October 7th

EVENTS

3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 – Pope Saint Mark’s death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant
1492 – Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1506 – Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 – 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1571 – Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroys Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece
1637 – Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 – English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 – British/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 – People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
The Warrior Pope Julius II

1765 – Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 – Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
1780 – British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1825 – Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1828 – The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1856 – Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 – -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1864 – Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor, Brazil – CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1868 – Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 – Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1871 – 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago’s 185 firefighters
1879 – Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
1882 – 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1886 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1891 – 31st British Golf Open: Hugh Kirkaldy shoots a 166 at St Andrews
1900 – The term “orienteering” is first used for an event
1904 – NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 – France’s Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane
1908 – Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 – Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford

1913 – Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football
1916 – The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters
1919 – First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 – Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi’s “Apple Blossoms” premieres in NYC
1919 – KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 – Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm’s of Austria
1923 – Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms
1926 – Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
Football, Baseball & Basketball Player & Coach John Heisman

1926 – Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 – Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress
1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 – NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 – Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 – Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau
1936 – 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1937 – Johan Wagenaar’s “Feestmars” premieres in Amsterdam
1938 – Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J
1940 – Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
Runner nicknamed the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi

1941 – German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 – 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 – Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
1942 – Maxwell Andersons “Eve of St Mark” premieres in NYC
1942 – US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 – Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1943 – Weill/Perelman/Nash’ musical “One Touch of Venus” premieres in NYC
1944 – Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 – Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin
1944 – Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1945 – Dutch author A M de Jong’s murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 – Charles Ives’ 2nd string quartet premieres
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

1947 – Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1949 – German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier
1950 – NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 – US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 – Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 – Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2
1950 – William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 – Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1952 – Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
Radio and Television Personality Dick Clark

1953 – Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 – Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 – Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1955 – Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem “Howl” for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1956 – Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 – KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 – US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 – “Happy Town” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 – Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR’s Luna 3
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg

1960 – “Route 66” premieres
1960 – 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1960 – Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus”, starring Kirk Douglas, is released
1961 – “Bye Bye Birdie” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs
1961 – 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1962 – 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 – Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 – JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1964 – NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 – Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 – 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world’s longest straight hole-in-one
35th US President John F. Kennedy

1967 – Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 – Rolf Hochhuth’s “Soldaten” premieres in West Berlin
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1968 – Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
1969 – WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 – T McNally’s “Where has Tommy Flowers gone?” premieres in NYC
1971 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland
1971 – “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Best Picture 1972)
1972 – 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
Actor Gene Hackman

1973 – Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.
1973 – 24th Formula One WDC: Jackie Stewart wins by 16 points
1974 – German Democratic Republic amends constitution
1975 – Players’ Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers’ Andy Messersmith
1975 – US decides John Lennon won’t be deported due to UK pot conviction
1975 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
1975 – MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0
1977 – Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 – USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 – LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test
1978 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
1978 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 1
1979 – “1940’s Radio Hour” opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
1979 – “Eubie!” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1979 – Cleveland Browns’ Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1979 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1979 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
NHL Legend Frank Mahovlich

1979 – Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings
1979 – 30th Formula One WDC: Jody Scheckter wins by four points
1980 – Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1981 – Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt
1981 – In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1982 – Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1982 – Musical “Cats” opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 – Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 – Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader
1984 – MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
NFL Running Back Walter Payton

1985 – 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1985 – Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 – PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1986 – First edition of new British newspaper “Independent” published
1986 – Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games
1988 – Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 – Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
1988 – Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 – WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 – Howard Stern’s US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 – Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel

1990 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 – Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 – Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 – Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991 – Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
1992 – Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 – “Les Miserables,” opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 – “She Loves Me” opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 – Massive Muslim demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1994 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1994 – Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 – Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
1994 – Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1995 – Boston’s Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 – Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2000 – The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool’s Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams’ 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2001 – Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
Actor, Body Builder & Politician Arnold Schwarzenegger

2003 – Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2003 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2009 – A digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung’s ‘Red Book’ is published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his subconscious during the period in which he developed his principal theories
2012 – 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
2012 – Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
2013 – Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
Psychiatrist Carl Jung

2013 – James Rothman, Randy Schekman and  Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
2014 – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
2014 – Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa

BIRTHDAYS

1573 – William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1576 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1577 – Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1589 – Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1698 – Henri Madin, composer
1713 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 – Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 – Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 – William Billings, American hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1800)
1748 – Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1758 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1769 – Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1774 – Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 – Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 – Adolf Muller, composer
1802 – Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
1817 – Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1821 – Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1821 – William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 – William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 – Felix Draeseke, composer
1841 – Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1854 – Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
1866 – Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1868 – Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 – Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 – Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 – Jaime Pahissa, composer
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr (1885)

1885 – Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886 – Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 – A C “Jack” Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 – Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 – Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1889 – Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1892 – Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 – Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1894 – Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1896 – Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1896 – Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1898 – Alfred Wallenstein, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29), born in Chicago, Illinois
1900 – Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo
1901 – Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 – Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 – Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 – Willemina J H “Mascha” ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1903 – Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1904 – Chuck Klein,Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1905 – Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy’s Gang)
1906 – James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 – Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1908 – Richard Caldicot, actor (Horse’s Mouth), born in London, England
1909 – Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 – Joe Jones, drummer, born in Chicago, Illinois
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1911 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 – Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks)
1914 – Alfred Drake, [Capurro], singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate), born in Brooklyn, New York
1914 – Sarah Churchill, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding), born in London, England
1915 – Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
1915 – Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 – Walt W Rostow, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth), born in NYC, New York
1917 – Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), born in Vienna, Austria
1917 – June Allyson, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas), born in The Bronx, New York
1918 – Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 – Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 – George Duby, historian
1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 – Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012)
1921 – John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1922 – Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 – Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1923 – Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1926 – Diana Lynn, LA CA, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1926 – Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 – Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 – Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (The Godfather)
1927 – R. D. Laing, Govanhill, Scottish psychiatrist, born in Glasgow, Scotland
1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 – Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1929 – Harold Zirin, astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1932 – Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 – Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 – Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer
1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1934 – Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1934 – [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1935 – Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler’s List)
1936 – Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 – Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1938 – Robert Drivas, Chi, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 – Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 – Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Bruce F Vento, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977- )
1940 – Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 – Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985- )
1941 – Martin Murray, rocker (Honeycombs), born in London, England
1941 – Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 – Oliver North, US colonel (Irangate), born in San Antonio, Texas
1943 – Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1944 – Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 – Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 – Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 – Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 – Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 – Kieran Kane, singer (O’Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too), born in Queens, New York
1950 – Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 – Carmen R “Tata” Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 – John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 – Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
1952 – Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 – Martyn Harris, journalist
1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
Russian President Vladimir Putin (1952)

1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
1953 – Christopher Norris, actress (Summer of ’42, Eat My Dust), born in NYC, New York
1953 – Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 – Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom)
1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956 – James Van Patten, American actor (Bo-Chisholms), born in Brooklyn, New York
1956 – Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 – Jayne Torvill, England, ice skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 – Judy Sams, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th), born in Toronto, Ontario
1958 – Kim Morris, playmate (Mar, 1986), born in San Diego, California
1958 – Judy Landers, American actress (BJ & the Bear, Madame’s Place), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1959 – Penny Graeber, Australian golfer (1990 6th Vic Open), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1959 – Dylan Baker, American character actor
Recording Executive Simon Cowell (1959)

1959 – Simon Cowell, Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol)
1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 – Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 – Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 – Rich Delucia, Reading PA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 – Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1964 – Stuart Hendley, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open), born in Houston, Texas
1964 – Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 – Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 – Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 – Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 – Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 – Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 – Randy Bartz, Roseville Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 – Thom Yorke, British pop musician and lead singer of Radiohead (‘Creep’, ‘Paranoid Android’ and ‘Pyramid Song’)
1969 – Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 – Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1969 – Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 – Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model
1970 – Daniel Collins, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1970 – Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 – Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 – Le’Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 – Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1971 – Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 – Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 – Paul Hannam, 470 yachter (Olympics-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1971 – Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 – John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 – Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 – Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 – Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Priest Holmes, running back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Alexander Polinsky, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge), born in San Franciso, California
1974 – Benjamin Oberman, pairs skater (& Naomi Grabow), born in Denver, Colorado
1974 – Shannon MacMillan, Syosset NY, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
1974 – Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 – Billy Walsh, Summit NJ, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 – Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 – Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 – Clayton Miller, trap shooter (Olympics-96), born in Toronto, Ontario
1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 – Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 – Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1984 – Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1987 – Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
1988 – Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho

WEDDINGS

1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1914 – 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F. Fitzgerald’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald (24)
1965 – Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (48) weds actor Warde Donovan
1978 – Country singer Merle Haggard (41) weds his backup singer Leona Williams (35)
1989 – Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1995 – “Cheers” actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen (42)
Actor Tim Allen (2006)

2006 – Comedian-actor Tim Allen (53) weds actress Jane Hajduk (39) at an outdoor ceremony in Grand Lake, Colorado
2012 – Media personality Jack Osbourne (26) weds Lisa Stelly on the Big Island of Hawaii

DIVORCES

1988 – Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
2004 – Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years of marriage

DEATHS

290 – [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 – Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
929 – Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies
1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 – Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1555 – Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 – Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto
1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 – John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 – Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 – Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 – Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1772 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 – Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 – Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
American Statesman George Mason (1792)

1792 – George Mason, American statesman (advocated for the Bill of Rights), dies of natural causes at 66
1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 – Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 – August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40
1864 – Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 – John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 – George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 – John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
Author Edgar Allan Poe(1849)

1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 – Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 – C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1919 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 – Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 – Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 – Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1950 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented modern air conditioning, dies at 73
Engineer Willis Carrier(1950)

1951 – Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 – Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 – PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 – Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 – Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1963 – Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63
1964 – Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 – Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 – Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 – Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 – Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 – Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1988 – Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 – J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 – John “Cat” Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 – Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1991)

1991 – Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 – Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 – Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1992 – Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 – Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 – Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 – Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 – James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 – Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 – Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 – Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
1999 – Rev. Bruce Ritter, American Catholic priest and controversial founder of charity New York City based Covenant House, dies of cancer at 72
2001 – Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 – Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 – Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
2010 – Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2010 – T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 – John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76
2013 – Patrice Chéreau, French film and opera director, dies from lung cancer at 68

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor

• American Revolution

• 1780 Patriots prevail in Carolinas

• Automotive

• 1960 CBS broadcasts the premiere episode of “Route 66″

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson’s Farm)

• Cold War

• 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy

• Crime

• 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship

• Disaster

• 1871 Massive fire burns in Wisconsin

• General Interest

• 1780 Battle of King’s Mountain
• 1913 Moving Assembly Line at Ford
• 1949 East Germany created
• 2001 U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins

• Hollywood

• 1983 Connery plays Bond in Never Say Never Again

• Literary

• 1955 Ginsberg reads “Howl” for the first time

• Music

• 1975 A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order

• Old West

• 1816 First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans

• Presidential

• 2001 President Bush announces military action in Afghanistan

• Sports

• 1984 Walter Payton sets a record

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort
• 1970 Nixon announces a new peace proposal

• World War I

• 1914 Antwerp under siege

• World War II

• 1940 German troops enter Romania
• 1943 Japanese execute nearly 100 American prisoners on Wake Island