve" premieres in Paris France
1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
1953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco TX ($39 million damage)
1953 Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
1955 Israel attacks Gaza
1956 Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1957 Gabriel Paris forms Government of Colombia
1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4
1959 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
1959 Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once Upon a Mattress" premieres in NYC
1959 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
1960 French liner "France" launched
1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1962 Antonio Segni becomes President of Italy
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 US sends troops to Thailand
1963 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
1963 Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats New York Giants, 8-0
1963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham AL
1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances
1965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1966 Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 performances
1967 100,000,000th US phone connected
1967 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership
1968 Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
1968 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1968 Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1969 Monty Python comedy troupe forms
1970 Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
1971 Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last American League pitcher to hit grand slam
1972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1972 San Francisco Giants trade Willie Mays to New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash
1972 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 2
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Dutch Government of Uyl forms
1974 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83
1974 "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1974 Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
1975 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games
1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
1976 Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation
1976 Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV
1977 Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II
1977 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
1978 Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
1980 Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1980 Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical "Cats" premieres in London
1981 Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
1983 "Dance a Little Closer" opens & closes at Minskoff Theater NYC
1983 Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II
1983 Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1984 Johan Cruijff quits soccer
1984 Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4)
1984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
1985 40 die & 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground
1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, the others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
1985 Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1
1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands
1986 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1987 Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II
1988 Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
1989 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panamá
1990 New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
1994 "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances
1994 "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" released in France
1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
1994 Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup
1996 Florida Marlin Al Leiter no hits Colorado Rockies, 11-0
1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
1997 "Play On!" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 61 performances
1997 New York Mets C Everett & Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1997 Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational
1997 Sara Lee LPGA Classic
1997 Scott McCarron wins Bellsouth Golf Classic
1997 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Sara Lee Classic
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 12:56 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 12:

1662 Jan F van Bloom [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized
1670 August II the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children)
1679 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri composer
1700 Luigi Vanvitelli Italian architect
1729 Michaël F B Freiherr von Melas Austrian general (7 Year Wars)
1739 Jan Krtitel Vanhal composer
1739 Johann Baptist Wanhal composer
1751 Gaetano Manna composer
1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister composer
1776 Juan Bros y Bertomel composer
1790 [Johannes] Carsten Hauch Danish writer
1797 Johann Hermann Kufferath composer
1803 Justus Freiherr von Liebig German chemist (agricultural chemics)
1804 Robert Baldwin (L) helped establish cabinet government in Canada
1806 Amos Beebe Eaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
1806 J V Snellman Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
1812 Edward Lear England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1812 Louis Ludwig Blenker Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1813 Johann Czerski German chaplin
1820 Florence Nightingale Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
1829 Paul Karrer composer
1842 Jules Emile Fred Massenet Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1845 Gabriel Urbain Fauré Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1861 Ivan Caryll English composer (Pink Lady)
1863 Charles Bordes composer
1867 Hugh Trumble cricket off-spinner (great Australian at turn of century)
1868 Halsey William Wilson US, publisher of reference books
1874 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
1876 Harold grandson of English queen Victoria
1880 Lincoln Ellsworth led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1880 W Hupkes engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938)
1886 Albert Saverys Flemish painter
1886 Hermann Grabner composer
1886 Piotr F Scharoff Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1887 Nandor Zsolt composer
1889 Otto Frank father of Anne Frank
1894 Cleo Ridgely New York NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama, The Love Mask)
19-- Lisa Raggio New York NY, actress (Pvt Maria Gianelli-Pvt Benjamin)
1900 Helene Weigel Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage)
1901 Hyam Greenbaum composer
1902 Heinrich Kirchner German sculptor
1903 Lennox R F Berkeley British composer (Castaway)
1903 Wilfrid Hyde-White England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
1906 William M Ewing US geologist/geophysicist
1907 Katharine Hepburn Hartford CT, actress (African Queen, Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
1907 Leslie Charteris English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
1910 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1910 Gordon Jenkins Webster Grove MO, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1912 Marshall Royal jazz sax/clarinet
1914 Bertus Aafjes Dutch poet/writer
1914 Dan Daniel (Representative-D-VA, 1969- )
1914 Howard K Smith Los Angeles CA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
1916 Ellis Bonoff Kohs composer
1917 André A Rieu Dutch conductor
1918 Oscar Beregi Jr Hungary, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City)
1921 Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan composer
1921 Giovanni Benelli archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
1921 Henry Mackie designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
1921 Joseph Beuys Germany, avant-garde painter/politician
1922 Barend Busnac office clerk/resistance fighter
1923 Ewart G Abner record company executive
1923 Giovanni Testori Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
1923 Lord Laing English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1925 John Simon theater critic (New York Times)
1925 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra New York Yankee catcher/coach/manager, Mets, Astros
1925 Tony Hancock Birmingham England, actor (Rebel, Wrong Box)
1926 Earl Hutto Panama City FL, (Representative-D-FL, 1979- )
1926 Mervyn M Dymally (Representative-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 Manuel Lujan Jr (Representative-R-NM, 1969- )
1929 Burt Bacharach Kansas City MO, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
1930 Pat McCormick-Keller Lakewood CA, platform/springboard diver (Olympics-4 gold-1952, 56)
1931 Johan Fleerackers Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
1936 Tom Snyder Milwaukee WI, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
1937 Beryl Burton UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles
1937 George Carlin Bronx NY, comedian (7 words you can't say on television, AM & FM, Carwash)
1937 Gerry E Studds (Representative-D-MA, 1973- )
1938 Andrei Amalrik Russian writer/dissident
1938 Millie Perkins Passaic NJ, actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
1938 Susan Hampshire London England, actress (Vanity Fair, Living Free)
1939 Ronald Ziegler press secretary (Nixon)
1941 Anthony Newman Los Angeles CA, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
1941 Little Jayotis Washington US R&B singer (Persuasions)
1941 Ruud de Wolff singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1942 Barry B[rookes] Longyear US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
1942 Dumitru Dediu Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40 backup)
1942 Ian Dury Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd)
1942 Susan Hampshire London, actress (David Copperfield)
1942 Timothy Hugh Brown theatre critic
1943 Billy Swan Cape Giradeau LA, rocker (I Can Help)
1943 David Walker rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1943 Linda Dano Los Angeles CA, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
1944 Eva Demski writer
1944 James Purify US singer (I'm Your Puppet)
1945 Jayotis Washington rocker
1945 Linda Carlson Knoxville TN, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
1945 Willie Parnell US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1946 Ian McLagen rocker (Faces)
1946 Leonard Baichan cricketer (West Indies opener, 103 vs Pakistan on debut 1975)
1948 Lindsay Ann Crouse New York NY, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
1948 Steve Winwood Birmingham England, singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist (Higher Love, Roll With It)
1950 Billy Squier Wellesley Hills MA, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
1950 Bruce Boxleitner Elgin IL, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
1950 Gabriel Byrne Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
1950 Jocko Marcellino rocker (Sha Na Na)
1950 Renate Stecher-Meissner German Democratic Republic, sprinter (Olympics-gold-72)
1950 Shozo Fujii judo champion
1951 Gunnar Larrson Sweden, 200 meter/400 meter swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 Kid Creole [August Darnell], rocker/actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear)
1955 Kix Brooks Shreveport LA, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)
1957 Lou[is Rodman] Whitaker 2nd baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1958 Beth Maitland actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
1958 Christian Brando son of Marlon/killed sister's boyfriend
1958 Kim Greist Stamford CT, actress (CHUD, Brazil, Payoff, Manhunter)
1959 Dave Christian Minnesota, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals, Olympics-gold-1980)
196- Jamie Luner Palo Alto CA, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
1960 Lisa Martin Australian marathoner (Olympics-silver 1988)
1960 Lisa Ondieki Australian marathoner (Olympics-84, 88, 96)
1961 Billy Duffy rocker (The Cult-Hell's Kitchen)
1961 Ray Gillen Cliffside Park NJ, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1962 Amy Benz Rochester NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile Classic-3rd)
1962 Emilio Estevez New York NY, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
1962 Mark Bradshaw Happy Camp CA, diver (Olympics-96)
1963 Vanessa Williams Brooklyn NY, actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
1964 Joy Ellen Kitzmiller Los Angeles CA, US badminton player (Olympics-92)
1965 Stacy Wilson ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-98)
1965 Steve Finley Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 Rafael Bournigal Azua Dominican Republic, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 Stephen Baldwin actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
1966 Steven Conran Lithgow New South Wales, Australasia golfer
1967 Cara Coughenour Sioux City IA, female pitcher (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1967 Lawrence Rucchin hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1967 Robert Blackmon defensive back (Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks)
1967 Warren Rychel Tecumseh, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1968 Mark Clark Bath IL, pitcher (New York Mets)
1969 Kim Fields Freeman Los Angeles CA, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life, Regine-Living Single)
1970 Andreas Hestler Victoria British Columbia, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 Andrew Coltart Dumfries Scotland, Australasia golfer
1970 James Michael Furyk West Chester PA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 Mike Malizia Utica NY, Nike golfer (1993 Doral-Ryder Open-61st)
1970 Mike Weir Sarnia Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer (Ontario Amateur-1990, 92)
1970 Stevie Anderson NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Todd Hallett Shelburne Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 Craig Novitsky NFL tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Jamie Luner Palo Alto CA, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
1971 Tommy Johnson WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Annette Albertson Reno NV, Miss America-Nevada (1997)
1972 David Oaks 100 meter/200 meter runner
1972 Jason Kyle NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Michelle Kahn Miss Universe-Trinidad & Tobago (1996)
1972 Paul Stout Saugus CA, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
1973 MacKenzie Astin Los Angeles CA, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
1973 Stefano Margoni hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1974 Anna Ozolins Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Tiffany Stoker Clovis CA, Miss America (California-4th-1996)
1975 Lawrence Phillips running back (St Louis Rams)
1976 Matthew P Newmark actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
1977 Iva Majoli Yugoslavia, tennis star
1977 Monique de Bruin Porland OR, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1978 Amy Wheaton actress (Curse)
1978 Thomas Odoyo cricketer (Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup)

Deaths which occurred on May 12:

0912 Leo VI Sophos Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
1003 Gerbert French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 Sylvester II [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies
1012 Sergius IV [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 Johanna I Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1634 George Chapman English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1641 Thomas Wentworth English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 Isaac Doreslaer English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1737 Cornelis van Alkemade historian, dies at 83
1788 Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Austrian duke, dies at 69
1796 Johann P Uz German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1811 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey composer, dies at 52
1814 Robert Treat Paine US judge (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 83
1825 Elias Mann composer, dies at 75
1825 Stanislao Mattei composer, dies at 75
1843 Johann Georg Lickl composer, dies at 74
1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1852 John Richardson Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1861 Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer, dies at 50
1864 Abner Monroe Perrin Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 37
1864 J E B Stuart Confederate General, dies at 31
1864 J.E.B. Stuart Confederate General, dies at 31
1871 Daniel-François-Esprit Auber French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 John F W Herschel British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 Henri A Esquiros French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1884 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana Czechoslovakia, composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1896 Juan Morel Campos composer, dies at 38
1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 Willem Roelofs painter/lithographer, dies
1900 Wilhelm Steinitz Prague, chess champion (1866-1894)
1907 J K Huysmans writer, dies at 59
1908 Melesio Morales composer, dies at 69
1921 Emilia Pardo Bazan Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
1924 Charles Henri Marechal composer, dies at 82
1925 Alfred Milner British Governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 Amy Lowell writer, dies at 51
1925 Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer, dies at 82
1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1931 Eugene-Auguste Ysaye composer, dies at 72
1932 Lindbergh baby found dead
1935 Josef Pilsudski Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
1943 Albert Stoessel composer, dies at 48
1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q] British author/critic, dies at 80
1948 Isidor Achron composer, dies at 55
1951 Oscar DePriest (Representative-D-IL), dies at 80
1956 Hendrik P Marchant Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
1956 Louis Calhern dies at 61
1956 Vladimir Ambros composer, dies at 65
1957 Erich von Stroheim Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs composer, dies at 70
1962 Dick Calkins co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1963 Stanislaw Wiechowicz composer, dies at 69
1965 Roger Vailland French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1967 Julius Kalas composer, dies at 64
1970 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 Wladyslaw Anders Polish general (WWI, WWII), dies at 78
1971 J M Taylor cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
1973 Frances Marion screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1980 Lillian Roth actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1981 Benjamin H Sheares President of Singapore, dies
1982 Humphrey Searle writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
1984 Doris May actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies of heart failure at 81
1985 Jean Debuffet French painter/sculptor, dies
1986 Elisabeth Bergner dies at 85
1986 Lee Bonnell dies
1987 Victor Feldman pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 Joe Valdez Caballero creator of hard taco shell, dies at 81
1989 Marcelle de Manziarly composer, dies at 89
1992 Joe Burke president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 Robert Reed actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1994 Alfred Lane Beit connoisseur, dies at 91
1994 David Brooks psychologist, dies at 91
1994 Helen Lee Mai Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
1994 John Smith British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 Xenophon Balaskas cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wickets), dies
1995 Arthur Lubin film director, dies at 95
1995 Giorgio Belladonna bridge champion, dies at 71
1995 Reza Abdoh theatre Director, dies at 32
1996 Hubert William Dean air armaments specialist, dies at 84
1996 Robert Edwin Hall mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35

