November 1st

EVENTS

835 – All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom
996 – First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the ‘Ostarrîchi Document’
1210 – King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1248 – Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1349 – Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1462 – Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited
1570 – All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
1604 – William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” first presented
1611 – Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Tempest” first presented
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1623 – Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
Playwright William Shakespeare

1628 – French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1671 – French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1683 – The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1721 – Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
1755 – Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 – Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1776 – Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1784 – Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 – First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 – John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
1802 – Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 – First US women’s medical school opens (Boston)
1849 – Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 – General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 – -8] Averell’s Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
1863 – Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1865 – Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1867 – “Harper’s Bazaar” publishes
1869 – Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1876 – King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
Union General George McClellan

1876 – New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
1877 – Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1878 – Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)
1885 – Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1894 – Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 – First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
Tsar Nicholas II

1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1902 – France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France’s attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente
1904 – George Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island” premieres in London
1910 – First issue of “Crisis” published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
1913 – Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1913 – Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, PresidentWoodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
1914 – Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
1914 – German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 – Pope Benedictus Xv’s encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
Baseball Legend Connie Mack

1914 – Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1917 – In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
1918 – 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 – Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1920 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” premieres in NYC
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1922 – Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1922 – Mustapha Kemal takes Constantinople from Mohammed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
1923 – Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
1924 – 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 – Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1925 – VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1926 – US Air Commerce Act passes
1928 – 1st celebration of Authors’ Day
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1928 – Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1928 – Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 – Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 – Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 – TS Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral” premieres in London
1936 – Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an “axis”
1936 – Rodeo Cowboy’s Association founded
1937 – Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community (including three women).
1938 – German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938 – NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
1938 – Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1939 – First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 – First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
1940 – 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1940 – Dutch “Curfew” forms (12 AM – 4 AM)
1941 – Chetniks attacks Tito’s partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1941 – Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1942 – 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1942 – John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1943 – Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
1943 – US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1944 – Mary Coyle Chase’s “Harvey” premieres in NYC
1944 – Zeeuws & Flanders liberated
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 – Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 – Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck’s right foot is amputated
1946 – Marken soccer team forms
1946 – NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1946 – WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946 – WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1946 – West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
1946 – Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood
1947 – “Medium & The Telephone” closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs
1947 – First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 – Howard Hughes flies “Spruce Goose”, a huge wooden airplane
1947 – UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1948 – Mao’s Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1950 – 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic’s Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind
1950 – 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
33rd US President Harry Truman

1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Johnny Mercer’s “Top Banana” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 – First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico
1951 – Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951 – Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1951 – Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1951 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 – “Ivy Mike”, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design ofEdward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Physicist Edward Teller

1953 – Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 – KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 – KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – 5th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Herb Thomas wins
1954 – General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1954 – India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 – KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 – US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France.
1954 – 6th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Lee Petty wins
1955 – Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado
US Senator Joseph McCarthy

1956 – Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 – Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 – Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 – Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 – Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1956 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1956 – Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957 – KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 – World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
1959 – Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a NHL game
NFL Legend Jim Brown

1959 – Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1959 – Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 – WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
1960 – Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 – Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 – Greece enters European Common Market
1962 – KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 – USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 – WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 – KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies’ Golf Open
1964 – Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 – 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1965 – Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
1965 – Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 – Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 – NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 – Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 – William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
Actor Strother Martin

1967 – “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
1968 – Noel Coward’s “Sweet Potato” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs
1968 – Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 – US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1968 – University of Suriname opens
1969 – The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 – 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 – Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1970 – Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 – KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1971 – Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 – 1st gay theme TV movie – “That Certain Summer”
1972 – Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1973 – “Molly” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu .
1974 – Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 – UN affirms independence of Cyprus
1976 – “Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs
1976 – Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 – W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
1977 – Islander Goran Hogosta’s only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 – Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” premieres
1979 – Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees
1979 – Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 – US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 – Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US’s worst oil spill disaster
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test
1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
1981 – 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 – Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 – Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1982 – Andrew “Dice” Clay & George Wendt appear in “Trick or Treatment”
1982 – Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s contract
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1984 – 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena – Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1984 – Larry Shue’s “Foreigner” premieres in NYC
1984 – Willem de Kooning’s “Two Women” sells for $1,980,000
1984 – Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1985 – Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy

1985 – Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1986 – Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady’s Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1987 – 17th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17
1987 – 18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
1987 – 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1987 – Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 – NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1987 – New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1988 – Chris Sabo, wins National League Rookie of Year award
1988 – Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 – “Les Miserables” opens at Curran Theatre, SF
1989 – Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket’s Nehru Cup
1989 – Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 – “Oh, Kay!” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

1990 – Last of Margaret Thatcher’s original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 – Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1991 – New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1991 – Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by well control teams
1992 – 22nd NYC Women’s Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40
1992 – 23rd NYC Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29
1992 – NY Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 – Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1993 – Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
1993 – Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1993 – STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1994 – Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1995 – “Tempest” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances
1997 – “Titanic” directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is first screened, at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Best Picture 1998)
1998 – The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
1998 – 49th Formula One WDC: Mika Hakkinen wins by 14 points
2005 – First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.
2009 – The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.
2009 – 60th Formula One WDC: Jenson Button wins by 11 points
2010 – MLB World Series: San Francisco Giants defeat Texas Rangers to win 4-1
2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio

2012 – 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2012 – Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
2012 – Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
2012 – Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
2012 – 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
2012 – 46th Country Music Association Award: Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert wins
2014 – Western Sydney Wanderers win the AFC Champions League
2014 – Bayern wins the 2014 running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic

BIRTHDAYS

846 – Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (877-79) (d. 879)
1339 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 – Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1526 – Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 – Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1618 – Johannes Flittner, composer
1629 – St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1666 – James Sherard, composer
1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 – Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1731 – Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1748 – Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1761 – Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
1762 – Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 – Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 – Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805 – Alessandro Nini, composer
1808 – John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1815 – Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 – Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1825 – Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1890)
1832 – Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer
1835 – Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, (d. 1884))
1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1853 – Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 – Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1859 – William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
1860 – Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
1863 – Alfred Reisenauer, composer
1865 – Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v South Africa at 23)
1871 – Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer
Novelist Stephen Crane(1871)

1871 – Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
1877 – Roger Quilter, British composer
1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)
1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1879 – Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1880 – Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 – Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1880 – Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1880 – Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1881 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 – Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
1887 – Max Trapp, composer
Meteorologist, Geologist, Astronomist Alfred Wegener (1880)

1887 – L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 – Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
1890 – James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh)
1891 – Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher
1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46)
1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1897 – Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 – Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1943)
1903 – Don Robey, US gospel singer
1903 – Gerard “Ge” Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
1903 – Jean Tardieu, author
1903 – Max Adrian, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Irish actor (Devils, Music Lover)
1903 – Edward “Carji” Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1904 – Laura Laplante, St Louis MO, actress (Cat & Canary)
1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Rio Gebhardt, German musician and composer, born in Heilbronn (d. 1944)
1907 – Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
1909 – Bruno Bjelinski, composer
1911 – Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1911 – Donald William Kerst, Madison, Wisconsin, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams)
1914 – William “Sabby” Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger
1915 – Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet
1915 – Michael Denison, York England, actor (Importance of Being Ernest)
1917 – Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1917 – Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen)
1917 – Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box)
1919 – John Secondari, Rome Italy, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1920 – James J Kilpatrick, columnist (60 Minutes), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1920 – Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 – Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1921 – Jan Tausinger, composer
1921 – John Willard Peterson, composer
1922 – George S Irving, singer/actor (Dumplings), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1922 – Jeff Richards, Portland Oregon, actor (Don’t Go Near the Water)
1923 – Bruce Dooland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner, 3 Tests mid-forties)
1923 – Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
1923 – Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General)
1923 – Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1924 – Suleyman Demirel, President of Turkey (1993-2000) and Prime Minister, born in Isparta, Atabey (d. 2015)
1928 – James Edward Bradford, DC, HW weightlifer (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1928 – Leon Hart, NFLer (Heisman Trophy)
1929 – Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1929 – Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 – John Clark, English-born actor/director
1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, born in Sudbury, Ontario (d. 2015)
1934 – Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
1934 – Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
1934 – Umberto Agnelli, VP (Fiat)
1934 – William James Matthias, composer
1934 – William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
Golfer Gary Player (1935)

1935 – Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)
1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1935 – Charles Koch, American businesman and philanthropist (Koch Industries), – 6th= richest person in the world (2015), born in Wichita, Kansas
1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 – Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1938 – Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 – Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon Pa, actress (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 – Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 – Joe Louis Caldwell, Texas City, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 – Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer
1941 – Robert Foxworth, actor (Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein), born in Houston, Texas
1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 – John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt (1942)

1942 – Larry Flynt, Lakeville, Kentucky, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 – Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (d. 2013)
1942 – Shere Hite, author/sex therapist
1943 – Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 – John McEnery, English actor
1944 – Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1945 – Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic)
1946 – Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1947 – Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 – Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1947 – Bob Weston, Devon, England, guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)(d. 2012)
1948 – Anna Stuart, American Actress (Another World, All My Children)
1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 – Jeannie Berlin, LA Cal, actress (Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy’s Complaint)
1949 – Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 – Dan Peck, Panama City Fla, rock vocalist/guitarist (America)
1950 – Tony Hymphris, political activist
1951 – Craig Serjeant, cricketer (Australian batsman late seventies)
1951 – Ronald Bell, Youngstown Oh, rock sax (Kool & The Gang)
1951 – Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 – Michael Zaslow, Inglewood CA, actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1953 – N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85)
1954 – Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer (Olympic-1968)
1955 – Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1956 – Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
1957 – Lyle Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
1957 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 – Rachel Ticotin, actress (Grace-For Love & Honor, Total Recall), born in NYC, New York
1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1959 – Eddie MacDonald, rocker (The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven’s Door)
1960 – Damon Green, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1990 Pensacola Open-49th)
1960 – Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Oct 1]
1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
1960 – Said Aquita, runner (Oly-gold/bronze-1984)
1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama
1961 – Anne Donovan, Ridgewood NJ, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 – Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused)
1961 – Magne Furuholmen, Oslo Norway, keyboardist/vocalist (Aha-Take on Me)
1961 – Paul Jackson, cricketer (slow lefty bowler for Victoria & Queensland)
1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
1961 – Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
1962 – Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 – Kelly Kelland, London Ontario, softball 1st baseman (Olympics-96)
1962 – Maga Furuholmen, rocker
1962 – Michelle Estill, Scottsdale AZ, LPGA golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One)
1962 – Robert Willis, Australian golfer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
1963 – Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
1963 – Brian Forde, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 – Rick Allen, rock drummer (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1963 – Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 – Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 – Eddie Williams, Sheveport LA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1964 – Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, cricketer (bowls 2 Tests for Sri Lanka 86-87)
1964 – Richard Cooper, NFL tackle (NO Saints, Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 – Daran Norris, American actor
1965 – Richard Stephens, NFL guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1966 – Bob Wells, Yakima WA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 – Danny Everett, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 – Paul Lewis, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1966 – Ruud Cabbage, soccer player (FC Twente)
1966 – Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 – Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1967 – Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete
1967 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 – Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 – Bernard Dafney, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 – Kent Graham, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 – Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 – Barron Wortham, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1969 – Darryl Ashmore, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 – Jill Reeve, Hoosick Falls NY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1969 – Tie Domi, Windsor, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1970 – Alla Korot, Odessa USSR, actress (Jenna Norris-Another World)
1970 – Dawn Marple, Salem Ohio, team handball wing/back (Olympics-1996)
1970 – Sherwin Campbell, cricketer (WI opening batsman 1995)
1971 – Keith Whitecotton, Camrose Alberta, golfer (Alberta Jr-1989, 90)
1971 – Laura Moss, Kings Mt Ohio, actress (Amanda Cory-Another World)
1971 – Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 – Terry Dean, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 – Glen Murray, Halifax, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1972 – Jenny McCarthy, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois
1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 – V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- )
1975 – Van Hiles, NFL safety (Chicago Bears)
1975 – Bo Bice, American singer
1975 – Scott “Skippy” Chapman, American musician
1976 – Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1979 – Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1979 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1982 – Michael Copon, American actor
1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 – Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress
1985 – Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor
1987 – Caitlin McCarthy, Victoria’s Secret model
1988 – Ross Montague, English footballer

WEDDINGS

1940 – Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening
1954 – Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii
1986 – MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)
1988 – US Actors Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis marry in Las Vegas
2003 – “Showgirls” actress Elizabeth Berkley (31) weds artist Greg Lauren (33) at Esperanza Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2008 – Actress Marisa Coughlan (34) weds Stephen Wallack at a private estate in Pasadena, California
2014 – Counting star Jessa Duggar weds Ben Seewald at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Ark

DIVORCES

1947 – Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage
1954 – Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur due to drunken violence after 7 years of marriage
1982 – Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage
2010 – Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage

DEATHS

921 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1296 – Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1535 – Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies
1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 – Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1672 – Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 – William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 – Carlos II, King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), dies at 39
1711 – Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 – Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1750 – Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
1768 – Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
1788 – Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
1810 – Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1817 – Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
1825 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
1841 – Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
1844 – August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
1881 – Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22
1888 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1891 – John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
1894 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Reigned from 1881
1895 – Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
1903 – [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
1907 – Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33
1914 – Christopher “Kit” Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
1926 – Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
1926 – Wilfred Flowers, cricketer (England spinner in 8 Tests 1884-93), dies
1927 – Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
1941 – Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
1942 – Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1947 – Man o’ War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1949 – Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890’s), dies
1955 – W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
1955 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1956 – Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1956 – Pietro Badoglio, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), dies at 85
1959 – Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1961 – Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97
1961 – Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1962 – Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78
1962 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1963 – Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62
1967 – Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1968 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1971 – G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95
Poet Ezra Pound (1972)

1972 – Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1974 – Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75
1975 – Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1975 – Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58
1975 – Norbert Rosseau, composer, dies at 67
1975 – Philip James, composer, dies at 85
1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53
1976 – Oscar Beregi Jr, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in the City), dies at 58
1979 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 – James Broderick, actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 – King Vidor, director (War & Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1982 – Leighton Lucas, composer, dies at 79
1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1984 – Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 – Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1986 – Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1986 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer, dies at 88
1987 – René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1991 – Joseph Papp, US theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
1992 – Jeremias Chitunda, vice-chairman (Angolese Unita-rebellion), dies
1993 – Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
1993 – George Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, dies of prostate cancer at 74
1993 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1994 – Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
1994 – Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
1995 – Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64
1995 – Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88
1995 – James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
1995 – Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
1996 – Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1996 – Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies
NFL Running Back Walter Payton (1999)

1999 – Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45
1999 – Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 – Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 – Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2005 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006 – William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (The Unbelievable Truth), murdered at 40
2007 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2008 – Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
2008 – Shakir Stewart, American music producer (b. 1974)
2010 – Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist (b. 1945)
2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, American television announcer (b. 1932)
2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)
2012 – Pascual Perez, Dominican baseball player, bludgeoned to death at 55
2014 – Wayne Static [Wells], American musician (Static-X), dies at 48

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public

• American Revolution

• 1765 Parliament enacts the Stamp Act

• Automotive

• 1930 Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is dedicated

• Civil War

• 1861 McClellan replaces Scott

• Cold War

• 1952 United States tests first hydrogen bomb

• Crime

• 1950 An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman

• Disaster

• 1755 Earthquake takes heavy toll on Lisbon

• General Interest

• 1993 European Union goes into effect

• Hollywood

• 1967 Newman stars in Cool Hand Luke

• Literary

• 1871 Stephen Crane is born

• Music

• 1986 Boston’s belated Third Stage hits #1

• Old West

• 1924 Legendary western lawman is murdered

• Presidential

• 1800 John Adams moves into White House

• Sports

• 1959 Jacques Plante is the first goalie to wear a facemask

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Military and political situation in South Vietnam deteriorates
• 1968 Two new programs initiated in South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 The Battle of Coronel

• World War II

• 1941 FDR puts Coast Guard under control of the Navy