November 11th

EVENTS

308 – The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
887 – Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
1158 – Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1208 – Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1215 – 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1417 – Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba
1500 – Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide Naples
1503 – Pope Julius II elected
1572 – Duke of Alva’s son Don Fredrik begins siege of Haarlem
1606 – Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes “An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery”.
1640 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
The Warrior Pope Julius II

1647 – Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies
1648 – Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1671 – Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
1688 – Prince Willem III’s invasion fleet sails to England
1714 – A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking “Thief-Taker General” (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. (b. c. 1700)
Composer George Friedrich Handel

1725 – George Frederick Handel’s opera “Tamerlano” premieres in London
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army enters England
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
1752 – Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1775 – Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war
1778 – Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 – Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1811 – Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1813 – Dresden surrenders to allied armies
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1836 – Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1851 – Alvan Clark patents telescope
1862 – Opera “La Forza Del Destino” is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 – Sherman’s troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1864 – Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
1865 – Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1865 – Thomas Robertson’s “Society” premieres in London
1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1868 – 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1880 – Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol
1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1889 – Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
1889 – 29th British Golf Open: Willie Park, Jr. shoots a 155 at Musselburgh Links
1890 – D McCree patents portable fire escape
1895 – Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1896 – Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium’s minister of War
1896 – Samuel Pierpont Langley’s Number 6 ‘heavier-than-air’ aircraft model flies over 1,500 m (5,000 ft).
1899 – Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones’ “Floradora” premieres in London
1901 – Maurice Ravel composition “Jeux d’eau” premieres
1905 – High Commissioner Prince George declares amnesty for all leaders of the insurrection that has been disturbing Crete during the recent months – but which never gained mass supprt
1906 – Ethel Smyth’s “Standrecht” premieres in Leipzig
1909 – Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins
1909 – J M Synge’s “Tinker’s Wedding” premieres in London
1911 – Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
1911 – Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control
1918 – Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
1918 – Poland declares independence
1918 – Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am
1919 – Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views
1920 – Great Britain’s monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled
1920 – The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, at at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
1921 – President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
1922 – Largest US flag displayed (150′ X 90′) expanded in 1939 (270′ X 90′)
1923 – Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
1924 – Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
1924 – Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
1925 – Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong

1925 – Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 – Night of Kersten – Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
1925 – Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 – Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
1928 – France’s 5th government of Poincaré forms
1928 – KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 – WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 – WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 – WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
1930 – Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1931 – Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran’s Building
1933 – “Great Black Blizzard” 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
Jazz Musician Billie Holiday

1933 – Billie Holiday’s second song and first hit, “Riffin’ the Scotch”, is released
1934 – 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 – WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 – Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1937 – Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1937 – Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson
1938 – German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938 – Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David
1939 – Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”
1940 – Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
1940 – Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1940 – British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto
Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin

1940 – Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle (“Jeep”)
1941 – Czech premier general Eliasj arrested by Nazis
1942 – -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
1942 – 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
1942 – During WW II Germany completes the occupation of France
1942 – Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
1942 – Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942 – Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 – Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP
1943 – US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
1944 – NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 – NY Knicks’ 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chic Stags
1947 – “Gentlemen’s Agreement” directed by Elia Karan and starring Gregory Peckand Dorothy McGuire premieres in New York (Best Picture 1948)
Actor Gregory Peck

1949 – WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 – Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1954 – Publication of “Two Towers” 2nd volume of “Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1957 – Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (SF)
1958 – “La Plume de Ma Tante” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 perfs
1958 – AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1959 – 1st episode of “Rocky & His Friends” airs
1959 – Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 – Largest NY Knick 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-18,499
1961 – Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
1961 – Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1961 – Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR’s communist party
Writer and Academic J. R. R. Tolkien

1961 – Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1962 – Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1963 – Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for The Beatles
1963 – Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard’s lifetime 544 goal record
1964 – Murray Schisgal’s “Luv” premieres in NYC
1965 – Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith
1965 – William Alfred’s “Hogan’s Goat” premieres in NYC
1966 – Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 – Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA)
1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1968 – John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of “2 Virgins” album
1968 – Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
1968 – Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
NBA Forward Elvin Hayes

1968 – As a rookie, Elvin Hayes scores 54 points against the Detroit Pistons, a career-high
1969 – Beatles with Billy Preston release “Get Back” in UK
1969 – Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness
1970 – Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1971 – Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
1971 – Neil Simon’s “Prisoner of Second Avenue” premieres in NYC
1972 – Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
1972 – US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
1972 – 6th Rugby League World Cup: Australia and Great Britain tie 10-10; Great Britain awarded the cup
1975 – Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 – Australian PM Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs)
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser

1975 – Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister of Australia after sacking of the Whitlam Government by Governor General John Kerr
1977 – Wings release “Mull of Kintyre” & “Girl’s School”
1978 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
1979 – Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
1980 – Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 – Islanders’ Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1981 – “Oh, Brother!” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 3 performances
1981 – Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1982 – 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 – 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight
1982 – Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
1982 – Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 – 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1983 – President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature
1983 – Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA
1984 – “Three Musketeers” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances
1985 – 1st AIDS theme TV movie – “An Early Frost” screens in US on NBC
1985 – Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 – Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1986 – Houston’s Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
1986 – Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1987 – “Roza” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1987 – Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 – Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 – Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1987 – van Gogh’s “Irises” sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 – Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
Painter Vincent van Gogh

1989 – “Prince of Central Park” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 – Sam’s Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1990 – “Shadowlands” opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
1990 – Calif’s Chuck Finley & Seattle’s Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
1992 – The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests
1993 – Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
1994 – Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex” for $30,800,000
1994 – Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1996 – Braves’ John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award
1997 – CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002
1997 – Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award
1997 – WNBA expands to Detroit & Washington, D.C.
MLB Pitching Legend Roger Clemens

1999 – Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
2000 – In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2000 – 12th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 28-16 in South Bend
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 – The death of Yasser Arafat is confirmed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 – The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

2008 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
2009 – 43rd Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins
2011 – 25th Soul Train Music Awards: Cee-Lo Green, Jill Scott win
2012 – 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
2013 – 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India
2013 – 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia
2013 – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” directed by Francis Lawrence starringJennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson premieres in London, UK
2014 – The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
2014 – An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
2014 – The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
2014 – The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
2014 – 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
2014 – Samsung Lions win the 2014 Korean Series in baseball

BIRTHDAYS

995 – Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
1050 – Henry IV, Goslar, Kaiserpfalz, Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105)
1154 – Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212)
1155 – Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia
1220 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1493 – Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (Zinc, laudanum), (d. 1541)
1523 – Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician
1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter
1599 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal
1633 – George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)
1636 – Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch’ing dynasty
1657 – Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1675 – Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru
Physician/Alchemist Paracelsus (1493)

1679 – Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist
1688 – Lorenzo Somis, composer
1690 – Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
1696 – Andrea Zani, composer
1722 – Johann Philipp Sack, composer
1724 – Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
1731 – Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
1736 – Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver
1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1748 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) Reigned 1788-1808
1767 – Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster
1771 – Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1788 – Michal Wielhorski, composer
1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 – Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1811 – Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821)

1821 – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment), (d. 1881)
1832 – Paolo Giorza, composer
1836 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
1852 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1858 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)
1864 – George Washington Crile, Chili Ohio, American Surgeon who conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock
1868 – Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist
1869 – Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
1869 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1870 – Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
1872 – Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin’s Theatre)
1872 – David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1875 – Vesto Slipher, Mulberry Indiana, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
1882 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 – Ernest Ansermet, Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps)
US General George S. Patton (1885)

1885 – George S Patton, San Gabriel, California, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) “Old Blood & Guts”, (d. 1945)
1887 – Roland Young, London England
1888 – Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1893 – Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author
1894 – Aaron Avshalomov, composer
1894 – Winifred Kingston, England, silent screen actress (David Garrick)
1895 – Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
1895 – Jacov Gotovac, composer
1897 – Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities)
1898 – Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher
1898 – Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow)
1899 – Harold “Pie” Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899 – Pat O’Brien, Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
1900 – Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928)
1900 – Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip
1900 – John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
1901 – Sam Spiegel, producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
1901 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1903 – Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1903 – Thomas Edward Allibone, Sheffield South Yorkshire, English Physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration)
1904 – Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
1904 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1905 – Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer
Physician Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (1907)

1907 – Joseph Hamilton, American Physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis
1909 – Robert Ryan, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day), born in Chicago, Illinois
1910 – Arnold D W Tilanus, Dutch MP (CHU)
1910 – Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952)
1910 – Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
1910 – Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1910 – Raemer Schreiber, McMinnville Oregon, American Physicist (Manhattan Project) who helped develop the first atomic bomb during World War II and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki
1911 – Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], Horsforth, Yorkshire, English actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny)
1912 – Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
Physicist Raemer Schreiber(1910)

1912 – Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1913 – German Leont’yevich Zhukovsky, composer
1913 – Peter Black, TV critic
1914 – Daisy Bates, publisher/head (Arkansas NAACP)
1914 – Hansje Toussaint, [Hermina A Schenk], singer (Sing of the Cross)
1914 – Howard Fast, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus), born in NYC, New York
1914 – Perry Bass, Texas billionaire
1914 – Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1915 – Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor
1915 – William Proxmire, (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1916 – Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman
1917 – Julien-Francois Zbinden, composer
1917 – [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, US, sci-fi author (Earth War)
1918 – Jurg Baur, composer
1918 – Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil’ Abner, Cat Ballou), born in NYC, New York
1919 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 – Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour)
1921 – Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr(1922)

1922 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Ind, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1924 – Piet J A van der Sanden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 – Rusi Modi, cricketer (strong Indian batsman in post-War years)
1925 – Jonathan Winters, Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), (d. 2013)
1925 – June Whitfield, British comedian
1925 – John Guillermin, film director (The Towering Inferno), born in London, UK (d. 2015)
1926 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1926 – Richard Tufeld, voice actor (Lost in Space), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
1927 – Lord Wolfson, English multi-millionaire
1927 – Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite)
1928 – Arthur Cunningham, composer
1928 – Edward Zorinsky, (Sen-D-NB, 1976-88)
1928 – Ernestine Anderson, jazz vocalist
1928 – Trevor Meale, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v England 1958)
1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Panama City, Panama, author (The Death of Artemio Cruz), (d. 2012)
1928 – Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
1929 – H M Enzensberger, writer
1929 – LaVern Baker, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear), born in Chicago, Illinois
1930 – Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion designer
1930 – Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
1930 – Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1930 – Vernon Handley, English conductor
1931 – Fortney H [Pete] Stark, (Rep-D-CA, 1973- )
1932 – Al Levitt, drummer
1934 – Bibi Andersson, Sweden, actress (Scenes From a Marriage)
1934 – Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 – Paula Myers-Pope, US, platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60)
1934 – Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
1936 – Susan Kohner, LA CA, actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story)
1937 – Buddy Jimmy Lee Land Ace, singer
1937 – Warner Wolf, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV), born in Washington, D.C.
1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1938 – Narvel Felts, country singer
1938 – John Reilly, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons), born in Chicago, Illinois
1938 – Josef Odozil, Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 – Roger Laver, [Jackson], rock keyboardist (Tornados)
1938 – Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939 – Claudia Boyarskikh, USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 – Denise Alexander, actress (Mary McKinnon-Another World)
1940 – Barbara Boxer, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92/Sen-D-CA, 1993- )
1942 – Roy Fredericks, cricketer (brilliant WI lefty opener 169 v Aust 1975)
1943 – Chas Hodges, rocker
1943 – Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
1943 – Karin Kent, [Janneke Kanteman], Dutch singer
1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
1945 – Chris Dreja, rocker (Yardbirds), born in London, England
1945 – Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-90)
1945 – Denise Alexander, actress (General Hospital, Another World), born in NYC, New York
1945 – Niaz Ahmed, cricketer (1st & last East Pakistani to play Test cricket)
1945 – Vince Martell, rock guitarist (Vanilla Fudge), born in NYC, New York
1946 – Chip Hawkes, rocker
1946 – Corrine Brown, (Rep-D-Florida)
1946 – Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10)
1947 – Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist
1947 – Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian
1947 – Pat “Dirty” Daugherty, rocker (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, actor (Playroom, Waiting for the Light)
1949 – Kathy Postlewait, Norfolk VA, LPGA golfer (1989 Sara Lee)
1950 – Jim Peterik, rocker (Survivor)
1950 – Otis Armstrong, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1950 – Rex Samuel Sellers, Auckland NZ, Tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1950 – Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1950 – Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
1951 – Fuzzy [Frank] Zoeller, New Albany IN, PGA golfer (Masters 1981)
1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant
1952 – Paul Cowsill, Newport RI, rock keyboardist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1953 – Andy Partridge, English rock vocalist/guitarist (XTC-Oranges & Lemons)
1953 – Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
1954 – Gail Marquis, WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976)
1954 – Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955 – Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972- )
1956 – Billy Smith, Reidsville NC, country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
1956 – Ian Craig Marsh, England, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1958 – Luz Casal, Spanish singer
1958 – Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor
1959 – Vincent Irizarry, actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara), born in Queens, New York
1959 – Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1960 – Lisa Welch Semler, Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980)
1960 – Peter Parros, American actor
1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1961 – Matt Ghaffari, Tehran Iran, US greco-roman wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1961 – Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
Actress Demi Moore (1962)

1962 – Demi Moore, [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane)
1962 – Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
1962 – James Morrison, Australian musician
1963 – Vinnie Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers)
1964 – Jon Hough, Royal Oak MI, Nike golfer (1986 NAIA Individual Natl Champ)
1964 – Philip McKeon, Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High)
1964 – Robert Haynes, cricketer (Jamaica & WI leggie, one-dayer but no Tests)
1964 – Roberto Hernandez, Santurce Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
1964 – Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
1965 – Brian Wilson, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Ruthie Matthes, Sun Valley Idaho, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 – Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
1966 – Benedicta Boccoli, Milan Italy
1966 – Gina Pillitiere, Akron Oh, WPVA volleyballer (National-25th-1994)
1967 – Bill Musgrave, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1967 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 – Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1968 – John Jett, NFL punter (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions)
1968 – Lin Elliott, NFL kicker (KC Chiefs)
1968 – Wyatt Pauley, Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1968 – David L Cook, American singer and comedian
1969 – Damion Easley, infielder (California Angels), born in NYC, New York
1969 – Dave Moore, NFL tight end/fullback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 – Jeff Sydner, NFL wide receiver/punt returner (NY Jets)
1969 – LaRee Pearl Sugg, Petersburg VA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-15th)
1969 – Michael Owens, cricket pace bowler (NZ Test)
1969 – Carson Kressley, American television personality
1970 – Derry Brownson, rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 – Jeff Ware, Norfolk VA, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 – Lee Parkin Starsky, daughter of Ringo
1970 – Lee Battersby, Australian author
1971 – Melvin Tuten, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 – Ryan Hancock, Santa Clara CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1971 – Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
1971 – Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
1972 – Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1972 – Jack Jackson, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Chicago Bears, Toronto Argonauts)
1972 – Steve Konowalchuk, Salt Lake City, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 – Adam Beach, Canadian actor
1972 – Leslie Mann, American actress
1973 – Jason Bowen, Port Alice, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1973 – Stacy Perrone, Wolcott Conn, Meet Miss America-Connecticut (1997)
1973 – Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio(1974)

1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor (The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles, California
1974 – Phillip Ward, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 – Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
1976 – Lisa Gleave, American actress and model
1976 – Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976 – Jesse Keeler, Canadian musician
1977 – Maniche, Portuguese footballer
1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1978 – Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1980 – Willie Parker, American football player
1981 – Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005
1981 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1982 – Lil’ Dave, [Davis Shelton], rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1982 – Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1983 – Matt Garza, American baseball player
1985 – Jessica Sierra, American Idol season 4 finalist
1985 – Robin Uthappa, Indian cricket player
1986 – François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1987 – Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS and Tegomass)
1988 – Alexandra Kyle, American actress
1989 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer
1991 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
1992 – Trey Smith, American actor

WEDDINGS

1100 – Anglo Norman King Henry I marries Princess Matilda of Scotland at Westminster Abbey
1838 – Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin’s marriage proposal (English Naturalist later author of Origin of the Species)
1858 – 20th US President James Garfield (26) weds Lucretia Rudolph (26) in Hiram, Ohio
1860 – 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1944 – Blues musician B.B. King (19) marries his first wife Martha Denton
1957 – Country singer June Carter Cash (28) weds former football player Edwin Nix
1971 – Swedish director and writer Ingmar Bergman (53) weds actress Ingrid von Rosen (41)
Director, Writer Ingmar Bergman (1971)

1977 – “Three’s Company” actress Suzanne Somers (30) weds host Alan Hamel (40)
1980 – Novelist Norman Mailer (57) weds Norris Church (31) in Brooklyn, New York
2005 – Millionaire Nasir Khan weds “Footballers’ Wives” actress Laila Rouass (34) in London
2006 – Dutch Formula One racer Christijan Albers (27) weds Liselore Kooijman at The Grand in Amsterdam
2011 – Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson (33) weds model Christina Evangeline at George Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia
2011 – TV personality Kim Zolciak (33) weds Atlanta Falcons football player Kroy Biermann (26) in Roswell, Georgia
2011 – Sixteen-time Grammy Award-winning hit producer and songwriter David Foster (62) weds model Yolanda Hadid in Beverly Hills

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies
397 – Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
405 – Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
511 – Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
826 – Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies
865 – Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
1150 – Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1331 – Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31), dies
1528 – Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 – Cornelis Cornelisz, “of Haarlem”, painter, dies at about 76
1641 – Ferdinand van Austrian, cardinal of Spain, dies
1675 – Thomas Willis, English Physician (epidemiology, anatomy of the brain and nervous system), dies at 54
1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1755 – Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91
1772 – John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84
1810 – Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl’ Uffizi), dies at 77
1812 – Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
Rebel Slave Nat Turner(1831)

1831 – Nat Turner, slave rebel who led a violent insurrection in Virginia, hanged at 31
1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1861 – Pedro V van Alcantara, King of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24
1862 – James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1871 – William Lonsdale, English Geologist and Paleontologist (fossil coral), dies at 77
1880 – Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman’s Rights Convention), dies
1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw and bushranger, executed at 25
1884 – Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1886 – Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
1887 – Haymarket defenda
Leader of the Kelly gang Ned Kelly (1880)

1895 – Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
1901 – Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
1907 – Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64
1912 – Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
1912 – Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1917 – Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
1918 – Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in WW I (b. 1892)
1927 – Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries’ mutation theory, dies at 70
1929 – Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
1930 – W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
1931 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1936 – Edward German, composer, dies at 74
Cook Typhoid Mary (1938)

1938 – Mary Mallon, Irish-American patient best known as ‘Typhoid Mary’ and the first person in the United States known to be immune to typhoid, dies at 69
1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1942 – Anton H Blaauw, botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 – Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1945 – Jerome Kern, US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
1947 – Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
1954 – John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81
1955 – John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
1956 – Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 – Joseph Allen Jr, actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44
1962 – René Coty, pres of France, dies at 80
1964 – Edward Steuermann, composer, dies at 72
1964 – H[enry] Beam Piper, US, sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1965 – Gaston Glass, actor (Opening Your Eyes), dies after long illness at 65
1967 – Harry Seymour, composer/actor (Tenderfoot), dies of heart attack at 76
1967 – Jordan Whitfield, actor (Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 50
1968 – Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47
1969 – Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker), dies at 83
1971 – Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke and Ranee of Sarawak, dies at 86
1972 – Berry Oakley, US rock bassist (Allman Bro), dies in car crash at 24
1973 – Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 78
1974 – Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80
1974 – Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 – Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79
1976 – Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78
1976 – E Q Davies, cricketer (9 runs & 7 wickets in 5 Tests for S Afr), dies
1977 – Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1977 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1984 – Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar/father of MLK Jr, dies at 84
1984 – Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1986 – Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
1987 – L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1987 – Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1988 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
1990 – Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1990 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1992 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 – Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies
1993 – Erskine Hawkins, US trumpeter/composer (After Hours), dies at 79
1993 – Harry R “Rob” Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon), dies at 67
1994 – Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
1994 – Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82
1994 – Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
1994 – Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22
1994 – John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
1995 – Charles Scribner Jr, publisher, dies at 74
1995 – Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79
1995 – Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
1996 – Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47
1997 – Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1998 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1999 – Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat (2004)

2004 – Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary and nobel prize winner dies in Paris at 75
2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005 – Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2005 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2006 – Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
2008 – Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 – Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
2010 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
2013 – George Reinholt, American actor, dies at 73

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1918 World War I ends

• American Revolution

• 1778 Poor leadership leads to Cherry Valley Massacre

• Automotive

• 1978 The General Lee jumps into history

• Civil War

• 1811 Ben McCulloch born

• Cold War

• 1973 Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup Soccer

• Crime

• 1988 Police make a grisly discovery in Dorothea Puente’s lawn

• Disaster

• 2000 Skiers die in cable-car fire

• General Interest

• 1831 Nat Turner executed in Virginia
• 1885 George Patton born
• 1921 Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns

• Hollywood

• 1994 Interview with the Vampire debuts

• Literary

• 1852 Louisa May Alcott publishes her first story

• Music

• 1978 Donna Summer earns her first #1 pop hit with “MacArthur Park”

• Old West

• 1933 Massive dust storm sweeps South Dakota

• Presidential

• 1834 Franklin Pierce marries Jane Appleton
• 1858 James Garfield marries Lucretia Rudolph

• Sports

• 1981 Fernando Valenzuela wins Cy Young Award

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Viet Cong release U.S. prisoners of war
• 1968 Operation Commando Hunt commences
• 1972 Long Binh base turned over to South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1918 World War I ends

• World War II

• 1942 Draft age is lowered to 18