October 6th

EVENTS

105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
891 – Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1111 – Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
1499 – French King Louis XII occupies Milan
1567 – Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1683 – 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1689 – Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
1762 – British troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1781 – Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of American Revolutionary War
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1799 – Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army
1811 – French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte visits Utrecht
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1853 – 4th National Women’s Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
1854 – The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1857 – American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1861 – Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
1861 – Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1863 – Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
1863 – Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1869 – John Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Walzer” premieres
1871 – Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1876 – American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 – 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1884 – Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Resident Patient” (BG)
1889 – Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
Inventor Thomas Edison

1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 – Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1896 – Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal is arrested en route to Cuba via Spain and imprisoned in Barcelona
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 – Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1906 – The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 – Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
Filipino Nationalist and Novelist Jose Rizal

1908 – Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
1910 – Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1911 – Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1911 – Cy Young’s farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
1912 – Pirates Owen “Chief” Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1914 – The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia
1917 – In the final attack on Third Battle of Ypres, Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
1918 – US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1919 – Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919 – White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1920 – 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve’s Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
MLB Pitcher Cy Young

1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1921 – Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1922 – Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
1922 – The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
1923 – 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 – 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
1923 – US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
1923 – USSR adopts experimental calendar
1925 – Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1926 – Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
1927 – “Jazz Singer,” 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 – 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Leo Diegel

1928 – Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1929 – 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
1931 – Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
1935 – Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 – NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1938 – Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1939 – Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 – Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 – Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1940 – Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
1941 – German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1942 – Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1943 – Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 – Himmler wants acceleration of “Final Solution”
1944 – Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
1944 – Canadians free Austria
1944 – Royal Ducth Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks U168 at Java
1944 – Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 – Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler’s train)
1945 – Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1945 – Tavern owner “Billy Goat” Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1946 – 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1946 – US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1948 – “Polonaise” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1948 – KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1949 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 – US Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 – Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb
1952 – Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” opens in London (still running)
1953 – WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 – Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1957 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Novelist Agatha Christie

1957 – Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains record 60 days under pole
1959 – Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 – Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 – USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Judy Garland Show”
1963 – LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1964 – “Cambridge Circus” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1965 – Supremes release “I Hear a Symphony”
1965 – William Goodhart’s “Generation” premieres in NYC
Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1966 – Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 – Partial meltdown at Detroits’s Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1967 – Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test
1969 – WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
1969 – MLB National League Championship: New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
1971 – MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants, 3 games to 1
1972 – 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1972 – Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1974 – “Mack & Mabel” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1974 – Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1974 – 25th Formula One WDC: Emerson Fittipaldi wins by three points
1976 – “Gang of Four” arrested in Beijing
1976 – Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1976 – John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
38th US President Gerald Ford

1976 – US Pres Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.
1977 – DL Coburns “Gin Game” premieres in NYC
1977 – Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1978 – Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 – Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in “Some Girls”
MLB Third Baseman George Brett

1978 – Royals’ George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1978 – “Midnight Express” debuts
1979 – Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1’9″
1979 – Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, D.C.
1979 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels, 3 games to 1
1980 – Guyana adopts constitution
1980 – John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months inprisonment on assault charges
1982 – Auburn’s Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1982 – Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
1983 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1983 – Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 25th career hat trick
1983 – NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
NHL Right Winger Mike Bossy

1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 – Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1985 – Marita Koch of E Germany sets 400m woman’s record (47.6) in Australia
1985 – Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1986 – Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1987 – Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
1988 – Oakland A’s sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 – US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1990 – Solar Polar Orbiter ‘Ulysses’ launched
1991 – Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
LPGA Golfer Meg Mallon

1991 – NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
1991 – Orioles’ last game at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
1993 – Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1994 – -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
1994 – Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1995 – BPAA US Women’s Open won by Cheryl Daniels
1995 – Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1995 – 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1996 – Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1996 – Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 – Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
1996 – NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
42nd US President Bill Clinton

2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2002 – Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
2010 – Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds
2012 – Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
2012 – The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
2013 – 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

BIRTHDAYS

1289 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 – Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
1510 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China)
1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1618 – Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1706 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749- )
1716 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
1769 – Isaac Brock, St Peter Port, British Army officer (War of 1812)
1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
British Army Officer and Administrator Isaac Brock(1769)

1777 – William Russell, composer
1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1806 – Andreas Randel, composer
1808 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63)
1816 – William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 – Joseph Rummel, composer
1819 – Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1824 – Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1827 – Cark Reidel, composer
1831 – J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1846 – George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US currency), (d. 1914)

Entrepreneur and Engineer George Westinghouse(1846)

1847 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
1849 – Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, “merchant of death”
1860 – Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
1860 – Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
1862 – Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
1866 – Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1873 – Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1874 – Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
1880 – Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 – Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 – Lloyd Spooner, US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 – George Brown, cricketer (legendary England batsman/keeper of 20’s)
Architect/ City Planner Le Corbusier (1887)

1887 – Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme), (d. 1965)
1887 – Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1887 – MartinLuis Guzman, Mexico, novelist (Eagle & the Serpent)
1888 – Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party)
1888 – Max Butting, composer
1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 – Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
1895 – Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1896 – Otto Siegl, composer
1897 – Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show), born in NYC, New York
1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1902 – Mihovil Logar, composer
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 – Horst Lange, writer
Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody (1905)

1905 – Helen Wills Moody, Centerville California, American tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1906 – Louis Borell, Amsterdam Neth, actor (Over the Moon, Queer Cargo)
1908 – Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1912 – Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator
1913 – Meret Oppenheim, writer
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1915 – Edgardo Martin, composer
1915 – Harry van Doorn, [Henri W], CRM minister/Dutch politician (KVP/PPR)

Ethnographer, Archaeologist and Explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914)

1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
1916 – Tommy Lawton, footballer
1918 – André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
1920 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
1920 – Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player
1923 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), born in Hemite, Osmaniye, Ottoman Empire (d. 2015)
1925 – Shana Alexander, journalist (60 Minutes), born in NYC, New York
1926 – Alan Copeland, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade), born in Los Angeles, California
1926 – Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 – Alice Bauer, LPGA golfer
1927 – Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist (Mozart Interpretation), born in Vienna, Austria
1929 – Les Favell, cricketer (stoic Australian batsman late 50’s)
1930 – Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
1930 – Richie Benaud, cricket captain (great Aussie leg-spinner) and commentator, born in Penrith, New South Wales
1931 – Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist (CBS News, Court TV)
1932 – Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women’s International Center)
1933 – Horst Bingle, writer
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1936 – Anna Quayle, actress (Mistress Pamela)
1936 – Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 – Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet], cabaret director (Capers)
1938 – Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
1939 – Douglas K Bereuter, (Rep-R-Nebraska, 1979- )
1939 – John J LaFalce, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
1940 – Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 – Ellen Travolta, Englewood NJ, actress (Grease, Charles in Charge)
1940 – Wyche Fowler Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977-87)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 – Fred Travalena, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), born in NYC, New York
1942 – Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 – Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He’s a Cat)
1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs), born in Brooklyn, New York
1943 – Udo Zimmermann, composer
1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1944 – Merzak Allouache, director (Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris)
1944 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
1945 – Domonic Barber, attorney (Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco)
1946 – Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
1946 – Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012)
1946 – Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
1947 – Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 – Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1948 – Dan Hamburg, (Rep-D-California)
1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 – Glenn Branca, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, avant-garde composer and guitarist
1949 – Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1950 – David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman)
1950 – Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1951 – Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach
1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
1957 – Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 – Shahzad Altaf, cricketer (UAE off-spinner 1996 World Cup)
1958 – Joseph Finder, American novelist
1959 – John Mackin, programmer
1959 – Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
1959 – [Dennis Ray] “Oil Can” Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1960 – Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 – Jeffrey Trachta, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful), born in Staten Island, New York
1960 – Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1960 – Scott Stevens, jockey
1961 – Kathrin Dörre, East German marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 – Tim Burgess, rocker
1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
Actress Elisabeth Shue(1963)

1963 – Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor
1964 – Pam Kometani, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1992 Welch’s Classic-27th)
1964 – Thomas “Tom” Hunter, US 50M FREESTYLE swimmer (world record)
1965 – Cynthia Meyer, NY, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1965 – David Spaulding, Newport Beach California, American canoeist (alt-Olympics-96)
1965 – Jim Sharp, US rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988)
1965 – Ruben Sierra, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 – Archi Cianfrocco, Rome NY, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 – Jimmie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 – Julianne McNamara, Flushing NY, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
1966 – Oscar Caballos, jockey
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1967 – Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
1969 – Byron Black, Zimbabwe, tennis star
1969 – Jeff Lay, Ottawa Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 – Martha Richards, Hudson WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Safeco Classic-21st)
1969 – Robert Person, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 – Darren Oliver, Kansas city MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1971 – Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 – Phil Bennett, British racing driver
1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 – J J Stokes, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1972 – Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1973 – Rebecca Lobo, Mass, WNBA center (Olympics-gold-96)/(NY Liberty)
1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
1973 – Jeff Davis, American comedian
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1974 – Brian Kelly, Mission Viejo California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 – Geert Jelle de Vries, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 – Kenny Jonsson, Angelholm SW, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Islander)
1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1975 – Ines Sainz, Miss Spain Universe (1997)
1975 – Jan Harm Schippers, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Veendam)
1975 – Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1982 – William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1988 – Kayky Brito, Brazilian actor.
1992 – Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
1995 – Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

WEDDINGS

1953 – MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas
1956 – South African politician “Kobie” Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
1956 – Tennis player champ Ken Rosewall (21) weds Wilma McIver at St John’s Church of England Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia
1977 – Professional boxer George Foreman (28) weds Cynthia Lewis
1978 – ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad (32) weds fellow musician Benny Andersson (31)
1991 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor (59) weds for 8th time to construction worker Larry Fortensky (39)
1996 – American country singer Faith Hill (44) weds singer and actor Tim McGraw (45) in Rayville, Louisiana
Country Singer Faith Hill(1996)

2007 – “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson (40) weds Rick Salomon (39) at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas
2007 – “The Montel Williams Show” talk show host Montel Williams (51) weds American Airlines flight attendant Tara Fowler on a beach in Bermuda
2008 – Steven Curtis Chapman’s oldest daughter Emily Chapman (45) weds longtime boyfriend Tanner Richards
2012 – Former “Private Practice” actress Audra McDonald (42) weds Broadway star Will Swenson (38) in Croton-on-Hudson, New York

DIVORCES

1980 – Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage
2006 – “Friends” actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

DEATHS

404 – Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies
877 – Charles II the Bald, King of France/ Holy Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1014 – Samuel (Samuil), ruler of Bulgaria, dies (b. 958)
1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile (1065-72), murdered
1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1214 – Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castile, dies
1413 – Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1585 – Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies
1641 – Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle
1644 – Elisabeth (In Spanish Isabel) of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1651 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
1786 – Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56
1819 – Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies
1829 – Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1837 – Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77

Author of the Texas Declaration of Independence George Childress (1841)

1841 – George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37
1855 – August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1860 – Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
1861 – Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1868 – Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1873 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1874 – Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
1880 – Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies
1891 – Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1892 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83
1905 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
1909 – Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
1912 – August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1920 – Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
Poet Alfred Tennyson(1892)

1924 – Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
1926 – Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
1933 – Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
1935 – Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
1940 – Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55
1942 – Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies
1943 – Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort & catcher Walker, dies
1945 – Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
1949 – Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1953 – Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64
1954 – Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
1956 – Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1959 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1960 – Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50
1962 – Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1964 – F T Mann, cricketer (father of F G, 281 runs in 5 Tests 1922-23), dies
1964 – Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
1965 – Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1966 – Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
Golfer Walter Hagen (1969)

1969 – Walter Hagen, US PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1973 – Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
1973 – Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1975 – Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68
1980 – Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink, Carry On films), dies of a heart attack at 58
1980 – Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1983 – Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1984 – George S Simpson, US paleontologist, dies at 82
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
Actress Bette Davis (1989)

1989 – Bette Davis, US actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1991 – Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1992 – Bill O’Reilly, cricketer (great leggie, 774 wickets at 16 60), dies
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1993 – Agnes de Mille, US dancer/choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
1993 – Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88
1995 – Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67
1995 – Walter “Crash” Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
1996 – Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57
1996 – Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82
1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 – Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O’Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2006 – Alex L. Shigo, American Biologist and Plant Pathologist, dies at 76
2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president, dies from cancer at 83
2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress,dies at 86

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1866 First U.S. train robbery

• American Revolution

• 1777 British capture Forts Montgomery and Clinton

• Automotive

• 1993 Natchez Trace Parkway arches are complete

• Civil War

• 1863 William Quantrill attacks Baxter Springs, Kansas

• Cold War

• 1973 The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict

• Crime

• 1981 The president of Egypt is assassinated

• Disaster

• 1972 Train derails in Mexico

• General Interest

• 1683 First Mennonites arrive in America
• 1961 Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters
• 1973 Yom Kippur War begins

• Hollywood

• 1991 Liz Taylor marries husband No. 7

• Literary

• 1847 Jane Eyre is published

• Music

• 1996 Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw wed

• Old West

• 1866 The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history

• Presidential

• 1996 Bill Clinton debates Bob Dole

• Sports

• 1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record

• Vietnam War

• 1967 U.S. jets strike targets in North Vietnam
• 1970 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia

• World War I

• 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina

• World War II

• 1945 Pierre Laval attempts suicide