October 9th

EVENTS

768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.
869 – Charles the Bald crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1192 – Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1290 – Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1573 – Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 – Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1617 – Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)
1621 – Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1651 – English parliament passes Navigation Act
1655 – Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
Theologian and Colonist Roger Williams

1668 – Mass society storms palace of “heretics” Spanish governor Jose de Paternina
1701 – Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1708 – Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1716 – Britain & France sign treaty
1740 – Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1760 – 7 Years’ War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28].
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1794 – French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1799 – Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast.
1804 – Hobart Tasmania founded
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1817 – University of Gent officially opens
1818 – Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1820 – Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.
1835 – The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1837 – Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – The siege of Sebastopol begins (Crimean War)
1855 – Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 – Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope
1863 – Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
Union General George Armstrong Custer

1864 – Battle of Tom’s Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan’s campaign is beaten by General Custer & Merrit’s cavalry divisions
1865 – First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1870 – Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1872 – Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
1874 – World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1876 – 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 – American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 – Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Red-Headed League”
1899 – 1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa
1899 – South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1900 – 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 – 11″ (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1905 – Phila A’s meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1907 – 3rd College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 12-0 in Annapolis
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1909 – Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1910 – Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown’s 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1914 – German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1915 – Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
1915 – Louis Kaufmans “Unchastened Woman” premieres in NYC
1915 – Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
1916 – Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1920 – 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1921 – Babe Ruth’s 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1926 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1928 – Marcel Pagnol’s “Topaz” premieres in Paris
1928 – NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in game
1929 – G Kaufman & R Lardner’s musical “June Moon” premieres in NYC
1930 – 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 – St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1938 – Aaron Copland’s & Eugene Loring’s ballet “Billy the Kid” premieres in Chicago
1938 – Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 – NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
Composer Aaron Copland

1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy.
1944 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1944 – Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1944 – German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1944 – St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 – British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 – First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 – Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” premieres in NYC
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1947 – Julie Styne & Sam Cohn’s musical “High Button Shoes” premieres in NYC for 727 performances
1948 – WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 – 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
1951 – Gil McDougald’s World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 – Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1954 – KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1956 – 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
1957 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1958 – Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine
1958 – NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1958 – NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey Oswald

1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1960 – Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2″)
1961 – NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 – US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
1961 – Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 – Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1962 – Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1962 – NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1962 – Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1963 – Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1963 – British premier Harold MacMillan resigns
1963 – Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks’ about 2,000 die
MLB Pitcher Whitey Ford

1963 – French air force gets first nuclear weapons
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 – 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 – Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1966 – Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded “Got Live if you Want It”
1968 – Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1968 – WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – About 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against ‘police brutality’ on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People’s Democracy—was formed
1969 – Supremes release “Someday We’ll Be Together”
1970 – Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1971 – Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – “Dude” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
1973 – 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1973 – Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1973 – Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 – Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 – Race riot in Boston due to “bussing”
1974 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 1
1974 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles, 3 games to 1
1975 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
Nuclear Physicist & Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov

1975 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 – “Robber Bridegroom” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1976 – Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1976 – Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1976 – Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1977 – Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 – Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1977 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 2
1978 – 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins
1978 – John Kander & Fred Ebb’s musical “Ballroom” premieres in NYC
1979 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
Country singer Dolly Parton

1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn
1980 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1982 – Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
1982 – 12th Commonwealth Games close in Brisbane, Australia
1983 – Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 – 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 – Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1985 – “Tango Argentino” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
1985 – Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, dedicated
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 – “Phantom of the Opera” premeires in London
NHL Star Gilbert Perreault

1986 – Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 – Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
1988 – 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
1988 – 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
1988 – Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1988 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
1989 – 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
1989 – Penthouse Magazine’s Hebrew edition hits newstands
1989 – 1st NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1
1990 – David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1990 – Radio stations around world play “Imagine” honoring John Lennon
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1990 – Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1990 – Fear of war and long-term supply disruptions as Hussein threatens Israel
1991 – “On Borrowed Time” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 perfs
1991 – Bush declares “total confidence” in nominee Clarence Thomas
1991 – San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1994 – Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
1994 – Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany
1996 – Howard Stern’s book “Miss America” released in paperback
1997 – ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1997 – Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 – NC’s Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 – NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
1997 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel

2012 – 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 – Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in the Swat district of northwest Pakistan
2013 – 60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic
2013 – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
2014 – Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus

BIRTHDAYS

1201 – Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 – Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 – Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1586 – Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 – John Ferrabosco, composer
1663 – Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 – Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
1760 – Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 – Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 – Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1782 – Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1813 – John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 – Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1897)
1822 – George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1880)
1823 – Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Wilmington, Delaware, Publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher (‘Provincial Freeman’)
1830 – Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 – Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg’s coal basin)
1847 – Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
Chemist and Nobel Laureate Hermann Emil Fischer(1852)

1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1919)
1858 – Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 – Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 – Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 – Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1878 – Robert Warwick, [Bien], actor (Falcon’s Adventure), born in Sacramento, California
1884 – Helene Deutsch, [Rosenbach], psychoanalyst (Boston)
1884 – Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1886 – Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 – Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1888 – Irving Cummings Sr, silent screen star/director (Curly Top), born in NYC, New York
1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 – Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 – Janis Medins, composer
1892 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)
1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 – Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex)
1893 – M de Andrade, writer
1899 – Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1900 – Alastair Sim, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1900 – Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 – Walter O’Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904 – Carl Parrish, composer
1904 – J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman (KRO, 1938-45)
1904 – Wally Brown, Malden MA, actor (Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush)
1905 – Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1905 – Howard St John, actor (Born Yesterday, Li’l Abner), born in Chicago, Illinois
1906 – 13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner
1906 – Janis Ivanovs, composer
1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 – Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime)
1908 – James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
1910 – Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1914 – Edward Andrews, Griffin GA, actor (Tea & Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat)
1914 – Roger Goeb, composer
1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1917 – Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 – E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 – Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 – Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
1920 – Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
1920 – Yusef Lateef, Chattanooga Tennessee, American Jazz Saxophonist and Flautist
1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 – Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1922 – Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba), born in St Budeaux, Plymouth, (d. 2014)
1923 – Ronald Tremain, composer
1924 – Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1925 – Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 – Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1927 – Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 – David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1930 – Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 – Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1934 – Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician
1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 – Don[ald] McCullin, British photographer
1935 – Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent
1935 – Jules Croiset, Dutch actor (Help, Doctor Verzuipt!)
1935 – Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960’s, century v South Africa)
1935 – Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage & Her Children)
1936 – Brian Blessed, Mexborough, Yorkshire, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1937 – Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1939 – O V Wright, rocker
1939 – Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines)
1940 – Gordon J Humphrey, (Sen-R-NH, 1979- )
1940 – Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
MLB First Baseman and Outfielder Joe Pepitone(1940)

1940 – Joe Pepitone, MLB 1st baseman (NY Yankees), born in Brooklyn, New York
1940 – John Lennon, British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1980)
1941 – Trent Lott, (Rep-R-MS, 1973- )
1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span
1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1942 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1944 – John Entwistle, rock guitarist/vocalist (Who-Baba O’Riley), born in London, England
1944 – Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles)
1945 – Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 – Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
Musician and Beatle John Lennon (1940)

1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 – France Gall, French singer
1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 – Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1948 – Jackson Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love)
1949 – Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
1950 – Gary Frank, Spokane WA, actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon)
1950 – Mick Malone, cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14)
1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player
1951 – Richard Chaves, Jacksonville FL, actor (Cease Fire, Predator)
1951 – Robert Wuhl, Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
Music Manager/TV Personality Sharon Osbourne (1952)

1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English/American music manager, TV personality (X-Factor, America’s Got Talent) and wife of Ozzy Osbourne, born in London
1953 – Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night)
1954 – Scott Bakula, St Louis MO, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown)
1955 – Linwood Boomer, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie), born in Vancouver, Canada
1955 – Steve Ovett, England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
1957 – Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-18, TM-23)
1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1959 – Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1959 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, born in Sochi, Soviet Union (assassinated 2015)
1961 – Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 – Jean Sagal, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Liz Sagal, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Trevor Matich, NFL center/guard (Washington Redskins)
1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 – Martin Jaite, Argentina, tennis star
1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1966 – Mike Williams, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 – David Cameron, British politician
1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress (Spring Fever)
1967 – Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player (Barcelona)
1967 – Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player (PSV)
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 – Charles Jordan, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 – Dwayne Sabb, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
1969 – Steve McQueen, English filmmaker and artist (12 Years a Slave), born in London
1970 – Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women’s Open)
1970 – Kenny Anderson, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers)
1970 – Oleg Kryazhev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1971 – Pete Mitchell, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1972 – Maurice Kelly, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 – Roman Oben, tackle (NY Giants)
1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 – A J Ofodile, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 – Alexey Trochshinskiy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 – Brandon Pollard, Richmond VA, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 – Dexter McCleon, cornerback (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 – Kavika Pittman, defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 – Keith Booth, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 – Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer (Guyanese leg-spinner)
1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 – Sean Ono Lennon, New York USA, John & Yoko’s Son
1976 – Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1997)
1976 – Nick Swardson American actor
1977 – Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe (1997)
1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 – Randy Spelling, actor (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 – Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1996)
1979 – Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch NZ, breastroker (Olympics-96)
1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Ffotballer
1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Denver, Colorado
1981 – Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 – Ghetto, British musician
1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

WEDDINGS

1514 – King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)
1901 – Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr (27) weds Abby Aldrich in Warwick Neck, Rhode Island
1916 – Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (21) weds Maxine Gates in Farmington, Utah
1944 – Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (67) weds 1930 Miss France Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (38) in Geneva, Switzerland
1985 – NBA guard George Gervin (33) weds Joyce King in Bexar County, Texas
1999 – “Pretty in Pink” actor Andrew McCarthy (36) weds Carol Schneider
NBA Guard George Gervin(1985)

2005 – “The O.C.” writer and talk show host Regis Philbin’s daughter Jennifer Joy Philbin (31) weds NBC comedy series “The Office” writer Michael Schur (32) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City
2005 – Savage Garden musician Daniel Jones (32) weds “Hi-5” member Kathleen De Leon at Avica Weddings and Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland
2005 – Italian pop singer Alexia (38) weds Giorgio Armani’s nephew Andrea Camerana at Church of San Martino in Piacenza, Italy
2011 – Musician Paul McCartney (69) weds New Yorker Nancy Shevell (51) in a civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall, London
2011 – TV personality Layla Kayleigh (22) weds Radio Talk Show Host/DJ Steve Covino (36) in Las Vegas, Nevada

DIVORCES

1973 – Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1980 – Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

DEATHS

1047 – Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
1253 – Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78
1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1326 – Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
1390 – Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies
1423 – Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
1436 – Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio/Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1646 – Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1688 – Claude Perrault, French Architect and Physician, dies at 75
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1769 – Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 – Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 – Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77

Mathematician, Astronomer and Almanac Author Benjamin Banneker (1806)

1806 – Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1821 – Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece.
1837 – Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1841 – Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1891 – Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
1897 – John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1906 – Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1907 – Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1912 – Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1915 – Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
1917 – Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1918 – Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 – King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist)
1937 – August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1937 – George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer/actress, dies of liver ailment at 41
1943 – Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
1943 – Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 – Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1949 – Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
NHL Goalie George Hainsworth (1950)

1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender, dies in a car accident at 55
1955 – Alice Joyce, actress (Song O’ My Heart), dies at 65
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 – Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day’s game
1962 – Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80
1963 – Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1967 – Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies
1967 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39
1967 – Gordon Allport, US Psychologist (personalities), dies at 69
1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1970 – Jean Giono, writer, dies
Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara (1967)

1972 – Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 – Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1983 – Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1988 – Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 – Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1990 – Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1974)

1991 – Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
1991 – Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 – C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1993 – Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
1994 – Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 – James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1994 – Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1994 – Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 – John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1995 – Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 – Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 – Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
1995 – Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
1996 – Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
1996 – Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
1996 – Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
1996 – Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
1997 – Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer., dies from brain cancer at 55
2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister, dies from pancreatic cancer at 77
2014 – Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer, dies from complications of dementia 89

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1967 Che Guevara is executed

• American Revolution

• 1775 Lord Dartmouth orders British officers to North Carolina

• Automotive

• 1992 Meteorite crashes into Chevy Malibu

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Tom’s Brook

• Cold War

• 1967 Professional revolutionary “Che” Guevara is executed in Bolivia

• Crime

• 1942 A Chicago bootlegger escapes from prison

• Disaster

• 1963 Landslide kills thousands in Italy

• General Interest

• 1635 Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts
• 1940 St. Paul’s Cathedral bombed
• 1974 Oskar Schindler dies
• 1975 Sakharov wins Peace Prize

• Hollywood

• 2001 Footloose, Steel Magnolias director Herbert Ross dies

• Literary

• 1547 Miguel de Cervantes is baptized

• Music

• 1976 Disco/Classical hybrid “A Fifth Of Beethoven” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

• Presidential

• 1869 President Grant announces death of former President Pierce

• Sports

• 1934 The Gashouse Gang wins the World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1969 The National Guard breaks up protests at home
• 1970 Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia.

• World War I

• 1915 Belgrade falls to Austria-Hungary

• World War II

• 1944 Churchill and Stalin confer