November 9th

EVENTS

694 – Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery
1282 – Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 – Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)
1494 – Family de’ Medici become rulers of Florence
1520 – Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles
1526 – Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 – Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London
1569 – Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland
1580 – Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1620 – After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)
1673 – English King Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury
1681 – Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
King Charles II

1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1729 – Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 – Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1842 – The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
1848 – Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1853 – Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1854 – Franz Liszt’s “Fest-Long,” premieres
1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 – 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 – Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 – US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 – 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 – Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant

1877 – American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 – Opera “Ermine,” premieres in London
1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1900 – China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 – Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama)
1907 – Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1912 – Ferenc Molnàrs “Farkas,” premieres in Budapest
1913 – Storm “Freshwater Fury” sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1914 – Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser ‘Sydney’ sinks German cruiser ‘Emden’, which has been attacking ships in the Pacific
1918 – Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 – Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918 – Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 – Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1922 – Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 – Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 – German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS)
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
Physicist Robert A. Millikan

1927 – Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 – Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 – 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 – Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 – Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1936 – Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China – becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
1937 – Japanese army conquers Shanghai
1937 – St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
Actress Greta Garbo

1939 – “Ninotchka,” with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 – Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 – Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1941 – Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster
1942 – German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 – Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 – Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 – Walcheren purged of nazi troops
1946 – Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 – Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 – Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
1950 – Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 – White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
33rd US President Harry Truman

1953 – Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union
1953 – KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 – Michael Gazzo’s “Hatful of Rain,” premieres in NYC
1955 – NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1955 – UN disapproves of South Africa’s apartheid politics
1956 – Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 – PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 – Paddy Chayefsky’s “Gideon,” premieres in NYC
1961 – USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1961 – The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
1962 – Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – “Tovarich” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 – 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1963 – 17th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 42-7 in Annapolis
1964 – “Comedy in Music-Opus 2” opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 – Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 – 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 – Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
MLB Legend Willie Mays

1965 – Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1966 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
1966 – Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
1967 – 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1967 – The unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting led a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland
Artist & Musician Yoko Ono

1970 – Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1970 – The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley
1971 – David Storey’s “Changing Room,” premieres in London
1971 – John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 – Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
1973 – Ringo Starr releases “Ringo” album
1976 – Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
1976 – UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1977 – Reds’ George Foster wins NL MVP
1978 – NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1980 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1980 – Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 – Brewers’ Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously
1982 – Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 – Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1983 – Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
1984 – Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 – Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
1984 – Wes Craven’s horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” premieres in the US
1985 – “News” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 – Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22
1985 – Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
1985 – Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
Cricketer Richard Hadlee

1986 – Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 – Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
1988 – “Prince of Central Park” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1988 – MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 – East Berlin opens its borders
1990 – Tanzania government of Malecela forms
1990 – New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
1991 – Houston’s Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
1991 – Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
1992 – Howard Stern’s radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
1992 – Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for “Texaco”
1993 – “Cinderella” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993 – Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 – Stari Most (the “old bridge”, built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon

1995 – “Danny Gans on Broadway” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
1996 – 8th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 48-21 in Chestnut Hill
1997 – “Cherry Orchard,” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 – “Scarlet Pimpernel,” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
1997 – Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 – TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
2003 – A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2004 – Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
2004 – 38th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride & Keith Urban wins
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2009 – Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker’s main event.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift

2011 – 45th Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins
2011 – Shakira is honoured as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
2012 – 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
2012 – An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
2013 – 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
2013 – María Gabriela Isler, a 25yo Venezuelan, is crowned Miss Universe 2013
2014 – United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)
2014 – Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
Singer Shakira

2014 – Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
2014 – Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption

BIRTHDAYS

1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 – Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 – Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1664 – Johannes Speth, composer
1697 – Claudio Casciolini, composer
1710 – Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized
1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 – Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, African American mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1760 – Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1795 – Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 – Gail Borden, Norwich New York, American Manufacturer and Inventor of condensed milk
1802 – Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

Mathematician, Astronomer and Almanac Author Benjamin Banneker (1731)

1809 – Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), (d. 1877)
1810 – Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), (d. 1872)
1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 – Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 – Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1820 – Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1821 – Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1823 – William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1894)
1825 – Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), (d. 1865)
1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1833 – Sally Louisa Tompkins, nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born in Mathews City, Virginia (D. 1916)
1835 – Davorin Jenko, composer
1835 – Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835 – Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer
1837 – Alfred Holmes, composer
1837 – Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 – [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 – Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1854 – Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
1864 – Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian Botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses
1868 – Andrea d’ Angeli, composer
1868 – Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
1868 – Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Cobourg Ontario, actress (Dinner at 8, Min and Bill)
1871 – Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences
1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, Geneseo New York, American Botanist
1877 – Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher
1877 – Jesus Castillo, composer
1877 – Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 – Rudolph Karel, composer
1882 – Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer (“Hotstuff” in 1907-08 MCC tour of Aust)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, [Nutter], Malden MA, actress (Little Women)
1884 – Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 – Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1886 – S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1887 – Gertrude Astor, Lakewood OH, actress (Carnival Lady)
1887 – Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress (Happiest Days of Your Life)
1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS)
1889 – Snub Pollard, Australian actor (Don’t Shove, Arizona Days), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1890 – George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 – Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 – Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898 – Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-1964), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1898 – Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1901 – John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1902 – Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1903 – Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1903 – Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal
1904 – Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 – Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1905 – James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo)
1906 – Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1907 – Burrill Phillips, composer (Play Ball), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1907 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince
1909 – Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland)
1909 – Robert Douglas, [Finlayson], Bletchley England, actor (Adv of Don Juan)
1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr (1913)

1913 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah), born in Vienna, Austria
1913 – Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
1914 – Colin Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War
1915 – Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1915 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1918 – Howard Shanet, conductor (Night of the Tropics), born in Brooklyn, New York
1918 – Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 – Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 – Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 – Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor
1921 – Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- )
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1922 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 – Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 – Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1927 – Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag)
1928 – Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967)
1928 – Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 – Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer
1929 – Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President’s Analyst, Saturday the 14th)
1929 – Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
Author and Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész (1929)

1929 – Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)
1930 – Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
1931 – Tommy Greenhough, cricketer (English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60)
1931 – Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 – Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy)
1934 – Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca’s Brain)
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986-91, 94- )
1934 – Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser)
1935 – Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 – Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 – Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1937 – Roger McCough, British poet
Folk Singer Mary Travers(1936)

1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1940 – Sergio Cervetti, composer
1941 – Tom Fogerty, Berkeley California, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)
1942 – Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1942 – Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon OH, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1943 – John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa)
1943 – Lee Graziano, rock drummer (American Breed), born in Chicago, Illinois
1944 – Bill Hendon, (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87)
1944 – Phil May, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 – Roger Lee Jones, WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
Rocker Tom Fogerty (1941)

1948 – Alan Gratzer, Syracuse NY, rock drummer (Reo Speedwagon)
1948 – Bille August, director (Best Intentions, Twist & Shout)
1948 – Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964), (d. 2013)
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1951 – Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology)
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk), born in Brooklyn, New York
1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 – Sherrod Brown, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 – Dennis Stratton, rock guitarist (Iron Maiden), born in London, England
1954 – Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 – Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1959 – Karin Mundinger, LPGA golfer (1985 Singapore Open-2nd), born in Toronto, Ontario
1959 – Tony Phillips, outfielder (Chicago White Sox), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 – Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1960 – Joëlle Ursull, a Guadeloupean singer
1961 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1963 – Anthony Bowie, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1963 – Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 – John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor (Young Dan’l Boone)
1964 – Leah Pells, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 – Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1966 – Virgil Robertson, CFL defensive end (BC Lions)
1967 – Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-96)
1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 – David Jones, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 – Jeff Brady, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 – Angel Miranda, Arecieo Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 – Pepa, rocker (Salt ‘n’ Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 – Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1970 – Bill Guerin, Wilbraham MA, NHL right wing (NJ Devils, Oilers)
1970 – Chad Ogea, Lake Charles LA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 – Chantal Brunner, Wellington NZ, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 – Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 – Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
1971 – David Robert Duval, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope)
1971 – Jimmy Hitchcock, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1971 – Michael Barber, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 – Steve Rhem, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1972 – Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park)
1972 – Mark Fields, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1972 – Ron Rice, NFL cornerback/safety (Detroit Lions)
1972 – Victoria Keil, Miss Universe-Cook Islands (1996)
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1972 – Doug Russell, American radio personality
1973 – Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1974 – Dah-ve Chodan, actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)
1974 – Traci Toguchi, Miss America-Hawaii (1996), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 – Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 – Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
1976 – Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality (Australia, 1997)
1977 – Patricia Campbell, Pennsylvania, Miss Teen USA (1996-2nd place)
1978 – Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 – Todd Self, American baseball player
1978 – Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Caroline Flack, British television presenter
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Angeles City, Pampanga, Filipino-born American TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1980 – James Harper, English footballer
1980 – Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
TV Personality & Model Vanessa Minnillo (1980)

1996 – Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)

WEDDINGS

1887 – Painter Grandma Moses (27) weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer
1935 – “Magnificent Obsession” actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1968 – Former “Led Zepellin” lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson
2002 – Eighties pop princess Sheena Easton (43) weds Beverly Hills plastic surgeon John Minoli (44) at Las Vegas City Hall
2007 – “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Ellen Pompeo (38) weds music producer Chris Ivery (38) in New York, New York
2012 – Tennis player James Blake (32) weds publicist Emily Snider (37) Del Mar, California
Rock Vocalist Robert Plant(1968)

2013 – “Mad Men” star Jared Harris (52) weds lighting designer and TV host Allegra Riggio on a yacht in Miami

DIVORCES

1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage
1968 – Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage
2004 – Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

DEATHS

959 – Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 – Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 – Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 – Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 – William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 – Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 – Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 – Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 – Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 – Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 – Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 – Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 – Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 – Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 – Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 – Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 – Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 – Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1935 – Paolo Orsi, Italian Archaeologist, dies at 76
1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1938 – Edward Murray East, American Botanist and Geneticist who developed hybrid corn, dies at 59
1939 – Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1940)

1940 – Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies of bowel cancer at 71
1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 – Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 – Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 – Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 – Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa’ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 – Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 – Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 – Peter O’Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 – Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 – Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 – Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 – Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 – William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
French President Charles de Gaulle (1970)

1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1971 – Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 – Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 – Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 – Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 – Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 – Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 – Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 – Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 – Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 – Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 – Billy Curtis, 4’2″ actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 – John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 – Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 – Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 – Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 – William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 – Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 – Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 – Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 – Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 – Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 – Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 – Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 – Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 – Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
Author Stieg Larsson(2004)

2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 – Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2011 – Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced ‘Deep Throat’ obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1938 Nazis launch Kristallnacht

• American Revolution

• 1780 Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina

• Automotive

• 1960 Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company

• Civil War

• 1862 Burnside assumes command

• Cold War

• 1989 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

• Crime

• 1971 A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years

• Disaster

• 1872 Fire rips through Boston

• General Interest

• 1906 Roosevelt travels to Panama
• 1923 Nazis suppressed in Munich
• 1956 Sartre renounces communists
• 1965 The Great Northeast Blackout

• Hollywood

• 2001 Kodak Theatre, new home of Oscars, opens

• Literary

• 2004 Best-selling Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson dies at 50

• Music

• 1990 Willie Nelson’s assets are seized by the IRS

• Old West

• 1875 Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile

• Presidential

• 1901 Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines

• Sports

• 1946 Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
• 1967 Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
• 1970 Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War

• World War I

• 1914 Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden

• World War II

• 1938 The Night of Broken Glass