June 26th

Today is:

Canoe Day
Take Your Dog To Work Day
Beautician’s Day
Chocolate Pudding Day

EVENTS

363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684 – St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1284 – Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1409 – Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
1483 – Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England
1498 – Toothbrush invented
1553 – Christ’s Hospital in England granted a charter
1630 – Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1714 – Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement
1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1721 – Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1723 – After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1794 – Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
1797 – Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can’t sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1807 – Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
1843 – Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1848 – 1st pure food law enacted in US
1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

Queen of the United Kingdom Victoria

1857 – The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
1862 – Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia
1862 – Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
1862 – US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1870 – 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1870 – Wagner’s opera “Valkyrie” premieres in Munich
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1879 – Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 – Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1896 – 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1900 – Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1900 – Japan mobolizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising – but also advance long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
1900 – The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia’s behavior there
1902 – Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1902 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of 3 Garidebs” (BG)

48th Shia Imam Aga Khan III

1902 – Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
1906 – Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1907 – Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1909 – 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1)
1909 – Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
1910 – 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (6-4 6-2)
1910 – Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship
1911 – Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1912 – Gustav Mahler’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1914 – The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes “the validity of Indian customary marriages”

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

1915 – Germany suppresses “Vorwarts” newspaper after it called for peace
1916 – Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game)
1917 – 1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
1918 – The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
1919 – NY Daily News begins publishing
1922 – The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
1924 – After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
1924 – Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
1925 – 60th British Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 300 at Prestwick Golf Club
1927 – Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island

Pioneering Golfer Jim Barnes

1929 – ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
1934 – FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1934 – Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty
1934 – W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1935 – Andrew Sandham’s 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants
1935 – Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
1935 – SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
1935 – Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
1936 – 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1936 – Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
1937 – Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord’s, scores 0 & 1
1938 – Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1940 – End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 – Finland enters WW II against Russia

Civil Rights Activist W.E.B. Du Bois

1941 – Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 – German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1944 – 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
1944 – Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
1945 – England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs

Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations 1945 –
United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

1946 – Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
1946 – Fred Allen’s last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1948 – US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1949 – 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
1950 – Pres Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova’s death sentence
1952 – Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

1952 – Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1953 – KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 – Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested
1954 – Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
1955 – Freedom Charter signed in South Africa
1955 – Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 – Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium
1958 – Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1958 – Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 – Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 – Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1960 – British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 – Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 – Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1960 – Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1962 – Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1962 – Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
1962 – WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 – Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1963 – Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” (intended to mean “I am a Berliner”, but may actually mean “I am a dougnut”) speech in West Berlin
1964 – Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night” album
1964 – Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1964 – Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
1965 – Wallon party forms in Belgium
1966 – “Time for Singing” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs

35th US President John F. Kennedy

1966 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women’s Golf Open Invitational
1966 – Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1967 – Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals
1968 – Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions

United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi,
during the Battle of Iwo Jima

 

1968 – Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 – Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1970 – Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
1971 – “Man of La Mancha” closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 perfs
1971 – Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
1972 – Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut v Eng
1972 – IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
1972 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) begin a “bi-lateral truce” as at midnight
1972 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day
1973 – London production of “Grease” premieres
1973 – On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

1975 – Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975 – U.S. Supreme Court’s rules unanimously in “O’Connor v. Donaldson” that non-dangerous people can’t be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
1976 – WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1977 – 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 – Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1977 – Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career
1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

1978 – Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 – First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1979 – Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver
1979 – “Moonraker”, 11th James Bond film starring Roger Moore, premieres in London
1982 – Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
1982 – US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1983 – “Loving” premieres on TV
1983 – “Show Boat” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances
1983 – Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1984 – 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4

Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1984 – Barbra Streisand records “Here We Are at Last”
1986 – South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 – Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
1987 – Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
1988 – Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald’s Golf Championship
1989 – Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1989 – Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 – 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 – 8 KS & OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1990 – New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
1991 – “Getting Married” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 perfs
1991 – ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1991 – Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1991 – Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA’s #1 draft pick

12th US President Zachary Taylor

1991 – Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
1992 – India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1992 – NYC’s MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
1992 – Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1992 – Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1993 – “Late Night with David Letterman” airs for last time on NBC-TV
1993 – Actress Julia Roberts & country singer Lyle Lovett wed
1993 – NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
1993 – Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1993 – The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1994 – “Broken Glass” closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
1994 – “Medea” closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances

MLB First Baseman Eddie Murray

1994 – 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
1994 – 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
1994 – 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
1994 – 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
1994 – 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, Calif
1994 – Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
1994 – Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 – Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin’s top hit leader
1994 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1994 – FIFA World Cup: US loses to Romania 1-0
1995 – Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

1997 – Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is published, the first instalment of the best selling series by J. K. Rowling
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.
2011 – 57th LPGA Championship won by Yani Tseng
2012 – Animated film “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires

Novelist J. K. Rowling

2013 – 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
2013 – Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister
2014 – Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
2014 – Canadian Andrew Wiggins is selected as the No.1 draft pick in the NBA by the Cleveland Cavaliers
2014 – Following a military coup in Thailand, people have been warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition

BIRTHDAYS

1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1582 – Johannes Schultz, composer
1655 – Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
1681 – Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 – Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1702 – Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman
1703 – Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1730 – Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer (cataloguer of “M objects”)
1742 – Arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1747 – Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer
1749 – Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer
1760 – Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal
1763 – George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
1819 – Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]
1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine general
1823 – Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer
1824 – Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
1824 – Moritz Furstenau, composer
1831 – Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)
1837 – Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1923)
1837 – Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

8th Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (1854)

1854 – Robert Borden, Grand-Pre Nova Scotia, (C) 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1865 – Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
1865 – Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China)
1865 – George C Pearce, actor (Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant)
1866 – Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
1874 – Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14)
1874 – Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer
1875 – Camille Zeckwer, composer
1876 – Nico[laas P] de Jong, Dutch radio play actor (Laughter & Tears)
1878 – Albert Siklos, composer
1878 – Ernest Torrence, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1880 – Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
1885 – Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac)
1885 – Anna M F van Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 9/26]
1885 – Billy Jenkins, [Erich Rosenthal], Magdeburg
1886 – Margaretha C E “Greta” Beekman, actress (Wrong Poes)
1887 – Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
1888 – Paul Niggli, Zofingen, Swiss Mineralogist (crystal structures)
1891 – Heinrich Lemacher, composer
1891 – Sidney Coe Howard, US, dramatist (Swords, Pulitzer 1925)
1891 – Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/(stage)author/resistance fighter
1892 – Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1893 – “Big Bill” Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
1894 – Bill Wirges, orchestra leader (Growing Paynes), born in Buffalo, New York
1894 – Jeanne Eagels, actress (Rain, Under False Colors)
1895 – Jankel Adler, Polish painter

NHL Goalie George Hainsworth (1895)

