EVENTS
530 – Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1066 – Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence
1468 – Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute & French King Louis XI
1492 – Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion (Bahamas)
1529 – Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna
1586 – Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth
1700 – Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1745 – French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
1758 – Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
1773 – American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1774 – 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
1806 – Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
1812 – Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
1834 – First black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1834 – In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
1840 – Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1843 – British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell for conspiracy
1862 – Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
1862 – Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
1863 – Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
1863 – Skirmish at Catlett’s Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)
1865 – Cheyennes & Arapahos sign “peace treaty” then chased out Colorado
1867 – 15th & last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan
1881 – 21st British Golf Open: Bob Ferguson shoots a 170 at Prestwick Golf Club
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company George Eastman
1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1893 – George Edwarde’s “Gaiety Girl” premieres in London
1893 – Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret
1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1901 – Justin Huntly McCarthy’s “If I were King” premieres in NYC
1905 – NY Giants beats Phila A’s, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series
1905 – Giant’s Christy Mathewson’s 3rd straight World Series shutout
1906 – All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series
1908 – Baseball Writers Association of America forms
1908 – Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch
1908 – Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers
1908 – 4th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 57-0 in College Park
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1909 – Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
1911 – Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A’s, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1912 – Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
1912 – Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives.
1914 – German troops occupy Brug
1916 – Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
1916 – The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
1920 – Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1922 – 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC
1922 – 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1924 – Arnold Schoeberg’s opera “Die Gluckliche Hand” premieres in Vienna
1925 – Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
Author A.A. Milne
1926 – AA Milne’s book “Winnie the Pooh” released
1926 – Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1929 – Phila A’s beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series
1929 – Philadelphia A’s set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning
1930 – Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in “Girl Crazy”
1930 – George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
1931 – 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1931 – Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State
1933 – Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1934 – “Lux Radio Theatre” premieres
1938 – Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1939 – BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
1939 – German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson
1939 – Sugar rationed in Netherlands
1940 – Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
1941 – 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga
1942 – Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1942 – German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
1942 – Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1943 – 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration Camp in Sobibor, Poland
1943 – Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel)
1943 – US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt
1944 – Allied troops land in Corfu
1944 – British troops march into Athens
1945 – Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
1946 – Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire
1947 – Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower
1947 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1948 – Batavia lt-governor-general van Mook dismissed
1948 – Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
1949 – 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949 – Chinese Red army occupies Canton
1949 – Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 – Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
1951 – Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams
1951 – Organization of Central American States forms
1952 – “Buttrio Square” opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1953 – 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1953 – Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
1953 – Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles
1953 – Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1953 – WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1956 – Charles Ives’ overture “Robert Browning” premieres in NYC
1956 – Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
1957 – Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” reaches #1
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
1958 – Brendan Behan’s “Hostage” premieres in London
1958 – Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
1958 – Paul Osborn’s “World of Suzie Wong” premieres in NYC
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
Irish Poet and Playwright Brendan Behan
1959 – WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1960 – Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1961 – “How to Succeed in Business” opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs
1961 – 14th Ryder Cup: US wins, 14½-9½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes, England
1962 – Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
1962 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
1962 – US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 – Algeria & Morocco border conflict
1963 – WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
1964 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
1964 – Martin Walser’s “Der Schwarze Schwan,” premieres in Stuttgart
1964 – Philips begins experimenting with color TV
American Baseball Player Roger Maris
1964 – Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches
1964 – Premier Nikita Khrushchev replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
1965 – Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1965 – Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0
1966 – 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 – Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1968 – 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1968 – Beatles “White Album” completed
1968 – Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
1968 – In NL expansion draft, Expos & Padres choose 30 players each
1968 – J R Hines of US runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec
1968 – A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev
1968 – The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened.
1969 – Palme government forms in Sweden
1969 – Race riots in Springfield Mass
1969 – T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win Baseball World Series 5-0
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971.
1970 – 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 – 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
1971 – John & Yoko appear on “Dick Cavett Show”
Country Music Singer and Songwriter Merle Haggard
1972 – Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1972 – North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition
1973 – Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
1973 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1973 – Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A’s in World Series game 2 A’s Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him
1974 – 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
1975 – Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
1976 – Chris Chambliss’ 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
1976 – Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1976 – Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
1976 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 2
Economist Milton Friedman
1977 – Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
1977 – Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
1977 – Rock band KISS release their 2nd live album “Alive II”
1978 – 1st TV movie from a TV series-“Rescue from Gilligan’s Island”
1978 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1978 – NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away
1978 – Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
1979 – 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
1979 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1979 – Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
1979 – NHL’s greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal
Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky
1979 – 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
1979 – NBC premiere of U.S. TV adaptation of Helen Keller’s life story “The Miracle Worker”
1980 – Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1980 – Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1981 – Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1982 – 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 – Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
1982 – NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan
1982 – President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1983 – Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard
1983 – US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
1984 – “Quilters” closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances
1984 – Browns’ Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds
1984 – Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series
1984 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open
1985 – 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
1985 – On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath’s #12, beat Miami 23-7
1986 – Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 – IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
1986 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism)
1986 – Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
1987 – In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22′ (7m) down a well
Author Elie Wiesel
1987 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3
1988 – NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs)
1988 – Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1988 – Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
1989 – Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consecutive World Series openers
1989 – Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
1990 – Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
1990 – SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 – NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal
1992 – Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A’s to win their 1st AL pennant
1992 – MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
1992 – MLB American League Championship: Toronto Blue Jays beat Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 2
1994 – Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres
1994 – Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
1995 – Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
1995 – MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 0
1996 – Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
1996 – Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
1996 – Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
1997 – MLB National League Championship: Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
1998 – NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
1998 – MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
Formula 1 Racing Driver Michael Schumacher
2001 – 52nd Formula One WDC: Michael Schumacher wins by 58 points
2002 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
2003 – Fan Steve Bartman deflects the ball away from Chicago Cubs outfielderMoises Alou. Cubs give up eight runs in the inning and lose to the Marlins 8-3, and the Bartman incident is seen as the turning point in the series
2006 – MLB American League Championship: Detroit Tigers beat Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 0
2010 – 19th Commonwealth Games close in Delhi, India
2012 – 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
2013 – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices
2014 – Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
MLB Outfielder Moises Alou
2014 – World Health Organisation announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%
BIRTHDAYS
1257 – King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
1404 – Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
1499 – Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
1542 – Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605)
1606 – Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78)
1630 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
1633 – James Stuart, King James VII of Scotland / James II of England (d. 1688)
1639 – Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony (1679-99)
1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1644 – William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 – Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician
1712 – George Grenville, British PM (1763-65)
1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
1730 – Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1733 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn (1644)
1734 – Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer/signer (Decl of Independence)
1738 – Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
1740 – Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05)
1753 – Franz Anton Dimmler, composer
1764 – Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
1774 – Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician
1784 – Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain
1789 – Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder
1790 – Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
1796 – Adolf Ganz, composer
1801 – Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs)
1806 – Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
1827 – James Sidney Robinson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1892)
1827 – Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Excheque
1837 – Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1908)
1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
1855 – George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1857 – Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
1859 – Camille Chevillard, composer
1861 – Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
1861 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
1864 – Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental)
1867 – Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads)
1869 – Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
1871 – Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer (Schneeman), born in Vienna, Austria
1873 – Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1873 – Ray Ewry, Lafayette Ind, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08)
1873 – Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)
1874 – Margarete Susman, writer
1880 – Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken)
1882 – Charlie Parker, cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test)
1882 – Éamon de Valera, NY, Irish politician and patriot, President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), (d. 1975)
1883 – Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor)
1884 – Jimmy Conlin, Camden NJ, actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
1888 – Ernest Pingoud, composer
Short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888)
1888 – Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), Wellington New Zealand, short story writer (Aloe, Garden Party)
1889 – Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, born in Denison, Texas
1890 – Frank Conroy, Derby England, actor (Call of the Wild)
1891 – Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist
1892 – Sumner Welles, US undersecretary/diplomat (Good neighbor policy)
1893 – Lillian Gish, American silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation), (d. 1993)
1894 – Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder (Indonesian Communist)
1894 – E.E.Cummings (Edward Estlin), Cambridge Massachusetts, poet (Tulips & Chimneys)
1898 – Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor/director (Flying Dutchman)
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890)
1899 – Alan Washbond, US, 2-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1900 – Edwin McLeod, cricketer (played in NZ’s 2nd-ever Test 1930)
1901 – Willem A Wagenaar, journalist/writer (Shanghai)
1902 – Stanley Coen, cricketer (South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28)
1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
1904 – Karel Srom, composer
1906 – Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Halls of Ivy), born in London, England
1906 – Hannah Arendt, Hanover Germany, political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism)
1906 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1907 – “Red” McKenzie, jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper) [or 1899]
1907 – Allan Jones, Scranton PA, actor/singer (A Day at the Races, Showboat)
1907 – Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter
1907 – Pert Kelton, Great Falls Mont, actress (Cavalcade of Stars)
Political Theorist Hannah Arendt (1906)
1908 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German auto racer (Indy 500)
1909 – Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer
1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
1910 – Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker’s union leader
1910 – John Wooden, basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships)
1911 – Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975)
1912 – Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex)
1912 – Jack Crapp, cricketer (England batsman 1948-49)
1912 – Jack Young, cricketer (Middlesex & England slow left-armer post-WW2)
1913 – Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quick of the 30’s who didn’t play for Aust)
1913 – Victor Trumper Jr, cricketer (son of Mr & Mrs Trumper NSW 1940-41)
1914 – Brendan Gill, critic
1914 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1916 – C Everett Koop, surgeon general (1981-89)
1918 – Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40’s early 50’s)
1918 – Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1919 – Edward L Feightner, US rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands)
1924 – Robert Webber, Santa Ana California, actor (79 Park Avenue)
1925 – Louis Cohen, physicist
1925 – Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa, palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize nominee(hominid fossil sites), (d. 2012)
1925 – Lawrence Herkimer, “Grandfather of Cheerleading” (founded National Cheerleading Association, patented the pom-pom), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 2015)
1926 – Bill Justis, rocker
1926 – Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbrugge], singer/actor (Riffin in Amsterdam)
1927 – Roger Moore, actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint), born in London, England
1928 – Gary Graffman, pianist (Leventritt Award), born in NYC, New York
1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
1929 – Alfredo Santos Buenaventura, composer
1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko (1930)
1930 – Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, President Zaire (1965-97)
1930 – Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin’)
1931 – Rafael Puyana, Bogota Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
1931 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1932 – Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
1935 – La Monte Young, Bern Idaho, composer (Composition in 1990)
1938 – John Dean III, former White House counsel (Watergate figure)
1938 – Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1939 – Hugh Delane Thompson, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1991 MONY Syracuse)
1939 – Ralph Lauren, fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx, New York
1940 – Christopher Timothy, British actor (All Creatures Great & Small)
1940 – Sir Cliff Richard, [Harry Webb], Lucknow India, English rock vocalist (Suddenly)
Singer Cliff Richard (1940)
1940 – Jesse Carlyle Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (1972 Phila Classic)
1940 – Pat Finley, Asheville NC, actress (Ellen Hartley-Bob Newhart Show)
1941 – Jim Courter, (Rep-R-NJ, 1979- )
1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player
1942 – Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist (Them)
1943 – Anthony Iannaccone, composer
1943 – Lance Rentzel, NFL receiver (Minn, LA)/ex-husband of Joey Heatherton
1943 – Noreen Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Kelly-Bachelor Father)
1944 – Udo Kier, Germany, actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein)
1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
1946 – Justin Hayward, England, vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1946 – James Robert “Radio” Kennedy, American football coach
1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist
1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
1947 – Charlie Joiner, Many La, NFL receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
1947 – Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
1948 – Harry Anderson, American actor
1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host
1948 – Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
1949 – Katy Manning, English/Australian actress
1949 – Katha Pollitt, American writer
1950 – Sheila Young Ochowicz, Birmingham Mich, speed skater (Oly-gold/sil-76)
1951 – Marcia Barrett, St Catherine’s Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 – Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer (Eye to Eye)
1952 – Harry Anderson, Newport RI, actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court)
1952 – Margriet Eshuijs, Dutch singer/pianist
1952 – Nikolai Adrianov, USSR, gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976)
1953 – Greg Evigan, South Amboy NJ, actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear, Melrose Place)
1953 – Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname lt-colonel (coup 1982)
1953 – Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova, Russia, cosmonaut
1953 – Roland Butcher, Barbados born English cricketer (1st cricketer of Caribbean descent to play for England 1981)
1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer
1954 – Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel(1956)
1956 – Beth Daniel, Charleston South Carolina, LPGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1957 – Gregory T Linteris, Demarest NJ, PhD/astronaut (STS 83, 94)
1957 – Karen Permezel, LPGA golfer
1957 – Michel Després, Quebec politician
1958 – Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science)
1959 – A J Pero, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), born in Staten Island, New York
1960 – John Aalberg, Orland Norway, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1960 – Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km)
1961 – Melanie Wilson, actress (Jennifer-Perfect Strangers)
1961 – Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
1962 – Shahar Perkiss, Israel, tennis star
1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1963 – Keith Byars, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots)
1963 – Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1964 – Joe Girardi, Peoria IL, catcher (NY Yankees)
1964 – Pieter Axe, soccer player (FC Utrecht/SC Heerenveen)
1964 – Olu Oguibe, American artist
1965 – Karyn White, singer
1965 – Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
1965 – Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1967 – Arleen Sorkin, actress (Days of Our Lives, America’s Funniest Videos)
1967 – Dave Hajek, Roseville CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Richmond, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player
1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1968 – Gene Williams, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 – Rashid Latif, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper)
1968 – Wanda Guyton, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
1968 – Johnny Goudie, American musician
1969 – Mark Verhoeven, Dutch soccer player (MVV/NEC)
1969 – P J Brown, NBA center/forward (NJ Nets, Miami Heat)
1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1970 – Daniela Pestova, [Chameleon], Prague Czech, model (1995 SI/L’Oreal)
1970 – Jim Jackson, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phila 76ers)
1970 – Nina Kemppel, Anchorage Alaska, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 – Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
1970 – Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
1971 – Derrick Rodgers, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 – Frank Wycheck, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
1972 – Erika de Lone, tennis star (1996 Futures-Wilmington DE), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1972 – J J Smith, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 – Mike Archie, running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 – Nelson Van waes, CFL defensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 – Shawn Banks, WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 – DeJuan Wheat, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
1974 – Kim Williams, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1974 – Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 – Joseph Utsler, American musician
1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1976 – Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1976 – Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
1977 – Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
1977 – Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
1977 – Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 – Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 – Ryan Church, American baseball player
1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 – Usher, American singer and actor
1978 – Javon Walker, American football player
1979 – Coty Strickler, Miss Montana Teen USA (1997)
1979 – Stacy Keibler, American actress / ex-professional wrestler
Singer Usher (1978)
1980 – Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player
1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
1985 – Digão, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Daniel Clark, Canadian actor
1985 – Sherlyn González, Mexican actress
1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress
1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor
1992 – Savannah Outen, American singer/songwriter
1996 – Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of singer Madonna
WEDDINGS
1806 – German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethemarries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar
1913 – Athlete Jim Thorpe (25) weds Margaret Iva Miller at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1914 – Baseball legend Babe Ruth (19) weds Helen Woodford
1923 – “All Quiet on the Western Front” author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona
1961 – Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O’Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21)
1961 – Author Anne Rice (20) weds poet/artist Stan Rice (18) in Denton, Texas
Author Upton Sinclair(1961)
1961 – Author Upton Sinclair (83) weds Mary Elizabeth Willis
1964 – Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd
1989 – Novelist Sidney Sheldon (72) weds Alexandra Sheldon in Las Vegas, Nevada
1995 – “Sleep with Me” actress Meg Tilly (35) weds United Artists studio president John Calley (65) in Los Angeles
2000 – Asylum recording artist Bryan White (26) weds actress Erika Page at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas
2001 – Inspirational speaker Anthony Robbins (41) weds Sage Bonnie Humphrey
2001 – Actor Breckin Meyer (27) weds “Can’t Hardly Wait” director Deborah Kaplan in Malibu
2006 – Merengue singer Melina Leon (33) weds Ruy Fernando Delgado at La Iglesia Metodista Universitaria in San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006 – “Celtic Tiger” choreographer Michael Flatley (48) weds fellow dancer Niamh O’Brien at St. Patrick’s Church in Fermoy, Ireland
DIVORCES
1988 – Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment
1990 – Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce after nearly 2 years of marriage
DEATHS
530 – Discorus, anti-Pope (530), dies
1066 – Harold II, King of England (1066), dies at the Battle of Hastings
1092 – Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
1256 – Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
1536 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1570 – Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1660 – Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72
1660 – Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1669 – Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46
1703 – Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1711 – Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
1719 – Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer), dies at 59
1746 – Francois Fagel, lawyer/statesman, dies at 86
1758 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1771 – Franz Xaver Brixi, composer, dies at 39
1775 – Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57
1790 – William Hooper, US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 48
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1847 – William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53
1857 – Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33
1872 – Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63
1877 – Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68
1879 – F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58
1880 – Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army
1893 – Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84
1900 – Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies
1900 – Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54
1909 – Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76
1911 – John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
1919 – Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
1923 – George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
1923 – Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
1930 – Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1943 – Jackie Matthews, cricketer (8 Tests 1911-12, 16 wickets), dies
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1944)
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52
1957 – Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78
1958 – Jean Poveigh, composer, dies at 82
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood), dies of a heart attack at 50
1960 – Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
1966 – Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75
1967 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
1972 – Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68
1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1976 – Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
Singer and Actor Bing Crosby (1977)
1977 – Bing Crosby, US singer/actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74
1980 – S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India), dies
1981 – Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74
1983 – Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure
1983 – Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist
1984 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 – [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, US actor (Dr Strangelove), dies at 70
1987 – Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86
1988 – Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies
1989 – Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at 30
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72
1993 – Bertie Clarke, cricketer (6 wkts for WI in 1939), dies
1993 – Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
1993 – Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
1993 – Walter Brown Newman, US screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77
1994 – Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87
1995 – Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82
1995 – Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83
1996 – Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91
1996 – William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80
1997 – Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
2002 – Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2004 – Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2005 – Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 – Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2006 – Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 – Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2006 – Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2007 – Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
2008 – Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, British peer and business man
2008 – Richard Cooey, American murderer and rapist (executed) (b. 1967)
2009 – Captain Lou Albano. American Professional Wrestler and Manager. (b. 1933)
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal), dies of bowel cancer at 58
2010 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2012 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer, dies in a traffic collision at 33
2014 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress, dies from cirrhosis at 55
ALSO ON THIS DAY
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Lead Story
- 1947 Yeager breaks sound barrier
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American Revolution
- 1780 Patriots sting Loyalists at Shallow Ford, North Carolina
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Automotive
- 1857 Elwood Haynes, “Grandsire of Gasoline Cars,” is born
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Civil War
- 1863 Battle of Bristoe Station
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Cold War
- 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
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Crime
- 1975 Trial begins in Amityville murders
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Disaster
- 1913 Coal miners die in Wales
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General Interest
- 1066 The Battle of Hastings
- 1912 Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee
- 1964 King wins Nobel Peace Prize
- 2012 Skydiver breaks sound barrier with 24-mile jump
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Hollywood
- 1994 Pulp Fiction debuts
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Literary
- 1822 Victor Hugo marries Adele Foucher
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Music
- 1957 “Wake Up Little Susie” becomes the Everly Brothers’ first #1 hit
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Old West
- 1939 Ralph Lauren, designer of popular western-style clothing, is born in New York
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Presidential
- 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower is born
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Sports
- 2003 Steve Bartman catches ball
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Vietnam War
- 1964 Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
- 1968 U.S. servicemen sent to Vietnam for second tours
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World War I
- 1918 Adolf Hitler wounded in British gas attack
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World War II
- 1944 “The Desert Fox” commits suicide