October 18th

EVENTS

707 – John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
1016 – Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
1081 – Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine
1267 – Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1534 – New pursuit of French protestants
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima — Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1564 – John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
1572 – Spanish troops attack Maastricht
1622 – French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
1648 – 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
1667 – English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1672 – Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
The Sun King of France Louis XIV

1685 – French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants
1748 – Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1752 – Premiere of Rousseau’s opera “Le Devin du Village”
1767 – Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1776 – In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders “cock tail”
1776 – Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1855 – Franz Liszt’s “Prometheus,” premieres
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1862 – Morgan’s raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1863 – Battle of Charlestown, WV
Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt

1867 – US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1869 – Henrik Ibsen’s “De Unges Forbund,” premieres in Christiania (Oslo)
1873 – 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
1873 – Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1878 – Edison makes electricity available for household use
1887 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “A Case of Identity” (BG)
1889 – 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1890 – John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
1891 – 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
1892 – 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 – American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1900 – Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famous for first referring to Germany’s need for ‘place in the sun’ and global empire
1901 – Belgium’s Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
1902 – 7th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-0 in Birmingham
1904 – Gustav Mahler’s 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
1908 – Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1909 – Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
Writer and Novelist E. M. Forster

1910 – E. M. Forster publishes “Howards End”
1912 – The First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed to Turkey
1912 – The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Tripolitan War between Turkey and Italy
1913 – Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1915 – 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
1918 – Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 – NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
1918 – Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1921 – Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
1922 – British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded (later called British Broadcasting Corporation)
1924 – Harold “Red” Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
NFL halfback Red Grange

1924 – Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1925 – -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
1925 – Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
1926 – Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin’s political testament
1929 – Women are considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
1930 – Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1932 – Belgium government of Renkin falls
1939 – R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts “Too Many Girls,” premieres in NYC
1940 – Kaufman & Harts “George Washington Slept Here,” premieres in NYC
1941 – Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1942 – Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed
1943 – US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
1944 – Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussels
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944 – Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945 – Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements
1946 – Aaron Copland’s 3rd Symphony premieres
1948 – Operation 10 Plagues – Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1950 – Connie Mack retires as manager of A’s after 50 years
1951 – USSR performs nuclear test
1952 – “Buttrio Square” closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1952 – Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1952 – 14th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 38-7 in College Park
1953 – WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 – Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1954 – Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
Baseball Legend Connie Mack

1954 – WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)
1954 – Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.
1955 – Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
1955 – University of California discovers anti-proton
1960 – Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
1960 – In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1961 – Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack
1961 – “West Side Story”, the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released (Best Picture 1962)
1962 – JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 – Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record “Let’s Dance”
Singer-Songwriter and and Guitarist Tony Sheridan

1962 – US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 – Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1963 – IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1964 – Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1966 – “Apple Tree” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
1967 – Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
1967 – Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1967 – Walt Disney’s “Jungle Book” is released
1967 – AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams
1968 – Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City
1968 – Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
Molecular biologist Francis Crick

1968 – John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession
1968 – Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
1968 – Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko’s apt
1968 – US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving “black power” salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1969 – Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1969 – Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession
1969 – Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
1969 – Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1970 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1970 – Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
1973 – “Raisin” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances
1973 – Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1973 – Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical “Raisin,” premieres in NYC
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1973 – Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1974 – 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena – Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1974 – Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam
1974 – Wings (Country Hams) release “Walking in the Park with Eloise”
1974 – Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
1975 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite on “Saturday Night Live”, sing “My Little Town”
1975 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 – Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1977 – 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch’s 15th
1977 – NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
1977 – W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
MLB Right Fielder Reggie Jackson

1977 – Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth’s series record
1977 – Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
1978 – 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
1978 – NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1979 – “Beatlemania” opens in London
1979 – Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
1980 – Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
1981 – Andreas Papandreous’ PASOK wins Greek elections
1981 – NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
1981 – Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1984 – Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini

1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 – Israel’s supreme court uphold’s ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 – East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989 – Hungary revises constitution
1989 – US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
1990 – “Once on this Island” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
1991 – “Most Happy Fella” closes at NY State Theater NYC
1991 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – “Oba Oba ’93” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
1992 – 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
1992 – 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
1992 – Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
1992 – Start of Zimbabwe’s 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1993 – STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1995 – NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1999 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 1
2001 – Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
Pakistani Politician Benazir Bhutto

2007 – After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto’s convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
2009 – QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
2011 – Gilad Shalit is released.
2012 – Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2012 – Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
2012 – MLB American League Championship: Detroit Tigers beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 0
2013 – Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
NFL Quarterback Tom Brady