1895 – George Hainsworth, Toronto Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player
1897 – Viola Dana, Brooklyn, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover)
1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1898 – Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 – Joseph E A “Jo” Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter
1901 – Stuart Symington, (Sen-D-Mo)
1901 – William Busch, composer
1902 – Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia)
1902 – William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO (Lear Jet Corp)
1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
1903 – Ashley Clarke, president (Venice in Peril Fund)
1903 – Floyd “Babe” Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers’ slugger (.324 lifetime average)
1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US, actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1905 – Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire)
1905 – Jan Louis Guillaume “Yvan” Doornik, Neth resistance fighter in France
1906 – Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia)
1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1909 – “Col Tom” Parker, [Dries Van Kruijk], Neth, rock mgr (Elvis Presley)
1909 – Betty Askwith, author
1909 – Nicholas Polunin, environmentalist
1910 – Charles Spry, Australian security chief
1911 – Edward Levi, professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)
1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias [Mildred Ella], Port Arthur, Texas, American athlete (U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame)
1913 – Maurice Wilkes, inventor (stored program concept for computers)
1913 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1914 – John J “John” Beautiful Garden, sculptor
1914 – Laurie Lee, English poet/author (I Can’t Stay Long)
1914 – Richard Maltby, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1914 – Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse France, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
1915 – Paul Castellano, American mafia boss (d. 1985)
1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author
1916 – Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist
1917 – William Hamilton, British MP
1919 – Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general (Ewell)
1920 – Michael Eastham, high court judge
1921 – Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician (Limburg’s family doctor)
1921 – Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 – Alan Peacock, economist
1922 – Campbell Adamson, CEO (Abbey National Pictures)
1922 – Eleanor Parker, Ohio, actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker), (d. 2013)
1922 – Frances Rafferty, Sioux City Iowa, actress (December Bride)
1923 – David Haslam, British rear admiral (hydrographer)
1923 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
1924 – Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse
1924 – Syd Lawrence, bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orch)
1924 – Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
1925 – Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II)
1926 – Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer (Bohin Manor) and film director, born in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie (d. 2015)
1927 – Leslie Carpenter, CEO (Reed International)
1928 – Jacob Druckman, composer (Animus I Auerole), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 – Alexander Fenton, CEO (Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh)
1929 – Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy (1985- )
1929 – Ian Prestt, English ornithologist
1929 – Milton Glaser, American Designer
1930 – Willem G Statius Muller, Neth Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer
1931 – Alan Bailey, British sect (dept of transport)
1931 – Colin Wilson, author (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries), (d. 2013)
1931 – Lucien Goethals, composer
1932 – Henry Bromfield, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 9 Tests 1961-65)
1933 – Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer/conductor (London Symph-1982)
1933 – David Winnick, British MP
1934 – John V Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion/(Rep/Sen-D-California)
1934 – Josef Sommer, Germany, actor (Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March)
1934 – Luis Felipe Pires, composer
1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1935 – Douglas Peterson, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 – Robert Maclennan, British MP
1937 – Peter Pike, MP
1937 – Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 – Neil Abercrombie, (Rep-D-Hawaii, 1986-88)
1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist
1939 – Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut
1939 – Charles “Chuck” Robb, (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson
1939 – Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, sec-gen (Bishops’ Conference 1983-88)
1940 – Billy Davis Jr, St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1940 – Robert Kramer, actor (A.K.)
1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1942 – Larry “The Mole” Taylor, Brooklyn, rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
1943 – Georgie Fame, rock vocalist (Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde)
1943 – Jean Knight, US singer (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 – John Allen Strang, composer
1943 – John Beasley, American actor
1944 – Ruth Kempson, linguist (SOAS)
1945 – Barry Schrader, composer
1945 – David Heyn, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman 1975 World Cup)
1945 – Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
1946 – Clive Francis, actor (Masada), born in London, England
1948 – Allen Michael Doyle, Woonsocket RI, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial-64th)
1951 – Breyson Cooper, jockey
1951 – Gary Gilmour, cricketer (exciting Aussie all-rounder 1973-77)
1951 – Pamela Bellwood, [King], actress (Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty), born in NYC, New York
1951 – Rindy Ross, Portland Oregon, rock vocalist/saxophonist (Quarterflash)
1952 – Gordon McQueen, soccer player
1953 – James Anderson, writer
1953 – Ralph Ezell, Union Miss, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1954 – Robert Davi, Astoria NY, opera singer/actor (Gangster Chronicles)
1955 – Mary Margaret Brownie, RI, fictional ID of Prymaat (Coneheads)
1955 – Mick Jones, rock vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Havana 3 AM), born in London, England
1956 – Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/S Afr leader (United Democratic Front)
1956 – Bernard A Harris Jr, Temple Texas, MD/Astronaut (STS 55, 63)

Singer Chris Isaak (1956)

1956 – Chris Isaak, Stockton Ca, rock singer/songwriter (Wicked Game)
1956 – Robert Davi, actor (License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing)
1957 – Patty Smyth, rock vocalist (Scandal-Warrior), born in NYC, New York
1957 – Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1958 – Glen Stewart Godwin, murderer (FBI Most Wanted), born in Miami, Florida
1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
1960 – Barbara Edwards, Albuqueque NM, playmate of year (Sept, 1983)/actress
1960 – Jumpy Geathers, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1960 – Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist
1961 – Greg LeMond, US professional road cyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990), born in Lakewood, California
1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin-Takes My Breath Away), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – George P N earl of St Andrews, under English prince Edward
1962 – Jerome Kersey, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics)
1963 – Harriet Wheeler, English pop singer/composer (The Sundays)
1963 – Wendy Lucero-Schayes, US diver (Olympic-92), born in Denver, Colorado
1963 – Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer
1964 – Alison Wyeth, Isle West Middlesex England, 1.5k/5k runner
1964 – Pamela Wright, Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr Toledo-3rd)
1964 – Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8’1″)
1966 – Bryan Webb, horse trainer
1966 – Kirk McLean, Toronto, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 – Paul Mokha, Erie Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 – Travis Fine, actor (Ike McSwain-Young Riders), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1968 – Shannon Sharpe, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1969 – Barry Kloeth, WLAF wide receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 – Harry Boatswain, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 – Michael Myers, Cook County IL, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 – Troy Auzenne, NFL tackle (Chic Bears)
1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer

Actor Chris O’Donnell(1970)

1970 – Chris O’Donnell, actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever)
1970 – Nicole Richardson, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 – Matt Letscher, American actor
1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor
1971 – Carlton Gray, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts)
1971 – Eddie Parenti, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1972 – Jerris McPhail, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1972 – Garou, Canadian singer
1973 – Aaron Jackson, Pitts Pa, actor (Mark Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 – Mischa Smoking, soccer player (Dordrecht ’90)
1973 – Reggie Brown, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer
1973 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
1973 – Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1974 – Derek Jeter, Pequanock NJ, shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996)
1974 – Dieter Kalt, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1974 – Jason Kendall, catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in San Diego, California
1974 – Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
1974 – Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
1974 – Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
1975 – Umeki Webb, WNBA guard/forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 – Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
1975 – Terry Skiverton, English football player
1976 – Ed Jovanoski, Windsor Ont, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 – Mpumelo Mbangwa, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler v Pakistan 1996)
1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player

Baseball Player Derek Jeter(1974)

1977 – Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
1977 – Mark Jindrak, American Professional Wrestler
1978 – Alexandra, French singer, L5’s singer
1979 – Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1979 – Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1979 – Andy O’Brien, English footballer
1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980 – Sinik, French singer and rapper
1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 – Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
1985 – Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 – Drake Bell, American actor, musician
1986 – Casey Desmond, American singer
1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress

Singer Ariana Grande(1993)

1993 – Ariana Grande, Boca Raton Florida, American singer (Problem, The Way)
2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

WEDDINGS

1739 – Taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus (32) weds Sara Elisabeth Moræa
1797 – US President John Quincy Adams (29) weds Louisa Johnson (22) at All Hallows Barking parish in London
1844 – 10th US President John Tyler marries 2nd wife Julia Gardiner in NYC, 1st president to marry while in office
1915 – Author T. S. Eliot (26) weds governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London
1937 – Actress Mary Pickford (45) weds actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)
1955 – Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1961 – NFL Middle Linebacker Ray Nitschke (24) weds Jackie Forchette

NFL Quarterback Johnny Unitas (1972)

1972 – NFL quarterback Johnny Unitas (39) weds second wife Sandra Lemon
1982 – Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1984 – Tiny Tim marries Miss Jan (23)
1989 – Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for 2nd time
1993 – NHL scoring champion Mario Lemieux (27) weds longtime girlfriend Nathalie Asselin at Notre Dame Basilica in Canada
1994 – Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
1996 – Actor Kiefer Sutherland (29) weds model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (34)
1999 – Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy (52) weds freelance journalist Alexandra Llewellyn (32) in Manhattan
2010 – Former WWE Diva Michelle McCool (30) weds fellow wrestler “The Undertaker” Mark Calaway (45) in Houston, Texas
2010 – “American Beauty” actress Mena Suvari (31) weds concert producer Simone Sestito (25) at Santo Stefano degli Abissini in Vatican City, Italy

NHL Legend and Owner Mario Lemieux (1993)

2010 – “Shear Genius” TV personality finalist Janine Jarman (29) weds sales executive Matthew Wolcott (33) in Hollywood

DIVORCES

NFL Quarterback Johnny Unitas (1972)

1972 – NFL quarterback Johnny Unitas (39) divorces first wife Dorothy Hoelle after nearly 2 decades of marriage
1974 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor’s 5th divorce from actor Richard Burton
1975 – Cher divorces Sonny Bono

DEATHS

363 – Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (361-63)
1291 – Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1631 – Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1657 – Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65
1661 – Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76
1666 – Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies
1688 – Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies
1778 – Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
1793 – Gilbert White, English naturalist (“Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn”), dies at 72
1798 – Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56
1810 – Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1819 – Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71
1819 – Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies
1827 – Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies
1827 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73

Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro (1541)

1836 – Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies
1863 – Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies
1878 – Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1896 – Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81
1906 – Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 – Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
1923 – Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
1926 – Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies
1937 – Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
1938 – James Weldon Johnson, African American leader (NAACP), dies in a car crash at 67
1939 – Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65
1943 – Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39

Writer and Civil Rights Activist James Weldon Johnson(1938)

1944 – Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies
1945 – Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54
1945 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer, dies at 72
1946 – Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1946 – Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of a heart attack at 76
1948 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
1949 – Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1956 – Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25
1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 – Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93
1958 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)

11th Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bedford Bennett (1947)

1959 – Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies
1960 – John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70
1961 – Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58
1963 – Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies
1964 – Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1965 – Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82
1965 – Reginald Beckwith, actor/writer (39 Steps, Dr in Love), dies at 56
1967 – Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies
1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1971 – Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91
1971 – Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies
1971 – Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88
1972 – David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61
1973 – Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
1973 – Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82
1975 – St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1977 – Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43
1977 – Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75
1978 – Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed
1979 – Charles Clore, financier, dies
1981 – Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies
1982 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies
1982 – Andre Tchaikowsy, pianist/composer, dies
1982 – Charles Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71
1982 – Sandy Powell, costume designer, dies at 82
1983 – Walter O’Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82
1984 – Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
1984 – George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82
1986 – Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1987 – Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide
1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
1991 – Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80
1991 – Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies
1992 – Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show), dies
1992 – Phil Rubenstein, US, actor (Tango & Cash, Robocop), dies
1992 – Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 – Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82
1993 – Jack Bittner, entertainer, dies

MLB Catcher Roy Campanella (1993)

1993 – Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71
1993 – Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81
1993 – William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
1994 – A “Bob” den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93
1994 – Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64
1994 – Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65
1994 – Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56
1994 – Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96
1996 – Veronica Guerin, journalist, dies at 36
1997 – Don Hutson, first NFL wide receiver, dies at 84
1997 – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Hawaiian singer dies aged 38
2001 – Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 – Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)

First Wide Receiver in NFL History Don Hutson (1997)

2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 – Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 – Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2003 – Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2005 – Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 – Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)
2010 – Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
2012 – Ann Curtis, American Olympic swimmer, dies at 86
2012 – Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter, dies from pneumonia at 71

ALSO ON THIS DAY

Lead Story

• 1948 U.S. begins Berlin Airlift

  American Revolution

• 1784 Delaware Patriot Caesar Rodney dies

  Automotive

• 1956 Congress approves Federal Highway Act

  Civil War

• 1862 Rebels strike Union at the Battle of Mechanicsville

  Cold War

• 1948 Berlin Airlift begins

  Crime

• 1957 A serial killer preys upon a woman out for a drive

  Disaster

• 1807 Lightning strikes in Luxembourg

  General Interest

• 1541 Conqueror of the Incas assassinated
• 1945 U.N. Charter signed
• 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway opened
• 1993 Clinton punishes Iraq for plot to kill Bush
• 2003 Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond dies

  Hollywood

• 1998 Gone with the Wind re-released in United States
• 2012 Nora Ephron, director of “When Harry Met Sally,” dies

  Literary

• 1892 Pearl Buck’s birthday

  Music

• 1975 Sonny and Cher’s divorce becomes final

  Old West

• 1876 Reno takes command of 7th Cavalry

  Presidential

• 1844 President John Tyler weds his second wife
• 1963 Kennedy claims solidarity with the people of Berlin

  Sports

• 1911 Babe Didrikson born

  Vietnam War

• 1965 Westmoreland given authority to commit U.S. forces
• 1972 U.S. aircraft shifted to Thailand

• World War I

• 1917 First U.S. troops arrive in France

• World War II

• 1940 Turkey declares nonbelligerency
• 1945 U.N. Charter is signed