On this day...Events

0254 St Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
0919 Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich
1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria
1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 Battle at Böblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Württembergse farmers
1534 Württemberg becomes Lutheran
1551 San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris France
1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1695 English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
1733 Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
1776 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
1780 Charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers - It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1832 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'Elisir D'amore" premieres in Milan
1835 Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1849 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA
1863 Battle of Raymond MS
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 (Fort Darling)
1864 US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to Brigadier-General
1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY
1874 US Assay Office in Helena MT authorized
1875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1877 Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
1885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
1894 Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands
1897 Battle at Thessalië: Turkish army beats Greece
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1900 Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
1901 President McKinley visits San Fransisco
1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married" premieres in London
1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1909 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1910 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1910 Philadelphia A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
1913 Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"
1917 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
1919 Yankees & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
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
1924 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Indiana
1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1925 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 British general strike ends
1926 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over the North Pole
1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 Opium laws enforced
1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
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
1936 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss" premieres in London
1937 King George VI's coronation in Great Britain
1937 St Louis Cardinalss beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3
1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River
1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
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
1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943
1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in US
1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx
1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops
1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1950 Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar" premieres in Paris France
1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 Charlton Playground named in the Bronx
1953 KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1956 Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0
1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open
1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
1962 Grevelingendam closes
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open
1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL
1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1966 Busch Stadium (St Louis MO) opens, Braves lose to Cardinals 4-3 in 12 innings
1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington DC
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1968 WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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 the Supreme Court
1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1973 "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull hits #92
1973 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1974 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee Bucks, 4 games to 3
1974 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1
1977 1st quadraphonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively 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)
1981 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 performances
1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II
1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1982 US Football League forms
1983 Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
1983 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Edmonton Oilers, 4 games to 0
1984 "White Horse" by Laid Back hits #26
1984 Discovery (OV-103) from Orbiter Processing Facility to Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, for mating for 41-D (STS-14)" for the first use of this Shuttle (OV-103)
1984 France performs nuclear test
1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole
1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
1985 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA
1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1988 "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
1991 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
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 "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1993 Last broadcast of "Knots Landing" on CBS
1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II
1994 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1995 Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
1995 Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4
1996 "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances
1996 "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
1996 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1996 Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8
1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox
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
1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:01 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 13:

1314 Sergius of Radonesh Russian saint
1592 John Cloppenburg vicar/theologist
1655 Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] Italy, 244th Roman Catholic Pope (1721-24)
1717 Maria Theresa Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I)
1729 Henry William (Baron) Stiegel early American glassmaker
1730 Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham (Whig) British PM (1765-66, 1782)
1735 Horace Coignet composer
1746 Oliver Brownson composer
1756 Wojciech Zywny composer
1761 Adrian Loosjes Pzn publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
1769 Joâo VI King of Portugal (1816-26)
1776 Charles Ots composer
1776 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa composer
1792 Pius IX "Pio Nono" [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1828 Josephine Elizabeth Butler social reformer
1830 Zebulon Baird Vance Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
1831 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller Dutch minister of Colonies
1840 Alphonse Daudet French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1842 Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1843 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer Belgian politician
1847 Johannes Haarklou composer
1854 Louis H Chrispijn Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)
1854 Paul Klengel composer
1856 Peter Henry Emerson 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1857 Ronald Ross England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
1857 Sir Ronald Ross England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
1859 Eugust Enna composer
1866 Ottokar Eugen Novacek composer
1867 Sir Frank Brangwyn Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1868 Paolo Gallico composer
1874 Henry Clough-Leiter composer
1876 Raoul Laparra composer
1881 Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer
1882 Georges F Braque French cubist painter (The Bike)
1883 Henk JFM Sneevliet leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
1886 Joseph Achron Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1891 Fritz Rasp Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
1896 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges Dutch equestrian (Olympics-gold-1928, 32)
19-- Leslie Winston Austin TX, actress (Cindy-Waltons)
1900 Jos Panhuysen author (Pornographer)
1903 Alfred Pugsley civil engineer
1903 Paul Page Birmingham AL, actor (Girl From Havana, Moth)
1904 Alfred Earle Birney poet
1904 Tim Wall cricketer (18 Tests for Australia 1928-34)
1906 Thomas Mitchell architect/engineer
1907 Austin Whitaker schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
1907 Daphne du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
1907 Laurence Kirwan archaeologist
1908 Michael Richardson commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
1911 Maxine Sullivan [Marietta Williams], US singer/actress (Going Places)
1911 Robert Middleman Cincinnati OH, actor (Barney-The Monroes)
1912 Helen Craig San Antonio TX, actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night)
1913 Sanjiva Reddy President (India)
1913 William R Tolbert President of Liberia (1971-80)
1914 Joe Louis world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
1915 John Habakkuk principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
1917 Paul Osmond British senior civil servant
1917 Wilhelmus C Wijen [Broeder Pius] social worker (Curaçao)
1918 John Johnston British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
1920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/President (1994- )
1921 Syd[ney G] Vincent British mine workers leader
1926 Beatrice Arthur [Frankel] New York NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
1927 Clive Barnes New York Times drama critic (New York Times, New York Post)
1927 Herbert Ross director/choreographer (Footloose)
1930 Mike Gravel (Senator-R-AK)
1931 Eileen Diss theatrical designer (August, Secret Places, Betrayal)
1931 Jim Jones reverend, poisoned over 900 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
1931 Sydney Lipworth CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
1931 William Utting chief inspector (British Social Services)
1933 Alden Ashforth composer
1933 Sid Morrison (Representative-R-WA, 1981- )
1933 Stig Gustav Schonberg composer
1934 Adolf Muschg writer
1935 Nigel Butterley composer
1935 Yizhak Sadai composer
1936 Alan Rayfield governor (Long Latin Prison)
1936 Rafael Campos Santiago Dominican Republic, actor (Tonka)
1937 John Cope MP/Paymaster General
1937 Judith Somogi New York NY, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
1937 Roger [Joseph] Zelazny sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
1937 Zohra Lampert New York NY, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
1938 Buck Taylor Hollywood CA, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
1939 Anthony Hide racehorse trainer
1939 Harvey Keitel Brooklyn NY, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1939 Terry Dill Forth Worth TX, PGA golfer (1992 Bank One Senior Classic)
1939 William W Cobey Jr (Representative-R-NC, 1985-87)
1940 Bruce Chatwin England, writer (On the Black Hill)
1940 Richard Brooks singer (Impressions)
1941 Imca Marina [Bijl], singer (Viva España, Bella Italia, Oh Brazil)
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
1942 Vladimir A Dzhanibekov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13)
1943 Mary Wells Detroit MI, singer (My Guy)
1944 Betsy Finley Ashton broadcast journalist/author/lecturer
1944 Carolyn Franklin US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel)
1944 Clive Radley cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1978)
1944 Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw British explorer/genealogist
1945 Magic Dick [Richard secondalwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 Danny Klein New York NY, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 Tim Pigott-Smith actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
1947 David Hughes cricketer
1947 Overend Pete Watts rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1947 Stephen R Donaldson US, secondci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
1949 Franklin Ajaye Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1949 John Glover conductor
1949 Zoe Wanamaker actress (Raggedy Rawney)
1950 Danny Kirwan rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 John "Jocko" Marcellino rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1950 Peter Gabriel London England, rocker (Sledgehammer, Shock the Monkey, Solsbury Hill, Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
1950 Stevie Wonder [Steveland Morris] Saginaw MI, singer/songwriter (I Just Called To Say I Love You, Superstition, You are The Sunshine of My Life, My Cherie Amour)
1951 Paul Thompson rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1951 Selina Scott TV newscaster (West 57th)
1952 John R Kasich (Representative-R-OH, 1983- )
1952 Manfred Langer Austrian/Dutch disco builder
1952 Sew Shivnarine cricketer (3 Tests for West Indies 1978, later USA captain)
1956 Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 Darius Rucker lead vocalist (Hootie & the Blowfish-Let Her Cry)
1957 Claudie André-Deshays France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)
1957 Eloise Broady Houston TX, playmate (April 1988)
1958 Frances Barber Wolverhampton England, actress (Castaway)
1959 Robert Earnshaw racehorse trainer
1960 Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn actor (Pastorale)
1960 Shannon Vessup-Millen Los Angeles CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991)
1961 Dennis Rodman NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1963 Julian Brookhouse rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1963 Wally Masur England, tennis star
1964 Jose Rijo pitcher (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds)
1964 Sam Randolph Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1964 Sara Gomer England, tennis star
1965 Chris Washburn NBAer
1968 Annette DeLuca North Bergen NJ, LPGA golfer
1968 James Harris NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Lyle Mouton Lafayette LA, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1970 Doug Evans NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Giuseppe Busillo hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 Mark Beaufait Royal Oak MI, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1970 Mitch Lyons NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 Selwyn Jones NFL defensive back (Seahawks, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 Hamish Pepper Auckland New Zealand, laser single handed yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 Michael Sirotka Chicago IL, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 Rob Fredrickson NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Tom Nalen NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Darryl Sydor Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 Josh Heinrich NFL/WLAF defensive end (Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1973 Brooke Jennifer Gambrell Boise ID, Miss America-Idaho (1996)
1973 Michelle Mouser Miss USA-Ohio (1997)
1974 Albert Connell wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1974 Lisa Jacob 800 meter freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1975 Chris Crawford NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1977 Diane Halber Torrance CA, figure skater (1996 National Collegiate champion)
1977 Sara DeCosta ice hockey goalie (USA, Olympics-98)

On this day...Events

0535 St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0609 Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church
0641 Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon
1106 Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-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
1588 King Henri III flees Paris
1607 English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia
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
1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish
1767 Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus" premieres in Salzburg
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay
1820 The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed
1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established
1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
1861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca GA
1865 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1874 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Greek-Ruthenian rite"
1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1877 César Franck's "Lesson Eolides" premieres
1882 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded
1887 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39½
1888 Brazil abolishes slavery
1888 DeWolf Hopper 1st recited "Casey at the Bat"
1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
1890 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1891 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52¼
1905 James J Jeffries retires as boxing champion
1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1911 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
1911 New York Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England
1913 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1917 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres
1918 1st US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
1922 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6
1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1926 German Government of Luther falls
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail
1931 Paul Doumer elected President of France
1932 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich marries Nina Varsar
1933 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1934 Great dustbowl storm
1936 Quiroga Government takes office in Spain
1939 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1940 British bomb factory at Breda
1940 Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1942 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1942 Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 homeruns in a game
1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 German occupiers confiscate all radios
1944 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey
1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1950 Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1952 Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1953 New York Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 homeruns & a triple
1954 "Pajama Game" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 Robin Roberts gives up a homerun then retires the next 27 men in a row
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive homeruns of at least 463'
1956 Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government
1958 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala
1958 Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1959 Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
1960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1960 WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo Puerto Rico
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
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
1966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1967 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career homerun #500 off Stu Miller
1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Pompidou
1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)
1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1973 "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
1973 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1973 Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs beats Margaret Smith Court in a Mother's Day match in California
1975 "Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville TN
1975 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3
1976 9th & final ABA championship: New York Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2
1977 Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY
1978 "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 meter steeplechase (8:05.4)
1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
1979 "The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 homeruns in 5th inning vs New York Mets
1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 Terri Lea Utley, (20), from Arkansas, crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1984 "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances
1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1984 Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
1985 Carlton Fisk becomes the 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes the 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
1989 Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 performances
1990 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1991 Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco
1992 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
1992 Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1992 Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits his 300th homerun
1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1994 Indians, begin a 18 home game win streak at Jacobs Field
1995 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe; Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-New York), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
1995 New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1996 OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1997 Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:06 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 14:

