November 3rd

EVENTS

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 – Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 – Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 – London – 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 – English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England
1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 – Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 – English Long Parliament forms
1655 – England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 – Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1716 – Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Greatguarantees Saxon monarch August I’s Polish kingdom
1752 – George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
Composer George Friedrich Handel

1760 – Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 – Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762 – Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 – Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
1791 – Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 – French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 – John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1813 – US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 – Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 – 1st opium war – 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 – Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 – Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
1856 – A British fleet bombards Canton.
1862 – Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 – Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1867 – Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi
1868 – First black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 – Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 – Canada’s Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
US President & Union GeneralUlysses S. Grant

1874 – James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 – Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 – US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can’t be Americans
1883 – American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 – Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 – Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1888 – Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1889 – Chaplain Ariëns founds first roman catholic workers group
1896 – J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 – William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1899 – James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries

1900 – First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 – Colombia grants independence to Panama
1903 – Giovanni Giolitti becomes Permier of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
1905 – Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 – William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan

The 1910 Model T Ford

1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 – The USA introduces an income tax.
1916 – Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 – 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 – Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 – Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1918 – Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1920 – “Emperor Jones” opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 – Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 – 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 – 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 – Rodgers & Hart’s musical “Connecticut Yankee” premieres in NYC
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 – Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 – First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 – Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1931 – First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1934 – Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1934 – Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1935 – George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig

1935 – Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1936 – President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1937 – Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km)
1937 – NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1939 – Clare Booth’s “Margin for Error” premieres in NYC
1941 – Hirohiti’s accord on Yamamoto’s attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 – 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 – Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 – Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 – William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’s 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 – P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
Baseball Player Ted Williams

1944 – Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 – German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 – Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1945 – Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1946 – Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 – 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1952 – Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 – Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 – 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 – First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 – Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1955 – Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 – Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua
1955 – Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 – Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 – “Wizard of Oz” 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 – USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

1959 – David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1960 – Tammy Grimes’ “Unsinkable Molly Brown” opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
1960 – Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1961 – General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers
1963 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open
1963 – 14th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Joe Weatherly wins
1964 – LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1964 – Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1965 – Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1967 – Boston’s Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1968 – Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 – Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic
1968 – NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1968 – 19th Formula One WDC: Graham Hill wins by 12 points
1969 – Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1970 – “President’s Daughter” opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1970 – Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 – Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 – Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
1971 – “Play Misty For Me” premieres
1973 – Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1974 – “Lorelei” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1974 – Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
1975 – Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1975 – U.S. advice columnist Ann Landers asks in a mail-in survey if they could do it all over, would parents still become parents?
1976 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf
1977 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – First broadcast of “Different Strokes” on NBC TV
1978 – Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 – Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 – Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi

1979 – Marocco offensive against Polisario
1980 – Ianford Wilson’s “5th of July” premieres in NYC
1980 – Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A’s
1981 – Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 – Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record
1982 – Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee’s 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1983 – Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1983 – Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1984 – 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 – Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated
1985 – Argentine presdent Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
1985 – Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 – 36th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 20 points
4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

1986 – Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 – Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 – John Lennon “Menlove Avenue” album released posthumously
1986 – Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 – Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1987 – Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
1987 – On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 – Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 – President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 – Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 – Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera’s nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 – 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 – Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1989 – Minn Timberwolves’ 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94
1990 – Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1991 – 21st NYC Women’s Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27
1991 – 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28
1991 – Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1991 – 42nd Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by 24 points
1992 – Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
1992 – Carol Moseley Brown elected first African American woman in US Senate
1993 – Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil ‘Ironman’ record by playing 322nd cons game
1994 – Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 – Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 – Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 – Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
42nd US President Bill Clinton

1995 – 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100
1995 – 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80
1995 – 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79
1996 – “It’s a Slippery Slope” opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 – 26th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1996 – 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
1996 – Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 – Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1997 – California law ends affirmative action
1997 – David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club
1997 – Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year
1998 – “Shakespeare in Love” directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes premieres in New York (Best Picture 1999)
2003 – Pat LaFontaine is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
NHL Star Pat LaFontaine

2007 – Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
2009 – 23rd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan win
2012 – Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
2013 – 8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia
2013 – 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand
2013 – Bobby Orr’s autobiography “Orr: My Story” debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction
2014 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists
2014 – New York’s 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks

BIRTHDAYS

39 – Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1470 – Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)
1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 – Samuel Scheidt, composer
1604 – Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1611 – Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)
1618 – Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1619 – Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)
1621 – Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)
1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 – Georg Reuter, composer
1689 – Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
1718 – John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1736 – Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1753 – August G Meissner, German author
1753 – Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer
1780 – Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
1781 – Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
Founder of Texas Stephen F. Austin (1793)

1793 – Stephen Fuller Austin, Virginia USA, colonized Texas
1794 – William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
1798 – Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), (d. 1871)
1799 – William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1801 – Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
1815 – Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1815 – John Mitchel, Fenian
1816 – Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), (d. 1894)
1818 – Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1891)
1826 – Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1867)
1830 – Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), (d. 1886)
1830 – Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1833 – Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
1841 – Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Mandø, Danish Botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions)
1844 – Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1845 – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 – Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1854 – Jokichi Takamine, Takaoka Toyama, Japanese-American Biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources
1856 – Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 – Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918)
1861 – Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
1863 – Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
1867 – Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer
1870 – John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding)
1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1872 – Paul Panzer, actor (Cat’s Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin)
1872 – Wilfred Trotter, Coleford Gloucestershire, English surgeon who was a pioneer in neurosurgery, popularized the concept of herd instinct, and was an authority in cancers of the head and neck
1875 – Emils Darzins, composer
1876 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1877 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist
1880 – Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
1880 – Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
1883 – Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress/wife of Eduard Verkade
1884 – Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author (Me Own Way)
1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children’s poet (d. 1964)
1888 – William Charles Denis Browne, composer
1889 – Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
1890 – Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
1893 – R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)

First World War Flying Ace William George Barker(1894)

1894 – William George Barker, Dauphin Manitoba, Canadian flying ace (Victoria Cross recipient)
1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1897 – Karel Salmon, composer
1897 – Frederick Russell, Bridport Dorset, English Marine Biologist who studied plankton life history and linked their depth in the seas to light availability helping explain long-term changes in the ecosystem
1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900 – Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32)
1900 – Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 – Andre Malraux, [Berger], Paris, France, novelist/art historian (La Condition Humaine)
1901 – Leopold III, [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), d. 1983
1903 – Walker Evans, US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
Novelist André Malraux(1901)

1904 – Gideon Fagan, composer
1904 – Janis Kalnins, composer
1905 – Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)
1905 – William Donald Campbell, diarist/ornithologist
1907 – James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1907 – Joe Turner, US jazz pianist
1908 – Bronko Nagurski, Rainy River Ontario, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 – James “Scotty” Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1910 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1911 – Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1914 – Hallgrimur Helgason, composer
1918 – Bob Feller, Van Meter, Iowa, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indian, 3 no-hitters)

Hall of Fame American Football Player Bronko Nagurski (1908)

1918 – Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 – Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919 – Bert Freed, actor (Rufe-Shane), born in NYC, New York
1919 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 – Charles Bronson, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), (d. 2003)
1922 – Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1923 – Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1925 – Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
1926 – Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1927 – Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor (See You Tommorrow)
1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 – Ken Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama’s Family)
Actor Charles Bronson(1921)

1930 – Lois Smith, Topeka Ks, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
1930 – Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
1930 – William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
1930 – D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1930 – Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 – Monica Vitti, [Ceciarelli], Rome Italy, actress (Tigers in Lipstick)
1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1932 – Thomas J Manton, (Rep-D-NY, 1985- )
1933 – Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1933 – Jeremy Brett, Berkswell England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Freddie-My Fair Lady)
1933 – Louis W Sullivan, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1989- )
1933 – Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass, 1988 Pres Candidate)
1933 – John Barry, English composer
Economist/Nobel Laureate  Amartya Sen (1933)

1933 – Amartya Sen, Santiniketan, Bengal, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and social choice theory)
1934 – Derek Richardson, cricketer (played one innings for England 1957)
1934 – Hans Janmaat, Dutch MP (CD)/(fascist)
1934 – Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress, Dancer, Founder of Calcutta Youth Choir
1936 – Roy Emerson, Blackbutt Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon-1964, 65, US Open-61)
1937 – Lynn Woolsey, (Rep-D-California)
1937 – Paula Wayne, Hobart Oklahoma, vocalist (Everything’s Great)
1938 – Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director (Festival, Bix, Impiegati)
1938 – Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1938 – Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1939 – Terrence McNally, St Petersburg Fla, playwright (Bad Habits)
Tennis Player Roy Emerson(1936)

