November 25th

EVENTS

1034 – Malcolm II, King of Scots (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) (b. 980) dies; Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1165 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) visits Utrecht
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1185 – Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85, dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli (Pope Urban III)
1277 – Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1357 – Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1491 – The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1500 – Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo capturesColumbus
1598 – Jacob Cornelius van Neck’s merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java on second Dutch expedition to Indonesia
1659 – Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1715 – First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1744 – Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

1755 – King Ferdinand IV of Spain granted the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus or now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 – Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French
1766 – Pope Clement XIII warns On dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 – Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States
1792 – Farmer’s Almanac first published
1805 – Opera “Thaïs” first American performance
1817 – First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1834 – Delmonico’s, one of NY’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1841 – 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa
1847 – Opera “Marta” is produced (Vienna)
1863 – Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 – Confederate plot to burn New York city fails
1864 – Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
Chemist, Engineer & Innovator Alfred Nobel

1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867 – US Congress commission looks into “impeachment” of President Andrew Johnson
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife’s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1884 – John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1894 – Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1897 – Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1899 – Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: General Methuen beats Farmers
1902 – Franz Lehar’s opera “Wiener Frauen” premieres in Vienna
1908 – Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in Madison Square Garden marathon by 60 yds
17th US President Andrew Johnson

1911 – 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
1911 – 7th Australasian Championships: Norman Brookes beats Horace Rice (6-1, 6-2, 6-3)
1912 – American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
1912 – Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1913 – The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to “secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland”
1920 – 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1920 – WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1922 – Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince regent
1925 – KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1929 – Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1930 – 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito, Japan)
1930 – Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
1933 – 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261′ (80m)
1935 – International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
1936 – Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1937 – World’s Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1940 – SS Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1940 – U of Mich retires Tom Harmon’s #98
1940 – Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz’s “Knock Knock”
1940 – First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 – German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941 – Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager
1941 – Finland joined the Anti-Komintern Pact.
1942 – National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
1943 – U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 – 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1947 – New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 – 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco
1948 – KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 – “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” appears on music charts
Baseball Player Ted Williams1949 – Ted Williams, wins AL MVP
1950 – “Tickets, Please” closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 245 performances
1950 – 38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 13-0
1950 – UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 – 3rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Herb Thomas wins
1951 – 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
1951 – Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1951 – Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1952 – George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 – Only win ever for NFL’s Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1953 – “Guys & Dolls” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,200 performances
1953 – Earthquake and tsunami strike Honshu, Japan
1953 – Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1955 – Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
1955 – Walter Piston’s 6th Symphony premieres
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee

1955 – Clement Attlee resigns as leader of the UK Labor Party
1957 – US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1958 – Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community
1959 – “Once Upon a Mattress” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances
1960 – “Amos ‘n’ Andy” made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960 – First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
1960 – CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated.
1961 – NBA’s Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1962 – WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, NY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1963 – JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
35th US President John F. Kennedy

1965 – Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu overthrown
1966 – Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year
1966 – Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O’ Nails Club
1966 – Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)
1967 – “Apple Tree” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
1967 – Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1968 – 15th National Film Awards (India): “Hatey Bazarey” wins the Golden Lotus
1969 – John Lennon returns OBE to protest against UK’s support for Vietnam War
1969 – KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1970 – Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1971 – “Dan Cooper” jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1971 – 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)
Musician and Beatle John Lennon

1971 – Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson proposes that Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, with the consent of Protestants, after a period of 15 years; as part of the proposal the Republic of Ireland would rejoin the British Commonwealth
1972 – “Ambassador” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
1973 – 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1973 – 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18
1973 – Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos
1973 – Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1974 – Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1974 – Rangers’ Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
1975 – Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)
1975 – Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
1975 – A loyalist gang nicknamed the “Shankill Butchers” undertakes its first “cut-throat killing”; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

1976 – OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 – The Band’s farewell concert at SF’s Winterland Ballroom
1976 – Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
1976 – NYPD officer Robert Torsney shoots unarmed youth Randolph Evans while answering response at youth’s Brooklyn home
1977 – David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1977 – Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 – Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1979 – “Most Happy Fella” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1979 – 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9
1979 – Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1979 – Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30
1979 – Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that would last 22 years and become one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history
Football Coach and Sportscaster John Madden

1980 – Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 – Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI Lahore
1980 – Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1980 – Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
1981 – Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1981 – Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
1981 – Pope John Paul II names Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger “Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”
1982 – The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson’s Department Store.
1983 – Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 – Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes

1983 – Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 – World’s greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 – Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
1984 – William Schroeder is second person to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1985 – White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
1986 – A’s Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year
1986 – Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1986 – Oliver North’s secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office
1987 – Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
1987 – India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1987 – Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1988 – Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 – Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 – US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 – Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
1988 – German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1988 – 53rd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 15-10 in Birmingham
1989 – David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
1990 – 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
1990 – Lech Walesa wins in Poland’s first popular election
1990 – NFL’s NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
1990 – Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 & L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
1993 – Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993 – Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
1994 – Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
1995 – “Patti LuPone on Broadway” closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 46 perfs
1996 – After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1997 – US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
2000 – 12th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 40-12
2000 – Earthquake in Baku.
2001 – 89th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-19
2005 – Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released.
2007 – The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
2007 – 95th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 23-19
2008 – A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one
2009 – Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.
2011 – Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.
2012 – 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
2012 – 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
2012 – 100th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 35-22
Singer Beyoncé Knowles

2012 – 26th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Beyoncé win
2012 – 63rd Formula One WDC: Sebastian Vettel wins by three points
2013 – 17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 – US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon’s top job
2014 – Switzerland’s Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis
2014 – Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
2014 – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting
2014 – Lionel Messi becomes the UEFA Champions League all-time top scorer

BIRTHDAYS

1454 – Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
1501 – Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
1507 – Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer (Praxis rerum criminalium)
1562 – Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), born in Madrid, Spain
1577 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
1638 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
1697 – Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood)
1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1712 – Charles-Michel de l’Épée, French philanthropist and developer of ‘Signed French’ (d. 1789)
1714 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1721 – Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies)
1734 – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, composer
1737 – Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer
1741 – Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer
1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
1753 – Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer
1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (“Silent Night”)
1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1817 – John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
1823 – Joseph Alexander Cooper, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1910)
1825 – Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1891)
1828 – Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician
1834 – Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer
Industrialist and Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835)

1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Dunfermline, Scottish/American industrialist/philanthropist
1839 – Stanislaw Duniecki, composer
1840 – Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement)
1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
1843 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
1844 – Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
1846 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
1852 – Johan N Salvator, [Johann Orth], archduke of Austria
1856 – Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
1858 – Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
1862 – Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
1869 – Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
1870 – Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
1871 – Cornelis J “Cor” van Ast, actor/director (Ghost Hotel)
1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
1877 – Harley Granville-Barker, dramatist/producer/critic, born in London, England
1878 – Georg Kaiser, writer
1880 – Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf
1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children’s author (d. 1960)
Pope John XXIII (1881)

1881 – Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1881 – Peder Gram, composer
1883 – Percy Marmont, actor (Capt Apache), born in London, England
1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
1886 – Percy Holmes, cricketer (Engl, 555 partners with Sutcliffe for Yorks)
1886 – Rex Maupin, St Joseph Mo, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV)
1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
1895 – Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
1895 – Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician
1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern)
1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
1896 – Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts)
1899 – Vera Reynolds, Richmond VA, silent screen actress (Lawless Woman)
1899 – William R Burnett, US, author (Little Caesar)
1900 – Arthur Schwartz, composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust)
1900 – Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon’s 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca)
1900 – Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
1901 – Tibor Serly, Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy)
1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
NHL Star Eddie Shore(1902)

1902 – Eddie Shore, Fort Qu’Appelle Northwest Territories, NHL hall of famer
1903 – Martin Soames, traveller
1903 – William Dehart Hubbard, Cin Ohio, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1924)
1904 – Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer
1904 – Jessie Royce Landis, [Medbury], actress (North by Northwest), born in Chicago, Illinois
1904 – Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
1909 – Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer
1909 – Manny Martindale, cricketer (fiery WI pace bowler of 30’s)
1910 – Leon Poliakov, historian
1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
1913 – Jack Davies, screenwriter
1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio(1914)

1914 – “Joltin'” Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak), (d. 1999)
1914 – Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist (Mississippi)
1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, general/president (Chile)
1915 – George Mudie, cricketer (WI all-rounder in one Test 1935, 5 & 3-40)
1915 – Ron Hamence, cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII)
1919 – Chaim Pearl, rabbi
1920 – Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
1920 – Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1920 – Noel Neill, American actress
1922 – Ilja Hurnik, composer
1922 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
1923 – Jaap van Meekren, Dutch TV host (AVRO/RTL4)
1923 – Mauno Koivisto, president of Finland (1982-94)
1924 – Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist
1924 – Tui St George Tucker, composer
1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
1925 – Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador
1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1926 – Murray Schisgal, playwright (Luv)
1926 – Poul [William] Anderson, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim)
1928 – James “Jimmy” Johnson, US gospel/blues singer/guitarist
1929 – Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill NC, actor (Combat”, “Adam 12”, “Sierra”)
1929 – Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Sei Studii)
1931 – Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council
1933 – Kathryn Grant Crosby, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus), born in Houston, Texas
1933 – Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
1933 – Ramiro Cortes, composer
1933 – Rene Enriquez, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues), born in San Franciso, California
1936 – Matt Clark, actor/director (Return to Oz, Horror Show), born in Washington, D.C.
1936 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
1938 – John “Jack” Baines, mountaineering publisher
1939 – Martin Feldstein, economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal)
1939 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Genoa Italy, actress (Minotaur, Mazzabubu)
1940 – Percy Sledge, soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman)
1940 – Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
NFL Head Coach Joe Gibbs(1940)

1940 – Joe Gibbs, Mocksville North Carolina, American football coach (Washington Redskins)
1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Indian Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001)
1942 – Rosa Von Praunheim, [Holger Mischwitzky], Riga Latvia, dir (Affengeil)
1942 – Tracey Walter, Jersey City NJ, actor (Best of the West)
1943 – Roy Lynes, rocker (Status Quo)
1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
1945 – George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
1945 – Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
1947 – John Larroquette, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel)
1947 – Linda Laflamme, rocker
1947 – Val Fuentes, rocker (It’s A Beautiful Day)
1947 – Tracey Walter, American actor
1948 – Storm Field, [Elliot], NY, weatherman (WABC TV, WCBS TV)
1948 – Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
1949 – Kerry O’Keeffe, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1971-77)
1949 – Rita Jenrette, wife of Rep John Jenrette (D-SC), born in San Antonio, Texas
1949 – [Boris] Alexander Godunov, Sakhalin USSR, dancer/actor (Die Hard)
1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author
1951 – Bucky Dent, all star shortstop (Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees)
1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch soccer player
1951 – Bill Morrissey, American musician
1951 – Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
1952 – Amelia Rorer, LPGA golfer
1952 – Ernest Harden Jr, actor (Marcus-Jeffersons), born in Detroit, Michigan
1952 – Imran Khan Niazi, cricketer (Pakistan’s greatest all-rounder) and politician
1952 – John Lynch, American politician current governor of New Hampshire
1953 – Monique St Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year (Nov, 1978)
1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American former CEO of Enron
1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian born British dancer
1956 – Ena Heese, South African costume designer (Willem of Orange)
1956 – Liana Vicens, Puerto Rico, 100m breaststroke (Olympics 1968)
1956 – Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
1957 – Chico Walker, baseball player
1957 – Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
1958 – Gary Coveyou, rocker
1959 – Steve Rothery, Brampton, guitarist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1959 – Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006), born in Inverness, Scotland
1960 – Amy Grant, Augusta, Georgia, American gospel/rock singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960)

1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr, American lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK, born in NYC, New York
1960 – Kasey Smith, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw It), born in Queens, New York
1960 – Mary Ostergren, St Paul Minn, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1961 – Amy Gibson, actress (General Hospital)
1961 – Kenny Monday, 163 lbs freestyles wrestler (Oly-88, 92, 96), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Bernie Kosar, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns)
1963 – Steve Ave, St Germain Enlay France, US 1500m runner
1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
1964 – Dan Saleaumua, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks)
1964 – Nolan Jay Henke, Battle Creek MI, PGA golfer (1990 BC Open)
1964 – Wendy Wyland, Jackson Mich, platform diver (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1964 – Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
1965 – Anthony Newman, NFL safety (New Orleans Saints)
1965 – Cris Carter, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 – Jeff Norton, Acton, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1965 – Mike Gebhardt, Columbus Ohio, mistral yachter (Olympics-6th-1996)
1965 – Yasmin “Yaz” Farooq, Waupun Wisc, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
1966 – Mark Whiten, Pensacola FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees)
1966 – Stacy Lattisaw, disco singer (Million Dollar Baby), born in Washington, D.C.
1966 – Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
1967 – Andrea Stinson, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1967 – Anthony Nesty, swimmer (won Suriname’s 1st gold olympic medal)
1967 – Curtis Baldwin, actor (Calvin-227), born in Los Angeles, California
1967 – Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
1967 – Gregg Turkington, American comedian (as Neil Hamburger) and musician
1968 – John Johnstone, Liverpool NY, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 – Jory Husain, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Jawaharial-Head of the Class)
1968 – Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
1969 – Anthony Peeler, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 – Donald Reynolds, WLAF defensive tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 – Jacqueline Hennessy, Edmonton, actress (Dead Ringers)
1969 – Jillian Hennessy, Edmonton, twin actress (Claire-Law & Order, Paper)
1970 – Purvis Hunt, NFL/WLAF guard (Houston Oilers, Scottish Claymores)
1970 – Saskia Sibilo, Miss Suriname (1990)
1970 – Shane Pahukoa, NFL safety (NO Saints)
Actress Christina Applegate(1971)

1971 – Christina Applegate, Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
1972 – Kevin Han, Shanghai China, US badminton player (Olympics-96)
1972 – Petteri Nummelin, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1973 – Erick Strickland, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 – Yatil Green, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1974 – Cynthia Geyn Brown, playmate (May, 1995), born in San Jose, California
1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player
1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player
1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver
1978 – Lauren Hewitt, Australian 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
1978 – Laurie Miller, Miss Alaska Teen USA (1997)
1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese musician
1979 – Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
1979 – Michael Lehan, American National Football League player
1980 – Kushan Liyanarachchi, Sri Lankan, prominent Live Buddhism Practitioner
1980 – Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African soccer player
1981 – Barbara and Jenna Bush, twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush
1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer
1981 – Mauricio Rua, Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist
1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
1983 – Joey Chestnut, American champion competitive eater
1983 – Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter

Twin daughter of US President George W. Bush Barbara Pierce Bush(1981)

1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer
1986 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996)
1986 – Katie Cassidy, American singer and actress
1990 – Yasmin van der Meer, 15 millionth Netherlander

WEDDINGS

1795 – US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio
1908 – Vaudeville performer Will Rogers (29) weds Betty Blake
1913 – 28th US President Woodrow Wilson’s daughter Jessie marries in The White House
1961 – Racing car driver Mario Andretti (21) weds high school sweetheart Dee Ann Hoch (19)
1987 – Actor Phil Hartman (39) weds former model Brynn Omdahl
1991 – Author Douglas Adams (39) weds Jane Belson

DIVORCES

2002 – Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) divorces “Princess of Rock and Roll” Lisa Marie Presley (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 months of marriage

DEATHS

311 – Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
992 – Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies
1120 – William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England (b. 1104) dies in White Ship tragedy trying to save his illegitimate half-sister Countess of Perche while crossing the English Channel
1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 – Philip II of Taranto, Titular emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
1456 – Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1640 – Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
1686 – Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
1694 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1748 – Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
1750 – Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77
1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76
1773 – Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66
1785 – Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1815 – Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70
1830 – Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56
1854 – John G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60
1865 – Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies
1881 – Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
1883 – Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76
1885 – Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27
1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st US Vice President (D), dies 8 months after taking office at 66
1887 – Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
1895 – Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
1899 – Robert Lowry, composer, dies at 73
1901 – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
1913 – Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1914 – Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1923 – Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83
1923 – Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies
1935 – Maria H “Mina” Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72
1939 – Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon who was a pioneer in neurosurgery, popularized the concept of herd instinct, and was an authority in cancers of the head and neck, dies at 67
1941 – Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People’s Front), dies
1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78
1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 – Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
1948 – Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1949 – Luther “Bill” Robinson, “Bojangles” famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1951 – Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
1952 – Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72
1952 – Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71
1958 – Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1964 – Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90
1965 – Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1967 – Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
1968 – Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93
1968 – Phil Lord, actor (Stud’s Place), dies at 89
Author Upton Sinclair(1968)

1968 – Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90
1968 – Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1971 – Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 84
1972 – Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
1973 – Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45
1973 – Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death in prison
1974 – Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26
1974 – Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives), dies at 61
1974 – [Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
1975 – Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies
1977 – Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie’s Raiders), dies at 65
1978 – Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
1981 – Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
1982 – Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73
1985 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
1987 – Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92
1987 – Harold Washington, 1st African American mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1989 – Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M’Liss), dies
1989 – Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
1990 – Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
1991 – Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86
Novelist Anthony Burgess(1993)

1993 – Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
1993 – Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77
1994 – Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79
1994 – Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
1995 – Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92
1996 – Hugh Joseph Charles James L’Etang, medical writer, dies at 79
1996 – Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86
1996 – Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87
1997 – Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54
1997 – Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62
1997 – Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/Pres of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies
1997 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2000 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), dies at age 59 after suffering multiple organ failures
2005 – Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
2006 – Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2006 – Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
2006 – Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children’s book publisher (b. 1916)
2010 – Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (b. 1930)
2010 – Peter Christopherson English musician and video director/designer (b. 1955)
2010 – Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (b. 1930)
2010 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
2011 – Tom Wicker, American journalist and author, dies at 85
2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician, dies at 81
2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress, dies at 92

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1952 Mousetrap opens in London

• American Revolution

• 1783 Last British soldiers leave New York

• Automotive

• 1990 Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge sinks to the bottom of Lake Washington

• Civil War

• 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge

• Cold War

• 1947 London Council of Foreign Ministers meeting begins

• Crime

• 1999 International day to eliminate violence against women

• Disaster

• 1950 Storm of the century hits eastern U.S.

• General Interest

• 1783 Last British soldiers leave New York
• 1963 JFK buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1970 Mishima commits ritual suicide
• 1986 Iran-Contra connection revealed

• Hollywood

• 1952 Agatha Christie’s long-running play The Mousetrap opens

• Literary

• 1921 Nathanael West flunks out of Tufts
• 1951 Charlaine Harris, author of Sookie Stackhouse books, is born

• Music

• 1974 Singer-songwriter Nick Drake dies

• Old West

• 1876 U.S. Army retaliates for the Little Bighorn massacre

• Presidential

• 1963 Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington

• Sports

• 1980 Sugar Ray takes his title back

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Catholic official reports support provided to North Vietnam
• 1969 Communist activity increases along Cambodian border

• World War I

• 1918 German commander in East Africa surrenders

• World War II

• 1941 A “war warning” is sent to commanders in the Pacific