1316 Charles IV king of Bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78)
1652 Johann Philipp Fortsch composer
1679 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer
1686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Germany, inventor (thermometer)
1707 Antonio Teixeira composer
1710 Adolf Frederik king of Sweden (1751-70)
1727 Thomas Gainsborough England, baptized, artist (The Blue Boy)
1771 Robert Owen England, factory owner/socialist
1780 Auguste De Polignac premier France (Réponse à mes adversaires)
1781 Friedrich von Raumer German historian/parliamentarian
1798 Frantisek Palacky Czechoslovakia, historian
1805 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer
1816 Gualtiero Sanelli composer
1830 George Pierce Doles Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1836 James Patrick Major Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1846 Arnold Kerdijk Dutch liberal politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
1846 Pieter W A Cort van de Linden Dutch premier (1913-18)
1864 Eleanor Everest Freer composer
1867 Kurt Eisner German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19)
1870 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski composer
1881 Ed Walsh pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 1.82 is the lowest ever
1881 Julian Eltinge [William Dalton] Newtonville MA, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
1883 Jan Olieslagers Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
1885 Otto Klemperer Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1888 Miles Mander Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
1891 Egon Kornauth composer
1892 Arthur Vincent Lourie composer
1892 Felix Petyrek composer
1893 Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky composer
1895 Lew Lehr Philadelphia PA, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
1895 Renato Lunelli composer
1897 Sidney Bechet US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1898 Bonifacio Gil Garcia composer
1898 Zutty Singleton US jazz drummer
19-- Eric Peterson rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
1900 Billie Dove [Lilian Bohny] New York NY, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
1900 Leo Smit composer
1906 Hastings Kamuzu Banda President of Malawi (1964-94)
1906 James Flavin Portland ME, actor (Man With a Camera)
1907 Dick Bentley entertainer
1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan general/premier/President (Pakistan)
1909 Vladimir Alatortsev USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
1911 Hans Vogt composer
1911 J Borremans Belgian politician (communist)/MP
1912 Marguerite Fawdry museum curator
1915 Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1917 Herta Ryder literary agent
1917 Lou Harrison Portland OR, composer (Rapunzel)
1918 Arthur McIntyre cricket wicket-keeper (England 3 times early 50's)
1919 Heloise columnist (Heloise & her helpful hints)
1919 Maarten Vrolijk Dutch socialist-democrat party minister (CRM 1965-66)
1922 Agha Hasan Abedi banker
1922 Richard Deacon actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1923 Diane Arbus [Nemerov] New York NY, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar, Nudists)
1924 Joly Braga Santos composer
1925 Patrice Munsel Spokane WA, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 Tristram Ogilvie Cary composer
1926 Cestmir Gregor composer
1926 Eric Morecambe London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
1927 Shirley Spork LPGA golfer
1929 Vladimir Antoshin USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
1930 Edward V "Ned" Regan Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
1930 Phillipo Seed social work academic
1931 Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr composer
1933 John Mortimore cricketer (England off-spinner 1959-64)
1933 Lajos Kovacs Hungary, actor (Wings of Desire)
1934 Frederik von Pallandt singer
1936 Bobby Darin [Walden Waldo Cassotto] Bronx NY, singer (Mack the Knife)
1937 Dick Howser shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (Kansas City Royals)
1937 Eric Herfst Dutch cabaret performer/actor (Floris)
1937 Peter Frederic Williams composer
1939 M N Fathulin cosmonaut
1940 Chay Blyth English sailor (Alone in Order to the World)
1941 Nasim-ul-Ghani cricketer (Pakistan left-handed all-rounder 1958-73)
1942 Byron L Dorgan (Representative-D-ND, 1981- )
1942 Gerald Mark Shapiro composer
1942 Lord McAlpine English contractor/multi-millionaire
1942 Tony Perez baseball player
1943 Alan B Mollohan (Representative-D-WV, 1983- )
1943 Dereck "Lek" Leckenby Leeds England, guitarist (Herman's Hermits-There's a Kind of Hush, Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter)
1943 Elizabeth Ray Marshall NC, congressman Wilbur Mills' lover
1943 Jack Bruce Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1944 Francesca Annis London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune, Cleopatra, Flipper's New Adventures)
1944 Gene Cornish Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 George Lucas Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
1944 Troy Shondell rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1946 Alan David Marks pianist/composer
1946 Robert Jarvik surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
1947 Al Ciner Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1947 Dick "Dirt" Tidrow baseball pitcher (New York Yankees)
1947 Karin Struck writer
1947 Tamara Dobson Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)
1948 Bob Woolmer cricketer (England batsman mid-70's)
1948 Dave LaRoche baseball pitcher (New York Yankees)
1948 Robert Zemeckis director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
1948 Walter Olkewicz Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
1950 Mark Blum Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio)
1951 Jay Beckenstein saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1951 Season (Susan) Hubley New York NY, actress (PrettyKill, Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 David Byrne Dunbartin Scotand, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer)
1952 Donald R McMonagle Flint MI, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66)
1952 M J Smith LPGA golfer
1953 Bill Meek Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-1996)
1953 Tom Cochrane Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)
1955 [Jose] Dennis Martinez Nicaragua, pitcher (Orioles, Expos, Indians)
1955 Peter Kirsten cricketer (South African middle-order batsman)
1956 Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
1956 Steve Hogarth Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1957 William G Gregory Lockport NY, Major USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)
1959 Connie Brighton Wichita Falls TX, playmate (Sept, 1982)
1959 Mike Quick NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 Patrick Bruel Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco)
1960 Carlyle Best cricketer (West Indies batsman late 80's)
1960 Frank Nobilo Auckland New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1961 Tim Roth London England, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1962 C C Deville rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1962 Ian Astbury Heswall Merseyside England, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman)
1962 Martin Rongen Dutch pop drummer (Rowwen Hèze-Boem)
1963 Pat Borders Columbus OH, catcher (California Angels)
1964 James M Kelly Burlington IA, Captain USAF/astronaut
1964 Nancy Sorel actress (Generations, Black Foix)
1965 Curt Harnett Toronto Ontario, sprint cyclist (Olympics-bronze-92/96)
1965 Dave Widell NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1965 Joey Cora Caguas Puerto Rico, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 Kelvin Martin NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Fab[rice] Marvan France, Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli)
1966 Leroy Blugh CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 Mark Jackson NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 Pooh Richardson NBA guard (Los Angeles Clippers)
1967 Natasha Elaine Kaiser-Brown Des Moines IA, 400 meter runner
1967 Shaun Creighton Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1967 Tony Siragusa NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 Valeria Marini Rome Italy, sports commentator (Italian Soccer)
1968 Hiroshi Matsuura hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1969 David William Wood Boston MA, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
1970 Natasha Ryan Los Angeles CA, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
1970 Sylvester Stanley WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 Raphael Wiggins Oakland CA, rapper (Lifelines)
1972 Chad Cascadden NFL linebacker (New York Jets)
1973 John Davis WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Shanice [Wilson] Pittsburgh PA, vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
1973 Voshon Lenard NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1974 Ken Belanger Sault-Ste-Marie CA, NHL left wing (New York Islanders)
1974 Keram Malichi-Sanchez actor (No Contest, Catwalk, Boulevard)
1975 Carmen Klomp Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Terrance Cauthen Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 Anca Barna Cluj Romania, tennis star (semifinals 1995 ITF Poland)
1977 Cesarina Mejia Miss Dominican Republic Universe (1997)
1977 Jayna Hefford ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-98)
1978 Heather Brink Lincoln NE, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1983 Amber Tamblyn Santa Monica CA, actress (Emily Bowen-General Hospital)

Deaths which occurred on May 14:

0347 Pachomius Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
0649 Theodore Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
0964 John XII [Octavianus] Pope (955-64), dies
1565 Nicolaus von Amsdorf German reform theologist, dies
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
1667 Georges de Scudéry French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65
1726 John B Wellekens poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1726 Moshe Darshan Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1742 Dominique Marie Valet French Roman Catholic/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64
1761 Thomas Simpson English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
1801 Johann Ernst Altenburg composer, dies at 66
1820 Paul Friedrich Struck composer, dies at 43
1832 John van Speijk Dutch heroic sailor, buried
1833 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer, dies at 88
1847 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel composer, dies at 41
1863 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent composer, dies at 46
1864 William N Green Jr Union Brigadier-General, dies
1870 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera composer, dies at 69
1877 John Roberts composer, dies at 54
1893 Earnest E Kummer German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
1893 Johan T Buys Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
1904 Richard Hol Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
1912 August Strindberg Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63
1912 Frederik VIII King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
1925 Henry Rider Haggard English writer (Dawn, She), dies
1936 Edmond Allenby English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
1936 Samuel Pl'h Naber spy/librarian, dies at 71
1938 Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans actor (Ghetto), dies at 81
1940 Eddy [Charles E] du Platform writer/poet, dies
1940 Emma Goldman US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
1940 Jacob van Gelderen economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
1940 Menno ter Braak Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
1947 John Ray Sinnock US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
1953 Yasuo Kuniyoshi Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
1955 Betty Ann Davies dies at 44
1959 Sidney Bechet US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
1965 Frances Perkins US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
1966 Georgia Camp Johnson US poet/playwright, dies at 88
1966 Megan Lloyd George English politician, dies at 64
1968 Husband Edward Kimmel commandant US Ocean fleet WWII, dies at 86
1969 Enid Bennett silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at 75
1970 Billie Burke comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84
1976 Keith Relf rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted while tuning his guitarat 33
1978 William Powell Lear inventor of Lear Jet, dies in Reno NV
1979 Paul van 't Veeer Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57
1980 Hugh Griffith actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at 67
1980 Wilhelm Weismann composer, dies at 79
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:11 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 15:

1565 Henrick de Keyser architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1567 Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1754 Pierre Dutillieu composer
1759 Maria Theresia von Paradis composer
1764 Johann Nepomuk Kalcher composer
1773 Clemens L Metternich Austrian prince
1791 Baron Floris A van Hall Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
1795 Adolf B Marx German music theorist
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1807 Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata composer
1808 Gottfried Herrmann composer
1808 Michael William Balfe composer
1810 Jacob Thompson (Confederacy), died in 1885
1813 Stephen Heller composer
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 Laurence Simmons Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1830 Martinus W van der Aa author/Dutch head-editor (The Time)
1841 Giovanni Bolzoni composer
1845 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1855 Eduard earl of Keyserling German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1856 Lyman Frank Baum Chittenango NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
1859 Pierre Curie France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
1862 Arthur Schnitzler Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
1865 Albert Verwey Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1878 Francisco Pujol composer
1880 Otto Dibelius German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1883 Stanley Robert Marchant composer
1888 Jean Wahl French philosopher
1889 Bessie Hillman founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1890 Katherine Anne Porter US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1891 Chief Nipo T Strongheart Yakima WA, US Indian actor (Pony Soldier)
1891 David Vogel Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
1891 Fritz Feigl Austria, chemist (spot tests)
1891 Mikhail Bulgakov Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
1893 Michel Gusikoff composer
1893 Stanley Lupino English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
1894 Jean Renoir French director (La Béte Humane) [or Sept 15]
1895 Charles Lamont San Fransisco CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1897 Casper Höweler Dutch music critic
1898 Arlette-Leonie Arletty [Bathiat], Courbevoie France, actress (Maxime)
19-- Jim Phipps rock drummer (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
1902 Richard J Daley (Mayor-D-Chicago)
1903 Anny Ondra Czechoslovakia, actress (Blackmail, Manxman)
1904 Clifton Fadiman Brooklyn NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
1904 Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein Sweden, equest dressage (Olympics-gold-1952, 56)
1905 Joseph Cotten Petersburg VA, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1907 Josef Alexander composer
1907 Phillip Piratin communist
1908 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 James Mason England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
1909 Rodolfo Cornejo composer
1910 Constance [Halverstadt] Cummings Seattle WA, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
1910 Robert F Wagner (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
1911 Leo Fuchs Polish/US Yiddish actor (Galitzianer Cowboy)
1911 Max Frisch Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann)
1912 Alexis Kagame Rwanda, priest/writer
1912 Alexis Nihon Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1912 Arthur Victor Berger New York NY, composer (Ideas of Order)
1914 Jack Pepys immunologist
1914 Pierre Froidebise composer
1915 Maurice B Latey commentator (BBC World Service)
1915 Paul A Samuelson economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
1916 Bill Williams Brooklyn NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
1917 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist
1918 Eddy Arnold Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1918 Joseph Wiseman Montréal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
1919 Charles Palmer cricketer (one Test 1955, later MCC president)
1920 Hugh Henry Home Popham aviator/writer/poet
1921 Erroll Garner Pittsburgh PA, jazz pianist (Misty)
1922 Enrico Berlinguer Italian communist/secretary-general (CPI)
1923 Richard Avedon US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1924 Andrea Gyarmati Hungary water polo player (Olympics, 1948-60)
1924 Don Kenyon cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1951-55)
1924 Jaime Garcia Terre poet/essayist
1924 Ursula Thiess Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
1925 Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay composer
1925 Emmanuel Ghent composer
1925 Jos Jacobs Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
1926 Anthony Shaffer twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
1926 Clermont Pepin composer
1926 Peter Shaffer twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
1929 Jack Flavell cricketer (England pace bowler in 4 Tests 1961-64)
1929 Peggy Pope Montclair NJ, actress (Billy, Mrs David-Soap)
1930 Jasper Johns Augusta GA, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
1931 David Healy actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton, Be My Guest)
1931 F Korthals Altes Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
1932 John Glen Thames England, actor (Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire)
1934 David Robin Francis Guy Greville 8th Duke of Warwick
1935 Ted Dexter cricketer (in Milan Superb England batsman of 60's)
1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti Italy, actress/singer (Cinderfella)
1936 Donald [Anthony] Moffitt US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1936 Jean Balissat composer
1936 Paul Zindel playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
1937 Trini Lopez Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1938 Lenny Welch Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
1939 Brian Hartley mathematician
1940 Beth Stone LPGA golfer
1940 Mireille Darc Toulon France, actor (Week End, Hurried Man)
1940 Paul Rudd Boston MA, actor (Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
1941 Cyril Cooray cricketer (Sri Lankan Test umpire on international panel)
1941 K T Oslin Crossett AR, country singer (80's Ladies)
1941 Lainie Kazan Brooklyn NY, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1941 Richard Edward Wilson composer
1942 Anthony Wayne England Indianapolis IN, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)
1943 Harve Brosten comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family)
1944 Gunilla Hutton Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Miruts Yifter Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympics-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 Eric J Beekes actor/singer (Hunk)
1949 Frank L Culbertson Jr Charleston SC, Commander USN/astronaut (STS-38)
1949 Wendy Pritchard Australian women's field hockey team manager (Olympics-96)
1951 Dennis Frederiksen rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1952 Rick Waits baseball pitcher (Rangers, Indians, Twins)
1953 George Brett Wheeling WV, Kansas City Royal 3rd baseman (1980 American League MVP)
1953 Mike Oldfield England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1954 Andrea Gyarmati Hungary, water polo player (Olympics-1948-60)
1954 Bob Beauchemin Winnipeg Canada, golfer (West Coast Open-1982, 83)
1955 Lee Horsley Muleshoe TX, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
1956 Alice Miller Marysville CA, LPGA golfer (1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1959 Andrew Eldritch rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1961 Anne Kelly LPGA golfer
1963 George Heidweiler Suriname, Dutch painter
1963 Grant Herslov Los Angeles CA, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
1964 Pamela Dukes Bronx NY, discus thrower
1964 Pierre Trentin France, 1K time trials (Olympics-gold-1968)
1965 Dan Stryzinski NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 Glen Hnatiuk Selkirk Manitoba, Nike golfer (1992 Mississippi Gulf)
1965 Jeff Rochlin Brooklyn NY, actor (Cutting Class, Splitz, Taps)
1966 Paul Ysebaert Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 John Smoltz Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1967 Omar Vizquel Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners, Indians)
1968 James "Jim" Neil Buffalo NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 Leroy Hoard NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Todd Porter Montclair NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
1969 Emmitt Smith running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1969 Holly McPeak Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 Artie Smith NFL defensive end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 Cory Philpot CFL running back (British Columbia Lions)
1970 Desmond Howard NFL receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders)
1970 Frank de Boer Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 Keith Tower NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers)
1970 Prince Be rapper (PM Dawn)
1970 Rod Smith NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 Ronald de Boer Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1970 Tony Brown NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Scott Shipley Bremerton WA, slalom single kayak (Olympics-96)
1972 David Charvet actor (Melrose Place)
1972 Patrick Pothuizen soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 Tirrell Greene WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Troy Drake NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Suzannah Bianco San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (alternate-Olympics-96)
1973 Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling Los Angeles CA, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 A J Hinch Wavely IA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Addilson dos Santos soccer player (Sparta)
1974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1975 Ray Lewis linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1976 Eric DuBose Bradenton FL, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1978 Amy Chow San Jose CA, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)
1978 David Krumholtz New York NY, actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)
1978 Krissy Taylor model
1981 Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips daughter of Princess Anne-10th in succession to British throne

Deaths which occurred on May 15:

0392 Valentinianus II emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
0884 Marinus I [Martinus II] Pope (882-84), dies
1174 Nur ad-Din Mahmud King of Syria, dies
1470 Charles VIII Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies
1482 Paolo Toscanelli Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1591 Dimitri Ivanovitch Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9
1621 Henrick de Keyser Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
1622 Peter Plancius Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
1685 Henri Otto Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
1746 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri composer, dies at 67
1761 Jacob Mossel Governor-General (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56
1785 Karel Blazej Kopriva composer, dies at 29
1801 Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1821 John Wall Calcott composer, dies at 54
1822 Christian Ludwig Dieter composer, dies at 64
1823 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer, dies at 69
1824 Alexander Campbell composer, dies at 60
1832 Carl Friedrich Zelter composer, dies at 73
1833 Edmund Kean English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1842 Emanuel Count de las Cases French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1845 Samuel I Wiselius Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
1855 Jan Mazereeuw Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
1872 Thomas Hastings composer, dies at 87
1873 Alexander J Cuza monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
1886 Emily Dickinson US poet, dies at 55
1889 Alfred Potocki premier Austrian/Governor/Viceroy of Galicia, dies
1892 Arthur Hodister British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1895 Joseph Whitaker British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
1899 Francisque Sarcey French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
1924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
1926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
1932 Ki Inukai premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1933 Ernest Torrence actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54
1940 Joseph Limburg liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
1940 Willem A Bonger Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
1945 Major Courtney US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1952 Albert Basserman actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
1952 Italo Montemezzi composer, dies at 76
1958 Michael G the Boer historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
1959 Berend van den Amstel [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56
1964 Cornelis H Edelman Dutch geologist, dies at 61
1965 Adrian Schoevers Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
1967 Edward Hopper US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1967 Jaromir Fiala composer, dies at 74
1972 Nigel Green actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47
1973 Willem H Rassers Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
1976 Samuel Eliot Morison US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1984 Lionel Charles Robbins British economist, dies at 85
1985 Jackie Curtis playwright/actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
1986 Theodore H White US journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1987 John Baur museum director, dies at 78
1987 Wynne Gibson actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies
1988 Andrew Duggan actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1988 Greta Nissen actress (Ambassador Bill), dies
1989 John Waldo Green composer, dies at 80
1991 Bud Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1991 Freddie Paris dies
1991 Reno Brown dies
1991 Ronald Lacey actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
1992 Bruce Hopkins performer/director, dies at 44
1992 Robert Morris Page US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1994 [Henry] John Baker resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
1994 Frederik baron van Pallandt Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
1994 Gilbert Roland Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
1994 Ronnie Potsdammer singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
1994 Royal Dano actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
1995 Edouard Dermit actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
1995 Eric Richard Porter actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
1995 Johnny Van Derrick jazz violinist, dies at 68
1995 Perry Lederman folk singer, dies at 52
1996 George M Tindley songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57

On this day...Events:

0756 Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
0884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1004 Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1213 English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Köln cathedral
1492 Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1536 Anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
1572 Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vöcklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 Treaty of Münster: Spain & Netherlands ratified
1665 Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
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 minister)
1796 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1796 French troops occupy Milan
1800 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
1817 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
1829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
1851 Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned
1856 2nd San Fransisco Vigilance Committee organized
1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling) VA
1862 Battle of Princeton WV
1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 Department of Agriculture created
1862 General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" - women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers
1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn NY, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1864 Battle of New Market VA
1864 Battle of Resaca GA (3rd day)
1864 Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
1868 Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1876 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38¼
1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1883 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1885 Canadian Méti insurgent Louis Riel captured, Saskatchewan
1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established
1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris France
1891 Operations begin at Philips & Company in Holland
1891 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
1894 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1902 Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
1905 Las Vegas NV founded
1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
1906 New York Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1912 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended
1914 Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris France
1916 Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1918 1st regular airmail service (between New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC) inaugurated
1918 43rd Preakness (1st Division): Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1918 44th Preakness (2nd Dividion): Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
1918 Greek troops lands at Smyrna
1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1919 Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
1920 Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
1923 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
1926 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1928 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)
1930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Fransisco to Cheyenne)
1931 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1934 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
1935 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1936 Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4 days 16 hours
1937 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
1940 German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders
1940 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris France
1941 1st British turbojet flies
1941 British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees win 13-1
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1942 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
1944 Cincinnati Reds' Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
1948 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record
1948 Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1951 AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have one million stockholders
1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0
1952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago for heavyweight boxing title
1953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1954 KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1955 KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
1957 18,000 people at Madison Square 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 Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 4-0
1960 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1960 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
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
1964 Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion
1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs Somerset
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1967 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 1st American League game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro AR at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is the substitute host
1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be" is released in US
1970 Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
1971 "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
1971 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims (Minia Egypt)
1972 George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel MD
1972 Ryukyu Island & Daito Island returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats Kansas City Royals, 3-0
1974 Mail truck terrorists take school in Maälot, 30 killed
1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1976 "Fonz Song" by Heyettes hits #91
1976 "Kentucky Moonrunner" by Cledus Maggard hits #85
1976 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
1976 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1980 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1980 Shawn Weatherly, Sumter SC, crowned 29th Miss USA/Miss Universe-1980
1981 "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
1981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
1981 Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
1981 SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
1982 108th Preakness: 16-year-old Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
1983 Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1985 Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1986 Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
1987 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
1987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hours, is set
1988 "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances
1988 "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 performances
1988 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
1988 Moscow begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghánistán
1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1988 Soviets begin withdrawl in Afghánistán
1989 "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right to lifers
1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years
1989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1990 "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 performances
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,822.45
1990 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
1990 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
1991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panamá"
1991 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
1991 Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game
1991 Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
1992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1992 Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
1993 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
1993 Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 Jane Seymour & James Kesch marry
1993 Montréal Expos retire their 1st number, #10 for Rusty Staub
1994 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1995 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1997 ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
1999 125th Preakness: Chris Antley on Charismatic wins in 1:55.2
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:16 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 16:

1558 Andreas of Austria Bohemia cardinal/Governor of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1609 Ferdinand Austria, cardinal of Spain/Governor of Netherlands
1641 Dudley North financier/economist
1659 Campegius Vitringa Dutch theologist
1718 Maria G Agnesi Italy mathematician curves= x²y=a²(a-y)
1748 Antonius van Alphen apostolic vicar of De Bosch
1761 John Opie artist
1763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1782 John Sell Cotman water color artist
1788 Friedrich Rückert poet
1801 William Henry Seward Secretary of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2¢/acre)
1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody educator/founder (1st 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 Captain (Union Navy), died in 1898
1822 Eduard Hille Dutch composer/conductor
1824 Edmund Kirby-Smith Florida, West Point graduate/educator/General (Confederate Army)
1824 Levi Parsons Morton (R) 22nd US Vice President (1889-93)
1827 Petrus J H Cuypers architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
1831 David Edward Hughes inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
1832 Philip Danforth Armour founder (Armour Foods)
1845 Dietrich Schäfer German historian (Deutsche Hanse)
1850 Arthur Henry Mann organist/composer
1857 Juan Morel Campos composer
1858 Frank Lynes composer
1858 Hanus Trnecek composer
1866 Ernest Watson Burgess US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 Taylor Holmes Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
1880 Julius Tannen NY, comedian (Great Moment, House of Frankenstein)
1887 Bull Montana Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
1887 J van Hoddis writer
1889 Joan Collette Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
1892 Coenraad B van Haeringen linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
1892 Richard Tauber [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
1893 José Calvo Sotelo Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
1893 Paul Amadeus Pisk composer
1897 Walther Geiser composer
1898 August de Schrijver Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
19-- Carolyn Conwell Chicago IL, actress (Mary-Young & Restless)
1902 Jan Kiepura Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
1904 Hugh Plaxton Canada, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1928)
1904 Lily Pons opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris)
1905 H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia)
1905 Henry Fonda Grand Island NE, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
1906 Arturo Uslar Pietri Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
1906 Ernie McCormick cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30's)
1906 Nicholas Beriozoff ballet master
1907 Robert Tisdall Ireland, 400 meter hurdles (Olympics-gold-1932)
1908 Hilary Preston editor
1908 Mohammed Roem Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
1909 Charles Wislon principal (Glasgow University)
1911 Margaret Sullavan Norfolk VA, actress (Back Street)
1911 Olaff J de Landell [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
1912 Studs Terkel New York NY, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
1913 Woody Herman jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
1916 Adriana Caselotti cartoon voice
1916 Bernard Braden broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment)
1916 Ephraim Katzir biophysicist/President (Israel)
1916 Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro doctor/social reformer
1917 George Gaynes Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
1917 Geraint Jones conductor/organist
1918 Edward Thomas historian/intelligence expert
1918 Juan Rulfo Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo)
1918 Kevin Skelton Bishop (Lichfield)
1919 [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
1919 Richard Mason author
1920 Martine Carol [Maryse Mopurer] Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
1921 Harry Carey Jr Saugus CA, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1921 Robert Croften Brown politician
1922 Colin Cole Principal King of Arms
1922 Russell Wood treasurer (Queen Elizabeth)
1924 Dawda Kairaba Jawara President (Gambia, 1970-94)
1924 Frank F Mankiewicz New York NY, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
1926 Jan Zimmer composer
1927 John Walford solicitor
1928 Billy Martin baseball 2nd baseman/manager (New York Yankees, Oakland A's)
1928 Reginald Askew dean (King's College London)
1929 Adrienne Cecile Rich Baltimore MD, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
1929 John Conyers Jr (Representative-D-MI, 1965- )
1929 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman composer
1930 Desmond Langley Governor (Bermuda)
1930 Don Conicannon government minister
1930 Friedrich Gulda Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
1931 Donald James Martino Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1931 Donald Martino Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1931 Jack Dodson Pittsburgh PA, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
1931 Lowell P Weicker (Senator-R-CT, 1971-88/Governor-D-CT)
1931 Peter Levi poet/writer
1932 Isaac "Redd" Holt US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
1934 Anthony Walker commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1934 Nicholas Goodison CEO (TSB Group)
1936 Philippe de Montebello Paris France, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
1936 Roy Hudd comedian (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood)
1937 James Hunt Jr (Governor-NC)
1937 Yvonne Craig Taylorville IL, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
1938 Anthony Walker commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1938 Stuart Bell MP
1940 Bernardo Bertolucci Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
1940 Gareth Roberts chancellor (Sheffield University)
1941 John McWilliams MP
1941 Maurice Henry Weddington composer
1943 Dan Coats (Representative-R-IN, 1981- )
1943 Jon Jost director (All the Vermeers in New York)
1944 Billy Cobham Panamá, jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
1945 Brewster H Shaw Jr Cass City MI, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
1945 James Moran (Representative-D-VA)
1945 Nicky Chinn English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
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)
1947 Bill Smitrovich actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
1947 Rosie Barnes MP
1949 Jimmy Hood MP
1949 Rick Reuschel pitcher (New York Yankees)
1949 William Sputnik Spooner rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 Jock Bartley rocker (Firefall)
1950 Johannes Bednorz German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1951 Jonathan Richman rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1952 Pierce Brosnan Navan County Meath Ireland, actor (Remington Steele, James Bond-Golden Eye)
1953 David Maclean British minister of state
1953 Richard Page Los Angeles CA, rocker (Mr Mister)
1953 Rick Rhoden pitcher (New York Yankees)
1954 [Dafydd] Rhys Williams Saskatoon Canada, MD/astronaut (STS 90)
1954 Janet Maw actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
1955 Debra Winger Columbus OH, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
1955 Hazel O'Connor Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
1955 Jack Morris St Paul MN, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1955 Olga Korbut Grodno Belorussia, gymnast (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
1957 Joan Benoit Samuelson Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1958 Glenn Gregory rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1959 Bob Patterson Jacksonville FL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1959 Mare Winningham Phoenix AZ, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
1959 Ty Armstrong Waxahachie TX, Nike golfer (1993 Anheuser-Busch-19th)
1960 Anne Parillaud Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
1961 Nina Arvesen White Plains NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
1962 Gary Crocker cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1963 Jimmy Osmond rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1964 John Salley NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
1965 Brent Jasmer Portland OR, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 Lori Sippel Stratford Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1966 Janet Jackson Gary IN, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
1966 Scott Reeves Santa Monica CA, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
1966 Sean Quilty Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 Thurman Thomas NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Ralph Tresvant Boston MA, singer (New Editon)
1969 Marcel Schewe cricketer (Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup)
1969 Steven Earl Lewis Los Angeles CA, 4X100/400 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1988)
1969 Tracey Gold New York NY, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
1969 Tricia Cast actress (Nina-The Young and Restless)
1970 Eric Lynch NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1970 Gabriela Sabatini Argentina, tennis player (Olympics-silver-1988)
1971 Khari Jones CFL/WLAF quarterback (British Columbia Lions, Scottish Claymores)
1972 Keith Burns NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Matthew Hart cricketer (New Zealand lefty spinner 1994- )
1974 Conal Groom Northford CT, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 Keith Thibodeaux cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1978 Vincent Larusso Livingston NJ, actor (Adam-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1979 Evan Ferrante actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
1981 Jessica Ponzo Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)

Deaths which occurred on May 16:

0942 Saadiah Gaon head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1434 Pieter Appelmans Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1669 Pietro da Cortona [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 Reyer Anslo writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 Jacob Leisler becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 Charles Perrault author/fairy tale writer, dies
1754 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari composer, dies at 76
1762 Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer, dies at 86
1768 Cornelis Writer fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 Button Gwinnet US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1782 Daniuel Charles Solander botanist, dies
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
1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans poet/hymn writer, dies
1847 Kaspar Ett German organist/composer, dies at 59
1862 Lev A Ms Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 Lloyd Tilghman Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47
1864 Lean Bear Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 Karl August Krebs composer, dies at 76
1892 John Banvard painted world's largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1892 Theodoor J Canneel Flemish painter, dies at 74
1903 Eduard Rappoldi composer, dies at 72
1904 N I Bobrikov Russian Governor-General in Finland, dies
1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix] French painter, dies at 53
1918 Eusapia Palladino Napolitan, dies at 64
1926 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman) last sultan of Turkey, dies
1928 Edmund William Grosse poet/author, dies
1929 Lilli Lehmann soprano, dies
1932 Ki Imukai premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 William Pember Reeves politician/poet, dies
1938 Stephen Fairbairn oarsman/coach, dies
1942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski anthropologist, dies
1944 George Ade US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1944 Leone Sinigaglia composer, dies at 75
1944 Max Brand [Frederick Schiller Faust] western author, dies
1949 William Newzam Prior Nicholson painter/engraver, dies
1952 Alec Hearne cricketer (scored 9 in Test for England vs South Africa 1892), dies
1954 Clemens Krauss Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 Werner Bischof Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 James Agee US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in New York
1958 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten] Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1959 Joe Cook Stage comedian, dies at 69
1966 Randolph Turpin boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 Johnny Jordan cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
1972 Maxime Dumoulin composer, dies at 79
1973 A P Gütersloh writer, dies at 86
1975 Michael X [Abdul Malik] hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 Asa Philip Randolph labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1983 Carel Brons composer, dies at 52
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 from a heart attack at 82
1988 Kay Baxter Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1988 Louise Wood director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
1989 Hassan Khaled sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 Dag Drollet Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 Jim Henson muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies of pneumonia at 53
1990 Sammy Davis Jr entertainer (Golden Boy), dies from throat cancer at 64
1991 Prudence Nesbitt British actress/TV producer, dies
1992 Marisa Mell actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1993 Marv Johnson US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1994 Alain Cuny actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
1994 Barbara Jean Jones fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
1994 Phani Majumdar film director, dies at 82
1994 Vasek Simek Czechoslovakia/US, actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
1995 Lola Flores singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
1995 Ragnhild Marie Hatton historian, dies at 82
1996 Edward McInnes German scholar, dies at 60
1996 Mike Jeremy Boorda Chief of Naval Operations (US Navy), commits suicide at 57
1996 Pierre Debizet resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

On this day...Events:

0955 Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1527 Florence becomes a republic
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 Battle at Zólty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as Admiral-General of Netherlands
1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1770 Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 Lombardije Republic forms
1803 Peace of Amiens ends
1804 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1860 Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 Confederate Government offers war volunteers $10 premium
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 VA (6,666 casualties)
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres in Prague
1868 President Andrew Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment, by 1 vote
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 MA)
1875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1879 Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing" premieres
1879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40¼
1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40¼
1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia
1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam
1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Priory School" (BG)
1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Fransisco (George Wymann)
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
1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1916 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome
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
1924 108ºF (42ºC) in Blitzen OR
1925 1st network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby
1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 1st Academy Awards - "Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor win
1930 6th Walker Cup: US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2
1931 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins in 2:01.8
1932 Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
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 (New Jersey)
1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA)
1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six
1939 1st American League night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1943 RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1944 Military police attack gypsies
1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st President of Israel
1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in 9 (San Fransisco) for heavyweight boxing title
1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
1956 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1956 Kraft Theatre presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1956 Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs Australia at the Oval
1957 Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton CT
1957 Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
1961 13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury
1964 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion
1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1965 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1965 WNJU TV channel 47 in Linden NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1966 Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is released
1966 National Welfare Rights Organization begins
1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
1969 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
1969 US sub Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA
1969 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70
1970 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1971 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢)
1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych
1971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 performances
1972 Greg Luzinski's 500' homerun hits the Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium
1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
1973 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1973 AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
1974 Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1976 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens sweep Philadelphia Flyers in 4 games
1976 Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1977 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in NYC
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
1979 National League approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19 million
1980 34th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
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
1980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
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
1981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1981 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
1982 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
1982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating in preparation for STS-4
1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Republic
1983 Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
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
1984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1986 "Top Gun" premieres
1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1986 Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Republic parliamentary election
1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1987 "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from New York, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 performances
1987 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles
1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1988 Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
1989 Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1990 Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
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
1992 US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Square NYC after 30 performances
1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
1993 Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1993 Süleyman Demirel elected President of Turkey
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic
1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
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 Chicago Cub to hit 2 homeruns in 1 inning
1997 Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA
1997 Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
1997 Expos trailing San Fransisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 St Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 124th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux on Real Quiet wins in 1:54.8
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:21 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 17:

1444 Sandro Botticelli Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
1451 Engelbert II earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
1490 Albrecht von Hohenzollern 1st duke of Prussia
1551 Martinus A del Rio Spanish/South Netherlands lawyer/historian/theologist
1568 Christoph Thomas Walliser composer
1576 Ferdinand van Apshoven the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1673 Jozef LD von Königsegg Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands
1691 Antoine Court French reformed theologist
1732 Francesco Pasquale Ricci composer
1741 John Penn US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)
1749 Edward Jenner England, physician, discovered vaccination
1768 Caroline Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV
1794 Anna Brownell Jameson Dublin, writer
1796 Martinus J Niewindt bishop of Curaçao (christen slaves)
1800 Carl Friedrich Zollner composer
1803 Robert Smith Surtees novelist
1804 Ottho G Heldring Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions)
1808 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel composer
1812 Joseph Warren Revere Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1819 Johann Nepomuk Kafka composer
1823 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby contralto/composer
1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine
1846 Edmund Bishop English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1850 Antonio Scontrino composer
1866 Erik Alfred Satie Honfleur France, composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique)
1867 Gerrit Mannoury Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1871 Henricus P Bremmer art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
1873 Dorothy Miller Richardson Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
1873 Henri Barbusse Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu)
1876 Alban Collignon Belgian sport journalist
1878 Conway Tearle US actor (Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?)
1886 Alfonso XIII Borbón King of Spain (1902-31)
1888 A P "Tich" Freeman cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England)
1889 Alfonso Reyes Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
1889 Marcel Moyse Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et études)
1890 Philip James composer
1896 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere composer
1896 Hannah Tillich writer
1899 Ralf Harolde Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off)
19-- Audie Desbrow rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
1900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran's spiritual leader (1979-89)
1900 Nicolai Berezowsky composer
1901 Werner Egk Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
1902 John Vincent composer
1903 Douglas Packard British Lieutenant General
1904 Jean Gabin [Alexis Moncorgé] actor (Stormy Waters, French Can Can)
1905 John Patrick screenwriter
1906 Eric Mensforth president (Westland Aircraft)
1907 Charles Cawley British chief scientist/minister of power
1907 Horace McMahon South Norwalk CT, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
1907 Ilona Schacherer Elek Budapest Hungary, fencer (Olympics-gold-1936, 48)
1908 Sigismund Toduta composer
1908 Zinka Milanov Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
1909 Edward Playfair British senior civil servant
1909 Magda Schneider actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight)
1911 Knut Anders Haukfield SOE Operative
1911 Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice)
1912 Archibald Cox 1st Watergate special prosecutor
1912 Clarence "Ace" Parker NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
1912 Sandor Vegh violinist teacher conductor
1913 Alec Ogilvie CEO (Powell Duffryn)
1913 Lord Hirshfield chartered accountant
1914 Guido Masanetz composer
1915 Joseph D Craggs electrical engineer
1916 Cornelis A Eman Aruban politician
1916 John Hinde photographer/circus promoter
1918 Birgit Nilsson Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
1920 Harriet Van Horne Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
1920 Lydia Wideman Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1952)
1921 Dennis Brain London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
1921 John Garlick British senior civil servant
1923 Michael Beetham Marshal (RAF)
1923 Miles Wingate deputy master (Trinity House)
1923 Peter Mennin[i] Erie PA, composer (Moby Dick)
1924 Frantisek Kovaricek composer
1924 Lord Tombs CEO (Rolls Royce)
1924 Thomas Baird Vice-Admiral
1926 Cicely Berry voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1926 David Young Lieutenant-General/CEO (Cairn Tech)
1926 Earl of Airlie KT
1926 Geoffrey Caston vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
1926 Lord Chamberlain Earl of Airilet
1926 Tenniel Evans rev/actor (10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper)
1927 Ronald Halstead deputy CEO (British Steel)
1928 Donald Cameron Watt historian
1928 Ian Griggs bishop (Ludlow)
1928 Vivian Moses biotechnologist
1929 Raymond Hide geophysicist
1931 Dewey Redman jazz musician
1932 Arthur Jones principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
1932 Colin Hope CEO (T/N)
1932 Peter Burge cricketer (dashing Australian batsman of 50's & 60's)
1932 Rodric Braithwaite British ambassador to USSR
1934 Earl Morrall NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie)
1935 Ivan Slone world-famous watchmaker
1936 Dennis Hopper Dodge City KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
1936 Lars Gustafsson writer
1936 Philippe Boesmans composer
1938 Don Dolan Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
1938 Jason Bernard actor (Judge-Liar Liar)
1938 Pervis Jackson rocker (Spinners)
1938 Trinus Riemersma Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden)
1939 Hugh Dykes MP
1939 Wim de Bie CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
1941 David Howell Cope composer
1941 Malcom Hale trumpeter
1941 Miriam Margolyes actress (Will Be)
1942 Caroline Charles fashion designer
1942 Taj Mahal New York NY, singer/songwriter (The Real Thing)
1944 Arif Butt cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65)
1944 Canon P B Price General Secretary, USPG
1944 Jesse Winchester Shreveport LA, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
1944 Paul Crossley concert pianist
1945 D A S Pennefather Major-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines)
1945 George Miller (Representative-D-CA, 1975- )
1946 Sinaida Turchina USSR, team handball (Olympics-gold-1976)
1947 John Traicos cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
1948 Bill Bruford Sevenoaks Kent England, drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis)
1949 Timothy Cordy British director (Town/Country Planning Association)
1950 A A Johnson MP
1950 Christian Lacroix French couturier (Chic Frills)
1950 Keith Bradley MP
1951 I R Evans CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water)
1951 Simon Hughes MP
1952 Jody Pijper Dutch (background) singer
1953 George Johnson Los Angeles CA, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
1953 Kathleen Sullivan Pasadena CA, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
1953 Nicholas Bacon premier baronet of England
1953 Yoko Shimada Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
1954 John Iles dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III)
1954 Michael Roberts jockey
1955 Bill Paxton actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)
1956 "Sugar" Ray [Charles] Leonard Palmer Park MD, welter/middle/light-heavyweight boxing champion (Olympics-gold-76)
1956 Bob Saget Philadelphia PA, comedian/actor (Danny-Full House, America's Funniest Home Videos)
1956 Sue Carpenter TV presenter/journalist
1958 Vincent Henar Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
1959 Paul Di'Anno Chingford London, rocker (Iron Maiden-Run To The Hills)
1960 Fiona Hutchison Miami FL, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1961 Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin] Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark)
1962 Scott Case NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 Tracey Bryn rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
1963 Brigitte Nielsen actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino)
1963 Jon Koncak NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1965 Paige Turco Springfield MA, actress (Dinah-Guiding Light)
1965 Trent Reznor musician (9 Inch Nails)
1966 Danny Manning NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns)
1966 Mark Kratzmann Australia, tennis star
1966 Mark Schmocker Interlaken Switzerland, US team handball goalie (Olympics-96)
1967 Cameron Bancroft actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 Debbie Dutch Titusville NJ, actress (Hell's Paradox)
1968 Tim Grunhard NFL center (Kansas City Chiefs)
1969 Aaron Ruffin CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Craig Erickson NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins)
1969 Ujesh Ranchod cricketer (Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993)
1970 Alan Wetmore CFL fullback (Montréal Alouettes)
1970 Derrick Deese NFL guard (San Fransisco 49ers)
1970 Hubert Davis NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks)
1970 Jim Cummins Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 Jodie Rogers Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1970 John Karelse soccer player (NAC)
1970 Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight Worcester MA, rocker (New Kids on the Block-Hangin' Tough)
1970 Renzo Furlan Italy, tennis star
1970 Stefania Croce Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11)
1970 Todd Mundt NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
1971 Bill Lindsay Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1971 Mark Williams NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Elena Wagner Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1996 ITF/Redbridge-Great Britain)
1972 John Burrough NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Jay Riemersma tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1974 Marcia Turner Cambridge MA, Miss America (Massachusetts-Top 10-1996)
1976 Anna Windsor Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Daniel Komen Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner
1976 Peter Devine New York NY, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 Jere Michael Aspen CO, figure skater (1994 National Jr champion)

Deaths which occurred on May 17:

1050 Guido van Arezzo Italian music theorist, dies
1510 Sandro Botticelli [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi] painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1575 Matthew Parker archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 Forges Dimitri czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1695 Cornelis de Heem painter, dies
1727 Catherine I Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 Samuel Clarke theologian, dies
1796 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig composer, dies at 89
1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg physician, dies
1838 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Périgord French bishop, dies at 84
1840 Niccolo Paganini composer, dies at 57
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 N Hawthorne writer, dies at 59
1866 Adolf Bernhard Marx composer, dies at 70
1872 Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski composer, dies at 63
1883 Lydia Estes Pinklham patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
1884 Louis Brassin composer, dies at 43
1889 William Roxby Beverly artist, dies
1892 György Klapka Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
1914 Peter Leyten bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79
1916 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre composer, dies at 68
1919 Bohumil Pazdirek composer, dies at 80
1920 Maitland Hathorn cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests South Africa 1901-11), dies
1926 Lucien Herr French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
1930 Herbert David Croly US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
1931 Johan [Eliza J] de Master art critic/writer, dies
1931 Timothy Cole wood engraver, dies
1935 Paul A Dukas French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Velléda), dies at 69
1943 Montagu Love actor (Wind), dies at 65
1945 Jan van Geenen resistance fighter, dies
1945 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
1950 Eduardo Fabini composer, dies at 67
1951 Karl Heinrich David composer, dies at 66
1953 Eric De Lamarter composer, dies at 73
1955 Alan Fairfax cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
1955 Francesco Balilla Pratella composer, dies at 75
1955 Leslie Hylton cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
1957 Shalva Azmayparashvili composer, dies at 54
1961 French of Cauwelaert Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
1961 Henri Gagnon composer, dies at 74
1964 Otto V Kuusinen President of Karelo-Finnish Soviet Republic (1940-56), dies 82
1967 John Wesley Work composer, dies at 65
1969 Joseph Beran Czechoslovakia, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80
1970 Nigel Martin Balchin English author (My Executioner), dies at 61
1973 Alexander J Kropholler Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91
1974 Charles Braswell actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
1978 John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd speaker of house of commons, dies
1980 Joseph M "Joop" Lücker Dutch editor-in-chief (Volkskrant), dies at 65
1981 Hugo Freidhofer composer, dies at 80
1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
1985 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
1985 Hugh Burden actor (The House in Nightmare Park), dies at 72
1987 Gunnar Myrdal Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1989 Robert Webber actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74
1992 George Hurrell Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
1992 Lawrence Welk conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 89
1992 Leonardo del Ferro [Keyser] US epic tenor, dies
1992 Warren Neal Boxer dies of AIDS at 34
1993 Harry Elstrøm Danish/Belgian sculptor, dies at 86
1994 Alain Cuny [René X Marie] French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
1994 Andrew Brown film Producer, dies at 55
1994 Donald Keith Falkner singer, dies at 94
1994 Willian Noel Moffat architect, dies at 82
1995 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle singer, dies at 72
1996 Rusi Modi cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
1996 Scott Evans Brayton racing car driver, dies at 37
1996 Willi Daume Olympic organiser, dies at 82
1996 Willis Conover broadcaster, dies at 75

On this day...Events

0218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
0884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1527 Pánfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida
1536 Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed
1544 Scottish Earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
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
1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1672 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)
1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
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
1750 Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1792 24 merchants form New York 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 the Louisiana Purchase
1809 Papal States annexed by France
1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll
1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
1845 Rubber band patents
1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
1848 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis MO
1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Fort Lincoln
1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1881 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC
1881 Revised version of New Testament
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel" premieres in NYC
1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome
1894 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¼
1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs Somerset at Bristol
1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1903 Cleveland Indians beat New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus OH
1904 Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade" premieres in Paris France
1905 Waseda University of Tokyo defeats Los Angeles High School 5-3 in baseball
1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1¢-50¢ coins
1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1915 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls
1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (South Carolina)
1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 German Government of Marx takes power
1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1928 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam
1930 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
1932 Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
1940 Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
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
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
1953 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns
1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)
1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
1963 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in New York, to become WWF champion
1963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"
1968 European Space Research Organization launches 1st satellite
1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th homerun in 5th straight game
1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
1969 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
1969 Baltimore, Cleveland & Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to the AFC in the NFL
1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra
1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway
1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination
1972 Netherlands & China People's Republic exchange ambassadors
1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green homerun during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger homerun
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Life"
1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle CO
1974 Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet
1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & Michael Learned win
1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit homerun
1979 -12ºF (-11ºC), on top of Mauna Kea HI (state record)
1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 homeruns
1980 (Vivekananda Selva) Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hours
1980 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
1980 Major race riot in Miami FL - 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1981 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
1983 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (New Mexico), crowned 33rd Miss USA
1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
1987 "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA degree from University of South Africa
1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825 million
1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,831.71
1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of México, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
1992 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wicket, Leicestershire vs Worcestershire
1997 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-18-2006, 01:24 PM:
 
Rated G

Birthdates which occurred on May 18:

1692 Joseph Butler Wantage Berkshire, theologian
1711 Ruggiero G Boscovich [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
1744 Joseph Beer Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
1759 Charles Duquesnoy composer
1788 Hugh Clapperton Annan Scotland, African explorer
1797 Frederik Augustus II King of Saxon (1836-54)
1798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1815 Thomas Stanhope Bocock representative (Confederacy), died in 1891
1817 James William Denver Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 Julius Hopp composer
1830 Karl Goldmark Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
1836 Isidor Vorobchievici composer
1836 Wilhelm Steinitz Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
1850 Oliver Heaviside physicist predicted existence of ionosphere
1854 Bernard Zweers Dutch composer (To My Fatherland)
1862 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing German para-psychologist
1864 Jan P Veth Bayern, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian
1865 William Heinemann England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
1868 Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
1869 Ruprecht crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall
1871 Franiska zu Reventlow writer
1872 Bertrand Russell England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
1875 Guido Alberto Fano composer
1881 Georgi Atanasov composer
1882 Eduardo Fabini composer
1883 Walter Gropius Berlin Germany, architect (founded Bauhaus school of design)
1885 Eurico Gaspar Dutra President of Brazil (1945-50)
1886 Ole Windingstad composer
1887 Ernst Wiechert writer
1889 G Gunnarson writer
1891 Rudolf Carnap philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
1892 Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass (New York Metropolitan-South Pacific)
1896 Walter Fitzgerald Keyhan Devonport England
1897 Frank Capra Palermo Sicily Italy, movie director (It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
1897 Jack Raine London England, actor (Quartet)
1898 Juan J Domenchina Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)
19-- Gail Strickland Birmingham AL, actress (Alice West-Insiders)
19-- Steven David Delong rocker (Sweet F.A.-Stick To Your Guns)
1900 Sarah Miriam Peale US, portrait painter (General Lafayette-1825)
1901 Harry Robert Wilson composer
1901 Henri-Pierre Sauguet Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
1901 Vincent du Vigneaud US biochemist
1902 [Robert] Meredith Willson Mason City IA, composer (Music Man)
1903 George E Stone Lodz Poland, actor (Viva Villa, Last Mile)
1904 Jacob K Javits (Senator-R-NY)
1905 Eric Zeisl composer
1905 Hedley Verity cricketer (terrific slow lefty for England pre-WWII)
1907 Clifford Curzon London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
1907 Robley D Evans nuclear physicist
1909 Fred Perry Stockport England, tennis star/commentator (Wimbledon 1934-36)
1910 Arthur van Schendel Dutch art historian
1911 Big Joe Turner Kansas City MO, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
1911 Lord Hartwell
1911 Sigrid Gurie Brooklyn NY, actor (Algiers, Sofia, Refugee)
1912 Georg von Opel German auto manufacturer
1912 Perry [Pierino] Como Canonsburg PA, singer/TV host (Perry Como Show)
1912 Richard Brooks Philadelphia PA, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
1914 Anthony Fell British MP
1914 Boris Christoff Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godunov)
1914 Pierre A Balmain France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
1915 Leon Shenandoah native American leader
1917 Charles Wintour journalist
1917 James Donald Aberdeen Scotland, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings)
1918 Pope John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- )
1919 Dame Margot Fonteyn Surrey England, ballerina (Giselle/partner of Nureyev)
1921 Anthony Epstein FRS/pathologist
1922 Bill Macy Revere MA, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
1922 GMcC Kitson British principal (Central School of Speech/Drama)
1923 Liam Sullivan Jacksonville IL, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
1924 Jack Whitaker Philadelphia PA, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1924 Priscilla Pointer New York NY, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory)
1927 Richard Body MP
1928 G R Hall nuclear scientist
1928 P G Hammersley British Rear-Admiral
1928 Pernell Roberts Waycross GA, actor (Adam Cartwright-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
1929 Johan N Block aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland)
1929 Lord St John of Fawsley
1929 Roger Matton composer
1930 Barbara Goldsmith New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
1930 Don Leslie Lind Midvale UT, astronaut (STS 51-B)
1930 Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
1930 Geoffrey Littler CEO (County NatWest Group)
1930 Warren B Rudman (Senator-R-NH, 1980- )
1931 Robert Morse Newton MA, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
1932 John Clement chairman (Unigate Group)
1934 Dwayne Hickman Los Angeles CA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
1937 Brooks Robinson Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)
1937 Ildikó Sagi-Retjö Hung, foils (Olympics-2 gold/3 silver/2 bronze-1960-76)
1937 Jacques Santer President (European Commission)
1939 Glen Hardin Texas, rocker (Crickets)
1939 Patrick Cormack MP
1940 A Marshall Stoneham FRS, physicist
1940 Pat Trimborn cricket pace bowler (South African in 4 Tests 1966-70)
1941 Diane McBain Cleveland OH, actress (Surfside Six, Spinout, Donner Pass)
1941 M S Longair astronomer
1942 Albert Hammond rocker
1942 Keith Hellawell Chief Constable (West Yorkshire)
1942 Marquess of Reading
1942 N P (Nobby) Stiles footballer
1942 Rodney Dillard rocker (Glittergrass)
1944 Peter Ryan British national director (Police Training)
1945 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79)
1945 John Richard Patterson businessman
1945 Maarten van Traa Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 George Alexander rocker
1946 Reggie Jackson "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
1947 Candice Azzara Brooklyn NY, actress (Fatso)
1947 John Bruton Prime Minister (Republic of Ireland)
1948 Felix MH Troch Flemish actor/director (Gekkenbriefje)
1948 Joe Bonsall Philadelphia PA, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1949 Bill Wallace rocker (Guess Who)
1949 Rick Wakeman rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1949 Stuart Gannes Detroit MI, writer (Fortune)
1950 Rodney Milburn Jr USA, hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972)
1950 Thomas Gottschalk Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele)
1951 Angela Voigt German Democratic Republic, long jumper (Olympics-gold-76)
1951 Denny Dillon comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dream On)
1951 James Stephens Mount Kisko NY, actor (Paper Chase, Devil's Island)
1951 Rodger Davis Sydney New South Wales, Australasia golfer
1952 Diane E[lizabeth] Duane US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire)
1952 George Strait Pearsall TX, country singer (All My Ex's Live in Texas, Beyond the Blue Neon)
1952 Martin R Hoke (Representative-R-OH)
1953 [Feliciano] Butch Tavares rocker (Tavares)
1953 Helen Chadwick artist
1954 Martyn Wiley writer/broadcaster
1954 Wreckless Eric rocker (Waxworks, Be Stiff)
1955 Yun Fat Chow Nam Nga Island Hong Kong, actor (Better Tomorrow)
1956 Joe [Naomichi] Ozaki Tekushima Japan, golfer (1995 Phoenix Open-8th)
1957 Michael Cretu rocker (Enigma)
1958 Ray Donaldson NFL center (Dallas Cowboys)
1958 Toyah Wilcox Birmingham England, rocker (I Want to Be Free)
1959 Graham Dilley cricketer (England wicket-taker of 80's)
1960 Jari Kurri Helsinki Finland, NHL left wing (New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Colorado Avalanche)
1960 Tom Jackson Oakville Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 CPGA Winter)
1960 Yannick Noah France, tennis player (French 1983)
1962 Mike Whitmarsh San Diego CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1963 Marty McSorley Hamilton, NHL defenseman (Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers)
1964 Will Wolford NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 Erik Hanson Kinnelon NJ, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 Rufus Porter NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1966 Mike Inez US rock bassist (Alice in Chains-Facelift)
1967 Jaime Gomez Arlington TX, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open)
1967 Karl Dunbar NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Ernie Logan NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets)
1969 Jean-Chris Filippin hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1969 Martika [Marta Marrero] Whittier CA, singer (Toy Soldiers)
1970 Clemens Zwijnenberg soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 Vicky Sunohara ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-98)
1971 Ben Coleman guard/offensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Clifton Sunada Honolulu HI, extra-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1971 Craig Hentrich NFL punter (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Daniel Gowing Germany, New Zealand judoka (Olympics-96)
1971 Karen Bye ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1971 Lael Perlstrom Laguna Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25-1995)
1971 Rich Garces Maracay Aragua Venezuela, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1972 Turner Stevenson Prince George, NHL right wing (Montréal Canadiens)
1973 Darren Van Impe Saskatoon, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1973 David Bailey WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 Donyell Marshall NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1973 Markus Brunner hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1973 Tory James NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 Walter Scott NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1976 Ron Mercer NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1978 Jennifer Streblow Oshkosh WI, Miss America-Wisconsin (1997)
1979 Kaci Thompson Miss Nevada Teen USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on May 18:

0323 Alexander III the Great king of Macedonia/conqueror, dies at 32
0526 John I Pope (523-26), dies
1160 Erik IX Helgi [The Saint] King of Sweden, dies
1410 Ruprecht Roman catholics German king, dies
1587 Felix van Cantalice Italian saint, dies
1625 Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas Spanish marquis of Denia, dies
1653 Carel Reyniersz Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at 48
1675 Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago) dies at 37
1692 Elias Ashmole antiquary, dies
1724 Johann K Amman Swiss/Dutch doctor for deaf-mutes, dies at 54
1733 Georg Bohm German organist/composer, dies at 71
1767 Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky composer, dies at 28
1799 Pierre de Beaumarchais dramatist, dies
1808 Jacob Albright [Albrecht] German/US preacher, dies at 49
1829 Bernardo Bittoni composer, dies at 72
1832 Bonafacio Asioli composer, dies at 62
1839 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona) dies at 57
1848 William A Leidesdorf black, dies at 38 in San Fransisco
1862 William H Keim US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48
1864 James Byron Gordon Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41
1884 Heinrich R Göppert German paleo-botanist, dies
1909 George Meredith English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81
1909 Isaac M F Albéniz Spanish pianist/composer, dies at 48
1910 Flor van Duyse composer, dies at 66
1911 Gustav Mahler Austrian composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
1913 Otto Reubke composer, dies at 70
1918 Toivo Kuula composer, dies at 34
1930 Joao Marcellino Arroyo composer, dies at 68
1936 Alick Maclean composer, dies at 63
1949 James T Adams US historian (Pulitzer 1921)
1952 Rossetter Gleason Cole composer, dies at 86
1953 Tom Killick cricketer (at the crease 2 Tests for England 1929), dies
1955 Edwin Scharff German painter/sculptor (Rossebändiger), dies at 68
1955 Mary McLeod Bethune educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
1956 Maurice Tate cricketer (39 Tests for England, 155 wickets), dies
1961 Henry O'Neill actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies
1965 Eduard J Dijksterhuis mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72
1966 Paul Althaus German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), dies at 78
1967 Andy Clyde Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75
1967 Richard Ainley actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion), dies at 56
1972 Eero Aukusti Sipila composer, dies at 53
1973 Jeannette Rankin 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92
1974 Daniel R Topping US owner (New York Yankees), dies at 61
1975 Leroy Anderson composer, dies at 66
1980 Ian Curtis English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commits suicide at 23
1981 Arthur O'Connell actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years), dies at 73
1981 William Saroyan US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
1985 Tex Terry actor (Apache Rose, Timberjack), dies at 82
1986 John Bubbles Sublett tap dancer (Black & Bubbles), dies at 84
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
1991 Edwina Booth actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86
1992 Lawrence Welk bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 Marshall Thompson actor (Bog), dies of congestive heart failure at 65
1992 Skip Stephenson comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
1993 Heinrich Albertz theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
1993 Pamela M Cunnington English architect/writer, dies at 67
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
1995 Gordon Reynolds musician, dies at 74
1995 Robert Harris actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95
1996 Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb prison governor, dies at 76
1996 Simon Weinstock businessman/racehorse owner, dies at 44

On this day...Events

0526 St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1096 Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1291 Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
1385 Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
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 Montréal Canada founded
1652 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1703 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
1756 England declares war on France
1794 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1803 Britain declares war on France after General Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower - Saturdays are destroyed forever
1843 United Free Church of Scotland forms
1846 US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
1851 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
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
1861 Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache" premieres in Weimar
1863 Siege of Vicksburg MS
1864 Battle of Yellow Bayou LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
1866 French Government of De Putte resigns
1880 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37½
1887 Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis" premieres in Paris France
1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris France
1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)
1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 New York Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1897 Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market" premieres
1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1911 President/dictator José Porfirio Diaz of México term ends
1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1912 Philadelphia A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
1916 US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1917 Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris France
1917 US passes Selective Service act
1918 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200
1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours)
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice CA; She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped
1927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre WY collapses
1927 Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood CA
1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1929 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
1929 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
1933 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act 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 homerun in Comiskey Park center field bleachers
1934 TWA begins commercial service
1935 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset
1940 German troops conquer Brussels
1941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
1941 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
1942 NYC ends night baseball games for the rest of WWII
1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
1945 Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
1947 A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
1948 "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus
1948 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
1950 "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
1950 Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
1951 UN moves HQ to NYC
1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1952 Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
1953 1st woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1955 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya NM (state record)
1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza take West Indies from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs Australia
1955 Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
1956 Mickey Mantle hits homerun from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
1956 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
1957 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2
1958 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1959 "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
1959 "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
1960 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for > 30 years)
1960 Jean Genets "Le Balcon" premieres in Paris France
1961 "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 68 performances
1963 "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
1963 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2
1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on the BBC
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 Captain
1965 WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
1967 Tennessee Governor 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 homerun, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
1968 Frank Howard ties American League record with homerun in his 6th consecutive game his 10 homeruns in the most in 6 games
1969 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 performances
1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1971 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1971 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
1971 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
1972 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV
1972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
1974 "The 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 A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164
1977 Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao
1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
1978 Italy legalizes abortion
1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1980 Belgium 3rd Government of Martens forms
1980 China People's Republic launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1980 Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected President of Peru
1980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
1982 Detroit Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive homeruns
1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
1985 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
1985 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
1986 "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 performances
1986 Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
1986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
1988 Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen
1988 In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16
1989 Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1990 "Return To Green Acres" TV movie airs
1990 Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
1990 East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
1990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1991 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54
1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
1993 Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
1994 AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
1994 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
1994 Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1995 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
1996 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2
1996 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner
1997 "King David" opens at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Chris Johnson
1997 Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic
1997 Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 05-19-2006, 08:51 AM:
 
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Birthdates which occurred on May 19:

1469 Giovanni della Robbia Italian sculptor
1611 Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi] Italy, 240th Roman Catholic Pope (1676-89)
1616 Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer
1746 Johann Friedrich Peter composer
1755 Gabriele Prota composer
1762 Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)
1770 Antoine-Charles Glachant composer
1795 Johns Hopkins philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
1808 Samuel Jameson Gholson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1815 John Gross Barnard Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1882
1828 Adin Ballou Underwood Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 Alice Mary Smith composer
1858 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte French officer/traveller (Surinam)
1859 Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell] Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
1860 Victor E Orlando Italy's premier (1917-19)
1864 Carl Ethan Akeley US, naturalist, developed animal mount process
1869 Jules Poncelet Belgian minister of State
1873 Federico Gerdes Tacna Perú, orchestraestra director
1874 Gilbert Laird Jessop cricketer (The Croucher)
1876 Saint-Georges de Bouchélier French author (Le Rois Sans Couronne)
1878 Adam von Ahn Carse composer
1879 Lord Waldorf Astor England, 2nd viscount (C)/publisher (London Observer)
1879 Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor US/England's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor
1880 Allard R Hulshoff architect of Amsterdam (1924)
1883 Henricus Keuls Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp)
1884 Arthur Meulemans Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
1890 Ho Chi Minh trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
1892 Konstatin G Paustovski Russian author (Povestj Zjizni)
1895 Albert Hay Malotte composer
1895 Cecil Gray composer
1896 Michael Balcon Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon
1899 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov novelist/playwright
19-- Tim Waldrip Spokane WA, actor (Casey-American Dream)
1901 Ivo Cruz composer
1904 Anthony Bushell Kent England, actor (Journey's End)
1904 Sven Thofelt Sweden, pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1928)
1909 Bruce Bennett Tacoma WA, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
1909 Schlomo Joffe composer
1910 Alan Melville cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49)
1913 Albert Hardy photographer
1913 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy President of India
1915 Pol Pot dictator/mass murderer
1918 Florence Chadwick swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways)
1919 Betty Jameson Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open)
1921 Charles van de Reve slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
1921 Daniel Gelin Angers France, Maria Schneider's dad, actor (Obsession)
1921 Karel van het Reve Dutch Slavist (Comrade's Religion)
1922 David McLean Akron OH, actor (Tate-Tate)
1924 Sandy Galbraith Wilson composer
1925 Malcolm X [Little] Omaha NE, assassinated leader of black muslims
1926 Paul Cooper composer
1928 Anthony C B Chapman England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
1929 Harvey Cox US theologist (Secular City)
1929 Michael Adamis composer
1930 Hans Kox composer
1930 Lorraine Hansberry playwright (Raisin in the Sun)
1931 Eric Davidson comedy scriptwriter
1931 Ruben Radica composer
1934 David Sinclair actor (Love & Hate)
1934 James Charles Lehrer Wichita KS, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
1934 Jan Wijn Dutch pianist
1935 David Hartman Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1935 F R Fries writer
1936 Elisabeth Schwartz Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympics-gold-1956)
1937 Sanne Sannes Dutch photographer
1938 James H Bilbray (Representative-D-NV)
1938 Marilyn Chris Brooklyn NY, actress (Wanda Wolek-One Life to Live)
1939 17th Earl of Pembroke English landowner/director (Emily)
1939 Francis R Scobee Cle Elum WA, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1939 James Fox England, actor (Greystoke)
1939 James Fox London England, actor (Greystoke)
1939 Nancy Kwan Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong)
1939 Richard Lowe Teitelbaum composer
1939 Tomasz Sikorski composer
1940 Carlos Diegues actor (Xica)
1940 Frank Lorenzo airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
1940 Joan Staley playmate (November 1958)
1940 Mickey Newbury rocker
1941 Jane Brody writer/nutritionist
1941 Jimmy Hoffa Jr son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader
1941 Marc-Antonio Consoli composer
1941 Nora Ephron New York NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Michael, Heartburn)
1942 Gary Kildall creator of CP/M
1942 James Topping author of CP/M
1945 Peter Townshend England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 Diedre Lenihan Atlanta GA, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
1946 Mary Bryan LPGA golfer
1946 Michele Placido Foggia Italy, actor (La Lupa, Poliziotti)
1946 Phillip Rudd Melbourne Australia, rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock 'n Roll Damnation)
1947 Jerry Hyman Brooklyn NY, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1948 Grace Jones [Mendoza] Spanishtown Jamaica, singer/actress (Vamp)
1948 Jean-Pierre Haignere France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17)
1948 Tom Scott Los Angeles CA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
1949 Dusty Hill rocker (ZZ Top)
1951 Joey Ramone [Jeffrey Hyman] Forest Hills NY, punk rocker (Ramones-Baby I Love You)
1952 Barbara Loomis rocker (BT Express)
1953 Henry Lascelles English grandson of princess Mary
1954 Rick Cerone Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Expos)
1955 Ed Whitson pitcher (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres)
1955 Pierre J Thuot Groton CT, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62)
1956 Althea Gwyn WBL center (New York Stars)
1956 Martyn Ware rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1956 Steven Ford East Grand Rapids MI, actor (When Harry Met Sally, Young & Restless)/son of President Gerald Ford
1957 Bill Laimbeer NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
1957 Sophia Crawford London England, actress (Power Rangers)
1959 Nicole Brown Simpson Frankford Germany, Mrs OJ Simpson (murdered in 1994)
1961 Lisa Rathgber Hillsboro IL, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980)
1961 Lisa Wagner bowler (3-time LPBT Player of Year, Bowler of Decade)
1962 Iain Harvie Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens)
1963 Rebecca Bradley LPGA golfer
1963 Yazz [Yasmin Evans] Mrs Simon La Bon/rocker (Fine Time, The One Way is Up)
1964 Michael Dean Standly Abilene TX, PGA golfer (1993 Freeport-McMoRan)
1965 Edward Odumbe cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1965 Joshua Rifkind actor (Marshall Chronicles)
1966 Keith Jennings NFL tight end (Chicago Bears)
1966 Marc Bureau Trois Rivieres, NHL center (Montréal Canadiens)
1967 John Friesz NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 Turk Wendell Pittsfield MA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1968 James Parrish NFL outside linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Jeanne Basone Brubank CA, wrestler (Hollywood-GLOW)
1968 Mark Janssens Surrey, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1968 Paul Justin NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Cecile Ulbrich Tucker Warren ME, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 David Wharton Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympics-silver-88)
1969 Kevin Scott WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1969 Richard Dumas NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
1971 Darryl Morrison NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1971 Lori Ann Mundt Yorkton Saskatchawan, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1972 Ronald Williams CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Willie Brown NFL/WLAF linebacker (Seattle Seahawks. Rhein Fire)
1973 Andreas Johansson Hofors Sweden, NHL forward (Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders)
1976 Kevin Garnett NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)

Deaths which occurred on May 19:
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0804 Alcuin of York English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
0988 Dunstan[us] English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1296 Celestine V [Pietro del Murrone] Pope (1294), dies
1536 Anne Boleyn Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1536 Lord Rochford English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1647 Sebastian Vrancx Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
1653 Carel Reyniersz Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies, dies at 48
1786 John Stanley composer, dies at 74
1795 Josiah Bartlett US physician/judge (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 65
1800 French Bosbeeck veterinarian/robber, hanged
1801 Herman H Vitringa politician (National Meetings), dies
1845 Maria EJ Versfelt mistress of General Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
1872 Johan van Dale schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
1876 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74
1887 Pieter Blussé van Alblas liberal minister of Finance, dies at 75
1890 Gus Kempis cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24
1895 José J Marti y Perez Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
1901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius 1st President Republic South-Africa, dies at 81
1903 Arthur Shrewsbury cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
1922 Heinrich I Quincke German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
1924 Billy Zulch cricketer (South Africa batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies
1928 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert composer, dies at 59
1928 Max Scheler German philosopher, dies at 53
1935 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler French composer, dies at 74
1935 Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle crash
1941 Werner Sombart Marxist economist (Händler und Heroes), dies at 78
1942 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste Spanish general/minister of War, dies at 79
1954 Aart A van Schelven church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
1954 Charles Edward Ives US composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79
1958 Bruno Sturmer composer, dies at 65
1958 Ronald Colman British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
1961 Joe Howard singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
1965 Maria Dabrowska Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
1966 Tortoise reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook (1773), dies
1969 Coleman Hawkins US jazz musician/composer, dies
1971 Bernard Wagenaar Netherlands/US composer, dies at 76
1971 Ogden Nash poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
1978 George Gladstone cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1930), dies
1983 Jean Rey Belgian minister, dies
1987 Alice B[radley] Sheldon sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
1988 Virginia Farmer actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90
1989 Able J Herzberg Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies
1989 E Galgóczi writer, dies
1989 Robert Webber actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/Lou Gehrig's disease) at 64
1989 Robert Weber character actor, dies of Lou Gehrig Disease at 64
1991 Douglas L Mays cartoonist (Punch), dies
1991 Rini Otte Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74
1993 Nemesio Antunes Chilean painter, dies at 75
1993 Richard Murphy director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81
1993 S W Sohoni cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1994 Henry Morgan TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74
1994 Jacqueline [Lee Bouvier] Kennedy Onassis 1st lady (1961-63), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 64
1994 Jacques Cesar Ellul writer, dies at 82
1994 Luis Ocana Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
1996 Johnny "Guitar" Watson musician, dies at 61
1996 Margaret Rawlings actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89
1997 Millie dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12

On this day...

715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 Spain confisquates English ships
1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1635 France declares war on Spain
1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
1780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained
1792 Russian army enters Poland
1793 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1802 French Order of Légion d'Honneur forms
1848 México gives Texas to US, ending the war
1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1856 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery
1857 William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1864 Skirmish at Cassville GA
1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield
1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn MA)
1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
1886 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1893 Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1902 Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1905 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy & Brig Switzerland
1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champion
1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1910 Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings
1911 Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris France
1911 Philadelphia Athletics are 12½ games back in American League, & win the World Series
1912 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1918 Washington's 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1923 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather PA coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)
1928 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death
1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government
1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1934 Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; Males who solved puzzle become members of Baker Street Irregulars
1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service" premieres in NYC
1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact
1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
1940 French counter attack at Péronne under General De Gaulle
1941 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 Atlanta Braves' Paul Waner is 3rd National League-er to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands
1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Australia Services
1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
1950 New York Times reports of world's smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George UT)
1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt West Indies vs Australia
1956 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning homerun, 1st homerun in 8 straight games
1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government
1958 "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London
1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1960 Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Fransisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph
1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1962 "John Birch Society" by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1962 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy
1965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
1967 US bombs Hanoi
1967 USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain
1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
1973 "Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
1973 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India
1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 "Smokey & the Bandit" premieres
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1980 "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
1980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires the next 27 batters
1982 IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg
1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1983 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC
1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
1984 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game
1984 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa
1987 1st American Comedy Award
1988 "Red Sox" retire Bobby Doerr's #1
1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1989 Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1990 "General Elvis", TV Drama last airs on ABC
1990 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
1991 "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 performances
1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1991 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1991 Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York
1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín Colombia, kills 132
1993 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1995 Emmy's 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
2161 Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
 

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