2013 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 2

BIRTHDAYS

1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1239 – Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72)
1405 – Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia)
1517 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
1547 – Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian
1569 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
1595 – Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
1611 – Valentin Strobel, composer
1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
1638 – Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet
1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, Paris France, famous military commander for the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottomans and the French
1668 – Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)
1668 – Wierich PL earl von Daun, Austrian prince of Thiano/fieldmarshall
1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1697 – Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal)
1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera’s buffa)
1712 – Jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)
1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1774 – Adolfs Muller, writer
1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
1789 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer
1794 – Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
1804 – Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)
1806 – John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
1811 – Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1874)
1818 – Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1883)
1829 – Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1829 – Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
1831 – Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
1833 – Johannes Habert, composer
1837 – Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
1844 – Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
1850 – Francis Thome, composer
1854 – Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)
1854 – Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
1859 – Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
1859 – Paolo Orsi, Rovereto, Italian Archaeologist (Sicilian excavations)
1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
1870 – D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar
1871 – Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)
1872 – Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun
1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 – James E K Aggrey, Ghana, US theologian/educationalist
1875 – Len Braund, cricketer (great England all-rounder in 23 Tests 1901-08)
1877 – Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1878 – James Truslow Adams, historian (Pul-1921, Founding of New England)
1879 – Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer
1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
1889 – Fannie Hurst, novelist (Anatomy of Me)
1890 – [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
1891 – Vaclav Kalik, composer
1892 – Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle)
1893 – Roy Del Ruth, DE, director (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show)
1893 – Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ (1949-57)
1893 – Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1895 – Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
1898 – George Cuzon, Amersham England, actor (Hooded Terror)
1898 – Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love)
1898 – Raymond Glenn, Frankfort KY, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones)
1901 – Vladimir Grigor’yevich Zakharov, composer
1902 – Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge GA, actress (Becky Sharp, These Three)
1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903 – Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist
1903 – Emile Enthoven, composer
1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
1905 – Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93)
1906 – James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island)
1907 – Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist
1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
1910 – Albertus “Bert” Botterman, actor (Bridge Too Far)
1910 – Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
1913 – Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
1915 – Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), born in San Franciso, California
1916 – Peter Shepherd, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1918 – Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
1918 – James Cameron Tudor, politician
1918 – Konstantinos Mitsottakis, premier of Greece (1990- )
1918 – Willem J “Molly” Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister)
1919 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1919 – Anita O’Day (born Anita Belle Colton), jazz singer , born in Chicago, Illinois
1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1919 – Camilla Williams, Danville, Virginia, operatic soprano, (d. 2012)
Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau (1919)

1919 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, born in Montreal, Quebec
1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
1921 – Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- )
1922 – Camillo Togni, composer
1922 – Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
1922 – Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
1923 – Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter
1924 – Allyn Ferguson, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), born in San Jose, California
1924 – Egil Hovland, composer
1924 – Frank Liedel, [Leo van Assche], Flemish writer (Kaperbrief)
1924 – Hugh Allan “Buddy” MacMaster, Canadian musician
1925 – Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels)
1925 – Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
1926 – Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
1926 – Klaus Kinski, [Nikolas Naksynski], Poland, actor (Little Drummer Girl)
1926 – Thomas Millar, historian
1927 – George C. Scott, Wise, Virginia, American actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove)
1927 – Ramesh Divecha, cricketer (eleven wickets for India in early 50’s)
1928 – Keith Jackson, Carrolton Ga, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football)
1928 – R H “Deepak” Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India)
1929 – Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua (1990- )
1930 – Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89)
1931 – Catharina I “Ien” Dales, Dutch Internal minister (1989-94)
1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
1933 – Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
1934 – Inger Stevens, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer’s Daughter)
1934 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
1934 – Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
1935 – John B Coleman, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1935 – Jorge Cervello, composer
Actor Peter Boyle (1935)

1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania
1938 – Ronnie Bright, rocker (Coasters)
1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (JFK), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1963)
1939 – Mike Ditka, Carnegie Pennsylvania, NFL coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)
1939 – Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1940 – Cynthia Weil, New York NY, American songwriter
1941 – William “Billy” Cox, Guitarist (performed with Jimi Hendrix), born in Wheeling, West Virginia
1942 – Willie Horton, baseball slugger (Detroit Tigers)
NFL Head Coach Mike Ditka(1939)

1942 – Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
1943 – Russ Giguere, Portsmouth NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Association)
1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
1944 – Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)
1945 – Christopher Shays, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1945 – Huell Howser, American TV host
1945 – Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
1946 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
1947 – Joe Morton, actor (Hal-Grady, Abel Marsh-Another World), born in NYC, New York
1947 – John Johnson, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1947 – Laura Nyro, singer/songwriter (Eli’s Coming, Stoney End), born in The Bronx, New York
1947 – Luc Journet, Belgian physician (Order of Zonnetempel)
1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
1947 – Paul Chuckle, British comedian
1948 – Isabel E Allen, biostatician
1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author
1949 – Gary Richrath, guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon), born in Peoria Illinois, (d. 2015)
1949 – Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
1949 – George Hendrick, baseball player
1950 – Merry Martin, Camden Mich, actress (Leslie-Peter Loves Mary)
1950 – Patrick L Swindall, (Rep-R-GA, 1985- )
1950 – Sheila White, actress (I Claudius), born in London, England
1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor
1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
1951 – Pam Dawber, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam), born in Detroit, Michigan
1951 – Terry McMillan, American author
1952 – Roy Dias, cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test batsman)
1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player
1954 – Liz Burch, Australian actress
1955 – Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
1955 – David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova (1956)

1956 – Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)
1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator
1956 – Jim Talent, Des Peres, Missouri, American politician (Rep-R-Missouri)
1957 – Jon Lindstrom, Medford Ore, actor (Kevin Collins-General Hospital)
1957 – Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
1958 – Hal Haenel, St Louis Mo, star yachter (Olympics-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, Tyngsryd Swe, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1958 – Corinne Bohrer, American actress
1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
1959 – Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
1959 – Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
1959 – John Nord, former American pro wrestler
1959 – Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
1960 – Doug Lidster, Kamloops, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1960 – Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988)
1960 – Erin Moran, Burbank, California, American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960)

1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)
1961 – Eric Jespersen, Port Alberni BC, star yachter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1961 – Gladstone Small, English cricketer, born in St. George, Barbados
1961 – Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1962 – Jody Anschutz, Minneapolis, LPGA golfer (1987 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1962 – Vincent Spano, actor (Alphabet City, Maria’s Lovers), born in Brooklyn, New York
1964 – Etsuko Inoue, Japan, tennis star
1964 – George Ferris, cricketer (Leewards fast bowler)
1965 – Fayette Purser, Australian golfer (NSW State Rep 1987-88), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1965 – Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
1966 – Alan Mills, Lakeland Florida, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1966 – Angela Visser, Neth, Miss Universe (1989)
1966 – Denise Philbrick, LPGA golfer
1966 – Jerod Swallow, Ann Arbor Mich, American ice skater (1997 Nationals)
1966 – Kristine Middeler, Felicity Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1967 – Gary John Anderson, Wanganui NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 – Denisa Szabova, Bratislava Czech, tennis star (1987 Futures-GER)
1968 – Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968 – Narendra Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets v WI on debut 1988)
1968 – Stuart Law, cricketer (prolific Queensland batsman, Australia 1995)
1969 – Anthony Avent, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer
1970 – Bob Kennedy, Bloomington Indiana, 5k runner
1970 – Camille Spitaleri, Mountain View Ca, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1970 – Mark Schenning, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 – Shane Bonham, NFL defensive linesman (Detroit Lions)
1970 – José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
1971 – Bob Whitfield, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 – Emmett Waldron, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1971 – Karen J McNenny, Missoula Montana, Miss Montana-America (1991)
1971 – Tammy Harris, Williamstown NY, Miss America-New York State (1997)
1972 – Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1972 – James Stream Thurmond Jr, son of US senator Strom Thurmond
1972 – Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
1972 – Jake Farrow, actor
1973 – Demetrious Maxie, CFL defensive end (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 – John Baldwin Jr, figure skater (1996 SW Pacific Sr champ), born in Dallas, Texas
1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 – Zhou Xun, Quzhou, Zhejiang, Chinese actress and singer (Suzhou River, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
1975 – Rebeca Tamez, Miss Mexico Universe (1997)
1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Chris McKenna, actor (Joey-One Live to Live), born in Queens, New York
1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
1977 – David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider
1978 – Wesley Jonathan, American actor
1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
1979 – Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], Camden, Arkansas, American pop and R&B singer and songwriter
1981 – Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
1987 – Zac Efron, American actor (High School Musical, 17 Again), born in San Luis Obispo, California,
1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
1990 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor
1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
2001 – Annelise Manojlovic, English actress

WEDDINGS

1869 – Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (49) weds his mistress Rosa Vercellana (36) in Italy
1926 – Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou
1952 – Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico
1970 – Actor Lee Marvin (46) weds radio producer Pamela Marvin (40)
1986 – “Fleetwood Mac” member Christine McVie (43) weds keyboardist Eduardo Quintela
2008 – Tennis player Michael Chang (35) weds fellow tennis player Amber Liu (24) at Lake Hills Community Church in Laguna Hills, California
Tennis Player and French Open Champion Michael Chang (2008)

2011 – Actress, model and singer Bijou Phillips (32) weds actor and disc jockey Danny Masterson (36) at a private castle in Ireland
2014 – “Glee” star Matthew Morrison (35) weds Renee Puente at a private home on the island of Maui
2014 – “The Vampire Diaries” actress Candice Accola (27) weds “The Fray” guitarist Joe King (34) in New Orleans, Louisiana

DIVORCES

2000 – Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage

DEATHS

707 – John VII, Catholic Pope (705-07), of Greek ancestry, dies
1035 – Sancho III of Navarre
1101 – Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 – Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1340 – Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies
1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)
1417 – Pope Gregory XII [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies
1459 – Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies
1503 – Pius III, [Francesco Todeschini], Pope (9/22-10/18/1503), dies
1541 – Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 – John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
1558 – Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Neth (1531-55), dies at 53
1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1589 – Adolf van Nieuwenaar & Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle
1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1634 – Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42
1646 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 – Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1669 – Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29
1678 – Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok painter, dies at 85
1708 – Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
1739 – Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1767 – Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45
1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1771 – Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62
1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1788 – Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
1817 – Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1830 – Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies
1832 – Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73
1839 – French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68
1862 – James Creighton, amateur American baseball player, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting home run on Oct 14th
1864 – David Bell Birney, US lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39
1864 – Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68
1865 – Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1876 – Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 – Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75
1893 – Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
1909 – Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies
1921 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
Inventor Thomas Edison(1931)

1931 – Thomas Edison, inventor who lit up your life (held 1200 patents), dies at 84
1932 – Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1938 – Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies
1940 – Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65
1941 – Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83
1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1943 – Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen’s Youth), dies at 55
1943 – Benedictus H Dancer, botanist, dies at 52
1948 – [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies
1953 – Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
1953 – Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80
1955 – Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1963 – Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68
1965 – Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73
1965 – Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91
1966 – Bill Nestell, US actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73
1966 – Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1968 – Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70
1972 – Ken Wishart, cricketer (WI opening batsman in one Test 1935), dies
1973 – Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
1973 – Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1973 – Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60
1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1975 – Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47
1976 – Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 – Rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies
1977 – Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 – Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 – Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1978 – Frank Woolley, cricketer (58,969 1st-class runs), dies
1978 – Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64
US First Lady Bess Truman(1982)

1982 – Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97
1982 – Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82
1982 – Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55), dies at 75
1982 – Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 – John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1983 – Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (55 Tests for India), dies
1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 – Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82
1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1985 – Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc’er, hanged at 30
1987 – Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83
1988 – Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa), dies at 60
1993 – Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
1993 – Lois Kibbee, American actress (Edge of Night), dies of a brain tumor at 71
1993 – Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
1994 – Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 – Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60
1994 – WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45
1995 – Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67
1995 – Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69
1995 – Iri Maruki, artist, dies at 94
1995 – John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
1995 – Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
1996 – Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71
1996 – Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91
1997 – Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62
1997 – Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
1997 – Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65
2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 – Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2002 – Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2003 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 – Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 – John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 – Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2006 – Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 – Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 – Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
2009 – Nancy Spero, American feminist artist dies aged 83
2010 – Marion Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
2012 – David Spencer Ware, American free jazz saxophonist, dies at 62
2013 – Bill Young, American politician, dies from complications from a back injury at 82
2013 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 87
2013 – Tom Foley, American politician, dies from complications from a stroke at 84

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1867 U.S. takes possession of Alaska

• American Revolution

• 1767 Mason and Dixon draw a line

• Automotive

• 1933 R. Buckminster Fuller tries to patent his Dymaxion Car

• Civil War

• 1863 General Sickles visits his troops

• Cold War

• 1989 East Germany and Hungary move toward democracy

• Crime

• 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrested for drug possession

• Disaster

• 1998 Pipeline explosions kills 700 in Nigeria

• General Interest

• 1469 Ferdinand and Isabella marry
• 1860 Peking’s Summer Palace destroyed
• 1898 U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico
• 1931 Edison dies

• Hollywood

• 1988 Roseanne debuts

• Literary

• 1951 Terry McMillan is born

• Music

• 1974 Soul singer Al Green is attacked in his own bathtub

• Old West

• 1867 The United States formally takes possession of Alaska from Russia

• Presidential

• 1962 JFK records his impressions of secret meetings

• Sports

• 1977 Mr. October hits three homers in three swings

• Vietnam War

• 1955 Emperor Bao Dai attempts to dismiss Diem
• 1968 Stock market soars with rumors of bombing halt in Vietnam

• World War I

• 1915 Third Battle of the Isonzo

• World War II

• 1942 Vice Admiral Halsey named new commander of the South Pacific