November 27th

EVENTS

399 – St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 – Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1237 – Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II defeated the Second Lombardian League
1295 – English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives
1382 – Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed
1495 – Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone
1587 – Dutch county of Groningen flooded by failure of dyke
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1798 – Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail
1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
1815 – City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna
1815 – Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1817 – US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1826 – John Walker invents friction match in England
1839 – American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 – Opera “Bohemian Girl” is produced (London)
1863 – -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863 – Battle of Payne’s Farm, VA
1864 – 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1868 – Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack
1870 – NY Times dubs baseball “The National Game”
1885 – Earliest photograph of a meteor shower taken
1889 – 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1889 – Hermann Sudermann’s “Ehre” premieres in Berlin
1890 – 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
Chemist, Engineer & Innovator Alfred Nobel

1895 – Alfred Nobel’s will establishes Nobel Prizes
1896 – “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1901 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s “Der rote Hahn” premieres in Berlin
1901 – U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
1901 – Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain
1903 – Opera “Die Heugierigen Frauen” is produced (Munich)
1910 – NY’s Penn Station opens as world’s largest railway terminal
1911 – Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1912 – Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 – Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
1914 – 1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire)
1919 – Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann

1920 – “The Mask of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – 1st American superhero film
1924 – 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1925 – German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1926 – 110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 – Béla Bartok’s ballet “Miraculous Mandarin” premieres in Keulen
1926 – Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
1926 – KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 – Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1931 – 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day
1932 – Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1937 – Pro-labor musical revue “Pins & Needles” opens, produced by ILGWU
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1939 – Maxwell Anderson’s “Key Largo” premieres in NYC
1940 – 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
1941 – British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk
1941 – Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1941 – USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat
1942 – Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1942 – French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them
1942 – Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
1943 – 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
1943 – Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1944 – 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed
1944 – US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1945 – Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China
Military Leader George Marshall

1945 – Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1945 – Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1946 – English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1947 – Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1948 – 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
1948 – Honda 1st opens in America
1950 – Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 – Trial against RC clergy “imperialistic conspiracy” begins in Prague
1951 – 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1951 – Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea
1952 – KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL’s MVP
1954 – “By the Beautiful Sea” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio

1954 – 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1954 – 19th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-0 in Birmingham
1956 – F Goodrich and A Hackett’s “Diary of Anne Frank” premieres in Netherlands
1956 – 1957 NFL Draft: Paul Hornung from University of Notre Dame first pick by Green Bay Packers
1957 – Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration
1958 – USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1960 – CBS radio cancels “Have Gun Will Travel”
1960 – Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 – Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 – Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1960 – Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
Ice Hockey Legend Gordie Howe

1961 – Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1961 – KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 – Sumner Arthur Long’s “Never Too Late” premieres in NYC
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 – 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
1965 – 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 – 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
1965 – 1966 NFL Draft: Tommy Nobis from University of Texas first pick by Atlanta Falcons
1965 – 30th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 30-3 in Birmingham
1966 – In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
1966 – Uruguay adopts constitution
1967 – Beatles release “Magical Mystery Tour”
1967 – Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
French President Charles de Gaulle

1967 – French President Charles de Gaulle said ‘Non!’ to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time
1970 – Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
1970 – George Harrison releases 3 album set “All Things Must Pass”
1970 – Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1970 – Test Cricket debut of Rodney “Iron Gloves” Marsh v England, Brisbane
1971 – Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1971 – Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh
1971 – 36th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-7 in Birmingham
1972 – Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
1972 – Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1973 – Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 – Neil Simon’s “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC
1973 – Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1973 – US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls
1974 – Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 – Red Sox’s Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL)
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1976 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship
1976 – Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976 – 41st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 38-7 in Birmingham
1977 – “Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf
37th US President Richard Nixon

1977 – 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6
1979 – 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG
1980 – Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 – 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1982 – Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
1982 – 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn’s first win in the series in 10 years
1983 – 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
1983 – Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181
1983 – Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
1985 – Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 – Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1987 – “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
1987 – Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
1987 – 52nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 10-0 in Birmingham
1988 – 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21
1989 – Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 – George Harrison releases “Cheer Down” & “Poor Little Girl”
1989 – Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 – US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

1990 – British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader ( and hence as Prime Minister)
1991 – “Peter Pan” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1991 – Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
1991 – Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
1992 – Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
1992 – Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1993 – Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 v NZ, Hobart)
1993 – India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12
1993 – Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World
1994 – 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
1994 – Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
1994 – Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1997 – Lions’ Barry Sanders becomes NFL’s 2nd all-time rusher
WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan

1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 – New Zealand’s All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2005 – President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term.
264th Pope John Paul II

2005 – 93rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 38-35
2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
2006 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.
2009 – 74th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 26-21 in Auburn
2011 – 99th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 34-23
2011 – 62nd Formula One WDC: Sebastian Vettel wins by 122 points
2012 – 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq
2012 – The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece
2013 – Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour’s player of the year for the 11th time
2013 – Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index
Actress/Singer Idina Menzel

2013 – “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
2014 – Stephanie Gilmore wins her 6th women’s world surfing title
2014 – Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer

BIRTHDAYS

1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1544 – Ascanio Trombeti, composer
1563 – Robbert Robbertsz, (le Canu), nautical expert
1569 – Ottavio Vernizzi, composer
1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1588 – Valerius Andreas, [Walter Driessens], Flemish historian
1595 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect
1627 – Louise Henriette, [Mlle d’Orange], daughter of Frederik Henry
1630 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 – Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1648 – Peter Codde, RC apostole vicar (1688-1704)
1668 – Henri F d’Aguesseau, chancellor of France (1717..50)
1691 – Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
1701 – Anders Celsius, Uppsala, Sweden, astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale)
1710 – Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1731 – Gaetano Pugnani, composer
1732 – Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
Astronomer Anders Celsius(1701)

1741 – Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
1745 – Boniface Stoecki, composer
1746 – Robert R. Livingston, US Founding Father, delivered oath of office to George Washington
1746 – Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1750 – Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
1756 – Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant)
1759 – Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer
1775 – Joachim G le Sage ten Broek, Dutch notary/catholic foreman/publicist
1778 – John Murray, publisher
1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1787 – Christian Rummel, composer
1787 – Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland
1801 – Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
American Founding FatherRobert R. Livingston(1746)

1804 – Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
1808 – Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1877)
1809 – Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
1813 – Michele Puccini, composer
1830 – Harrison Millard, composer
1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1840 – Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]
1843 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1854 – Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs
1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1865 – Jose Asunción Silva, Colombia, poet (Nocturno III)
1867 – Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer
1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland
1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
1874 – Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism)
1875 – Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)
1878 – Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer
1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948).
1879 – Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
1885 – Rudolph Reti, composer
1886 – Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter
1892 – Pedro Salinas, writer
1893 – Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer
1894 – Forrest Shaklee, founder (Shaklee Products)
1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1896 – Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio)
1897 – Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1898 – Nelly Steuer-Wagenaar, Dutch pianist
1898 – Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
1900 – Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
1900 – Robert Blum, composer
1901 – Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), born in NYC, New York
1902 – Giuseppe Savagnone, composer
1903 – Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback (Green Bay)
1903 – Mona Washbourne, England, actress (Stevie, Billie Liar, Driver’s Seat)
1905 – Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Mater Dolorosa)
1907 – L[yon] Sprague de Camp, US, sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei)
1909 – Astrid Allwyn, Manchester CT, actress (Charlie Chan’s Secret)
1909 – Donald John Urquhart, librarian
1909 – James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family)
1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1910 – Rudolf Holzmann, composer
1911 – Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix/Kuifje)
1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
1912 – David Merrick, [Margulois], Hong Kong, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1912 – Howard de Walden, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1913 – Frances Swem Anderson, technologist (nuclear medicine)
1913 – Robert Dougall, English TV host
1914 – Evangeline Bruce, hostess
1915 – Caro van Eyck, [Gerarda JE Taytelbaum], Dutch actress (Medea)
1915 – Victor Alessandro, composer
1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 – “Buffalo” Bob Smith, TV host (Howdy Doody), born in Buffalo, New York
1917 – Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer)
1918 – Zeev Wolfgang Steinberg, composer
1919 – Siegfried Naumann, composer
1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star
1920 – David Waller, actor (Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word)
1920 – Elaine Greene, literary Agent
1920 – John Richard Ravensdale, historian
1920 – Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP
1921 – Alexander Dubček, Uhrovec, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1921 – Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic (Limbo, Glem Ikke)
1923 – Robert A Young, (Rep-D-MO, 1977-86)
1924 – Theresa R van der Pant, sculptor
1925 – Ernie Wise, England, comedian (Morecambe & Wise)
1925 – Marshall Thompson, Peoria Ill, actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari)
1925 – Michael Tolan, actor (Nurses, Senator), born in Detroit, Michigan
1925 – John Maddox, British science writer and editor
1926 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
1927 – William Simon, US sect of Treasury
1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
1928 – Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman
1928 – Walter Klien, pianist
1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
1929 – Billy Nair, S Afr union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)
1930 – James M Taylor, Stamps ARK, USAF/astronaut
1930 – Vladimir Emel Yanovich Lev Alekseevich Samsonov Maksimov, educator
1930 – Joe DeNardo, American Meteorologist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1931 – Juan Guinjoan, composer
1932 – Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1934 – Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest
1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
1935 – Al Jackson Jr, drummer (Booker T & MGs-Chinese Checkers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1935 – Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann, composer
1935 – Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50’s, 77 runs)
1935 – Verity A Lambert, film producer (Clockwise, Link, Sweeney)
1935 – Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
1937 – Gail Sheehy, author (Hustling)
1938 – Jose Tartabull, baseball player
1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player
Karate Star/Actor Bruce Lee(1940)

1940 – Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], karate star/actor (Green Hornet), born in San Francisco, California
1940 – John Alderton, Gainsborough England, actor (Zardoz)
1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
1942 – Henry Carr, American athlete (200m/4x400m Olympic golds 1964), born in Montgomery, Alabama
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
1943 – Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
1944 – Dozy, rocker
1944 – Eddie Rabbitt, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 – Martin Corbett, gay activist
Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix(1942)

1944 – Mickey Leland, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
1945 – Barbara Anderson, Bkln, actress (Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible)
1945 – Randy Brecker, Phila, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945 – Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
1945 – James Avery, Pughsville, Virginia, actor (Fresh Prince of Bell Air), (d. 2013)
1948 – Dave Winthrop, rock saxophonist (Supertramp)
1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
1950 – Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
1951 – Jayne Kennedy, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul), born in Washington, D.C.
1951 – Kevin Kavanaugh, rocker (Asbury Jukes) [or 8/27]
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, San Carlos, California, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty)
Director Kathryn Bigelow(1951)

1952 – James D Wetherbee, Flushing NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astr (STS 32, 52, 63, 86)
1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor (Moonlighting, Revenge of the Nerds), born in Detroit, Michigan
1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
1954 – Patricia McPherson, Oak Harbor Wash, actress (Bonnie-Knight Rider)
1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress best known for her role as Lucy Moran in the TV series Twin Peaks
1955 – Bill Nye, the Science Guy, TV Host
1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
1957 – Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, JFK & Jackie’s daughter
1957 – Terri R Adams, educator (teacher in space)
1957 – Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1957 – Kevin O’Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
1958 – Julia Celotto, LA CA, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz/Pismo-9th-1994)
1958 – Mike Scioscia, baseball player (LA Dodgers)
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish pop guitarist (Simple Minds-Breakfast Club)
1960 – Ashley Ingram, English singer (Fizzz-Just an Illusion)
1960 – Martin van Yellow, soccer player (Willem II)
1960 – Ken O’Brien, Rockville Centre, New York, American football quarterback (NY Jets)
1960 – Kevin Henkes, American children’s book writer/illustrator
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician
1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
1961 – Lee Johnson, NFL punter/kicker (Cin Bengals)
1961 – Princess, rocker (Desirez Heslop, All For Love)
1961 – Randy Milligan, baseball player
1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
1962 – Arlene Baxter, Oceanside CA, playmate (Dec, 1993)
1962 – Calvin Hayes, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1962 – Charlie Benante, rock drummer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous), born in The Bronx, New York
1962 – Mike “Puffy” Bordin, SF, rock drummer (Faith No More)
1963 – Fisher Stevens, actor (My Science Project, Short Circuit), born in Chicago, Illinois
1964 – David Giles, Australian star yachter (Olympics-84, 88, 92, 96)
1964 – Rebecca Michelle Ferratti, Helena MT, playmate (Jun, 1986)
1964 – Robin Simone Givens, [Mrs Mike Tyson] (Darlene-Head of the Class), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Danielle Ammaccapane, Babylon NY, LPGA golfer (1991 Register PING)
1965 – Fiachna O’Braonain, Irish pop guitarist (Hothouse Flowers-Don’t Go)
1965 – Kathleen Heddle, Trail BC, rower (Olympics-gold-92/96)
1965 – Raffaella Ragge, Italy, tennis star
1966 – Carwell Gardner, NFL fullback (Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers)
1966 – Chryssandra Hines, Bristol Conn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1966 – Dean Garrett, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 – Brett MacNeil, CFL guard (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 – Garry Valk, Edmonton, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1967 – Laura Golarsa, Milan Italy, tennis star (Oklahoma City doubles)
1967 – Shawn Watson, American librarian
1968 – Michael Vartan, French actor
1970 – Calvin Jones, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1970 – Chris Underwood, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96), born in Los Angeles, California
1970 – Patrick Bates, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 – Todd Kelly, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1970 – Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
1971 – Eric Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1971 – Larry Allen, NFL guard/tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 – Linette Mertz, Kutztown Penns, Miss America-Penns (1996)
1971 – Nick Van Exel, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1971 – Rhonda Adams, Columbus GA, playmate (Jun, 1995)
1971 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor (Oz, The Thin Red Line), born in Brooklyn, New York
1972 – Chris Hetherington, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 – Ivan Imbernon, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 – Jason Burns, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1972 – Yureck Person, soccer player (NAC)
1973 – Jon Runyan, tackle (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 – Nick Ferguson, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 – Reginald Lee, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and host
1973 – Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
1974 – Lee Vaughn, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 – Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player
1976 – Chad Kilger, Cornwall, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 – Jaleel White, actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters), born in Los Angeles, California
1976 – Saqlain Mushtaq, cricketer (Pakistan Test off-spinner 1995)
1976 – Tyrone Sutton
1976 – Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
1978 – Joshua Harris, actor (Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage)
1978 – Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 – Mike Skinner, English musician
1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 – Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer
1981 – Gary Lucy, Actor
1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1984 – Domata Peko, American football player
1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1985 – Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1991 – Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean Gymnast
1994 – Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, born at Bendigo Station, Otago (d. 2011)

WEDDINGS

1971 – MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City
1980 – British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)
1993 – Actress Teri Garr (44) weds building contractor John O’Neil (42) at the Twin Dolphins Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2010 – US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (25) weds Melanie Juneau in Texas

DIVORCES

2006 – “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married
Actress Selma Blair (2006)

2006 – Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage
2013 – Actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

DEATHS

8 – Horace, Roman poet, dies at 56
450 – Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58
511 – Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45
640 – Acharius, bishop of Noyon/saint, dies
835 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1026 – Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies
1198 – Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 – John III, King of Sweden (1568-92), dies at 54
1632 – John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1673 – Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72
1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1749 – Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44
1749 – Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59
Roman Poet Horace (8)

1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 – Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1836 – Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies
1852 – Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1884 – Franziska “Fanny” Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74
1890 – Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69
1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 – Alexandre Dumas fils, French writer and playwright (b. 1824), son of the French author of the same name
1899 – Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74
1901 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
Mathematician, Computer Programmer Ada Lovelace(1852)

1915 – Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
1916 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
1921 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician]] (b. 1854)
1925 – Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies
1930 – J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 – Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 – “Baby Face” Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1934 – Herman Hollis, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1934 – Sam Cowley, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1942 – A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for South Africa 1935-39), dies
1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 – Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 – Eugene O’Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1955 – Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies of a heart attack at 63
1955 – Luis de Freitas Branco, composer, dies at 65
1955 – William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
1957 – Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88
1958 – Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
1959 – Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36
1960 – Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1960 – Frederick Fane, cricketer (682 runs in 14 Tests for Eng 1905-10), dies
1965 – Carl Parrish, composer, dies at 61
1965 – Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It’s a Man’s World), dies at 64
1967 – Cameron Prud’Homme, actor (Rainmaker), dies after long illness at 75
1967 – Ettore Panizza, composer, dies at 92
1968 – Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85
1968 – Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65
1971 – Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86
1971 – Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70
1973 – Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1974 – Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
1975 – Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered
1977 – John Little McClellan, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (1976-78) shot and killed by Dan White aged 49
American Politician Harvey Milk (1978)

1978 – Harvey Milk, first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48
1978 – Susan Damante Shaw, actress (Wilderness Family), dies at 58
1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer/actress (From Russia With Love), dies of cancer at 83
1981 – Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies
1982 – Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79
1983 – Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
1984 – Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1986 – Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61
1988 – Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies
1988 – John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82
1988 – Karel Horky, composer, dies at 79
1988 – [John] Hein Donner, chess grand master, dies at 61
1990 – David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies at 74
1992 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 – Arthur Frank “Peter” Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1995 – Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist, dies at 60
1995 – Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
1995 – Simon Bailey, priest, dies at 40
1996 – George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1997 – Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90
1997 – Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 – Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 – Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 – Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname ‘Fluff’ (b. 1927)
2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 – Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007 – Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (Washington Redskins), fatally shot in the upper leg by an armed intruder at 24
2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
2011 – Sultan Khan, Indian classical musician, dies at 71
2011 – Gary Speed, Former Welsh international footballer and Wales national football team manager (b. 1969)
2012 – Marvin Miller, American union leader, dies at 95
2013 – Lewis Collins, British actor, dies from cancer at 67
2013 – Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer, dies from a lung infection at 88
2014 – P D [Phyllis Dorothy] James, Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime writer (Death in Holy Orders), dies at 94

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1095 Pope Urban II orders first Crusade

• American Revolution

• 1746 “The Chancellor” is born

• Automotive

• 2007 Indy 500 champ Hélio Castroneves wins “Dancing with the Stars”

• Civil War

• 1863 John Hunt Morgan escapes from the Ohio Penitentiary

• Cold War

• 1954 Alger Hiss released from prison

• Crime

• 1978 San Francisco leaders George Moscone and Harvey Milk are murdered

• Disaster

• 1703 Freak storm dissipates over England

• General Interest

• 1940 Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government
• 1957 Nehru appeals for disarmament

• Hollywood

• 1940 Bruce Lee born

• Literary

• 1786 Robert Burns postpones emigration to Jamaica

• Music

• 1942 Jimi Hendrix born
• 2005 Aerosmith and 50 Cent headline a $10 million bar mitzvah

• Old West

• 1868 Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River

• Presidential

• 1911 White House housekeeper frets over presidential waistline

• Sports

• 1965 Gordie Howe scores his 600th goal

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Pentagon calls for troop increase
• 1970 South Vietnamese forces attacked near Cambodian border

• World War I

• 1914 Hindenburg celebrates Warsaw campaign

• World War II

• 1942 French scuttle their fleet