November 28th

EVENTS

587 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir
1291 – Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London.
1340 – Battle of Salado, Spain: last Moorish invasion driven back
1443 – Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 – Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1569 – Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1660 – The Royal Society forms in London
1670 – Pierre Corneille’s “Tite et Berenice” premieres in Paris
1717 – Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called “La Concorde”, which he would capture and rename as the “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
1720 – Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution
1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
Pirate Anne Bonny

1745 – -29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
1757 – Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
1775 – 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
1795 – US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1813 – Cossacks occupy Utrecht
1814 – The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 – Panama declares independence from Spain
1833 – Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1843 – Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1847 – Bologna: church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini’s Tantum ergo
1853 – Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854 – Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1861 – Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy
1862 – Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
1862 – Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
1864 – 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones’s Plantation, Georgia
1864 – Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser’s Raid, Ft Kelly)
1871 – Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina
1875 – British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa
1879 – Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 – America’s 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1899 – Battle of Mud River (Boer general Cronjé beats British gen Methuen)
1901 – Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony in G premieres
1904 – Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa
1905 – Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Burns

1906 – Tommy Burns & Jack O’Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1908 – 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pa
1911 – Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
1912 – Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from Turkey
1913 – Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris
1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1914 – 10th Australasian Championships: Arthur O’Hara Wood beats Gerald Patterson (6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1)
1916 – 1st German air attack on London
1917 – Sigmund Romberg’s revue “Over the Top” premieres in NYC
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates
German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II

1918 – Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania
1919 – US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons
1920 – Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1921 – Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
1922 – 6 ex-ministers executed in Greece
1922 – Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200.” 47,000 called
1924 – Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
1925 – 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
1925 – Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn
1925 – NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies 4 months later of TB
1927 – J McHugh & D Fields’ musical “Delmar’s Revels” premieres in NYC
1929 – Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
NHL Goalie Georges Vezina

1929 – Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1930 – Howard Hanson’s 2nd Symphony “Romantic” premieres
1931 – Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa
1932 – France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty
1932 – Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1933 – A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
1934 – Winston Churchill tells British Premier Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1938 – 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O’Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
1939 – Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1939 – Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
1940 – Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by nazis
1941 – German troops vacate Rostov
1942 – 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
1943 – FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1944 – 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
1944 – 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1944 – Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP
1944 – In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
1944 – US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen
1945 – Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
1946 – French government of Bidault resigns
1946 – Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to death sentenced
1948 – “Hopalong Cassidy” premieres on TV
1949 – “Texas, Li’l Darlin'” opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 perfs
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1950 – Walter O’Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
1951 – John Van Druten’s “I am a Camera” premieres in NYC
1951 – Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
1953 – “Wish You Were Here” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 perfs
1953 – 41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6
1953 – 18th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 10-7 in Birmingham
1954 – 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1954 – Cleveland Browns’ Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt
1954 – KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 – KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 – KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 – 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado A&M first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
1956 – Photography begins on “… & God Created Women”
Actor Anthony Perkins

1957 – “Look Homeward, Angel” with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1957 – Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award
1958 – AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9
1958 – Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community
1958 – Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
1958 – George “Punch” Imlach becomes coach of NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs
1958 – KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 – Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay
1958 – US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM
1959 – 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
1959 – KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook – Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins
1959 – Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum
1959 – 24th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 10-0 in Birmingham, breaking a streak of five consecutive victories by Auburn in the series
Pope John XXIII

1960 – CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1960 – Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1961 – General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea
1961 – Martin Walser’s “Der Abstecher” premieres in Munich
1962 – Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
1963 – 1st million copy record prior to release “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
1963 – Beatles “She Loves You” returns to #1 in UK record chart
1963 – Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1963 – WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 – 52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24
1964 – France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 – Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1964 – 1965 NFL Draft: Tucker Frederickson from University of Auburn first pick by New York Giants
1965 – Browns’ Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1965 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 – Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
1966 – Dominican Republic adopts constitution
1967 – 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
1967 – 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected by postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish
1968 – John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
1969 – Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
1970 – 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
1970 – 35th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 33-28 in Birmingham
1971 – “Me Nobody Knows” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 perfs
1971 – 59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11
1972 – “Via Galactica” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
1972 – LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
1972 – 2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
1973 – Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1973 – Balt Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner

1974 – Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1974 – John Lennon’s last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC)
1975 – Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed
1975 – Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane
1975 – Wings release “Venus & Mars/Rock Show” medley
1975 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1975 – Bobby Orr plays his last game for the Boston Bruins
1976 – 64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20
1978 – 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
1978 – Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
1979 – “King of Schnorrers” opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 perfs
MLB Player and Manager Sparky Anderson

1979 – Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1979 – LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year
1979 – Pope John Paul II’s first papal visit to Turkey, almost 1 1/2 years before Turkish native Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to kill him
1981 – “Merrily We Roll Along” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 – Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football’s winningest coach
1981 – 46th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 28-17 in Birmingham
1982 – “Pirates of Penzance” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 perfs
1982 – 70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
1982 – 71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1)
1983 – 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched
1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn

1985 – 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
1986 – Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1986 – US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1986 – OPEC reaches oil production accord
1987 – South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1988 – Picasso’s “Acrobat & Harlequin” sells for $38.46 million
1989 – Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A’s contract
1989 – Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
1990 – Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore’s longest-serving Prime Minister
1990 – Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain’s PM, replaced by John Major
1993 – “Gray’s Anatomy” opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 – “Mixed Emotions” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1993 – 81st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23
1993 – Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

1994 – Norway votes against joining European Union
1994 – In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
1995 – James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
1997 – Final episode of “Beavis & Butt-head” on MTV
1997 – First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998 – The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
1999 – 87th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Calgary Stampeders, 32-21
2000 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
2004 – Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer

2008 – Canada remains the only OECD country out of the recession at this time
2008 – Sweden technically enters the recession after experiencing contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarter
2010 – 98th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Saskatchewan Roughriders, 21-18
2010 – 24th Soul Train Music Awards: Ron Isley, Anita Baker win
2012 – 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
2012 – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” 1st of the Hobbit film series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Wellington New Zealand

BIRTHDAYS

1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
1489 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 – James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
1607 – Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento
1628 – John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim’s Progress)
1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)
1650 – John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps) [or Nov 25]
1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
1681 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
1700 – Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
1704 – Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1757 – William Blake, poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), born in London, England (d. 1827)
1763 – Matthaus Fischer, composer
1770 – F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia
Poet/Artist William Blake(1757)

1772 – Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1777 – Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
1784 – Ferdinand Reis, composer
1785 – Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
1792 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
1793 – Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck)
1795 – Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
1805 – John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
1810 – William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect
1811 – Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
1812 – Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1820 – Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx’s collaborator
1820 – Lawrence O’Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
1841 – E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
1843 – Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1853 – Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1854 – Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
1856 – Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal’sky, composer
1857 – Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
1864 – Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver
1864 – James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
1864 – Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1866 – Arthur Frederick Augustus “Dick” Lilley, cricket keeper (England)
Architect Henry Bacon(1866)

1866 – Henry Bacon, Watseka Illinois, American architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1866 – Johannes F “Johan” Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete
1868 – Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
1876 – Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler)
1878 – Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)
1880 – Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
1880 – Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
1881 – Stefan Zweig, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity), born in Vienna, Austria
1883 – Paul Hastings Allen, composer
1887 – Bobby Watson, [Knucher], Springfield IL, comedian
1887 – Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA
1887 – Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist/organist
1891 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
1892 – Thomas Wood, composer
1894 – Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1895 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
1896 – Lilia Skala, actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly), born in Vienna, Austria
1896 – Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1897 – Uno Choyo, writer
1898 – Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS]
1900 – Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
1902 – Victor Jory, Dawson City Canada, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1904 – James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss)
1904 – Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a cold climate)
1907 – Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent Ones)
1908 – Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62)
1908 – Roberto Lupi, composer
1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1909 – Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan/vice-premier
1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1912 – Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1912 – Morris Louis, US painter (post abstract)
1913 – Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
1915 – Pamela Harrison, composer
1915 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter
1916 – Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III
1917 – Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio/TV host
1919 – Keith Miller, cricketer (one of Australia’s best ever all-rounders)
1920 – Cecilia Colledge, England, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1936)
1922 – Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1923 – Helen Delich Bentley, (Rep-R-MD, 1985- )
1923 – Phyllis Jenkins, literary & theatrical agent community activist
1923 – Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-AK, 1968- )
1923 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
1924 – Kees [Gerrit C] Otten, Dutch flutist
1925 – Aurelio de la Vega, composer
1925 – Gloria Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), born in Los Angeles, California
1925 – Virginia Hewitt, Shreveport La, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1925 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1927 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 – Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
1928 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
Record Company Owner Berry Gordy (1929)

1929 – Berry Gordy, record company owner (Motown), born in Detroit, Michigan
1931 – Dervla Murphy, travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule)
1931 – Hope Lange, Redding Ridge Ct, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1931 – Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire (Heritage Projects)
1931 – Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author (Nude on Fence)
1931 – Thomas Enders, diplomat
1932 – Ethel L Ennis, US orchestra leader/jazz singer (Once Again)
1932 – Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter (There’s a Girl in My Soup)
1933 – Joe Knollenberg, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 – Carlos Farinas, composer
1934 – Dick Rhyan, Columbus OH, PGA golfer (1994 GTE-5th)
1935 – Randolph Stow, author/poet (Suburbs of Hell)
1935 – Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
1936 – Gary Hart, (Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)
1936 – Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
1939 – Gary Troxel, rocker
1940 – Bruce Channel, rocker
1940 – Clem Curtis, rocker
1941 – Laura Antonelli, actress (Wifemistress, Divine Nymph), born in Pola, Italy
1942 – Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
1942 – Manolo Blahnik, Santa Cruz de La Palma Spain, shoe designer
1943 – Randy Newman, vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1944 – Rita Mae Brown, actress (Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre)
1944 – R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer, (d. 2012)
1944 – Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
1946 – Joe Dante, director (Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins)
1946 – Susan Spencer, NY, correspondent (48 Hours) [1946 approx]
1947 – Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
1947 – Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
1948 – Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director (Europa Europa)
1948 – Beeb Birtles, [Gerard Birtlekamp], rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1949 – Alexander Godunov, Russia, composer/dancer (Bolshoi) defected 1979
1949 – Hugh McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1949 – Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman)
1949 – Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of Deception)
Actor Ed Harris (1950)

1950 – Ed Harris, Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1952 – Jeff Fahey, actor (Darkman III, Crossover, Serpent’s Lair)
1952 – S Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw Michigan, American actress (Jacob’s Ladder, Terminator 2)
1953 – Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1953 – Sixto Lezcano, baseball player
1955 – Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
1955 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
1955 – Jeffrey Byron, American actor
1956 – Kristine Arnold, Torrance, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1956 – Lucy Gutteridge, actress (Top Secret, Trouble With Spies)
1958 – Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher (Yankees, Giants), born in San Jose, California
MLB Pitcher and Coach Dave Righetti (1958)

1958 – David Van Day, rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me)
1958 – Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain, 4X400 runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 – Tim Mullens, Dutch singer/guitarist (Ivy green)
1958 – Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan war criminal
1959 – Judd Nelson, Portland ME, actor (Breakfast Club, Jack-Suddenly Susan)
1959 – R Glynn Holt, Plainveiw Texas, PhD/astronaut (STS 73 alt)
1959 – Stephen Roche, bicylist
1960 – Deneice Lewis, model, born in Lynchburg, Virginia
1960 – Ken Howell, baseball player
1960 – John Galliano, Gibraltar, British fashion designer
1961 – Jane Sibbett, actress (Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman’s Head)
1961 – Patty Zomer, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1961 – Martin Clunes, British actor
1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director (Gravity), born in Mexico City
1962 – Karen Marsden, Perth Australia, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 – Matt Cameron, musician (Soundgarden)
1962 – Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
1962 – Jon Stewart [Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz], American Comedian (The Daily Show), born in New York, NY
1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1963 – Johnny Newman, NBA guard/foward (Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks)
1963 – Walt Weiss, Tuxedo NY, shortstop (Oakland A’s, Colorado Rockies)
1963 – Armando Iannucci, comedian and radio producer, born in Glasgow, Scotland
1964 – Cornelia Guest, debutante (Debutante’s Guide to Life)
1964 – John Burkett, New Brighton PA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 – David Ecob, Australian golfer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
1965 – Matt Williams, infielder (SF Giants)
1965 – Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
1966 – Sam Seder, American comedian
1967 – Anna Nicole “Vickie” Smith, playmate (May 1992), born in Houston, Texas
1967 – Stephnie Weir, American comedian
1967 – José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
1968 – Dawn Robinson, singer (En Vogue)
1968 – Jonathan Brown, rower (Olympics-5th-1996), born in NYC, New York
1969 – Dale Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1969 – Doug Petersen, CFL defensive end (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 – Marc Spindler, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets, Detroit Lions)
1969 – Nick Knight, cricketer (England opening batsman 1995- )
1969 – Pedro Astacio, Hato Mayor Dom Rep, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 – Pio Sagapolutele, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints, Cleveland Browns)
1969 – Robb Nen, San Pedro, California, American MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1969 – Sonia O’Sullivan, Ireland, 5k runner (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1970 – Arshad Laiq, cricket all-rounder (United Arab Emirates World Cup 1996)
1970 – Evan Droop, Yarrawonga VIC, Australian golfer
1970 – Jason Day, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 – Todd Perry, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1970 – Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
1971 – Karin Taylor, Kingston Jamacia, playmate (June, 1996)
1971 – William Simas Jr, Hanford CA, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 – Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
1971 – Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
1973 – Jade Puget, American musician (AFI)
1974 – Jason Ferguson, defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 – Joerg Heckenbach, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 – apl.de.ap, American rapper (Black Eyed Peas)
1974 – András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
1974 – Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
1975 – Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian musician (Satyricon (band))
1975 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
1977 – Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
1977 – DeMya Walker, American basketball player
1977 – Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
1978 – Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
1978 – Freddie Mitchell, American football player
1978 – Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American producer
1979 – Chamillionaire [Hakeem Seriki ], American rapper, born in Houston, Texas
1979 – Joel Maximo, American professional wrestler
1979 – Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor
1980 – Stuart Taylor, British footballer
1980 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
1982 – Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
1984 – Joross Gamboa, Filipino actor
1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
1984 – Trey Songz, American singer
1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
1984 – Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
1988 – Christopher Stringini, American singer
1988 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress
1992 – Kianna Underwood, American actress
1994 – Lola Sanchez, American actress
1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer

WEDDINGS

1582 – Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1936 – Paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (43) weds librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew
1938 – Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony
1962 – Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox
1986 – NBC’s Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game
1998 – “The Truman Show” actor Noah Emmerich (33) weds “The West Wing” actress Melissa Fitzgerald (30) in a tent outside Philadelphia’s Memorial Hall
Actor Chuck Norris (1998)

1998 – Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O’Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

741 – Syrian Catholic Pope Saint Gregory III
1058 – Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies
1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1262 – Shinran, founder of Japan’s True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies
1290 – Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1499 – Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded
1514 – Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull’s Liederbuch), dies
1545 – Jacob van Liesveld, printer/”heretic” (Refeyen), beheaded
1559 – Erasmus Sarcerius, German Lutheran theologian and reformer, dies at about 58
1574 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1590 – Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Neth theologist, dies at about 60
1641 – Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50
1667 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1675 – Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1675 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
Baroque Sculptor Giovanni Bernini (1680)

1680 – Giovanni Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1695 – Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58
1695 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
1698 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1785 – William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
1788 – Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
1794 – Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64
1801 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1827 – Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
1852 – Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 – Washington Irving, American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), dies of a heart attack at 76
Author Washington Irving(1859)

1860 – Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
1861 – Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
1870 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1876 – Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
1878 – Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78
1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1898 – C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73
1899 – Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19
1907 – Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43
1907 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 – Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
1912 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 – Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C’era una Volta), dies at 76
1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah “The Great”, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1916 – Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
1918 – Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60
1921 – `Abdu’l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1844)
1927 – Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
1935 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
Basketball Inventor James Naismith (1939)

1939 – James Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
1940 – Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
1944 – Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 – Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies
1944 – Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25
1944 – Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43
1945 – Dwight Davis, donator of tennis’ Davis Cup, dies
1947 – Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44
1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1938), dies of stomach cancer at 53
1959 – Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday
1960 – Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France
1962 – Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948), dies at 82
1963 – Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
Father of the Atomic Bomb Enrico Fermi (1954)

1963 – Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23
1964 – Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
1964 – Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
1966 – Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63
1967 – Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies
1967 – Leon M’ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
1968 – Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70
1969 – Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67
1970 – Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85
1970 – Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
1971 – Wasfi Tal, Jordan’s PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1972 – Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91
1972 – Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96
1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
1976 – Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55
1976 – Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68
1977 – Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75
1978 – Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69
1978 – Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
1983 – Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54
1984 – Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
1985 – Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83
1986 – Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76
1986 – Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76
1987 – Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
1987 – Paul Arma, composer, dies at 83
1989 – Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91
1990 – Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
1992 – Bill Kearns, US actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69
1992 – June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75
1992 – Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies
1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 – Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23
1993 – Garry Moore, TV host (I’ve Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78
1993 – Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75
1993 – Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
1994 – Al Levitt, US/French jazz drummer, dies at 63
1994 – Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77
Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer(1994)

1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], American serial killer, killed in prison at 34
1994 – Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56
1994 – Ronald “Buster” Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
1994 – Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
1996 – Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84
1997 – Georges Marchal, actor (Dirty Game, Blondine), dies at 77
1998 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
2000 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
2001 – William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2001 – Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2001 – William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
2002 – Dave “Snaker” Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
2003 – Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
2003 – Antonia Forest, British children’s author (b. 1915)
2005 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
2006 – Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2006 – Robert Volpe, Artist, Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
2007 – Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
2009 – Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
2009 – Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (b. 1926)
2010 – Gil McDougald, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2010 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 – Patrice O’Neal, American stand-up comedian (b. 1969)
2011 – Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87
2011 – Andrew Kazdin, classical record producer, dies at 77
2012 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer, dies at 90
2013 – Mitja Ribičič, Yugoslavian Prime Minister, dies at 94

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1520 Magellan reaches the Pacific

• American Revolution

• 1777 John Adams replaces Silas Deane

• Automotive

• 1895 Duryea Motor Wagon wins first car race in U.S.

• Civil War

• 1862 Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas

• Cold War

• 1989 Czechoslovakian Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power

• Crime

• 1987 A media controversy ignites over the case of Tawana Brawley

• Disaster

• 1979 Plane crashes over Antarctica

• General Interest

• 1919 Lady Astor becomes MP
• 1994 Jeffrey Dahmer murdered in prison

• Hollywood

• 1962 Talk-show host and comedian Jon Stewart born

• Literary

• 1582 William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

• Music

• 1964 The Shangri-Las score a #1 hit with “Leader Of The Pack”

• Old West

• 1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting

• Presidential

• 1943 FDR attends Tehran Conference

• Sports

• 1895 Frank Duryea wins first U.S. horseless-carriage race

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Johnson advised to bomb North Vietnam
• 1965 The Philippines agrees to send troops to South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 New York Stock Exchange resumes bond trading

• World War II

• 1954 Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies