September 1st

EVENTS

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
891 – Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067 – Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders
1181 – Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
1267 – Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1355 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1482 – Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine
1511 – Council of Pisa opens
1535 – French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1547 – Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1598 – Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1609 – Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies
1614 – Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1632 – Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency’s rebellion army loses
1638 – -4] French queen-mother Maria de’ Medici visits Amsterdam
King of Spain Philip II

1647 – French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan
1661 – 1st Yacht race, England’s King Charles vs his brother James
1689 – Russia began taxing men’s beards
1695 – Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
1695 – French garrison of castle Namur surrenders fto the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1739 – 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1752 – Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
Empress of Russia Catherine the Great

1785 – Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1797 – 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1798 – Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India
1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 – Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1821 – 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1831 – Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
1836 – Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1849 – California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 – 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1859 – 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1859 – R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1859 – A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1861 – Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 – Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
1862 – Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1862 – Federal tax levied on tobacco
1863 – 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1863 – Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 – Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated
1864 – 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
1864 – Battle of Petersburg VA
1864 – Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1866 – Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate
1867 – Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1870 – Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1874 – 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office
1874 – Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
1878 – 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1886 – Netherland’s New Code of Criminal law enforced
1887 – Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1888 – Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1890 – 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1893 – Gladstones’ Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41
1893 – 33rd British Golf Open: William Auchterlonie shoots a 322 at Prestwick Golf Club
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1898 – Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1898 – Lord Kitchener’s troops attack Omdurman, Sudan
1900 – Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council) founded by Arthur Griffith in order to promote a buy Irish campaign
1901 – Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
1902 – Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time
1905 – Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier

1905 – Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada
1906 – Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 – British New Guinea placed under Australian administration
1906 – Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A’s) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 – NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1911 – M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1913 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles & the Lion” premieres in London
1913 – Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing “2nd Chinese revolution”
1914 – 34th US Men’s Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (6-3 8-6 10-8)
1914 – Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1914 – St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
Playwright George Bernard Shaw

1914 – Von Gluck’s army meets up with British expeditionary army
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1914 – 34th U.S. Men’s National Championship: R. Norris Williams beats Maurice McLoughlin (6-3, 8-6, 10-8)
1915 – The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner “Arabic”
1916 – Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 – US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 – Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 – Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1918 – US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1919 – Frank Wedekind’s “Herakles” premieres in Munich
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1920 – France creates Greater Lebanon
1920 – New town hall of Rotterdam opens
1921 – Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1922 – NYC law requires all “pool” rooms to change name to “billiards”
1923 – 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1), for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1923 – 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000
1924 – Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925 – Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 – British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 – Turkey allows civil marriage
1928 – Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1930 – NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
1931 – Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games
1932 – NYC Mayor James J “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker resigns (graft charges)
1933 – Soccer team DVS ’33 forms
1934 – Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1936 – Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1937 – 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1937 – Battle of Gijon in Spain begins
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

1938 – Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1939 – Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1939 – Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years
1939 – Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with “black holes”
1939 – Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1939 – WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939 – Gen George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1941 – Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
Military Leader George Marshall

1942 – US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 – German troops land on Taman peninsula
1943 – Chiang Kai-shek again becomes Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China
1944 – Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944 – King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
1945 – Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)
1945 – Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 – 1st US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1946 – Greece votes for monarchy
1947 – NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 – Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1948 – Communist form North China People’s Republic
1948 – UN’s World Health Organization forms
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1949 – 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres
1949 – KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 – Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2)
1950 – 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1950 – West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 – PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1951 – US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1952 – Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1952 – Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
1953 – 101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1953 – Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1953 – WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 – WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
1954 – Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68
1954 – Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49
1955 – 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 – KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 – Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1956 – KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1957 – WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 – WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 – WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1958 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1958 – St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1960 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1961 – 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1962 – 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 – KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 – UN announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1963 – Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
1963 – St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1964 – Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1965 – India & Pakistan border fights
1966 – KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 – KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 – SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1967 – WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 – WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
1968 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 – Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
1968 – Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
Comedian Jerry Lewis

1969 – Jerry Lewis’ 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 – Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1970 – Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
1970 – Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador
1971 – John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
1971 – Qatar declares independence from Britain
1971 – Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1971 – The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people
1972 – Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1972 – Egypt & Libya form federation
1973 – 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 – George Foreman KOs Jose “King” Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Boxing Champ George Foreman

1973 – Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies’ concessions
1974 – Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1974 – Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 – Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1975 – All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1975 – Gunsmoke goes off the the air
1975 – Jerry Lewis’ 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1975 – KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
1975 – NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 – NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
1975 – 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
1975 – US stripper well oil prices decontrolled
1976 – NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 – New Jersey’s Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 – Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 – 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 – Indians’ Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt)
1978 – Last broadcast of “Columbo” on NBC TV
1978 – Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4″ disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
Comedian Jerry Lewis

1978 – #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
1979 – Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 – LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 – Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1980 – Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1980 – Jerry Lewis’ 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
1980 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1980 – Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1981 – Fiona Brothers sets women’s propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1981 – Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees
1981 – RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show
1981 – Northern Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
LPGA Golfer Nancy Lopez

1982 – Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls” premieres in London
1982 – Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 – Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1982 – Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 – WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
1985 – Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1985 – US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 – Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1986 – Jerry Lewis’ 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney

1986 – Paul McCartney releases “Press to Play” album
1986 – Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1987 – 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1987 – Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
1988 – Timberlake Westenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” premieres in London
1989 – “Anything Goes” closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1989 – Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
1989 – “Roger and Me”, the first documentary directed by Michael Moorepremieres at the Telluride Film Festival
1990 – “Heidi Chronicles” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs
1990 – “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs
1990 – Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
1990 – Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
1991 – Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
Documentary Filmmaker Michael Moore

1991 – Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1991 – 3rd World Championships in Athletics close at Tokyo, Japan
1992 – NYC police commisioner Brown resigns
1992 – Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
1993 – “White Liars/Black Comedy” opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs
1993 – Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
1995 – Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1995 – New York reinstates the death penalty
1995 – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
1996 – Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1997 – “Doll’s House” closes at Belasco Theater
1997 – Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1997 – Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic
1997 – Jerry Lewis’ 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2005 – Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation.
Singer Kelly Clarkson

2005 – 22nd MTV Video Music Awards: Green Day, Kelly Clarkson & Kanye West wins
2006 – Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2006 – Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner
2012 – Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
2012 – Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
2012 – Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan’s Sayed Abad district
2012 – US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan

BIRTHDAYS

1286 – Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1529 – Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1549 – Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 – Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1608 – Giacomo Torelli, Fano, Italy, stage designer, engineer and architect
1651 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel, Nuremberg, composer (Canon in D), (d. 1706)
1689 – Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder (Prague)
1711 – Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
1712 – Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator
1724 – John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)
1732 – Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1732 – Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer
1751 – Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer [or Apr 9]
1758 – Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
1768 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
Composer Johann Pachelbel (1653)

1787 – John Bake, classical composer
1789 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
1791 – Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Keith Scotland, American newspaper publisher (New York Herald)
1798 – Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1873)
1803 – Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter
1816 – Gustav Schmidt, composer
1824 – Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1827 – Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)
1829 – James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1883)
1845 – Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta
1848 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1849 – Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
Founder of the New York Herald James Gordon Bennett (1795)

1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Omsk, Russian Empire, poet, critic and interpreter (poètes maudits)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1862 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
1862 – Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
1864 – Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1866 – James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1868 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1870 – Timotei Popovici, composer
1871 – J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1873 – Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
1874 – Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
1874 – Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck, composer
1887 – Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
1887 – Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 – Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer
1895 – Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)
1895 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 – Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford
1900 – Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
1900 – Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
1900 – Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail)
1904 – Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1905 – Gervase Hughes, composer
1905 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1907 – Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic
1907 – Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO)
1908 – Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1911 – Komei Abe, composer
1911 – Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 – Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner
1919 – Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), (d. 2012)
1920 – Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester), born in Los Angeles, California
1921 – Matt Higgins Doran, composer
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
1922 – Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1922)
1922 – Joe Astroth, East Alton, Illinois, MLB player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics), (d. 2013)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano(1923)

1923 – Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)
1923 – Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 – Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist
1925 – Ruth S White, composer
1925 – Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1927 – Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)
1928 – George Maharis, Astoria New York, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)
1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1930 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT), born in Secunderabad (d. 2015)
1931 – “Boxcar” Willie, singer
1931 – Matthew J Rinaldo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1973- )
1933 – Conway Twitty, [Harold Jenkins], Miss, country singer (Hello Darlin’)
1933 – Tom Vreugdenhil, Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 – Ann W. Richards, Lakeview Texas, American politician
1933 – Marshall Lytle, Old Fort, North Carolina, Hall of Fame rock bassist (Comets), (d. 2013)
1934 – Terepai Maoate, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1999-2002), (d. 2012)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1937 – Al Geiberger, Red Bluff CA, PGA golfer (1962 Ontario Open)
1937 – Ron O’Neal, Utica NY, actor (Superfly)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz, attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson), born in NYC, New York
1938 – Art Agnos, US, politician(?)
1939 – Heinrich Messner, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 – Katie Webster, [Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer
1939 – Lily Tomlin, comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me), born in Detroit, Michigan
1941 – Sid Pye, drummer
1942 – C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherryh, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy)
1943 – Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1968)
1943 – Don Stroud, Honolulu, Hawaii, American actor (Coogan’s Bluff, Buddy Holly Story)
1944 – Archie Bell, US singer (& the Drells-Tighten up)
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth), born in Los Angeles, California
1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 – Barry Gibb, Manchester England, guitarist/singer (Bee Gees)
1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & Family Stone-Stand!), born in San Francisco, California
1946 – Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
1947 – Al Green, American politician
1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1948 – James Rebhorn, PA, actor (White Collar, Homeland), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2014)
1949 – P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 – Timothy Zahn, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike)
1951 – David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1953 – Chuck Orton, US sysop, (Emerald BBS, Oregon)
1953 – Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 – Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 – Gabor Ormai, viola Player
1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Bruce Foxton, rock guitarist (Jam)
1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist
Singer Gloria Estefan(1957)

1957 – Gloria Estefan, [Fajardo], Havana, singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga)
1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 – Keith Allen Clearwater, PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl), born in Long Beach, California
1959 – Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI)
1962 – Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star (Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan)
1962 – Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN-Bad bad woman)
1963 – David Zhuang, China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 – Ray D’Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1965 – Aldo Swager, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1965 – Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 – Katja Bienert, actress (Praxis Bulowbogen), born in Berlin, Germany
1966 – Stephane Talbot, Greenfield Park Que, golfer (1992 Quebec PGA)
1966 – Tim Hardaway, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1967 – David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 – Michelle Buckingham, Canadian 61 kg judoka (Olymp-20-92, 96), born in Los Angeles, California
1968 – Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 – Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Barbara Paulus, tennis star, born in Vienna, Austria
1970 – Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star
1970 – Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 – Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end (GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1971 – Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner (world record)
1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 – Lââm, French singer
1971 – Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1972 – Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe (1997)
1972 – Josh Davis, US, 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 – Louise Dobson, Shepparton Aust, field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1972 – Matt O’Dwyer, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1972 – Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1973 – Gillian Boxx, Fontana CA, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 – Trent Bray, NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 – J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player
1973 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1975 – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 – Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 – Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 – Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 – Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 – Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 – Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 – James O’Connor, Irish footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 – Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 – Nick Noble, American soccer player
1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 – H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 – Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer

WEDDINGS

1730 – US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
1843 – Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
1940 – Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon
1945 – Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox
1970 – “The Bee Gees” singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray
1975 – Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (44) weds Ann Fowler
1986 – Actress Whoopi Goldberg (30) weds cinematographer David Claessen
Actress Whoopi Goldberg(1986)

1996 – Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carter weds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia
2001 – “The Accidental Tourist” actress Geena Davis (45) weds Iranian American plastic surgeon Dr. Reza Jarrahy
2001 – “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon (30) weds Tressa Di Figlia in Carlsbad
2001 – “Six Days Seven Nights” actress Anne Heche (32) weds cameraman Coleman Laffoon in Los Angeles, California
2001 – Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (51) marries for second time fashion designer Kai Millard Morris
2002 – Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (35) weds actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (36) at El Careyes Resort in Mexico
2002 – “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” actress Terry Farrell (38) weds actor Brian Baker (35) at Paris Las Vegas in in Paradise, Nevada
Singer Usher (2007)

2007 – Singer-songwriter Usher (28) weds hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (37) at Chateau Elan Winery and Resort in Georgia
2007 – The first Apprentice winner Bill Rancic (36) weds E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi (32) at the Church of Santa Sofia in Capri, Italy
2007 – “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Kate Walsh (39) weds movie executive Alex Young (35) at the Ojai Presbyterian Church in Ojai, California
2007 – “Dancing with the Stars” tv personality Alec Mazo (29) weds fellow dancer Edyta Sliwinska (28) in San Francisco, California
2012 – “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Jesse Williams (31) weds real estate broker Aryn Drake-Lee (32) in Los Angeles
2013 – Comedian Seth Meyers (39) weds human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1067 – Baldwin V, Count of Flanders/guardian of King of France, dies
1159 – Adrian IV, [Nicole Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), dies
1215 – Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht
1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1406 – Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84
1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, dies at 65
1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1666 – French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1671 – Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies
1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
The Sun King of France Louis XIV (1715)

1715 – Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76
1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1731 – Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50
1777 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
1780 – Reynier de Klerk, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69
1801 – Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
1814 – Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53
1838 – William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68
1862 – Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 – Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 – Philip “Phil” Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1867 – Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1880 – Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75
1896 – Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
Explorer and Leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition William Clark (1838)

1903 – Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
1912 – Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
1912 – Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
1914 – Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1941 – Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 – Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1951 – Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German drawer/painter, dies at 38
1953 – Bernard O’Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1955 – Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
1957 – Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1957 – Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1961 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
1961 – William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1963 – Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1963 – Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
1964 – George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76
1967 – Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76
1967 – Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
1967 – James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1968 – Granville English, composer, dies at 69
1969 – Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1969 – William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46
1970 – Francois Mauriac, writer, dies
1972 – May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84
1977 – Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76
1978 – Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33
1979 – Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
1981 – Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76
1981 – Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
1981 – Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut, dies in a MiG-21 crash at 32
1982 – Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75
1982 – Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1983 – Henry “Scoop” Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1983 – Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1983 – Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1984 – Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
1988 – Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1989 – A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1991 – Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 – Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1992 – Morris Carnovsky, US actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
1993 – Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993 – Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 – Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
1994 – Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88
1994 – Pieter C “Piet” Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1994 – Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies
1994 – Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1995 – Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32
1995 – Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93
1996 – Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98
1996 – Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
1996 – George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69
1996 – Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86
1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 – Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 – Bob O’Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2009 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister, dies from a brain tumour
2012 – Hal David, American Lyricist, dies at 91
Heavyweight Boxer Tommy Morrison (2013)

2013 – Tommy Morrison, American heavyweight boxing champion and actor, dies from multiple organ failure at 44

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1864 Atlanta falls to Union forces

• American Revolution

• 1775 King George refuses Olive Branch Petition

• Automotive

• 1998 Federal legislation makes airbags mandatory

• Civil War

• 1862 North and South clash at the Battle of Chantilly

• Cold War

• 1983 Korean Airlines flight shot down by Soviet Union

• Crime

• 1981 A teenage boy murders his father

• Disaster

• 1894 Minnesota town burns

• General Interest

• 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted
• 1939 Germans invade Poland
• 1969 Qaddafi leads coup in Libya
• 1985 Wreck of the Titanic found
• 2004 Chechen separatists storm Russian school

• Hollywood

• 2007 Penn’s Into the Wild premieres

• Literary

• 1928 Robert Pirsig is born

• Music

• 1850 P.T. Barnum brings Jenny Lind to New York

• Old West

• 1836 First Anglo women settle west of the Rockies

• Presidential

• 1802 Richmond Recorder publishes report of presidential concubine

• Sports

• 1964 First Japanese player makes MLB debut

• Vietnam War

• 1966 De Gaulle urges the United States to get out of Vietnam
• 1968 Fighter pilot nominated for Medal of Honor
• 1970 McGovern-Hatfield amendment defeated in the Senate

• World War I

• 1917 Soldier recounts brush with poison gas

• World War II

• 1939 Germany invades Poland