September 3rd

EVENTS

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 – St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 – Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation – Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed.
1260 – Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
1483 – Utrecht surrenders to Habsburg army
1543 – Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland
1632 – Battle of Nuremberg: Duke Wallenstein beats Sweden
1650 – Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1651 – Battle of Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
1658 – Richard Cromwell (“Tumbledown Dick”) succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
1683 – Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697 – King William’s War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
English Military and Political Leader Oliver Cromwell

1709 – 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1725 – Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
1731 – Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1752 – Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 – Cooch’s Bridge – Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1779 – Earl d’Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1783 – Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
1791 – French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1798 – Weeklong battle of St. George’s Caye began between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1812 – World’s first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy
1826 – USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1832 – Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

1838 – Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1849 – California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1852 – Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden
1855 – Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 – Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1864 – Battle of Berryville, VA
1864 – US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki
1865 – Army commander in SC orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land
1874 – The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
1878 – British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die
1881 – 1st US Men’s Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (6-0 6-3 6-2)
1881 – Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1881 – 1st U.S. Men’s National Championship: Richard Sears beats William E. Glyn (6-0, 6-3, 6-2)
1882 – French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1889 – 9th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Henry Slocum beats Quincy Shaw (6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2)
1890 – Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open
1891 – 11th US Men’s Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (2-6 7-5 7-9 6-1 6-2)
1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1891 – John Stephens Durham named US minister to Haiti
1895 – 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1900 – With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1900 – Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary
1901 – Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1902 – Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
1902 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Illustrious Client”
1903 – Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America’s Cup
1904 – St Louis Olympics closes
1906 – Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans
1906 – Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A’s; 2nd forfeit win
1908 – James Barries “What Every Woman Knows” premieres in London
1911 – 31st US Men’s Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (6-4 6-4 6-2)
1911 – 31st U.S. Men’s National Championship: William Larned beats Maurice McLoughlin (6-4, 6-4, 6-2)
Composer and Painter Arnold Schoenberg

1912 – Arnold Schoenberg’s “Funf Orchesterstucke” premieres
1914 – British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne
1914 – Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1914 – French troops vacate Rheims
1914 – Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1914 – Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians
1916 – Allies turned back Germans in Battle of Verdun
1916 – US President Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike
1917 – 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft
1917 – German troops overrun Riga, Latvia
1917 – Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1917 – Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
1918 – 38th US Men’s Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (6-3 6-1 7-5)
1918 – 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot); in all 19 mutineers were executed.
1918 – Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1918 – 38th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Robert Lindley Murray beats Bill Tilden (6-3, 6-1, 7-5)
28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1919 – President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
1921 – 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
1921 – KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1923 – Dorothys Donelly’s “Poppy” premieres in NYC
1924 – Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1924 – L Stallings & M Anderson’s “What Price Glory?” premieres in NYC
1925 – 1st international handball match held
1925 – The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive
1928 – Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit
1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
1930 – Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1932 – Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title
1932 – Jimmie Foxx of A’s hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50
1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union – Communism Peak (7495 m).
1934 – Tunisia began its move for independence
1935 – 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1935 – Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
1936 – 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
1938 – 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1939 – German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans
1939 – Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win
1939 – WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
1940 – 39.4 cm rainfall at Sapulpa, Oklahoma (state record)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1940 – Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1940 – Dutch government in exile of Gerbrandy forms in London
1940 – Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 – 1First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1941 – KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1943 – British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
1943 – General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
1944 – 58th US Women’s Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (6-3 8-6)
1944 – 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp
1944 – Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
1944 – Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank

1944 – French troops liberate Lyon
1944 – Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz
1944 – Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force
1944 – Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 – 65th US Men’s Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 6-1 6-2)
1945 – Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
1945 – 65th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Frank Parker beats William Talbert (14-12, 6-1, 6-2)
1945 – 59th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (3-6, 8-6, 6-4)
1947 – Phila A’s Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0
1947 – Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2
1948 – W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker’s party
1949 – Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1950 – 1st Formula One WDC: Giuseppe “Nino” Farina wins by three points
1951 – TV soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” debuts on CBS
1953 – European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
21st President of France Francois Mitterrand

1953 – French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1954 – China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy
1954 – Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed in the US, prompted by the cold war
1954 – Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1954 – The People’s Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
1955 – KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 – Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
1957 – Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ)
1957 – KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1962 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1964 – US attorney general robert kennedy resigns
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1964 – 2nd incident that year of race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay, 13 people killed, 106 injured
1965 – Curt Flood’s record of 568 straight chances without an error begins
1965 – Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic
1965 – Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
1965 – Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
1965 – Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif
1966 – 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
1966 – Donovan hits #1 with “Sunshine Superman”
1967 – Final episode of “What’s My Line?” hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS TV
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1967 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies’ World Series of Golf
1967 – Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution

Kungsgatan, Stockholm, on Dagen H (switch-over day)

1967 – Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
1967 – WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run
1970 – After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
1970 – Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
2nd President of Indonesia Suharto

1970 – Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands
1971 – John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
1971 – Manlio Brosio resigns as secretary general of NATO
1971 – Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1971 – Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office
1971 – A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
1973 – General Walters ends term as acting director of CIA
1973 – Jerry Lewis’ 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 – Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
1974 – NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires
1974 – US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations
1975 – Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1975 – Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
NBA Player Oscar Robertson

1976 – Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
1977 – Japan’s Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron’s total
1977 – Last broadcast of “Mary Tyler Moore Show” on NBC-TV
1978 – Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1978 – Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5)
1978 – Pope John Paul I officially installed as 263rd supreme pontiff
1979 – Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1979 – Iran army conquerors Mahabad
1979 – Jerry Lewis’ 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
1979 – Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981 – Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1981 – Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7
1982 – Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns
Comedian Jerry Lewis

1984 – 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
1984 – Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
1984 – Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1984 – Jerry Lewis’ 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
1984 – South Africa adopts constitution
1985 – 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
1985 – England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval
1985 – NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
1986 – Alan Ayckbourn’s “Woman in Mind” premieres in London
1986 – Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
1987 – Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
1988 – Dennis Eckersley sets A’s record with his 37th save en route to 45
1988 – Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
1989 – “Into the Woods” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs
1989 – Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1990 – 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel

1990 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1990 – Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1990 – Jerry Lewis’ 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
1990 – White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
1992 – Jerry Lewis’ 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
1994 – Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1995 – Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
1995 – Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
1995 – NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
1995 – Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
1995 – eBay founded.
1996 – Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
1997 – A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2004 – The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.
2011 – 13th World Championships in Athletics: Usain Boltwins 200m
2012 – 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2012 – Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
2012 – New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
Olympic Sprinter Usain Bolt

2013 – 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion

BIRTHDAYS

1034 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566)
1568 – Adriano Banchieri, composer
1596 – Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1600 – Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk
1608 – Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military
1675 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 – Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 – Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer
1703 – Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1719 – Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1724 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1757 – Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
1781 – Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
1789 – Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
1803 – Alexander L’vovich Gurilyov, composer
1803 – Prudence Crandall, founder (School for “young ladies of colour”)
1810 – Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1811 – John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1820 – George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1825 – Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1891)
1825 – William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1892)
1835 – William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
1840 – Jacob Fabricius, composer
1841 – Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
1849 – Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1851 – Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
Architect and Father of Skyscrapers Louis Sullivan(1856)

1856 – Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1859 – AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L’Humanité, Les Preuves)
1860 – Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1864 – Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer
1865 – Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
1875 – Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen)
1882 – Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
1887 – Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1889 – Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn)
1890 – J Patrick O’Malley, Forest City PA, actress (Courage of Black Beauty)
1891 – Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer
1893 – Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher (Schepelingen)
1897 – Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor (Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities)
1897 – Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer
1897 – Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1900 – Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81)
1901 – Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor
1902 – Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth)
1903 – Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
Nobel Laureat Physicist Carl David Anderson (1905)

1905 – Carl David Anderson, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), born in NYC, New York (d. 1991)
1905 – Robert Ruthenfranz, composer
1907 – Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 – Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1908 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 – Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
1910 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1911 – Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 – Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers)
1914 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress (Animal Crackers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1914 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
1915 – Abel Ehrlich, composer
1915 – Knut Nystedt, composer
1915 – Memphis Slim, [John Len Chatman] American blues musician (“Every Day I Have the Blues”), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1988)
1917 – Eddie “Brat” Stanky, Phil Rizzuto’s nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)
1917 – Peter Winter, naval commander
1918 – Helen Wagner, Lubbock Tx, actress (Nancy-As The World Turns)
1921 – Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1921 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1922 – Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer
1923 – Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
1923 – Terry Wilson, California, actor (Bill-Wagon Train)
1925 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1925 – Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer
1925 – Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Alison Lurie, US, novelist (War Between the Tates)
1926 – Anne Jackson, Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
1926 – Bill Flemming, sportscaster (ABC’s Wide World of Sports)
1926 – Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, Attila The Hun)
1926 – Joe Kolter, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
1926 – John R[obert] Jones, US, sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War)
1928 – Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission(d. 2007)
1929 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
Gangster Whitey Bulger(1929)

1929 – Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], American gangster, born in Boston, Massachusetts
1930 – Cherry Barbara Grimm, [Lockett], NZ, sci-fi author (Nearest Fire)
1930 – Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1931 – Dick Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over ’til the fat lady sings)
1931 – Rudolf Kelterborn, composer
1931 – Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1932 – Richard Tyler, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family), born in NYC, New York
1932 – Eileen Brennan, American actress (Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2013)
1933 – Roland Kayn, composer
1933 – Tompall Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again), (d. 2013)
1934 – Xavier Darasse, composer
1934 – Freddie King, Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 – Otto Ketting, trumpeter/composer (Passacaglia)
1936 – John W Olver, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1936 – Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987- )
1938 – Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 – Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Pauline Collins, actress (Shirley Valentine), born in London, England
1940 – Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and writer, born in Montevideo
1941 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 – Al Jardine, Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)
1942 – John Shrapnel, English actor
1943 – Dave Eichelberger, Waco TX, PGA golfer (1971 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 – Don Brewer, rocker
1943 – Michael D Barnes, (Rep-D-MD, 1979-86)
1943 – Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid)
1943 – Valerie Perrine, Galveston, Texas, American actress and model (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
1943 – Frank Lister, English footballer
1944 – Gary Leeds, Glendale Ca, rocker (Walker Brothers)
1944 – Sherwood C “Woody” Spring, Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B)
1945 – George Biondo, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 – Mike Harrison, keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It’s All About)
1946 – Peter Morris, historian of France
1947 – Eric Bell, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy Belfast, N Ireland
1947 – Michael Huffington, US oil millionaire (Rep-R-California, 1992-94)
1947 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
1947 – Mario Draghi, Italian banker and President of the European Central Bank, born in Rome
1948 – Donald Brewer, Flint Mich, rock drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 – Minouche Janmaat-Abee, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 – Ronald W Harris, Canton Oh, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 – Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1948 – Levy Mwanawasa – Zambian Politician (d. 2008)
1949 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1949 – José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
1950 – Aaron Smith, rocker (Romeo Void)
1950 – Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King’s X)
1953 – Khabib Munir, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3 backup)
1953 – M H Habib, Syria, cosmonaut
1953 – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
Rocker Steve Jones (1955)

1955 – Steve Jones, rock guitarist (Sex Pistols), born in London, England
1956 – Hans-Georg Beyer, German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 – Patrick McGeown, politician
1957 – Garth Ancier, American television executive
1959 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1961 – Brian Thomas Kamm, PGA golfer (1994 Bell Canadian-6th), born in Rochester, New York
1961 – Greg Petersen, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Klondike-6th), born in Iowa City, Iowa
1961 – Rene Gonzales, Austin TX, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1962 – Dave Clark, Tupelo MS, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 – Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
1963 – Eric Plunk, Wilmington CA, pitcher (Oakland A’s, NY Yankees, Indians)
1963 – Mubarak Ghanim, UAE footballer
1964 – Ernest Givins, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 – Glenn Joyner, Ferntree Gully VIC, Australian golfer
1964 – Toshiyuki Sakai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1964 – Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1964 – Spike Feresten, American television writer
1964 – Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
1964 – Holt McCallany, American actor
Actor Charlie Sheen (1965)

1965 – Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], actor (Wall St, Platoon), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Maurizio Mansi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 – Todd Lewis, musician (Toadies)
1966 – Bennie Blades, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1966 – Pat Eilers, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1966 – Shawn Daniels, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 – Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
1967 – Chris Gatling, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1967 – Luis Gonzalez, outfielder (Chicago Cubs), born in Tampa, Florida
1968 – David Pichler, Butler Pa, diver (Olympics-6th-96)
1968 – Dawn Allinger, Salt Lake City UT, team handball back court (Oly-1996)
1968 – Matt Hamon, SF California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 – Robert Bailey, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 – Noah Baumbach, Brooklyn, New York, writer, director and independent film maker (The Squid and the Whale)
1969 – Keith Traylor, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1969 – John Fugelsang, American actor
1970 – George Lynch, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 – Uzooma Okeke, CFL guard (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 – Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
1970 – Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1971 – Chabeli Iglesias, daughter of Julio Iglesias, born in Madrid, Spain
1971 – Glen Housman, Rockhampton QLD Aust, swimmer (Olympics-silv-92, 96)
1971 – Tonja Marie Christensen, Salt Lake City Utah, playmate (Nov, 1991)
1971 – Trevor St. John, American actor
1972 – Antonius Bonner, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 – Martin Straka, Pizen CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Florida)
1972 – Roland Ramoser, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1972 – Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
1973 – Brian Thure, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1973 – Chen Hsiao-Fen, Miss Universe-Taiwan ROC (1996)
1973 – Damon Stoudamire, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 – Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star
1973 – Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
1974 – Rebecca Bailey, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1974 – Sergei Yerkovich, hockey defenseman (Team Belarus 1998)
1974 – Clare Kramer, American actress
1975 – Ava Lovell, Miss Universe-Belize (1996)
1975 – Christobal Huet, hockey goalie (Team France 1998)
1976 – Ashley Jones, American actress
1976 – Jevon Kearse, American football player
1976 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1977 – Tami Tyler, Santa Clara California, dance skater (& Jonathan Nichols)
1977 – Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
1977 – Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1977 – Nate Robertson, American baseball player
1978 – John Curtis, English footballer
1978 – Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
1978 – Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Nick Wechsler, American actor
1978 – Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
1979 – Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 – The B.G., American rapper
1980 – Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
1980 – Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
1980 – Jennie Finch, American softball player
1981 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 – Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1982 – Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1983 – Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
1983 – Nicky Hunt, English footballer
1983 – Marcus McCauley, American football player
1983 – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 – Garrett Hedlund, American actor
1985 – Scott Carson, English footballer
1985 – Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1986 – Shaun White, snowboarder (Olympic gold – 2006, 2010), born in San Diego, California
1987 – Chris Fountain, English actor
1993 – Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol

WEDDINGS

1921 – American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)
1923 – Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)
1937 – Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
1953 – Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose
1957 – World Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (25) weds Geraldine Clark in St. Louis, Missouri
1977 – “I Dream of Jeannie” actress Barbara Eden (43) weds Charles Donald Fegert
1999 – “The Steve Harvey Show” actor Cedric The Entertainer (35) weds Lorna Wells (33)
Actress Barbara Eden(1977)

2000 – “Will & Grace” actress Debra Messing (32) weds actor-screenwriter Daniel Zelman (33) at a private estate in Santa Barbara, California
2000 – American feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem (66) weds environmentalist David Bale (59) in Adair County, Oklahoma
2004 – “Baywatch” actress Gena Lee Nolin (32) weds NHL hockey player Cale Hulse (30) at the Royal Palms Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
2005 – Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kevin Nealon (51) weds actress Susan Yeagley (33) inside the town hall in Bellagio, Italy
2007 – Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley (63) weds Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender (33) in North Leigh, Oxfordshire
2007 – Actor Tobey Maguire (32) weds jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer (30) in Kona, Hawaii
2011 – English DJ and musician Mark Ronson (36) weds french actress Josephine De La Baume (27) in Aix-en-Provence, France

DIVORCES

2010 – Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage

DEATHS

1189 – Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1205 – Petrus van Poitiers, French theologist (Sententiarum libri V), dies
1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duke/tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), dies at 51
1420 – Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 – Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies
1642 – Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte, dies at 65
1653 – Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguistic, dies at 65
1655 – Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56
1658 – Oliver Cromwell, English general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59
1662 – William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1667 – Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66
1675 – Pieter Boel, Flemish painter/etcher, dies
1708 – Christian Liebe, composer, dies at 53
English Military and Political Leader Oliver Cromwell(1658)

1720 – Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
1722 – Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1739 – George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46
1766 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1790 – Thomas Norris, composer, dies at 49
1808 – John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1811 – Ignaz Franzl, composer, dies at 75
1843 – Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47
1849 – Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies
1857 – M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
1857 – John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1860 – Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 – Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1871 – Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71
1876 – Felix, cricketer (legendary All-England player), dies
1877 – Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80
1883 – Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64
1886 – William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1890 – Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63
1890 – Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1893 – James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 – Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1908 – Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies
1914 – Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49
1918 – Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1935 – Johannes Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem (1928-35), dies at 62
1936 – Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
1938 – Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist, dies at 77
1940 – Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
1944 – Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer, dies at 75
1946 – Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer, dies at 79
1948 – Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies
1951 – Arnold Warren, cricketer (only Test for England), dies
1951 – Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer, dies at 67
1954 – Eugene Pallette, actor (It’s a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65
1960 – Joseph Lamb, composer, dies at 72
1961 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, dies at 63
1962 – e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
1963 – Cruys Voorbergh, actor/director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64
1963 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer, dies at 79
1964 – Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, dies at 82
1964 – Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1965 – Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 79
1967 – David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1968 – Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh(1969)

1969 – Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), dies at 79 of heart failure
1969 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 – Al Wilson, “Blind Owl”, guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
1970 – Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28
1970 – Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
1971 – Percy Holmes, cricketer (Yorks opener, 7 Tests for Eng 1921-32), dies
1971 – Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies at 68
1974 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 – Barbara O’Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
1980 – Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
1980 – Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
1980 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926
1981 – Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
Coach Vince Lombardi(1970)

1982 – Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered
1982 – Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
1983 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1984 – Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83
1984 – Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1985 – Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73
1985 – John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58
1987 – Morton Feldman, US composer, dies at 61
1987 – Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76
1987 – Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76
1990 – David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 – Frank Capra, American film director (It’s a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1991 – Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies
1992 – Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
1993 – Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
1994 – Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70
1994 – James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75
1994 – Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
1994 – Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
1994 – Nikos Ghika, artist, dies at 88
1994 – Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
1994 – William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
1995 – Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87
1995 – Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91
1995 – Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75
1995 – Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91
1995 – Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40
1995 – Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88
1996 – John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56
1996 – Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77
1996 – Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75
2000 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 – Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
2002 – W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 – Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 – Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 – Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 – Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 – Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2007 – Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)
2008 – Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b.1918)
2010 – Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)
2012 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor, dies from respiratory failure at 54
2012 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, dies at 92

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1783 Treaty of Paris signed

• American Revolution

• 1777 The Stars and Stripes flies

• Automotive

• 1900 Charles Wisner’s “Buzz-Wagon” debuts in Flint

• Civil War

• 1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky

• Cold War

• 1990 Bush prepares for summit with Gorbachev

• Crime

• 2004 Russian school siege ends in bloodbath

• Disaster

• 1930 Hurricane batters Dominican Republic

• General Interest

• 1777 The Stars and Stripes flies
• 1935 Campbell exceeds 300 mph
• 1943 Allies invade Italian mainland

• Hollywood

• 1991 It’s a Wonderful Life director Capra dies

• Literary

• 1963 Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell born

• Music

• 1982 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s US Festival opens in San Bernardino County, California

• Old West

• 1855 U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre

• Presidential

• 1919 Wilson embarks on tour to promote League of Nations

• Sports

• 1977 Sadaharu Oh hits 756th home run

• Vietnam War

• 1950 U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group arrives in Saigon
• 1967 Thieu-Ky ticket wins national election

• World War I

• 1914 Pope Benedict XV named to papacy

• World War II

• 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany