November 6th

EVENTS

355 – Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain
1153 – Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1534 – Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 – Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 – Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 – Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 – King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 – Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
1813 – Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 – Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 – 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 – Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis

1861 – Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as US Confederate President
1862 – NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 – Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 – Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell’s Raid)
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 – 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1871 – Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 – Henrik Ibsen’s “Samfundets Stotter” premieres in Oslo
1879 – Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 – NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 – British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 – Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
1885 – US mint at Carson City, Nevada, directed to close
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison

1888 – Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 – ‘Peter Pan’ opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 – Battle at Bothaville: Major General Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 – Republican President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrats’ William Jennings Bryan in the US elections
1903 – USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 – Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1906 – Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
1908 – Leonid Andreyev’s “Dui Nashey Zhizni” premieres in St Petersburg
1910 – SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 – Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

1913 – Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1914 – The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts
1915 – 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 – Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 – [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardmentt of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution
1917 – New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections
1918 – Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 – Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1918 – WW I: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
1919 – 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with “Turf in you(r) ransel”
1923 – USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day “weeks”
1924 – Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
1925 – British secret agent Sidney Reilly (‘Ace of Spies’) is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1928 – Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
31st US President Herbert Hoover

1928 – Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President
1928 – Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 – Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 – German election – KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 – NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 – 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1936 – RCA displays TV for press
1936 – Terence Rattigan’s “French Without Tears” premieres in London
1938 – 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 – WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 – WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
1939 – World War II: ‘Sonderaktion Krakau’ – a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940 – Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President
1941 – Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 – Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 – USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 – Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 – Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai
1943 – Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 – Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 – Stalin says: “The issue of German fascism is lost”
1945 – House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1945 – The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
1947 – NBC’s “Meet the Press” debuts – US’s longest running TV show
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1949 – Greek civil war ends
1950 – Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 – Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 – King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s cantata “About our Fatherland” premieres
1953 – French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 – Masao Oki’s symphony “Atomic Bomb” premieres
1955 – 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 – Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary
1956 – US President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 – “Rumple” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 – Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1958 – AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 – Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 – Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 – US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball)
1962 – BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 – Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 – Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 – Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1962 – UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1964 – WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 – 19th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 19-7 in Annapolis
1966 – 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies’ Golf Open
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 – Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1967 – US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1968 – Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 – Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 – 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
1970 – Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 – Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 – “Great Harp” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1971 – US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1973 – “Man With the Golden Girl” begins shooting
1973 – Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor of NYC
1973 – Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 – Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
1975 – “Hello, Dolly” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 – 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 – Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976 – Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1977 – “Hair” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1977 – 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1978 – Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1978 – Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini

1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 – Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1981 – Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 – Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 – Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 – Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 – Tor Bay Buccaneers’ James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 – Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1984 – President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 – Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 – 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 – Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1985 – M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1985 – Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards, Calif
1986 – Houston’s Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 – President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 – Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1988 – 18th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
1988 – 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 – Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1988 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 – Steve Jones wins NY men’s marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women’s title
1989 – US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 – Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
1990 – Braves’ Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 – Fire destroys some of Universal Studios’ stages
LPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan

1990 – Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1990 – Iran’s oil-producing region suffers a serious earthquake
1991 – “Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin” opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
1991 – Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 – Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 – Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 – Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 – 24th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
Boxer Evander Holyfield

1994 – 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 – Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 – Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 – Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 – Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 – LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1996 – “The English Patient” based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997)
1997 – “Proposals” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 – SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

1999 – 4th Rugby World Cup: Australia beats France 35-12 in Cardiff
2001 – Crude oil for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) falls to a two-year low after OPEC members warn that a downward price spiral could occur if major non-OPEC oil exporters do not reduce oil production
2002 – 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2002 – 36th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins
2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 – The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
Novelist J. K. Rowling

2005 – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, the 4th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling premieres in London. Goes on to become most successful film of the year, earning almost 900 million.
2006 – 40th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood& Keith Urban wins
2012 – 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
2012 – Barack Obama re-elected as US President
2012 – US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 – Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
2013 – 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

BIRTHDAYS

1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 – Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 – Suleiman I (the Magnificent), Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566). Longest reigning Sultan from 1520 till death in 1566.
1550 – Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 – Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 – Luis de Garay, composer
1659 – Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 – Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (reigns 1665-1700)
1671 – Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love’s Last Shift)
1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 – African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1753 – Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer
1753 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 – Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 – Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 – Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 – George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 – Eduard Grell, composer
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone)
1818 – Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
1822 – Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1876)
1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1836 – Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1838 – John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), (d. 1894)
1841 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 – Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (d. 1902)
Composer John Philip Sousa (1854)

1854 – John Philip Sousa, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C.
1855 – Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 – Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1861 – James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d. 1939)
1867 – Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 – Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 – Ernest Irving, English composer
1879 – Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1883 – Hubert Bath, British film composer and music director
Basketball Inventor James Naismith (1861)

1884 – Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 – Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 – Walter Johnson, Humboldt Kansas, Washington Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 – John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 – John Sigvard “Ole” Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1892 – Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 – August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1896 – Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 – Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 – June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 – Selena Royale, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady), born in NYC, New York
1906 – Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson(1887)

1906 – James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 – Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 – Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 – Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 – Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 – Jonathan Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)
1916 – Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1918 – Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What’s Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 – Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 – John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 – Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950’s)
1921 – James Jones, novelist (From Here to Eternity), born in Robinson Illinois (d. 1977)
1922 – Lars Edlund, composer
1923 – Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 – Clay Jones, gardener
1923 – Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 – Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS’er
1926 – Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1928 – Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 – Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 – Mike Nichols[Peschowsky], German-born American director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues), born in Berlin, (d. 2014)
1931 – Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1931 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1932 – Stonewall Jackson, rocker
1933 – Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me)
1933 – Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 – David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 – K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author
1936 – Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 – Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 – Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 – Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 – P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], American rocker, born in Houston, Texas
1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 – Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 – Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 – Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 – Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1940 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1941 – Doug Sahm, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero), born in San Antonio, Texas
1941 – Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 – James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 – Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 – Bill Henderson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1945 – Robert J Mrazek, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1946 – Sally Field, Pasadena California, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1946 – Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
1947 – Doug Young, musician (Flash In The Pan)
1947 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), born in Shanghai (d. 2007)
1947 – George Lawrence James, NJ, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 – George Young, rock guitarist (Easybeats, AC/DC), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1947 – Jack Arnold, character on TV programme The Wonder Years
1947 – John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1947 – Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey(1948)

1948 – Glenn Frey, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan
1949 – Brad Davis, Tallahassee Fla, actor (Roots, Chiefs, Midnight Express)
1949 – Nigel Havers, English actor (Dr Latimer-Don’t Wait Up)
1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 – Joseph C. Wilson, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1950 – Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951 – Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1951 – John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1952 – Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 – Catherine Crier, American journalist and author (The Case Against Lawyers, A Deadly Game), born in Dallas, Texas
1955 – Maria Shriver, newscaster (Sunday Today) and ex-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Chicago, Illinois
1956 – Graeme Wood, cricketer (Australian lefty opening batsman 1978-88)
1957 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1957 – Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1957 – Lori Singer, Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1959 – Teri Peterson, Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 – Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner)
1960 – Michael Cerveris, American actor
1961 – Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 – Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1961 – Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band Dio
1962 – Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 – Jean-Marc Chouinard, epee (Olympics-96), born in Montreal, Quebec
1963 – Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 – Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1964 – Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 – Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1965 – Brian Givens, Lompoc CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1965 – Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 – Lisa Fuller, actress (Dawn-General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 – Peter DeLuise, Hollywood CA, actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV)
1966 – Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1967 – Dennis Brown, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 – Jackie Auzias de Turenne, WPVA volleyballer (Natl-17th-1995), born in Seattle, Washington
1967 – Jana McCoy, Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 – Rebecca Schaeffer, Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam)
1967 – Shuzo Matsuoka, Tokyo Japan, tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton)
1968 – Alfred Williams, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1968 – Chad Curtis, Marion IN, outfielder (NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers)
1968 – Edward Linskens, soccer player (PSV)
1968 – Kelly Rutherford, Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations)
1968 – Vlast Plavucha, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 – Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1969 – Bryan Abrams, singer (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1969 – Don Wengert, Sioux City IA, pitcher (Oakland A’s)
1970 – Eric Mueller, KC MO, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 – Ethan Hawke, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers), born in Austin, Texas
1970 – Maa Tanuvasa, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1970 – Patrick Burke, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 – Rich Braham, tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 – Derrick Alexander, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 – Anthony Brown, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1972 – Vicki Movessian, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 – Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1972 – Thandie Newton, English actress
1972 – Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1973 – Taje Allen, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Nell McAndrew, British model
1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist
1975 – Mike Maurer, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 – Laurie Baker, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-gold-98)
1976 – Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 – Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 – Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1977 – Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 – Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
1978 – Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1978 – Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 – Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 – Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 – Taryn Manning, American actress
1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1981 – Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 – Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 – Janette McBride, Filipino actress
1983 – Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1987 – Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
Actress Emma Stone (1988)

1988 – Emma Stone, Scottsdale, Arizona, American actress (Superbad, The Amazing Spider-Man)
1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer

WEDDINGS

1919 – “The Sheik” actor Rudolph Valentino (24) weds actress Jean Acker (26)
1935 – English Prince Henry weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1983 – Businessman Vidal Sassoon (55) weds dressage champion Jeanette Hartford-Davis
1993 – Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1998 – “Some Like It Hot” actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 – “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis (37) weds CBS News Entertainment Reporter Christina McLarty on a civil wedding in Mexico
2010 – Professional golfer Greg Norman (51) weds Australian interior decorator Kirsten Kutner (41) on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 – Innocent VII, [Cosma de’ Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1492 – Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 – Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies at battle of Lutzen at 37
1650 – Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24
1656 – Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
1656 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1669 – Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1692 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1730 – Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 – Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 – Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1801 – Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1816 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 – Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1835 – Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1836 – Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1839 – Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1846 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 – Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1862 – Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1865 – Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1875 – John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1876 – Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893)

1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
1897 – Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1900 – PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 – Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1901 – Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
1912 – Mykola Vytal’yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1914 – Allessandro d’Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1922 – William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1925 – Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
1928 – Arnold Rothstein, US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1929 – Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1936 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1939 – Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69
1941 – Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
Businessman, Gambler, and Mobster Arnold Rothstein(1928)

1944 – Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 – Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 – Segundo “Boy” Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22
1946 – Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1947 – Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
1953 – John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1955 – Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1955 – Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1958 – Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1959 – Jose P. Laurel, Philippine president, dies of heart attack at 68
1960 – Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 – Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
3rd President of the Philippines José P. Laurel(1959)

1965 – Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1965 – Edgard Varèse, French-born composer, dies at 81
1968 – Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63
1968 – Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 – Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1969 – Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69
1970 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 – Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1978 – Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1978 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 – Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1983 – Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1984 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 – Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
1986 – Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 – Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 – William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1987 – Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 – Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 – Dickie Goodman, creator of “break-in” records (b. 1934)
1990 – Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1991 – Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64
Actress Gene Tierney(1991)

1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70
1995 – Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90
1995 – Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71
1995 – Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82
1995 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1996 – Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
1996 – Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1996 – Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997 – Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1998 – Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 – David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 – Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 – Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2004 – Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 – Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 – Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2006 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 – Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 – George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 – Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 – George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 – Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
2009 – Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
2010 – Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
2010 – Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2012 – Clive Dunn, British actor, dies from complications following an operation at 92
2012 – M-16 [Ernest Mateen], American cruiser-weight boxing champion, dies at 46

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1962 U.N. condemns apartheid

• American Revolution

• 1789 John Carroll named first Catholic bishop in U.S.

• Automotive

• 1998 President Clinton designates “Automobile National Heritage Area” in Detroit

• Civil War

• 1861 Jefferson Davis elected Confederate president

• Cold War

• 1988 Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States

• Crime

• 1982 A woman ices her husband with anti-freeze

• Disaster

• 1977 Dam gives way in Georgia

• General Interest

• 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president
• 1917 Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
• 1917 Canadians take Passchendaele

• Hollywood

• 1987 Downey stars in Less Than Zero

• Literary

• 1558 Playwright Thomas Kyd is baptized

• Music

• 1854 John Philip Sousa is born

• Old West

• 1528 Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas

• Presidential

• 1906 Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama

• Sports

• 1995 Art Modell announces Browns are moving to Baltimore

• Vietnam War

• 1963 General Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
• 1970 South Vietnamese forces attack into Cambodia

• World War I

• 1917 British victory at Passchendaele

• World War II

• 1941 Stalin celebrates the Revolution’s anniversary