November 2nd

EVENTS

676 – Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
1327 – King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1355 – English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1418 – Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
1642 – 2nd Battle of Breitenfeld, aka First Battle of Leipzig; victory for the Swedish army under Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson over Holy Roman Empire army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
1648 – 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1675 – A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip’s War.
1698 – Scottish settlers make landfall in Panama, establishing the ill-fated ‘Darien Venture’ colony.
1712 – Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1722 – Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1749 – English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
1772 – Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
1783 – General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War
First US President George Washington

1813 – Treaty of Fulda signed in Germany after Battle of Leipzig
1824 – Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 – 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1841 – Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1852 – Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
1854 – Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1875 – Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa’s east coast
1879 – In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 – James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President
1881 – Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
20th US President James Garfield

1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
1892 – French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1895 – 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
1898 – French government of Dupuy forms
1898 – Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal
1903 – Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 – New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
1904 – British newspaper “Daily Mirror” begins publishing
1907 – Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1913 – St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 – Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 – Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk
1914 – V Herbert & H Blossoms “Only Girl” premieres in NYC
1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1915 – First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 – Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 – Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 – Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan’s privileges in China
1920 – Warren G. Harding elected 29th US President
1921 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” premieres in NYC
1922 – Allies deliberate over German mark
1923 – Bloody street fights in Aachen led to establishment of the ill-fated Rhenish Republic
1923 – Stresemann’s SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1924 – Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
1928 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 – Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty in Ethiopia
1931 – Warren, Dixon & Young’s musical “Laugh Parade” premieres in NYC
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1934 – Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan
1936 – First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1937 – AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
1938 – Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns’ manager
1938 – Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
1941 – German troops occupy Rostov
1942 – 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1943 – Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 – Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 – Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 – US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 – 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US)
1947 – Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose” flies for 1st (& last) time
33rd US President Harry Truman

1948 – Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 – WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 – Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1949 – NL scheme for national distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands
1950 – “Barrier” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1950 – Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP
1950 – The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
1953 – Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 – Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman
1954 – JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 – Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 – Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

1955 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 – Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 – Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 – 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 – “Girls against the Boys” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 – Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show “21” was fixed
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’s 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
1960 – George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees
1960 – Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
American Baseball Player Roger Maris

1960 – Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
1960 – Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.
1961 – “Kean” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 – Max Frisch’s “Andorra” premieres in Zurich
1963 – “Tambourines to Glory” opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 – Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1964 – CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 – Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 – KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

1968 – “Her First Roman” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1968 – A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen’s Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it
1969 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women’s Golf Open
1969 – NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kilmer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 – “Great Harp” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 – Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 – Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 – Phillies’ Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – Goverment of the Republic of Ireland introduce a bill to remove the special position of the Catholic Church from the Irish Constitution
Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1973 – “Barbra Streisand …and Other Musical Instruments” airs on CBS TV
1973 – OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1974 – Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 – Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1975 – Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 – Summit in Houston opens – Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
1976 – Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President
1976 – NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1976 – SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
1977 – Phillies’ Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years
1978 – Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – Arnold Shapiro’s TV documentary “Scared Straight”, narrated by Peter Falk as a controversial and questionable deterrent to juvenile delinquency, debuts on Los Angeles’ KTLA-TV
1979 – Peter Shaffer’s musical “Amadeus” premieres in London
1979 – Studio 54’s owners are arrested for tax evasion
1982 – Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 – Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 – US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr.

1983 – Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1984 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 – Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1985 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 – 16th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 – 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
1986 – Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 – Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 – George Harrison releases “Cloud 9” & McCartney releases “All the Best”
1988 – Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 – Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 – Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A’s)
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1989 – “Meet Me in St Louis” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 – 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 – Jermaine Jackson releases “Word to the Badd!!” anti Michael song
1991 – Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1991 – 2nd Rugby World Cup: Australia beats England 12-6 in London
1992 – First test flight of Airbus A330
1993 – First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 – Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarged prostate removed
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 – Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 – Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 – Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 – “Busker Alley” premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 – “Sacrilege” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 – Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 – “Hughie” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 – “Barrymore” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 – 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 – 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 – Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 – USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2002 – 14th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 14-7 in South Bend
NHL Goalie Grant Fuhr

2003 – Grant Fuhr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2008 – 59th Formula One WDC: Lewis Hamilton wins by one point
2014 – 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan

BIRTHDAYS

1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1475 – Princess Anne of York (d. 1511)
1528 – Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works)
1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania’s ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 – Daniel Boone, Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915), (d. 182)
1739 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1741 – Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France(1774-1792), “let them eat cake”, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1793)
1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1755)

1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1785 – Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
1785 – Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
1795 – James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849)
1808 – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1810 – Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1883)
1812 – Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)
1815 – George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1822 – James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1826 – Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1826 – William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1828 – Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
11th US President James Knox Polk (1795)

1837 – Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
1842 – Otto Reubke, composer
1843 – Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
1843 – Elek Erkel, composer
1846 – Antonio Pena y Goni, composer
1847 – George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1857 – Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
1865 – Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1921-23)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, Blooming Grove Ohio, American President (1921-1923)
1876 – Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer
1877 – Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), born in NYC, New York
1877 – Victor Trumper, cricketer (Australia batsman 1899-1912)
1877 – Aga Khan III, Karachi, Shia Imam (1885-1932), (d. 1957)
1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
48th Shia Imam Aga Khan III (1877)

1879 – Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)
1880 – John Foulds, composer
1882 – Leo Perutz, writer
1883 – Frico Kafenda, composer
1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 – Harlow Shapley, US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)
1886 – Philip Merivale, Rehutia India, actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1890 – Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator
1892 – Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia), born in NYC, New York
1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar)
1893 – Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 – William Johnston, tennis champ (US Open-1915)
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1897 – Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil’s Brother)
1897 – Jacob A B “Jack” Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist (USAF in London)
1899 – Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet
1901 – James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It’s a Great Life), born in NYC, New York
1901 – Paul Ford, Balt Md, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1902 – Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
1902 – Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank)
1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1905 – Fred Lipmann, watchmaker
1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906 – Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum
1908 – Reginald Beckwith, York England, actor (Genevieve, Doctor in Love)
1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 – Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1911 – Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 – Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer
1913 – Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry), born in NYC, New York
1913 – Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
1914 – Ray Walston, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 – Douglas Gordon Lilburn, composer
1915 – Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 – Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 – Durward Knowles, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968-Bahamas)
1919 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet (Reino da Estupidez)
1919 – Warren Stevens, Clark’s Summit Pa, actor (Richard Boone Show), (d. 2012)
1920 – Fabio Gonzalez-Zuleta, composer
1920 – Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), born in NYC, New York
1920 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2012)
1921 – Fernando Correia de Oliveira, composer
1921 – Willaim D Schaefer, Maryland, (Gov-D-Md)
1921 – Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1922 – John Pinsent, classical scholar
1924 – Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1927 – John Sainsbury, English billionaire
1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 – Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer
1928 – Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 – Harold Farberman, conductor/composer (Medea), born in NYC, New York
1929 – Milan Stibilj, composer
1929 – Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1930 – Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
1931 – Phil Woods, Jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
1932 – Melvin Schwartz, New York City, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos – subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass)
1932 – Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88)
1932 – Romano L Mazzoli, (Rep-D-KY, 1971- )
Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ken Rosewall (1934)

1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis star (US Open 1956), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1934 – Bill Gothard, American speaker
1935 – Mohammad Munaf, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 4 Tests 1959-62)
1936 – Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice
1936 – Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1937 – Earl “Speedoo” Carroll, rocker (Cadillacs, Coasters), born in NYC, New York
1938 – Jay Traynor, rocker (Jay & The Americans)
1938 – Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1938 – Ria Beckers-de Bruijn, Dutch MP (PPR)
1938 – Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 – Howard Wolpe, (Rep-D-MI, 1979- )
1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 – Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
1941 – Bruce Welch, [Cripps], rocker (Shadows Bognor Regis)
1941 – David Knapp Stockton, San Bernardino CA, PGA golfer (1970 PGA)
Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Dave Stockton(1941)

1941 – Dave Stockton, San Bernardino California, golfer and two-time PGA Champion (1970, 1976)
1942 – Shere Hite, St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 – Stefanie Powers, Hollywood Ca, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1943 – Oldrich Pelcak, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut
1944 – Keith Emerson, England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1944 – Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Bkln, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, 46, 61, 75)
1944 – Liesel Westermann, German FR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968)
1944 – Patrice Chereau, actress (Danton), (d. 2013)
1946 – Alan Jones, Australia, auto racer (1980 World Champion)
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Sunnyata)
1947 – Dave Pegg, British pop bassist (Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave)
1947 – David Anthony Ahern, composer
1948 – Rich Gooch, rock bassist (Quarterflash)
1949 – Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 – Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 – Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1952 – Kate Linder, Pasadena Ca, actress (Esther Valentine–Young & Restless)
1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer
1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 – Frank Gilligan, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), born in Queens, New York
1955 – Mark Reynolds, star yachter (Olymp-8th-1988, 92, 96), born in San Diego, California
1955 – Chris Burnett, American musician
1957 – Rita Crockett, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984), born in San Antonio, Texas
1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1958 – Willie McGee, SF CA, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985)
1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and film maker
1960 – Adam Lingner, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1960 – Bruce Baumgartner, Haledon NJ, wrestler (Oly-gold/br-84, 88, 92, 96)
1960 – Mardi Jacquet, Chateauroux California, playmate (October, 1980)
1960 – Robert Harold Lohr, Cincinnati OH, PGA golfer (1988 Walt Disney)
1960 – Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI)
1960 – Saïd Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 – Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
1961 – K.D. Lang [Kathy Dawn], Consort Alberta, Canadian country singer
1962 – Andrew Elt, singer (Sleeze Beez)
1962 – Donna Spangler, wrestler (Coal Miner’s Daughter-GLOW), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 – Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 – Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 – Susie Scott, playmate (May, 1983), born in San Diego, California
1963 – Bobby Dall American rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1963 – Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1964 – Kevin Gogan, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders, SF 49ers)
1964 – Michael D’Asaro II, American fencer-sabre, born in Brooklyn, New York
1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 – Chuck Klingbeil, NFL nose tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 – Orlando Merced, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 – Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1966 – Sean Kanan, actor (AJ-Gen Hospital, Rich Girl, Karate Kid Part 3)
1966 – Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 – Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1967 – Chris Port, NFL guard/tackle (NO Saints)
1967 – Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1967 – Derek Porter, Belfast Ireland, Canadian rower (Oly-gold/silver-92/96)
1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1967 – Scott Walker, US politician (Governor of Wisconsin 2011-), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1968 – Brandi Brandt, Santa Clara California, playmate (October, 1987)
1968 – Helle Michaelsen, Alborg Denmark, playmate (Aug, 1988)
1968 – Melissa Evridge, Lexington Ky, playmate (Aug, 1990)
1968 – Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 – Dwayne Gordon, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, NY Jets)
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 – Corbin Lacina, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 – Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1971 – Pete Vordenberg, Rota Spain, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1972 – Alfred Schreuders, soccer player (RKC)
1972 – Jeni Stephens, Miss America-Tennessee (1997), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1972 – Marie Josee Gibeau, Lachine Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 – Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1973 – Jason Smith, Calgary, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 – Alex Tanaka, actor (Saja-Swan’s Crossing)
1974 – Jaroslav Spacek, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, (Sweden)
1974 – Ruslan Salei, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98, Anaheim)
1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 – Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 – Danny Cooksey, Moore Oklahoma, actor (Sam-Diff’rent Strokes)
1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1975 – Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
1977 – Randy Harrison, American actor
1978 – Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
1979 – Julie Lund, Danish actress
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1981 – Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Avy Scott, American actress
1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
1984 – Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1984 – Julia Stegner, German supermodel
1986 – Erika Jo, American musician
1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 – Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
1988 – Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
1989 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer
1990 – Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov

WEDDINGS

1887 – Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan
1896 – Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (19) weds first cousin Shahzadi Begum in Pune, India
2005 – Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan’s Church in County Offaly
2009 – “Sex and the City” actor Ron Livingston (41) weds actress Rosemarie DeWitt (34) in San Francisco
2012 – BMX icon TJ Lavin weds longtime fiancee Roxanne Siordia (32) in Las Vegas
2013 – ‘N Sync founding member Chris Kirkpatrick (42) weds his girlfriend Karly Skladany in Orlando, Florida
2013 – “Smash” actress Megan Hilty (32) weds Brian Gallagher at a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

DIVORCES

2006 – Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences

DEATHS

943 – Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1083 – Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
1171 – Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies
1171 – Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies
1285 – King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 – Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49
1588 – Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63
1610 – Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66
1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1635 – Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68
1697 – Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried
1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1717 – Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies
1731 – Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26
1781 – Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78
1804 – Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64
1807 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1845 – Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55
1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1874 – Thomas Anderson, Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine), dies at 55
1875 – James W. W. Birch, 1st British resident in Perak, Malaysia is speared to death while in the bath-house of his boat, SS Dragon at 49
1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1882 – Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61
1884 – Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62
1887 – Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
1898 – George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1909 – Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81
1920 – Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73
1925 – Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
1930 – Oliver Perry Hay, American Paleontologist, dies at 84
1931 – Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
1931 – Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1935 – H B “Jock” Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies
1937 – Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82
1944 – Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1950)

1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1952 – Maire O’Neill, actress (Juno & the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies
1956 – Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77
1956 – Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
1958 – Adam von Ahn Carse, composer, dies at 80
1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64
1961 – James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1962 – Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73
1966 – Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American Physical Chemist (Nobel 1936), dies at 82
1968 – Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56
1969 – Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63
1970 – Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
1971 – Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46
1977 – H E Nossak, writer, dies at 76
1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French “enemy of the state”, shot to death
1980 – Edith Bunker, character on “All in the Family”, dies
Bank Robber Willie Sutton(1980)

1980 – Willie Sutton, American bank robber, dies at 79
1981 – Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist, and Geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, dies at 70
1982 – Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1984 – Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years
1986 – Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66
1991 – Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72
1991 – Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1992 – Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100
1993 – P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope), dies at about 86
1994 – David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37
1994 – Egbert George “Pete” Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73
1994 – Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
1995 – Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58
1995 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, VP of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated
1995 – Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82
1995 – Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
1995 – Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83
1995 – Sal Gliatto, baseball player, dies at 93
1996 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies
1996 – Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72
1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
Baseball Player Toni Stone(1996)

1996 – Toni Stone, first woman to play professional baseball in a men’s league, dies at 75
1997 – G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
1997 – Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68
1998 – Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85
2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)

President of the United Arab Emirates Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (2004)

2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 – Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu
2010 – Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
2012 – Milt Campbell, American hurdler/decathlete, dies from prostate cancer and diabetes at 78
2013 – Walt Bellamy, American HOF basketball player, dies at 74

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1947 Spruce Goose flies

• American Revolution

• 1777 John Paul Jones sets sail

• Automotive

• 1902 First four-cylinder, gas-powered Locomobile hits the road

• Civil War

• 1861 Fremont removed from Western Department

• Cold War

• 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam

• Crime

• 1989 A nurse’s aide gets life imprisonment

• Disaster

• 1982 Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan

• General Interest

• 1917 Britain supports creation of Jewish homeland
• 1948 Truman defeats Dewey
• 1983 MLK federal holiday declared

• Hollywood

• 1966 Friends star David Schwimmer born

• Literary

• 1960 Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial ends

• Music

• 1985 Miami Vice soundtrack begins an 11-week run at #1

• Old West

• 1912 XIT Ranch sells its last head of cattle

• Presidential

• 1795 James Polk is born
• 1865 Warren G. Harding is born

• Sports

• 1986 Grete Waitz wins her eighth NYC marathon

• Vietnam War

• 1963 Diem murdered during coup
• 1967 Johnson meets with “the Wise Men”

• World War I

• 1917 The Balfour Declaration

• World War II

• 1942 British launch Operation Supercharge