October 8th

EVENTS

314 – Battle at Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine beats emperor in the eas tLicinius
451 – Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
876 – Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bald
1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1085 – San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1492 – Columbus’ fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 – San Marino adopts constitution
1604 – Supernova “Kepler’s nova” first sighted
1625 – Admiral George Villiers’ fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
1690 – Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 – French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 – Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1769 – Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay)
Captain/Explorer James Cook

1775 – Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 – British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1813 – Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
1815 – Joachim Murat’s forces land at Pizzo, Italy
1818 – Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves
1821 – The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1822 – First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1840 – First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1856 – The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1860 – Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 – Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted
1862 – Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire
1865 – Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 – Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 – Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Noble Bachelor” (BG)
1887 – Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1888 – 28th British Golf Open: Jack Burns shoots a 171 at St Andrews
German Statesman Otto Von Bismarck

1892 – Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs “Prelude in C-sharp-Minor” in Moscow
1895 – Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 – Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1897 – Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 – First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen’s, 3-2
1903 – J M Synge’s “In the Shadow of the Glen” premieres in Dublin
1904 – 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrates first ‘permanent wave’ for hair in London
1908 – NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 – Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 – Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 – Battle of Loos WWI, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915 – Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

1917 – Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
1918 – American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 – NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 – British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1927 – NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 – Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 – Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz’ musical “Paris” premieres in NYC
1928 – Eastern Soccer League forms in USA
1928 – Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
1929 – A’s Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 – Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 – Phila A’s beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
1933 – Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
1933 – Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
Aviator Charles Lindbergh

1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son
1938 – G Kaufman & Moss Hart’s “Fabulous Invalid” premieres in NYC
1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 – NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 – Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 – German troops occupies Romania
1941 – Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins
1942 – Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1942 – Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1943 – Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 – “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debut on CBS radio
1944 – Samuel Barber’s “Capricorn Concerto” premieres
1945 – US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

1946 – Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as President of China
1946 – Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 – 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 – Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 – “Music in the Air” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 – Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League
1952 – Chinese offensive in Korea
1952 – Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1953 – Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson’s Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1953 – WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
1956 – Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson

1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 – Procter & Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense
1957 – Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1957 – Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1958 – Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1958 – Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
1958 – KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 – “At the Drop of a Hat” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 – Conservatives win British general election
1959 – LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 – 3rd Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain beats Australia 10-3
1960 – Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
1961 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin’s Swing Parade Golf Tournament
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1961 – US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – 12th Formula One WDC: Phil Hill wins by one point
1962 – Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 – North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers’ Party
1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about a NATO manoeuver called “Fallex 62”, which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 – Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

1964 – Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1965 – Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI-headquarters
1965 – Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
1965 – Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
1965 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 – Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
1970 – Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara

1970 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland
1971 – John Lennon releases his megahit “Imagine”
1971 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 – “From Israel with Love” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 – Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 – In Game 2 of ALCS, A’s Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 – Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
1972 – 23rd Formula One WDC: Emerson Fittipaldi wins by 16 points
1973 – NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins’ Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 – Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
1973 – OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1976 – Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1977 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
1978 – Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 – Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1978 – 29th Formula One WDC: Mario Andretti wins by 13 points
1979 – “Sugar Babies” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 – 13th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell wins
1979 – J McHugh & A Malvin’s musical “Sugar Babies” premieres in NYC
1980 – After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marleycollapsed in Central Park while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
Reggae Musician Bob Marley

1980 – British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 – USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test
1981 – USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser
1981 – President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral
1982 – NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
1983 – 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1983 – MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1
1983 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1984 – 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1984 – NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes
1985 – “Rembrandt & Hitler or Me” premieres in Amsterdam
1985 – Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner’s “Les Miserables” premieres in London
1985 – Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 – Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 – RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 – Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 – Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1989 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
1990 – 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
1990 – Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 – US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 – The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
1992 – Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 – Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
1992 – Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
Radio shock jock Howard Stern

1993 – Howard Stern releases his 1st book “Private Parts”
1993 – UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 – 6th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 30-11 in Chestnut Hill
1994 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 – Dolphin’s Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record
1995 – Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
1998 – Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.
1999 – New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
Molecular biologist Peter Agre

2003 – Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
2005 – The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
2011 – Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2012 – Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
2012 – Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament
2012 – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
2013 – Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
Developmental biologist John B. Gurdon

2014 – The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
2014 – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

BIRTHDAYS

1515 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
1585 – Heinrich Schutz, composer
1619 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)
1621 – Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim
1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
1690 – Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 – Antonio Palella, composer
1697 – Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love)
1713 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
1720 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
1740 – Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 – Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1747 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
1748 – Franz Seydelmann, composer
1765 – Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
1789 – John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
1789 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
1790 – Waldemar Thrane, composer
1802 – Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist
1813 – Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1818 – John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
1820 – Stanislaw Katski, composer
1826 – Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1904)
1828 – Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic
1831 – Michal Jelski, composer
1834 – Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 – Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1838 – John Milton Hay, politician (Union), (d. 1905)
1850 – Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1855 – Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
1860 – Felix Woyrsch, composer
1861 – Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1863 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
1864 – Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)
1868 – Max Slevogt, German painter
1869 – J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
1870 – Louis Vierne, composer
1872 – John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
1873 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1874 – Nance O’Neil, actor (Cimarron), born in Oakland, California
1875 – Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
1877 – Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
1880 – Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1883 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1883 – Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1884 – Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
1885 – William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1887 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
1888 – Clifford Heatherley, Preston England, actress (For Love or Money)
1889 – C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)
1890 – Cyril Rutherford “Snuffy” Browne, cricketer (pioneer WI Test player)
1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator “Ace of Aces” (WW I)
1890 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1893 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, Epping England, British painter and etcher
1895 – Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl)
1895 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires (d. 1974)
1895 – King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
1896 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (The Mark of Zorro, Applause)
1898 – Clarence Williams, composer
1899 – Milner Connorton Gray, designer
1899 – Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP)
1900 – Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect
1900 – Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer
1900 – Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 – Eivind Groven, composer
1903 – Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
1907 – Howard Joslin, GA, actor (Quebec, Detective Story)
1908 – Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1909 – Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1910 – Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
1910 – Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
1913 – Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish), born in NYC, New York
1916 – Spark Matsunaga, (D-Ha-Sen)
1917 – Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1917 – Hans Poser, composer
1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
1917 – Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
1918 – Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1919 – Bill Anderson, cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946)
1919 – Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan (1991-93)
1920 – Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
1920 – Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1921 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1922 – Douglas Gray, archivist
1922 – Svend Westergaard, composer
1924 – Arkady Vorobyev, Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1924 – Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1925 – Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic
1927 – Al Duncan, drummer
1927 – Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 – Raaj Kumar, film star
1927 – Torbjorn Falkanger, Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
1927 – Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
1927 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1928 – Neil Harvey, cricketer (prolific Australian lefty bat of 50’s)
1928 – M. Russell Ballard, LDS apostle
1928 – Bill Maynard, British actor
1929 – Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
1930 – James Olsen, Evanston IL, actor (Andromeda Strain, Spell)
1930 – Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1932 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
1934 – Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1934 – J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
1936 – Carman Moore, composer
1936 – Rona Barrett, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show), born in NYC, New York
1938 – David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service)
1938 – Frederick S Stolle, tennis champ (US Open-1966)
1938 – Penny Pitou, US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
1938 – Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
1939 – Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
1939 – Armando Gentilucci, composer
1939 – Elvira Ozolina, USSR, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 – Harvey Pekar, American author
1939 – Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer
1940 – Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, rocker (Impressions)
1941 – George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1941 – Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate (D)
1943 – Chevy Chase, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack), born in NYC, New York
1943 – James Edward Sellars, composer
Children’s Book Writer R. L. Stine (1943)

1943 – R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children’s book writer (Goosebumps)
1944 – Bruce A Morrison, (Rep-D-CT, 1983- )
1944 – Susan Raye, American singer
1945 – Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1945 – Vanburn Holder, cricketer (West Indian pace bowler of 70’s)
1946 – Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1946 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, director (Betty Blue, Diva)
1946 – Dennis Kucinich, American politician
1947 – Emiel Puttemans, Flemish athlete
1947 – Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1947 – Yelena Ivanovna Dobrokvashina, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-15a)
1948 – Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)
1948 – Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
Guitarist Johnny Ramone(1948)

1948 – Stefanie Marrian, Paris France, comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1948 – Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
1948 – Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
1948 – Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
1949 – Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 – Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1949 – Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
1950 – Robert “Kool” Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1951 – Jack O’Connell, American politician
1952 – Cliff Adams, rocker
1952 – Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician
1952 – Edward Zwick, American film director
1953 – Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1954 – Michael Dudikoff, Redondo Beach, California, American actor (American Ninja, TRON)
Actress Sigourney Weaver(1949)

1954 – Ben Amonette, Radford VA, free pistol (Olympics-92, 96)
1955 – Bill Elliott, auto racer (Daytona-1978)
1955 – Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1956 – Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend Ind, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 63, 83, 94)
1956 – Scott Michael Pellaton, barefoot water ski champ
1956 – Larry Crane, Seymour, Indiana, American rocker (John Mellencamp band)
1956 – Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
1956 – Janice Voss, South Bend, Indiana, astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), (d. 2012)
1957 – Doug Cox, Guelph Ontario, 90 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1957 – James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor (Max Holden-One Life to Live)
1957 – Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer
1957 – Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director
1958 – Steve Coll, American journalist
1959 – Carlos I Noriega, Lima Peru, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97)
1959 – Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1959 – Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1959 – Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
1959 – Nick Bakay, American actor
1960 – Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
1960 – François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
1961 – Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1962 – Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver
1964 – CeCe Winans, American singer
1965 – Martin Mayhew, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 – Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
1965 – Ross Flemer, Newport Beach California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 – Ardal O’Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor
1965 – C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1966 – Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
1967 – Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress
1968 – Frankie Smith, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, SF 49ers)
1968 – Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer
1968 – Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player
1969 – Dylan Neal, US actor (Dylan Shaw-Bold & the Beautiful)
1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor
1970 – Carlos Etheredge, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 – David Doster, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1970 – DeWayne Knight, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 – James Williams, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
Actor Matt Damon (1970)

1970 – Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean’s trilogy, Bourne trilogy)
1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
1970 – Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress
1971 – Jim Hanna, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 – Monty Williams, NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1971 – Nate Miller, NFL/WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 – Terry Richardson, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Val St germain, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 – Dede Demet, Milwaukee Wisc, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 – Jared Kaaiohelo, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1972 – Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer
1973 – Donnie Abraham, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 – Toby Haenen, Hobart Tasmania Aus, backstroke swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 – Tracy Bonner, Webster Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 – Rashaan Salaam, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1974 – Rod Manuel, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 – Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player
1974 – DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
1976 – Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
1977 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
1978 – Mick O’Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1978 – Antonino D’Agostino, Italian football player
1979 – [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1979 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
1979 – Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler
1980 – Andria Gayle Mullins, Miss Texas Teen USA (Teen with Style-1997)
1980 – Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
Actor & Rapper Nick Cannon(1980)

1980 – Nick Cannon, American actor and rapper (Love Don’t Cost a Thing), born in San Diego, California
1981 – Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, of Netherlands
1981 – Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
1983 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
1983 – Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor
1985 – Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez], American singer (“Just the Way You Are”, “Grenade”), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1985 – Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
1987 – Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu
1993 – Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)

WEDDINGS

1824 – Salt Lake City founder Brigham Young (23) weds first wife Miriam Angeline Works (18) in Port Byron, New York
1842 – Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1846 – Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia
1934 – South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34)
1935 – Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett)
1993 – Queen Elizabeth’s nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee (1934)

1994 – “Growing Pains” actress Tracey Gold (25) weds Roby Marshall (29) at St. Charles Catholic Church
2005 – Gilmore Girls” actress Melissa McCarthy (34) weds “Joey” actor Ben Falcone (32) at the Oviatt Penthouse in Los Angeles

DIVORCES

2010 – Musician Ben Harper (40) divorces actress Laura Dern (43) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

DEATHS

705 – Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
976 – Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 – St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies
1286 – John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
1317 – Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1604 – Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
1606 – John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies aged 69
1613 – Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
1621 – Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
1647 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
1651 – Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
1656 – Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1659 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1680 – Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1683 – Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1686 – Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55
1722 – Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
1728 – Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
1754 – Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771 – John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76
1772 – Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
Statesman John Hancock(1793)

1793 – John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
1795 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
1803 – Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1834 – Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
1842 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1847 – Rose Scott, Social Reformer
1862 – James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1862 – William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1864 – Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
1865 – Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 – Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1869 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
14th US President Franklin Pierce (1869)

1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1888 – Jules J baron d’Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
1895 – Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 – Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1904 – Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
1907 – Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 – Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1919 – Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies
1925 – Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1928 – Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1931 – Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
1936 – William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1940 – Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1942 – Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
1944 – Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52
1945 – Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73
1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
1946 – Rose Melville, American stage actress (Sis Hopkins) dies at 73
1947 – Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
1953 – Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
1956 – Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1963 – Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist dies of a heart attack aged 54
1964 – Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1967)

1967 – Clement Attlee, British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1969 – Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1970 – Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 – Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1971 – Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51
1971 – Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1973 – Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 – Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, lyricist (b. 1902 )
1978 – Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1978 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1978 – Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 – June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1982 – Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1982 – Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 – Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49
1984 – Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 – Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 – Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1988 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1990 – B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1991 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 – Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 – Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 – Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 – Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
1994 – John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
1994 – Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 – Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
1995 – Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
1995 – John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
1995 – Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 – Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
1996 – Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996 – Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 – Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
1996 – William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
1997 – Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1999 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2002 – Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2004 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2004 – James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2008 – Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918)
2008 – Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)
American Football Coach and Executive Al Davis (2011)

2011 – Al Davis, American football executive, dies at 82
2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2013 – Andy Pafko, Americal baseball player, dies at 92
2013 – Rod Grams, American politician and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65
2013 – Philip Chevron, Irish musician, dies from esophageal cancer at 56

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1871 Great Chicago Fire begins

• American Revolution

• 1778 Continentals raid Unadilla

• Automotive

• 1869 Frank Duryea, winner of the first American “horseless carriage” race, is born

• Civil War

• 1862 Battle of Perryville

• Cold War

• 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature

• Crime

• 2009 Self-help guru’s sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly

• Disaster

• 1871 Fire rips through Chicago

• General Interest

• 1919 First transcontinental air race
• 1967 Che Guevara defeated
• 2005 Massive earthquake hits Kashmir region

• Hollywood

• 1970 Matt Damon born

• Literary

• 1937 Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane

• Music

• 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis records “Great Balls Of Fire” in Memphis, Tennessee

• Old West

• 1871 The Great Fire destroys much of Chicago

• Presidential

• 1998 U.S. House of Representatives initiates Clinton impeachment inquiry

• Sports

• 1956 Don Larsen is perfect in World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1968 U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords
• 1970 Communists reject Nixon’s peace proposal
• 1972 Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks

• World War I

• 1918 U.S. soldier Alvin York displays heroics at Argonne

• World War II

• 1941 Germans overrun Mariupol, in southern Russia