November 18th

EVENTS

326 – Old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th – 16th century. Replaced by current St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
794 – Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
1105 – Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1307 – William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son’s head
1421 – Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 – Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1477 – First English dated printed book “Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton
1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1626 – St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica. Largest Christian basilica
1667 – Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1686 – Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France’s anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.
French Enlightenment Philosopher Voltaire

1718 – Voltaire’s “Oedipe” premieres in Paris
1738 – France & Austria sign peace
1742 – Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Carlisle
1755 – Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 – Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 – First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1803 – Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1804 – Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
1805 – 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman’s club in America
1820 – Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1833 – Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1835 – -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1852 – State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul’s Cathedral, London)
1852 – Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1865 – Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
1872 – American suffragette Susan B Anthony is arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
1872 – Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
1874 – National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 – Antonin Dvorák’s “Husitska” premieres
1883 – Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
1889 – Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1893 – Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony

1894 – 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1894 – 1st comic strip “Origin of a New Species” by Richard Outcault
1899 – Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
1901 – The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty
1902 – Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt
1903 – Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
1905 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara” premieres in London
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1905 – 10th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 30-0 in Birmingham
1906 – Langdon Mitchells “New York Idea” premieres in NYC
Playwright George Bernard Shaw

1909 – US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 – Britain’s first seaplane flies
1911 – Opera “Lobetanz” first American performance
1913 – Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1916 – General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) – over 1 million killed or wounded
1917 – Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 – Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
1918 – Latvia declares independence from Russia
1919 – H Tierney & J McCarthy’s musical “Irene” premieres in NYC
1920 – Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 – Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1926 – Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
Animator Walt Disney

1928 – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse appears in NY in “Steamboat Willie”
1929 – Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates “kinescope”
1929 – Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929 – Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 – Musical “Smiles” with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 – Sjostakovitch’ opera “The Nose” premieres in Lenningrad
1930 – Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1932 – “Flowers & Trees” receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 – 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1932 – 5th Academy Awards – “Grand Hotel”, Fredric March, Wallace Beery & Helen Hayes win
1936 – Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco
Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco

1936 – Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1939 – Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940 – George Matesky, New York City’s Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1941 – British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
1941 – Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields’ “Junior Miss” premieres in NYC
1941 – Mussolini’s forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 – Thornton Wilders “Skin of our Teeth,” premieres in NYC
1943 – First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 – 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 – U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1945 – Arnold Schoenberg’s Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson

1949 – NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
1950 – South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 – “See it Now” premieres on TV
1951 – British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
1951 – Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 – Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1954 – Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 – Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1956 – Morocco gains independence
1957 – Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1958 – 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1958 – Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee

1959 – Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1959 – “Ben-Hur” directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Hestonpremieres in New York City (Best Picture 1960)
1960 – Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1960 – Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 – “Gay Life” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
1961 – “Kwamina” closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
1961 – JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1961 – US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 – Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 – Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
1963 – King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
1964 – Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
1964 – J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as “most notorious liar”
First Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover

1965 – Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1966 – Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
1966 – US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1970 – Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 – Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
1970 – Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1970 – Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 – Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1971 – A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
1973 – Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
Chemist & Peace Activist Linus Pauling

1973 – Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
1975 – Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1975 – Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 – Spain’s parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1976 – Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1978 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under leadership of cult leader Jim Jones
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1979 – 29th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins
1980 – “Heaven’s Gate” premieres
1980 – Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1980 – Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after “soccer war” 1969)
MLB Third Baseman Mike Schmidt

1981 – Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1982 – Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1984 – “3 Musketeers” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1984 – 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
1984 – Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
1984 – Flyers’ Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 – NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
1984 – NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”, based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children
1984 – 34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
1985 – Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
1985 – Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 – Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney

1985 – Paul McCartney releases “Spies Like Us”
1986 – Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
1987 – 31 people die in a fire at King’s Cross, London’s busiest tube station
1987 – Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987 – Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st player from a last-place club to win an MVP
1989 – Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 – “Fiddler on the Roof” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
1990 – 1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
1990 – NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 – 40th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
1991 – France deports Marlon’s daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1991 – Auburn men’s basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations & is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92
Actor Denzel Washington

1992 – “Malcolm X” with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1993 – 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 – Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
1993 – NAFTA passes House
1993 – North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
1993 – Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 – WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
1994 – “Star Trek VII – Generations” premieres
1995 – Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
1995 – Sam’s Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
1995 – 60th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 31-27 in Auburn
1996 – Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she’s charged with murder
1997 – Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 – FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 – 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe
1997 – Mavericks’ A C Green ties Randy Smith’s NBA record of 906 cons games
1997 – Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 – Willem de Kooning painting “Two Standing Women” sold for $4,182,500
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.
2000 – 65th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 9-0 in Tuscaloosa
2001 – Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as ‘ConocoPhillips’, the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 – The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal’s CPI(ML).
2003 – In England, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective
2004 – Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2006 – 71st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 22-15 in Tuscaloosa
Singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake

2007 – 34th American Music Awards: Fergie, Justin Timberlake & Carrie Underwood win
2007 – 59th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins
2011 – Former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested and held at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage
2012 – Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
2012 – Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
2012 – Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup
2012 – 39th American Music Awards: Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win
2012 – 101st Davis Cup: Czech Republic beats Spain in Prague (3-2)
2013 – 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2014 – Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup in football

BIRTHDAYS

1522 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
1527 – Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1584 – Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp
1630 – Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1680 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1727 – Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
1736 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 – Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1772 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
1774 – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
1781 – Felice Blangini, composer
1785 – David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1786 – Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1786 – Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz), [or 19]
1787 – Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], Swartekill, New York, US abolitionist/feminist
1787 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1803 – Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
Photographer and Inventor Louis-Jacques Daguerre(1787)

1804 – Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
1808 – Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1810 – Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
1810 – Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1875)
1812 – Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1904)
1824 – Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1824 – Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1868)
1832 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1835 – Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1904)
1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist
1836 – William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan), born in London, England
1839 – August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)
1845 – John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde)
1846 – Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician
English Dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert (1836)

1856 – Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1860 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1861 – Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
1863 – Richard Dehmel, writer
1869 – James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
1871 – Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 – Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116)
1874 – Clarence Shepard Day, author (Life with Father), born in NYC, New York
1874 – Riccardo Martin, composer
1877 – Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth & welfare)
1881 – Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)
1882 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)
1882 – Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)

Panist, Composer and Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860)

1882 – Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God)
1883 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
1888 – Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)
1889 – Maria Realino, [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao)
1895 – Ernst Levy, composer
1897 – Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
1897 – Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
1898 – Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain)
1898 – Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1899 – Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch)
1900 – Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters)
1900 – Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger)
1900 – George Kistiakowsky, Kiev, Ukrainian-American Chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), but later opposed nuclear weapons
1901 – George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll)
Inventor of the Gallup Poll George Gallup (1901)

1902 – Barbara Giuranna, composer
1902 – Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels)
1903 – Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 – Guido Santorsola, composer
1904 – Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer
1904 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1906 – George Wald, US, physiologist/biologist (eye, Nobel 1967)
1906 – Klaus Mann, German/US author (Mephisto)/son of Thomas Mann
1906 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1907 – Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess
1907 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1908 – Imogene Coca, Phila, comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl)
1909 – Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic)
1910 – Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist
Songwriter Johnny Mercer(1909)

1911 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1912 – Arthur Peterson, Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis)
1912 – Jaap Meijer, [Saul van Messel], Dutch historian/rabbi in Paramaribo
1915 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
1916 – James L Lyons, jazz promoter
1918 – Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
1919 – Jocelyn Brando, actress (Ugly American), born in San Francisco, California
1920 – Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
1920 – Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1920 – Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1921 – Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler)
1922 – Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63)
1922 – Marjorie Gestring, US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936)
1922 – Viktor Afanasiev, editor (Pravda)
1922 – Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
1923 – Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)
1923 – Ted Stevens, American politician
1924 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
1925 – Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
1925 – William Robert Mayer, composer
1926 – Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 – Kim Besly, activist
1926 – Estanislao Basora, Catalonia, Spain, footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain, 301 matches for Barcelona), (d. 2012)
1927 – Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1927 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1928 – Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip
1928 – Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1929 – William Joseph “Pete” Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)
1932 – Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
1933 – Jacques Charpentier, composer
1934 – Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
1935 – Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer
1935 – Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
1935 – Rodney Hall, Australian author
1936 – Don E Cherry, US jazz trumpeter
1936 – Hank Ballard, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker), born in Detroit, Michigan
1937 – Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v England, 0-22)
1938 – Karl Schranz, Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968)
1939 – Brenda Vaccaro, American actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls), born in Brooklyn, New York
1939 – John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate
Author Margaret Atwood(1939)

1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian author/poet, born in Ottawa, Ontario
1939 – Tom Johnson, composer
1940 – Qaboos bin Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
1941 – David Hemmings, Guilford England, actor (Blow-up, Barbarella)
1942 – Jeffrey Siegel, pianist (Chicago Symph), born in Chicago, Illinois
1942 – Linda Evans, Hartford, actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1942 – Susan Sullivan, actress (Dharma & Greg, Falcon Crest), born in NYC, New York
1945 – Glen Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry)
1946 – Alan Dean Foster, US, sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
1946 – Amanda Lear, French singer
1947 – Jameson Parker, Balt Md, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon)
1948 – Andrea Marcovicci, actress (Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John), born in NYC, New York
1948 – Jack Tatum, Cherryville NC, NFL defensive back (Raiders)
1948 – Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
1949 – Bonnie St Claire, [Cornelia Swart], Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger)
1949 – Ted Sator, Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres)
1950 – Graham Parker, musician (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning)
1950 – Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist
1950 – Eric Pierpoint, American actor
1951 – Marga Stubblefield, LPGA golfer
1951 – Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66)
1951 – Justin Raimondo, American author
1952 – Delroy Lindo, actor (Get Shorty, Ransom)
1952 – Peter Beattie, Australian politician
1953 – Kevin Nealon, Bridgeport Conn, actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads)
1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1954 – Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner
1954 – John Parr, British pop singer
1954 – Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
1955 – Carter Burwell, American composer
1956 – Sinbad, [David Adkins], Benton Harbor MI, actor (1st Kid, Vibe)
1956 – Tony Franklin, NFL kicker (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots)
1956 – Warren Moon, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Seahawks, Vikings)
1956 – Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
1957 – Jenny Burton, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do), born in NYC, New York
1957 – Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
1957 – J.C. Watts (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma’s 4th district, in office Jan 3, 1995 – Jan 3, 2003
1958 – Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
1959 – Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 – Elizabeth Perkins, actress (About Last Night, Big), born in Queens, New York
1960 – Kim Wilde, [Smith], England, rock vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On)
1961 – Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, St Paul Minn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 – Jamie Moyer, Sellersville PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1962 – Jill Briles-Hinton, Elmhurst IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Women’s Open-16th)
1962 – Kirk Hammett, US heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica-Master of Puppets)
1962 – Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin, Russian cosmonaut
1963 – Dante Bichette, W Palm Beach FLA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1963 – Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1964 – Mike Withycombe, CFL corner (BC Lions)
1964 – Seth Joyner, NFL linebacker (Ariz, Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1965 – Mark Petkovsek, Beaumont TX, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 – Matt Kabayama, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 – Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 – Gwendolyn Hajek, Shreveport La, playmate (September, 1987)
1966 – Ron Coomer, Crest Hill IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 – Tommie Stowers, WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1966 – Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
1967 – Jocelyn Lemieux, Mont Laurier, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1967 – Tom Gordon, Sebring FL, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 – Gary Sheffield, outfielder (Florida Marlins), born in Tampa, Florida
1968 – Lubomir Sekeras, Liptovsky CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1968 – Mel Stewart, NC, 200m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 – Milica Vukadinovic, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1968 – Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1968 – Romany Malco, American actor and music producer
Actor Owen Wilson (1968)

1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander), born in Dallas, Texas
1969 – Cheryl Bachman, Jacksonville Fla, playmate (October, 1991)
1969 – Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee Fla, female pitcher (Silver Bullets)
1969 – Raghib Ismail, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Oakland Raiders)
1969 – Sam Cassell, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Houston Rockets)
1969 – Duncan Sheik, American singer
1969 – Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1970 – Allen Watson, pitcher (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
1970 – Phil Buckman, actor (Slash-Drexell’s Class), born in Queens, New York
1970 – Toby Wright, safety (St Louis Rams)
1970 – Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
1970 – Mike Epps, American actor
1970 – Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
1970 – Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1971 – Kylie Hanigan, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics-96)
1972 – Jason Arnberger, cricketer (NSW opening batsman 1994-95 -)
1972 – Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1972 – Robert Shapiro, American politician/humorist
1973 – Steve Christopher Petree, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 – Autumn Smith, Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10)
1974 – Christian Schmidt, actor (Mullers Baro)
1974 – Chloë Sevigny, American actress
1975 – Jason Williams, American basketball player
1975 – Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
1975 – Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1976 – Sandy Zubrin, Tamuning Guam, US diver (Olympics-96)
1976 – Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1976 – Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1977 – Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 – Fabolous, American rapper
1978 – Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
1980 – François Duval, Belgian rally driver
1980 – Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 – Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1980 – Luke Chadwick, English footballer
1981 – Christina Vidal, American actress
1981 – Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1983 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
1983 – Travis Buck, American baseball player
1984 – Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 – Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer
1985 – Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
1986 – Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
1988 – Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
1988 – Montanna Thompson, English actress
1992 – Nathan Kress, American actor

WEDDINGS

1948 – KFC founder Colonel Sanders (58) weds his long-time employee Claudia Price
1952 – “Rock Around The Clock” rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley (27) weds Barbara Cupchak
1962 – Singer Barry White (18) weds childhood sweetheart Betty Smith
1966 – MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (55) weds actress Mary Jo Tarola
1966 – Writer Jack Kerouac (44) weds Stella Kerouac
2000 – “Queen” guitarist Brian May (53) weds “EastEnders” actress Anita Dobson (51) in a civil ceremony at Richmond Register Office
Actress Catherine Zeta Jones (2000)

2000 – Actress Catherine Zeta Jones (31) weds actor/producer Michael Douglas (56) at the Plaza Hotel in New York City
2006 – American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy
2010 – Cricketer Glenn McGrath (40) weds interior designer Sara Leonardi in Cronulla, New South Wales

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

942 – Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
1154 – Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 – Albrecht I “Bear”, 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1305 – John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 – Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
1630 – Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
1678 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1724 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 – Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1785 – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 – William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1822 – Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 – George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1827 – Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24
1841 – Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 – Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 – Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1854 – Edward Forbes, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography, dies of an illness at 39
1883 – Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
21st US President Chester A. Arthur (1886)

1886 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st US president (1881-85), dies at 56
1887 – Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 – Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
1887 – Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1889 – William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 – Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 – Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 – Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 – Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
1919 – Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1922 – Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 – Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 – Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 – Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1946 – Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1946 – John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1950 – Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 – John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57
1951 – Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1951 – William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1952 – Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1958 – Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1962 – Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr (1962)

1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 – Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 – Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1966 – Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 – Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
1969 – Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1969 – Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1969 – Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 – Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 – Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 – Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
1972 – Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1976 – Man Ray, US artist (Dada), dies at 86
1977 – Victor Francen, actor (J’Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
Patriarch of the Kennedy family Joseph P. Kennedy(1969)

1977 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1978 – Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide at 47
1978 – Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1979 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 – Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 – Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78
1982 – H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1984 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 – Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53
1989 – Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990 – Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 – Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 – Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
Founder of the Peoples Temple cult Jim Jones(1978)

1992 – Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1992 – Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 – Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1994 – Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
1994 – Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
1994 – Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 – Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
1995 – Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 – David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
1996 – John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1999 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 – Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 – James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 – Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 – Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
2009 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 – Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1991 Terry Waite released

• American Revolution

• 1776 Fort Washington becomes Fort Knyphausen

• Automotive

• 1996 Volkswagen’s “Dream Factory” opens in Resende, Brazil

• Civil War

• 1863 Lincoln travels to Gettysburg

• Cold War

• 1987 Congress issues final report on Iran-Contra scandal

• Crime

• 1996 High-profile expert on exotic birds is sentenced for smuggling parrots

• Disaster

• 1987 Commuters die in subway fire

• General Interest

• 1916 Haig ends Battle of Somme
• 1978 Mass suicide at Jonestown

• Hollywood

• 2006 Tom Cruise weds, again

• Literary

• 1998 Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award

• Music

• 1978 Billy Joel earns his first #1 album when 52nd Street tops the Billboard pop chart

• Old West

• 1883 Railroads create the first time zones

• Presidential

• 1886 Chester Arthur dies in New York

• Sports

• 1966 Sandy Koufax retires

• Vietnam War

• 1964 South Vietnamese conduct largest air assault to date
• 1969 South Vietnamese fight first major battle after U.S. troops are withdrawn
• 1970 Nixon appeals to Congress for funds for Cambodia

• World War I

• 1916 Battle of the Somme ends

• World War II

• 1940 Hitler furious over Italy’s debacle in Greece