July 17th

TODAY IS:

Peach Ice Cream Day
Yellow Pig Day

EVENTS

180 – 6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
561 – John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 – St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 – Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 – Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 – Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city
1245 – Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 – Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 – Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 – 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 – Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1505 – Martin Luther enters into an Augustinian monastery at Erfurt
1509 – Venice recaptures Padua
1549 – Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 – Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 – Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 – English secret service discovers Anthony Babington’s murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I

Queen of England and Ireland Elizabeth I

1596 – At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 – Sir Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James
1686 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an ‘evangelical’ league of defence, called the ‘Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae’, against the Catholic League.
1712 – England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1717 – Handel’s “Water Music” premieres on the river Thames in London
1727 – Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 – Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1762 – Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia upon the murder of Peter III
1774 – Captain Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1775 – 1st military hospital approved
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.

Empress of Russia Catherine the Great

1794 – Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia’s Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1821 – Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 – British humorous and satirycal magazine “Punch” first published; it finally closed in 2002
1850 – Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people.
1861 – US Congress authorizes paper money
1861 – Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas
1862 – Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 – US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 – United army officially divides corps
1862 – R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
1863 – Battle of Honey Springs – largest battle in Indian Territory
1863 – Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1864 – CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 – Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1878 – Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
1879 – 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1882 – 6th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-1 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-2)
1885 – 9th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (7-5, 6-2 4-6 7-5)
1886 – 10th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 5-7 6-3 6-4)
1890 – Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 – Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 – 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 – Spanish American War – Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1900 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 – Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
1902 – Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
1906 – Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau
1911 – Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 – IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 – Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1915 – Italian offensive at Isonzo

King of the United Kingdom George V

1917 – Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1918 – Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 – Finland adopts constitution
1919 – Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 – Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 – Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 – Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 – St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 – Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 – USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1934 – Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 – Variety’s famous headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”
1936 – Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1936 – Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1938 – Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 – 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 – 3′ of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 – Estimated 34.5″ (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 – Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 – RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1944 – 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322

Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio

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1944 – Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland

Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Josef Stalin in the garden of
Cecilienhof Palace before meeting for the Potsdam Conference

Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1945 – Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1948 – Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 – Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 – Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1950 – Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa
1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
1951 – Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered.
1952 – Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 – 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 – Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1954 – Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 – Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 – Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1958 – King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 – Peter Shaffer’s “Five Finger Exercise” premieres in London
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 – 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 – Tibet abolishes serfdom
1959 – River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

1959 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or ‘Zinj’ (now called Paranthropus boisei) that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1961 – John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 – Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
1962 – East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 – Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 – Senate rejects medicare for aged
1962 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1964 – Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1964 – Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 – ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

1965 – WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins
1966 – “It’s a Bird… It’s Superman” closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs
1966 – Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 – Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1966 – Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 – Pioneer 7 launched
1967 – Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 – Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 – Beatles’ animated film “Yellow Submarine” premieres in London
1968 – Revolt in Iraq
1970 – 30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC
1971 – Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1972 – 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1973 – Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1974 – 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1974 – Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 – John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1975 – Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1975 – Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; the attack was the first major breach of a February truce
1976 – 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal
1976 – Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1977 – Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1978 – NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
MLB Right Fielder Reggie Jackson

1978 – Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 – 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1979 – All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1979 – David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979 – Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1979 – Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1979 – Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1980 – Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 – Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president
1980 – Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 – “This is Burlesque” closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1981 – Humber Estuary Bridge, UK, world’s longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 – Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 – Lobby Walkways at KC’s Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1981 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 – Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1981 – Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
1983 – 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 – 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1983 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald’s Kids Golf Classic
1984 – Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 – Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1986 – Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1987 – “Les Miserables” opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 – 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1987 – Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel

1987 – Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1987 – Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations
1988 – 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 – 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela’s 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 – Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 – Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman’s record (10.49)
1988 – Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
1989 – 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1989 – Paul McCartney releases “This One”
1989 – Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1990 – Hussein’s Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 – NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1990 – Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
NFL Legend Deion Sanders

1992 – Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1993 – Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1994 – 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 – FIFA World Cup: Brazil beats Italy 3-2 on penalties, in football’s 15th World Cup in Pasadena
1994 – French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 – Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 – Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1996 – 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996 – Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates

1997 – STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1998 – Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
2004 – Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators
2004 – Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids
2005 – Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning The British Open Championship by 5 strokes. Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once
2005 – 134th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 274 at St Andrews
2005 – 13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sorenstam win
2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
2009 – Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.
2011 – 140th British Golf Open: Darren Clarke shoots a 275 at Royal St George’s Golf Club
2012 – 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2013 – 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
2013 – 58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China
2013 – 21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Serena Williams win
2013 – U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
2014 – 5 hour humanitarian ceasefire, proposed by the UN, takes place between Israel and Hamas

BIRTHDAYS

1487 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi’ah (d. 1524)
1674 – Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 – Johann Schneider, composer
1744 – Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1745 – Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 – Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 – John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 – August Harder, composer
1797 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 – Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 – Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 – Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 – Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 – Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1853 – Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 – Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 – Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 – Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 – Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 – Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 – Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
1876 – Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 – Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 – Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 – Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 – Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 – Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
Detective Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (1889)

1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970)
1894 – Mary Clare, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent), born in London, England
1897 – Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 – Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
1898 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 – James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1901 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1902 – Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1903 – Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 – Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 – Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 – William Gargan, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
Actor James Cagney (1899)

1906 – John Carroll, [Julian LaFaye], actor (Wolf Call), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1908 – Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 – Hardy Amies, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II), born in London, England
1911 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1912 – Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1913 – Everett Helm, composer
1913 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1913 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1914 – Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1914 – James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate, 1923), (d. 2009)
1915 – Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1915 – Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 – Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1915 – Habib Rajab, Durban, South African, a trader and collector of oriental art
1916 – Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 – Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
Comedienne and Actress Phyllis Diller (1917)

1917 – Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), (d. 2012)
1917 – Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1917 – Kenan Evren, Turkish soldier and politician, (President of Turkey 1980-1989 by military coup), born in Alaşehir, Manisa Province (d. 2015)
1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1919 – Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 – Bill Monroe, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1920 – Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster’s Million)
1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman (International Olympic Committee)
1920 – Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1920 – Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1921 – Acquanetta, [Mildred Davenport], Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman)
1921 – George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1921 – František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
Baseball Player Toni Stone(1921)

1921 – Toni Stone [Marcenia Lyle Alberga], St. Paul Minnesota, American baseball player (first woman to play in a men’s league)
1922 – Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1923 – John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
1926 – Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1926 – Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1928 – Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1928 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929 – Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 – Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 – Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 – Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 – Wojciech Kilar, Lwów, Second Polish Republic, composer (The Pianist), (d. 2013)
1932 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1933 – Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests)
1933 – Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1934 – Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show)
1934 – Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 – Rainer Kisch, writer
1934 – Lucio Tan, Chinese Filipino businessman (Philippine Airlines), in Amoy China
1935 – Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 – Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 – P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1937 – Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 – Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 – Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1939 – Warwick Hutton, artist
1939 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1939 – Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
1940 – Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1940 – Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1941 – Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty’s shadow)
1941 – Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
1942 – Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)
1942 – Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We’ll Sing in the Sunshine)
1942 – Don Kessinger, American baseball player
1942 – Peter Sissons, British newsreader
1944 – Mark Burgess, cricketer (NZ batsman of the 70’s)
1945 – Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1945 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1946 – Alun Armstrong, English actor
Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles (1947)

1947 – Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), wife of Prince Charles, born in London, England
1947 – Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 – Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 – Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 – Luc Bondy, Zurich Switzerland
1948 – Phillip Harris, rocker
1948 – Ron Asheton, Washington DC, guitarist and song writer (Iggy Pop), (d. 2009).
1949 – Mick Tucker, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden), born in London, England
1949 – Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 – Geezer Butler, English rock bassist (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England
1949 – Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
1950 – Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
1950 – P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
1951 – Lucie Arnaz, actress (Kim-Here’s Lucy, Jazz Singer), born in Los Angeles, California
1952 – Chet McCracken, rocker (Doobie Brothers), born in Seattle, Washington
Actor David Hasselhoff(1952)

1952 – David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)
1952 – Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 – Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from “It’s a Different World”)
1952 – Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, American author
1955 – Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
1955 – Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
1956 – Bryan Trottier, Val Marie Saskatchewan, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1956 – Robert Romanus, American actor
1957 – Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1959 – Janet Lynn Kavandi, Springfield Mo, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS 91)
1960 – Jan Wouters, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
NHL Center Bryan Trottier(1956)

1960 – Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena California, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 – Kim Barnett, cricketer (England batsman & occasional leggie 1988-89)
1960 – Nancy Giles, actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie), born in NYC, New York
1960 – Robin Shou, martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1960 – Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Super Bowl XXV goat)
1960 – Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1960 – Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1961 – Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
1962 – Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, archer (Olympics-gold-1988, 92, 96)
1962 – Bill Sage, American actor
1963 – Denise Miller, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Billie-Archie Bunker’s Place)
1963 – Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1963 – Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1963 – John Ventimiglia, American actor
1964 – Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1965 – Alex Winter, actor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure), born in London, England
1965 – Ken Evraire, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 – Craig Morgan, American singer
1965 – Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
1966 – Michael John Bradley, Largo FL, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open-3rd)
1966 – Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
1967 – Kevin Pritchard, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1967 – Pearl Sinn, Seoul Korea, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th)
1968 – Beth Littleford, American comedian
1968 – Bitty Schram, American actress
1969 – Tommy Soderstrom, Stockholm SWE, NHL goalie (Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 – Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 – Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can’t Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1971 – Calbert Cheaney, NBA forward/guard (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 – Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1971 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
1971 – Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
1972 – Donny Marshall, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 – Eric Williams, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics)
1972 – Melissa “Missy” Schwen, Bloomington Ind, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 – Michael Lampert, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1973 – Horacio Llamas, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1973 – Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1973 – Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
1974 – Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1975 – Troy Amos Ross, Georgetown Guyana, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 – Gino D’Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
1975 – Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
1975 – Cécile de France, Belgian actress
1975 – Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 – Konnie Huq, English television presenter
1975 – Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
1975 – Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
1976 – Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
1976 – Eric Winter, American actor
1976 – Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
1977 – M.I.A., British rapper
1977 – Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1977 – Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1978 – Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1978 – Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
1978 – Émilie Simon, French singer
1978 – Katharine Towne, American actress
1979 – Mike Vogel, American actor
1980 – Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
1980 – Ryan Miller, American hockey player
1981 – Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
1982 – Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1982 – Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
1983 – Brooke Kinsella, British actress
1983 – Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
1983 – Sarah Jones, American actress
1983 – Adam Lind, American baseball player
1984 – Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
1984 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1985 – Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
1985 – Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 – Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
1987 – Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
1987 – Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
1988 – Summer Bishil, American actress
1989 – Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
1989 – Josie Lopez, American actress
1998 – Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal

WEDDINGS

1954 – Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era Groucho Marx (63) weds actress Eden Hartford (24)
1988 – NHL ice hockey star player Wayne Gretzky (27) weds actress Janet Jones (27) at St. Joseph’s Basilica in Edmonton, Canada
1990 – PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1990 – Record producer Berry Gordy (60) weds Grace Easton
1990 – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27)
1999 – Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (36) weds “The Simpsons” voice actor Hank Azaria (35) in Los Angeles, California
Cricketer Glenn McGrath(1999)

1999 – Cricketer Glenn McGrath (29) weds flight attendant Jane Louise Steele
1999 – Actress Raquel Welch (58) weds Richard Palmer in Beverly Hills, California
2005 – Actor Ethan Embry (27) weds actress Sunny Mabrey (29)
2006 – “Wheel of Fortune” Original host Chuck Woolery (65) weds Kim Barnes at The Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
2010 – Actress Khadijah Haqq (29) weds New Orleans Saints defensive end Bobby McCray (29) at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles
2010 – Boston Celtics star player Paul Pierce (32) weds interior-designer Julie Landrum (27) at Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Coast, California

DIVORCES

1975 – Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

DEATHS

180 – Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death as Christians in Carthage
521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 – King Edward the Elder of England (899-924)
1025 – Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1070 – Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1345 – Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1453 – John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1510 – Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1531 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 – Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1627 – Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1682 – Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1704 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 – Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1709 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1746 – Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1753 – Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1762 – Peter III, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1763 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
Economist and Philosopher Adam Smith (1790)

1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 – Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1794 – Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1794 – John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1804 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
1826 – Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1838 – John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1851 – Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1863 – James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1864 – Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
1864 – Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1871 – Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 – Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1878 – Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 – Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 – Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1901 – John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1903 – James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1912 – J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1915 – Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 – Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13
1918 – Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
Grand Duchess of Russia Anastasia Nikolaevna(1918)

1918 – Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 – Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 – Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 – Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1922 – Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1928 – Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1935 – George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1937 – Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
Tsar Nicholas II (1918)

1943 – Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
1944 – Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1944 – William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1946 – Dragoljub “Draza” Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1947 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved thousands of Jews), dies at 34
1950 – Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 – Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 – Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
1954 – Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1955 – Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 – Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at 44
Jazz Musician Billie Holiday(1959)

1959 – Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961 – Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1965 – Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 – August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 – Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy’s Tavern, Red Hot & Blue), dies at 74
1967 – Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 – John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies of cancer at 40
1970 – Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 – Cliff Edwards, “Ukulele Ike”, singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1974 – Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
1975 – Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
Jazz Musician John Coltrane(1967)

1978 – Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1979 – Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1980 – Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1984 – J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 – Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 – Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988 – Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler, stabbed to death at 42
1990 – Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1993 – Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 – Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1993 – Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1994 – Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1995 – Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 – Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
1996 – Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies at 85
1996 – Amancio D’Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 – [Bryan] Chas Chandler, English rock bassist (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun) and manager of Jimi Hendrix, dies at 57
1996 – Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
1996 – Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
1996 – John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1996 – Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
1996 – Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
2001 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003 – David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004 – Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
2005 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 – Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005 – Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2006 – Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2006 – Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
2007 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)
2008 – Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite (2009)

2009 – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2011 – David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
2012 – William Raspberry, American journalist, dies at 76
2013 – Peter Appleyard, British-born Canadian musician, dies from natural causes at 84
2014 – Henry Hartsfield Jr, American astronaut, DIES FROM complications from back surgery at 80
2014 – Elaine Stritch, American actress, dies at 89

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1955 Disneyland opens

• American Revolution

• 1776 Congress learns of war of words

• Automotive

• 1920 Three-point seatbelt inventor Nils Bohlin born

• Civil War

• 1864 John Bell Hood takes command of the Army of Tennessee

• Cold War

• 1945 Potsdam Conference begins

• Crime

• 2011 Casey Anthony released from prison

• Disaster

• 1944 Port Chicago disaster

• General Interest

• 1938 “Wrong Way” Corrigan crosses the Atlantic
• 1975 Superpowers meet in space
• 1996 Flight 800 explodes over Long Island

• Hollywood

• 1956 High Society, Grace Kelly’s last film, opens

• Literary

• 1889 Erle Stanley Gardner is born

• Music

• 1967 Jimi Hendrix drops out as opening act for The Monkees

• Old West

• 1763 John Jacob Astor is born
• 1870 “Wild Bill” Hickok kills a soldier

• Presidential

• 1945 Truman records impressions of Stalin

• Sports

• 1941 Joe DiMaggio ends 56-game hitting streak

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Wheeler visits South Vietnam
• 1972 South Vietnamese paratroopers fight for Citadel

• World War I

• 1917 Fighting in the streets of Petrograd, Russia

• World War II

• 1945 Potsdam Conference convenes