November 7th

EVENTS

680 – 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
921 – Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1512 – Medici’s discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 – University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 – French King Henri II occupies Calais
1631 – Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 – Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic
1651 – King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1659 – Peace of Pyreneeen: French King Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 – 1st edition of “London Gazette”
1667 – Jean Racines “Andromaque,” premieres in Paris
1722 – Richard Steele’s “Conscious Lovers,” premieres in London
1733 – France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first ‘Pacte de Famille’ between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain)
1747 – Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
The Sun King of France Louis XIV

1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1794 – French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 – Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1814 – 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 – James Monroe re-elected US president
1824 – St Petersburg flood
1831 – State of Gran Colombia disbands
1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
12th US President Zachary Taylor

1848 – General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1861 – Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 – Battle of Port Royal Bay – Union forces capture Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard during US Civil War,
1863 – Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly’s Ford, VA
1864 – 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1872 – Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later.
1873 – Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding John A. Macdonald
1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1875 – Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 – Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale)
Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast

1876 – Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 – Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 – Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 – US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1900 – In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
1901 – A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France’s indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896
1907 – Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1907 – Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier

1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1908 – Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 – Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1914 – Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1916 – Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its first woman Representative
28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1916 – Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President
1917 – British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1917 – October Revolution (Oct 25 OS) in Russia, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace, overthrowing Provisional Government
1918 – Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 – United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Misteriya Buff” premieres in Petrograd
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria
1919 – US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1921 – Ed Wynn’s musical “Perfect Fool” premieres in NYC
1921 – The Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard

1925 – Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1929 – NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1931 – Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1932 – 1st broadcast of “Buck Rogers in the 25th century” on CBS-radio
1932 – Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours
1933 – Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1934 – Arthur L Mitchell, becomes first black Democratic US congressman (Illnois)
1935 – 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1936 – Battle of Madrid begins
1940 – Stravinsky’s Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 – Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1941 – British air attacks on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1942 – First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 – Cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1943 – Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 – FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 – Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 – “Bal Negre” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 – King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 – Carlo Terron’s “Processo Agli Innocenti” premieres in Milan
1950 – French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
1951 – Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 – WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 – Cleveland Browns’ Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1955 – Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1957 – Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 – WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1959 – 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
1959 – 16th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 22-14 in Baltimore
1960 – KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 – France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
37th US President Richard Nixon

1962 – Richard Nixon tells press he won’t be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
1962 – Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1963 – Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World
1963 – NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1964 – NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1964 – 18th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 27-22 in College Park
1965 – Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 – Jean-Claude van Itallie’s “America Hurrah” premieres in NYC
1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1967 – Carl B Stokes elected first black mayor of a major US city – Cleveland, Ohio
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 – Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana
1967 – St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 – Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 – John & Yoko release their 2nd album “Wedding Album” in UK
1970 – “Purlie” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 – Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 – Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 – NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 – US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1974 – 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975 – Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1975 – 8th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1976 – “Gone With the Wind” televised
1978 – Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 – CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1978 – Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.’s first black mayor
1979 – Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1982 – “Your Arms are Too Short to Box” closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 – Turkey adopts constitution
1983 – Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
LPGA Golfer Nancy Lopez

1984 – STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 – Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice
1987 – Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1987 – 3rd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 32-25 in South Bend
1988 – MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 – Sugar Ray Leonard KO’s Donnie LaLonde
1989 – Balt’s Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 – NYC elects it’s 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)
1990 – “Little Night Music” closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 – “Those Were The Days” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 – Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
1990 – Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 – “Brigadoon” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 – “Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” opens at Music Box NYC
1991 – 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95
NBA Legend Magic Johnson

1991 – Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
1992 – 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1992 – 4th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 54-7 in South Bend
1993 – Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1993 – 44th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 26 points
1995 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1995 – Howard Stern’s 2nd book “Miss America” released (fastest selling ever)
1996 – “3 Sisters” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 – NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 – Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
1997 – “Bean” opens in US
1998 – 10th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 31-26 in Chestnut Hill
Radio shock jock Howard Stern

2000 – Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2001 – The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack & Toby Keith wins
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
US First Lady and Politician Hillary Clinton

2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2007 – 41st Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood& Brad Paisley wins
2012 – 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2012 – Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

BIRTHDAYS

15 – Agrippina the Younger [Julia Agrippina], Oppidum Ubiorum, Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero)
630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
994 – Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1650 – John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
1656 – Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen
1687 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1692 – Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer
1750 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1758 – Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
1786 – Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage
1797 – Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), (d. 1876)
1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
Roman Empress Agrippina the Younger (15)

1810 – Fritz Reuter, German novelist
1811 – Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1822 – Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer
1828 – Ludwig Deppe, composer
1832 – Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell
1838 – Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839 – Henry Holmes, composer
1846 – Ignaz Brull, composer
1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
1852 – Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1855 – Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856 – Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1860 – Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1861 – Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1866 – Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
1866 – Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
Physicist Marie Curie (1867)

1867 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)
1874 – Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
1876 – Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
1876 – Ted Arnold, cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05)
1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1877 – Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium)
1879 – Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter
1879 – Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Bronshtein, Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and Theorist [OS 26-10-1879], (d. 1940)
1883 – Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1886 – Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player (openings theorist)
1886 – Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879)

1888 – Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1889 – George Davis, Netherlands, actor (Devil May Care)
1889 – Lord Tennyson III, cricketer (England batsman & captain)
1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1895 – Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
1896 – Herbert R O’Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicate)
1896 – Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
1897 – Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955
1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
1900 – Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1902 – Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)
1903 – Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist
1903 – Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
1903 – Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel 1973)
1903 – Lodewijk AM “Lou” Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author
1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1905 – William Alwyn, composer
1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
1906 – Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
1906 – Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1907 – Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1911 – Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
Author Albert Camus(1913)

1913 – Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)
1914 – R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)
1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
1916 – Joe Bushkin, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes), born in NYC, New York
1917 – Andras Mihaly, composer
1917 – Howard Rumsey, American jazz musician (Lighthouse Cafe), born in Brawley, California (d. 2015)
1918 – Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general
1922 – Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1923 – Matthew Coady, journalist
Evangelist Billy Graham(1918)

1924 – Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright
1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (Met Opera), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
1928 – Richard G. Scott, LDS apostle
1928 – Norton Zinder, New York City, NY, biologist (genetic transduction), (d. 2012)
1929 – Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1930 – Peter Woods, newsreader
1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )
1931 – Gerald Humel, composer
1932 – Harry Lammertink, [Yrrah], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland)
1933 – George Tibbits, composer
1934 – Stephen L Neal, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1935 – Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina)
1936 – Barry Newman, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1936 – Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor (Dageraad)
1938 – Dee Clark, Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You)
1938 – James Katt, pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player
1939 – Daniel Manneke, composer
1940 – Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
1942 – Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress (Privilege)
1942 – Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man), born in NYC, New York
Singer Joni Mitchell (1943)

1943 – Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Canadian singer (Clouds), born in Fort Macleod, Alberta
1943 – Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist (To Red, Dust Drawings)
1943 – Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer
1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943 – Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – James Dashow, American/Italian composer, born in Chicago, Illinois
1944 – Jim Watkins, Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician)
1944 – Joe Niekro, baseball knuckler (NY Yankees)
1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 – Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
Economist Michael Spence(1943)

1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer
1950 – Alexa Canady, Lansing Michigan, 1st African American female neurosurgeon and educator
1950 – Augusto Gen’un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher
1951 – Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1952 – David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multinational Force Iraq
1953 – Lucinda Green, English equestrian
1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1956 – Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer (Farmer’s Market)
1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, born in Chicago, Illinois
1957 – Christopher Knight, actor (Peter-Brady Bunch), born in NYC, New York
1957 – Jonathan Palmer, formula-1 racer
1957 – Kathy McMillan, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1958 – Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 – Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1962 – Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist (Bob Color)
1962 – Wayne Norman Phillips, Vic opener cricketer (Test for Aust v Ind 1992)
1963 – John Barnes, British soccer player
1963 – Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1963 – Shelly Miller, Youngstown Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1963 – Todd McKee, actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful)
1964 – Dana Plato, Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff’rent Strokes)
1964 – Liam O’Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist (Hothouse Flowers-I’m Sorry)
1964 – Gill Holland, American producer
1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1966 – Andy Tomberlin, Monroe NC, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 – Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands, hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1966 – Murphy Logo Su’a, cricket pace bowler (NZ left-arm of Samoan parents)
1967 – Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1968 – Russ Springer, Alexandria VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 – Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
1969 – Michelle Morse, Ft Rucker Ala, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1969 – Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
1970 – Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints)
1970 – Kris[ten] Fillat, field hockey forward (Olympics-96), born in San Diego, California
1970 – Marc Rosset, Geneva Switz, tennis star (1992 French Doubles)
1970 – Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
1970 – Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
1971 – Robin Finck, American musician
1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 – Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
1972 – Emily Porter Lesueur, Glendale California, synchronized swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1972 – Jane Taylor, Maitland NSW Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Wagga Waga)
1972 – Jeremy London, actor (I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five)
1972 – Jimmy Gary, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
1972 – Marcus Stewart, English football player
1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 – Kris Benson, Konnesaw TX, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 – Tarek Saleh, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
1975 – Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA (1996)
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell(1975)

1975 – Marcus Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL (“Lone Survivor”), born in Houston, Texas
1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star (140 MPH serve)
1976 – Zahir Raheem, Phila, bantamweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 – One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 – Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
1979 – Will Demps, American football player
1979 – Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 – Mike Commodore, American professional hockey player
1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
1981 – Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
1981 – Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
1981 – Anushka Shetty, Tollywood Film Actress
1986 – Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress
1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
1996 – Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor], Auckland, New Zealand Singer (Royals)

WEDDINGS

1597 – Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1951 – Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)
1957 – Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (23) weds Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva
1984 – FIFA soccer player Diego Maradona (24) weds long-time fiancée Claudia Villafañe in Buenos Aires
2006 – NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon (38) weds Belgian model and actress Ingrid Vandebosch (36) at the Hacienda de San Antonio Resort in Colima, Mexico
2010 – Supermodel and who’s also the face of L’Oreal Paris Doutzen Kroes (25) weds DJ Sunnery James in Amsterdam, Netherlands

DIVORCES

1934 – Actress Gloria Swanson (35) divorces Michael Farmer after 3 years of marriage
1957 – Actress Ingrid Bergman (42) divorces Roberto Rossellini after 7 years of mariage
1982 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor’s 7th divorce from politician John Warner

DEATHS

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam dies of injuries after assassination attempt 4 days earlier
739 – Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 – Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1550 – Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1560 – Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies
1573 – Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1608 – Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle
1620 – Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (builder of the first submarine), dies
1639 – William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79
1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1678 – Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70
1708 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1723 – Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1802 – Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50
1817 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
1827 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76
1857 – Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62
1859 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1876 – Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
1880 – Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
1881 – John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1893 – Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
1901 – Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
Outlaw Butch Cassidy(1908)

1908 – Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers at 42
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 – Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1922 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1935 – Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39
1938 – Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered
1941 – Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
1943 – Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44
1944 – Richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo
1945 – Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1956 – Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/singer, dies at 40
1959 – Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72
Naturalist, biologist, and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1913)

1960 – Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69
1961 – Antonius F “Anton” Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
1966 – Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 – John Nance Garner, (VP-D, 1933-41), dies at 98
1967 – Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71
1967 – Larry Kent, director (High Stakes), dies at 67
1968 – Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies
1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 – Tod Andrews, American actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 55
1974 – Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54
1974 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 – Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 – Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86
US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1962)

1979 – Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71
1979 – Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53
1980 – Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
1981 – Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1983 – David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1984 – George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease
1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1990 – Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
1990 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78
1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexander Dubček, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69), dies at 70
1992 – Jack Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65
Actor Steve McQueen(1980)

1993 – Adelaide Hall, US jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92
1993 – Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
1994 – Milton “Shorty” Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
1995 – Jerry Daniels, singer/guitarist, dies at 79
1995 – John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
1995 – Melvin “Slappy” White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74
1996 – Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
1996 – Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
1996 – Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 – Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
Boxer and Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier (2011)

2011 – Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, dies of liver cancer at 67
2012 – Carmen Basilio [Carmine], American world welter and middleweight boxing champion, dies from pneumonia at 85

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1991 Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive

• American Revolution

• 1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family

• Automotive

• 1965 Art Arfons sets land-speed record

• Civil War

• 1861 Battle of Belmont, Missouri

• Cold War

• 1957 Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters

• Crime

• 1983 A family is brutally murdered

• Disaster

• 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses

• General Interest

• 1885 Canada’s transcontinental railway completed
• 1940 Tacoma Bridge collapses
• 1944 FDR reelected a record third time
• 1989 Two African American firsts in politics

• Hollywood

• 1980 “King of Cool” Steve McQueen dies

• Literary

• 1913 French novelist Albert Camus is born

• Music

• 1943 Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is born

• Old West

• 1916 Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman

• Presidential

• 1944 FDR wins unprecedented fourth term

• Sports

• 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV

• Vietnam War

• 1964 U.S. intelligence asserts numbers of North Vietnamese in South Vietnam growing
• 1966 McNamara shouted down at Harvard speech
• 1972 Nixon re-elected president

• World War I

• 1914 First issue of The New Republic published

• World War II

• 1944 Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese