November 12th

EVENTS

295 – Origin of Era of Ascension
764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang’an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 – Lotharius becomes king of France
1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 – Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 – Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 – Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 – Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 – France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 – General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1799 – Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
1813 – Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 – Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1833 – The great Leonid Meteor shower was recorded
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 – Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1873 – Bay District Race Track opens
1885 – Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 – Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan – the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
1894 – Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew – but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
1899 – British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 – World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris closes (50 million visitors) – Art Nouveau style dominates
1904 – 9th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 29-5 in Birmingham
1905 – (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1906 – C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1908 – Andrew Fisher assumes the position of prime minister for what turns out to be a short-lived second Labour government, Australia
10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

1909 – Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Minister of Labour
1910 – 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 – Robert Scott’s diary & body found in Antarctica
1914 – Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 – Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 – Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 – Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 – Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 – Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1920 – The Dalmatian coast between Italy and Yugoslavia is ceded to Yugoslavia
1921 – Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 – The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1923 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power Nov 8
1923 – Dr Hjalmar Schacht is appointed special commissioner to deal with the currency problem in Germany; by November 1924 the currency will have been restored
1924 – Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 – US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
1927 – 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 – Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 – Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 – British steamer “Vestris” capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto – Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

1931 – Sibelius/Ashton’s ballet “Lady of Shalott” premieres in London
1932 – 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1932 – 10th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 28-7 in Baltimore
1933 – 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 – 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate’s Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 – First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken
1933 – Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1935 – Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
1936 – 1st TV Gardening show
1936 – Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O’Neill
1936 – Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 – St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
Nazi Politician Hermann Goering

1938 – Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 – Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 – Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 – Germany’s drive to take Moscow halted
1941 – WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1941 – Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
1942 – In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 – Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 – RAF sinks German battleship “Tirpitz” at Tromso Fjord, Norway
1945 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 – 1st “autobank” (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 – Walt Disney’s “Song Of South” released
1946 – A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1947 – KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 – Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 – Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1948 – The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland
1950 – Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 – “Paint Your Wagon” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 – Phila A’s pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 – White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

1953 – David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
1953 – US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 – Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1954 – Lee Kuan Yew and others form the People’s Action Party (PAP) in Singapore to work towards self-rule in Singapore
1955 – 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 – E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 – Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 – Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 – White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL’s MVP
1960 – Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 – Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 – Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 – Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Founder of Modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew

1964 – Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 – Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines
1965 – General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 – Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 – Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 – Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 – Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 – High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 – Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 – Packers’ Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 – KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – Epperson v. Arkansas in US Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
10th President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos

1969 – Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 – Minnesota’s Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 – US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 – WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 – 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 – Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1970 – Cyclone Bhola makes landfall, deadliest tropical cyclone recorded kills up to 500,000 in East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh),
1970 – The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed; the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland
1972 – 22nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins
1973 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 – South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1974 – A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
1975 – NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 – Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1975 – 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins
1975 – 7h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 25-0
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 – New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial
1978 – “Platinum” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
LPGA Golfer Nancy Lopez

1978 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 – Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 – US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 – Baltimore’s Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 – NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 – US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 – 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 – 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 – Bill C Davis’ “Mass Appeal” premieres in NYC
1981 – Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A’s)
1981 – Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 – Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev

1982 – USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 – Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 – 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 – NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 – Paul McCartney releases “We All Stand Together”
1984 – Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1984 – NBC premiere of “Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story”, fact based telepic of actress Saldana’s near fatal attack and its aftermath
1985 – R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 – STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 – Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1985 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1986 – France performs nuclear test
MLB Pitching Legend Roger Clemens

1986 – Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 – “Teddy & Alice” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 – Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 – Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 – Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 – George Forest’s musical “Grand Hotel” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 – Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1990 – “The Body Bag Game”, in the days leading to the clash, Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan threatened a beating so severe that “they’ll have to be carted off in body bags”. Ryan’s words were prophetic, as the Eagles defense scored three touchdowns in a 28–14 win and knocked eight Redskins out of the game, including two quarterbacks
Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

1991 – “Full House” 100th episode-twins are born
1991 – Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 – Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 – Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1992 – NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 – 25th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 – 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 – Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 – Marino breaks Tarkenton’s NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 – NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 – STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1995 – 46th Formula One WDC: Michael Schumacher wins by 33 points
1995 – 45th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
Formula 1 Racing Driver Michael Schumacher

1996 – Toronto’s Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 – Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 – Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 – NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 – Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 – 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2003 – With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
US Vice President Al Gore

2003 – Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 – The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
2008 – 42nd Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood& Brad Paisley wins
2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
2012 – Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
2012 – Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2014 – European Space Agency’s Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

BIRTHDAYS

1493 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general, born in Luqiao
1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici.
1606 – Jeanne Mance, Langres, French Canadian settler (founded first hospital in North America)
1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 – Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)
1676 – Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1746 – Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, Beaugency, French inventor and balloonist who, with Nicholas Robert, was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon
1748 – Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)
1755 – Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)
1757 – Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet
1790 – Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, women’s rights activist
Women’s Rights Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815)

1817 – Carlo Pedrotti, composer
1817 – Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1817 – Bahá’u’lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá’í Faith (d. 1892)
1827 – Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer
1831 – Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
1833 – Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1840 – Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917)
1841 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Malden Essex, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), (d. 1919)
1844 – Octave Fouque, composer
1848 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1853 – Oskar Panizza, writer
1858 – Alexis Contant, composer
Physicist and Nobel Laureate John William Strutt (1841)

1865 – Frans L M “Sas” van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)
1866 – Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1874 – Bert Williams, African American comedian and entertainer Nassau Bahamas (d. 1922)
1881 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1881 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 – Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP)
1886 – Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 – DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1890 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1891 – Seth Barnes Nicholson, Springfield Illinois, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter
1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897 – Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor
1898 – Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master’s Voice)
1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 – Jack Oakie, Sedalia Mo, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)
1905 – Evgeny Grigor’yevich Bruslovsky, composer
1905 – Solon Michaelides, composer
1908 – Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
1908 – Harry A Blackmun, Ill, 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)
1908 – Shamus Culhane, animator
1908 – Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1910 – A “Dudley” Nourse, cricketer (son of Dave, brilliant South African bat)
1911 – Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
1911 – William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1911 – Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1912 – Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 – Edward “Henricus” Schillebeeckx, Dutch theologist
1914 – Roberto Cavanagh, Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 – Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L’Empire des Signer)
1916 – Jean Papineau-Couture, composer
1916 – Liam Dunn, NJ, actor (Koska & his Family)
1916 – Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 – Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1917 – Jo Stafford, Coalinga California, singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again)
1920 – Richard Quine, actor/director (Clay Pigeon), born in Detroit, Michigan
1921 – Robert Fleming, composer
1922 – Kim Hunter, [Janet Cole], Det MI, actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith)
1923 – Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1924 – Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1924 – Audouin Dollfus, Paris, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn)
1926 – Jack Ryan, American inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy)
1927 – Sunset Carson, [Michael Harrison] Plainview TX, actor (Cat of Rockies)
1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1927 – Jack Butler, NFL hall of famer (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
1928 – Johan B W Polak, Dutch publisher/publicist (Bloom of Decadence)
1928 – Robert Holness, Natal, South Africa, English radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012)
Actress Grace Kelly (1929)

1929 – Grace Kelly, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1982)
1929 – Michael Ende, writer
1930 – Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
1931 – Bob Crewe, rocker
1931 – Norman Y Mineta, (Rep-R-CA, 1975- )
1933 – Peter Post, Dutch cyclist (8x European Champion at Derny-drive)
1934 – Ann Flood, Jamaica, New York, American actress (Edge of Night)
1934 – Bukka White, rocker
1934 – Charles Manson, Cincinnati Ohio, American criminal (Tate-Labianco)
1935 – Jerry Douglas, Chelsea Mass, actor (John Abbott-Young & Restless)
1935 – Terry Johnson, US R&B singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1936 – Mort Shuman, rocker
Murderer Charles Manson(1934)

1936 – Robert White, guitarist
1936 – Ruth Jessen, LPGA golfer
1936 – Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1937 – Ina Balin, actress (Danger in Paradise), born in Brooklyn, New York
1937 – Peter Lloyd, British MP
1937 – Richard H Truly, Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1939 – Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)
1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 – Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
1940 – Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1941 – Frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 – Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer
1943 – Brian Hyland, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy … Bikini), born in Queens, New York
1943 – Jimmy “Bro” Hayes, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1943 – John Maus, rock vocalist (Walker Brothers), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Wallace Shawn, actor (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver, born in Ro, Sweden, (d. 2014)
1944 – Booker T Jones, organist [or Dec 11]
1944 – Johan van Doorn, [Johnny the Selfkicker], Dutch poet (War & Porridge)
American Television Sportscaster Al Michaels(1944)

1944 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster (Miracle on Ice, American Football), born in Brooklyn, New York
1945 – Michael Bishop, US, sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), born in Toronto, Ontario
1945 – Valerie Leon, actress (Blood from Mummy’s Tomb), born in London, England
1945 – Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1947 – Donald Roeser, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1947 – J C Crowley, rocker
1947 – Patrice Leconte, director (Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser’s Husband)
1947 – Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1948 – Errol Brown, Kingston Jamaica, singer-songwriter vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani (1948)

1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Sorkheh, Iran, seventh President of Iran
1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Iranian politician (President of Iran 2013-), born in Sorkheh, Semnan
1949 – Arthur “Pooch” Tavares, rocker
1949 – Jack Reed, (Rep-D-Rhode Island)
1952 – Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
1953 – Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1954 – Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979)
1954 – Paul McNamee, Australia, tennis star
1955 – Leslie McKeown, rock vocalist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1956 – Rhonda Shear, comedian (Up All Night), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1957 – Gail Castro, Glendale California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1991, Oly-96)
1957 – Marta Figueras-Dotti, LPGA golfer (1994 Hawaiian Open), born in Madrid, Spain
1957 – Tim Samaras, Lakewood, Col., tornado chaser (Storm Chasers), (d. 2013)
1958 – Nick Stellino, Italian-American television chef
1960 – Bertice Berry, talk show host (Bertice)
1960 – Maurane, Belgian singer
1961 – Chela Quintana, Venezuela, LPGA golfer (8 time Venezuelan Amat Champ)
1961 – Greg Gagne, Fall River MA, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1961 – Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnist (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976)
1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 – Jonathan Nossiter, American film director
1961 – Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 – Jeff Reed, Joliet IL, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1962 – Wim Kieft, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Gir de Bordeaux/PSV)
1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author
1962 – Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian born journalist and television presenter
1963 – Laurie Brower, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone-9th), born in Long Beach, California
1963 – Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
1964 – Erik Howard, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets)
1964 – Gerald Perry, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1964 – Jakob Hlasek, Czech, tennis star
1964 – Dave Ellefson, Jackson, Minnesota, American heavy metal bassist (Megadeth)
1965 – Mike Keim, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 – Lex Lang, American voice actor
1966 – David Schwimmer, actor (Ross-Friends), born in Queens, New York
1967 – Charlie Pennaelino, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way), born in Queens, New York
World Boxing Champion Michael Moorer (1967)

1967 – Michael Moorer, boxing heavyweight champ (defeated Holyfield-1994), born in Brooklyn, New York
1968 – Irina Privalova, Russian runner (indoor world record 50/60m)
1968 – Randy Knorr, San Gabriel CA, catcher (Houston Astros)
1968 – Sammy Sosa, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 – Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 – Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress/singer
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 – Iain Sydie, North York Ontario, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 – Trevor Shaw, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1969 – Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 – Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster
1969 – Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
MLB Outfielder Sammy Sosa(1968)

1969 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1970 – Tonya Harding, Portland Or, figure skater (Oly-8th-1994/US Champ 1994)
1970 – Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler
1970 – Harvey Stephens, British child actor
1971 – Heidi Burge, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1971 – Shakeel Ahmed, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (v West Indies 1993)
1972 – Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 – Colin Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 78 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 – Keith Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 95 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 – Melanie Gaffin, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids), born in Santa Monica, California
1973 – Zahir Shah, cricketer (attention-grabbing Rawalpindi leg-spinner)
1973 – Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1974 – Tamala Jones, American actress
1975 – Angela Watson, actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1975 – Chris Wells, Calgary, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1975 – Gretchen Durgin, Miss USA-New Hampshire (1997)
1975 – Nina Brosh, Afula Israel, model (Drakkar)
1975 – Tevin Jermod Campbell, rapper, born in Dallas, Texas
1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
1976 – Scott Mark Cameron, Dunedin NZ, 4x200m relay swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1976 – Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1977 – Jennifer Smith, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1996)
1977 – Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 – Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, German Romanian actress
1978 – Ashley Williams, American actress
1978 – Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer and WWE Diva
1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1979 – Corey Maggette, American professional basketball player
1979 – Cote de Pablo, Santiago Chile, actress (NCIS)
1980 – Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1980 – Ryan Gosling, London Ontario, Canadian actor (The Notebook, Drive)
1981 – DJ Campbell, English football player
1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress (The Princess Diaries), born in NYC, New York
1982 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
1983 – Carlton Cole, English football player
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
1984 – Omarion, American R&B musician
1984 – Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver
1986 – Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
1987 – Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Paul Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
1989 – Ryan Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)

WEDDINGS

1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1656 – English Poet and author of epic “Paradise Lost” John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock
1963 – Singer and actor Robert Goulet (30) weds actress Carol Lawrence (31)
1969 – Director Blake Edwards (47) weds “The Sound of Music” actressJulie Andrews (34) in Beverly Hills
1973 – MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (39) weds Billye Aaron
2005 – Businessman Donald Trump Jr. (27) weds model Vanessa Haydon at the Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida
2011 – Actress Tiffany Thornton (26) weds Christopher Carney at Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs, Arkansas

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

607 – Pope Boniface III, dies after less than a year in office
1035 – Cnut (Canute) “The Great”, King of Denmark. England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Reigned 1016-1035.
1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1202 – Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39
1434 – King Louis III of Naples
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1558 – Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies
1567 – Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1595 – John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1600 – Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Neth (1598-1600), dies at 42
1606 – Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79
1606 – St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 – Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59
1722 – Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63
1739 – Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71
1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1754 – Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58
1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1802 – Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62
1806 – Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter, German Botanist who pioneered the study of plant hybrids, dies at 73
1823 – Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1852 – Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1869 – Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1893 – Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
1896 – Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84
1908 – William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), dies at 60
1912 – Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
Astronomer Percival Lowell(1916)

1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1921 – Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1925 – Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
1937 – Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies
1939 – (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1940 – Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
1941 – Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
1944 – Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
1944 – George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1944 – Roy Agnew, composer, dies at 51
1947 – Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
1948 – Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81
1949 – Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1956 – Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49
1957 – Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
1960 – John Trim, cricketer (occasional WI quick 1948-52, 18 wkts), dies
1962 – Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1962 – Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma), dies at 55
1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1966 – Quincy Porter, US composer, dies at 69
1967 – Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58
1969 – Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1974 – Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50
1975 – Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69
1976 – Walter Hamor Piston, US composer, dies at 82
1976 – Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1978 – Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71
1979 – Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85
1980 – Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
1980 – Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
1980 – Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
Actor William Holden(1981)

1981 – William Holden, American actor (Network, The Wild Bunch, Breezy), slips on a rug and bleeds to death at 63
1984 – Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1987 – Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 – Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
1990 – Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1990 – Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies
1990 – Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
1990 – Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81
1991 – Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1991 – Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 – Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51
1991 – Paul E “Cardinal” Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87
1992 – Charles “Honi” Coles, American actor and tap dancer (Tito Suarez-Dirty Dancing), dies of cancer at 81
1992 – David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30
1993 – Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88
1993 – Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86
1993 – Harry Haldeman, Nixon’s cabinet member (1968-73), dies
1994 – Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75
1994 – Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88
1994 – Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54
1995 – Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85
1995 – Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81
1995 – Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
1996 – Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72
1996 – Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1996 – John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51
1997 – William Matthews, poet, dies at 55
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 – Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
Actor Jonathan Brandis(2003)

2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2005 – William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
2006 – General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 – Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)
2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)
2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
2010 – Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)
2012 – Sergio Oliva, American body builder, dies at 71
2013 – John Tavener, British composer, dies from complications from Marfan syndrome at 69
2014 – Warren Clark, British actor, dies at 67

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1954 Ellis Island closes

• American Revolution

• 1775 Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain

• Automotive

• 1965 Goldenrod sets the land-speed record

• Civil War

• 1864 The destruction of Atlanta begins

• Cold War

• 1982 Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union

• Crime

• 1996 High school sweethearts murder their newborn child
• 2004 Scott Peterson convicted

• Disaster

• 2001 Plane crashes in Rockaway, New York

• General Interest

• 1799 First meteor shower on record
• 1948 Japanese war criminals sentenced
• 1980 Voyager I flies near Saturn
• 1990 Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan

• Hollywood

• 1981 William Holden, star of Sunset Boulevard and Network, dies

• Literary

• 1889 DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader’s Digest, is born

• Music

• 2003 Toby Keith has his third straight #1 country album with Shock’n Y’all

• Old West

• 1867 U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians

• Presidential

• 1979 Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran

• Sports

• 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger becomes first pro football player

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story
• 1971 Nixon sets new deadline for next troop withdrawal

• World War I

• 1918 Allied fleet enters Dardanelles

• World War II

• 1944 Brits sink the battleship Tirpit