November 23rd

EVENTS

800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1165 – Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1334 – St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1499 – Flemish pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from Tower of London. Invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV
1556 – King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1577 – Water Geuzen under capt Slope enter Amsterdam
1584 – English parliament expels Jesuits
1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, written by John Milton is published.
1654 – French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1700 – Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI
Mathematician, Physicist, and Philosopher Blaise Pascal

1705 – Nicholas Rowe’s “Ulysses” premieres in London
1744 – English premier John Carteret resigns
1765 – People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England’s Stamp tax
1783 – Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1832 – French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1834 – Hector Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy” premieres
1835 – Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)
1844 – Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1848 – Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1852 – Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30′ (9m)
1863 – Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins
1863 – Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1864 – -25] Battle at Ball’s Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hung at Salford Gaol, Manchester England for shotting a police officer
1868 – Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1871 – Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens
1876 – Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1885 – Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1887 – Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 – Opera “Trumpeter of Säckingen” 1st American production (NYC)
1889 – Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a male heir and a special law passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to inherit.
1890 – General elections in Italy.
1892 – Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
1892 – P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
1895 – 4th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 48-0 in Tuscaloosa
1897 – Andrew J Beard invents “jerry coupler” to connect railroad cars
1897 – Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1899 – Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1903 – Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in “Rigoletto”
1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners’ strike.
1904 – 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1905 – Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti
1906 – Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1909 – 7.17″ (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)
1909 – Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1911 – Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
1912 – Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
1913 – Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers
1914 – The US Army retreats from Mexico.
1915 – On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day
1921 – Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 – German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1923 – Germany’s Stresemann government falls to SPD
1926 – Noel Coward’s “This Was a Man” premieres in NYC
1930 – NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1931 – Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1936 – 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce is published
1937 – Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy” premieres in NYC
1937 – Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
Author John Steinbeck

1937 – John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice & Men” premieres in NYC
1939 – Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1940 – 1st edition of illegal “The Truth” publishes
1940 – Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
1940 – SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
1941 – German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1942 – 3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
1942 – Coast Guard Woman’s Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 – Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
1942 – German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 – Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
1942 – Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed
1942 – Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1942 – Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days
1943 – 1st printing of illegal “Warheid”
1943 – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
1943 – US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japanese
1943 – Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
1944 – US 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg
1945 – Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends
1946 – “Gypsy Lady” closes at Century Theater NYC after 79 performances
1946 – 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6
1946 – French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1946 – The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1947 – French government of Schumann forms
1947 – Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
American Football Player and Coach Sammy Baugh

1948 – Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
1950 – Howard Swanson’s “Short Symphony” premieres
1953 – KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 – WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1955 – British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1959 – “Fiorello!” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances
1960 – Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
1960 – Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
1960 – Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1962 – Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL’s MVP
1963 – “Doctor Who” the long-running British sci-fi series debuts
1963 – “Tambourines to Glory” closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1963 – Horatio Alger Society founded
35th US President John F. Kennedy

1963 – JFK’s body lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 – LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
1964 – “Bajour” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1964 – Beatles release “I Feel Fine” & “She’s a Woman”
1964 – Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1965 – 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
1965 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 – Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year
1968 – “Noel Coward’s Sweet Potato” closes at Booth NYC after 36 perfs
1968 – Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson
1970 – KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Arthur Young resigns as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1971 – China People’s Republic seated in UN Security Council
1971 – Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement
1973 – Arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapons; embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa
1974 – 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
1975 – 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8
1975 – Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
1975 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1977 – “Jesus Christ Superstar” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs
1977 – European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1979 – Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1980 – 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1980 – 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
1980 – National Black Independent Party forms
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1981 – President Reagan vetoes House Joint Resolution 357 which called for further appropriations for fiscal year 1982
1982 – Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB & mated for STS-6
1982 – FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads
1982 – NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie
1983 – Soyuz T-9 lands
1983 – USSR leave weapon disarmament talks
1984 – Limited-over intl cricket debut for Wasim Akram, v NZ
1984 – Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 – Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45
1985 – 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 – Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 – France performs nuclear test
1988 – Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1988 – Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
1988 – President Reagan announces that he is pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal employees.
1989 – Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 – Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece
NFL Head Coach Jimmy Johnson

1989 – “Bounty Bowl”, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Dallas Cowboys 27-0 on Thanksgiving in an ill-tempered game that featured several scuffles and injuries, after which Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players
1990 – Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0
1991 – Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies
1991 – Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 – Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)
1991 – Sacramento Kings ends NBA’s longest road losing streak at 43 games
1991 – Sam’s Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols
1991 – Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season & 15,031 for career
1992 – “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me” opens at Booth NYC for 232 perfs
1992 – 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
Boxer Evander Holyfield

1993 – “Angels in America-Perestroika” opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 perfs
1996 – Irene Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
1996 – The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
1996 – 61st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 24-23 in Birmingham
1997 – Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1997 – Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ
1998 – Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh.
2001 – Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2001 – 53rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
2002 – 67th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-7 in Tuscaloosa
2003 – Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

Africa’s First Elected Female Head of State Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
2008 – 35th American Music Awards: Rihanna & Chris Brown win
2008 – 97th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Mar del Plata (3-1)
2008 – 96th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Montreal Alouettes, 22-14
2008 – Economists at the University of Hawaii report that the state entered recession in the previous quarter based on the drop in tourist figures and growing unemployment, with 8,800 jobs expected to be cut in 2009
2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
2010 – The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
Singer Rihanna

2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
2012 – JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour
2013 – Filipino Manny Pacquiao defeats American Brandon Rios to win the World Boxing Organization International Welterweight title
2014 – 41st American Music Awards: One Direction, Sam Smith and Katy Perry win
2014 – A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan
2014 – An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country
2014 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
44th US President Barack Obama

2014 – Republicans condemn US President Obama’s use of executive powers to force through immigration reform
2014 – Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang
2014 – Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Championship title after defeating Vishy Anand
2014 – 103rd Davis Cup: Switzerland beats France in Lille (3-1), winning the Davis Cup for the first time
2014 – 65th Formula One WDC: Lewis Hamilton wins by 67 points

BIRTHDAYS

912 – Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
1221 – Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252-84)
1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (product of Wallis)
1632 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1669 – Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)
1690 – Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI
1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1748 – Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
1749 – Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1760 – Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)
1765 – Thomas Attwood, composer
1785 – Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)
1794 – Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)
1797 – Gabor Matray, composer
1800 – Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)
14th US President Franklin Pierce (1804)

1804 – Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857)
1809 – Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1815 – William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), (d. 1882)
1819 – Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1901)
1819 – Josiah Dwight Whitney, Northampton Massachusetts, American Geologist who led the California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for him)
1820 – John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) (d. 1861)
1820 – Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1821 – Charles Meryon, British/French etcher
1826 – Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao
1830 – Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor
1837 – Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Johannes van der Waals(1837)

1842 – James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain)
1843 – Josef Sucher, composer
1858 – Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr)
1859 – Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], frontier outlaw, born in NYC, New York (d. 1881)
1860 – Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
1861 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1862 – Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)
1862 – Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1878 – Andre Caplet, composer
Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid(1859)

1878 – Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations (WW II)
1878 – Holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904)
1879 – Andre Caplet, French composer/conductor (Conte Fantastic)
1882 – Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter/etcher/critic
1883 – Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Along the water front)
1883 – Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World)
1887 – Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein)
1887 – Paul Malengreau, composer
1887 – Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1888 – Harpo Marx, [Adolph] actor/comedian (Marx brothers), born in NYC, New York
1888 – Nana Bryant, Cincinnati OH, actress (Ladies of the Chorus)
1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964)
1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 – Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1893 – Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa)
1894 – Ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912)
1896 – Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher
1896 – Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53)
1896 – Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer/actress (Roman scandals)
1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1897 – Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1899 – Norman Hunter, writer
1902 – Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
1906 – Mervyn Roberts, composer
1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 – Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter
1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
1909 – Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce)
1910 – Hal Schumacher, baseball player
1911 – Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)
1912 – Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist
1912 – George O’Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
1914 – [Arthur] Wilson “Bob” Tucker, US, sci-fi author (Time Masters)
1914 – Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998)
1915 – Ellen Drew, [Terry Ray], Kansas City Mo, actress (Isle of Dead)
1915 – John Dehner, [Forkum], actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence), born in Staten Island, New York
1915 – Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician
1916 – Michael Gough, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, English actor (Search for the Nile)
1917 – George O’Hanlon, American actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson), born in Brooklyn, New York
1917 – Hugh Joseph Charles James L’Etang, medical writer
1919 – Claudio Santoro, composer
1919 – Peter Strawson, English philosopher
1920 – Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1920 – Herman Nieland, Dutch organist/pianist/composer (Te Deum Laudamus)
1920 – Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
1920 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
1921 – Hein J Roethof, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 – Angelo John Novarese, record company founder
1923 – Guy Molinari, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1923 – Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide)
1923 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1923 – Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1924 – Colin Turnbull, anthropologist
1924 – Paul Richards, CA, actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight)
1924 – Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 – Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1926 – Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials)
1926 – Don Gordon, actor (Prentiss-Lucan), born in Los Angeles, California
1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927 – Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
1928 – Jakob Jez, composer
1928 – Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof)
1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
1930 – Jack McKeon, baseball player
1930 – Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me)
1930 – William E Brock, (Sen-D)/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87)
1931 – Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60)
1931 – Gloria Lynne, American singer
1932 – Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader (NATO)
1932 – Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
1933 – Hayes Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer (“Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”)
1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Lew Hoad(1934)

1934 – Lewis Alan “Lew” Hoad, Australian tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1934 – Michael Wayne, producer (McQ, Chisum, Green Berets, McLintock)
1934 – Rita Rossi Colwell, oceanographer
1934 – Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown)
1935 – Dean A Gallo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1985- )
1935 – Ken Eastwood, cricketer (opened for Aust v Eng SCG 1971)
1935 – Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1936 – Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
1938 – Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor (Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin)
1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
1939 – Betty Everett, US singer (Getting Mighty Crowded)
1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuba, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees)
1941 – Alan Mullery, English soccer player
1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor
1942 – Susan Anspach, actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 – Sue Nicholls, British actress
1944 – Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls)
1944 – Jose Torikens, Dutch journalist (Parool, NRC)
1945 – Assaf Dayan, Israel, actor (Operation Thunderbolt)
1945 – Steve Landesberg, comedian/actor (Barney Miller), born in The Bronx, New York
1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
1946 – Bobby L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1946 – Diana Quick, actress (Brideshead, Big Sleep, Odd Job), born in London, England
1946 – Hans Hoekman, Dutch radio play actor
1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
1947 – Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner
1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
1949 – Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho)
1950 – Cecil Hooker, rocker (Snuff)
1950 – Charles E Schumer, (Rep-D-NY, 1981-1999, Sen-D-NY, 1999 -)
1951 – Bernd Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 – David Rappaport, 3’11” actor (Wizard, Time Bandits), born in London, England
1951 – Jorg Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 – Francie Larrieu Smith, US, 1.5/3/10K track runner (AAU 1 mile-1979)
1952 – Bill Troiano, musician
1953 – Martin Kent, cricketer (Queensland batsman played for Australia 1981)
1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer
1954 – Bruce Hornsby, Williamsburg Va, rock vocalist
1954 – Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief (Elsevier Magazine)
1954 – Ken Schrom, baseball player
1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
1955 – Steven Brust, [Karl Zoltan], US, sci-fi author (Yendi, Jhereg)
1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana
1956 – Bruce Edgar, cricketer (NZ opener through the 80′)
1956 – Shane Gould, Brisbane Queensland, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1972)
1957 – John “Jellybean” Benitez, music producer
1958 – David Wallace, actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus), born in Miami, Florida
1958 – Martin Snedden, cricketer (NZ medium-pacer of 80’s)
1959 – Brook Jacoby, baseball player
1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, Derbyshire England, actor (Miles-The Colbys)
1959 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1960 – Jayananda Warnaweera, cricketer (Sri Lankan fastish off-spin bowler)
1960 – Robin Roberts, American television reporter
1961 – Merv Hughes, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1985-94 Extrovert)
1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
1962 – Andrea Blackwell, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1962 – Gary Rusnak, Orangeburg SC, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Permian Basin-2nd)
1962 – Mike Nocito, rocker
1963 – Dale Sveum, baseball player
1963 – Joe Ahearne, British television director
1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
1964 – Boyd Kestner, actor (Outsiders)
1964 – John Williams, NFL linebacker/FB (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1964 – Jose Gonzales, baseball player
1964 – Kapila Wijegunewardene, cricketer (Sri Lankan fast-medium bowler)
1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
1965 – Michael Brainard, Hollywood, California, American actor (All My Children, Santa Barbara)
1965 – Rodion Gataullin, Uzbekistan, pole vaulter (Olympics-silver-88)
1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1966 – Charlie Grover, musician (Sponge)
1966 – Jerry Kelly, Madison WI, PGA golfer (1993 Nike Cleveland Open-2nd)
1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
1967 – Brian Glynn, Iserlohn Ger, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1967 – Diane O’Grady, North Bay Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 – Gary Kirsten, cricketer (South African lefty opening batsman 1993-)
1967 – Patrick Mameli, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Pestilence)
1967 – Salli Richardson, actress (Posse)
1968 – John O’Neill, US field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96), born in Detroit, Michigan
1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
1969 – Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 – Glenn Murray, Manning SC, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 – Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
1971 – Ashraf Amaya, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 – Jim Pyne, NFL guard/corner (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 – Vin Baker, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
1972 – Kurupt, rapper (Tha Dogg Pound)
1972 – Paul Penny, Victoria BC, golfer (Edmonton City Amat-1993, 94)
1973 – Reggie Green, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 – Jamie Sharper, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 – Malik Rose, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1974 – Regina Fisher, Miss West Virginia USA (1996)
1974 – Saku Koivu, Turku Fin, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-B-98)
1974 – Tora Suber, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1974 – Tyrus McCloud, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 – Arno Schreuders, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
1976 – Adriana Cano Garcia, Miss Uruguay Universe (1997)
1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor
1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1978 – Aliane Baquerot, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96), born in NYC, New York
1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor
1979 – Kelly Brook, English actress/model
1980 – David Britz, American nano-technologist
1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
1985 – Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
1987 – Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
Actress/Singer Miley Cyrus(1992)

1992 – Miley Cyrus, Nashville, Tennessee, actress and singer (Hannah Montana, The Climb)

WEDDINGS

1940 – RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church
1955 – Physicist William Shockley (45) weds psychiatric nurse Emmy Lanning
1963 – “12 Angry Men” director Sidney Lumet (39) weds Lena Horne’s daughter Gail Jones
1983 – “Ordinary People” actress Mary Tyler Moore (46) weds Dr. Robert Levine at the Pierre Hotel in New York City
1990 – Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1996 – Actor and comedian Chris Rock (31) weds founder and executive director of StyleWorks Malaak Compton
2004 – “Penn and Teller” magician Penn Jillette (49) weds TV producer Emily Zolten at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Actress Mary Tyler Moore(1983)

2007 – Actress and model Jaime King (28) weds director Kyle Newman (31) at Greystone Park and Manor in Los Angeles

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

615 – Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
955 – Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
1249 – Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies
1407 – Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered
1457 – Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17
1503 – Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
1503 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
1558 – Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52
1572 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
1585 – Thomas Tallis, composer, dies
1613 – Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64
1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1682 – Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1709 – Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60
1752 – Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79
1763 – Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1783 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1787 – Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52
1803 – Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804 – Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
1814 – Elbridge Gerry, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 70
1848 – Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45
1853 – Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer, dies at 67
1853 – [Johann Christian] Friedrich Schneider, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
1865 – Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41
1865 – René E de Russy, West Indian/US brig-general, dies at about 75
1872 – Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies
1890 – Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73
1902 – Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies
1910 – Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed
1911 – Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies
1914 – Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
1916 – Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77
1916 – Leonard Moon, cricketer (WW I 4 Tests for England 1905-06), dies
1920 – Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader “Mad Molla”, dies
1923 – Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
1926 – Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50
1927 – S Przybyszewski, writer, dies
1931 – Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies
1932 – Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63
1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 – Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68
1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1938 – August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing), dies at 84
1940 – Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82
1943 – Ernest Jones, cricketer (“Jonah” Gave WG’s beard a close shave), dies
1946 – Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered
1948 – Stanner E V Taylor, US director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71
1948 – Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 63
1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1949 – Gustav Radbruch, German Min of Justice, dies
1952 – Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59
1952 – Albert van Raalte, conductor (Radio Philharmonic Orch), dies at 62
1956 – Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61
1962 – Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
1962 – Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
1965 – Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81
1966 – Seán T. O’Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1967 – Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies
1970 – Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60
1971 – Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies
1972 – Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
1973 – Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64
1973 – Constance Talmadge, US comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75
1973 – Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad), dies
1973 – Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut’s Tomb), dies at 40
1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83
1974 – Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1974 – Pall Isolfsson, composer, dies at 81
Novelist André Malraux(1976)

1976 – Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies at 75
1979 – Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
1979 – Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
1980 – Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
1980 – Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
1982 – “Reverend” Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1990 – Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
1990 – Nguyen Van Tam, PM of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
1990 – Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies
1990 – Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74
1991 – Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82
1991 – Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65
Author Roald Dahl (1990)

1992 – Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies
1992 – Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68
1992 – Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76
1993 – Gerarda “Meik” Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89
1993 – Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69
1994 – Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70
1994 – Erick Frederick Hawkins, US dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85
1994 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees), commits suicide at 55
1994 – William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89
1994 – Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
1995 – Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66
1995 – Junior Walker, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 64
1995 – Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63
1995 – Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
1996 – Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35
1996 – George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85
1996 – Mohamed Amin, cameraman, dies at 53
1996 – Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84
1996 – Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72
2001 – O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
2001 – Mary Whitehouse,’Clean up TV’ campaigner
2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2004 – Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2005 – Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2006 – Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
2006 – Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 – Anita O’Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)
2010 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
2010 – Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
2010 – James Tyler, American musicologist and author (b. 1940)
2011 – Oscar Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78
2011 – Jim Rathmann, 1960 Indianapolis 500 winner, dies at 83
2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas), dies of complications from throat cancer at 81
2014 – Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player, dies at 98

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1936 First issue of Life is published

• American Revolution

• 1749 Reluctant Patriot Edward Rutledge is born

• Automotive

• 1966 Elvis Presley’s “Spinout” opens in U.S. theaters

• Civil War

• 1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss born

• Cold War

• 1981 Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras

• Crime

• 1959 The Birdman of Alcatraz is allowed a small taste of freedom

• Disaster

• 1980 Southern Italy rocked by earthquake

• General Interest

• 1499 Flemish pretender executed in London
• 1859 Billy the Kid born
• 1876 “Boss” Tweed delivered to authorities
• 1979 IRA member sentenced for Mountbatten’s assassination

• Hollywood

• 1990 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory creator Roald Dahl dies
• 2012 Larry Hagman, star of “Dallas” and “I Dream of Jeannie,” dies

• Literary

• 1874 Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is published

• Music

• 1936 Blues legend Robert Johnson makes first-ever recording

• Old West

• 1903 Colorado governor sends militia to Cripple Creek

• Presidential

• 1804 Franklin Pierce is born

• Sports

• 1984 BC wins on Hail Mary

• Vietnam War

• 1970 Laird discloses the details of the Son Tay Raid
• 1972 Paris peace talks deadlocked

• World War I

• 1915 Battle of Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia

• World War II

• 1940 Romania becomes an Axis “power”