November 19th

EVENTS

461 – St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
615 – Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
1302 – Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree “Unam sanctam”
1367 – League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1521 – Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V’s/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan
1523 – Giulio de’ Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1530 – Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms
1544 – Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1620 – Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1621 – Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 – First protestant ministry society in New England
1700 – Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians
1794 – Jakobin Club forms in Paris
1794 – Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1805 – Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1824 – Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1835 – A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved
1837 – Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1850 – Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1861 – Julia Ward Howe committed “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper
1861 – The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
1863 – US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score & seven years ago…”
1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’, an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
Politician Boss Tweed

1873 – William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
1879 – Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what “is” a trotter
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1887 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Dying Detective” (BG)
1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 – 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1894 – Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 – Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Sussex Vampire” (BG)
1903 – Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1906 – London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1909 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1910 – Ferenc Molnàr’s “Tester” premieres in Budapest
Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi

1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1919 – US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1922 – Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1923 – Béla Bartòk’s “Tancsuite” premieres
1926 – British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1932 – Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 – Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1933 – Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1939 – Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1940 – Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 – First major German air raid on Birmingham – about 440 bombers kill 450
1942 – Joseph Goebbels visits “German Theatre in the Niederlanden”
Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information Joseph Goebbels

1942 – Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1943 – U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1946 – Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1947 – 200″ mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1948 – Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1949 – Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 – US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1951 – Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 – North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 – Spain joins UNESCO
1953 – US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
37th US President Richard Nixon

1953 – US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1955 – KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1957 – Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1958 – First 2 F-27 Fokker’s Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1959 – “Rocky & His Friends” debuts on ABC
1959 – Ford cancels Edsel
1960 – Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1961 – Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1962 – Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 – KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – SN Behrman’s “Lord Pengo” premieres in NYC
1962 – Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1965 – ABC radio begins weekly “Vietnam Update” report
Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro

1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 – Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1967 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies’ Golf Invitational
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1968 – Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 – Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 – Apollo 12’s Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon
1969 – WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 – Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 – Disney World’s Fort Wilderness opens
1972 – “Ambassador” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1972 – “Dear Oscar” closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1972 – Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 – KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 – Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1972 – Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin
1973 – Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney’s PNP doesn’t win a chair
1975 – Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1975 – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released (Best Picture 1976)
1976 – George Harrison releases “This Song”
1976 – Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1976 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1977 – -21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 – Canuck’s Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 – Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1978 – Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1978 – “The Miracle at the Meadowlands”, Eagles Herman Edwards returns a fumble for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the rival New York Giants
1978 – 28th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Cale Yarborough wins
1979 – Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 – Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 – CBS TV bans Calvin Klein’s jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1983 – Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils “a Mickey Mouse organization”
NHL Star Jari Kurri

1983 – Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game
1984 – Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1984 – NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1985 – Herb Gardner’s “I’m Not Rappaport” premieres in NYC
1985 – US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time
1986 – Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1986 – Tina Howe’s “Coastal Disturbances” premieres in NYC
1987 – France performs nuclear test
1989 – US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US’ 1st qualification since 1950
1989 – 39th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rusty Wallace wins
MLB Third Baseman Mike Schmidt

1990 – Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 – Pittsburgh’s Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1991 – Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1992 – “3 From Brooklyn” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 – Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 – Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1994 – Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 – Sam’s Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1994 – 59th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-14 in Birmingham
1995 – “Beatle Anthology” premieres on ABC-TV
1995 – “Sacrilege” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1995 – “School for Scandal” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
1995 – 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
1995 – CNET lauches http://www.shareware.com
MLB Legend Cal Ripken Jr

1995 – Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
1995 – Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 – “God Said, Ha!,” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1996 – “Sex & Longing” closes at Cort Theater NYC
1996 – Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1996 – The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1996 – The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is completed and becomes the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world
1997 – “Eugene Onegin” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 – “Old Neighborhood” opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 – STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
1997 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
Painter Vincent van Gogh

1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999 – In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.
2005 – 70th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-18 in Auburn
2006 – 94th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 25-14
2010 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” the 7th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released worldwide.
Novelist J. K. Rowling

2011 – 21st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South Bend
2013 – 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

BIRTHDAYS

1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
1600 – Charles I, King of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1600 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian (Matters of State & War)
1607 – Erasmus Quellinus II, [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher
1616 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter
1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
1709 – Pierre Leclair, composer
1711 – Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet
1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
1722 – Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
1752 – George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1753 – Stanislas Champein, composer
1761 – Joseph Supries, composer
1770 – Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
King Charles I (1600)

1770 – Bertel Thowwaldsen, Danish sculptor
1796 – Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
1802 – Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
1810 – August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1878)
1811 – John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), (d. 1873)
1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
1827 – Isaac Munroe St John, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1831 – James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
1833 – Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans)
1834 – Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke)
1835 – Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)
1835 – Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
20th US President James Garfield (1831)

1840 – Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Shustyanka near Dvinsk, Russian Biologist who founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and who identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals
1843 – Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
1846 – Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery)
1855 – Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883)
1859 – Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1862 – Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
1864 – George Barbier, Phila, actor (Tarzan’s Revenge, Wife vs Secretary)
1870 – Vicente Lleo, composer
1874 – Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1875 – Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
1875 – Hiram Bingham, Connecticut, American Archaeologist (Incan site of Machu Picchu)
Archaeologist and Explorer Hiram Bingham (1875)

1876 – Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
1879 – Karel van den Oever, Flemish author/poet (Geuzenstad)
1883 – Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
1885 – Erskine Sanford, Trinidad CO, actor (Angel on My Shoulder)
1886 – Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent)
1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
1888 – Jose RaulCapablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
1889 – Clifton Webb [Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck], American actor (Laura), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1892 – Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (d. 1970)
1893 – René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
1894 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
1899 – Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems)
1899 – Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
1900 – Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross)
1900 – Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], actor (Laura), born in Vienna, Austria
1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
1902 – Trevor Bardette, Nashville AR, actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape)
1903 – Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer
1904 – Jacob “Jaap” Nanninga, Dutch painter
1904 – Nancy Carroll, [Ann V LaHiff], actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), born in NYC, New York
1905 – Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1906 – Henri Temianka, composer
1906 – Jacques Leguerney, composer
1907 – Christian J H English, [Luc Tournier], Neth/Curacaos painter/composer
1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
1908 – Alan Baxter, East actor (Big Town Girl, Rags to Riches), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1908 – Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki, composer
1909 – Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams
1909 – Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
1909 – Moses Josiah Madiba, Seshego, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North
1910 – Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
1912 – George E Palade, Romanian/US cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974)
4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi (1917)

1917 – Indira Gandhi, 4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India (d. 1984)
1918 – Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant
1918 – Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Utrecht the Netherlands, Dutch astronomer who correctly predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyper-fine line of neutral atomic hydrogen in interstellar space
1919 – Alan Young, England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
1919 – George Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1920 – Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner
1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Brooklyn, New York
1921 – Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1921 – Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
MLB Catcher Roy Campanella (1921)

1922 – Stanley K Runcorn, British geophysicist (Doctor of Utrecht)
1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
1924 – William Russell, British actor
1925 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish Sociologist
1926 – Jeane J Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN (R), born in Duncan, Oklahoma
1929 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Copenhagen, Danish tennis player
1933 – Larry King, radio/TV host “143 Arivadechi” (Larry King Show, CNN), born in NYC, New York
1933 – Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
1934 – Dave Guard, rocker
1934 – David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
1935 – John F Welch Jr, Salem Mass, CEO (GE)
1935 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
Tennis Player Kurt Nielsen(1930)

1935 – Jack Welch, American businessman
1936 – Dick Cavett, Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1936 – Emin Aristakesian, composer
1936 – Michel Decoust, composer
1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Ray Collins, rocker (Mothers of Invention)
1938 – Frank Misson, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1960-61)
1938 – Hank Medress, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight), born in Brooklyn, New York
1938 – Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67)
1938 – Ted Turner, American broadcasting mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America’s Cup
1939 – Garrick Utley, newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend), born in Chicago, Illinois
1939 – Thomas Harkin, (Sen-D-Iowa, 1985- )
1939 – Warren “Pete” Moore, US singer (Miracles-Tears of a Clown), Detroit MI
1940 – Alberto Villalpando, composer
1941 – Dan Haggerty, Hollywood California, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1941 – Ivanka Khristova, Bulgaria, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1941 – Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Governor of Wisconsin
Fashion Designer Calvin Klein (1942)

1942 – Calvin Klein, fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx, New York
1942 – Gary L Ackerman, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1942 – Lawrence Allen Gilbert, Fort Knox KY, PGA golfer (1994 Dallas Reunion)
1942 – Sharon Olds, American poet
1943 – Fred Lipsius, rock pianist/sax (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Sharon Wilder, LPGA golfer
1944 – Charlie Coe, rock bassist (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 – Joe Correro, Greenwood Ms, rock drummer (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 – Bob Boone, baseball player and manager (Phillies, Angels), born in San Diego, California
1947 – Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Jabberwocky)
1947 – Lamar Smith, (Rep-R-Texas)
1949 – Ahmad Rashad, [Bobby Moore], NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings)/sportscaster
1949 – Dennis Taylor, British snooker champion
1949 – Mickey Lee Davis Jr, Tenn, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1951 – Timothy J Penny, (Rep-D-MN, 1983- )
1951 – Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
1951 – Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor
1953 – Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
1954 – Annette Guest, US singer (First Choice)
1954 – Gail Stanton playmate (Jun, 1978), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1954 – Kathleen Quinlan, California, actress (Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
1954 – Tom Scheckel, rock drummer (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
1955 – Bill Buttner, Plymouth MA, Nike golfer (1989 Centel Classic-4th)
1955 – Gloria Guida, Merano Italy, Miss Teenage Italy (1974)
1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
1956 – Eileen Marie Collins, Elmira NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 63, 84)
1956 – Glynnis O’Connor, actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Scott Jacoby, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High), born in Chicago, Illinois
1956 – Ann Curry, American journalist
1957 – George Leary, Newmarket Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1957 – Kathy Sanborn, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 – Otis J Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Super Bowl MVP)
1957 – Robert Beltran, actor (Star Trek Voyager)
1957 – Sharon Farrah, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), born in New York City
1958 – Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
1958 – Terrence “T.C.” Carson, American actor
1959 – Jean-Francois Clervoy, Longeville France, astronaut (STS 66, 84)
1959 – Allison Janney, American actress
1960 – “Lovely” Elizabeth, Frankfurt Ky, WWF’s 1st lady of wrestling
1960 – Matt Sorum, US pop drummer (Guns n’ Roses, Like a Suicide) [or Nov 2]
1961 – Grant Ledyard, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
Actress Meg Ryan (1961)

1961 – Meg Ryan, Bethel Ct, actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)
1962 – Jodie [Alicia Christian] Foster, American actress (Taxi Driver, The Accused), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – Salim Jaffer, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 14 Tests 1986-91)
1962 – Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Philippine boxer
1963 – Justine Greiner, playmate (February, 1984), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1963 – Terry Farrell, actress (Paper Dolls, Jadzia Dax-STDS9), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1963 – Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
1964 – Jeni Lidgett, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 – Erik Wilhelm, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer
1965 – Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
1966 – Brian Wilsterman, soccer player (Dordreecht ’90)
1966 – Gail Devers, 60m/100m hurdler (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96), born in Seattle, Washington
1966 – Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
1967 – Gary Disarcina, Maiden MA, infielder (California Angels)
1968 – Gord Fraser, road race cyclist (Olympics-96), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1968 – Matt Darby, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 – Steven Penn, Brevard NC, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1969 – Rod Mapstone, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 – Berthil de Avest, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Twente)
1970 – Bhupinder Singh Jr, cricketer (Punjab & Indian ODI batsman)
1970 – Jenni Meno, Pompton Plains NJ, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 – Larry Tharpe, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1970 – Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 – Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
1971 – Adrian Griffith, cricketer (West Indian Test opening batsman 1997)
1971 – Andy Sheets, Baton Rouge LA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1971 – Dimitri Yushkevich, Yaroslavl Russia, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leaf)
1971 – Michelle Andrews, Newcastle NSW Aust, field hockey striker (Oly-96)
1971 – Rickey Brady, WLAF TE (Scotland Claymores)
1971 – Alice Peacock, American folk singer
1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
1972 – David Palmer, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 – Daniel Meech, Hastings NZ, equestrian showjumper (Olympics-96)
1973 – Jamir Miller, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 – Savion Glover, dancer/choreographer (Bring in ‘da Noise)
1973 – Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
1973 – Takashi Matsumoto, Japanese photographer and business person
1974 – Orlando Fuentes, Ellsworth AFB SD, half-lightweight judoka (Oly-96)
1975 – Sushmita Sen, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Indian actress and model, crowned 43rd Miss Universe in 1994
1975 – Ju-Yeon Choi, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1995 Futures-Seoul-KOR II)
1976 – Petr Sykora, Pizen CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, NJ Devils)
1976 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
1976 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
1976 – Stylianos Venetidis, Greek soccer player
1977 – Kerri Strug, Tucson Ariz, gymnast (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 – Lady Davina EAB Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1978 – Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
1979 – Ryan Howard, American baseball player
1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player
1979 – Leam Richardson, English soccer player
1979 – John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
1979 – Keith Buckley – American singer (Every Time I Die)
1980 – Courtney Anderson, American football player
1980 – Adele Silva, English actress
1983 – Daria Werbowy, Ukranian-Canadian Supermodel
1983 – Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
1988 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
1997 – Alexis May McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (2)
1997 – Brandon James McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (5)
1997 – Joel Steven McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (7)
1997 – Kelsey Ann McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (4)
1997 – Kenneth Robert McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (1)
1997 – Natalie Sue McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (3)
1997 – Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (6)
2009 – Prince Gaston d’Orléans

WEDDINGS

1834 – US President Franklin Pierce (30) weds Jane Pierce (28) in Amherst, New Hampshire
1923 – Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (56) weds artist Maude Noel
1939 – Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds “Freshies” actress Dorothy Arnold at St. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco
1954 – Actress Vera-Ellen (33) weds millionaire Victor Rothschild at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Los Angeles
1986 – Hall of Famer boxing champ Muhammad Ali (44) weds Yolanda Williams
1988 – LA Law’s Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1999 – Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (61) weds Krystal Kennedy at Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas
Singer Christina Aguilera(2005)

2005 – Singer and actress Christina Aguilera (28) weds music executive Jordan Bratman (32) under a mountainside tent at the Staglin Family Vineyards in Rutherford, California
2005 – “Corner Gas” actor Brent Butt (39) weds actress Nancy Robertson (34) at Vancouver’s Cin Cin Ristorante
2005 – “KISS” lead singer Paul Stanley (53) weds Erin Sutton at The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, California
2005 – Indianapolis 500 racer Danica Patrick (23) weds physical therapist Paul Hospenthal in Scottsdale, Arizona

DIVORCES

2004 – Singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of marriage

DEATHS

498 – Anastasius II, Pope (496-8) dies. Referred to by Dante in his Inferno XI, 8-9
1272 – David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies
1316 – Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies
1389 – Dimitri Ivanovitch “Donskoi”, monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39
1472 – Joannes/Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, dies
1478 – Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1495 – Alfonso II, king of Naples (1494-95), dies
1557 – Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1630 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44
1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 – Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies
1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1682 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1692 – Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies
1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1719 – Jean Deutz, minster of Heemskerk/merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 64
1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1785 – Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65
1795 – Thomas Linley the elder, English musician and tenor, dies at 62
1798 – Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1825 – Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer, dies at 34
Composer Franz Schubert(1828)

1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies at 31 from typhoid fever
1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1854 – Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46
1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1880 – Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74
1887 – Emma Lazarus, US poet (“Give us your tired & poor”), dies in New York at 38
1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1899 – [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea), dies at 55
1908 – Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
1910 – Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig, German Chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74
1911 – Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
Poet Emma Lazarus (1887)

1915 – Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
1915 – Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64
1917 – Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies
1923 – French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59
1924 – Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1924 – Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1928 – Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71
1929 – Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
1931 – Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74
1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1932 – Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies
1933 – Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president, dies at 84
1935 – F S Gough-Calthorpe, cricketer (England captain v WI 1930), dies
1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle
1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1942 – Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76
1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1943 – Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85
1949 – James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (Oestereetster), dies at 89
1950 – Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57
1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson, founding member of Cardiff City F.C. (b. 1870)
1956 – Francis L Sullivan, actor (Joan of Arc, Winslow Boy), dies at 53
1959 – Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism), dies
1959 – Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam), dies at 83
1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
1960 – Phyllis Haver, actress (Don Juan), commits suicide at 61
1963 – Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer, dies at about 50
1967 – Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1971 – Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
1973 – Cyril Allcott, cricketer (6 Tests for NZ, 113 runs & 6 wickets), dies
1974 – George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1976 – Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1981 – Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr’s anti-apartheid advocate, murdered
1982 – Erving Goffman, US, sociologist (Asylums), dies at 60
1983 – Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37
1983 – Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1983 – Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist, dies at 79
1984 – George D Aiken, (Sen-R-Vt, 1941-75), dies at 92
1985 – Lall Singh, cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies
1985 – Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st African American film star, dies of pneumonia 83
1987 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 – Christine Onassis, heiress, dies of heart failure at 37
1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1990 – Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov, Russian Physicist (nuclear fission), dies at 77
1991 – Reggie Nalder, actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80
1992 – Bobby Russell, song writer (Honey, Little Green Apples), dies at 52
1992 – Diane Varsi, actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama), dies at 54
1992 – Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91
1993 – Dorothy Revier, actress (Sally on the Subway), dies at 89
1994 – Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz ‘n the Hood), shot to death at 22
1994 – Julian Gustave Symons, writer, dies at 82
1994 – Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death’s Darkest Face), dies at 82
1994 – Li Yuan Artist-chia, dies at 65
1995 – Bruce Trent, singer, dies at 83
1995 – Gwen Swire, socila worker, dies at 61
1995 – Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94
1995 – Shirley Bergeron, singer/guitarist, dies at 62
1996 – Denis Jenkinson, journalist, dies at 74
1996 – Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76
1996 – Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73
1996 – Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat, dies at 90
1997 – Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs), dies at 13
1997 – Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45
1997 – Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62
1997 – Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42
1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004 – Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2004 – John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
2005 – Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2007 – Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1952)
2011 – Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74
2014 – Mike Nichols[Peschowsky], German-born American director, dies from cardiac arrest at 83

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1863 Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

• American Revolution

• 1776 Congress pleads for soldiers

• Automotive

• 1993 Chevy Cavalier heads to Japan

• Civil War

• 1863 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

• Cold War

• 1985 Reagan and Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting

• Crime

• 1976 Patty Hearst out on bail

• Disaster

• 1824 Thousands perish in St. Petersburg flood

• General Interest

• 1942 Soviet counterattack at Stalingrad
• 1969 Pele scores 1,000th goal
• 1977 Sadat visits Israel

• Hollywood

• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest debuts

• Literary

• 1899 Poet and critic Allen Tate is born

• Music

• 2003 An arrest warrant is issued for Michael Jackson

• Old West

• 1907 Shane author Jack Schaefer is born

• Presidential

• 1831 James A. Garfield is born

• Sports

• 1966 Notre Dame and MSU play to a classic tie

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Chaplain Charles Watters receives Medal of Honor
• 1971 Cambodians appeal for help

• World War I

• 1915 British pilot makes heroic rescue

• World War II

• 1940 Hitler urges Spain to grab Gibraltar