November 10th

EVENTS

911 – Conrad I elecect German King
1444 – Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 – John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 – Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 – Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 – Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his “Meditations on First Philosophy”
1630 – Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu
1674 – Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 – Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 – English parliament accept army reduction
1766 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 – Netherlands & France sign treaty
1793 – France ends forced worship of God
1801 – Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 – Osage Treaty signed
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1834 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 – Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1864 – Kingston, GA burned during Sherman’s March to the Sea
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’
1878 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky’s “Bespridannitsa” premieres in Moscow
1883 – Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler’s unveils the world’s first motorcycle
1891 – 1st Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone

1891 – Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 – 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 – Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki
1898 – Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 – Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 – Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 – 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 – Faure’s 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 – New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II

1918 – German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands
1918 – Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 – 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 – American Legion’s 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” premieres in NYC
1923 – German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1924 – Dion O’Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 – Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1926 – Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 – Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 – Emperor Hirohito’s official coronation as Emperor of Japan
1931 – 4th Academy Awards – “Cimarron”, Lionel Barrymore & Marie Dressler win
1933 – Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 – Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims “Estado novo”
1938 – 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 – Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1942 – Philip Barry’s “Without Love” premieres in NYC
1942 – US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
1942 – US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
Animator Walt Disney

1944 – German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 – US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1944 – Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 – “Are You with It?” opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 – College football’s #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 – General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 – Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes’ Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 – Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 – After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 – Clifford Odet’s “Country Girl” premieres in NYC
1950 – Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner

1950 – Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1951 – 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1951 – 13th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 40-21 in Baltimore
1952 – Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 – Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)

United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop
Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima

1954 – Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 – Lt Col John Stapp travels 632 mph in a rocket sled
1955 – “Vamp” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 – Gene de Paul/John Meyer’s musical “Li’l Abner” premieres in NYC
1957 – NFL record crowd (102,368), ’49ers vs Rams in LA
1957 – Cleveland Browns’ Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 – Bertolt Brecht’s play ” The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” premieres in Stuttgart, West Germany
1958 – WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 – Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 – “Nowhere to Go, But Up” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
Ice Hockey Legend Gordie Howe

1963 – Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 – “Something More!” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 – Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 – Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1966 – Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach)
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 – KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 – Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 – Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV
1970 – “2 by 2” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 – Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1970 – R Rodgers/M Charnins musical “Two by Two” premieres in NYC
1971 – Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1971 – US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 – 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 – Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 – Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 – UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 – Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 – Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 – Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 – Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 – Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
1979 – Train detrailment in Mississauga, Ontario; a 106 car train derails causing the evacuation of 200,000 people
1980 – Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 – Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1980 – Iraq captures southern port of Khorramshahr
1981 – “Oh, Brother!” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 – Ernest Thompson’s “West Side Waltz” premieres in NYC
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 – Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyn’s “Foxfire” premieres in NYC
1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes

1983 – “Amen Corner” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 – Federal government shut down
1984 – Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1984 – Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
1984 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Chief’s Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1985 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 – Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1987 – Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 – China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 – MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 – NY’s MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 – Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1989 – Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns
1989 – Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 – Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 – Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
Actor Macaulay Culkin

1990 – John Hughes’ film “Home Alone” directed by Chris Columbus and starringMacaulay Culkin premieres in Chicago
1991 – Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception
1991 – Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30
1991 – Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 – Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1991 – Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 – South Africa’s 1st cricket international since 1970 – one-day v India
1993 – “Joseph & the Amazing” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova

1996 – 46th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
1997 – “Jackie – An American Life” opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 – Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
1997 – Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
2001 – An agreement is reached at talks in Marrakech, Morocco, on rules for implementation of the Kyoto climate change treaty
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez.
2010 – 44th Country Music Association Award: Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins
2010 – Alan Menken, famous Disney composer, receives the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Disney Composer Alan Menken

2012 – 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 – 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 – Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012 – The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obamawins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2012 – 22nd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 21-6 in Chestnut Hill
2013 – Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
Actress Jennifer Lawrence

2014 – “The Hunger Games” Mockingjay – Part 1″ directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson premieres in London, UK
2014 – Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2084 – Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

BIRTHDAYS

745 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 – Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy/polyglot
1467 – Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 – Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 – Martin Luther, Founder of Protestantism, born in Eisleben Germany (d. 1546)
1565 – Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1577 – Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1620 – Ninon de l’Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 – Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 – Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1668 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 – Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 – George II [August], king of England (1727-60)
Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther (1483)

1694 – Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 – William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake’s Progress)
1704 – Carlo Zuccari, composer
1710 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 – Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1730 – Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 – Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 – Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 – Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 – Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 – Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 – George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 – Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 – Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 – Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1890)
1830 – Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1833 – Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 – Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
1834 – Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1844 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
4th Prime Minister of Canada John Thompson (1845)

1845 – John Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, (C) 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1846 – Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 – Paul Kuczynski, composer
1855 – Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
1861 – Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 – Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 – Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
1873 – Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 – Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1879 – Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 – Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 – Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 – Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 – Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 – Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 – Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 – Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 – Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 – Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 – Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), born in London, England
1891 – Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 – John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 – John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1896 – Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1902 – Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 – Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 – Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
Singer Jane Froman (1907)

1907 – Jane Froman, St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman’s USA Canteen), (d. 1980)
1907 – John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 – Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 – Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 – Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 – Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 – Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 – Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 – Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 – Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918 – Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 – Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
1918 – Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 – Clyde “Bulldog” Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 – Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1919 – Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (AK-47), (d. 2013)
1919 – François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 – Tod Andrews, American actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), born in NYC, New York (d. 1972)
1920 – Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 – Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan’s Island)
1925 – Richard Burton, stage and screen actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales
1927 – Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector
1928 – Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928 – Norma Crane, NY, actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 – William Staveley, British admiral
1929 – Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1929 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress (Aventurera, Víctimas del Pecado), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2015)
1930 – Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 – Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
1930 – Toma Prosev, composer
1932 – Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1932 – Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1933 – Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1933 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1934 – Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer
1934 – Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 – Pippa Scott, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky), born in Los Angeles, California
1935 – Ronald Ellwin Evans, St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 – Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1937 – Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan’s 4)
1938 – H J de Royen, director (Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1939 – Tommy “Bubba” Facenda, rocker
1939 – Russell Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, rocker
1941 – John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 – Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer/conductor
Economist Robert F. Engle(1942)

1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 – Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1943 – George Sauer, Jr., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, AFL player (New York Jets), (d. 2013)
1944 – Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 – Tim Rice, Amersham, England, lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1944 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1945 – Donna Fargo, NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 – Alaina Reed, Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 – Bill Bryson, Evanston Ill, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1946 – David Stockman, Reagan’s ex-budget director
1947 – Bechir Gemayel, pres Lebanon (8/23-9/14, 1982)
1947 – Greg Lake, rock vocalist/bassist (King Crimson, ELP)
Lyricist Tim Rice (1944)

1948 – Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1948 – Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 – Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1949 – Ann Reinking, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude), born in Seattle, Washington
1950 – Jack Scalia, American actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat), born in Brooklyn, New York
1950 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1951 – Morris Hatalsky, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE White Rose-2nd), born in San Diego, California
1952 – Pat Severs, Camden SC, country singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1952 – Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1954 – Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 – Jack Clark, Penns, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1955 – James Chapman, American novelist
1955 – Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
1956 – Matt Craven, Port Colborne Ontario, actor (Juror, Killer, K2)
1956 – Sinbad, comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1956 – Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1957 – Chris Joyce, rocker (Simply Red)
1957 – Jodi Anderson, US long jump champ (1978-81), born in Chicago, Illinois
1958 – George Lowe, American voice actor
1958 – Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
1958 – Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 – Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 – Frank Maudsley, rock bassist/vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1959 – MacKenzie Phillips, Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1959 – Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1960 – Lee Cross Rinker, Stuart FL, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-6th)
1960 – Neil Gaiman, English writer
1960 – Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1961 – Junior, [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1961 – Ramona Pagel, shot putter, born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1961 – John Walton, English darts player
1962 – Cathy Boswell, Joliet Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 – Michael Anthony Powell, long jumper (world record 1991, Olympic-silver-88, 92), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor
1964 – Jushin Liger, [Keiichi Yamada], wrestler (WCW/NJPW)
1964 – Keith Lockhart, Whittier CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1964 – Kenny Rogers, Savannah GA, pitcher (Texas Rangers, NY Yankees)
1964 – Tish Certo, Niagara Falls NY, LPGA golfer (1981 Erie County (NY Champ)
1964 – Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
1965 – Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 – Vanessa Angel, actress (Weird Science, Kingpin), born in London, England
1966 – Kyle Kopp, San Bernardino Ca, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1966 – Bill DeMott, American professional wrestler
1967 – Donya Fiorentino, US model
1967 – Jed Roberts, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 – Michael Jai White, American actor
1968 – Calvin Tiggle, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 – Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player (SC Heerenveen/NEC)
1968 – Lissa Maria Sneck, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 – Lonnie Marts, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 – Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1969 – Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 – Dan Farthing, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 – Ed Ward, Edmonton, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 – Rod Milstead, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress (Grey’s Anatomy), born in Everett, Massachusetts
1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1970 – Trent Dimas, NM, gymnast (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1970 – Warren G, American rapper
1970 – Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1971 – Butch Huskey, Anadarko OK, infielder (NY Mets)
1971 – Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1971 – Jennifer McFalls, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 – Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 – Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996)
1972 – Dick Kooijman, Dutch soccer player (Heracles, FC Groningen, Az)
1972 – Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1972 – Shawn Green, Des Plaines IL, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 – Virag Csurgo, Siofok Hungary, tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport)
1973 – Cale Hulse, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1973 – Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1973 – John Solomon, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 – Khiry Abdul Samad, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm), born in Los Angeles, California
1973 – Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman (occasional Tests since 1992)
1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1974 – Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
1975 – Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1977 – Stephanie Berger, Miss Universe-Switzerland (1996)
1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
1977 – Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
1977 – Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 – Eve, American rapper
1979 – Chris Joannou, Australian musician
1980 – Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet
1980 – Troy Bell, American basketball player
1980 – Donté Stallworth, American football player
1981 – Tony Blanco, American baseball player
1981 – Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 – Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 – Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer
1983 – Craig Smith, American basketball player
1984 – Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 – David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
1985 – Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
1986 – Josh Peck, American actor
1987 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1988 – Chisaki Hama, former Japanese actress and model
1991 – Inseong Cho, South Korean actor

WEDDINGS

1926 – Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1963 – Actress Doris Roberts (33) weds novelist William Goyen (48)
1965 – Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
1973 – Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully (45) weds Sandra Hunt
1977 – Actor Bryan Cranston (21) weds writer Mickey Middleton
2001 – “Four Weddings and A Funeral” actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina
Actor Bryan Cranston(1977)

2006 – “The Grudge” actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
2007 – Former “E.R.” actress Julianna Margulies (41) weds lawyer Keith Lieberthal in Lenox, Massachusetts
2012 – Actor Ben Hollingsworth (28) weds lingerie designer Nila Myers in Malibu

DIVORCES

1975 – Journalist Ben Bradlee (54) divorces Antoinette Pinchot after 19 years of marriage

DEATHS

461 – St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
627 – Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 – Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 – Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 – Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 – Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 – Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1549 – Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1556 – Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 – Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 – Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 – Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 – Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 – Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 – Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
Poet Arthur Rimbaud(1891)

1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37
1909 – Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 – Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 – Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 – Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Republic of Turkey (b. 1881)
1948 – Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 – Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1956 – Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil, dies at 80
Founder of Sinclair Oil Harry Ford Sinclair (1956)

1959 – Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 – Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 – Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 – Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 – Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 – Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 – Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 – Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 – Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 – Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 – Abel Gance, french movie director (J’accuse), dies at 92
1982 – Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev (1982)

1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Leader, General Secretary (1964-82), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 – Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 – Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 – Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don’t Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 – Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 – Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 – Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 – William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 – Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 – Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 – Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 – Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 – Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 – Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 – Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 – Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 – Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 – Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 – William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1997 – Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 – Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), dies at 66
2002 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 – Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 – Irv “Kup” Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 – Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 – Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
Novelist Norman Mailer(2007)

2007 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, dies at 84
2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2009 – Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 – Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
2011 – Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1969 Sesame Street debuts

• American Revolution

• 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps

• Automotive

• 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper

• Civil War

• 1865 Henry Wirz hanged

• Cold War

• 1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies

• Crime

• 1997 Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case

• Disaster

• 1975 Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior

• General Interest

• 1928 Hirohito crowned in Japan
• 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior
• 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria

• Hollywood

• 1932 Roy Scheider, star of Jaws, is born

• Literary

• 1973 Slaughterhouse-Five is burned in North Dakota

• Music

• 1958 Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a #1 hit as a rock-and-roll idol

• Old West

• 1808 Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands

• Presidential

• 2001 Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism

• Sports

• 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami

• Vietnam War

• 1964 McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam
• 1970 No U.S. combat fatalities reported
• 1971 Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport

• World War I

• 1928 Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front

• World War II

• 1942 Germans take Vichy France

November 9th

EVENTS

694 – Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery
1282 – Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 – Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)
1494 – Family de’ Medici become rulers of Florence
1520 – Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles
1526 – Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 – Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London
1569 – Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland
1580 – Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1620 – After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)
1673 – English King Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury
1681 – Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
King Charles II

1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1729 – Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 – Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1842 – The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
1848 – Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1853 – Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1854 – Franz Liszt’s “Fest-Long,” premieres
1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 – 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 – Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 – US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 – 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 – Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant

1877 – American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 – Opera “Ermine,” premieres in London
1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1900 – China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 – Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama)
1907 – Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1912 – Ferenc Molnàrs “Farkas,” premieres in Budapest
1913 – Storm “Freshwater Fury” sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1914 – Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser ‘Sydney’ sinks German cruiser ‘Emden’, which has been attacking ships in the Pacific
1918 – Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 – Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918 – Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 – Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1922 – Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 – Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 – German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS)
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
Physicist Robert A. Millikan

1927 – Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 – Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 – 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 – Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 – Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1936 – Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China – becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
1937 – Japanese army conquers Shanghai
1937 – St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
Actress Greta Garbo

1939 – “Ninotchka,” with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 – Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 – Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1941 – Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster
1942 – German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 – Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 – Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 – Walcheren purged of nazi troops
1946 – Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 – Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 – Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
1950 – Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 – White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
33rd US President Harry Truman

1953 – Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union
1953 – KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 – Michael Gazzo’s “Hatful of Rain,” premieres in NYC
1955 – NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1955 – UN disapproves of South Africa’s apartheid politics
1956 – Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 – PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 – Paddy Chayefsky’s “Gideon,” premieres in NYC
1961 – USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1961 – The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
1962 – Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – “Tovarich” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 – 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1963 – 17th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 42-7 in Annapolis
1964 – “Comedy in Music-Opus 2” opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 – Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 – 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 – Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
MLB Legend Willie Mays

1965 – Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1966 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
1966 – Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
1967 – 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1967 – The unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting led a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland
Artist & Musician Yoko Ono

1970 – Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1970 – The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley
1971 – David Storey’s “Changing Room,” premieres in London
1971 – John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 – Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
1973 – Ringo Starr releases “Ringo” album
1976 – Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
1976 – UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1977 – Reds’ George Foster wins NL MVP
1978 – NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1980 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1980 – Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 – Brewers’ Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously
1982 – Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 – Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1983 – Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
1984 – Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 – Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
1984 – Wes Craven’s horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” premieres in the US
1985 – “News” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 – Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22
1985 – Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
1985 – Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
Cricketer Richard Hadlee

1986 – Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 – Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
1988 – “Prince of Central Park” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1988 – MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 – East Berlin opens its borders
1990 – Tanzania government of Malecela forms
1990 – New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
1991 – Houston’s Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
1991 – Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
1992 – Howard Stern’s radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
1992 – Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for “Texaco”
1993 – “Cinderella” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993 – Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 – Stari Most (the “old bridge”, built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon

1995 – “Danny Gans on Broadway” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
1996 – 8th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 48-21 in Chestnut Hill
1997 – “Cherry Orchard,” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 – “Scarlet Pimpernel,” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
1997 – Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 – TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
2003 – A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2004 – Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
2004 – 38th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride & Keith Urban wins
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2009 – Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker’s main event.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift

2011 – 45th Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins
2011 – Shakira is honoured as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
2012 – 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
2012 – An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
2013 – 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
2013 – María Gabriela Isler, a 25yo Venezuelan, is crowned Miss Universe 2013
2014 – United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)
2014 – Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
Singer Shakira

2014 – Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
2014 – Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption

BIRTHDAYS

1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 – Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 – Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1664 – Johannes Speth, composer
1697 – Claudio Casciolini, composer
1710 – Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized
1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 – Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, African American mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1760 – Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1795 – Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 – Gail Borden, Norwich New York, American Manufacturer and Inventor of condensed milk
1802 – Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

Mathematician, Astronomer and Almanac Author Benjamin Banneker (1731)

1809 – Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), (d. 1877)
1810 – Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), (d. 1872)
1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 – Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 – Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1820 – Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1821 – Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1823 – William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1894)
1825 – Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), (d. 1865)
1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1833 – Sally Louisa Tompkins, nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born in Mathews City, Virginia (D. 1916)
1835 – Davorin Jenko, composer
1835 – Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835 – Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer
1837 – Alfred Holmes, composer
1837 – Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 – [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 – Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1854 – Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
1864 – Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian Botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses
1868 – Andrea d’ Angeli, composer
1868 – Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
1868 – Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Cobourg Ontario, actress (Dinner at 8, Min and Bill)
1871 – Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences
1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, Geneseo New York, American Botanist
1877 – Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher
1877 – Jesus Castillo, composer
1877 – Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 – Rudolph Karel, composer
1882 – Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer (“Hotstuff” in 1907-08 MCC tour of Aust)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, [Nutter], Malden MA, actress (Little Women)
1884 – Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 – Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1886 – S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1887 – Gertrude Astor, Lakewood OH, actress (Carnival Lady)
1887 – Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress (Happiest Days of Your Life)
1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS)
1889 – Snub Pollard, Australian actor (Don’t Shove, Arizona Days), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1890 – George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 – Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 – Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898 – Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-1964), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1898 – Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1901 – John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1902 – Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1903 – Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1903 – Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal
1904 – Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 – Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1905 – James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo)
1906 – Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1907 – Burrill Phillips, composer (Play Ball), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1907 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince
1909 – Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland)
1909 – Robert Douglas, [Finlayson], Bletchley England, actor (Adv of Don Juan)
1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr (1913)

1913 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah), born in Vienna, Austria
1913 – Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
1914 – Colin Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War
1915 – Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1915 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1918 – Howard Shanet, conductor (Night of the Tropics), born in Brooklyn, New York
1918 – Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 – Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 – Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 – Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor
1921 – Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- )
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1922 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 – Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 – Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1927 – Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag)
1928 – Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967)
1928 – Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 – Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer
1929 – Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President’s Analyst, Saturday the 14th)
1929 – Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
Author and Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész (1929)

1929 – Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)
1930 – Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
1931 – Tommy Greenhough, cricketer (English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60)
1931 – Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 – Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy)
1934 – Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca’s Brain)
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986-91, 94- )
1934 – Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser)
1935 – Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 – Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 – Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1937 – Roger McCough, British poet
Folk Singer Mary Travers(1936)

1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1940 – Sergio Cervetti, composer
1941 – Tom Fogerty, Berkeley California, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)
1942 – Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1942 – Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon OH, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1943 – John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa)
1943 – Lee Graziano, rock drummer (American Breed), born in Chicago, Illinois
1944 – Bill Hendon, (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87)
1944 – Phil May, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 – Roger Lee Jones, WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
Rocker Tom Fogerty (1941)

1948 – Alan Gratzer, Syracuse NY, rock drummer (Reo Speedwagon)
1948 – Bille August, director (Best Intentions, Twist & Shout)
1948 – Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964), (d. 2013)
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1951 – Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology)
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk), born in Brooklyn, New York
1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 – Sherrod Brown, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 – Dennis Stratton, rock guitarist (Iron Maiden), born in London, England
1954 – Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 – Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1959 – Karin Mundinger, LPGA golfer (1985 Singapore Open-2nd), born in Toronto, Ontario
1959 – Tony Phillips, outfielder (Chicago White Sox), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 – Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1960 – Joëlle Ursull, a Guadeloupean singer
1961 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1963 – Anthony Bowie, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1963 – Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 – John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor (Young Dan’l Boone)
1964 – Leah Pells, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 – Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1966 – Virgil Robertson, CFL defensive end (BC Lions)
1967 – Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-96)
1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 – David Jones, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 – Jeff Brady, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 – Angel Miranda, Arecieo Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 – Pepa, rocker (Salt ‘n’ Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 – Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1970 – Bill Guerin, Wilbraham MA, NHL right wing (NJ Devils, Oilers)
1970 – Chad Ogea, Lake Charles LA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 – Chantal Brunner, Wellington NZ, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 – Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 – Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
1971 – David Robert Duval, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope)
1971 – Jimmy Hitchcock, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1971 – Michael Barber, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 – Steve Rhem, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1972 – Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park)
1972 – Mark Fields, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1972 – Ron Rice, NFL cornerback/safety (Detroit Lions)
1972 – Victoria Keil, Miss Universe-Cook Islands (1996)
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1972 – Doug Russell, American radio personality
1973 – Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1974 – Dah-ve Chodan, actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)
1974 – Traci Toguchi, Miss America-Hawaii (1996), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 – Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 – Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
1976 – Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality (Australia, 1997)
1977 – Patricia Campbell, Pennsylvania, Miss Teen USA (1996-2nd place)
1978 – Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 – Todd Self, American baseball player
1978 – Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Caroline Flack, British television presenter
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Angeles City, Pampanga, Filipino-born American TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1980 – James Harper, English footballer
1980 – Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
TV Personality & Model Vanessa Minnillo (1980)

1996 – Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)

WEDDINGS

1887 – Painter Grandma Moses (27) weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer
1935 – “Magnificent Obsession” actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1968 – Former “Led Zepellin” lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson
2002 – Eighties pop princess Sheena Easton (43) weds Beverly Hills plastic surgeon John Minoli (44) at Las Vegas City Hall
2007 – “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Ellen Pompeo (38) weds music producer Chris Ivery (38) in New York, New York
2012 – Tennis player James Blake (32) weds publicist Emily Snider (37) Del Mar, California
Rock Vocalist Robert Plant(1968)

2013 – “Mad Men” star Jared Harris (52) weds lighting designer and TV host Allegra Riggio on a yacht in Miami

DIVORCES

1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage
1968 – Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage
2004 – Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

DEATHS

959 – Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 – Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 – Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 – Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 – William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 – Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 – Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 – Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 – Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 – Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 – Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 – Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 – Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 – Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 – Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 – Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 – Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 – Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1935 – Paolo Orsi, Italian Archaeologist, dies at 76
1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1938 – Edward Murray East, American Botanist and Geneticist who developed hybrid corn, dies at 59
1939 – Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1940)

1940 – Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies of bowel cancer at 71
1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 – Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 – Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 – Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 – Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa’ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 – Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 – Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 – Peter O’Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 – Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 – Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 – Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 – Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 – William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
French President Charles de Gaulle (1970)

1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1971 – Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 – Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 – Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 – Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 – Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 – Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 – Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 – Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 – Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 – Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 – Billy Curtis, 4’2″ actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 – John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 – Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 – Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 – Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 – William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 – Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 – Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 – Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 – Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 – Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 – Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 – Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 – Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 – Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
Author Stieg Larsson(2004)

2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 – Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2011 – Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced ‘Deep Throat’ obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1938 Nazis launch Kristallnacht

• American Revolution

• 1780 Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina

• Automotive

• 1960 Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company

• Civil War

• 1862 Burnside assumes command

• Cold War

• 1989 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

• Crime

• 1971 A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years

• Disaster

• 1872 Fire rips through Boston

• General Interest

• 1906 Roosevelt travels to Panama
• 1923 Nazis suppressed in Munich
• 1956 Sartre renounces communists
• 1965 The Great Northeast Blackout

• Hollywood

• 2001 Kodak Theatre, new home of Oscars, opens

• Literary

• 2004 Best-selling Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson dies at 50

• Music

• 1990 Willie Nelson’s assets are seized by the IRS

• Old West

• 1875 Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile

• Presidential

• 1901 Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines

• Sports

• 1946 Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
• 1967 Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
• 1970 Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War

• World War I

• 1914 Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden

• World War II

• 1938 The Night of Broken Glass

November 8th

EVENTS

392 – Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
911 – Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 – Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 – Uprising against Piero de’ Medici in Florence Italy
1519 – 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1575 – French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant
1598 – Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
1620 – Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 – English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré
1658 – Battle of the Sound: Swedish fleet beats Dutch during 2nd Northern War
1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

1734 – Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands
1789 – Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1833 – Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 – Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
1838 – Victor Hugo’s “Ruy Blas” premieres in Paris
1842 – Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1861 – Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1861 – US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 – Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1870 – Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1880 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY’s Booth Theater
1883 – English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
1884 – German government recognizes King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
US President Abraham Lincoln

1889 – Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
1892 – Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany
1900 – Theodore Dreiser’s novel “Sister Carrie” is published
1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1904 – American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1907 – In a landmark decision for Australia, the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration rules that the Sunshine Harvester Work must pay ‘fair and reasonable wages’
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1910 – 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1910 – For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee
1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
1915 – An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedos and sinks the Italian liner ‘Ancona’ without warning; over 200 lives lost
1917 – People’s Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution
1917 – Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1918 – Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 – Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1920 – Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1923 – Hitler stages unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in Muenchen (Munich)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1924 – Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 – Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 – George Gershwin’s musical “Oh, Kay” premieres in NYC
1928 – George & Ira Gershwin’s musical “Treasure Girl” premieres in NYC
1929 – Jean Giraudoux’ “Amphitryon ’38” premieres in Paris
1930 – Friedrich Wolf’s “Die Matrosen von Cattaro” premieres in Berlin
1932 – “Make Mine Music” debuts
1932 – Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time
1933 – FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1934 – Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
1938 – 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
Actor Clark Gable

1938 – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 – Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1939 – H Lindsay & R Crouse’ “Life with Father” premieres in NYC
1940 – RAF bombs Munich
1941 – The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1942 – 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 – Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 – Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
1942 – Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1943 – France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944 – 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1944 – Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 – “Girl from Nantucket” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1945 – Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 – Jean-Paul Sartre’s “La Putain Respecteuse” premieres in Paris
1947 – Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria
1949 – “All The King’s Men” based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulizer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
1950 – 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 – Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 – Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
1951 – NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
MLB Catcher and Manager Yogi Berra

1954 – AL approves Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City
1956 – UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 – Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 – “Maria Golovin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1958 – 15th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 40-14 in Baltimore
1959 – KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 – Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba’s Nes Destour party wins every seat
1960 – JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
1961 – Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 – Canada’s government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
1964 – IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1964 – KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1964 – Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP
1965 – “Days of Our Lives” premieres on TV
1965 – British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 – Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st African American popularly elected to the US Senate
1966 – Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
1966 – Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 – 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 – Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing, North Ireland
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1970 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1970 – 5th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 12-7
1973 – Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 – British Lord (‘Lucky’) Lucan disappears
1974 – Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1977 – Ed Koch is elected Mayor of New York (his 1st term)
1978 – Tom Stoppard’s “Night & Day” premieres in London
1979 – Bernard Slade’s “Romantic Comedy” premieres in NYC
Playwright Tom Stoppard

1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”)
1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1980 – Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 – Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 – STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 – W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1984 – Anna Fisher becomes 1st “mom” to go into orbit
1984 – STS 51-A mission launches
1985 – Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
LPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan

1986 – “Song & Dance” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1987 – Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1987 – IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed
1987 – Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 – 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 – Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1988 – George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 – Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico
1989 – Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1989 – Douglas Wilder elected 1st African American governor (D-Virginia)
1989 – Hong Kong’s MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.
1990 – “6 Degrees of Separation” opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
1990 – 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

1990 – Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1990 – Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
1990 – Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1990 – Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash
1991 – Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1991 – Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal
1992 – “Solitary Confinement” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 – 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin
1992 – Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1992 – 43rd Formula One WDC: Nigel Mansell wins by 52 points
1994 – Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1994 – Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
1997 – Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
LPGA Golfer Betsy King

1997 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1999 – “The World is Not Enough” 19th James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle and Denise Richards premieres in Los Angeles
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcingSaddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2008 – 18th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 17-0 in Chestnut Hill
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

2013 – 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 – At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines
2013 – 27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win
2014 – Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
2014 – Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War
2014 – US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants

BIRTHDAYS

30 – Nerva, Narni, Roman Emperor (96-98)
1342 – Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1431 – vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
1491 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1572 – Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 – Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1592 – Domenico Mazzocchi, composer
1622 – Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs’ War)
1622 – Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)
1647 – Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1656 – Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
1657 – Thomas Bullis Jr., English composer (d. 1712)
1693 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 – Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II “the Great”
1723 – John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1760 – Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general
Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler (1431)

1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1770 – Friedrich Witt, composer
1777 – Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1785 – Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1814 – Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 – Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1891)
1817 – Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1829 – Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1892)
1830 – Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1909)
1831 – Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
1836 – Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1847 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
Novelist Bram Stoker(1847)

1848 – Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1849 – Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1850 – Karel Komzák II, Viennese composer, born in Prague (d. 1905)
1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1863 – René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
1866 – Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1867 – Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1876 – Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 – Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)
1879 – King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1881 – Frank Speck, American Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans), born in Brooklyn, New York
1881 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, French Engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe
1882 – Lazare Saminsky, composer
1883 – Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953), born in London, England
1883 – Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1887 – Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1888 – David Monrad Johansen, composer
1893 – John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1893 – Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
1893 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1895 – Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1895 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1896 – Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
Journalist, Socialist and Catholic Convert Dorothy Day (1897)

1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1980)
1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 – Georges Lonque, composer
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone With the Wind), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1949)
1900 – Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
1900 – Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Küssnacht, Swiss Botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology
1901 – Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1901 – Szymon Laks, composer
1902 – Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22]
1902 – Walerian Josef Gniot, composer
1904 – Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
1905 – Richard Nicholson, musician
Author Margaret Mitchell(1900)

1907 – Otto Brenner, German worker’s union leader
1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 – Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1912 – Jean-Louis Martinet, composer
1912 – Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1913 – Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), born in NYC, New York
1913 – June Havoc, American actress
1914 – Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter
1914 – Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 – Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)
1916 – June Havoc, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater), born in Seattle, Washington
1916 – Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer ( Palatino and Optima), born in Nuremberg (d. 2015)
1919 – P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1920 – Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
1921 – Douglas Townsend, composer
1921 – Gene Saks, NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 – Jerome Hines, [Heinz], Hollywood California, basso (I am The Way)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
1922 – Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 – Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
Engineer Jack Kilby (1923)

1923 – Jack Kilby, Jefferson City, Missouri, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), (d. 2005)
1924 – Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale’s Navy)
1927 – Patti Page, [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012)
1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian
1929 – Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
1929 – Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1930 – Bob Harris, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters), born in Long Beach, California
1930 – Edmund Happold, engineer
1931 – Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 – Richard E Lawyer, astronaut, born in Los Angeles, California
Singer Patti Page (1927)

1932 – Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1932 – Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth)
1934 – Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral
1935 – Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
1936 – Edward George Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Buffalo, New York
1936 – Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner
1938 – John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire
1938 – Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider)
1938 – Pleuntje “Pleuni” Cordon, actress (Dear Guys)
1938 – Richard Stoker, composer
1938 – Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
1942 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 – Angel Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8]
1942 – Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 – Martin Peters, British soccer player
1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie)
1944 – Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 – Arnold Rosner, composer
1945 – David Jessel, British TV-reporter
1945 – Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 – Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1946 – Roy Wood, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO), born in Birmingham, England
1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
1947 – Minnie Ripperton, singer (Loving You), born in Chicago, Illinois
1948 – Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A), (d. 2014)
1949 – Al Berger, rocker
1949 – Bonnie Raitt, Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the US National Rifle Association, born in Schenectady, New York
1951 – Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall)
1951 – Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1952 – Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy)
1952 – Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1952 – John Denny, American baseball player
1953 – John Musker, American animation director
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, singer (Chuck E’s in Love), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
1954 – Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
1954 – Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1956 – Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer
1956 – Randi Brooks, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
1957 – Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1957 – Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1958 – Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1958 – Don Byron, American clarinetist
1959 – Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts)
1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
1961 – Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1962 – Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996)
1963 – Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 – Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1964 – Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1965 – Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse)
1965 – Jeff Blauser, Los gatos CA, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 – Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1965 – Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
1966 – Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1966 – Ulrich Cruden, soccer player (NEC)
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 – Henry Rodriguez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967 – Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1967 – Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1967 – Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 – Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer
1968 – Jose Offerman, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (KC Royals)
1968 – Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 – Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 – Parker Posey, Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
1968 – Zara Whites, Dutch actress
1968 – Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1969 – Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 – Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 – Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 – Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins)
1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
1970 – José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer
1971 – Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 – Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV)
1971 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
1972 – Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1972 – Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
1973 – Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 – Nicole Teter, 800m runner, born in San Diego, California
1973 – Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1973 – Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1975 – Brevin Knight, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 – Stephen Saber, drummer/songwriter
1975 – Tara Reid, American actress
1975 – José Pinto, Spanish footballer
1976 – Brett Lee, cricketer (brother of Shane, AIS representative)
1976 – Colin Strause, American director
1977 – Bucky Covington, American entertainer
1977 – Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
1977 – Nick Punto, American baseball player
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 – Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1978 – Maurice Evans, American basketball player
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 – Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
1980 – Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
1980 – Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 – Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
1983 – Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
1983 – Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
1983 – Kat Shoob, British television presenter
1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television star
1986 – Aaron H. Swartz, computer programmer and internet activist (Demand Progress), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2013)
1987 – Samantha Droke, American actress
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

WEDDINGS

1975 – NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra
1985 – Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42)
2006 – Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus
2009 – “The Practice” actress Marla Sokoloff (29) weds composer Alec Puro (34) at Il Cielo restaurant

DIVORCES

1968 – Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John
1970 – “Easy Rider” director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8 days after getting married

DEATHS

397 – Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
955 – Pope Agapetus II
1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 – Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1228 – Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1246 – Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 – Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 – Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 – Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1590 – Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 – Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 – Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 – Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 – Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound, at age 59
Poet John Milton (1674)

1674 – John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 – Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 – Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60
1805 – Francois-Thomas de Baculard d’Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 – Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1817 – Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 – Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
1858 – George Peacock, English Mathematician, dies at 67
1860 – Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies
1873 – Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1880 – Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1885 – Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
1886 – Frederick J “Fred” Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday(1887)

1887 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36
1890 – Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 – Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1908 – William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60
1909 – Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1909 – Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
1911 – Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
1917 – Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
1920 – Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 – Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 – Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
1928 – Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1933 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1934 – James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher and Psychologist, dies at 73
1937 – James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 – Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 – Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies
1953 – Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
1953 – John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 – Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 – Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 – Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1968 – Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck’s Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 – Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1969 – Vesto Slipher, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
1970 – Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60
1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1977 – Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer, dies at 87
1978 – Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 – Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
Tennis Player Betty Nuthall(1983)

1983 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis player, dies at 72
1983 – Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984 – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81
1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 – Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 – Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 – Anya Seton, US author, dies
1990 – Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
1991 – Christine Felsmann, dies
1991 – Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
1991 – John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 – Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
1992 – Keith “Red” Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 – Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1995 – Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1995 – Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
1996 – Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
1996 – Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 – Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 – Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 – Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
2010 – Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2010 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
2011 – Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 – Lucille Bliss, American voice artist, dies from natural causes at 96
2014 – Don Paul, 89, American football player, dies at 89

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1895 German scientist discovers X-rays

• American Revolution

• 1775 Washington seeks to make militias into a military

• Automotive

• 1962 Sun sets on the Ford Rotunda

• Civil War

• 1864 Lincoln reelected

• Cold War

• 1960 John F. Kennedy elected president

• Crime

• 1974 Ted Bundy botches an abduction attempt

• Disaster

• 1994 Hurricane Gordon is born

• General Interest

• 1923 Beer Hall Putsch begins
• 1994 The Republican Revolution

• Hollywood

• 1847 Dracula creator Bram Stoker born

• Literary

• 1900 Margaret Mitchell is born

• Music

• 1994 Salvatore “Sonny” Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress

• Old West

• 1887 Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis

• Presidential

• 1942 FDR broadcasts message to Vichy France leader Marshal Petain

• Sports

• 1951 Yogi Berra is the AL MVP

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Lawrence Joel earns Medal of Honor

• World War I

• 1917 New Russian leader Lenin calls for immediate armistice

• World War II

• 1939 Hitler survives assassination attempt

November 7th

EVENTS

680 – 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
921 – Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1512 – Medici’s discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 – University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 – French King Henri II occupies Calais
1631 – Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 – Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic
1651 – King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1659 – Peace of Pyreneeen: French King Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 – 1st edition of “London Gazette”
1667 – Jean Racines “Andromaque,” premieres in Paris
1722 – Richard Steele’s “Conscious Lovers,” premieres in London
1733 – France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first ‘Pacte de Famille’ between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain)
1747 – Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
The Sun King of France Louis XIV

1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1794 – French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 – Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1814 – 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 – James Monroe re-elected US president
1824 – St Petersburg flood
1831 – State of Gran Colombia disbands
1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
12th US President Zachary Taylor

1848 – General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1861 – Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 – Battle of Port Royal Bay – Union forces capture Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard during US Civil War,
1863 – Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly’s Ford, VA
1864 – 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1872 – Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later.
1873 – Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding John A. Macdonald
1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1875 – Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 – Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale)
Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast

1876 – Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 – Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 – Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 – US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1900 – In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
1901 – A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France’s indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896
1907 – Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1907 – Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier

1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1908 – Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 – Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1914 – Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1916 – Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its first woman Representative
28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1916 – Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President
1917 – British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1917 – October Revolution (Oct 25 OS) in Russia, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace, overthrowing Provisional Government
1918 – Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 – United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Misteriya Buff” premieres in Petrograd
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria
1919 – US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1921 – Ed Wynn’s musical “Perfect Fool” premieres in NYC
1921 – The Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard

1925 – Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1929 – NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1931 – Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1932 – 1st broadcast of “Buck Rogers in the 25th century” on CBS-radio
1932 – Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours
1933 – Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1934 – Arthur L Mitchell, becomes first black Democratic US congressman (Illnois)
1935 – 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1936 – Battle of Madrid begins
1940 – Stravinsky’s Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 – Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1941 – British air attacks on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1942 – First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 – Cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1943 – Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 – FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 – Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 – “Bal Negre” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 – King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 – Carlo Terron’s “Processo Agli Innocenti” premieres in Milan
1950 – French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
1951 – Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 – WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 – Cleveland Browns’ Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1955 – Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1957 – Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 – WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1959 – 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
1959 – 16th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 22-14 in Baltimore
1960 – KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 – France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
37th US President Richard Nixon

1962 – Richard Nixon tells press he won’t be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
1962 – Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1963 – Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World
1963 – NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1964 – NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1964 – 18th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 27-22 in College Park
1965 – Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 – Jean-Claude van Itallie’s “America Hurrah” premieres in NYC
1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1967 – Carl B Stokes elected first black mayor of a major US city – Cleveland, Ohio
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 – Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana
1967 – St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 – Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 – John & Yoko release their 2nd album “Wedding Album” in UK
1970 – “Purlie” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 – Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 – Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 – NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 – US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1974 – 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975 – Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1975 – 8th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1976 – “Gone With the Wind” televised
1978 – Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 – CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1978 – Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.’s first black mayor
1979 – Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1982 – “Your Arms are Too Short to Box” closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 – Turkey adopts constitution
1983 – Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
LPGA Golfer Nancy Lopez

1984 – STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 – Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice
1987 – Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1987 – 3rd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 32-25 in South Bend
1988 – MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 – Sugar Ray Leonard KO’s Donnie LaLonde
1989 – Balt’s Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 – NYC elects it’s 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)
1990 – “Little Night Music” closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 – “Those Were The Days” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 – Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
1990 – Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 – “Brigadoon” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 – “Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” opens at Music Box NYC
1991 – 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95
NBA Legend Magic Johnson

1991 – Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
1992 – 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1992 – 4th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 54-7 in South Bend
1993 – Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1993 – 44th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 26 points
1995 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1995 – Howard Stern’s 2nd book “Miss America” released (fastest selling ever)
1996 – “3 Sisters” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 – NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 – Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
1997 – “Bean” opens in US
1998 – 10th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 31-26 in Chestnut Hill
Radio shock jock Howard Stern

2000 – Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2001 – The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack & Toby Keith wins
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
US First Lady and Politician Hillary Clinton

2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2007 – 41st Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood& Brad Paisley wins
2012 – 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2012 – Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

BIRTHDAYS

15 – Agrippina the Younger [Julia Agrippina], Oppidum Ubiorum, Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero)
630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
994 – Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1650 – John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
1656 – Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen
1687 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1692 – Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer
1750 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1758 – Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
1786 – Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage
1797 – Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), (d. 1876)
1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
Roman Empress Agrippina the Younger (15)

1810 – Fritz Reuter, German novelist
1811 – Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1822 – Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer
1828 – Ludwig Deppe, composer
1832 – Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell
1838 – Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839 – Henry Holmes, composer
1846 – Ignaz Brull, composer
1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
1852 – Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1855 – Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856 – Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1860 – Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1861 – Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1866 – Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
1866 – Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
Physicist Marie Curie (1867)

1867 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)
1874 – Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
1876 – Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
1876 – Ted Arnold, cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05)
1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1877 – Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium)
1879 – Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter
1879 – Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Bronshtein, Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and Theorist [OS 26-10-1879], (d. 1940)
1883 – Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1886 – Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player (openings theorist)
1886 – Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879)

1888 – Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1889 – George Davis, Netherlands, actor (Devil May Care)
1889 – Lord Tennyson III, cricketer (England batsman & captain)
1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1895 – Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
1896 – Herbert R O’Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicate)
1896 – Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
1897 – Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955
1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
1900 – Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1902 – Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)
1903 – Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist
1903 – Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
1903 – Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel 1973)
1903 – Lodewijk AM “Lou” Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author
1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1905 – William Alwyn, composer
1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
1906 – Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
1906 – Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1907 – Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1911 – Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
Author Albert Camus(1913)

1913 – Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)
1914 – R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)
1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
1916 – Joe Bushkin, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes), born in NYC, New York
1917 – Andras Mihaly, composer
1917 – Howard Rumsey, American jazz musician (Lighthouse Cafe), born in Brawley, California (d. 2015)
1918 – Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general
1922 – Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1923 – Matthew Coady, journalist
Evangelist Billy Graham(1918)

1924 – Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright
1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (Met Opera), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
1928 – Richard G. Scott, LDS apostle
1928 – Norton Zinder, New York City, NY, biologist (genetic transduction), (d. 2012)
1929 – Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1930 – Peter Woods, newsreader
1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )
1931 – Gerald Humel, composer
1932 – Harry Lammertink, [Yrrah], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland)
1933 – George Tibbits, composer
1934 – Stephen L Neal, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1935 – Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina)
1936 – Barry Newman, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1936 – Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor (Dageraad)
1938 – Dee Clark, Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You)
1938 – James Katt, pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player
1939 – Daniel Manneke, composer
1940 – Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
1942 – Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress (Privilege)
1942 – Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man), born in NYC, New York
Singer Joni Mitchell (1943)

1943 – Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Canadian singer (Clouds), born in Fort Macleod, Alberta
1943 – Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist (To Red, Dust Drawings)
1943 – Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer
1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943 – Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – James Dashow, American/Italian composer, born in Chicago, Illinois
1944 – Jim Watkins, Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician)
1944 – Joe Niekro, baseball knuckler (NY Yankees)
1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 – Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
Economist Michael Spence(1943)

1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer
1950 – Alexa Canady, Lansing Michigan, 1st African American female neurosurgeon and educator
1950 – Augusto Gen’un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher
1951 – Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1952 – David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multinational Force Iraq
1953 – Lucinda Green, English equestrian
1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1956 – Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer (Farmer’s Market)
1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, born in Chicago, Illinois
1957 – Christopher Knight, actor (Peter-Brady Bunch), born in NYC, New York
1957 – Jonathan Palmer, formula-1 racer
1957 – Kathy McMillan, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1958 – Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 – Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1962 – Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist (Bob Color)
1962 – Wayne Norman Phillips, Vic opener cricketer (Test for Aust v Ind 1992)
1963 – John Barnes, British soccer player
1963 – Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1963 – Shelly Miller, Youngstown Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1963 – Todd McKee, actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful)
1964 – Dana Plato, Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff’rent Strokes)
1964 – Liam O’Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist (Hothouse Flowers-I’m Sorry)
1964 – Gill Holland, American producer
1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1966 – Andy Tomberlin, Monroe NC, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 – Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands, hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1966 – Murphy Logo Su’a, cricket pace bowler (NZ left-arm of Samoan parents)
1967 – Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1968 – Russ Springer, Alexandria VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 – Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
1969 – Michelle Morse, Ft Rucker Ala, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1969 – Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
1970 – Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints)
1970 – Kris[ten] Fillat, field hockey forward (Olympics-96), born in San Diego, California
1970 – Marc Rosset, Geneva Switz, tennis star (1992 French Doubles)
1970 – Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
1970 – Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
1971 – Robin Finck, American musician
1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 – Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
1972 – Emily Porter Lesueur, Glendale California, synchronized swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1972 – Jane Taylor, Maitland NSW Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Wagga Waga)
1972 – Jeremy London, actor (I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five)
1972 – Jimmy Gary, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
1972 – Marcus Stewart, English football player
1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 – Kris Benson, Konnesaw TX, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 – Tarek Saleh, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
1975 – Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA (1996)
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell(1975)

1975 – Marcus Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL (“Lone Survivor”), born in Houston, Texas
1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star (140 MPH serve)
1976 – Zahir Raheem, Phila, bantamweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 – One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 – Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
1979 – Will Demps, American football player
1979 – Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 – Mike Commodore, American professional hockey player
1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
1981 – Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
1981 – Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
1981 – Anushka Shetty, Tollywood Film Actress
1986 – Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress
1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
1996 – Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor], Auckland, New Zealand Singer (Royals)

WEDDINGS

1597 – Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1951 – Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)
1957 – Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (23) weds Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva
1984 – FIFA soccer player Diego Maradona (24) weds long-time fiancée Claudia Villafañe in Buenos Aires
2006 – NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon (38) weds Belgian model and actress Ingrid Vandebosch (36) at the Hacienda de San Antonio Resort in Colima, Mexico
2010 – Supermodel and who’s also the face of L’Oreal Paris Doutzen Kroes (25) weds DJ Sunnery James in Amsterdam, Netherlands

DIVORCES

1934 – Actress Gloria Swanson (35) divorces Michael Farmer after 3 years of marriage
1957 – Actress Ingrid Bergman (42) divorces Roberto Rossellini after 7 years of mariage
1982 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor’s 7th divorce from politician John Warner

DEATHS

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam dies of injuries after assassination attempt 4 days earlier
739 – Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 – Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1550 – Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1560 – Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies
1573 – Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1608 – Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle
1620 – Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (builder of the first submarine), dies
1639 – William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79
1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1678 – Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70
1708 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1723 – Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1802 – Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50
1817 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
1827 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76
1857 – Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62
1859 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1876 – Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
1880 – Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
1881 – John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1893 – Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
1901 – Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
Outlaw Butch Cassidy(1908)

1908 – Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers at 42
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 – Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1922 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1935 – Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39
1938 – Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered
1941 – Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
1943 – Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44
1944 – Richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo
1945 – Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1956 – Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/singer, dies at 40
1959 – Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72
Naturalist, biologist, and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1913)

1960 – Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69
1961 – Antonius F “Anton” Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
1966 – Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 – John Nance Garner, (VP-D, 1933-41), dies at 98
1967 – Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71
1967 – Larry Kent, director (High Stakes), dies at 67
1968 – Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies
1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 – Tod Andrews, American actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 55
1974 – Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54
1974 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 – Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 – Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86
US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1962)

1979 – Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71
1979 – Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53
1980 – Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
1981 – Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1983 – David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1984 – George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease
1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1990 – Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
1990 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78
1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexander Dubček, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69), dies at 70
1992 – Jack Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65
Actor Steve McQueen(1980)

1993 – Adelaide Hall, US jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92
1993 – Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
1994 – Milton “Shorty” Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
1995 – Jerry Daniels, singer/guitarist, dies at 79
1995 – John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
1995 – Melvin “Slappy” White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74
1996 – Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
1996 – Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
1996 – Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 – Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
Boxer and Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier (2011)

2011 – Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, dies of liver cancer at 67
2012 – Carmen Basilio [Carmine], American world welter and middleweight boxing champion, dies from pneumonia at 85

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1991 Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive

• American Revolution

• 1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family

• Automotive

• 1965 Art Arfons sets land-speed record

• Civil War

• 1861 Battle of Belmont, Missouri

• Cold War

• 1957 Gaither Report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters

• Crime

• 1983 A family is brutally murdered

• Disaster

• 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses

• General Interest

• 1885 Canada’s transcontinental railway completed
• 1940 Tacoma Bridge collapses
• 1944 FDR reelected a record third time
• 1989 Two African American firsts in politics

• Hollywood

• 1980 “King of Cool” Steve McQueen dies

• Literary

• 1913 French novelist Albert Camus is born

• Music

• 1943 Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is born

• Old West

• 1916 Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman

• Presidential

• 1944 FDR wins unprecedented fourth term

• Sports

• 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV

• Vietnam War

• 1964 U.S. intelligence asserts numbers of North Vietnamese in South Vietnam growing
• 1966 McNamara shouted down at Harvard speech
• 1972 Nixon re-elected president

• World War I

• 1914 First issue of The New Republic published

• World War II

• 1944 Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese

November 6th

EVENTS

355 – Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain
1153 – Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1534 – Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 – Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 – Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 – Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 – King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 – Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
1813 – Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 – Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 – 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 – Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis

1861 – Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as US Confederate President
1862 – NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 – Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 – Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell’s Raid)
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 – 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1871 – Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 – Henrik Ibsen’s “Samfundets Stotter” premieres in Oslo
1879 – Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 – NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 – British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 – Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
1885 – US mint at Carson City, Nevada, directed to close
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison

1888 – Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 – ‘Peter Pan’ opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 – Battle at Bothaville: Major General Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 – Republican President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrats’ William Jennings Bryan in the US elections
1903 – USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 – Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1906 – Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
1908 – Leonid Andreyev’s “Dui Nashey Zhizni” premieres in St Petersburg
1910 – SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 – Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

1913 – Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1914 – The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts
1915 – 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 – Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 – [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardmentt of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution
1917 – New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections
1918 – Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 – Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1918 – WW I: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
1919 – 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with “Turf in you(r) ransel”
1923 – USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day “weeks”
1924 – Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
1925 – British secret agent Sidney Reilly (‘Ace of Spies’) is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1928 – Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
31st US President Herbert Hoover

1928 – Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President
1928 – Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 – Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 – German election – KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 – NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 – 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1936 – RCA displays TV for press
1936 – Terence Rattigan’s “French Without Tears” premieres in London
1938 – 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 – WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 – WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
1939 – World War II: ‘Sonderaktion Krakau’ – a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940 – Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President
1941 – Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 – Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 – USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 – Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 – Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai
1943 – Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 – Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 – Stalin says: “The issue of German fascism is lost”
1945 – House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1945 – The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
1947 – NBC’s “Meet the Press” debuts – US’s longest running TV show
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1949 – Greek civil war ends
1950 – Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 – Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 – King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s cantata “About our Fatherland” premieres
1953 – French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 – Masao Oki’s symphony “Atomic Bomb” premieres
1955 – 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 – Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary
1956 – US President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 – “Rumple” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 – Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1958 – AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 – Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 – Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 – US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball)
1962 – BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 – Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 – Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 – Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1962 – UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1964 – WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 – 19th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 19-7 in Annapolis
1966 – 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies’ Golf Open
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 – Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1967 – US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1968 – Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 – Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 – 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
1970 – Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 – Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 – “Great Harp” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1971 – US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1973 – “Man With the Golden Girl” begins shooting
1973 – Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor of NYC
1973 – Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 – Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
1975 – “Hello, Dolly” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 – 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 – Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976 – Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1977 – “Hair” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1977 – 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1978 – Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1978 – Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini

1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 – Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1981 – Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 – Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 – Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 – Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 – Tor Bay Buccaneers’ James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 – Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1984 – President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 – Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 – 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 – Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1985 – M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1985 – Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards, Calif
1986 – Houston’s Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 – President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 – Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1988 – 18th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
1988 – 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 – Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1988 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 – Steve Jones wins NY men’s marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women’s title
1989 – US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 – Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
1990 – Braves’ Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 – Fire destroys some of Universal Studios’ stages
LPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan

1990 – Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1990 – Iran’s oil-producing region suffers a serious earthquake
1991 – “Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin” opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
1991 – Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 – Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 – Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 – Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 – 24th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
Boxer Evander Holyfield

1994 – 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 – Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 – Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 – Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 – Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 – LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1996 – “The English Patient” based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997)
1997 – “Proposals” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 – SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

1999 – 4th Rugby World Cup: Australia beats France 35-12 in Cardiff
2001 – Crude oil for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) falls to a two-year low after OPEC members warn that a downward price spiral could occur if major non-OPEC oil exporters do not reduce oil production
2002 – 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2002 – 36th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins
2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 – The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
Novelist J. K. Rowling

2005 – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, the 4th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling premieres in London. Goes on to become most successful film of the year, earning almost 900 million.
2006 – 40th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood& Keith Urban wins
2012 – 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
2012 – Barack Obama re-elected as US President
2012 – US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 – Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
2013 – 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

BIRTHDAYS

1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 – Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 – Suleiman I (the Magnificent), Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566). Longest reigning Sultan from 1520 till death in 1566.
1550 – Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 – Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 – Luis de Garay, composer
1659 – Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 – Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (reigns 1665-1700)
1671 – Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love’s Last Shift)
1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 – African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1753 – Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer
1753 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 – Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 – Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 – Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 – George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 – Eduard Grell, composer
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone)
1818 – Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
1822 – Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1876)
1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1836 – Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1838 – John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), (d. 1894)
1841 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 – Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (d. 1902)
Composer John Philip Sousa (1854)

1854 – John Philip Sousa, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C.
1855 – Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 – Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1861 – James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d. 1939)
1867 – Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 – Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 – Ernest Irving, English composer
1879 – Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1883 – Hubert Bath, British film composer and music director
Basketball Inventor James Naismith (1861)

1884 – Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 – Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 – Walter Johnson, Humboldt Kansas, Washington Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 – John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 – John Sigvard “Ole” Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1892 – Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 – August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1896 – Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 – Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 – June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 – Selena Royale, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady), born in NYC, New York
1906 – Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson(1887)

1906 – James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 – Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 – Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 – Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 – Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 – Jonathan Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)
1916 – Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1918 – Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What’s Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 – Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 – John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 – Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950’s)
1921 – James Jones, novelist (From Here to Eternity), born in Robinson Illinois (d. 1977)
1922 – Lars Edlund, composer
1923 – Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 – Clay Jones, gardener
1923 – Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 – Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS’er
1926 – Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1928 – Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 – Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 – Mike Nichols[Peschowsky], German-born American director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues), born in Berlin, (d. 2014)
1931 – Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1931 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1932 – Stonewall Jackson, rocker
1933 – Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me)
1933 – Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 – David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 – K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author
1936 – Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 – Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 – Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 – Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 – P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], American rocker, born in Houston, Texas
1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 – Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 – Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 – Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 – Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1940 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1941 – Doug Sahm, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero), born in San Antonio, Texas
1941 – Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 – James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 – Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 – Bill Henderson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1945 – Robert J Mrazek, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1946 – Sally Field, Pasadena California, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1946 – Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
1947 – Doug Young, musician (Flash In The Pan)
1947 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), born in Shanghai (d. 2007)
1947 – George Lawrence James, NJ, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 – George Young, rock guitarist (Easybeats, AC/DC), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1947 – Jack Arnold, character on TV programme The Wonder Years
1947 – John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1947 – Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey(1948)

1948 – Glenn Frey, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan
1949 – Brad Davis, Tallahassee Fla, actor (Roots, Chiefs, Midnight Express)
1949 – Nigel Havers, English actor (Dr Latimer-Don’t Wait Up)
1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 – Joseph C. Wilson, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1950 – Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951 – Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1951 – John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1952 – Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 – Catherine Crier, American journalist and author (The Case Against Lawyers, A Deadly Game), born in Dallas, Texas
1955 – Maria Shriver, newscaster (Sunday Today) and ex-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Chicago, Illinois
1956 – Graeme Wood, cricketer (Australian lefty opening batsman 1978-88)
1957 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1957 – Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1957 – Lori Singer, Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1959 – Teri Peterson, Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 – Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner)
1960 – Michael Cerveris, American actor
1961 – Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 – Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1961 – Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band Dio
1962 – Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 – Jean-Marc Chouinard, epee (Olympics-96), born in Montreal, Quebec
1963 – Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 – Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1964 – Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 – Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1965 – Brian Givens, Lompoc CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1965 – Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 – Lisa Fuller, actress (Dawn-General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 – Peter DeLuise, Hollywood CA, actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV)
1966 – Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1967 – Dennis Brown, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 – Jackie Auzias de Turenne, WPVA volleyballer (Natl-17th-1995), born in Seattle, Washington
1967 – Jana McCoy, Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 – Rebecca Schaeffer, Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam)
1967 – Shuzo Matsuoka, Tokyo Japan, tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton)
1968 – Alfred Williams, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1968 – Chad Curtis, Marion IN, outfielder (NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers)
1968 – Edward Linskens, soccer player (PSV)
1968 – Kelly Rutherford, Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations)
1968 – Vlast Plavucha, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 – Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1969 – Bryan Abrams, singer (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1969 – Don Wengert, Sioux City IA, pitcher (Oakland A’s)
1970 – Eric Mueller, KC MO, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 – Ethan Hawke, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers), born in Austin, Texas
1970 – Maa Tanuvasa, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1970 – Patrick Burke, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 – Rich Braham, tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 – Derrick Alexander, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 – Anthony Brown, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1972 – Vicki Movessian, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 – Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1972 – Thandie Newton, English actress
1972 – Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1973 – Taje Allen, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Nell McAndrew, British model
1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist
1975 – Mike Maurer, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 – Laurie Baker, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-gold-98)
1976 – Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 – Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 – Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1977 – Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 – Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
1978 – Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1978 – Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 – Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 – Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 – Taryn Manning, American actress
1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1981 – Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 – Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 – Janette McBride, Filipino actress
1983 – Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1987 – Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
Actress Emma Stone (1988)

1988 – Emma Stone, Scottsdale, Arizona, American actress (Superbad, The Amazing Spider-Man)
1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer

WEDDINGS

1919 – “The Sheik” actor Rudolph Valentino (24) weds actress Jean Acker (26)
1935 – English Prince Henry weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1983 – Businessman Vidal Sassoon (55) weds dressage champion Jeanette Hartford-Davis
1993 – Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1998 – “Some Like It Hot” actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 – “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis (37) weds CBS News Entertainment Reporter Christina McLarty on a civil wedding in Mexico
2010 – Professional golfer Greg Norman (51) weds Australian interior decorator Kirsten Kutner (41) on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 – Innocent VII, [Cosma de’ Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1492 – Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 – Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies at battle of Lutzen at 37
1650 – Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24
1656 – Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
1656 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1669 – Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1692 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1730 – Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 – Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 – Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1801 – Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1816 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 – Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1835 – Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1836 – Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1839 – Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1846 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 – Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1862 – Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1865 – Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1875 – John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1876 – Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893)

1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
1897 – Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1900 – PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 – Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1901 – Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
1912 – Mykola Vytal’yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1914 – Allessandro d’Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1922 – William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1925 – Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
1928 – Arnold Rothstein, US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1929 – Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1936 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1939 – Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69
1941 – Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
Businessman, Gambler, and Mobster Arnold Rothstein(1928)

1944 – Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 – Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 – Segundo “Boy” Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22
1946 – Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1947 – Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
1953 – John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1955 – Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1955 – Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1958 – Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1959 – Jose P. Laurel, Philippine president, dies of heart attack at 68
1960 – Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 – Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
3rd President of the Philippines José P. Laurel(1959)

1965 – Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1965 – Edgard Varèse, French-born composer, dies at 81
1968 – Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63
1968 – Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 – Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1969 – Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69
1970 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 – Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1978 – Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1978 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 – Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1983 – Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1984 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 – Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
1986 – Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 – Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 – William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1987 – Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 – Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 – Dickie Goodman, creator of “break-in” records (b. 1934)
1990 – Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1991 – Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64
Actress Gene Tierney(1991)

1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70
1995 – Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90
1995 – Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71
1995 – Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82
1995 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1996 – Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
1996 – Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1996 – Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997 – Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1998 – Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 – David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 – Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 – Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2004 – Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 – Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 – Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2006 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 – Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 – George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 – Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 – George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 – Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
2009 – Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
2010 – Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
2010 – Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2012 – Clive Dunn, British actor, dies from complications following an operation at 92
2012 – M-16 [Ernest Mateen], American cruiser-weight boxing champion, dies at 46

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1962 U.N. condemns apartheid

• American Revolution

• 1789 John Carroll named first Catholic bishop in U.S.

• Automotive

• 1998 President Clinton designates “Automobile National Heritage Area” in Detroit

• Civil War

• 1861 Jefferson Davis elected Confederate president

• Cold War

• 1988 Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States

• Crime

• 1982 A woman ices her husband with anti-freeze

• Disaster

• 1977 Dam gives way in Georgia

• General Interest

• 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president
• 1917 Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
• 1917 Canadians take Passchendaele

• Hollywood

• 1987 Downey stars in Less Than Zero

• Literary

• 1558 Playwright Thomas Kyd is baptized

• Music

• 1854 John Philip Sousa is born

• Old West

• 1528 Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas

• Presidential

• 1906 Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama

• Sports

• 1995 Art Modell announces Browns are moving to Baltimore

• Vietnam War

• 1963 General Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
• 1970 South Vietnamese forces attack into Cambodia

• World War I

• 1917 British victory at Passchendaele

• World War II

• 1941 Stalin celebrates the Revolution’s anniversary

November 5th

EVENTS

1228 – Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China
1414 – Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 – Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1500 – -6th Nov astronomer Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse in Rome
1530 – St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1556 – Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun as Sultan of Delhi
1556 – Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 – Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up King James I while he opened Parliament. Plot discovered and Guy Fawkescaught and tortured. He and seven others were later executed
1630 – Spain & England sign peace treaty
1639 – First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
1678 – Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden
1725 – Spain & Austria sign secret treaty
1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
English Catholic Conspirator Guy Fawkes

1757 – Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an “Enemy to America”
1780 – French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781 – John Hanson elected first “President of US in Congress assembled”
1789 – Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
1789 – French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
1811 – El Salvador’s 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 – Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1846 – Robert Schumann’s 2nd Symphony in C premieres
1854 – Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 at Inkerman
1862 – Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1862 – Battle at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
Statesman John Hancock

1872 – American women’s right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant
1872 – Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President
1873 – Due to the fallout from the Pacific Scandal, John A. Macdonald resigns as Prime Minister of Canada
1876 – Henry Morton Stanley’s expedition leaves Nyangwe
1881 – French government-Ferry resigns
1881 – 1,600 police and volunteers attack Māori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Māori land, New Zealand
1882 – Bedrich Smetana’s “Ma Vlast” premieres
1883 – Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi’s army destroys Egyptian army
1883 – Musical “Cordelia’s Aspirations” premieres in NYC
Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald

1886 – 26th British Golf Open: David Brown shoots a 157 at Musselburgh Links
1887 – Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
1889 – Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
1894 – Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
1894 – Richard Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegels” premieres
1895 – 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
1895 – Edward, Prince of Wales, says “We are all Socialists nowadays”
1895 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1898 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s “Fuhrmann Henschel” premieres in Berlin
1900 – Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention
1911 – Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann

1911 – Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 – Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1912 – Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
1912 – Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1913 – Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 – Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey
1916 – Emperors Wilhelm II (Germany) and Franz Jozef I (Austria-Hungary) establish the kingdom of Poland
1916 – Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II

1917 – Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 – Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
1919 – Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting “soirée-musical” on Dutch radio
1921 – Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
1922 – Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1925 – Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1927 – 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas
1927 – Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title
1930 – Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for “Babbitt”
1930 – 3rd Academy Awards – “All Quiet on the Western Front”, George Arliss & Norma Shearer win
1932 – Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

1933 – Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
1933 – Spanish Basques vote for autonomy
1935 – Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man
1935 – Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1936 – French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1937 – Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
1938 – Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1938 – Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
1940 – Dutch submarine departs Dundee
1940 – US President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1940 – Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson

1941 – Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1942 – Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
1942 – Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez’s final transmission
1943 – -6] Vatican bombed
1944 – Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
1944 – Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord
1944 – German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
1946 – John F Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives
1950 – Cleveland Browns’ Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record
1950 – Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis
1951 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
6th President of the Philippines Elpidio Quirino

1953 – Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
1953 – Paul Searls saws a 32″ log in 86.4 seconds
1953 – Terence Rattigan’s “Sleeping Prince” premieres in London
1955 – Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)
1955 – New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1955 – Date returned to in “Back to the Future” by Marty McFly
1956 – Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal
1956 – Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1956 – Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
1956 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime
1956 – The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American
1957 – Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket
Musician Nat King Cole

1958 – “Maria Golovin” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
1958 – KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 – AFL announced with 8 teams
1961 – India’s premier Nehru arrives in NY
1961 – St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas
1963 – US VP Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands
1964 – US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1966 – Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
1967 – Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1967 – New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1967 – US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 – Yemen president Sallal flees
1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
1968 – 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously)
1968 – Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency
1971 – Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1971 – NBA’s LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1972 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1972 – Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland
1973 – BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1973 – Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production
1974 – Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Michelangelo songs
1974 – Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor
Singer-songwriter Robin Gibb

1974 – Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Wash DC
1975 – British government sends troops to Belize
1975 – Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution
1976 – Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
1976 – New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
1976 – Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A’s for mgr Chuck Tanner
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test
1977 – NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 – Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 – Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 – Oakland Raider’s John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 – Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1979 – Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declares US “The Great Satan”
1981 – Charles Fuller’s “Soldier’s Play” premieres in NYC
Supreme Leader of Iran  Ayatollah Khomeini

1981 – Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1982 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1982 – George Harrison releases “Gone Troppo” album
1983 – NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1983 – Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1985 – “News” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
1985 – CBS’ premiere of TV made Lucille Ball drama “Stone Pillow”
1987 – “Into the Woods” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
1987 – France performs nuclear test
1987 – Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 – South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
1987 – Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine’s musical “Into the Stars,” premieres
1987 – Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball

1988 – 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to Atlnata Hawks 94-107
1988 – 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91
1988 – 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
1988 – Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 – France performs nuclear test
1988 – Gulch wins Breeder’s Cup
1988 – Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1988 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs
1989 – “Threepenny Opera” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs
1989 – 19th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
1989 – 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
1989 – Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1989 – US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 – 40th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 16 points
1990 – Reports of increasing Saudi petroleum production and lower world demand
1991 – Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1991 – Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA
1992 – “Show Off” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 – Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade
1993 – 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
1994 – Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
1994 – Tony Rominger bicycles world record for distance covered in one hour for second time (55.291 km)
1994 – Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
1994 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
Boxing Champ George Foreman

1994 – George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
1995 – STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
1995 – Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1995 – 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in OT
1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PM’s wife locks the door.
1996 – Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of
1997 – 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year
1997 – French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages
2000 – Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
Baseball Player Derek Jeter

2003 – 37th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins
2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi’as in 1982.
2007 – China’s first lunar satellite, Chang’e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
2012 – 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
2012 – Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

2013 – 4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria
2014 – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 NZers on ‘terror watchlist’
2014 – 48th CMT Music Awards: Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, and Miranda Lambert win

BIRTHDAYS

1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 – Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker
1534 – Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog)
1549 – Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay), French writer (d. 1623)
1563 – Anna van Nassau, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna of Saksen
1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
1654 – Christian Liebe, German composer
1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer born in Bologna
1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1715 – John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
1742 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
1764 – Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist (Newton)
1770 – Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann)
1779 – Washington Allston, US painter/author
1798 – Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples
1818 – Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1893)
1819 – Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer
1825 – Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 – William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), (d. 1900)
1835 – Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
1841 – Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer
1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1849 – Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1851 – Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, Terre Haute, Indiana, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (d. 1926)
1855 – Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)
1857 – Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1866 – Daniel Protheroe, composer
Olympic Runner Teddy Flack(1873)

1873 – Teddy Flack [Edwin], Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, born in London, England (d. 1935)
1876 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1881 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 – Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 – Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, left hand specialist pianist, born in Vienna, Austria
1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 – Bert McGirr, cricketer (played in NZ’s 1st Test series)
1891 – Earle “Greasy” Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1891 – Mary Dorna, Dutch author
1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 – Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer
1894 – Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar
1895 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
1895 – Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1899 – Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas)
1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 – Eddie Paynter, cricketer (England batting hero in Bodyline series)
1902 – Strom Thurmond, (Sen-R-SC, 1955- )
1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
1905 – George Bissett, cricketer (successful South African quick in 1927-28)
1905 – Joel McCrea, South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1906 – George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary
1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 – Roy Rogers, Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 – Natalie Schaeffer, Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan’s Island)
1913 – John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), born in NYC, New York
1913 – Vivien Leigh, (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn
1914 – Henri J de Koster, Dutch Min of Defense (1971-73)
1914 – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1915 – Moe Biller, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), born in NYC, New York
1916 – Len Wilkinson, cricketer (England leg-spinner just before WW II)
1917 – Claus Adam, composer
1917 – Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter
1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 – Myron Floren, Webster SD, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 – Tommy Goodwin [Thomas], Connecticut, British Track Cyclist (2 X Olympic Bronze 1948), (d. 2012)
1921 – Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt)
1921 – Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator
1923 – Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist
1924 – Ivan Rezak, composer
1926 – Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper)
1927 – Robert Abernethy, Geneva Switz, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1929 – Ottmar MA Fraai, Curacaos/Dutch tenor
1930 – Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), born in Brooklyn, New York
1931 – Ike Turner, Miss, AKA Mr Tina Turner!, guitarist (A Fool in Love)
1932 – Arthur L Liman, trial lawyer (Oliver North), born in NYC, New York
1934 – Nick Smith, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 – Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 – Dick Davalos, actor (Jeff-The Americans), born in The Bronx, New York
1935 – Jerry Amper Dadap, composer
1935 – John Nicholas Maw, composer
1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey (11 time champ)
1935 – Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (d. 2001)
1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
1938 – Chris Robinson, Fla, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1938 – Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1939 – Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler (1961-62 series v NZ)
1940 – Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar), born in Berlin, Germany
1941 – Patricia Harty, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie), born in Washington, D.C.
1941 – Art Garfunkel, New York, American singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1943 – Pablo Gomez, rocker
1943 – Sam Shepard, Ill, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
1945 – Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
1946 – Gram Parsons, [Cecil Ingram Connor III], Winter Haven Florida, rocker (Byrds)
1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch painter/singer/pianist (Sleepin’ Bird)
1946 – Patricia K Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
1947 – Oleg Antropov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 – Peter Noone, rocker (Herman-Herman’s Hermits-Silhouttes)
1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer/songwriter (Patient)
1948 – Rick Cobb, rocker
1948 – Mel Ab-Owain, Welsh politician
1948 – Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru
1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 – Debbie Massey, Grosse Pointe MI, LPGA golfer (1979 Wheeling Classic)
1951 – Cindy Brooks, Gettysburg Pa, playmate (April, 1985)
1951 – Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist
NBA Center and Television Sportscaster Bill Walton(1952)

1952 – Bill Walton, La Mesa California, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics)
1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
1953 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
1953 – Joyce Maynard, American writer
1955 – Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer
1955 – Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor
1956 – Mike Score, rock guitarist (Flock Of Seagulls), born in Liverpool, England
1956 – Rob Fisher, Bath England, rock keyboardist (Naked Eyes)
1957 – David Moyse, Adelaide Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum, Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1958 – Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
Singer Bryan Adams (1959)

1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer (Heaven), born in Kingston, Ontario
1960 – Mark West, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer (Everything Can Make a Man Happy)
1960 – Tilda Swinton, actress (Orlando), born in London, England
1961 – Charles O Hobaugh, Bar Harbor ME, Capt USMC/astronaut
1961 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
1962 – Brian Wheat, rock bassist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1962 – Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer/network security innovator
1963 – Andrea McArdle, Phila, actress (Annie)
1963 – Hans Gilhaus, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 – Tatum O’Neal, Los Aangeles California, actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings) and ex-wife of John McEnroe
Actress Tilda Swinton(1960)

1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1965 – Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte, titular Bulgarian royal family
1966 – Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 – Frank Pollack, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 – Grant Leury, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1967 – Percy Snow, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1967 – Steve Wagner, Phila, field hockey goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1967 – Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress (Scrubs), born in NYC, New York
1968 – Bob Dahl, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns)
1968 – Cary Blanchard, NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 – Chris Gray, Perth WA, Australian golfer
1968 – Malcolm Frank, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1968 – Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
1969 – Jennifer Guthrie, Willimantic Conn, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1970 – Javier Lopez, Ponce Puerto Rico, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 – Ryan Wetnight, NFL tight end (Chicago Bears)
1970 – Javy López, baseball player
1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
1971 – Corin “Corky” Nemec, Little Rock, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis)
1971 – Erick Walder, Mobile Alabama, triple jumper
1971 – Sergei Berezin, Voskrensensk Russia, NHL forward (Team Russia, Oly-Si-98)
1971 – Todd Collins, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1971 – Dana Jacobson, ESPN’s First Take hostess
1971 – Rob Jones, English footballer
1971 – Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer
1972 – Tracy Greene, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 – Alexei Yashin, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL center (Team Russia Olympics-Silver-1998, Ottawa Senators)
1973 – James Collins, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1973 – Johnny Damon, Ft. Riley Kansas, baseball outfielder (Kansas City Royals)
1973 – Kate Anderson, Australian 1.5k/3k/5k runner (Olympics-96)
1973 – Rupert Grant, NFL fullback (NE Patriots)
1973 – Daniella Westbrook, English actress
1974 – Conrad Hamilton, cornerback (NY Giants)
1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, Phila 76ers)
1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
1974 – Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1974 – Ryan Adams, American musician
1977 – Jodi Webb, Miss Utah Teen USA (1996)
1977 – Tuula Puputti, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer
1979 – Mihalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
1980 – Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 – Andrew Hayden-Smith, TV presenter and actor
1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
1984 – Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player
1985 – Tanaka Koki, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005
1986 – BoA, Korean singer
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American guitarist, member of the Jonas Brothers

WEDDINGS

1940 – American author and journalist “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn
1941 – Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury
1977 – 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas
2005 – 2004 Indianapolis 500 racecar driver winner Buddy Rice (29) weds Michelle Noonan in Arizona

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1370 – Kazimierz III, the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1515 – Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1559 – Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1603 – Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1669 – John Coccejus, German/Neth reformed theologist, dies at about 66
1675 – Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52
1680 – Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1737 – Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke, dies at 55
1743 – Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44
1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1772 – Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
1772 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1801 – Norinaga Moto’ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1803 – Ch de Laclos, writer, dies
1804 – Elizabeth “Betje” Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66
1819 – Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55
1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1834 – Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
1836 – Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1850 – Ferdinand KJ, archduke of Austria, dies at 69
1854 – Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann
1860 – Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43
1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1883 – William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1923 – Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
Physician and Nobel Laureate Christiaan Eijkman (1930)

1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
1933 – Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1935 – Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 – George M Cohan, father of musical comedy, dies of cancer at 64
1943 – Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62
1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1946 – Sigismond Stojowski, composer, dies at 77
1950 – Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
1951 – Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951 – Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer, dies at 67
1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
Composer George M. Cohan(1942)

1956 – Art Tatum, African American pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1956 – Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 – August Gailit, Estonian writer (Ekke Moor), dies at 69
1960 – Johnny Horton, country singer, dies at 33
1960 – Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies
1960 – Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57
1964 – Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
1964 – Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland’s 5th District (b. 1893)
1968 – Estelle Hemsley, American actress (Leech Woman, Take a Giant Step), dies at 81
1968 – Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54
1969 – Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1969 – Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1971 – Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1972 – Reginald Owen, actor (Above Suspicion, Love on the Run), dies at 85
1974 – Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O’Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1975 – Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), dies at 87
1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 – Aleksei G Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72
1977 – Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1977 – René Goscinny, French writer (Asterix), dies at 51
1978 – Denis O’Dea, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 73
1979 – Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li’l Abner), dies at 70
1982 – Gerda Brautigam, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies
1982 – Jacques Tati[scheff], French actor/director (Parade), dies at 74
1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
1986 – Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)
1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 – Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989 – Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1990 – Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
1990 – Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81
1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 – Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 – Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1992 – Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (Oort Cloud), dies at 92
1994 – McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
1995 – Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
1996 – Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
1996 – Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
1996 – Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
1996 – Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81
1997 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
1997 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
2000 – Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b.1926)
2000 – Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)
2001 – Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 – Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist.
2002 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005 – John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
2006 – Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922)
2009 – Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943)
2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 – Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1931)
2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam (b. 1926)
2012 – Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer, dies from colon cancer at 72
2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
2012 – Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], American body modifier, dies at 54

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1994 George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ

• American Revolution

• 1775 Washington condemns Guy Fawkes festivities

• Automotive

• 1895 George Selden patents gas-powered car

• Civil War

• 1862 Lincoln removes McClellan

• Cold War

• 1968 Richard Nixon elected president

• Crime

• 2009 Army major kills 13 people in Fort Hood shooting spree

• Disaster

• 1991 Philippines struggles with severe flooding

• General Interest

• 1556 Mughal victory assures Akbar’s ascension
• 1605 King James learns of gunpowder plot
• 1912 Wilson wins landslide victory
• 1930 An American Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1990 Jewish extremist assassinated in New York

• Hollywood

• 2007 Writers strike stalls production of TV shows, movies

• Literary

• 1893 Willa Cather starts writing for the Nebraska State Journal

• Music

• 1938 Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings receives its world premiere on NBC radio

• Old West

• 1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota

• Presidential

• 1977 George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas

• Sports

• 1994 George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Nixon wins presidential election
• 1970 U.S. combat deaths down

• World War I

• 1914 Battle of Tanga ends in defeat for British colonial troops

• World War II

• 1940 FDR re-elected president

November 4th

EVENTS

922 – Richarius becomes bishop of Luik
1333 – Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1501 – Philip de Blank & Juana “la Loca” depart to Spain
1519 – Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520 – Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 – English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
1619 – Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia
1631 – Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1645 – Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1675 – Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated.
1771 – Carlo Goldoni’s “Le Bourru Bienfaisant” premieres in Paris
1783 – W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.

Classical Musician and Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart

1819 – Māori Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes, New Zealand
1839 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1841 – First wagon train arrives in California
1845 – First nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 – Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1854 – Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island
1856 – James Buchanan elected 15th US president
1861 – University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 – Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)
1864 – Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
15th US President James Buchanan

1864 – Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1866 – Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 – 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall
1873 – Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1874 – Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
1875 – Passenger Steamship “Pacific” collides with sailing vessel “Orpheus” off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die
1875 – Tonga adopts constitution
1875 – Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston
1876 – John Brahms’ 1st Symphony in C premieres
1879 – Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 – James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
US President Grover Cleveland

1884 – Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
1886 – Edward MacDowell’s “Ophelia” premieres
1889 – Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball’s NL
1890 – Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 – Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London
1890 – Alexander Borodin’s opera “Prince Igor” premieres in Petersburg
1893 – Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland
1901 – Clyde Fitch’s “Way of the World” premieres in NYC
1903 – Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama
1904 – First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1905 – Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1908 – Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
1909 – Opera “Il Segreto di Susanna” is produced (Munich)
1910 – Start of South Africa’s 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
Tsar Nicholas II

1910 – Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
1911 – France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1914 – Vogue holds 1st model show (“Fashion Fete”, NYC)
1918 – The Allied armistice with Austria-Hungary, signed 3 November, goes into effect
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA (the “Brown Shirts”) is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 – Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1924 – British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns
1924 – California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming)
30th US President Calvin Coolidge

1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected
1928 – Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1929 – John Baldridge’ “Berkeley Square” premieres in NYC
1929 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
1931 – Jean Genet’s “Judith” premieres in Paris
1933 – Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours
1933 – Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1933 – Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1934 – Pitts ends Detroit Lions’ shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7
1939 – 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 – First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
1939 – US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II
Nazi Politician Hermann Goering

1940 – Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
1942 – 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing
1944 – German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 – RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1946 – “Park Avenue” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1946 – UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 – TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1949 – “One Man’s Family” premieres on TV
1950 – “Barrier” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1950 – “Consul” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1950 – Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon
1950 – US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
1951 – 9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US)
1951 – NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1951 – Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
1952 – Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1952 – General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1953 – Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A’s
1953 – New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk
1954 – “Fanny” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1954 – Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City
1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1956 – 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary
1956 – Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1957 – 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 – Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 – Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
Pope John XXIII

1958 – Democrats win US congressional election
1959 – Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1960 – “Misfits” premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 – Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 – Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 – John Lennon utters his infamous “rattle your jewellery” line at a Royal Variety Performance in London
1965 – Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 – Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 – Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 – WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 – WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
Musician and Beatle John Lennon

1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks about the situation in Northern Ireland; Wilson states that there will be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland without the consent of the Northern Ireland population
1970 – Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1972 – Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 – Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 – Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 – M Medoff’s “When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?” premieres in NYC
1973 – New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1975 – Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1976 – 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
1977 – UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1978 – Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 – Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 – 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
1979 – 500 Iranian “students” seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1980 – Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1980 – Libyan invasion in Chad
1980 – Ronald Reagan (R) defeats incumbant US President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1980 – Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball’s all-time HR run king with 868, retires
1980 – Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
1981 – Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” premieres in NYC
1981 – Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1981 – Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
1982 – Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983 – Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1983 – Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
1984 – Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1984 – Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1987 – Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1987 – Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1987 – NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
1988 – First NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum – Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1989 – First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
1989 – Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 – The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1990 – “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
1990 – 20th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
1990 – 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
1990 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
1990 – Iraq says it is preparing for a “dangerous war”
1990 – US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 – 41st Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by seven points
1991 – Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
First Lady and Politican Imelda Marcos

1991 – Imelda Marcos returns from exile to the Philippines and was arrested the next day for tax fraud and corruption. She was then released on $6,400 bail.
1992 – NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1992 – NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
1993 – “Timon of Athens” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1993 – Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
1993 – Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1993 – Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
1994 – Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1994 – United Center in Chicago opens – Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
20th Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien

1995 – “Indiscretions” closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1995 – 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province v N Transvaal
1995 – Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89
2001 – 53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Sex and the City, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win
2001 – MLB World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Yankees to win 4-3
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2004 – 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
44th US President Barack Obama

2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States
2009 – MLB World Series: New York Yankees defeat Philadelphia Phillies to win 4-2
2012 – Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2012 – Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
2012 – Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
2014 – The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
2014 – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
2014 – The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
2014 – Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
2014 – Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction

BIRTHDAYS

1448 – King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1590 – Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter
1640 – Carlo Mannelli, composer
1650 – William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)
1656 – Leonard Sailer, composer
1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1674 – Anton Englert, composer
1708 – Robert Praelisauer, composer
1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn “Rock of Ages” (d. 1778)
1756 – Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1765 – Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1779 – John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1787 – Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean’s Masonic Career)
1790 – Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62)
1797 – Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
1800 – Eduard Brendler, composer
1809 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
1812 – Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)
1816 – William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1898)
1816 – Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
1818 – Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)
1820 – Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1870)
1823 – Karel Komzák I, Bohemian composer and musician, born in Netěchovice, Czech Republic (d. 1893)
1835 – Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1913)
1836 – Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman and sawmill partner (d. 1912)
1841 – Carl Tausig, composer
1842 – William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), (d. 1874)
1845 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1846 – Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
1859 – Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1862 – Eden Phillpotts, English novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
1867 – Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish Prime Minister 1944-47
1868 – Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1872 – Herman Finck, composer
1873 – G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)
1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1876 – James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
Humorist Will Rogers(1879)

1879 – Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist and actor (Judge Priest), (d. 1935)
1881 – Gena Branscombe, composer
1881 – Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director (Murder in the Red Barn)
1884 – Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1886 – Ian Wolfe, Canton Ill, actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors)
1887 – Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1889 – Alton Augustus Adams, composer
1890 – Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia)
1891 – Miroslav Krejci, Czech composer
1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 – Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1899 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan)
1899 – Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roosje)
1899 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 – Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1900 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 – Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1901 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
1902 – Frank Jenks, actor (Zombies on Broadway), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1903 – Ion Vasilescu, composer
1904 – Don Alvarado, [Jose Page], Albuquerque NM, actor (Captain Thunder)
1904 – Walter Bauer, writer
1904 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1905 – Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent
1906 – Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
1906 – Bob Considine, sports columnist (Bob Feller Story)
1906 – Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat
1906 – Siegfried Borris, composer
1908 – Anthony Warde, PA, actor (Black Widow)
1908 – Stanley Cortez, New York City, American cinematographer
1909 – Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1909 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1909 – Evelyn Johnson, Corbin Kentucky, female pilot (most flying hours – 57,685), (d. 2012)
1911 – Jack Rose, screenwriter
1911 – Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1912 – H “Giff” Vivian, cricketer (father of Graham 1st Test for NZ at 18)
1912 – Pauline Trigere, fashion designer (Bell Bottoms)
1912 – Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer
1913 – Gig Young, St. Cloud Minnesota, American actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They)
1915 – Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science
1915 – Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1915 – Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar
Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite (1916)

1916 – Walter Cronkite, St Joseph Mo, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
1917 – Leonardo Cimino, Manhattan, New York, actor (V, Dune), (d. 2012)
1918 – Art Carney, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners)
1918 – Cameron Mitchell, Dallastown Pa, actor (Buck-High Chaparral)
1919 – Martin Balsam, actor (Murray-Archie Bunker’s Place, Catch 22), born in NYC, New York
1920 – Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game)
1921 – Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
1922 – Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1922 – Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Alfred Heineken, beer brewer (Heineken)
1924 – Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1927 – Vittorio Fellegara, composer
1928 – Hannah Weiner American experimental poet
1929 – Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Dick Groat, shortstop (NL MVP 1960)
Actress Doris Roberts(1930)

1930 – Doris Roberts, St Louis Mo, actress (Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983)
1930 – Kate Reid, actress (Heaven Help US), born in London, England
1931 – Darla Hood, Leedey Oklahoma, singer/actress (Little Rascals)
1932 – David Shipman, film historian
1932 – Noam Pitlik, Phila Pa, actor/director (Sanford & Son, Bob Newhart)
1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 – Mildred McDaniel, US high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 – Tito Francona, American baseball player
1934 – Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater)
1935 – Elgar Howarth, composer
1936 – Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar
1936 – C. K. [Charles Kenneth] Williams, American poet and translator (Pulitzer prize 2000), (d. 2015)
1937 – Loretta Swit, Passaic NJ, actress (Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H)
1938 – Alan Jones, cricketer (England v ROW 1970 his only intl honour)
1938 – Harry Elston, rocker
1940 – Delbert McClinton, Lubbock Tx, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
1941 – Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1943 – Marlene Jobert, novelist (Adventures of John Difool)
1943 – Clark Graebner, American tennis player
1944 – Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer
1946 – Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady 2001-09
1946 – Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
1947 – Aleksandr Tkachev, USSR, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1947 – Alexei Ulanov, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1947 – Edward Matt Dougherty, Chester PA, PGA golfer (1995 Deposit Guaranty)
1947 – Rodney Marsh, cricketer (AKA “Iron Gloves” AKA “Bacchus” Kept wickets)
1949 – Berlinda Tolbert, Charlotte NC, actor (Jenny-Jeffersons)
1949 – Kathy McMullen, LPGA golfer
1950 – Markie Post, [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actress (Christine-Night Court)
1950 – Charles Frazier, American author
1951 – Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
1953 – Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1953 – Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
1954 – Chris Difford, guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1955 – Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor (Tonio-As the World Turns)
1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1956 – James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1956 – Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
1956 – Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1957 – Najee, rocker
1958 – Anne Sweeney, American television executive
1960 – Kim Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List), born in Chicago, Illinois
1960 – Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
1960 – Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1961 – Edward Knight, Ann Arbor, Michigan, composer
1961 – Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Philippine Open)
1961 – Ralph Macchio, Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
1961 – Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 – Edward Knight, American composer
1961 – Les Sampou, American musician
1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1962 – Jeff Probst, American television host
1963 – David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests 1992)
1963 – Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1963 – Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1963 – Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 – Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
1963 – Wang Shu, Chinese Architect, born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
1964 – Fiona Pike, Adelaide Australia, golfer (S Aust State champ 1993/94)
1964 – Kurt Krakowian, Berwyn, Illinios, child actor
1965 – Erik Norgard, NFL center/guard (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1965 – Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn Mich, guitarist (Signs of Life)
1965 – Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 – Tomoaki Ishizuka “Pata”, Japanese musician
1965 – Wayne Static [Wells], American musician (Static-X), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 2015)
1966 – Bubba McDowell, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1966 – Kool Rock, [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 – Petra Verkaik, playmate (Dec, 1989), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 – H. John Heinz IV, American medieval armor craftsman; son of Teresa Heinz
1967 – Alex Rousseau, Paris France, US water polo 2m Offense (Oly-4th-92, 96)
1967 – Asif Mujtaba, cricketer (Pakistani lefty batsman)
1967 – Eric Karros, Hackansack NJ, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1968 – Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rico, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1968 – Domingo Cedeno, La Ramona Dom Rep, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 – Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 – Jan Apell, Sweden, tennis star
1969 – Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96)
Actor Matthew McConaughey (1969)

1969 – Matthew McConaughey, Uvalde, Texas, American actor (Contact, A Time to Kill)
1969 – Tommy Henry, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 – Puff Daddy [Sean Combs], American rapper and record producer (Come to Me, I’ll be Missing You), born in New York City
1970 – Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie (NJ Devils)
1970 – Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
1971 – Russell Copeland, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 – Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 – Eric Fichaud, Anjou Canada, NHL goalie (NY Islanders)
1975 – Heather Tom, actress (Victoria Howard-Young & Restless), born in Hinsdale, Illinois
Rapper Puff Daddy (1969)

1975 – Lorenzen Wright, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1975 – Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
1975 – Orlando Pace, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1975 – Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1975 – Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
1976 – Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1977 – Roseanne Farrugia, Miss Universe-Malta (1996)
1977 – Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
1977 – So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1977 – Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress
1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 – John Grabow, American baseball player
1979 – Daisy Eagan, American actresss (Secret Graden), born in Brooklyn, New York
1979 – Jesse Camp, former MTV veejay
1979 – Trishelle Cannatella, American reality tv castmember and model
1980 – Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
1980 – Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer, born in Apia, Samoa
1980 – Richard Owens, American football player
1980 – Marcy Rylan, American actress
1981 – Vince Wilfork, American football player
1982 – Devin Hester, American football player
1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 – Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
1986 – Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1993 – Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric & model Paulina Porizkova

WEDDINGS

1842 – U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US president Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois
1911 – Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1939 – Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (22) weds inspector Sherwood Diller in Covington, Kentucky
1978 – “The Nanny” actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)
2006 – Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street
2006 – Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan (37) weds son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent Lord Nicholas Windsor (37) at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City
Comedienne and Actress Phyllis Diller (1939)

2006 – 1996 summer Olympics gold medalist gymnast Dominique Moceanu (25) weds podiatrist Dr. Michael Canales (29) in Houston, Texas

DIVORCES

1940 – American author and journalist “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer
1993 – Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
2009 – R&B singer Usher (30) divorces hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (38) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 2 years

DEATHS

1203 – Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies
1411 – Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 – Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1674 – Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 – John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
1702 – Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58
1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1768 – Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57
1781 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 – William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1830 – Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37
1837 – Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
1847 – Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38
1853 – Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27
1856 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1869 – George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1890 – Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1890 – Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
1893 – Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
1893 – Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1898 – Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
1904 – Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies
1906 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1908 – Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
1914 – Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27
1918 – Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
1921 – Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 – Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1924 – Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1931 – Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies
1932 – Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
1935 – Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
1937 – Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61
1939 – Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
1940 – Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60
1942 – Marcel Barger, [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1953 – Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1954 – Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
MLB Pitcher Cy Young(1955)

1955 – Cy Young, American baseball pitcher and MLB all-time wins leader, dies at 88
1956 – Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1957 – Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1897)
1965 – Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77
1967 – June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36
1968 – Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78
1968 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 – Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle
1969 – Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66
1973 – Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75
1974 – Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62
1975 – Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54
1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 – Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23
1982 – Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, dies at 74
1984 – Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1987 – Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
1992 – Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi’s Girl), dies of cancer at 49
1993 – Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
1993 – Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29
1993 – Cornelis T “Cor” van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62
1993 – Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day’s Journey), dies of stroke at 73
1993 – Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
1994 – Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
1994 – Fred “Sonic” Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
1994 – Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
1994 – Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
1994 – Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
1995 – Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64
1995 – Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
1995 – Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68
5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (1995)

1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1995 – Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 – Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72
1997 – George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86), dies
1997 – H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
1997 – Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What’s My Line), dies at 66
1999 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 – Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 – Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
Novelist Michael Crichton(2008)

2008 – Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66
2008 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2010 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager, dies at 76
2010 – Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2011 – Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
2012 – Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77
2013 – Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion, dies at 87
2014 – Acker Bilk, Jazz clarinettist of the the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and 60s, 85

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1956 Soviets put brutal end to Hungarian revolution

• American Revolution

• 1801 Patriot, politician and physician William Shippen dies

• Automotive

• 1979 Iranian students storm U.S. embassy in Tehran, leading to oil embargo

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee

• Cold War

• 1956 Soviets crush Hungarian revolt

• Crime

• 1928 One of New York’s most notorious gamblers is shot to death

• Disaster

• 1927 Heavy rain leads to flooding in New England

• General Interest

• 1922 Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
• 1979 Iranians storm U.S. embassy
• 1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
• 2008 Barack Obama elected as America’s first black president

• Hollywood

• 1990 Dances with Wolves debuts

• Literary

• 1948 T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature

• Music

• 1978 Anne Murray earns a #1 pop hit with “You Needed Me”

• Old West

• 1879 Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma

• Presidential

• 1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd

• Sports

• 2001 End of an era for the Yankees

• Vietnam War

• 1969 South Vietnamese battle communists along the Cambodian border
• 1970 U.S. hands over air base to the Vietnamese Air Force

• World War I

• 1918 Poet Wilfred Owen killed in action

• World War II

• 1944 Gen. Sir John Dill dies

November 3rd

EVENTS

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 – Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 – Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 – London – 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 – English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England
1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 – Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 – English Long Parliament forms
1655 – England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 – Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1716 – Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Greatguarantees Saxon monarch August I’s Polish kingdom
1752 – George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
Composer George Friedrich Handel

1760 – Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 – Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762 – Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 – Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
1791 – Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 – French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 – John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1813 – US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 – Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 – 1st opium war – 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 – Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 – Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
1856 – A British fleet bombards Canton.
1862 – Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 – Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1867 – Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi
1868 – First black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 – Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 – Canada’s Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
US President & Union GeneralUlysses S. Grant

1874 – James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 – Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 – US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can’t be Americans
1883 – American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 – Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 – Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1888 – Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1889 – Chaplain Ariëns founds first roman catholic workers group
1896 – J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 – William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1899 – James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries

1900 – First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 – Colombia grants independence to Panama
1903 – Giovanni Giolitti becomes Permier of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
1905 – Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 – William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan

The 1910 Model T Ford

1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 – The USA introduces an income tax.
1916 – Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 – 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 – Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 – Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1918 – Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1920 – “Emperor Jones” opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 – Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 – 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 – 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 – Rodgers & Hart’s musical “Connecticut Yankee” premieres in NYC
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 – Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 – First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 – Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1931 – First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1934 – Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1934 – Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1935 – George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig

1935 – Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1936 – President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1937 – Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km)
1937 – NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1939 – Clare Booth’s “Margin for Error” premieres in NYC
1941 – Hirohiti’s accord on Yamamoto’s attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 – 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 – Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 – Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 – William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’s 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 – P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
Baseball Player Ted Williams

1944 – Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 – German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 – Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1945 – Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1946 – Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 – 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1952 – Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 – Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 – 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 – First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 – Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1955 – Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 – Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua
1955 – Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 – Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 – “Wizard of Oz” 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 – USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

1959 – David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1960 – Tammy Grimes’ “Unsinkable Molly Brown” opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
1960 – Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1961 – General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers
1963 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open
1963 – 14th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Joe Weatherly wins
1964 – LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1964 – Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1965 – Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1967 – Boston’s Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1968 – Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 – Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic
1968 – NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1968 – 19th Formula One WDC: Graham Hill wins by 12 points
1969 – Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1970 – “President’s Daughter” opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1970 – Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 – Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 – Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
1971 – “Play Misty For Me” premieres
1973 – Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1974 – “Lorelei” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1974 – Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
1975 – Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1975 – U.S. advice columnist Ann Landers asks in a mail-in survey if they could do it all over, would parents still become parents?
1976 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf
1977 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – First broadcast of “Different Strokes” on NBC TV
1978 – Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 – Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 – Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi

1979 – Marocco offensive against Polisario
1980 – Ianford Wilson’s “5th of July” premieres in NYC
1980 – Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A’s
1981 – Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 – Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record
1982 – Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee’s 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1983 – Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1983 – Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1984 – 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 – Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated
1985 – Argentine presdent Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
1985 – Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 – 36th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 20 points
4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

1986 – Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 – Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 – John Lennon “Menlove Avenue” album released posthumously
1986 – Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 – Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1987 – Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
1987 – On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 – Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 – President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 – Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 – Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera’s nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 – 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 – Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1989 – Minn Timberwolves’ 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94
1990 – Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1991 – 21st NYC Women’s Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27
1991 – 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28
1991 – Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1991 – 42nd Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by 24 points
1992 – Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
1992 – Carol Moseley Brown elected first African American woman in US Senate
1993 – Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil ‘Ironman’ record by playing 322nd cons game
1994 – Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 – Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 – Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 – Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
42nd US President Bill Clinton

1995 – 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100
1995 – 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80
1995 – 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79
1996 – “It’s a Slippery Slope” opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 – 26th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1996 – 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
1996 – Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 – Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1997 – California law ends affirmative action
1997 – David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club
1997 – Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year
1998 – “Shakespeare in Love” directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes premieres in New York (Best Picture 1999)
2003 – Pat LaFontaine is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
NHL Star Pat LaFontaine

2007 – Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
2009 – 23rd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan win
2012 – Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
2013 – 8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia
2013 – 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand
2013 – Bobby Orr’s autobiography “Orr: My Story” debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction
2014 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists
2014 – New York’s 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks

BIRTHDAYS

39 – Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1470 – Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)
1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 – Samuel Scheidt, composer
1604 – Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1611 – Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)
1618 – Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1619 – Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)
1621 – Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)
1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 – Georg Reuter, composer
1689 – Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
1718 – John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1736 – Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1753 – August G Meissner, German author
1753 – Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer
1780 – Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
1781 – Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
Founder of Texas Stephen F. Austin (1793)

1793 – Stephen Fuller Austin, Virginia USA, colonized Texas
1794 – William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
1798 – Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), (d. 1871)
1799 – William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1801 – Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
1815 – Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1815 – John Mitchel, Fenian
1816 – Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), (d. 1894)
1818 – Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1891)
1826 – Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1867)
1830 – Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), (d. 1886)
1830 – Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1833 – Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
1841 – Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Mandø, Danish Botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions)
1844 – Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1845 – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 – Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1854 – Jokichi Takamine, Takaoka Toyama, Japanese-American Biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources
1856 – Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 – Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918)
1861 – Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
1863 – Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
1867 – Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer
1870 – John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding)
1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1872 – Paul Panzer, actor (Cat’s Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin)
1872 – Wilfred Trotter, Coleford Gloucestershire, 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
1875 – Emils Darzins, composer
1876 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1877 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist
1880 – Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
1880 – Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
1883 – Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress/wife of Eduard Verkade
1884 – Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author (Me Own Way)
1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children’s poet (d. 1964)
1888 – William Charles Denis Browne, composer
1889 – Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
1890 – Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
1893 – R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)

First World War Flying Ace William George Barker(1894)

1894 – William George Barker, Dauphin Manitoba, Canadian flying ace (Victoria Cross recipient)
1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1897 – Karel Salmon, composer
1897 – Frederick Russell, Bridport Dorset, English Marine Biologist who studied plankton life history and linked their depth in the seas to light availability helping explain long-term changes in the ecosystem
1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900 – Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32)
1900 – Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 – Andre Malraux, [Berger], Paris, France, novelist/art historian (La Condition Humaine)
1901 – Leopold III, [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), d. 1983
1903 – Walker Evans, US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
Novelist André Malraux(1901)

1904 – Gideon Fagan, composer
1904 – Janis Kalnins, composer
1905 – Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)
1905 – William Donald Campbell, diarist/ornithologist
1907 – James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1907 – Joe Turner, US jazz pianist
1908 – Bronko Nagurski, Rainy River Ontario, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 – James “Scotty” Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1910 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1911 – Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1914 – Hallgrimur Helgason, composer
1918 – Bob Feller, Van Meter, Iowa, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indian, 3 no-hitters)

Hall of Fame American Football Player Bronko Nagurski (1908)

1918 – Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 – Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919 – Bert Freed, actor (Rufe-Shane), born in NYC, New York
1919 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 – Charles Bronson, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), (d. 2003)
1922 – Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1923 – Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1925 – Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
1926 – Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1927 – Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor (See You Tommorrow)
1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 – Ken Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama’s Family)
Actor Charles Bronson(1921)

1930 – Lois Smith, Topeka Ks, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
1930 – Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
1930 – William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
1930 – D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1930 – Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 – Monica Vitti, [Ceciarelli], Rome Italy, actress (Tigers in Lipstick)
1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1932 – Thomas J Manton, (Rep-D-NY, 1985- )
1933 – Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1933 – Jeremy Brett, Berkswell England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Freddie-My Fair Lady)
1933 – Louis W Sullivan, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1989- )
1933 – Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass, 1988 Pres Candidate)
1933 – John Barry, English composer
Economist/Nobel Laureate  Amartya Sen (1933)

1933 – Amartya Sen, Santiniketan, Bengal, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and social choice theory)
1934 – Derek Richardson, cricketer (played one innings for England 1957)
1934 – Hans Janmaat, Dutch MP (CD)/(fascist)
1934 – Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress, Dancer, Founder of Calcutta Youth Choir
1936 – Roy Emerson, Blackbutt Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon-1964, 65, US Open-61)
1937 – Lynn Woolsey, (Rep-D-California)
1937 – Paula Wayne, Hobart Oklahoma, vocalist (Everything’s Great)
1938 – Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director (Festival, Bix, Impiegati)
1938 – Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1938 – Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1939 – Terrence McNally, St Petersburg Fla, playwright (Bad Habits)
Tennis Player Roy Emerson(1936)

1940 – Dieter Acker, composer
1941 – Brian Poole, Essex England, vocalist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 – Bert Jansch, rocker
1945 – Ken Holtzman, American baseball pitcher and manager
1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
1946 – Nick Simper, rocker (Deep Purple)
1946 – Tommy Dee, rocker
1946 – Tom Savini, American actor
1947 – Mazie Hirono, American politician
1948 – Lulu, singer/actress (To Sir With Love), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1948 – Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
1948 – Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 – Larry Holmes, Cuthbert Georgia, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1949 – Michael Evans, Salisbury NC, actor (Lionel-All in the Family)
WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes (1949)

1949 – Roswitha Krause, USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 – Anna Wintour, English-American editor
1949 – Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 – James Rothman, Haverhill Massachusetts, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate who discovered how vesicles, sac-like structures that transport hormones and growth factors, reach their destination in cells and know where and when to release their contents
1950 – Joe Queenan, American writer
1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
1951 – Azmat Rana, cricketer (one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980)
1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
1952 – Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor
1952 – Roseanne, [Barr Arnold], Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne)
1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
Comedienne and Actress Roseanne Barr (1952)

1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
1953 – Kate Capshaw [Nail], Fort Worth, Texas, American actress (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1953 – Dennis Miller, Pitts Pa, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1953 – Kathy Kinney, actress (Mimi-Drew Carey Show)
1953 – Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
1953 – Larry Herndon, baseball player
1954 – Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born in London, England
1954 – Godzilla, Japanese monster (Godzilla)
1954 – Kevin P Chilton, Lt Col USAF/Astronaut (STS 49, 59, 76), born in Los Angeles, California
1955 – Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Super Bowl 1986)
1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
1956 – Gary Ross, American film director
1956 – Bob Welch, American MLB pitcher (Oakland), born in Seal Beach, CA, (d. 2014)
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Stockholm, Sweden, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2)
1958 – Andrew Mapple, US water skier
1958 – Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer (1983 Victorian Amateur Champ)
1959 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hartford Conn, actor (Dallas, Glitter)
1959 – Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
1960 – James Prime, British rock keyboardist (Deacon Blue-Pay Day)
1960 – Marcel “Baaf” Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer (Bob Color)
1960 – Sharon Monplaisir, fencer-epee (Olympics-96), born in NYC, New York
1960 – [Charles] Karch Kiraly, Jackson, Michigan, American volleyball player (Oly-3 g-84, 88, 96)
1961 – David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic
1961 – Kari Michaelsen, actress (Katie-Gimme a Break), born in NYC, New York
1962 – Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984)
1962 – Kym Hampton, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1962 – Marilyn, rocker (You Don’t Love Me)
1962 – Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
1963 – Howard Ballard, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1963 – Stephen Corkin, Auckland NZ, judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1964 – Brian Young, cricketer (NZ Test opening batsman)
1965 – John Feskens, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1965 – Maty Monforth, TV host (Mike & Maty)
1965 – Michael Paul Springer, SF CA, PGA golfer (1994 Greater Milwaukee)
1966 – Todd Reynolds, Norwalk Conn, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1966 – Tracey Fuchs, Centereach NY, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1967 – Rob Cowie, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Toronto, Ontario
1968 – Antonio Pettigrew, Macon Ga, 400m (Olympics-96)
1968 – Debbie Rochon, actress (Tromeo & Juliet), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1968 – Lee Germon, cricketer (NZ keeper & captain 1995- )
1968 – Paul Quantrill, London Ontario, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 – Jim Mckenzie, Gull Lake, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 – Leslie Shepherd, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
1970 – Doug Zmolek, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Rochester, New York
1971 – Bob Kronenberg, WLAF center (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Colbie Bell, Edmonton Alberta, 100kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 – Darrin Hancock, NBA guard/forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 – Joan Kenmore, actress (Wizard of Oz)
1971 – Matthew Lawton, Gulfport MS, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 – Tricia Carolyn Nosko, Miss USA-Indiana (1997)
1971 – William Strong, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 – Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
1972 – Chris Shelling, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1972 – Verl Mitchell, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 – Derrick Alexander, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 – Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
1973 – Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 – Tariq Abdul Wahad, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1975 – Darren Sharper, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
1977 – Aria Giovanni, American model
1979 – Jamie Duffney, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1997)
1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1979 – Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
1979 – Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian racing car driver
1982 – Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1983 – Julie Marie Berman, actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1983 – Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band) and Kanjani8)
1984 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
1987 – Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 – Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1987 – Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian Actor
1989 – Paula DeAnda, American singer
1990 – Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player

WEDDINGS

1963 – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace
2012 – Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside of Branson, Missouri
2012 – Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

361 – Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
753 – Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)
1254 – Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
1344 – Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
1378 – Jan II, ruler of Polanen/Leck/Breda, dies
1428 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
1456 – Edmund Turdor, earl of Richmond, dies
1580 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 – Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 – Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 – Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1708 – Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1711 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
1711 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
1787 – Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1803 – Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75
1832 – Pietro Generali, composer, dies at 59
1845 – Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
1864 – Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1867 – Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1869 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
1873 – Kintpuash, “Captain Jack”, chief of Modoc-indians, dies
1890 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1904 – Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57
1911 – Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
1913 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer, dies at 83
1914 – Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
1917 – Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley(1926)

1926 – Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1927 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1930 – Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental shift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland (date is approximate)
1931 – Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1933 – Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1936 – Filip Lazar, composer, dies at 42
1939 – Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), dies at 79
1942 – Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1944 – Jack Miner, Canadian Naturalist and Conservationist, dies at 79
1945 – Alessandro Longo, composer, dies at 80
1949 – Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse (1954)

1954 – Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 – Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
1958 – Harry Revel, movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
1959 – Friedrich Niggli, composer, dies at 83
1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
1960 – Harold Spencer Jones, London, English Astronomer and 10th astronomer royal of England whose work led to a more accurate determination of the distance between the Earth and the Sun
1962 – Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
1964 – John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
1966 – Eric Spear, British composer for film and TV (Coronation Street theme)
1970 – Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
1971 – Etienne Gailly, Belgium marathoner (Oly-bron-48), dies in accident at 48
1973 – Arturo De Cordova, actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
1973 – Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977 – Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
1980 – Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
1982 – Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1983 – Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1986 – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, jazz saxophonist, dies at 65
1988 – Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
Actress Mary Martin (1990)

1990 – Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
1990 – Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
1992 – Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
1992 – John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
1993 – Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
1993 – Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1993 – William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
1994 – Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
1994 – Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
1994 – Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
1995 – Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88
1995 – Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
1996 – Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57
1996 – Heather Swift, local councellor, dies at 79
1996 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
1996 – Michael Burchill, actor, dies at 65
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1998 – Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
1999 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scotish singer-songwriter and the King of Skiffle, dies at 71
2002 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2004 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author and “Fruitcake Lady” (b. 1911)
2006 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2007 – Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2010 – Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)
2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman-Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
2012 – Tommy Goodwin, British track cyclist, dies at 91

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1964 D.C. residents cast first presidential votes

• American Revolution

• 1777 Washington learns of Conway cabal

• Automotive

• 1930 Detroit-Windsor Tunnel opens to traffic

• Civil War

• 1816 Jubal Early born

• Cold War

• 1964 Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency

• Crime

• 1984 A serial killer abducts and rapes his teenage victim

• Disaster

• 1974 Hotel fire ends in disaster in South Korea

• General Interest

• 1903 Panama declares independence
• 1957 The Soviet space dog
• 1979 Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro
• 1986 Iran arms sales revealed

• Hollywood

• 1976 Carrie creeps out audiences

• Literary

• 1844 Thackeray completes Barry Lyndon

• Music

• 1962 The Crystals earn a #1 hit with “He’s A Rebel”—or do they?

• Old West

• 1883 Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery

• Presidential

• 1948 Newspaper mistakenly declares Dewey president

• Sports

• 1998 The Body is elected governor of Minnesota

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Battle of Dak To begins
• 1969 Nixon calls on the “silent majority”

• World War I

• 1918 Central Powers face rebellion on the home front

• World War II

• 1941 The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor

November 2nd

EVENTS

676 – Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
1327 – King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1355 – English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1418 – Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
1642 – 2nd Battle of Breitenfeld, aka First Battle of Leipzig; victory for the Swedish army under Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson over Holy Roman Empire army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
1648 – 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1675 – A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip’s War.
1698 – Scottish settlers make landfall in Panama, establishing the ill-fated ‘Darien Venture’ colony.
1712 – Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1722 – Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1749 – English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
1772 – Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
1783 – General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War
First US President George Washington

1813 – Treaty of Fulda signed in Germany after Battle of Leipzig
1824 – Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 – 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1841 – Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1852 – Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
1854 – Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1875 – Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa’s east coast
1879 – In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 – James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President
1881 – Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
20th US President James Garfield

1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
1892 – French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1895 – 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
1898 – French government of Dupuy forms
1898 – Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal
1903 – Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 – New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
1904 – British newspaper “Daily Mirror” begins publishing
1907 – Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1913 – St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 – Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 – Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk
1914 – V Herbert & H Blossoms “Only Girl” premieres in NYC
1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1915 – First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 – Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 – Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 – Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan’s privileges in China
1920 – Warren G. Harding elected 29th US President
1921 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” premieres in NYC
1922 – Allies deliberate over German mark
1923 – Bloody street fights in Aachen led to establishment of the ill-fated Rhenish Republic
1923 – Stresemann’s SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1924 – Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
1928 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 – Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty in Ethiopia
1931 – Warren, Dixon & Young’s musical “Laugh Parade” premieres in NYC
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1934 – Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan
1936 – First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1937 – AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
1938 – Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns’ manager
1938 – Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
1941 – German troops occupy Rostov
1942 – 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1943 – Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 – Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 – Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 – US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 – 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US)
1947 – Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose” flies for 1st (& last) time
33rd US President Harry Truman

1948 – Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 – WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 – Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1949 – NL scheme for national distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands
1950 – “Barrier” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1950 – Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP
1950 – The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
1953 – Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 – Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman
1954 – JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 – Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 – Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

1955 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 – Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 – Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 – 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 – “Girls against the Boys” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 – Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show “21” was fixed
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’s 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
1960 – George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees
1960 – Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
American Baseball Player Roger Maris

1960 – Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
1960 – Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.
1961 – “Kean” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 – Max Frisch’s “Andorra” premieres in Zurich
1963 – “Tambourines to Glory” opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 – Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1964 – CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 – Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 – KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

1968 – “Her First Roman” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1968 – A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen’s Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it
1969 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women’s Golf Open
1969 – NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kilmer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 – “Great Harp” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 – Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 – Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 – Phillies’ Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – Goverment of the Republic of Ireland introduce a bill to remove the special position of the Catholic Church from the Irish Constitution
Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1973 – “Barbra Streisand …and Other Musical Instruments” airs on CBS TV
1973 – OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1974 – Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 – Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1975 – Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 – Summit in Houston opens – Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
1976 – Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President
1976 – NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1976 – SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
1977 – Phillies’ Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years
1978 – Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – Arnold Shapiro’s TV documentary “Scared Straight”, narrated by Peter Falk as a controversial and questionable deterrent to juvenile delinquency, debuts on Los Angeles’ KTLA-TV
1979 – Peter Shaffer’s musical “Amadeus” premieres in London
1979 – Studio 54’s owners are arrested for tax evasion
1982 – Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 – Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 – US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr.

1983 – Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1984 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 – Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1985 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 – 16th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 – 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
1986 – Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 – Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 – George Harrison releases “Cloud 9” & McCartney releases “All the Best”
1988 – Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 – Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 – Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A’s)
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1989 – “Meet Me in St Louis” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 – 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 – Jermaine Jackson releases “Word to the Badd!!” anti Michael song
1991 – Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1991 – 2nd Rugby World Cup: Australia beats England 12-6 in London
1992 – First test flight of Airbus A330
1993 – First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 – Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarged prostate removed
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 – Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 – Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 – Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 – “Busker Alley” premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 – “Sacrilege” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 – Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 – “Hughie” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 – “Barrymore” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 – 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 – 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 – Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 – USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2002 – 14th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 14-7 in South Bend
NHL Goalie Grant Fuhr

2003 – Grant Fuhr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2008 – 59th Formula One WDC: Lewis Hamilton wins by one point
2014 – 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan

BIRTHDAYS

1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1475 – Princess Anne of York (d. 1511)
1528 – Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works)
1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania’s ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 – Daniel Boone, Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915), (d. 182)
1739 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1741 – Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France(1774-1792), “let them eat cake”, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1793)
1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1755)

1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1785 – Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
1785 – Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
1795 – James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849)
1808 – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1810 – Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1883)
1812 – Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)
1815 – George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1822 – James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1826 – Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1826 – William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1828 – Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
11th US President James Knox Polk (1795)

1837 – Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
1842 – Otto Reubke, composer
1843 – Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
1843 – Elek Erkel, composer
1846 – Antonio Pena y Goni, composer
1847 – George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1857 – Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
1865 – Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1921-23)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, Blooming Grove Ohio, American President (1921-1923)
1876 – Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer
1877 – Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), born in NYC, New York
1877 – Victor Trumper, cricketer (Australia batsman 1899-1912)
1877 – Aga Khan III, Karachi, Shia Imam (1885-1932), (d. 1957)
1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
48th Shia Imam Aga Khan III (1877)

1879 – Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)
1880 – John Foulds, composer
1882 – Leo Perutz, writer
1883 – Frico Kafenda, composer
1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 – Harlow Shapley, US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)
1886 – Philip Merivale, Rehutia India, actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1890 – Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator
1892 – Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia), born in NYC, New York
1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar)
1893 – Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 – William Johnston, tennis champ (US Open-1915)
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1897 – Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil’s Brother)
1897 – Jacob A B “Jack” Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist (USAF in London)
1899 – Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet
1901 – James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It’s a Great Life), born in NYC, New York
1901 – Paul Ford, Balt Md, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1902 – Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
1902 – Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank)
1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1905 – Fred Lipmann, watchmaker
1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906 – Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum
1908 – Reginald Beckwith, York England, actor (Genevieve, Doctor in Love)
1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 – Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1911 – Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 – Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer
1913 – Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry), born in NYC, New York
1913 – Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
1914 – Ray Walston, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 – Douglas Gordon Lilburn, composer
1915 – Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 – Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 – Durward Knowles, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968-Bahamas)
1919 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet (Reino da Estupidez)
1919 – Warren Stevens, Clark’s Summit Pa, actor (Richard Boone Show), (d. 2012)
1920 – Fabio Gonzalez-Zuleta, composer
1920 – Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), born in NYC, New York
1920 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2012)
1921 – Fernando Correia de Oliveira, composer
1921 – Willaim D Schaefer, Maryland, (Gov-D-Md)
1921 – Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1922 – John Pinsent, classical scholar
1924 – Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1927 – John Sainsbury, English billionaire
1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 – Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer
1928 – Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 – Harold Farberman, conductor/composer (Medea), born in NYC, New York
1929 – Milan Stibilj, composer
1929 – Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1930 – Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
1931 – Phil Woods, Jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
1932 – Melvin Schwartz, New York City, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos – subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass)
1932 – Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88)
1932 – Romano L Mazzoli, (Rep-D-KY, 1971- )
Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ken Rosewall (1934)

1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis star (US Open 1956), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1934 – Bill Gothard, American speaker
1935 – Mohammad Munaf, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 4 Tests 1959-62)
1936 – Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice
1936 – Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1937 – Earl “Speedoo” Carroll, rocker (Cadillacs, Coasters), born in NYC, New York
1938 – Jay Traynor, rocker (Jay & The Americans)
1938 – Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1938 – Ria Beckers-de Bruijn, Dutch MP (PPR)
1938 – Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 – Howard Wolpe, (Rep-D-MI, 1979- )
1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 – Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
1941 – Bruce Welch, [Cripps], rocker (Shadows Bognor Regis)
1941 – David Knapp Stockton, San Bernardino CA, PGA golfer (1970 PGA)
Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Dave Stockton(1941)

1941 – Dave Stockton, San Bernardino California, golfer and two-time PGA Champion (1970, 1976)
1942 – Shere Hite, St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 – Stefanie Powers, Hollywood Ca, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1943 – Oldrich Pelcak, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut
1944 – Keith Emerson, England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1944 – Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Bkln, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, 46, 61, 75)
1944 – Liesel Westermann, German FR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968)
1944 – Patrice Chereau, actress (Danton), (d. 2013)
1946 – Alan Jones, Australia, auto racer (1980 World Champion)
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Sunnyata)
1947 – Dave Pegg, British pop bassist (Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave)
1947 – David Anthony Ahern, composer
1948 – Rich Gooch, rock bassist (Quarterflash)
1949 – Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 – Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 – Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1952 – Kate Linder, Pasadena Ca, actress (Esther Valentine–Young & Restless)
1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer
1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 – Frank Gilligan, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), born in Queens, New York
1955 – Mark Reynolds, star yachter (Olymp-8th-1988, 92, 96), born in San Diego, California
1955 – Chris Burnett, American musician
1957 – Rita Crockett, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984), born in San Antonio, Texas
1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1958 – Willie McGee, SF CA, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985)
1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and film maker
1960 – Adam Lingner, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1960 – Bruce Baumgartner, Haledon NJ, wrestler (Oly-gold/br-84, 88, 92, 96)
1960 – Mardi Jacquet, Chateauroux California, playmate (October, 1980)
1960 – Robert Harold Lohr, Cincinnati OH, PGA golfer (1988 Walt Disney)
1960 – Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI)
1960 – Saïd Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 – Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
1961 – K.D. Lang [Kathy Dawn], Consort Alberta, Canadian country singer
1962 – Andrew Elt, singer (Sleeze Beez)
1962 – Donna Spangler, wrestler (Coal Miner’s Daughter-GLOW), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 – Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 – Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 – Susie Scott, playmate (May, 1983), born in San Diego, California
1963 – Bobby Dall American rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1963 – Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1964 – Kevin Gogan, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders, SF 49ers)
1964 – Michael D’Asaro II, American fencer-sabre, born in Brooklyn, New York
1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 – Chuck Klingbeil, NFL nose tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 – Orlando Merced, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 – Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1966 – Sean Kanan, actor (AJ-Gen Hospital, Rich Girl, Karate Kid Part 3)
1966 – Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 – Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1967 – Chris Port, NFL guard/tackle (NO Saints)
1967 – Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1967 – Derek Porter, Belfast Ireland, Canadian rower (Oly-gold/silver-92/96)
1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1967 – Scott Walker, US politician (Governor of Wisconsin 2011-), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1968 – Brandi Brandt, Santa Clara California, playmate (October, 1987)
1968 – Helle Michaelsen, Alborg Denmark, playmate (Aug, 1988)
1968 – Melissa Evridge, Lexington Ky, playmate (Aug, 1990)
1968 – Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 – Dwayne Gordon, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, NY Jets)
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 – Corbin Lacina, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 – Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1971 – Pete Vordenberg, Rota Spain, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1972 – Alfred Schreuders, soccer player (RKC)
1972 – Jeni Stephens, Miss America-Tennessee (1997), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1972 – Marie Josee Gibeau, Lachine Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 – Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1973 – Jason Smith, Calgary, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 – Alex Tanaka, actor (Saja-Swan’s Crossing)
1974 – Jaroslav Spacek, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, (Sweden)
1974 – Ruslan Salei, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98, Anaheim)
1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 – Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 – Danny Cooksey, Moore Oklahoma, actor (Sam-Diff’rent Strokes)
1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1975 – Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
1977 – Randy Harrison, American actor
1978 – Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
1979 – Julie Lund, Danish actress
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1981 – Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Avy Scott, American actress
1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
1984 – Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1984 – Julia Stegner, German supermodel
1986 – Erika Jo, American musician
1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 – Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
1988 – Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
1989 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer
1990 – Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov

WEDDINGS

1887 – Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan
1896 – Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (19) weds first cousin Shahzadi Begum in Pune, India
2005 – Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan’s Church in County Offaly
2009 – “Sex and the City” actor Ron Livingston (41) weds actress Rosemarie DeWitt (34) in San Francisco
2012 – BMX icon TJ Lavin weds longtime fiancee Roxanne Siordia (32) in Las Vegas
2013 – ‘N Sync founding member Chris Kirkpatrick (42) weds his girlfriend Karly Skladany in Orlando, Florida
2013 – “Smash” actress Megan Hilty (32) weds Brian Gallagher at a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

DIVORCES

2006 – Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences

DEATHS

943 – Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1083 – Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
1171 – Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies
1171 – Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies
1285 – King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 – Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49
1588 – Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63
1610 – Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66
1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1635 – Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68
1697 – Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried
1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1717 – Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies
1731 – Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26
1781 – Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78
1804 – Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64
1807 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1845 – Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55
1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1874 – Thomas Anderson, Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine), dies at 55
1875 – James W. W. Birch, 1st British resident in Perak, Malaysia is speared to death while in the bath-house of his boat, SS Dragon at 49
1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1882 – Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61
1884 – Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62
1887 – Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
1898 – George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1909 – Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81
1920 – Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73
1925 – Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
1930 – Oliver Perry Hay, American Paleontologist, dies at 84
1931 – Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
1931 – Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1935 – H B “Jock” Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies
1937 – Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82
1944 – Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1950)

1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1952 – Maire O’Neill, actress (Juno & the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies
1956 – Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77
1956 – Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
1958 – Adam von Ahn Carse, composer, dies at 80
1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64
1961 – James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1962 – Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73
1966 – Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American Physical Chemist (Nobel 1936), dies at 82
1968 – Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56
1969 – Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63
1970 – Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
1971 – Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46
1977 – H E Nossak, writer, dies at 76
1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French “enemy of the state”, shot to death
1980 – Edith Bunker, character on “All in the Family”, dies
Bank Robber Willie Sutton(1980)

1980 – Willie Sutton, American bank robber, dies at 79
1981 – Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist, and Geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, dies at 70
1982 – Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1984 – Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years
1986 – Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66
1991 – Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72
1991 – Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1992 – Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100
1993 – P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope), dies at about 86
1994 – David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37
1994 – Egbert George “Pete” Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73
1994 – Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
1995 – Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58
1995 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, VP of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated
1995 – Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82
1995 – Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
1995 – Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83
1995 – Sal Gliatto, baseball player, dies at 93
1996 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies
1996 – Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72
1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
Baseball Player Toni Stone(1996)

1996 – Toni Stone, first woman to play professional baseball in a men’s league, dies at 75
1997 – G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
1997 – Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68
1998 – Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85
2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)

President of the United Arab Emirates Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (2004)

2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 – Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu
2010 – Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
2012 – Milt Campbell, American hurdler/decathlete, dies from prostate cancer and diabetes at 78
2013 – Walt Bellamy, American HOF basketball player, dies at 74

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1947 Spruce Goose flies

• American Revolution

• 1777 John Paul Jones sets sail

• Automotive

• 1902 First four-cylinder, gas-powered Locomobile hits the road

• Civil War

• 1861 Fremont removed from Western Department

• Cold War

• 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam

• Crime

• 1989 A nurse’s aide gets life imprisonment

• Disaster

• 1982 Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan

• General Interest

• 1917 Britain supports creation of Jewish homeland
• 1948 Truman defeats Dewey
• 1983 MLK federal holiday declared

• Hollywood

• 1966 Friends star David Schwimmer born

• Literary

• 1960 Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial ends

• Music

• 1985 Miami Vice soundtrack begins an 11-week run at #1

• Old West

• 1912 XIT Ranch sells its last head of cattle

• Presidential

• 1795 James Polk is born
• 1865 Warren G. Harding is born

• Sports

• 1986 Grete Waitz wins her eighth NYC marathon

• Vietnam War

• 1963 Diem murdered during coup
• 1967 Johnson meets with “the Wise Men”

• World War I

• 1917 The Balfour Declaration

• World War II

• 1942 British launch Operation Supercharge

November 1st

EVENTS

835 – All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom
996 – First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the ‘Ostarrîchi Document’
1210 – King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1248 – Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1349 – Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1462 – Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited
1570 – All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
1604 – William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” first presented
1611 – Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Tempest” first presented
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1623 – Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
Playwright William Shakespeare

1628 – French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1671 – French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1683 – The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1721 – Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
1755 – Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 – Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1776 – Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1784 – Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 – First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 – John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
1802 – Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 – First US women’s medical school opens (Boston)
1849 – Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 – General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 – -8] Averell’s Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
1863 – Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1865 – Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1867 – “Harper’s Bazaar” publishes
1869 – Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1876 – King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
Union General George McClellan

1876 – New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
1877 – Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1878 – Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)
1885 – Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1894 – Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 – First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
Tsar Nicholas II

1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1902 – France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France’s attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente
1904 – George Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island” premieres in London
1910 – First issue of “Crisis” published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
1913 – Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1913 – Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, PresidentWoodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
1914 – Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
1914 – German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 – Pope Benedictus Xv’s encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
Baseball Legend Connie Mack

1914 – Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1917 – In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
1918 – 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 – Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1920 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” premieres in NYC
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1922 – Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1922 – Mustapha Kemal takes Constantinople from Mohammed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
1923 – Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
1924 – 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 – Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1925 – VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1926 – US Air Commerce Act passes
1928 – 1st celebration of Authors’ Day
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1928 – Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1928 – Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 – Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 – Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 – TS Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral” premieres in London
1936 – Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an “axis”
1936 – Rodeo Cowboy’s Association founded
1937 – Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community (including three women).
1938 – German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938 – NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
1938 – Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1939 – First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 – First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
1940 – 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1940 – Dutch “Curfew” forms (12 AM – 4 AM)
1941 – Chetniks attacks Tito’s partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1941 – Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1942 – 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1942 – John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1943 – Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
1943 – US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1944 – Mary Coyle Chase’s “Harvey” premieres in NYC
1944 – Zeeuws & Flanders liberated
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 – Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 – Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck’s right foot is amputated
1946 – Marken soccer team forms
1946 – NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1946 – WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946 – WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1946 – West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
1946 – Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood
1947 – “Medium & The Telephone” closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs
1947 – First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 – Howard Hughes flies “Spruce Goose”, a huge wooden airplane
1947 – UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1948 – Mao’s Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1950 – 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic’s Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind
1950 – 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
33rd US President Harry Truman

1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Johnny Mercer’s “Top Banana” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 – First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico
1951 – Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951 – Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1951 – Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1951 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 – “Ivy Mike”, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design ofEdward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Physicist Edward Teller

1953 – Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 – KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 – KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – 5th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Herb Thomas wins
1954 – General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1954 – India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 – KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 – US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France.
1954 – 6th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Lee Petty wins
1955 – Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado
US Senator Joseph McCarthy

1956 – Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 – Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 – Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 – Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 – Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1956 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1956 – Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957 – KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 – World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
1959 – Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a NHL game
NFL Legend Jim Brown

1959 – Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1959 – Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 – WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
1960 – Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 – Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 – Greece enters European Common Market
1962 – KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 – USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 – WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 – KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies’ Golf Open
1964 – Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 – 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1965 – Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
1965 – Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 – Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 – NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 – Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 – William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
Actor Strother Martin

1967 – “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
1968 – Noel Coward’s “Sweet Potato” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs
1968 – Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 – US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1968 – University of Suriname opens
1969 – The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 – 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 – Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1970 – Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 – KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1971 – Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 – 1st gay theme TV movie – “That Certain Summer”
1972 – Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1973 – “Molly” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu .
1974 – Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 – UN affirms independence of Cyprus
1976 – “Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs
1976 – Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 – W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
1977 – Islander Goran Hogosta’s only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1977 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 – Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” premieres
1979 – Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees
1979 – Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 – US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 – Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US’s worst oil spill disaster
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test
1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
1981 – 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 – Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 – Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1982 – Andrew “Dice” Clay & George Wendt appear in “Trick or Treatment”
1982 – Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s contract
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1984 – 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena – Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1984 – Larry Shue’s “Foreigner” premieres in NYC
1984 – Willem de Kooning’s “Two Women” sells for $1,980,000
1984 – Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1985 – Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
Ice Hockey Great Mike Bossy

1985 – Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1986 – Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady’s Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1987 – 17th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17
1987 – 18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
1987 – 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1987 – Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 – NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1987 – New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1988 – Chris Sabo, wins National League Rookie of Year award
1988 – Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 – “Les Miserables” opens at Curran Theatre, SF
1989 – Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket’s Nehru Cup
1989 – Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 – “Oh, Kay!” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

1990 – Last of Margaret Thatcher’s original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 – Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1991 – New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1991 – Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by well control teams
1992 – 22nd NYC Women’s Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40
1992 – 23rd NYC Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29
1992 – NY Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 – Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1993 – Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
1993 – Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1993 – STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1994 – Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1995 – “Tempest” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances
1997 – “Titanic” directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is first screened, at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Best Picture 1998)
1998 – The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
1998 – 49th Formula One WDC: Mika Hakkinen wins by 14 points
2005 – First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.
2009 – The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.
2009 – 60th Formula One WDC: Jenson Button wins by 11 points
2010 – MLB World Series: San Francisco Giants defeat Texas Rangers to win 4-1
2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio

2012 – 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2012 – Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
2012 – Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
2012 – Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
2012 – 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
2012 – 46th Country Music Association Award: Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert wins
2014 – Western Sydney Wanderers win the AFC Champions League
2014 – Bayern wins the 2014 running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic

BIRTHDAYS

846 – Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (877-79) (d. 879)
1339 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 – Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1526 – Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 – Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1618 – Johannes Flittner, composer
1629 – St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1666 – James Sherard, composer
1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 – Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1731 – Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1748 – Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1761 – Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
1762 – Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 – Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 – Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805 – Alessandro Nini, composer
1808 – John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1815 – Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 – Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1825 – Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1890)
1832 – Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer
1835 – Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, (d. 1884))
1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1853 – Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 – Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1859 – William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
1860 – Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
1863 – Alfred Reisenauer, composer
1865 – Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v South Africa at 23)
1871 – Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer
Novelist Stephen Crane(1871)

1871 – Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
1877 – Roger Quilter, British composer
1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)
1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1879 – Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1880 – Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 – Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1880 – Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1880 – Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1881 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 – Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
1887 – Max Trapp, composer
Meteorologist, Geologist, Astronomist Alfred Wegener (1880)

1887 – L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 – Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
1890 – James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh)
1891 – Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher
1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46)
1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1897 – Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 – Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1943)
1903 – Don Robey, US gospel singer
1903 – Gerard “Ge” Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
1903 – Jean Tardieu, author
1903 – Max Adrian, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Irish actor (Devils, Music Lover)
1903 – Edward “Carji” Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1904 – Laura Laplante, St Louis MO, actress (Cat & Canary)
1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Rio Gebhardt, German musician and composer, born in Heilbronn (d. 1944)
1907 – Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
1909 – Bruno Bjelinski, composer
1911 – Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1911 – Donald William Kerst, Madison, Wisconsin, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams)
1914 – William “Sabby” Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger
1915 – Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet
1915 – Michael Denison, York England, actor (Importance of Being Ernest)
1917 – Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1917 – Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen)
1917 – Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box)
1919 – John Secondari, Rome Italy, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1920 – James J Kilpatrick, columnist (60 Minutes), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1920 – Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 – Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1921 – Jan Tausinger, composer
1921 – John Willard Peterson, composer
1922 – George S Irving, singer/actor (Dumplings), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1922 – Jeff Richards, Portland Oregon, actor (Don’t Go Near the Water)
1923 – Bruce Dooland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner, 3 Tests mid-forties)
1923 – Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
1923 – Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General)
1923 – Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1924 – Suleyman Demirel, President of Turkey (1993-2000) and Prime Minister, born in Isparta, Atabey (d. 2015)
1928 – James Edward Bradford, DC, HW weightlifer (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1928 – Leon Hart, NFLer (Heisman Trophy)
1929 – Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1929 – Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 – John Clark, English-born actor/director
1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, born in Sudbury, Ontario (d. 2015)
1934 – Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
1934 – Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
1934 – Umberto Agnelli, VP (Fiat)
1934 – William James Matthias, composer
1934 – William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
Golfer Gary Player (1935)

1935 – Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)
1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1935 – Charles Koch, American businesman and philanthropist (Koch Industries), – 6th= richest person in the world (2015), born in Wichita, Kansas
1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 – Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1938 – Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 – Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon Pa, actress (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 – Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 – Joe Louis Caldwell, Texas City, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 – Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer
1941 – Robert Foxworth, actor (Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein), born in Houston, Texas
1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 – John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt (1942)

1942 – Larry Flynt, Lakeville, Kentucky, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 – Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (d. 2013)
1942 – Shere Hite, author/sex therapist
1943 – Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 – John McEnery, English actor
1944 – Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1945 – Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic)
1946 – Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1947 – Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 – Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1947 – Bob Weston, Devon, England, guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)(d. 2012)
1948 – Anna Stuart, American Actress (Another World, All My Children)
1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 – Jeannie Berlin, LA Cal, actress (Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy’s Complaint)
1949 – Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 – Dan Peck, Panama City Fla, rock vocalist/guitarist (America)
1950 – Tony Hymphris, political activist
1951 – Craig Serjeant, cricketer (Australian batsman late seventies)
1951 – Ronald Bell, Youngstown Oh, rock sax (Kool & The Gang)
1951 – Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 – Michael Zaslow, Inglewood CA, actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1953 – N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85)
1954 – Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer (Olympic-1968)
1955 – Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1956 – Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
1957 – Lyle Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
1957 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 – Rachel Ticotin, actress (Grace-For Love & Honor, Total Recall), born in NYC, New York
1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1959 – Eddie MacDonald, rocker (The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven’s Door)
1960 – Damon Green, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1990 Pensacola Open-49th)
1960 – Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Oct 1]
1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
1960 – Said Aquita, runner (Oly-gold/bronze-1984)
1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama
1961 – Anne Donovan, Ridgewood NJ, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 – Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused)
1961 – Magne Furuholmen, Oslo Norway, keyboardist/vocalist (Aha-Take on Me)
1961 – Paul Jackson, cricketer (slow lefty bowler for Victoria & Queensland)
1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
1961 – Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
1962 – Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 – Kelly Kelland, London Ontario, softball 1st baseman (Olympics-96)
1962 – Maga Furuholmen, rocker
1962 – Michelle Estill, Scottsdale AZ, LPGA golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One)
1962 – Robert Willis, Australian golfer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
1963 – Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
1963 – Brian Forde, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 – Rick Allen, rock drummer (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1963 – Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 – Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 – Eddie Williams, Sheveport LA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1964 – Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, cricketer (bowls 2 Tests for Sri Lanka 86-87)
1964 – Richard Cooper, NFL tackle (NO Saints, Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 – Daran Norris, American actor
1965 – Richard Stephens, NFL guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1966 – Bob Wells, Yakima WA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 – Danny Everett, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 – Paul Lewis, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1966 – Ruud Cabbage, soccer player (FC Twente)
1966 – Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 – Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1967 – Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete
1967 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 – Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 – Bernard Dafney, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 – Kent Graham, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 – Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 – Barron Wortham, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1969 – Darryl Ashmore, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 – Jill Reeve, Hoosick Falls NY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1969 – Tie Domi, Windsor, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1970 – Alla Korot, Odessa USSR, actress (Jenna Norris-Another World)
1970 – Dawn Marple, Salem Ohio, team handball wing/back (Olympics-1996)
1970 – Sherwin Campbell, cricketer (WI opening batsman 1995)
1971 – Keith Whitecotton, Camrose Alberta, golfer (Alberta Jr-1989, 90)
1971 – Laura Moss, Kings Mt Ohio, actress (Amanda Cory-Another World)
1971 – Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 – Terry Dean, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 – Glen Murray, Halifax, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1972 – Jenny McCarthy, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois
1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 – V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- )
1975 – Van Hiles, NFL safety (Chicago Bears)
1975 – Bo Bice, American singer
1975 – Scott “Skippy” Chapman, American musician
1976 – Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1979 – Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1979 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1982 – Michael Copon, American actor
1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 – Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress
1985 – Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor
1987 – Caitlin McCarthy, Victoria’s Secret model
1988 – Ross Montague, English footballer

WEDDINGS

1940 – Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening
1954 – Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii
1986 – MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)
1988 – US Actors Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis marry in Las Vegas
2003 – “Showgirls” actress Elizabeth Berkley (31) weds artist Greg Lauren (33) at Esperanza Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2008 – Actress Marisa Coughlan (34) weds Stephen Wallack at a private estate in Pasadena, California
2014 – Counting star Jessa Duggar weds Ben Seewald at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Ark

DIVORCES

1947 – Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage
1954 – Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur due to drunken violence after 7 years of marriage
1982 – Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage
2010 – Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage

DEATHS

921 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1296 – Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1535 – Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies
1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 – Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1672 – Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 – William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 – Carlos II, King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), dies at 39
1711 – Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 – Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1750 – Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
1768 – Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
1788 – Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
1810 – Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1817 – Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
1825 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
1841 – Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
1844 – August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
1881 – Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22
1888 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1891 – John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
1894 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Reigned from 1881
1895 – Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
1903 – [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
1907 – Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33
1914 – Christopher “Kit” Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
1926 – Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
1926 – Wilfred Flowers, cricketer (England spinner in 8 Tests 1884-93), dies
1927 – Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
1941 – Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
1942 – Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1947 – Man o’ War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1949 – Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890’s), dies
1955 – W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
1955 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1956 – Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1956 – Pietro Badoglio, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), dies at 85
1959 – Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1961 – Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97
1961 – Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1962 – Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78
1962 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1963 – Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62
1967 – Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1968 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1971 – G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95
Poet Ezra Pound (1972)

1972 – Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1974 – Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75
1975 – Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1975 – Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58
1975 – Norbert Rosseau, composer, dies at 67
1975 – Philip James, composer, dies at 85
1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53
1976 – Oscar Beregi Jr, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in the City), dies at 58
1979 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 – James Broderick, actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 – King Vidor, director (War & Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1982 – Leighton Lucas, composer, dies at 79
1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1984 – Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 – Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1986 – Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1986 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer, dies at 88
1987 – René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1991 – Joseph Papp, US theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
1992 – Jeremias Chitunda, vice-chairman (Angolese Unita-rebellion), dies
1993 – Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
1993 – George Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, dies of prostate cancer at 74
1993 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1994 – Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
1994 – Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
1995 – Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64
1995 – Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88
1995 – James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
1995 – Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
1996 – Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1996 – Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies
NFL Running Back Walter Payton (1999)

1999 – Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45
1999 – Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 – Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 – Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2005 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006 – William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (The Unbelievable Truth), murdered at 40
2007 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2008 – Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
2008 – Shakir Stewart, American music producer (b. 1974)
2010 – Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist (b. 1945)
2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, American television announcer (b. 1932)
2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)
2012 – Pascual Perez, Dominican baseball player, bludgeoned to death at 55
2014 – Wayne Static [Wells], American musician (Static-X), dies at 48

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public

• American Revolution

• 1765 Parliament enacts the Stamp Act

• Automotive

• 1930 Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is dedicated

• Civil War

• 1861 McClellan replaces Scott

• Cold War

• 1952 United States tests first hydrogen bomb

• Crime

• 1950 An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman

• Disaster

• 1755 Earthquake takes heavy toll on Lisbon

• General Interest

• 1993 European Union goes into effect

• Hollywood

• 1967 Newman stars in Cool Hand Luke

• Literary

• 1871 Stephen Crane is born

• Music

• 1986 Boston’s belated Third Stage hits #1

• Old West

• 1924 Legendary western lawman is murdered

• Presidential

• 1800 John Adams moves into White House

• Sports

• 1959 Jacques Plante is the first goalie to wear a facemask

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Military and political situation in South Vietnam deteriorates
• 1968 Two new programs initiated in South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1914 The Battle of Coronel

• World War II

• 1941 FDR puts Coast Guard under control of the Navy