June 30th

TODAY IS:

Meteor Watch Day
Social Media Day

EVENTS

296 – St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
833 – Louis, king of Austria, crowned
949 – Otto I the Great gives away bishopdpric of Utrecht “foreestrecht”
1294 – Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
1371 – Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 – Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés take gold from Aztecs
1520 – The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1528 – Burgundian army occupies Utrecht
1548 – Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 – King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1596 – English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1598 – King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 – Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

King of Spain Philip II

1643 – Battle of Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 – French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 – Whig Lords questions prince William III of Orange on Protestantism
1690 – Battle of Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Dutch/English fleet
1700 – Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1722 – Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Karel VI’s Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 – Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 – Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 – Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1758 – Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 – Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1815 – US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 – Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1851 – Battle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war)
1859 – Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1861 – CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 – Battle at Nelson’s Farm/Glendale/Frayser’s Farm, Virginia: Confederate assault attack. 6th day of 7 days battles US Civil War
1862 – Gustave Flaubert completes “Salammbo”
1863 – Battles in Hanover, Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
1863 – Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 – Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
1865 – 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 – Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 – Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 – Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 – Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 – Henry Highland Garnet named minister to Liberia
1893 – Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 – Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 – London’s Tower Bridge opens
1896 – W S Hadaway patents electric stove
1898 – Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”
1899 – Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
1900 – 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 – Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1905 – The crew of the Russian battleship “Georgei Pobiedonosets” mutinies in support of the “Potemkin”, which mutinied three days earlier
1905 – In Russia, the “Potemkin” arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the ‘1905 Revolution’
1905 – Conservative Australian Prime Minister George H. Reid is forced to resign and Alfred Deakin returns to power on July 5
1906 – John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College

Author Upton Sinclair

1906 – US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ in particular)
1908 – Boston’s Cy Young’s 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 – Tunguska Event: a giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia
1909 – Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 – Russia absorbs Finland
1910 – 27th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats D Boothby (6-2 6-2)
1910 – 34th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats A Gore (6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2)
1911 – Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War

MLB Pitcher Cy Young

1911 – US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 – NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1913 – To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup
1914 – Mahatma Gandhi’s 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1916 – 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 – General Douglas Haig reports “The men are in splendid spirits”
1918 – Prominent US Socialist and Pacifist Eugene Debs is arrested on charges of denouncing the government, a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917
1921 – The South African Reserve Bank is established.
1923 – New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1924 – England score 2-503 in day’s play v South Africa at Lord’s

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

1925 – Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
1927 – Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 – US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 – Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
1929 – 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 – 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 – Don Bradman scores 254 for Australia at Lord’s v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
1933 – 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 – Card’s Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 – US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 – “Night of Long Knives” – Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1934 – French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 – NFL’s Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 – Danno O’Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 – 40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees
1936 – Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” published
1938 – Superman 1st appears in DC Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1
1938 – Final game at Phila’s Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 – Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1940 – “Brenda Starr” cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 – 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 – US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1940 – German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands.

Author Margaret Mitchell

1941 – 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 – Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1942 – 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 – Col-gen Von Paul’s 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 – US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 – US bombs Celebes & Timor
1943 – Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1944 – Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 – French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1944 – Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.

WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

1945 – 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
1948 – Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 – Last British troops leave Israel
1948 – Transistor as a substitute for valves announced (Bell Labs)
1949 – Dutch troops evacuate Jakarta
1950 – US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1951 – “Victor Borge Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1951 – NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 – “Guiding Light” soap opera moves from radio to TV
1952 – Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1953 – 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
1954 – Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1954 – Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Brown’s last game; he retired to become a doctor
1955 – “Johnny Carson Show” debuts on CBS-TV
1956 – “Pipe Dream” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
1956 – “Shangri-La” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances

Marxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

1956 – Lenin’s politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 – United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1958 – “No Chemise, Please” by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
1958 – Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
1959 – During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 – US stops sugar import from Cuba
1960 – Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
1961 – Buddy Rogers beats Pat O’Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ
1961 – Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 – 17th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom
1962 – French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1962 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 – Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 – Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 – Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
1963 – International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies
1964 – Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1964 – Last UN troops leave Congo
1965 – NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 – Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1966 – Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
1966 – Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
1966 – Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
1966 – Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA

Astronaut Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.

1967 – Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1967 – Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
1967 – Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils
1968 – East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives “Order of October Revolution”
1968 – Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats
1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 – Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 – Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1969 – In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence
1970 – Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1971 – Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment
1972 – One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1972 – Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1972 – Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own ‘no-go’ areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican ‘no-go’ areas and fears about concessions to the IRA)
1973 – “Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour” TV Variety; debut on ABC
1973 – Biggest US tanker “Brooklyn” christened (230,000 ton)
1973 – Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 – 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
1974 – Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches “Gulliver’s” nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY)
1974 – Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1975 – Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 – Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
1975 – University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1976 – John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4

39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later “B-1’s the B-52”
1977 – Marvel Comics publish “Kiss book” tributing rock group Kiss
1977 – US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 – Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 – Giants’ Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1978 – Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
1979 – “Got To Go Disco” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1979 – Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC TV’s Juke Box Jury
1980 – West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1981 – China’s Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong’s policy
1981 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
1982 – “Lena Horne: Lady, Music” closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs
1982 – Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 – Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
1982 – NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1984 – Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1984 – Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 – Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds

Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau

1984 – Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
1985 – “The King & I” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1985 – 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 – Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1985 – LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1986 – Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 – Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
1987 – Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1988 – “Sledge Hammer!” last aires on ABC-TV
1988 – Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1988 – Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won’t move to Fla
1988 – French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
1989 – “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
1989 – US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 – Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 – NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 – NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1989 – Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1990 – East & West Germany merge their economies

LPGA Golfer Meg Mallon

1991 – 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 – South Africa Government repeal the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)
1992 – 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)
1992 – Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 – Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
1992 – Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
1992 – South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar
1993 – “Les Miserables” opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
1993 – Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
1994 – Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)

Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

1994 – Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
1994 – Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 – US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
1995 – Indians’ Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
1995 – Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia’s Sakhalin Island
1996 – “Buried Child” closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs
1996 – “Moon Over Buffalo” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs
1996 – “State Fair” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
1996 – Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
1996 – Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1997 – Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1998 – Sega Channel, cable’s 1st on-demand video game service, closes down
2001 – ENI of Italy signs a $550 million contract to develop Iran’s Darquain field, expected to produce 160,000 barrels of petroleum per day

MLB First Baseman Eddie Murray

2002 – FIFA World Cup: Brazil beats Germany 2-0 for football’s 17th World Cup in Yokohama
2004 – “Spider-Man 2” directed by Sam Raimi and starring Toby Maguire andKirsten Dunst is released
2005 – Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 – A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2009 – Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey’s biggest economic slump since 1945
2012 – 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths

Actress Kirsten Dunst

2012 – Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
2012 – Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
2013 – 30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda
2013 – 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
2014 – Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2014 – The corpses of the 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank earlier in month are found

BIRTHDAYS

1286 – John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1468 – Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 – Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1503 – Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1669 – Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 – Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 – John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1722 – Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 – Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 – Jacques D “comte” Cassini, French astronomer
1755 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768 – Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1789 – E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1791 – Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet
1807 – Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1810 – Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 – Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1818 – Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 – William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 – Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1823 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 – Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1846 – Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 – Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1856 – Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 – Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]
1860 – Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1868 – C V France, Bradford England, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 – Walter Hampden, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1890 – Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 – Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 – Ed “Strangler” Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 – Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 – Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1892 – Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 – Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 – Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 – Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 – George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 – Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1899 – Madge Bellamy [Margaret Derden Philpott], Hillsboro, Texas, American actress (White Zombie, The Iron Horse)

Bank Robber Willie Sutton(1901)

1901 – Willie Sutton, Brooklyn New York, American bank robber
1904 – Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 – Nestor Paiva, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape), born in Fresno, California
1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 – Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 – Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 – Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 – Monica Maurice, industrialist
1908 – Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1909 – Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 – Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)
1911 – Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
1912 – Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1912 – Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 – Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 – [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1913 – Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 – David Wayne, actor (Adam’s Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 – Natko Devcic, composer
1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1915 – Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 – Lena Horne, Brooklyn New York, American actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 – Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1917 – Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1918 – Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1919 – Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1920 – Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 – Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 – Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 – Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 – Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 – Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 – Will Gay Bottje, composer
1926 – Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 – James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants), born in Chicago, Illinois
1927 – Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
1928 – Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 – Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1930 – Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 – June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 – Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 – Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1931 – James Loughran, British conductor
1931 – Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 – June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1931 – Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1932 – Martin Mailman, composer
1933 – Mike J K Smith, cricketer (England captain mid-60s)
1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1936 – Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor (Caffe Lena)
1936 – Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 – Pauls Dambis, composer
1936 – Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide), (d. 2013)
1938 – Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
1938 – Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1938 – William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1939 – Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
1941 – John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 – Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 – Micki Grant, composer
1941 – Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 – Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)
1942 – Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1943 – Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 – Glenn Shorrock, Australian rock vocalist (Little River Band), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1944 – Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1946 – Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 – Jasper van ‘t Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
1947 – Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1949 – Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
1949 – Bùi Thanh Liêm, Hanoi. Vietnamese cosmonaut (d. 1981)
1949 – Eric Goetz, American shipbuilder (America’s Cup 1995), born in NYC, New York
1950 – Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1950 – Pablo Castillo, jockey
1951 – Andre Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love Orange)
1951 – Stanley Clarke, Phila, rock bassist (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 – Stephen S Oswald, astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67), born in Seattle, Washington
1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1952 – David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1953 – Hal Lindes, Monterey CA, rocker (Dire Straits)
1954 – Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 – Ken Olin, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1955 – Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1956 – Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
1956 – David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang)
1956 – Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1957 – Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank-5th)
1957 – Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
1959 – Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
1959 – Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter (Olympics-24-92, 96)
1959 – Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
1959 – Vincent D’Onofrio, American actor
1960 – Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1960 – Murray Cook, Australian children’s singer (The Wiggles)
1961 – Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player (Goodwill-gold-94)
1962 – Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
1962 – Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia, astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1963 – Rupert Graves, English actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice), born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
1963 – Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1965 – Mitch Richmond, Fort Lauderdale Fl, NBA guard (Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
1965 – Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson(1966)

1966 – “Iron” Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1966 – Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
1966 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1967 – Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995)
1967 – Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record 1992)
1967 – Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress
1968 – Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF Giants)
1968 – Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 – Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 – Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1969 – Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1969 – Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA, 470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer (Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup)
1970 – Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, Milwaukee Wisc, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 – Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 – Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1971 – Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
1972 – Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 – Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1996)
1972 – Garret Anderson, outfielder (California Angels), born in Los Angeles, California
1972 – Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
1972 – James Martin, English celebrity chef
1973 – Chan Ho Park, Kong Ju City Korea, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 – Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1974 – Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1997)
1974 – Melanie Lambert American ice skater
1974 – Hezekiel Sepeng, Potchefstroom South Africa, South African athlete
1975 – Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)

Formula 1 Racing Driver Ralf Schumacher (1975)

1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
1976 – Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-olympics-96)
1977 – Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place (1996)
1978 – Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1978 – Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1979 – Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1979 – Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 – Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1981 – Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
1981 – Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1981 – Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1981 – Ben Utecht, American football Player
1982 – Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 – Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress (Mean Girls, Marlena Diamond-Cloverfield), born in Los Angeles, California
1983 – Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 – Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 – Patrick Wolf, British musician
1983 – Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1985 – Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals), born in Baltimore, Maryland

Swimmer Michael Phelps(1985)

1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 – Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1986 – Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress

WEDDINGS

1831 – Soldier and Future Confederate General Robert E. Lee (24) marries Mary Curtis (22) at Arlington House, Arlington Virginia
1973 – Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21)
1975 – Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1978 – English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1992 – Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
2008 – Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John (59) weds natural-health businessman John Easterling (56) in Florida’s Jupiter Island

Actor Alec Baldwin (2012)

2012 – Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City
2012 – Mick Jagger’s daughter Jade Jagger (41) weds longtime boyfriend Adrian Fillary at the Aynhoe Park Hotel in Oxfordshire, England
2012 – Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (32) weds longtime girlfriend Kijfa Frink at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach, Florida
2012 – “The Doctors” co-host Travis Stork (40) weds pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Brown in Colorado

DIVORCES

1992 – Actress Natasha Richardson (29) divorces producer Robert Fox (39) after a year of marriage
2006 – American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces 98 Degrees boy band singer Nick Lachey (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
2010 – “Scream 4” actress Neve Campbell (37) divorces actor John Light (36) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

DEATHS

350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1109 – Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 – Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned by his own people
1538 – Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
1579 – Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1649 – Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 – Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 – Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
1666 – Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32
1666 – Alexander Brome, British poet
1670 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)

Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II (1520)

1685 – Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1704 – John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1792 – Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
1796 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1817 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1819 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1839 – Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
1857 – Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1862 – Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged at 40
1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)

Assassin Charles J. Guiteau(1882)

1889 – Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
1899 – Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1904 – Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter), dies
1905 – John Hay, US politician, dies
1914 – Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76
1920 – Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
1923 – Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
1924 – Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1934 – Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
1934 – Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
1934 – Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered

Physicist and Nobel Laureate John William Strutt (1919)

1934 – Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
1934 – Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1935 – William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
1938 – Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 – Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
1946 – Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
1948 – Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
1953 – Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children’s book), dies at 79
1953 – Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
1953 – Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 – Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76
1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1960 – Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79
1961 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1962 – Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65
1965 – Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies
1968 – John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73
1969 – Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76
1971 – Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
1971 – Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
1971 – Crew of Soyu
1971 – Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1973 – Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame’s legendary 4-horsemen, died
1973 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 – Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church
1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 – Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 – Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
1980 – Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
1983 – Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies
1983 – Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
1984 – Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1985 – James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1987 – Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
1987 – King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies
1992 – Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
1992 – Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53
1992 – Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1993 – George “Spanky” McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1994 – Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 – Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
1995 – Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here’s Lucy), dies at 89
1995 – Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1995 – Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45
1995 – Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1996 – Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1996 – Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
1996 – Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
1996 – Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
1997 – Larry O’Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 – Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 – Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 – Robert McCloskey, American children’s book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2004 – Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (b. 1924)
2005 – Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady’s Not for Burning), dies at 97
2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
2010 – Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
2011 – Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 96
2014 – Bob Hastings, American actor, dies from prostate cancer at 89
2014 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary cardiac arrest at 84

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1936 Gone with the Wind published

• American Revolution

• 1775 Congress impugns Parliament and adopts Articles of War

• Automotive

• 1953 First Corvette built

• Civil War

• 1862 Fighting continues in the Seven Days’ Battles

• Cold War

• 1950 Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea

• Crime

• 1981 A first-time offender ends up on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List

• Disaster

• 1900 Fire breaks out at New Jersey pier
• 2013 19 firefighters die in Arizona blaze

• General Interest

• 1520 Spanish retreat from Aztec capital
• 1859 Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope
• 1934 Night of the Long Knives
• 1971 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster

• Hollywood

• 1989 Do the Right Thing released

• Literary

• 2003 Make Way for Ducklings author Robert McCloskey dies

• Music

• 1975 Cher marries Greg Allman

• Old West

• 1876 Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat

• Presidential

• 1812 Madison makes urgent call to commission more officers to fight the British

• Sports

• 1962 Sandy Koufax pitches first no-hitter

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Thieu becomes president
• 1970 Cooper-Church Amendment passes in Senate

• World War I

• 1914 European powers maintain focus despite killings in Sarajevo

• World War II

• 1943 Operation Cartwheel is launched