1940 – Dieter Acker, composer
1941 – Brian Poole, Essex England, vocalist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 – Bert Jansch, rocker
1945 – Ken Holtzman, American baseball pitcher and manager
1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
1946 – Nick Simper, rocker (Deep Purple)
1946 – Tommy Dee, rocker
1946 – Tom Savini, American actor
1947 – Mazie Hirono, American politician
1948 – Lulu, singer/actress (To Sir With Love), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1948 – Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
1948 – Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 – Larry Holmes, Cuthbert Georgia, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1949 – Michael Evans, Salisbury NC, actor (Lionel-All in the Family)
WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes (1949)

1949 – Roswitha Krause, USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 – Anna Wintour, English-American editor
1949 – Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 – James Rothman, Haverhill Massachusetts, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate who discovered how vesicles, sac-like structures that transport hormones and growth factors, reach their destination in cells and know where and when to release their contents
1950 – Joe Queenan, American writer
1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
1951 – Azmat Rana, cricketer (one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980)
1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
1952 – Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor
1952 – Roseanne, [Barr Arnold], Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne)
1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
Comedienne and Actress Roseanne Barr (1952)

1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
1953 – Kate Capshaw [Nail], Fort Worth, Texas, American actress (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1953 – Dennis Miller, Pitts Pa, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1953 – Kathy Kinney, actress (Mimi-Drew Carey Show)
1953 – Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
1953 – Larry Herndon, baseball player
1954 – Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born in London, England
1954 – Godzilla, Japanese monster (Godzilla)
1954 – Kevin P Chilton, Lt Col USAF/Astronaut (STS 49, 59, 76), born in Los Angeles, California
1955 – Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Super Bowl 1986)
1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
1956 – Gary Ross, American film director
1956 – Bob Welch, American MLB pitcher (Oakland), born in Seal Beach, CA, (d. 2014)
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Stockholm, Sweden, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2)
1958 – Andrew Mapple, US water skier
1958 – Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer (1983 Victorian Amateur Champ)
1959 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hartford Conn, actor (Dallas, Glitter)
1959 – Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
1960 – James Prime, British rock keyboardist (Deacon Blue-Pay Day)
1960 – Marcel “Baaf” Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer (Bob Color)
1960 – Sharon Monplaisir, fencer-epee (Olympics-96), born in NYC, New York
1960 – [Charles] Karch Kiraly, Jackson, Michigan, American volleyball player (Oly-3 g-84, 88, 96)
1961 – David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic
1961 – Kari Michaelsen, actress (Katie-Gimme a Break), born in NYC, New York
1962 – Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984)
1962 – Kym Hampton, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1962 – Marilyn, rocker (You Don’t Love Me)
1962 – Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
1963 – Howard Ballard, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1963 – Stephen Corkin, Auckland NZ, judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1964 – Brian Young, cricketer (NZ Test opening batsman)
1965 – John Feskens, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1965 – Maty Monforth, TV host (Mike & Maty)
1965 – Michael Paul Springer, SF CA, PGA golfer (1994 Greater Milwaukee)
1966 – Todd Reynolds, Norwalk Conn, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1966 – Tracey Fuchs, Centereach NY, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1967 – Rob Cowie, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Toronto, Ontario
1968 – Antonio Pettigrew, Macon Ga, 400m (Olympics-96)
1968 – Debbie Rochon, actress (Tromeo & Juliet), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1968 – Lee Germon, cricketer (NZ keeper & captain 1995- )
1968 – Paul Quantrill, London Ontario, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 – Jim Mckenzie, Gull Lake, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 – Leslie Shepherd, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
1970 – Doug Zmolek, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Rochester, New York
1971 – Bob Kronenberg, WLAF center (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Colbie Bell, Edmonton Alberta, 100kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 – Darrin Hancock, NBA guard/forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 – Joan Kenmore, actress (Wizard of Oz)
1971 – Matthew Lawton, Gulfport MS, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 – Tricia Carolyn Nosko, Miss USA-Indiana (1997)
1971 – William Strong, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 – Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
1972 – Chris Shelling, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1972 – Verl Mitchell, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 – Derrick Alexander, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 – Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
1973 – Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 – Tariq Abdul Wahad, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1975 – Darren Sharper, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
1977 – Aria Giovanni, American model
1979 – Jamie Duffney, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1997)
1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1979 – Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
1979 – Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian racing car driver
1982 – Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1983 – Julie Marie Berman, actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1983 – Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band) and Kanjani8)
1984 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
1987 – Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 – Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1987 – Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian Actor
1989 – Paula DeAnda, American singer
1990 – Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player

WEDDINGS

1963 – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace
2012 – Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside of Branson, Missouri
2012 – Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

361 – Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
753 – Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)
1254 – Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
1344 – Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
1378 – Jan II, ruler of Polanen/Leck/Breda, dies
1428 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
1456 – Edmund Turdor, earl of Richmond, dies
1580 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 – Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 – Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 – Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1708 – Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1711 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
1711 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
1787 – Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1803 – Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75
1832 – Pietro Generali, composer, dies at 59
1845 – Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
1864 – Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1867 – Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1869 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
1873 – Kintpuash, “Captain Jack”, chief of Modoc-indians, dies
1890 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1904 – Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57
1911 – Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
1913 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer, dies at 83
1914 – Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
1917 – Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley(1926)

1926 – Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1927 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1930 – Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental shift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland (date is approximate)
1931 – Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1933 – Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1936 – Filip Lazar, composer, dies at 42
1939 – Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), dies at 79
1942 – Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1944 – Jack Miner, Canadian Naturalist and Conservationist, dies at 79
1945 – Alessandro Longo, composer, dies at 80
1949 – Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse (1954)

1954 – Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 – Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
1958 – Harry Revel, movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
1959 – Friedrich Niggli, composer, dies at 83
1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
1960 – Harold Spencer Jones, London, English Astronomer and 10th astronomer royal of England whose work led to a more accurate determination of the distance between the Earth and the Sun
1962 – Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
1964 – John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
1966 – Eric Spear, British composer for film and TV (Coronation Street theme)
1970 – Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
1971 – Etienne Gailly, Belgium marathoner (Oly-bron-48), dies in accident at 48
1973 – Arturo De Cordova, actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
1973 – Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977 – Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
1980 – Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
1982 – Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1983 – Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1986 – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, jazz saxophonist, dies at 65
1988 – Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
Actress Mary Martin (1990)

1990 – Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
1990 – Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
1992 – Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
1992 – John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
1993 – Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
1993 – Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1993 – William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
1994 – Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
1994 – Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
1994 – Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
1995 – Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88
1995 – Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
1996 – Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57
1996 – Heather Swift, local councellor, dies at 79
1996 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
1996 – Michael Burchill, actor, dies at 65
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1998 – Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
1999 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scotish singer-songwriter and the King of Skiffle, dies at 71
2002 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2004 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author and “Fruitcake Lady” (b. 1911)
2006 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2007 – Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2010 – Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)
2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman-Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
2012 – Tommy Goodwin, British track cyclist, dies at 91

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1964 D.C. residents cast first presidential votes

• American Revolution

• 1777 Washington learns of Conway cabal

• Automotive

• 1930 Detroit-Windsor Tunnel opens to traffic

• Civil War

• 1816 Jubal Early born

• Cold War

• 1964 Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency

• Crime

• 1984 A serial killer abducts and rapes his teenage victim

• Disaster

• 1974 Hotel fire ends in disaster in South Korea

• General Interest

• 1903 Panama declares independence
• 1957 The Soviet space dog
• 1979 Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro
• 1986 Iran arms sales revealed

• Hollywood

• 1976 Carrie creeps out audiences

• Literary

• 1844 Thackeray completes Barry Lyndon

• Music

• 1962 The Crystals earn a #1 hit with “He’s A Rebel”—or do they?

• Old West

• 1883 Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery

• Presidential

• 1948 Newspaper mistakenly declares Dewey president

• Sports

• 1998 The Body is elected governor of Minnesota

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Battle of Dak To begins
• 1969 Nixon calls on the “silent majority”

• World War I

• 1918 Central Powers face rebellion on the home front

• World War II

• 1941 The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor