EVENTS
3114 BC – Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).
394 – Battle of Frigidus, Northern Italy
1492 – Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 – Ferdinand Magellen’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.
1543 – French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1620 – 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1620 – The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World
1622 – Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 – Puritans from Masschusetts Bay Colony land at Salem
1634 – Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
1672 – Willem III’s troops reconquer Naarden from France
1675 – Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1683 – Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus
1688 – Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1690 – King Wiliam III escapes back to England
1715 – Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 – 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston)
1732 – VOC dismisses Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1776 – Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1776 – 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British sailboat “Eagle” in Bay of NY)
1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000.
1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1791 – Mozart’s opera “La Clemenza di Tito” premieres in Prague
1819 – Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1839 – Cherokee Nation forms
1839 – Great fire in New York
1848 – National Black Convention meets in Cleveland
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant
1861 – General Ulysses S. Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1862 – Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1863 – -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1866 – Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
1869 – 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 – Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
1870 – Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die
1873 – Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 – Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 – Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1880 – Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval
1880 – W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval
1883 – Cub’s Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1886 – Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
1888 – Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons’ Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights
1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1889 – King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1898 – Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi’s tomb in Omdurman
1899 – Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1899 – US minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his “Open Through Note”
1900 – British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa
25th US President William McKinley
1901 – US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York
1903 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man” (BG)
1904 – Soccer team Rheden forms
1905 – Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 – Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 – General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1909 – Word received that Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1910 – Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1912 – NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0
1913 – 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1913 – 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1913 – Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
Shoppers queuing at the Piggly Wiggly checkouts
1916 – 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee
1917 – French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1920 – 40th US Men’s Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1 1-6 7-5 5-7 6-3)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey
1920 – Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1920 – 40th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Bill Tilden beats Bill Johnston (6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3)
1922 – 42nd US Men’s Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (4-6 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4)
1923 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee
1924 – Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1924 – Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
1927 – Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown’s musical “Good News” premieres in NYC
1927 – Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1928 – USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1930 – Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen
1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1938 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates 40th anniversary
1939 – 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1939 – South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1940 – Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 – Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1941 – 55th US Women’s Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 – 61st US Men’s Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 5-7 6-1 6-3 6-3)
1941 – All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 – Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1942 – 56th US Women’s Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 – Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1943 – “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 – 63rd US Men’s Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (6-3 6-8 10-8 6-0)
1943 – Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A’s
1943 – 63rd U.S. Men’s National Championship: Joseph R. Hunt beats Jack Kramer (6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0)
1943 – 57th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Pauline Betz Addie beats Louise Brough Clapp (6-3, 5-7, 6-3)
1944 – Gen Von Zangen’s 15th army escape from Zealand
1945 – A’s catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1946 – All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1946 – Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy” premieres in London
1948 – “Mr Strauss Goes to Boston” opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1948 – 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 – Juliana crowned Queen of The Netherlands
1949 – Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey
1952 – Canadian TV begins in Montreal
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
1953 – Konrad Adenauer’s CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic
1953 – Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 – 68th US Women’s Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (6-8 6-1 8-6)
1954 – 74th US Men’s Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 – US plane shot down above Siberia
1954 – WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 – Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1954 – “La Strada” directed by Federico Fellini premieres at the Venice Film Festival starring Anthony Quinn
1954 – 74th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Vic Seixas beats Rex Hartwig (3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4)
1954 – 68th U.S. Women’s National Championship: DOris Hart beats Louise Brough Clapp (6-8, 6-1, 8-6)
1955 – “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
Tennis Player Vic Seixas
1955 – J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1957 – Elvis records “White Christmas”, “Silent Night” & “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1958 – Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 – US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1959 – Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in Major League baseball history
1963 – Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis
1965 – India invades West Pakistan
1965 – KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 – Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
1968 – Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1969 – “Cabaret” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 – Palestinians seize 3 airiners
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 – Jerry Lewis’ 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1971 – British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland
1971 – William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a ‘third force’ to defend ‘Ulster’
Comedian Jerry Lewis
1972 – John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1972 – Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1973 – New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1974 – Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price
1975 – 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
1975 – 89th US Women’s Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
1975 – Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 – Jerry Lewis’ 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova
1976 – Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1977 – Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1978 – Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 – “Peter Pan” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1980 – 94th US Women’s Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1980 – Chantal Langlace sets women’s record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 – College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 – Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1980 – Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1981 – “They’re Playing Our Song” closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs
1981 – Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 – Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 – Jerry Lewis’ 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
1982 – Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney
1982 – Paul McCartney releases “Tug of War”
1982 – Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell’s #
1982 – Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 – USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 – Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” premieres in NYC
1984 – Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1984 – “Amadeus” from the play by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman and starring Tom Hulce premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1985)
1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1985 – Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)
1986 – 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand’s benefit concert
1986 – Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
NHL Legend Mark Messier
1986 – Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
1986 – Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 – USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 – Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
1987 – Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
1987 – Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1987 – 2nd World Championships in Athletics close at Rome, Italy
1988 – Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 – Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Channel
1988 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 – 6th MTV Video Music Awards: Living Colour wins
1989 – Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 – Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
Singer-Songwriter Sinead O’Connor
1990 – 7th MTV Video Music Awards: Sinead O’Connor wins
1990 – US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive U.S. statements toward Iraq
1991 – 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
1991 – Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1991 – USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 – Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1993 – Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1993 – Jerry Lewis’ 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1994 – Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded byJean-Claude Van Damme during filming of “Cyborg”
Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme
1994 – Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
1994 – Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig’s record, plays in 2,131 straight games
1995 – Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1996 – Balt Orioles’ Eddie Murray’s 500th career HR
1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
2001 – 18th MTV Video Music Awards: Lady Marmalade, Eve f/ Gwen Stefani & Moby f/ Gwen Stefani wins
2006 – “New Moon” 2nd book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Saga” is published by Little Brown, sells 5.3 million copies (2015)
2010 – “The King’s Speech” directed by Tom Hooper starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2011)
2012 – 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
2012 – Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President
2012 – 29th MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna f/ Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown win
2013 – 20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria
BIRTHDAYS
1577 – Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, composer
1627 – Pierre Verdier, composer
1633 – Sebastian Knupfer, composer
1644 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
1648 – Johann Schelle, composer
1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1697 – Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant
1702 – Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729 – Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah)
1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
1762 – Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral
1766 – John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter
1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer
1788 – F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
1795 – Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
1797 – Wililam “Extra Billy” Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)
1802 – Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1805 – Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
1808 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
1811 – James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)
1811 – Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot)
1814 – George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1815 – John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1815 – Karol Katski, composer
1816 – Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father
1819 – Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer
1819 – Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)
1819 – William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1827 – John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1850 – Louis F H “Louis” Apol, painter/etcher/literary
1855 – Ferdinand B Hummel, composer
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
Social Worker and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams(1860)
1860 – Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)
1863 – Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
1869 – Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria journalist (Bambi)
1869 – Walford Davies, composer
1876 – John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923)
1876 – Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime)
1877 – Petar Stojanovic, composer
1877 – Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1879 – Neal Rev Dodd, Iowa, actor (You Belong to Me)
1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 – Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)
1881 – Charlie Dell, actor (Pickle in the Middle), born in NYC, New York
1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles, California
1882 – John Powell, composer
1884 – Emerson Whithorne, composer
1885 – Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall)
1885 – Otto Kruger, Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)
Patriarch of the Kennedy family Joseph P. Kennedy(1888)
1888 – Joseph P Kennedy, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, born in Boston, Massachusetts
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, Illinois, actress (Return of Chandu)
1890 – Manfred Gurlitt, composer
1892 – Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Appleton-layer)
1893 – Irving Bacon, St Joseph MO, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti)
1893 – Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1896 – Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer
1896 – Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo)
1896 – Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer
1899 – Billy Rose, theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show)
1900 – Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois)
1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1901 – John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas
1902 – Morgan Beatty, Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News)
1904 – Karlo Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross)
1904 – Lyubomir Pipkov, composer
1904 – Maxie Rosenbloom, light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34), born in NYC, New York
1906 – Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect (RAI building)
1906 – John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1906 – Raymond Keane, actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle), born in Denver, Colorado
1907 – Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer
1907 – John A Kelly, US marathon runner (Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991)
1908 – Anthony Wagner, genealogist
1908 – Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)
1909 – John Ridgely, actor (Northern Pursuit, Air Force), born in Chicago, Illinois
1910 – Frank Fidler, artist
1911 – Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary
1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1912 – Stephen Murray, Partney England, actor (Alice in Wonderland)
1912 – Vincent DiMaggio, baseball player (Giants, Phils, Reds, Braves)
1912 – Wayne Barlow, composer
1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense (1956-62)
1916 – Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner
1917 – George Mann, captain English cricket team
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
1921 – Robert Millar, journalist
1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, Atlantic City, New Jersey, inventor (barcode), (d. 2012)
1923 – Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia (1934-45)
1923 – William Kraft, composer/percussionist, born in Chicago, Illinois
1924 – John Melcher, (Sen-D-MO)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin’, Big Boss Man)
1926 – Arthur William Oldham, composer
1926 – Claus von Amsberg, prince of Netherlands
1927 – Keith Humble, composer
1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Moscow Russia, conductor (Siberian Fantasy)
1928 – Rudolph Plukfelder, USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1929 – Tsang-houe’ Hsu, composer
1930 – Andre Beullens, Flemish painter
1931 – Sander M Levin, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1983- )
1932 – Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner
1932 – Gilles Tremblay, composer
1934 – Jody McCrea, actor (Ben Matheson-Wichita Town), born in Los Angeles, California
1935 – Bob Bouber, [Boris Blom], Dutch singer (ZZ & Masks)/actor
1935 – Jock Wallace, soccer star/manager
1937 – Irina Bayanovna Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, Lowell Indiana, comedienne (Laugh-in)
1937 – John Bernard, Dutch TV weatherman
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor
1938 – Alan Charles Downes, cameraman
1938 – Joan Tower, New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms)
1939 – David Allan Coe, country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy)
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1939 – Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
1940 – Jackie Trent, singer
1941 – Monica Mason, England, ballerina
1941 – Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter
1942 – Dave Bargeron, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in NYC, New York
1942 – Harry Jack Max, rocker
1942 – Les Burns, local councillor
1942 – Mel McDaniel, Checotah Oklahoma, singer (Baby’s got her Blue Jeans On)
Rock Bassist/Vocalist George Roger Waters (1943)
1943 – George Roger Waters, Cambridge England, rock bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1944 – Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist
1944 – Linda Kaye Henning, Cal, actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1944 – M N Aubrey Mokoape, S Afr’s VP (Azanian People Org)
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1946 – Bryan D O’Connor, Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1946 – Buizen Beernd, [Bennie Jolink], singer/guitarist/pianist (Normal)
1947 – Jane Curtin, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)
1947 – Sylvester, rocker (Do Ya Wanna Funk)
Actress Jane Curtin (1947)
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1948 – Charles “Claydes” Smith, Jersey City NJ, guitarist (Kool & The Gang)
1949 – Jimmy Litherland, rocker (Mitarbeit)
1949 – Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, S Afr Kwazulu politician
1950 – Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Dutch MP (CDA)
1951 – Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist
1953 – Katherine Cannon, Hartford Ct, actress (Father Murphy, Survivors)
1953 – Mohammed Kedir, Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1954 – Banner Thomas, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
1954 – Jon Erikson, US, 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981)
1954 – Patrick O’Hearn, rock bassist (Missing Persons)
1954 – Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
1955 – Anne Henning, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 – Carl Erwin Walz, Cleve Ohio, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79)
1956 – Pam Allen, Billings MT, LPGA golfer (1988 Planters Pat Bradley-12th)
1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician
1957 – “Curley” Joe Smyth, Westbrook Me, country singer (Betty’s Bein’ Bad)
1957 – Gwyn Evans, Welsh rugby player
1957 – Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park)
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 – Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, comedian (Jeff Foxworthy-The Jeff Foxworthy Show)
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
1960 – Michael Winslow, Spokane WA, actor/comedian (Police Academy)
1961 – Pal Waaktaar, Oslo Norway, rock guitarist/vocalist (A-ha)
1961 – Peggy MacIntaggart, Midland Ontario, playmate (January, 1990)
1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
1962 – Kevin Willis, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1963 – Jozsef Kiprich, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 – Mark Chesnutt, Beaumont Tx, country singer (Too Cold at Home)
1963 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American politician
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1964 – Rosie Perez, Bkln, actress (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can’t Jump)
1965 – Johan Garrels, soccer player (Alphense Boys, RKC)
1965 – John Polson, Australian actor and film director
1966 – Joan Guetschow, Akron Ohio, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 – Amy Lynn Baxter, model (Penthouse Pet 1990)
1968 – Gene Patrick, Phila, actor (Gemini: Twin Stars)
1968 – Pat Meares, Salina KS, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1968 – Tommy Snider, American actor
1968 – Paul Rea, American television journalist
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 – Aaron Pierce, NFL halfback (NY Giants)
1969 – Cece Peniston, Phoenix AZ, Miss Black AZ/singer (Finally)
1969 – Douglas Pirini, Auckland NZ, decathlete (Olympics-96)
1969 – Helen Labdan, Bracknell England, model (page 3)
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
1969 – Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
1969 – Michael Davis, American softball player (Solvents, et al)
1970 – Igor Korolev, Moscow Russia, NHLer (Team Russia, Winnipeg)
1970 – Shane Heal, Australian basketball guard (Oly-96), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1970 – Torrance Small, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1970 – Paul Miller, American composer and author
1971 – Anthony Goldwire, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 – Holli Rene Hyche, Indianapolis Indiana, runner
1971 – Kathy Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1971 – Pavel Patera, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gild-98)
1971 – Sandra Natasha Abreu, Miss Universe-Dominican Republic (1996)
1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian Cricketer
1972 – Eric Zeier, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 – Frank Rocca, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 – China Miéville, English writer
1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1972 – Idris Elba, English actor, (The Wire, Luther), born in London
1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Montreal Quebec, tennis star (1995 Seoul)
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1974 – Justin Whalin, SF California, actor (Jimmy-Lois & Clark, Charles in Charge)
1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player
1976 – Danny Blankers, soccer player (PSV/Willem II)
1976 – Michael Nakamura, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1976 – N.O.R.E., American rapper
1976 – Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
1976 – Naomie Harris, American actress
1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
1978 – Natalia Cigliuti, NY, actress (Lindsay-Saved By Bell: New Class)
1978 – Cisco Adler, American singer
1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Mathew Horne, English Actor
1978 – Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 – Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1980 – Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1985 – Webbie, American rapper
1985 – Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
1985 – Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
1987 – Ramiele Malubay, American singer
1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member
WEDDINGS
1840 – Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York
1889 – Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)
1997 – “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman (34) weds “Fargo” actor William H. Macy (47) in Woody Creek, Colorado
2008 – Singer KT Tunstall (33) weds drummer Luke Bullen in a marquee overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on the Isle of Skye
2013 – Actor Josh Charles (41) weds ballet dancer and author Sophie Flack at a private residence in Manhattan, New York City
2014 – Actress Katie Leclerc (27) weds long-time boyfriend Brian Stuart Habecost in Palm Springs, California
DIVORCES
None
DEATHS
394 – Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
972 – John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 – William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 – Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63
1649 – Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
1649 – Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies
1701 – James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68
1708 – Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1780 – William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
Mayor of Philadelphia William Allen (1780)
1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1811 – Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77
1819 – Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74
1831 – Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49
1863 – Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 – Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
1902 – Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
1903 – Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66
1919 – Worm Pander, sculptor
1937 – Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 – Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm’s Fairy Tales), dies at 71
1941 – Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
1944 – Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
1945 – John S Mccain, US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies
1947 – Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76
1948 – Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
1950 – Arthur Hill, cricketer (3 Tests), dies
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 – Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1956 – Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84
1959 – Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83
1959 – Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32
1960 – Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65
1962 – Hanns Eisler, composer (N Vietnam/E German Natl Anthem), dies at 64
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1963 – Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26
1965 – Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79
1966 – Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64
1966 – Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83
Nurse Margaret Sanger(1966)
1966 – Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1968 – Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1970 – Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies
1973 – William H Harris, composer, dies at 90
1974 – Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
1974 – Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
1975 – Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62
1977 – Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85
1977 – Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65
1978 – Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1979 – Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69
1981 – Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88
1981 – Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies
1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 – E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74
1984 – Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70
1985 – Jane Frazee, singer/actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia
1985 – Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65
1985 – Leon Orthel, composer, dies at 79
1986 – Blanche Sweet, US actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 – Leonard Hutton, cricketer (79 Tests for England, 6971 runs), dies
1990 – T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St Zen Center SF), dies
Rocker Tom Fogerty (1990)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48
1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1993 – Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
1994 – Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
1994 – James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69
1994 – Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50
1994 – Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
1995 – Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52
1995 – Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36
1996 – William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82
1997 – Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66
1997 – P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
Film director, screenwriter Akira Kurosawa (1998)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 – Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 – Madeleine L’Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
2007 – Alex, African Grey parrot “student” of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
2008 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
2008 – Anita Page, silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards, (b. 1910)
Operatic Tenor Luciano Pavarotti (2007)
2012 – Art Modell [Arthur], American businessman, dies from heart failure at 87
2012 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer, dies from cancer at 71
ALSO ON THIS DAY
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Lead Story
- 1915 First tank produced
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American Revolution
- 1781 Arnold orders burning of New London
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Automotive
- 2007 Volkswagen moves to Virginia
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Civil War
- 1863 Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island, South Carolina
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Cold War
- 1976 Soviet pilot lands Russian MIG fighter plane in Japan
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Crime
- 2012 Former police sergeant Drew Peterson is convicted of killing his third wife
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Disaster
- 1943 Train derails on way to New York
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General Interest
- 1522 Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates globe
- 1966 Architect of apartheid assassinated
- 1972 More Israeli hostages killed in Munich
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Hollywood
- 1997 Some 2.5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana’s funeral
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Literary
- 1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden and moves in with the Emersons
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Music
- 1997 Elton John performs a re-written “Candle in the Wind” at Princess Diana’s funeral
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Old West
- 1844 John C. Fremont reaches the Great Salt Lake
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Presidential
- 1901 President William McKinley is shot
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Sports
- 1995 Ripken breaks record for consecutive games played
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Vietnam War
- 1969 Ho Chi Minh to be succeeded by committee
- 1972 Thieu abolishes popular elections
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World War I
- 1914 First Battle of the Marne begins
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World War II
- 1944 Italian resistance fighters persevere
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