November 15th

EVENTS

655 – Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1348 – Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1491 – Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end “la guerre folle”
1492 – Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1527 – Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
1532 – Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
1577 – Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1583 – Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
1620 – Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod
1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
Military Leader of Plymouth Colony Myles Standish

1679 – English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
1688 – Prince Willem III’s army lands at Torbay, England; the ‘Glorious Revolution’ commences
1715 – Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1720 – Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
1727 – NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase “upon the faith of a Christian” from abjuration oath
1763 – Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 – Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 – 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 – 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 – Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
Pirate Anne Bonny

1813 – Allied troops occupies Groningen
1813 – Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1824 – Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh, Scotland
1826 – Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1827 – Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1832 – Felix Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” premieres
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle
1837 – Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system
1845 – Opera “Maritana” is produced (London)
1849 – 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1854 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1864 – 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman

1864 – Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the “March to the Sea”
1869 – Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1870 – Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1881 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1882 – British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba, Niger
1884 – Colonization of Africa orgainized at international conference in Berlin
1887 – British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1889 – Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1901 – James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco
1901 – 6th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-0 in Tuscaloosa
1902 – Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1903 – Eugen d’Albert’s opera “Tiefland” premieres in Prague
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries

1911 – Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
1913 – 9th Australasian Championships: Ernie Parker beats Harry Parker (2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2)
1914 – Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d’Italia
1916 – William George Barker, flying very low over the Ancre River, spots a large concentration of German troops massing for a counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, and sends an emergency Zone Call brought to bear all available artillery fire in the area onto the specified target. The force of some 4,000 German infantry was effectively broken up, and Barker is awarded the Military Cross
1919 – US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1920 – Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
1920 – League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
1921 – KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
First World War Flying Ace William George Barker

1922 – British Conservative Party wins election; /Labour Party comes second
1924 – Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1926 – 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1926 – AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
1932 – Walt Disney Art School created
1934 – Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1935 – Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1936 – Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 – First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 – First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1938 – Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1939 – Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939 – FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 – Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1939 – US Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 – 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1940 – 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
1940 – NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1941 – Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1941 – Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1944 – Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1945 – The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1946 – House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1946 – Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1947 – Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
1947 – Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

1948 – Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada
1948 – Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada
1949 – KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 – WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 – Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League)
1951 – Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore
1951 – NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1953 – WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 – WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 – 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1955 – Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1956 – “Li’l Abner” opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st film “Love Me Tender” premieres in NYC
1957 – US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 – Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capotebook In Cold Blood).
1959 – Cleveland Browns’ halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1960 – Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
1960 – USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1961 – Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1961 – Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1961 – UN bans nuclear arms
1962 – Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1964 – Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
American Baseball PlayerRoger Maris

1964 – KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 – Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1964 – Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1965 – Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 – Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth
1967 – Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
1967 – Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 – WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1968 – 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary “Ball Four”
1969 – 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
MLB Outfielder Carl Yastrzemski

1969 – 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 – 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
1969 – Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 – Wendy’s Hamburgers opens
1971 – Intel advertises 4004-processor
1972 – Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 – Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 – White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
1973 – Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
1974 – Ringo Starr releases “Goodnight Vienna” & “Only You” in UK
1974 – International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
1975 – Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976 – Syrian army conquerors Beirut
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 – 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1978 – Harold Pinter’s play “Betrayal” premieres in London
1978 – Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
1979 – Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies
1979 – ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 – British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1980 – Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
1980 – 30th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
1981 – “Camelot” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev

1982 – Funeral service held in Moscow’s Red Square for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
1982 – 4th ACE Cable Awards: “Bernstein/Beethoven” by Horant H. Hohlfeld and Harry J. Kraut
1983 – 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1986 – 2nd time “Saturday Night Live” uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1987 – 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1987 – Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1987 – Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 – NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy

1987 – 38th Formula One WDC: Nelson Piquet wins by 12 points
1988 – 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
1988 – Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
1988 – PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 – Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1989 – “Batman” is released on video tape
1989 – “Few Good Men” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1989 – Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1989 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 – Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
1989 – Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 – US President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
US President George H. W. Bush

1990 – Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn’t sing on their album
1990 – US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1991 – Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1991 – Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
1992 – Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 – Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
1992 – 42nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Alan Kulwicki wins
1993 – Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
1993 – Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
1993 – 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
1994 – “Glass Menagerie” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
1994 – 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
1994 – Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 – Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1995 – “Master Class” opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
1995 – Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1996 – “Into the Whirlwind” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1997 – 19th ACE Cable Awards: Nickelodeon wins the Golden CableACE for “The Big Help”
1999 – Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2000 – A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
2000 – New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2005 – 39th Country Music Association Award: Keith Urban & Gretchen Wilson wins
2007 – A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
2012 – At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
2012 – Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion
2012 – The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter
2013 – 5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India
2013 – Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day
Russian President Vladimir Putin

2014 – Vladimir Putin’s press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
2014 – World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth
2014 – The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government’s handling of the case
2014 – A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning

BIRTHDAYS

1316 – Jean I, King of France (Nov 15-19, 1316) (he lived only 5 days)
1397 – Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italy, Pope (1447-55)
1498 – Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1556 – Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
1559 – Albrecht, arch duke of Austrian/cardinal-archbishop of Toledo
1604 – Davis Mell, composer
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
1619 – Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter/etcher
1640 – Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
1692 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1696 – Gerhardus Havingha, composer
1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer
1708 – William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68), `Great Commoner’, born in London, England (d. 1778)
1731 – William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
1738 – William Herschel, German/British astronomer (discovered Uranus), born in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1822)
Astronomer William Herschel (1738)

1741 – Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher
1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
1755 – Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
1774 – William Horsley, composer
1775 – Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
1784 – Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry)
1800 – George Rodwell, composer
1814 – Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1862)
1815 – John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), born in NYC, New York
1816 – Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1862)
1829 – Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic (Akbar)
1836 – Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)
1840 – Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
1862 – Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann(1862)

1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946)
1871 – Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian Botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on the laws of genetics, born in Vienna, Austria
1872 – Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert)
1874 – August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d. 1949)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
1878 – Bela Reinitz, composer
1879 – Lewis Stone, Worcester Mass, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1881 – Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), born in Chicago, Illinois
1882 – Felix Frankfurter, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62), born in Vienna, Austria
Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate August Krogh(1874)

1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1887 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American sculptor/painter (Cow’s Skull), born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (d. 1986)
1887 – Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
1887 – Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems)
1887 – René Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt)
1888 – James Morrison, Mattoon IL, actor (Little Detectives)
1890 – Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign)
1891 – W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1895 – Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People’s Palace)
1897 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891)

1898 – Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap)
1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
1899 – Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
1902 – Frederico Freitas, composer
1903 – Stewie Dempster, cricketer (1st great NZ Test batsman)
1904 – Tilly Losch, actress (Garden of Allah), born in Vienna, Austria
1905 – Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1906 – Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
1907 – Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
1909 – Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
1913 – Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje)
1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
1914 – Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer
1914 – Jorge Bolet, pianist (C’eurties Instituka), born in Havana, Cuba
1916 – Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, 1st female Governor-General of Barbados (1990-95)
1917 – Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67)
1919 – Carol Bruce, [Shirley Levy], Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian-WKRP)
1919 – Joseph Albert Wapner, La, judge (People’s Court)
1922 – Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
1922 – Giorgio Manganelli, writer
1922 – Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz)
1923 – Peter Hammond, actor (Buccaneers), born in London, England
1925 – Howard Baker, (Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
1925 – Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
1925 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
1927 – Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer
1928 – John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
1928 – William Heirens, Evanston, Illinois, serial killer (Lipstick Killer), (d. 2012)
1929 – Edward Asner, KC Kansas, actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 – J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World)
1930 – Whitman Mayo, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son), born in NYC, New York
1931 – Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP (D-66)/author (Winters in Wartime)
1931 – John Kerr, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum), born in NYC, New York
1931 – Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American R&B singer (‘The Drifters”)
1932 – Clyde L McPhatter, Durham NC, singer (Drifters-Treasure My Love)
1932 – Petula Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)
1933 – Barbara Carson, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1933 – Jack Burns, comedian (Burns & Schreiber), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1934 – Joanna Barnes, actress (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1934 – Peter Dickinson, composer
1935 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman
1935 – Peter John Welding, record producer
1936 – Wolf Biermann, writer
1937 – William E “Little Willie” John, [Woods], US R&B singer (Fever)
1937 – Jimmy Ellis, RockHill, South Carolina, soul singer (The Trammps – Disco Inferno), (d. 2012)
1939 – Yaphet Kotto, African-American actor (Alien, Homicide: Life on the Street), born in NYC, New York
1939 – Erik Hansen, Denmark, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 – Thalmus Rasulala, [Jack Crowder], actor (Blacula, Roots), born in Miami, Florida
1940 – Sam Waterson, Cambridge Massachusetts, American actor (Capricorn One, Heaven’s Gate)
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
1941 – Daniel Manus Pinkwater, US, sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Buenos Aires Argentinia, pianist/conductor
1943 – Roger Donaldson, director (Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands)
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad, [Fryeda Anderson], Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor
1946 – Janet Lennon, Culver City California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1947 – William B Richardson, (Rep-D-New Mexico, 1983- )
1948 – Roy P Dyson, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1950 – Mac Maurice Wilkins, discus thrower (1st to break 70m)
1951 – Dave Zelmon, rocker
1951 – Beverly D’Angelo, Columbus, Ohio, American actress (National Lampoon’s Vacation)
1952 – “Macho Man” Randy Savage, [Poffo], Sarasota FL, wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW)
1952 – Zoltán Buday, Hungarian born actor
1953 – Alexander O’Neal, Minneapolis, rocker (James Hearsky Harris III)
1953 – Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut
1954 – Ab Bryant, rock bassist/vocalist (Chilliwack)
1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Białogard Poland, politician and President of Poland (1995-2005)
1955 – Oliver Conant, actor (Summer of ’42), born in NYC, New York
1955 – Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
1955 – Henry Corra, American documentarian
1956 – Ashley Cox, playmate (December, 1977), born in Dallas, Texas
1956 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)
1957 – Joe Leeway, rocker (Thompson Twins)
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, bandleader (Tonight Show)
1957 – Ray McKinnon, American film actor/director
1958 – Marty Davis, American tennis star, born in San Jose, California
1961 – Ian Reid, Australian educator
1963 – Gideon Joe Ng, table tennis player (Olympics-96), born in Toronto, Ontario
1963 – Michele McAnany, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets), born in Los Angeles, California
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True, American actress
1967 – Greg Anthony, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics)
1967 – Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 – Laura Garrone, Italy, tennis star
1967 – Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1967 – Pedro Borbon, Mao Dom Rep, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1967 – Scott Schrader, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Golden State)
1967 – Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
1967 – E-40, American rapper
1967 – François Ozon, French film director
1968 – Brenda Alyce Bassett, Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1968 – James Brady, columnist (NY Post), born in Brooklyn, New York
1968 – Jennifer Charles, American singer/songwriter
1968 – Ol’ Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
1969 – Helen Kelesi, Canada, tennis star
1969 – Peter Martin, cricketer (Lancashire & England pace bowler 1995)
1969 – Shane Mack, American politician
1970 – Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 – Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 – Lesley Reddon, ice hockey goalie (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 – Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
1970 – Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Natalia Medvedeva, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1993 Prague Essen)
1971 – Rohan Robinson, Australian hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 – Sandra Kim, [Caldarone], French singer (J’aime la Vie)
1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
1972 – Christian van der Weerden, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Vitesse)
1972 – Greg Bloedorn, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
1973 – Jason Dunn, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 – Jorge Diaz, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 – Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston Ga, Miss America-Georgia (1996)
1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
1974 – Fred Brock, wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
1975 – Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
1975 – Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Jessica Amey, 100m butterfly/4 x 100 (Olympics-96), born in Montreal, Quebec
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
1977 – Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne
1977 – Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
1980 – Ace Young, American singer
1981 – Natalie Lacuesta, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96), born in Chicago, Illinois
1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick, National Football League kicker
1982 – Lofa Tatupu, National Football League
1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
1983 – DJ Skee, American DJ/Personality
1983 – Laura Smet, French actress
1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1986 – Jeffree Star, American model, fashion designer, make-up artist and singer-songwriter
1987 – Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
1987 – Ian Hecox, Member of Smosh
1988 – Zena Grey, American actress
1990 – Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
1991 – Shailene Woodley, American Actress
1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese Actress, singer

WEDDINGS

1986 – Golfer Byron Nelson (74) weds advertising copy writer Peggy Simmons (42)
1997 – “Rescue 911” TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Norine Kidd (37) in Pasadena, California
2005 – Emperor Akihito’s daughter Princess Sayako (36) weds Yoshiki Kuroda (40) at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan

DIVORCES

2010 – “Single White Female” actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

DEATHS

565 – Justinian I (The Great), Byzantinian Emperor (527-565), dies at 82. Corpus Juris Civilis, civil law code, written during reign.
655 – Penda, King of Mercia
1028 – Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
1136 – Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 – Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies
1280 – Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87
1463 – Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
1544 – King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1628 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
1629 – Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
1634 – Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53
1658 – Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72
1670 – Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius], Czech-speaking Moravian teacher, educator and writer, dies at 78
Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1630)

1691 – Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71
1706 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
1712 – James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
1787 – Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphigénie Tauride), dies at 73
1788 – Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
1794 – John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, dies at 71
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1812 – Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
1815 – Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
1831 – Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76
1832 – Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
1842 – Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
Presbyterian Minister John Witherspoon (1794)

1848 – P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1853 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish serial killer, is executed at 42
1897 – John Mercer Langston, US African American jurist, dies at 67
1907 – Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73
1908 – Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
1908 – Tz’u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
1918 – Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
1919 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
1919 – Mohammad Farid, an influential Egyptian political figure.
1928 – Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85
1931 – Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
1933 – Affie Jarvis, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia, 9 catches), dies
1934 – Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth’s manufacturer (Devout & D), dies
1938 – George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1944 – Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
1955 – Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
1958 – Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
1959 – Alex Kennedy, cricketer (31 wkts in 5 Tests for England 1922-23), dies
1961 – Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 78
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
1967 – Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72
1967 – Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1969 – Roy D’Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75
1971 – Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
1974 – James Morrison, actor (Don’t, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
1975 – Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72
Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1978)

1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76
1981 – Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85
1982 – Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
1983 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad’s Army), dies at 71
1984 – Baby Fae, who received a baboon’s heart, dies at 3 weeks
1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Mormon Church (1973-1985), dies at 90
1986 – Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
1988 – Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
1990 – Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1993 – Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
1993 – Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1993 – Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
1994 – James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
1994 – Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
1994 – Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1995 – Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78
1995 – Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81
1995 – Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22
1996 – Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
1997 – Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
1997 – William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
1998 – Ludvik Danek, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
2003 – Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 – John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
2005 – Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
2006 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 – Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1867 First stock ticker debuts

• American Revolution

• 1777 Articles of Confederation adopted

• Automotive

• 1965 Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record

• Civil War

• 1864 The March to the Sea begins

• Cold War

• 1957 Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile “shooting match”

• Crime

• 1923 Accused of rape, James Montgomery’s struggle for justice begins

• Disaster

• 1978 Plane crashes into Sri Lankan plantation

• General Interest

• 1889 Brazil’s last emperor deposed
• 1891 Erwin Rommel is born
• 1984 Baby Fae dies

• Hollywood

• 1956 Elvis makes movie debut in Love Me Tender

• Literary

• 1859 Final installment of A Tale of Two Cities is published

• Music

• 1943 Leonard Bernstein’s Philharmonic debut makes front-page news

• Old West

• 1806 Zebulon Pike spots an imposing mountain

• Presidential

• 1977 President Carter hosts shah of Iran

• Sports

• 1965 Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record

• Vietnam War

• 1966 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs heckled at university
• 1969 Second moratorium against the war held

• World War I

• 1917 Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister

• World War II

• 1943 Himmler orders Gypsies to concentration camps