November 22nd

EVENTS

498 – St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
845 – 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1220 – Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III
1346 – Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1492 – Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus’s fleet
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1542 – Spain delegates “New Laws” against slavery in America
1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1675 – English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 – Purcell’s “Welcome to All the Pleasures” premieres in London
1699 – Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1707 – Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1714 – King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
King Charles II

1794 – Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 – Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1830 – Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1831 – Opera “Robert Le Diable” is produced (Paris)
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1851 – Opera “La Perle Du Brésil” is produced (Paris)
1861 – Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 – American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 – Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death
1872 – Franz Grillparzer’s “Die Judin von Toledo” premieres in Prague
1884 – T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 – Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 – Opera “Iris” premieres (Rome)
1899 – -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1900 – Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France
US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

1903 – Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
1905 – British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos
1906 – International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts “SOS” as new call for help
1906 – Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
1908 – 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 – Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing
1914 – Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
1917 – NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1918 – Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
1918 – King Albert I’s triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 – Marshal Józef Pilsudski becomes 1st President (dictator) of Poland
1918 – Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 – 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 – Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1922 – British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 – Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 – Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
30th US President Calvin Coolidge

1923 – Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 – Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1926 – Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 – George Gershwin’s “Funny Face” premieres in NYC
1927 – Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 – “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
1929 – Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
1930 – 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 – 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 – Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1930 – 8th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 6-0 in Annapolis
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1931 – Ferde Grofe’s “Grand Canyon Suite” premieres
1932 – Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 – “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” 1st heard on Eddie Cantor’s show
1935 – China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1936 – 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC
1939 – Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry “Big Greenie” Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant
1940 – 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1941 – British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
1941 – NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 – Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 – Hitler orders Rommel’s Africa Korps to fight to last man
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1943 – FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943 – France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government
1943 – RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 – US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1944 – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1945 – “Day before Spring” opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
1945 – Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 – 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 – 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1952 – As’ Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 – Humane Society forms
1955 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1955 – RCA Victor’s best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

1956 – 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 – Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 – Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 – Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 – Simon & Garfunkel appear on “American Bandstand” as “Tom & Jerry”
1959 – AFL’s 1st draft – NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
1959 – Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 – French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1961 – Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 – St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
1961 – Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1962 – 7th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Perth, Australia
1963 – The Beatles release their second album “With the Beatles” in UK
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1963 – American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1964 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 – WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 – “Man of La Mancha” opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1965 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 – 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1967 – BBC unofficially bans “I Am the Walrus” by Beatles
1967 – Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 – UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali

1968 – Beatles release “Beatles” (White Album), their only double album
1968 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Terence O’Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest movement
1969 – Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
1970 – 20th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Isaac wins
1971 – “Only Fools Are Sad” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances
1971 – A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh
1972 – Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1972 – Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 – Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
1972 – US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 – Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 – Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1974 – UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1975 – Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1975 – Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland
1976 – Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 – Comic strip “Cathy” by Cathy Guisewhite debuts
1977 – Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1977 – First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1980 – Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1981 – “Marlowe” closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances
1981 – 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23
1981 – Browns’ QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1981 – SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1981 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 – 31st NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
1982 – Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
TV Host Fred Rogers

1984 – Fred Rogers of PBS “Mr Rogers Neighborhood” presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 – Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
1985 – Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
1985 – PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1986 – Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title
1986 – Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 – Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1987 – Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) ends his NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1987 – 37th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
1989 – Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1989 – Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1989 – Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 – US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 – Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 – George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 – Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 – Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
1991 – NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1991 – “Phool Aur Kaante”, the film debut of famous Indian actor Ajay Devgan, is released
1992 – Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 – Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1993 – “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
Actor & Bollywood Star Ajay Devgan

1995 – Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1995 – OPEC states that it will roll over its current oil production quota of 25.42 million barrels per day
1996 – OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is “absolutely not true”
1997 – 62nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 18-17 in Auburn
1998 – 86th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 26-24
1998 – 48th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
1999 – Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, and his mother are sighted off of Florida’s coast by U.S. Coast Guard
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

2003 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president’s resignation.
2003 – 5th Rugby World Cup: England beats New Zealand 20-17 at Sydney
2003 – 68th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-23 in Auburn
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2005 – 32nd American Music Awards: Gwen Stefani, Will Smith & Kelly Clarkson win
2008 – 13th Rugby League World Cup: New Zealand beats Australia 34-20
2008 – YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2008 – Patrick Roy’s #33 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
2009 – 36th American Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Michael Jackson win
2009 – President Hugo Chávez states that Venezuela is in recession as the economy contracted 4.5% in the third quarter
President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez

2012 – 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
2012 – 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
2013 – Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats  Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship
2014 – Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona sets a new goal scoring record in La Liga of 253 goals

BIRTHDAYS

1428 – Richard Neville [16th Earl of Warwick], English nobleman and military commander known as Warwick the Kingmaker (d. 1471)
1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1511 – Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1515 – Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland
1535 – John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family
1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1579 – Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1602 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1606 – Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher
1635 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 – René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer
1690 – Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 – Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 – Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist
1771 – Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies
1780 – Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1780 – Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1805 – Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1877)
1808 – Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1818 – Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1910)
1819 – George Eliot, [Mary Anne Evans], Nuneaton England, author (Middlemarch, Silas Marner)
1823 – Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1898)
1832 – George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1882)
1835 – Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1838 – Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d’ Arneiro, composer
1842 – Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
1849 – Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War)
1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 – Paul H B d’Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
1856 – Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
1857 – George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 – John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
Writer André Gide (1869)

1869 – Andre Gide, Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio’s Adventures-Nobel 1947)
1870 – Howard Brockway, composer
1873 – Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England)
1873 – Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1875 – Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah TN, actress (Climax, Tall Story)
1875 – Georges Rency, Belgian poet
1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1888 – Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel
1890 – Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970)
1891 – Bengt Axel von Torne, composer
French President Charles de Gaulle (1890)

1891 – Edward Bernays, PR expert
1891 – Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital)
1893 – M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people’s commissioner for Stalin
1893 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1896 – Mario La Broca, composer
1896 – Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS]
1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 – Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1900 – Hugo Godron, composer
1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1901 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Sagunto Spain, composer
1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symph Orch)
1902 – Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1903 – Herbert Sally Frankel, economist
1904 – Roland Winters, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1905 – James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906 – Howard Petrie, Beverly MA, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter)
1906 – Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), born in NYC, New York
1907 – Bernard Naylor, composer
1907 – Dick Bartell, baseball player
1907 – Dora Maar, Tours France, French painter and photographer and lover of Picasso
1908 – Michael Balfour, historian
1909 – Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands (1966-83)
1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1912 – Doris Duke, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress), born in NYC, New York
1912 – Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist
1913 – Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar’s Opera)
1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 – Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer
1917 – Jean-Etienne Marie, composer
1917 – Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Paris France, Mexican surrealist painter
1918 – Claiborne Pell, (Sen-D-RI, 1961- )
1919 – Wilfred Norman Aldridge, biochemist/toxicologist
1920 – Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
Comedian and Actor Rodney Dangerfield (1921)

1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, [John Cohen], Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack)
1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1922 – Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1923 – Arthur Hiller, director (Love Story)
1923 – Dika Newlin, composer
1924 – Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer
1924 – Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 – Gunther Schuller, hornist/ jazz composer (Visitation), born in NYC, New York (d. 2015)
1926 – Lew Burdette, baseball player
1926 – Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1952-56)
1927 – Grady “Fats” Jackson, tenor sax player
1928 – Juno Stover-Irwin, US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 – Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1928 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 – Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1930 – John Paul Schiffer
1930 – Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9)
1930 – Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
1932 – Robert Vaughn, actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy), born in NYC, New York
1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
1935 – Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1935 – Michael Callan, [Calinieff], Phila, actor (Peter-Occasional Wife)
1936 – Hans Zender, composer
1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1937 – Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut (Soyuz 30 backup)
1938 – Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1939 – Allen Garfield, Newark NJ, actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II)
1939 – Tom West, American astrophysicist
1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician (Samajwadi Party), born in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh
1940 – Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy author-animator (Monty Python)
1941 – Jacques LaPerriere, NHL defensive Hall of Famer
1941 – Ron McClure, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 – Tom Conti, Paisley Scotland, actor (Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer)
1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1942 – Guion Bluford, Col USAF, NASA astronaut (STS 8, 61A, 39, 53) 1st African American in space, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1942 – Steve Caldwell, rocker (Orleans)
Tennis Legend Billie Jean King (1943)

1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75), born in Long Beach, California
1943 – Floyd Sneed, Calgary, rock drummer (Three Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1943 – George W [Buddy] Darden, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1943 – Mushtaq Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spin all-rounder 1959-79)
1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1944 – Robert Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae bassist (I Shot the Sheriff)
1946 – Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance (PvdA)
1947 – Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador (1989-94)
1947 – Rod Price, rocker (Foghat)
1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
1949 – Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1950 – Greg Luzinski, baseball player (Phillies, White Sox)
1950 – Little Steven, [Van Zandt], Asbury Park NJ, rocker (Born to Run)
1950 – Lyman Bostock, baseball player
1950 – [Ma]Tina Weymouth, Coronado CA, rock bassist (Talking Heads-& She Was)
1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1951 – Kent Nagano, Berkeley California, Conductor
1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 – Wayne Larkins, cricketer (England opening batsman of 80’s)
1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1953 – Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1955 – James Edwards, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1955 – Sue Novara-Reber, Flint Mich, cyclist (1975 World sprint champ)
1955 – Wayne Tolleson, baseball player
1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
1957 – Sharon Bailey, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis(1958)

1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween), born in Los Angeles, California
1958 – Lee Guetterman, Chattanooga TN, pitcher (NY Yankees, Seattle Mariners)
1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1960 – Eg White, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1960 – Tommy Masters, Framingham MA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Carolina-50th)
1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
1961 – Joel Ashley Edwards, PGA golfer (1992 BC Open-2nd), born in Dallas, Texas
1961 – Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress (Personal Best, Civil Wars)
1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1962 – Cleo Fields, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1962 – Steve DeOssie, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 – Corinne Russell, comedienne (Benny Hill Show), born in Birmingham, England
1963 – Helen Reale, WPVA volleyballer (Manhattan Beach-7th-1994), born in NYC, New York
1963 – Hugh Millen, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1964 – Akram Raza, cricketer (Pakistani off-spin all-rounder)
1964 – Benoit Benjamin, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 – David Tate, NFL defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1964 – Gene Atkins, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1964 – Maggie Will, Whiteville NC, LPGA golfer (1992 Sara Lee Classic)
1964 – Pierre Vercheval, CFL guard (Toronto Argonauts)
1964 – Stephen Geoffreys, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Faternity Vacation)
1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1965 – Eric Allen, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1965 – Mike Benjamin, Euclid Ohio, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 – R Duncan Douglas, biathelete (Olympics-1994), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965 – Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1966 – Brian Robbins, American actor (Eric-Head of the Class), born in Brooklyn, New York
1966 – Nicholas Rowe, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes), born in London, England
Tennis Legend Boris Becker(1967)

1967 – Boris Becker, Leimen Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
1967 – Donald Hollas, quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1968 – Daedra Charles, WNBA forward/center (LA Sparks)
1968 – Darryl Hardy, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 – Irina Privalova, Russia, 100m/200m/400m runner
1968 – Jonathan Moss, Tenafly NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 – Byron Houston, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1969 – John Parrella, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1969 – Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 – Alison Korn, rower (Olympics-96), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1971 – Lloyd Kammeron, soccer player (Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles)
1971 – Tyoka Jackson, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 – Yone Kamio, Yokohama Japan, tennis star (1995 semi-finalist Hobart)
1972 – Mavan Atapattu, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman)
1972 – Tricia Tan, Miss Singapore Universe (1997)
1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
1973 – Alexandra Fusai, St Cloud France, tennis star (1995 Futures-Szczecin)
1973 – Brandon Paulsen, Coon Rapids Minn, greco-roman wrestler (Oly-silv-96)
1973 – Cassie Campbell, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 – Michael Murphy, Brisbane QLD Queensland Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 – Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER)
1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 – Taryn Mansell, Aruba, Miss Universe-2nd place (1996)
1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 – Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 – Devyn Puett, actress (Kids Incorporated)
1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 – Magdalena Grzybowska, Poznan Pol, tennis star (1995 Futures Slovakia)
1978 – Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 – Ben Adams, English singer
1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1982 – Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
Actress Scarlett Johansson(1984)

1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress (The Prestige), born in NYC, New York
1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
1988 – Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists

WEDDINGS

1965 – Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1997 – “The Lord of The Rings” actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)
1998 – “Titanic” actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All Saints Church in Reading, England
2003 – Actress Carmen Electra (31) weds rocker Dave Navarro (36) at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California
2003 – Singer Wynonna Judd (39) weds D. R. Roach (39) in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee
2010 – Radio and TV personality Danny Bonaduce (51) weds his manager Amy Railsback (28) at the Four Seasons on Maui, Hawaii

DIVORCES

2011 – Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage

DEATHS

365 – Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies after failing to regain position as Pope from Liberius
950 – Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
1247 – Robin Hood, dies (from “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood”)
1286 – Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 – Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer, dies
1617 – Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies
1694 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1718 – Blackbeard, notorious English pirate, dies in battle at 38
1751 – Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77
1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1773 – Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1776 – Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75
1781 – John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57
1782 – John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies
1782 – John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
Pirate Blackbeard (1718)

1783 – John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1799 – Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1803 – Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57
1813 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63
1825 – Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
1826 – Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65
1852 – August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69
1859 – Ludwig “Louis” Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
1871 – Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1875 – Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1890 – Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77
1893 – James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1896 – Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65
1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English operatic composer (Mikado, Pirates of Penzance), dies at 58
1901 – Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Russian Biologist (founded comparative embryology and experimental histology), dies at 61
1902 – Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1902 – Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
1904 – Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
1906 – Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies
1916 – Jack London, author, dies at 40
1917 – Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1924 – Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies
1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1936 – Louis F H Apol, painter/etcher/literary, dies at 86
1940 – Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67
1941 – Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY
1943 – Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57
1944 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, dies
1946 – Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa’s Test), dies
1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 – Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
1954 – Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65
1954 – Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 – Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91
1955 – Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60
1956 – Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies
1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)

Tennis Player and Eight-Time U.S. Open Champion Molla Mallory (1959)

1959 – Molla Mallory, eight-time U.S. Open tennis champion, dies at 75
1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (‘Brave New World’), dies at 69
1963 – Bikram Singh, Indies Lt-General (Kashmir), dies
1963 – C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), dies at 64
1963 – Claude Floquet, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1963 – Daulet Singh, Indies Lt-General, dies
1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46
1963 – NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II), dies
1963 – William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 – J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1966 – Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies
1967 – Edvin Kallstenius, composer, dies at 86
1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
35th US President John F. Kennedy (1963)

1969 – Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80
1971 – Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1976 – Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59
1977 – Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies
1979 – Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
1980 – Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
1980 – Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
1980 – Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1980 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1981 – Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
1981 – Jack Fingleton, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 1189 runs), dies
1982 – Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80
1982 – Enny, [Engelina] de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka), dies at 84
1982 – Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90
Actress Mae West (1980)

1983 – Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
1986 – Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1986 – Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82
1986 – Scatman Crothers, actor (Shining, Zapped), dies at 76
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1987 – Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies
1988 – Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67
1988 – Janet Ertel, crooner, dies
1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 – Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 – Rajindernath, Indian cricketer wicketkeeper (1 Test), dies
1989 – Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1991 – Jac de Jong, Dutch MP/composer/businessman (Nedac-Sorbo), dies
1992 – Gene O’Donnell, actor (Ape, Miracle Kid), dies of lung cancer at 81
1992 – Sterling Holloway, US actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87
Actor Bill Bixby (1993)

1993 – Bill Bixby, US actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59
1994 – Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies
1994 – John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70
1994 – L V Johnson Singer, dies
1994 – Norma Donaldson, US singer/actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68
1995 – Ambrose Sam, creole accordionist, dies at 76
1995 – Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90
1995 – Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75
1995 – John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
1995 – Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer, dies at 72
1995 – Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), dies at 95
1996 – Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun), dies at 73
Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart (1995)

1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 72
1996 – Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60
1997 – Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg), dies at 63
1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37
1997 – Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
1998 – Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 – Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 – Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
INXS rocker Michael Hutchence (1997)

2007 – Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
2008 – MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
2010 – Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
2011 – Lana Peters [Svetlana Stalina], Stalin’s daughter, dies at 85
2011 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer, dies at 80
2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79
2013 – Reg Simpson, English cricketer, dies at 93

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated

• American Revolution

• 1783 John Hanson, so-called first president, dies

• Automotive

• 1900 First Mercedes goes for a test drive

• Civil War

• 1864 Hood enters Tennessee

• Cold War

• 1963 Kennedy assassinated

• Crime

• 1963 President Kennedy is assassinated

• Disaster

• 1950 Commuter trains collide in New York City

• General Interest

• 1718 Blackbeard killed off North Carolina
• 1988 Stealth bomber unveiled
• 1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns

• Hollywood

• 2002 Die Another Day released 40 years after first Bond film

• Literary

• 1819 George Eliot is born

• Music

• 1975 KC and the Sunshine band top the U.S. pop charts with “That’s The Way (I Like It)”

• Old West

• 1916 Jack London dies of kidney disease

• Presidential

• 1963 Kennedy becomes fourth president to be assassinated

• Sports

• 1986 Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ in history

• Vietnam War

• 1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas
• 1967 Westmoreland claims U.S. victory at Dak To
• 1972 First B-52 shot down over North Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 Fighting suspended in Ypres Salient

• World War II

• 1942 Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad