October 9th

EVENTS

768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.
869 – Charles the Bald crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1192 – Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1290 – Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1573 – Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 – Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1617 – Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)
1621 – Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1651 – English parliament passes Navigation Act
1655 – Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
Theologian and Colonist Roger Williams

1668 – Mass society storms palace of “heretics” Spanish governor Jose de Paternina
1701 – Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1708 – Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1716 – Britain & France sign treaty
1740 – Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1760 – 7 Years’ War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28].
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1794 – French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1799 – Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast.
1804 – Hobart Tasmania founded
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1817 – University of Gent officially opens
1818 – Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1820 – Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.
1835 – The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1837 – Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – The siege of Sebastopol begins (Crimean War)
1855 – Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 – Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope
1863 – Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
Union General George Armstrong Custer

1864 – Battle of Tom’s Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan’s campaign is beaten by General Custer & Merrit’s cavalry divisions
1865 – First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1870 – Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1872 – Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
1874 – World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1876 – 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 – American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 – Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Red-Headed League”
1899 – 1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa
1899 – South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1900 – 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 – 11″ (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1905 – Phila A’s meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1907 – 3rd College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 12-0 in Annapolis
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1909 – Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1910 – Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown’s 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1914 – German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1915 – Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
1915 – Louis Kaufmans “Unchastened Woman” premieres in NYC
1915 – Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
1916 – Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1920 – 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1921 – Babe Ruth’s 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1926 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1928 – Marcel Pagnol’s “Topaz” premieres in Paris
1928 – NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in game
1929 – G Kaufman & R Lardner’s musical “June Moon” premieres in NYC
1930 – 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 – St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1938 – Aaron Copland’s & Eugene Loring’s ballet “Billy the Kid” premieres in Chicago
1938 – Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 – NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
Composer Aaron Copland

1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy.
1944 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1944 – Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1944 – German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1944 – St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 – British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 – First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 – Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” premieres in NYC
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1947 – Julie Styne & Sam Cohn’s musical “High Button Shoes” premieres in NYC for 727 performances
1948 – WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 – 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
1951 – Gil McDougald’s World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 – Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1954 – KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1956 – 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
1957 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1958 – Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine
1958 – NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1958 – NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey Oswald

1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1960 – Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2″)
1961 – NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 – US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
1961 – Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 – Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1962 – Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1962 – NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1962 – Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1963 – Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1963 – British premier Harold MacMillan resigns
1963 – Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks’ about 2,000 die
MLB Pitcher Whitey Ford

1963 – French air force gets first nuclear weapons
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 – 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 – Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1966 – Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded “Got Live if you Want It”
1968 – Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1968 – WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – About 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against ‘police brutality’ on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People’s Democracy—was formed
1969 – Supremes release “Someday We’ll Be Together”
1970 – Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1971 – Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – “Dude” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
1973 – 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1973 – Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1973 – Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 – Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 – Race riot in Boston due to “bussing”
1974 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 1
1974 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles, 3 games to 1
1975 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
Nuclear Physicist & Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov

1975 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 – “Robber Bridegroom” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1976 – Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1976 – Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1976 – Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1977 – Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 – Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1977 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 2
1978 – 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins
1978 – John Kander & Fred Ebb’s musical “Ballroom” premieres in NYC
1979 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
Country singer Dolly Parton

1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn
1980 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1982 – Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
1982 – 12th Commonwealth Games close in Brisbane, Australia
1983 – Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 – 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 – Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1985 – “Tango Argentino” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
1985 – Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, dedicated
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 – “Phantom of the Opera” premeires in London
NHL Star Gilbert Perreault

1986 – Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 – Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
1988 – 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
1988 – 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
1988 – Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1988 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0
1989 – 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
1989 – Penthouse Magazine’s Hebrew edition hits newstands
1989 – 1st NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1
1990 – David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1990 – Radio stations around world play “Imagine” honoring John Lennon
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

1990 – Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1990 – Fear of war and long-term supply disruptions as Hussein threatens Israel
1991 – “On Borrowed Time” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 perfs
1991 – Bush declares “total confidence” in nominee Clarence Thomas
1991 – San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1994 – Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
1994 – Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany
1996 – Howard Stern’s book “Miss America” released in paperback
1997 – ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1997 – Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 – NC’s Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 – NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
1997 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel

2012 – 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 – Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in the Swat district of northwest Pakistan
2013 – 60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic
2013 – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
2014 – Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus

BIRTHDAYS

1201 – Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 – Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 – Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1586 – Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 – John Ferrabosco, composer
1663 – Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 – Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
1760 – Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 – Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 – Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1782 – Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1813 – John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 – Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1897)
1822 – George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1880)
1823 – Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Wilmington, Delaware, Publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher (‘Provincial Freeman’)
1830 – Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 – Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg’s coal basin)
1847 – Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
Chemist and Nobel Laureate Hermann Emil Fischer(1852)

1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1919)
1858 – Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 – Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 – Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 – Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1878 – Robert Warwick, [Bien], actor (Falcon’s Adventure), born in Sacramento, California
1884 – Helene Deutsch, [Rosenbach], psychoanalyst (Boston)
1884 – Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1886 – Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 – Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1888 – Irving Cummings Sr, silent screen star/director (Curly Top), born in NYC, New York
1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 – Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 – Janis Medins, composer
1892 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)
1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 – Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex)
1893 – M de Andrade, writer
1899 – Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1900 – Alastair Sim, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1900 – Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 – Walter O’Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904 – Carl Parrish, composer
1904 – J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman (KRO, 1938-45)
1904 – Wally Brown, Malden MA, actor (Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush)
1905 – Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1905 – Howard St John, actor (Born Yesterday, Li’l Abner), born in Chicago, Illinois
1906 – 13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner
1906 – Janis Ivanovs, composer
1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 – Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime)
1908 – James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
1910 – Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1914 – Edward Andrews, Griffin GA, actor (Tea & Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat)
1914 – Roger Goeb, composer
1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1917 – Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 – E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 – Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 – Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
1920 – Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
1920 – Yusef Lateef, Chattanooga Tennessee, American Jazz Saxophonist and Flautist
1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 – Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1922 – Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba), born in St Budeaux, Plymouth, (d. 2014)
1923 – Ronald Tremain, composer
1924 – Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1925 – Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 – Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1927 – Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 – David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1930 – Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 – Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1934 – Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician
1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 – Don[ald] McCullin, British photographer
1935 – Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent
1935 – Jules Croiset, Dutch actor (Help, Doctor Verzuipt!)
1935 – Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960’s, century v South Africa)
1935 – Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage & Her Children)
1936 – Brian Blessed, Mexborough, Yorkshire, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1937 – Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1939 – O V Wright, rocker
1939 – Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines)
1940 – Gordon J Humphrey, (Sen-R-NH, 1979- )
1940 – Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
MLB First Baseman and Outfielder Joe Pepitone(1940)

1940 – Joe Pepitone, MLB 1st baseman (NY Yankees), born in Brooklyn, New York
1940 – John Lennon, British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1980)
1941 – Trent Lott, (Rep-R-MS, 1973- )
1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span
1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1942 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1944 – John Entwistle, rock guitarist/vocalist (Who-Baba O’Riley), born in London, England
1944 – Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles)
1945 – Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 – Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
Musician and Beatle John Lennon (1940)

1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 – France Gall, French singer
1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 – Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1948 – Jackson Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love)
1949 – Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
1950 – Gary Frank, Spokane WA, actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon)
1950 – Mick Malone, cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14)
1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player
1951 – Richard Chaves, Jacksonville FL, actor (Cease Fire, Predator)
1951 – Robert Wuhl, Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
Music Manager/TV Personality Sharon Osbourne (1952)

1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English/American music manager, TV personality (X-Factor, America’s Got Talent) and wife of Ozzy Osbourne, born in London
1953 – Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night)
1954 – Scott Bakula, St Louis MO, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown)
1955 – Linwood Boomer, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie), born in Vancouver, Canada
1955 – Steve Ovett, England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
1957 – Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-18, TM-23)
1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1959 – Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1959 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, born in Sochi, Soviet Union (assassinated 2015)
1961 – Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 – Jean Sagal, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Liz Sagal, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Trevor Matich, NFL center/guard (Washington Redskins)
1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 – Martin Jaite, Argentina, tennis star
1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1966 – Mike Williams, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 – David Cameron, British politician
1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress (Spring Fever)
1967 – Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player (Barcelona)
1967 – Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player (PSV)
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 – Charles Jordan, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 – Dwayne Sabb, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
1969 – Steve McQueen, English filmmaker and artist (12 Years a Slave), born in London
1970 – Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women’s Open)
1970 – Kenny Anderson, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers)
1970 – Oleg Kryazhev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1971 – Pete Mitchell, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1972 – Maurice Kelly, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 – Roman Oben, tackle (NY Giants)
1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 – A J Ofodile, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 – Alexey Trochshinskiy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 – Brandon Pollard, Richmond VA, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 – Dexter McCleon, cornerback (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 – Kavika Pittman, defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 – Keith Booth, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 – Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer (Guyanese leg-spinner)
1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 – Sean Ono Lennon, New York USA, John & Yoko’s Son
1976 – Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1997)
1976 – Nick Swardson American actor
1977 – Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe (1997)
1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 – Randy Spelling, actor (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 – Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1996)
1979 – Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch NZ, breastroker (Olympics-96)
1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Ffotballer
1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Denver, Colorado
1981 – Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 – Ghetto, British musician
1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

WEDDINGS

1514 – King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)
1901 – Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr (27) weds Abby Aldrich in Warwick Neck, Rhode Island
1916 – Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (21) weds Maxine Gates in Farmington, Utah
1944 – Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (67) weds 1930 Miss France Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (38) in Geneva, Switzerland
1985 – NBA guard George Gervin (33) weds Joyce King in Bexar County, Texas
1999 – “Pretty in Pink” actor Andrew McCarthy (36) weds Carol Schneider
NBA Guard George Gervin(1985)

2005 – “The O.C.” writer and talk show host Regis Philbin’s daughter Jennifer Joy Philbin (31) weds NBC comedy series “The Office” writer Michael Schur (32) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City
2005 – Savage Garden musician Daniel Jones (32) weds “Hi-5” member Kathleen De Leon at Avica Weddings and Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland
2005 – Italian pop singer Alexia (38) weds Giorgio Armani’s nephew Andrea Camerana at Church of San Martino in Piacenza, Italy
2011 – Musician Paul McCartney (69) weds New Yorker Nancy Shevell (51) in a civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall, London
2011 – TV personality Layla Kayleigh (22) weds Radio Talk Show Host/DJ Steve Covino (36) in Las Vegas, Nevada

DIVORCES

1973 – Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1980 – Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

DEATHS

1047 – Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
1253 – Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78
1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1326 – Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
1390 – Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies
1423 – Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
1436 – Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio/Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1646 – Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1688 – Claude Perrault, French Architect and Physician, dies at 75
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1769 – Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 – Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 – Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77

Mathematician, Astronomer and Almanac Author Benjamin Banneker (1806)

1806 – Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1821 – Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece.
1837 – Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1841 – Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1891 – Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
1897 – John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1906 – Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1907 – Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1912 – Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1915 – Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
1917 – Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1918 – Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 – King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist)
1937 – August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1937 – George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer/actress, dies of liver ailment at 41
1943 – Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
1943 – Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 – Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1949 – Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
NHL Goalie George Hainsworth (1950)

1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender, dies in a car accident at 55
1955 – Alice Joyce, actress (Song O’ My Heart), dies at 65
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 – Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day’s game
1962 – Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80
1963 – Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1967 – Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies
1967 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39
1967 – Gordon Allport, US Psychologist (personalities), dies at 69
1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1970 – Jean Giono, writer, dies
Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara (1967)

1972 – Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 – Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1983 – Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1988 – Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 – Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1990 – Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1974)

1991 – Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
1991 – Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 – C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1993 – Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
1994 – Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 – James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1994 – Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1994 – Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 – John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1995 – Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 – Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 – Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
1995 – Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
1996 – Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
1996 – Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
1996 – Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
1996 – Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
1997 – Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer., dies from brain cancer at 55
2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister, dies from pancreatic cancer at 77
2014 – Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer, dies from complications of dementia 89

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1967 Che Guevara is executed

• American Revolution

• 1775 Lord Dartmouth orders British officers to North Carolina

• Automotive

• 1992 Meteorite crashes into Chevy Malibu

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Tom’s Brook

• Cold War

• 1967 Professional revolutionary “Che” Guevara is executed in Bolivia

• Crime

• 1942 A Chicago bootlegger escapes from prison

• Disaster

• 1963 Landslide kills thousands in Italy

• General Interest

• 1635 Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts
• 1940 St. Paul’s Cathedral bombed
• 1974 Oskar Schindler dies
• 1975 Sakharov wins Peace Prize

• Hollywood

• 2001 Footloose, Steel Magnolias director Herbert Ross dies

• Literary

• 1547 Miguel de Cervantes is baptized

• Music

• 1976 Disco/Classical hybrid “A Fifth Of Beethoven” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

• Presidential

• 1869 President Grant announces death of former President Pierce

• Sports

• 1934 The Gashouse Gang wins the World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1969 The National Guard breaks up protests at home
• 1970 Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia.

• World War I

• 1915 Belgrade falls to Austria-Hungary

• World War II

• 1944 Churchill and Stalin confer

1871 – Fire rips through Chicago

The Great Chicago Fire begins on this day in 1871. It goes on to kill 250 people, leave 100,000 people homeless and destroy thousands of buildings. All told, the fire was responsible for an estimated $200 million in damages (more than $3 billion in today’s money), approximately one-third of the city’s entire worth. At the time, slightly more than 300,000 people lived in Chicago, which was quickly becoming a transportation hub for goods and people traveling between the East Coast and the burgeoning frontier.

The fire began near the home of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary at 137 De Koven Street in southwest Chicago at about 9 p.m. Legend holds that the fire started when the family’s cow knocked over a lantern, but it is unknown whether this is actually true. What is known is that within 90 minutes, the fire was completely out of control and rapidly moving toward the city center.

Blinding hot ash and dust swirled as the blaze grew—at its height, it was as much as a mile wide. The winds were so strong and unpredictable that firefighters found it virtually impossible to establish safe positions from which to battle the blaze. Lake Michigan proved to be the only thing that could halt the fire as it raced four miles west. The fire continued to burn wildly throughout the following day, finally coming under control on October 10, when rain gave a needed boost to firefighting efforts.

Of the 18,000 buildings that were destroyed by the fire, the most notable was the city’s courthouse, which had cost over $1 million to build. The Field and Leiter department store was also lost, with an estimated $2 million of merchandise inside.

The fire prompted an outbreak of looting and lawlessness. Five companies of soldiers stationed in Nebraska and Kansas were summoned to Chicago and martial law was declared on October 11, ending three days of chaos. The military stayed for two weeks restoring order. Meanwhile, refugees filled the beaches of Lake Michigan, waiting until they could safely return to the city.

The following month, Joseph Medill was elected mayor after promising to institute stricter building and fire codes, a pledge that may have helped him win the office. His victory might also be attributable to the fact that most of the city’s voting records were destroyed in the fire, so it was next to impossible to keep people from voting more than once.

October 8th

EVENTS

314 – Battle at Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine beats emperor in the eas tLicinius
451 – Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
876 – Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bald
1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1085 – San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1492 – Columbus’ fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 – San Marino adopts constitution
1604 – Supernova “Kepler’s nova” first sighted
1625 – Admiral George Villiers’ fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
1690 – Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 – French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 – Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1769 – Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay)
Captain/Explorer James Cook

1775 – Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 – British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1813 – Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
1815 – Joachim Murat’s forces land at Pizzo, Italy
1818 – Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves
1821 – The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1822 – First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1840 – First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1856 – The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1860 – Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 – Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted
1862 – Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire
1865 – Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 – Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 – Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Noble Bachelor” (BG)
1887 – Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1888 – 28th British Golf Open: Jack Burns shoots a 171 at St Andrews
German Statesman Otto Von Bismarck

1892 – Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs “Prelude in C-sharp-Minor” in Moscow
1895 – Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 – Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1897 – Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 – First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen’s, 3-2
1903 – J M Synge’s “In the Shadow of the Glen” premieres in Dublin
1904 – 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrates first ‘permanent wave’ for hair in London
1908 – NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 – Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 – Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 – Battle of Loos WWI, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915 – Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

1917 – Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
1918 – American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 – NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 – British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1927 – NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 – Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 – Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz’ musical “Paris” premieres in NYC
1928 – Eastern Soccer League forms in USA
1928 – Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
1929 – A’s Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 – Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 – Phila A’s beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
1933 – Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
1933 – Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
Aviator Charles Lindbergh

1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son
1938 – G Kaufman & Moss Hart’s “Fabulous Invalid” premieres in NYC
1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 – NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 – Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 – German troops occupies Romania
1941 – Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins
1942 – Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1942 – Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1943 – Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 – “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debut on CBS radio
1944 – Samuel Barber’s “Capricorn Concerto” premieres
1945 – US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

1946 – Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as President of China
1946 – Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 – 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 – Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 – “Music in the Air” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 – Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League
1952 – Chinese offensive in Korea
1952 – Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1953 – Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson’s Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1953 – WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
1956 – Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson

1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 – Procter & Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense
1957 – Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1957 – Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1958 – Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1958 – Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
1958 – KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 – “At the Drop of a Hat” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 – Conservatives win British general election
1959 – LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 – 3rd Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain beats Australia 10-3
1960 – Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
1961 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin’s Swing Parade Golf Tournament
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1961 – US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – 12th Formula One WDC: Phil Hill wins by one point
1962 – Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 – North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers’ Party
1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about a NATO manoeuver called “Fallex 62”, which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 – Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

1964 – Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1965 – Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI-headquarters
1965 – Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
1965 – Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
1965 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 – Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
1970 – Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara

1970 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland
1971 – John Lennon releases his megahit “Imagine”
1971 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 – “From Israel with Love” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 – Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 – In Game 2 of ALCS, A’s Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 – Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
1972 – 23rd Formula One WDC: Emerson Fittipaldi wins by 16 points
1973 – NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins’ Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 – Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
1973 – OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1976 – Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1977 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
1978 – Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 – Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1978 – 29th Formula One WDC: Mario Andretti wins by 13 points
1979 – “Sugar Babies” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 – 13th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell wins
1979 – J McHugh & A Malvin’s musical “Sugar Babies” premieres in NYC
1980 – After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marleycollapsed in Central Park while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
Reggae Musician Bob Marley

1980 – British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 – USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test
1981 – USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser
1981 – President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral
1982 – NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
1983 – 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1983 – MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1
1983 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox, 3 games to 1
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1984 – 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1984 – NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes
1985 – “Rembrandt & Hitler or Me” premieres in Amsterdam
1985 – Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner’s “Les Miserables” premieres in London
1985 – Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 – Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 – RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 – Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 – Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1989 – MLB American League Championship: Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
1990 – 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
1990 – Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 – US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 – The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
1992 – Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 – Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
1992 – Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
Radio shock jock Howard Stern

1993 – Howard Stern releases his 1st book “Private Parts”
1993 – UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 – 6th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 30-11 in Chestnut Hill
1994 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 – Dolphin’s Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record
1995 – Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
1998 – Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.
1999 – New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
Molecular biologist Peter Agre

2003 – Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
2005 – The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
2011 – Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2012 – Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
2012 – Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament
2012 – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
2013 – Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
Developmental biologist John B. Gurdon

2014 – The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
2014 – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

BIRTHDAYS

1515 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
1585 – Heinrich Schutz, composer
1619 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)
1621 – Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim
1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
1690 – Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 – Antonio Palella, composer
1697 – Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love)
1713 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
1720 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
1740 – Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 – Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1747 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
1748 – Franz Seydelmann, composer
1765 – Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
1789 – John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
1789 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
1790 – Waldemar Thrane, composer
1802 – Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist
1813 – Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1818 – John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
1820 – Stanislaw Katski, composer
1826 – Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1904)
1828 – Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic
1831 – Michal Jelski, composer
1834 – Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 – Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1838 – John Milton Hay, politician (Union), (d. 1905)
1850 – Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1855 – Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
1860 – Felix Woyrsch, composer
1861 – Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1863 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
1864 – Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)
1868 – Max Slevogt, German painter
1869 – J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
1870 – Louis Vierne, composer
1872 – John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
1873 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1874 – Nance O’Neil, actor (Cimarron), born in Oakland, California
1875 – Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
1877 – Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
1880 – Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1883 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1883 – Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1884 – Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
1885 – William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1887 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
1888 – Clifford Heatherley, Preston England, actress (For Love or Money)
1889 – C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)
1890 – Cyril Rutherford “Snuffy” Browne, cricketer (pioneer WI Test player)
1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator “Ace of Aces” (WW I)
1890 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1893 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, Epping England, British painter and etcher
1895 – Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl)
1895 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires (d. 1974)
1895 – King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
1896 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (The Mark of Zorro, Applause)
1898 – Clarence Williams, composer
1899 – Milner Connorton Gray, designer
1899 – Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP)
1900 – Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect
1900 – Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer
1900 – Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 – Eivind Groven, composer
1903 – Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
1907 – Howard Joslin, GA, actor (Quebec, Detective Story)
1908 – Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1909 – Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1910 – Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
1910 – Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
1913 – Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish), born in NYC, New York
1916 – Spark Matsunaga, (D-Ha-Sen)
1917 – Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1917 – Hans Poser, composer
1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
1917 – Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
1918 – Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1919 – Bill Anderson, cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946)
1919 – Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan (1991-93)
1920 – Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
1920 – Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1921 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1922 – Douglas Gray, archivist
1922 – Svend Westergaard, composer
1924 – Arkady Vorobyev, Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1924 – Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1925 – Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic
1927 – Al Duncan, drummer
1927 – Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 – Raaj Kumar, film star
1927 – Torbjorn Falkanger, Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
1927 – Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
1927 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1928 – Neil Harvey, cricketer (prolific Australian lefty bat of 50’s)
1928 – M. Russell Ballard, LDS apostle
1928 – Bill Maynard, British actor
1929 – Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
1930 – James Olsen, Evanston IL, actor (Andromeda Strain, Spell)
1930 – Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1932 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
1934 – Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1934 – J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
1936 – Carman Moore, composer
1936 – Rona Barrett, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show), born in NYC, New York
1938 – David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service)
1938 – Frederick S Stolle, tennis champ (US Open-1966)
1938 – Penny Pitou, US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
1938 – Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
1939 – Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
1939 – Armando Gentilucci, composer
1939 – Elvira Ozolina, USSR, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 – Harvey Pekar, American author
1939 – Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer
1940 – Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, rocker (Impressions)
1941 – George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1941 – Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate (D)
1943 – Chevy Chase, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack), born in NYC, New York
1943 – James Edward Sellars, composer
Children’s Book Writer R. L. Stine (1943)

1943 – R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children’s book writer (Goosebumps)
1944 – Bruce A Morrison, (Rep-D-CT, 1983- )
1944 – Susan Raye, American singer
1945 – Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1945 – Vanburn Holder, cricketer (West Indian pace bowler of 70’s)
1946 – Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1946 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, director (Betty Blue, Diva)
1946 – Dennis Kucinich, American politician
1947 – Emiel Puttemans, Flemish athlete
1947 – Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1947 – Yelena Ivanovna Dobrokvashina, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-15a)
1948 – Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)
1948 – Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
Guitarist Johnny Ramone(1948)

1948 – Stefanie Marrian, Paris France, comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1948 – Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
1948 – Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
1948 – Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
1949 – Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 – Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1949 – Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
1950 – Robert “Kool” Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1951 – Jack O’Connell, American politician
1952 – Cliff Adams, rocker
1952 – Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician
1952 – Edward Zwick, American film director
1953 – Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1954 – Michael Dudikoff, Redondo Beach, California, American actor (American Ninja, TRON)
Actress Sigourney Weaver(1949)

1954 – Ben Amonette, Radford VA, free pistol (Olympics-92, 96)
1955 – Bill Elliott, auto racer (Daytona-1978)
1955 – Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1956 – Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend Ind, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 63, 83, 94)
1956 – Scott Michael Pellaton, barefoot water ski champ
1956 – Larry Crane, Seymour, Indiana, American rocker (John Mellencamp band)
1956 – Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
1956 – Janice Voss, South Bend, Indiana, astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), (d. 2012)
1957 – Doug Cox, Guelph Ontario, 90 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1957 – James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor (Max Holden-One Life to Live)
1957 – Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer
1957 – Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director
1958 – Steve Coll, American journalist
1959 – Carlos I Noriega, Lima Peru, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97)
1959 – Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1959 – Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1959 – Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
1959 – Nick Bakay, American actor
1960 – Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
1960 – François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
1961 – Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1962 – Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver
1964 – CeCe Winans, American singer
1965 – Martin Mayhew, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 – Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
1965 – Ross Flemer, Newport Beach California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 – Ardal O’Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor
1965 – C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1966 – Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
1967 – Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress
1968 – Frankie Smith, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, SF 49ers)
1968 – Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer
1968 – Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player
1969 – Dylan Neal, US actor (Dylan Shaw-Bold & the Beautiful)
1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor
1970 – Carlos Etheredge, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 – David Doster, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1970 – DeWayne Knight, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 – James Williams, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
Actor Matt Damon (1970)

1970 – Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean’s trilogy, Bourne trilogy)
1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
1970 – Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress
1971 – Jim Hanna, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 – Monty Williams, NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1971 – Nate Miller, NFL/WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 – Terry Richardson, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 – Val St germain, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 – Dede Demet, Milwaukee Wisc, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 – Jared Kaaiohelo, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1972 – Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer
1973 – Donnie Abraham, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 – Toby Haenen, Hobart Tasmania Aus, backstroke swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 – Tracy Bonner, Webster Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 – Rashaan Salaam, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1974 – Rod Manuel, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 – Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player
1974 – DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
1976 – Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
1977 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
1978 – Mick O’Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1978 – Antonino D’Agostino, Italian football player
1979 – [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1979 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
1979 – Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler
1980 – Andria Gayle Mullins, Miss Texas Teen USA (Teen with Style-1997)
1980 – Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
Actor & Rapper Nick Cannon(1980)

1980 – Nick Cannon, American actor and rapper (Love Don’t Cost a Thing), born in San Diego, California
1981 – Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, of Netherlands
1981 – Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
1983 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
1983 – Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor
1985 – Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez], American singer (“Just the Way You Are”, “Grenade”), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1985 – Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
1987 – Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu
1993 – Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)

WEDDINGS

1824 – Salt Lake City founder Brigham Young (23) weds first wife Miriam Angeline Works (18) in Port Byron, New York
1842 – Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1846 – Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia
1934 – South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34)
1935 – Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett)
1993 – Queen Elizabeth’s nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee (1934)

1994 – “Growing Pains” actress Tracey Gold (25) weds Roby Marshall (29) at St. Charles Catholic Church
2005 – Gilmore Girls” actress Melissa McCarthy (34) weds “Joey” actor Ben Falcone (32) at the Oviatt Penthouse in Los Angeles

DIVORCES

2010 – Musician Ben Harper (40) divorces actress Laura Dern (43) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

DEATHS

705 – Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
976 – Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 – St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies
1286 – John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
1317 – Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1604 – Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
1606 – John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies aged 69
1613 – Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
1621 – Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
1647 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
1651 – Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
1656 – Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1659 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1680 – Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1683 – Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1686 – Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55
1722 – Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
1728 – Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
1754 – Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771 – John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76
1772 – Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
Statesman John Hancock(1793)

1793 – John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
1795 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
1803 – Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1834 – Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
1842 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1847 – Rose Scott, Social Reformer
1862 – James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1862 – William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1864 – Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
1865 – Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 – Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1869 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
14th US President Franklin Pierce (1869)

1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1888 – Jules J baron d’Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
1895 – Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 – Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1904 – Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
1907 – Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 – Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1919 – Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies
1925 – Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1928 – Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1931 – Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
1936 – William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1940 – Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1942 – Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
1944 – Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52
1945 – Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73
1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
1946 – Rose Melville, American stage actress (Sis Hopkins) dies at 73
1947 – Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
1953 – Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
1956 – Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1963 – Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist dies of a heart attack aged 54
1964 – Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1967)

1967 – Clement Attlee, British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1969 – Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1970 – Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 – Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1971 – Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51
1971 – Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1973 – Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 – Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, lyricist (b. 1902 )
1978 – Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1978 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1978 – Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 – June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1982 – Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1982 – Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 – Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49
1984 – Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 – Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 – Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1988 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1990 – B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1991 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 – Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 – Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 – Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 – Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
1994 – John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
1994 – Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 – Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
1995 – Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
1995 – John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
1995 – Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 – Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
1996 – Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996 – Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 – Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
1996 – William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
1997 – Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1999 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2002 – Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2004 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2004 – James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2008 – Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918)
2008 – Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)
American Football Coach and Executive Al Davis (2011)

2011 – Al Davis, American football executive, dies at 82
2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2013 – Andy Pafko, Americal baseball player, dies at 92
2013 – Rod Grams, American politician and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65
2013 – Philip Chevron, Irish musician, dies from esophageal cancer at 56

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1871 Great Chicago Fire begins

• American Revolution

• 1778 Continentals raid Unadilla

• Automotive

• 1869 Frank Duryea, winner of the first American “horseless carriage” race, is born

• Civil War

• 1862 Battle of Perryville

• Cold War

• 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature

• Crime

• 2009 Self-help guru’s sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly

• Disaster

• 1871 Fire rips through Chicago

• General Interest

• 1919 First transcontinental air race
• 1967 Che Guevara defeated
• 2005 Massive earthquake hits Kashmir region

• Hollywood

• 1970 Matt Damon born

• Literary

• 1937 Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane

• Music

• 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis records “Great Balls Of Fire” in Memphis, Tennessee

• Old West

• 1871 The Great Fire destroys much of Chicago

• Presidential

• 1998 U.S. House of Representatives initiates Clinton impeachment inquiry

• Sports

• 1956 Don Larsen is perfect in World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1968 U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords
• 1970 Communists reject Nixon’s peace proposal
• 1972 Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks

• World War I

• 1918 U.S. soldier Alvin York displays heroics at Argonne

• World War II

• 1941 Germans overrun Mariupol, in southern Russia

1871 – Massive fire burns in Wisconsin

The most devastating fire in United States history is ignited in Wisconsin on this day in 1871. Over the course of the next day, 1,200 people lost their lives and 2 billion trees were consumed by flames. Despite the massive scale of the blaze, it was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which began the next day about 250 miles away.

Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was a company lumber and sawmill town owned by William Ogden that was home to what was then one of the largest wood-products factories in the United States. The summer of 1871 was particularly dry across the northern Midwest. Still, settlers continued to set fires, using the “slash and burn” method to create new farmland and, in the process, making the risk of forest fire substantial. In fact, the month before had seen significant fires burn from Canada to Iowa.

Peshtigo, like many Midwestern towns, was highly vulnerable to fire. Nearly every structure in town was a timber-framed building–prime fuel for a fire. In addition, the roads in and out of town were covered with saw dust and a key bridge was made of wood. This would allow a fire from outside the town to easily spread to Peshtigo and make escaping from a fire in the town difficult. On September 23, the town had stockpiled a large supply of water in case a nearby fire headed in Peshtigo’s direction. Still, they were not prepared for the size and speed of the October 7 blaze.

The blaze began at an unknown spot in the dense Wisconsin forest. It first spread to the small village of Sugar Bush, where every resident was killed. High winds then sent the 200-foot flames racing northeast toward the neighboring community of Peshtigo. Temperatures reached 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, causing trees to literally explode in the flames.

On October 8, the fire reached Peshtigo without warning. Two hundred people died in a single tavern. Others fled to a nearby river, where several people died from drowning. Three people who sought refuge in a water tank boiled to death when the fire heated the tank. A mass grave of nearly 350 people was established because extensive burns made it impossible to identify the bodies.

Despite the fact that this was the worst fire in American history, newspaper headlines on subsequent days were dominated by the story of another devastating, though smaller, blaze: the Great Chicago Fire. Another fire in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that consumed 2 million acres was an even smaller footnote in the next day’s papers.

October 7th

EVENTS

3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 – Pope Saint Mark’s death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant
1492 – Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1506 – Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 – 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1571 – Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroys Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece
1637 – Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 – English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 – British/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 – People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
The Warrior Pope Julius II

1765 – Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 – Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
1780 – British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1825 – Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1828 – The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1856 – Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 – -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1864 – Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor, Brazil – CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1868 – Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 – Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1871 – 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago’s 185 firefighters
1879 – Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
1882 – 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1886 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1891 – 31st British Golf Open: Hugh Kirkaldy shoots a 166 at St Andrews
1900 – The term “orienteering” is first used for an event
1904 – NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 – France’s Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane
1908 – Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 – Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford

1913 – Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football
1916 – The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters
1919 – First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 – Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi’s “Apple Blossoms” premieres in NYC
1919 – KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 – Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm’s of Austria
1923 – Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms
1926 – Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
Football, Baseball & Basketball Player & Coach John Heisman

1926 – Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 – Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress
1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 – NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 – Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 – Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau
1936 – 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1937 – Johan Wagenaar’s “Feestmars” premieres in Amsterdam
1938 – Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J
1940 – Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
Runner nicknamed the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi

1941 – German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 – 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 – Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
1942 – Maxwell Andersons “Eve of St Mark” premieres in NYC
1942 – US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 – Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1943 – Weill/Perelman/Nash’ musical “One Touch of Venus” premieres in NYC
1944 – Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 – Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin
1944 – Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1945 – Dutch author A M de Jong’s murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 – Charles Ives’ 2nd string quartet premieres
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

1947 – Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1949 – German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier
1950 – NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 – US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 – Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 – Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2
1950 – William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 – Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1952 – Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
Radio and Television Personality Dick Clark

1953 – Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 – Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 – Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1955 – Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem “Howl” for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1956 – Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 – KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 – US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 – “Happy Town” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 – Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR’s Luna 3
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg

1960 – “Route 66” premieres
1960 – 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1960 – Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus”, starring Kirk Douglas, is released
1961 – “Bye Bye Birdie” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs
1961 – 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1962 – 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 – Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 – JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1964 – NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 – Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 – 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world’s longest straight hole-in-one
35th US President John F. Kennedy

1967 – Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 – Rolf Hochhuth’s “Soldaten” premieres in West Berlin
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1968 – Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
1969 – WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 – T McNally’s “Where has Tommy Flowers gone?” premieres in NYC
1971 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland
1971 – “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Best Picture 1972)
1972 – 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
Actor Gene Hackman

1973 – Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.
1973 – 24th Formula One WDC: Jackie Stewart wins by 16 points
1974 – German Democratic Republic amends constitution
1975 – Players’ Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers’ Andy Messersmith
1975 – US decides John Lennon won’t be deported due to UK pot conviction
1975 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
1975 – MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0
1977 – Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 – USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 – LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test
1978 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
1978 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 1
1979 – “1940’s Radio Hour” opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
1979 – “Eubie!” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1979 – Cleveland Browns’ Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1979 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1979 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
NHL Legend Frank Mahovlich

1979 – Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings
1979 – 30th Formula One WDC: Jody Scheckter wins by four points
1980 – Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1981 – Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt
1981 – In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1982 – Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1982 – Musical “Cats” opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 – Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 – Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader
1984 – MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
NFL Running Back Walter Payton

1985 – 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1985 – Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 – PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1986 – First edition of new British newspaper “Independent” published
1986 – Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games
1988 – Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 – Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
1988 – Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 – WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 – Howard Stern’s US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 – Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel

1990 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 – Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 – Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 – Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991 – Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
1992 – Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 – “Les Miserables,” opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 – “She Loves Me” opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 – Massive Muslim demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1994 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1994 – Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 – Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
1994 – Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1995 – Boston’s Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 – Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2000 – The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool’s Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams’ 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2001 – Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
Actor, Body Builder & Politician Arnold Schwarzenegger

2003 – Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2003 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2009 – A digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung’s ‘Red Book’ is published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his subconscious during the period in which he developed his principal theories
2012 – 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
2012 – Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
2013 – Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
Psychiatrist Carl Jung

2013 – James Rothman, Randy Schekman and  Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
2014 – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
2014 – Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa

BIRTHDAYS

1573 – William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1576 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1577 – Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1589 – Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1698 – Henri Madin, composer
1713 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 – Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 – Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 – William Billings, American hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1800)
1748 – Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1758 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1769 – Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1774 – Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 – Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 – Adolf Muller, composer
1802 – Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
1817 – Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1821 – Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1821 – William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 – William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 – Felix Draeseke, composer
1841 – Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1854 – Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
1866 – Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1868 – Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 – Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 – Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 – Jaime Pahissa, composer
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr (1885)

1885 – Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886 – Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 – A C “Jack” Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 – Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 – Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1889 – Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1892 – Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 – Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1894 – Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1896 – Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1896 – Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1898 – Alfred Wallenstein, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29), born in Chicago, Illinois
1900 – Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo
1901 – Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 – Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 – Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 – Willemina J H “Mascha” ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1903 – Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1904 – Chuck Klein,Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1905 – Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy’s Gang)
1906 – James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 – Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1908 – Richard Caldicot, actor (Horse’s Mouth), born in London, England
1909 – Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 – Joe Jones, drummer, born in Chicago, Illinois
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1911 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 – Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks)
1914 – Alfred Drake, [Capurro], singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate), born in Brooklyn, New York
1914 – Sarah Churchill, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding), born in London, England
1915 – Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
1915 – Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 – Walt W Rostow, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth), born in NYC, New York
1917 – Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), born in Vienna, Austria
1917 – June Allyson, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas), born in The Bronx, New York
1918 – Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 – Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 – George Duby, historian
1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 – Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012)
1921 – John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1922 – Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 – Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1923 – Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1926 – Diana Lynn, LA CA, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1926 – Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 – Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 – Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (The Godfather)
1927 – R. D. Laing, Govanhill, Scottish psychiatrist, born in Glasgow, Scotland
1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 – Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1929 – Harold Zirin, astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1932 – Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 – Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 – Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer
1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1934 – Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1934 – [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1935 – Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler’s List)
1936 – Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 – Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1938 – Robert Drivas, Chi, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 – Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 – Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Bruce F Vento, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977- )
1940 – Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 – Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985- )
1941 – Martin Murray, rocker (Honeycombs), born in London, England
1941 – Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 – Oliver North, US colonel (Irangate), born in San Antonio, Texas
1943 – Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1944 – Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 – Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 – Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 – Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 – Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 – Kieran Kane, singer (O’Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too), born in Queens, New York
1950 – Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 – Carmen R “Tata” Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 – John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 – Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
1952 – Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 – Martyn Harris, journalist
1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
Russian President Vladimir Putin (1952)

1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
1953 – Christopher Norris, actress (Summer of ’42, Eat My Dust), born in NYC, New York
1953 – Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 – Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom)
1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956 – James Van Patten, American actor (Bo-Chisholms), born in Brooklyn, New York
1956 – Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 – Jayne Torvill, England, ice skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 – Judy Sams, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th), born in Toronto, Ontario
1958 – Kim Morris, playmate (Mar, 1986), born in San Diego, California
1958 – Judy Landers, American actress (BJ & the Bear, Madame’s Place), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1959 – Penny Graeber, Australian golfer (1990 6th Vic Open), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1959 – Dylan Baker, American character actor
Recording Executive Simon Cowell (1959)

1959 – Simon Cowell, Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol)
1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 – Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 – Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 – Rich Delucia, Reading PA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 – Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1964 – Stuart Hendley, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open), born in Houston, Texas
1964 – Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 – Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 – Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 – Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 – Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 – Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 – Randy Bartz, Roseville Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 – Thom Yorke, British pop musician and lead singer of Radiohead (‘Creep’, ‘Paranoid Android’ and ‘Pyramid Song’)
1969 – Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 – Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1969 – Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 – Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model
1970 – Daniel Collins, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1970 – Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 – Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 – Le’Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 – Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1971 – Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 – Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 – Paul Hannam, 470 yachter (Olympics-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1971 – Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 – John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 – Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 – Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 – Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 – Priest Holmes, running back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Alexander Polinsky, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge), born in San Franciso, California
1974 – Benjamin Oberman, pairs skater (& Naomi Grabow), born in Denver, Colorado
1974 – Shannon MacMillan, Syosset NY, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
1974 – Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 – Billy Walsh, Summit NJ, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 – Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 – Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 – Clayton Miller, trap shooter (Olympics-96), born in Toronto, Ontario
1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 – Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 – Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1984 – Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1987 – Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
1988 – Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho

WEDDINGS

1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1914 – 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F. Fitzgerald’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald (24)
1965 – Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (48) weds actor Warde Donovan
1978 – Country singer Merle Haggard (41) weds his backup singer Leona Williams (35)
1989 – Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1995 – “Cheers” actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen (42)
Actor Tim Allen (2006)

2006 – Comedian-actor Tim Allen (53) weds actress Jane Hajduk (39) at an outdoor ceremony in Grand Lake, Colorado
2012 – Media personality Jack Osbourne (26) weds Lisa Stelly on the Big Island of Hawaii

DIVORCES

1988 – Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
2004 – Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years of marriage

DEATHS

290 – [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 – Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
929 – Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies
1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 – Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1555 – Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 – Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto
1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 – John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 – Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 – Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 – Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1772 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 – Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 – Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
American Statesman George Mason (1792)

1792 – George Mason, American statesman (advocated for the Bill of Rights), dies of natural causes at 66
1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 – Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 – August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40
1864 – Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 – John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 – George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 – John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
Author Edgar Allan Poe(1849)

1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 – Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 – C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1919 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 – Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 – Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 – Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1950 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented modern air conditioning, dies at 73
Engineer Willis Carrier(1950)

1951 – Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 – Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 – PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 – Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 – Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1963 – Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63
1964 – Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 – Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 – Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 – Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 – Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 – Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1988 – Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 – J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 – John “Cat” Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 – Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1991)

1991 – Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 – Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 – Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1992 – Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 – Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 – Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 – Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 – James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 – Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 – Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 – Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
1999 – Rev. Bruce Ritter, American Catholic priest and controversial founder of charity New York City based Covenant House, dies of cancer at 72
2001 – Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 – Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 – Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
2010 – Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2010 – T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 – John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76
2013 – Patrice Chéreau, French film and opera director, dies from lung cancer at 68

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor

• American Revolution

• 1780 Patriots prevail in Carolinas

• Automotive

• 1960 CBS broadcasts the premiere episode of “Route 66″

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson’s Farm)

• Cold War

• 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy

• Crime

• 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship

• Disaster

• 1871 Massive fire burns in Wisconsin

• General Interest

• 1780 Battle of King’s Mountain
• 1913 Moving Assembly Line at Ford
• 1949 East Germany created
• 2001 U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins

• Hollywood

• 1983 Connery plays Bond in Never Say Never Again

• Literary

• 1955 Ginsberg reads “Howl” for the first time

• Music

• 1975 A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order

• Old West

• 1816 First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans

• Presidential

• 2001 President Bush announces military action in Afghanistan

• Sports

• 1984 Walter Payton sets a record

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort
• 1970 Nixon announces a new peace proposal

• World War I

• 1914 Antwerp under siege

• World War II

• 1940 German troops enter Romania
• 1943 Japanese execute nearly 100 American prisoners on Wake Island

1972 – Train derails in Mexico

On this day in 1972, a train carrying religious pilgrims derails near Saltillo, Mexico, killing more than 200 people and injuring hundreds of others.

Wednesday, October 6, was Saint’s Day in Mexico, a holiday many extended families came together to celebrate. People in the central part of the country often traveled to the shrine of St. Francis at Catorce where a festival was held. Following the festival, they took the train back to Saltillo and Monterrey. That night, the train was packed with about 1,600 passengers. Unfortunately, the engineer and four crew members running the train had also spent the day celebrating, which included drinking tequila.

At about 10 p.m., the train was going down a hill leading to a bridge two miles south of Saltillo. To navigate this section of rails safely, trains must maintain a speed of less than 35 miles per hour, but that evening the train was going about 75 mph. The locomotive derailed due to the excessive speed, dragging 13 of the train’s 22 cars off the rails with it; four of them burst into flames.

The accident site was a horrific scene, as scores of people screamed for help in the night. Some of the passengers who survived unscathed found the engineer alive, and drunk. After an attempted lynching was prevented by authorities, the engineer was taken away by ambulance. Subsequent testing confirmed that he was inebriated. It took two days to find and remove the 208 bodies from the scene. The crash remains one of the worst rail disasters in Mexico’s history.

October 6th

EVENTS

105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
891 – Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1111 – Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
1499 – French King Louis XII occupies Milan
1567 – Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1683 – 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1689 – Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
1762 – British troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1781 – Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of American Revolutionary War
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1799 – Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army
1811 – French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte visits Utrecht
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1853 – 4th National Women’s Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
1854 – The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1857 – American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1861 – Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
1861 – Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1863 – Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
1863 – Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1869 – John Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Walzer” premieres
1871 – Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1876 – American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 – 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1884 – Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Resident Patient” (BG)
1889 – Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
Inventor Thomas Edison

1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 – Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1896 – Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal is arrested en route to Cuba via Spain and imprisoned in Barcelona
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 – Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1906 – The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 – Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
Filipino Nationalist and Novelist Jose Rizal

1908 – Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
1910 – Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1911 – Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1911 – Cy Young’s farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
1912 – Pirates Owen “Chief” Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1914 – The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia
1917 – In the final attack on Third Battle of Ypres, Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
1918 – US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1919 – Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919 – White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1920 – 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve’s Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
MLB Pitcher Cy Young

1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1921 – Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1922 – Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
1922 – The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
1923 – 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 – 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
1923 – US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
1923 – USSR adopts experimental calendar
1925 – Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1926 – Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
1927 – “Jazz Singer,” 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 – 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Leo Diegel

1928 – Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1929 – 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
1931 – Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
1935 – Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 – NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1938 – Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1939 – Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 – Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 – Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1940 – Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
1941 – German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1942 – Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1943 – Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 – Himmler wants acceleration of “Final Solution”
1944 – Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
1944 – Canadians free Austria
1944 – Royal Ducth Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks U168 at Java
1944 – Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 – Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler’s train)
1945 – Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1945 – Tavern owner “Billy Goat” Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1946 – 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1946 – US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1948 – “Polonaise” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1948 – KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1949 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 – US Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 – Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb
1952 – Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” opens in London (still running)
1953 – WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 – Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1957 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Novelist Agatha Christie

1957 – Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains record 60 days under pole
1959 – Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 – Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 – USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Judy Garland Show”
1963 – LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1964 – “Cambridge Circus” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1965 – Supremes release “I Hear a Symphony”
1965 – William Goodhart’s “Generation” premieres in NYC
Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1966 – Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 – Partial meltdown at Detroits’s Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1967 – Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
1967 – USSR performs nuclear test
1969 – WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
1969 – MLB National League Championship: New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
1971 – MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants, 3 games to 1
1972 – 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1972 – Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1974 – “Mack & Mabel” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1974 – Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1974 – 25th Formula One WDC: Emerson Fittipaldi wins by three points
1976 – “Gang of Four” arrested in Beijing
1976 – Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1976 – John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
38th US President Gerald Ford

1976 – US Pres Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.
1977 – DL Coburns “Gin Game” premieres in NYC
1977 – Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1978 – Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 – Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in “Some Girls”
MLB Third Baseman George Brett

1978 – Royals’ George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1978 – “Midnight Express” debuts
1979 – Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1’9″
1979 – Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, D.C.
1979 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels, 3 games to 1
1980 – Guyana adopts constitution
1980 – John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months inprisonment on assault charges
1982 – Auburn’s Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1982 – Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
1983 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1983 – Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 25th career hat trick
1983 – NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
NHL Right Winger Mike Bossy

1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 – Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1985 – Marita Koch of E Germany sets 400m woman’s record (47.6) in Australia
1985 – Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1986 – Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1987 – Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
1988 – Oakland A’s sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 – US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1990 – Solar Polar Orbiter ‘Ulysses’ launched
1991 – Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
LPGA Golfer Meg Mallon

1991 – NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
1991 – Orioles’ last game at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
1993 – Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1994 – -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
1994 – Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1995 – BPAA US Women’s Open won by Cheryl Daniels
1995 – Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1995 – 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1996 – Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1996 – Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 – Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
1996 – NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
42nd US President Bill Clinton

2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2002 – Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
2010 – Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds
2012 – Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
2012 – The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
2013 – 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

BIRTHDAYS

1289 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 – Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
1510 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China)
1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1618 – Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1706 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749- )
1716 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
1769 – Isaac Brock, St Peter Port, British Army officer (War of 1812)
1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
British Army Officer and Administrator Isaac Brock(1769)

1777 – William Russell, composer
1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1806 – Andreas Randel, composer
1808 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63)
1816 – William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 – Joseph Rummel, composer
1819 – Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1824 – Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1827 – Cark Reidel, composer
1831 – J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1846 – George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US currency), (d. 1914)

Entrepreneur and Engineer George Westinghouse(1846)

1847 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
1849 – Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, “merchant of death”
1860 – Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
1860 – Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
1862 – Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
1866 – Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1873 – Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1874 – Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
1880 – Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 – Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 – Lloyd Spooner, US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 – George Brown, cricketer (legendary England batsman/keeper of 20’s)
Architect/ City Planner Le Corbusier (1887)

1887 – Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme), (d. 1965)
1887 – Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1887 – MartinLuis Guzman, Mexico, novelist (Eagle & the Serpent)
1888 – Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party)
1888 – Max Butting, composer
1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 – Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
1895 – Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1896 – Otto Siegl, composer
1897 – Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show), born in NYC, New York
1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1902 – Mihovil Logar, composer
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 – Horst Lange, writer
Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody (1905)

1905 – Helen Wills Moody, Centerville California, American tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1906 – Louis Borell, Amsterdam Neth, actor (Over the Moon, Queer Cargo)
1908 – Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1912 – Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator
1913 – Meret Oppenheim, writer
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1915 – Edgardo Martin, composer
1915 – Harry van Doorn, [Henri W], CRM minister/Dutch politician (KVP/PPR)

Ethnographer, Archaeologist and Explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914)

1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
1916 – Tommy Lawton, footballer
1918 – André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
1920 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
1920 – Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player
1923 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), born in Hemite, Osmaniye, Ottoman Empire (d. 2015)
1925 – Shana Alexander, journalist (60 Minutes), born in NYC, New York
1926 – Alan Copeland, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade), born in Los Angeles, California
1926 – Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 – Alice Bauer, LPGA golfer
1927 – Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist (Mozart Interpretation), born in Vienna, Austria
1929 – Les Favell, cricketer (stoic Australian batsman late 50’s)
1930 – Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
1930 – Richie Benaud, cricket captain (great Aussie leg-spinner) and commentator, born in Penrith, New South Wales
1931 – Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist (CBS News, Court TV)
1932 – Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women’s International Center)
1933 – Horst Bingle, writer
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1936 – Anna Quayle, actress (Mistress Pamela)
1936 – Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 – Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet], cabaret director (Capers)
1938 – Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
1939 – Douglas K Bereuter, (Rep-R-Nebraska, 1979- )
1939 – John J LaFalce, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
1940 – Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 – Ellen Travolta, Englewood NJ, actress (Grease, Charles in Charge)
1940 – Wyche Fowler Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977-87)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 – Fred Travalena, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), born in NYC, New York
1942 – Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 – Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He’s a Cat)
1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs), born in Brooklyn, New York
1943 – Udo Zimmermann, composer
1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1944 – Merzak Allouache, director (Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris)
1944 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
1945 – Domonic Barber, attorney (Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco)
1946 – Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
1946 – Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012)
1946 – Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
1947 – Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 – Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1948 – Dan Hamburg, (Rep-D-California)
1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 – Glenn Branca, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, avant-garde composer and guitarist
1949 – Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1950 – David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman)
1950 – Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1951 – Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach
1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
1957 – Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 – Shahzad Altaf, cricketer (UAE off-spinner 1996 World Cup)
1958 – Joseph Finder, American novelist
1959 – John Mackin, programmer
1959 – Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
1959 – [Dennis Ray] “Oil Can” Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1960 – Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 – Jeffrey Trachta, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful), born in Staten Island, New York
1960 – Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1960 – Scott Stevens, jockey
1961 – Kathrin Dörre, East German marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 – Tim Burgess, rocker
1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
Actress Elisabeth Shue(1963)

1963 – Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor
1964 – Pam Kometani, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1992 Welch’s Classic-27th)
1964 – Thomas “Tom” Hunter, US 50M FREESTYLE swimmer (world record)
1965 – Cynthia Meyer, NY, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1965 – David Spaulding, Newport Beach California, American canoeist (alt-Olympics-96)
1965 – Jim Sharp, US rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988)
1965 – Ruben Sierra, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 – Archi Cianfrocco, Rome NY, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 – Jimmie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 – Julianne McNamara, Flushing NY, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
1966 – Oscar Caballos, jockey
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1967 – Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
1969 – Byron Black, Zimbabwe, tennis star
1969 – Jeff Lay, Ottawa Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 – Martha Richards, Hudson WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Safeco Classic-21st)
1969 – Robert Person, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 – Darren Oliver, Kansas city MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1971 – Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 – Phil Bennett, British racing driver
1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 – J J Stokes, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1972 – Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1973 – Rebecca Lobo, Mass, WNBA center (Olympics-gold-96)/(NY Liberty)
1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
1973 – Jeff Davis, American comedian
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1974 – Brian Kelly, Mission Viejo California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 – Geert Jelle de Vries, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 – Kenny Jonsson, Angelholm SW, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Islander)
1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1975 – Ines Sainz, Miss Spain Universe (1997)
1975 – Jan Harm Schippers, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Veendam)
1975 – Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1982 – William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1988 – Kayky Brito, Brazilian actor.
1992 – Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
1995 – Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

WEDDINGS

1953 – MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas
1956 – South African politician “Kobie” Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
1956 – Tennis player champ Ken Rosewall (21) weds Wilma McIver at St John’s Church of England Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia
1977 – Professional boxer George Foreman (28) weds Cynthia Lewis
1978 – ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad (32) weds fellow musician Benny Andersson (31)
1991 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor (59) weds for 8th time to construction worker Larry Fortensky (39)
1996 – American country singer Faith Hill (44) weds singer and actor Tim McGraw (45) in Rayville, Louisiana
Country Singer Faith Hill(1996)

2007 – “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson (40) weds Rick Salomon (39) at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas
2007 – “The Montel Williams Show” talk show host Montel Williams (51) weds American Airlines flight attendant Tara Fowler on a beach in Bermuda
2008 – Steven Curtis Chapman’s oldest daughter Emily Chapman (45) weds longtime boyfriend Tanner Richards
2012 – Former “Private Practice” actress Audra McDonald (42) weds Broadway star Will Swenson (38) in Croton-on-Hudson, New York

DIVORCES

1980 – Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage
2006 – “Friends” actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

DEATHS

404 – Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies
877 – Charles II the Bald, King of France/ Holy Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1014 – Samuel (Samuil), ruler of Bulgaria, dies (b. 958)
1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile (1065-72), murdered
1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1214 – Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castile, dies
1413 – Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1585 – Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies
1641 – Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle
1644 – Elisabeth (In Spanish Isabel) of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1651 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
1786 – Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56
1819 – Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies
1829 – Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1837 – Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77

Author of the Texas Declaration of Independence George Childress (1841)

1841 – George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37
1855 – August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1860 – Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
1861 – Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1868 – Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1873 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1874 – Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
1880 – Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies
1891 – Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1892 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83
1905 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
1909 – Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
1912 – August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1920 – Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
Poet Alfred Tennyson(1892)

1924 – Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
1926 – Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
1933 – Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
1935 – Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
1940 – Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55
1942 – Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies
1943 – Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort & catcher Walker, dies
1945 – Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
1949 – Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1953 – Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64
1954 – Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
1956 – Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1959 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1960 – Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50
1962 – Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1964 – F T Mann, cricketer (father of F G, 281 runs in 5 Tests 1922-23), dies
1964 – Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
1965 – Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1966 – Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
Golfer Walter Hagen (1969)

1969 – Walter Hagen, US PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1973 – Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
1973 – Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1975 – Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68
1980 – Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink, Carry On films), dies of a heart attack at 58
1980 – Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1983 – Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1984 – George S Simpson, US paleontologist, dies at 82
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
Actress Bette Davis (1989)

1989 – Bette Davis, US actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1991 – Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1992 – Bill O’Reilly, cricketer (great leggie, 774 wickets at 16 60), dies
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1993 – Agnes de Mille, US dancer/choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
1993 – Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88
1995 – Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67
1995 – Walter “Crash” Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
1996 – Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57
1996 – Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82
1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 – Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O’Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2006 – Alex L. Shigo, American Biologist and Plant Pathologist, dies at 76
2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president, dies from cancer at 83
2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress,dies at 86

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1866 First U.S. train robbery

• American Revolution

• 1777 British capture Forts Montgomery and Clinton

• Automotive

• 1993 Natchez Trace Parkway arches are complete

• Civil War

• 1863 William Quantrill attacks Baxter Springs, Kansas

• Cold War

• 1973 The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict

• Crime

• 1981 The president of Egypt is assassinated

• Disaster

• 1972 Train derails in Mexico

• General Interest

• 1683 First Mennonites arrive in America
• 1961 Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters
• 1973 Yom Kippur War begins

• Hollywood

• 1991 Liz Taylor marries husband No. 7

• Literary

• 1847 Jane Eyre is published

• Music

• 1996 Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw wed

• Old West

• 1866 The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history

• Presidential

• 1996 Bill Clinton debates Bob Dole

• Sports

• 1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record

• Vietnam War

• 1967 U.S. jets strike targets in North Vietnam
• 1970 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia

• World War I

• 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina

• World War II

• 1945 Pierre Laval attempts suicide

October 5th

EVENTS

610 – Heraclius’ fleet takes Constantinople
869 – 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
1143 – The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1349 – Paris’ theologist Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon
1430 – Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1465 – French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout
1511 – Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
1511 – Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1568 – Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
1568 – William of Oranges army occupies Brabant
1572 – Spanish army under Alva’s son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
1582 – Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1632 – Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1693 – Haarlem people’s revolution due to food shortages
Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart

1750 – Carlo Goldoni’s “Il teatro comica,” premieres in Venice
1762 – Opera “Orfeo Ed Euridice” is produced (Vienna)
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1796 – Spain declares war on England
1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1823 – Weber visits Beethoven
1830 – King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
1833 – Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
1857 – The City of Anaheim was founded.
1862 – Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1862 – Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863 – Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 – Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 – Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1867 – Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
1869 – A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War
1887 – 1st U.S. Women’s National Championship: Ellen Hansell beats Laura Knight (6-1, 6-0)
1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1896 – William Gillette’s “Secret Service,” premieres in NYC
1897 – Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
1900 – 6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
1900 – Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O’Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
Aviator Wilbur Wright

1905 – Orville/Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 38.5 km in 38.3″
1906 – Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy’s brother) walks 14 men
1907 – Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 – Phila A’s Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1908 – Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1908 – White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
1910 – Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
1911 – Italian troops occupy Tripoli
1912 – Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 – Red Sox defeat A’s 3-0 for then AL record 105th win
1912 – Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1914 – World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1915 – Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1916 – Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1919 – Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
1921 – 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
1921 – Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 – Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
1923 – Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1924 – 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
1925 – WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1925 – The Lacarno Conference meets: Germany agrees to recognize their frontiers with France and Belgium and will apply for membership in the League of Nations
1930 – British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
1931 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1931 – Paul Green’s “House of Connelly,” premieres in NYC
Astronomer Edwin Hubble

1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1937 – Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% “quarter of Romme”
1941 – Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely – would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4
1942 – 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1942 – St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1943 – US air raid on Wake
1944 – Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1944 – Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1945 – Indonesian army forms
1945 – Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
1946 – “Yours Is My Heart” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1946 – 1st Cannes Film Festival ends
33rd US President Harry Truman

1947 – 1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman
1947 – Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series
1949 – WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 – WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
1950 – “Pardon Our French” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs
1952 – 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952 – 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
1953 – Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US
1953 – 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin’s 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consecutive WS
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1954 – Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 – Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1956 – “The Ten Commandments”, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner opens in the US
Filmmaker and Director Cecil B. DeMille

1957 – 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
1957 – 12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½ at Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire, England)
1957 – Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
1958 – KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 – British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1960 – Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1960 – KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 – China & Nepal sign treaty
1962 – Beatles release their 1st record “Love Me Do”
1962 – “Dr. No”, 1st James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London
Actor Sean Connery

1963 – 17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto
1963 – Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1963 – Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
1964 – KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 – SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 – Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 – Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1968 – KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins
1968 – Civil rights march in Derry is stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) before it had properly begun; clashes between RUC and protesters lead to two days of serious rioting-some consider this to be the beginning of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
1969 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1969 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1969 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 – John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
1970 – Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1970 – PBS becomes a US television network.
1970 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds sweep Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
1970 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
1971 – A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins, though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment
1971 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0
1972 – Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1975 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 – 26th Formula One WDC: Niki Lauda wins by 19.5 points
1976 – Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
1977 – “Hair” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1978 – Sweden’s Fälldin government falls
1978 – Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits environmental modification techniques
1978 – “The Boys from Brazil” debuts
1979 – MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat Cincinnati Reds, 3 games to 0
1980 – Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale, the Bronx NYC
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1980 – Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1980 – Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1980 – 31st Formula One WDC: Alan Jones wins by 13 points
1981 – Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1981 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American (posthumously)
1982 – 1st NJ Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1982 – Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
1982 – Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 – Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 – 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1984 – MLB American League Championship: Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 0
1985 – Grambling’s Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1986 – London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1988 – Brazil adopts its Constitution
1988 – Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime
1988 – Israel bans Meir Kahane’s Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 – Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1991 – Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
1991 – NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
1991 – USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1991 – Carlos Huerta’s NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
1991 – Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
US President George H. W. Bush

1992 – 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 – NY senator Alphonse D’Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 – US Air goes on strike
1993 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1993 – Last honor guard at Lenin’s mausoleum
1993 – Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1994 – 28th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill & Pam Tillis wins
1994 – 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
1994 – 28th CMT Music Awards: Vince Gill and Pam Tillis win
1995 – “Company” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1996 – Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 – Cleve Indians strike out 23 Balt Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
1996 – NY Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits HRs in a post season game
1997 – 35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1)
264th Pope John Paul II

1997 – Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic
1997 – Davis Love III wins golf’s Buick challenge, shooting a 267
1997 – STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
1997 – Vantage Senior Golf Championship
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 – Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 – Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush’s Homeland Security Advisor.
2001 – Barry Bonds hits his 71st home run, breaking Mark McGwire’s record of 70 for the most home runs hit in a single season (Bonds would end up with 73 in total)
Author Stephenie Meyer

2005 – Vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer is first published by Little Brown
2007 – “Michael Clayton”, starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton, is released
2012 – Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
2013 – Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship
2014 – South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final

BIRTHDAYS

1458 – Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint
1609 – Paul Fleming, writer
1626 – Johann Schop, composer
1641 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1684 – Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 – Jonathan Edwards, East Windsor, Connecticut Colony, Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin)
1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter
1713 – Denis Diderot, Langres, France, enlightenment philosopher (d. 1784)
1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717 – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1722 – Gregorio Sciroli, composer
1743 – Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer
1758 – Thomas Greatorex, composer
Enlightenment Philosopher Denis Diderot (1713)

1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
1799 – Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Min of Reformed Worship
1804 – Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor, (d. 1877)
1808 – Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1892)
1808 – Winand C H Staring, geologist (Geology of Netherlands)
1817 – Eduard Franck, composer
1820 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
1822 – Hans Hampel, composer
1823 – Feliks Jaronski, composer
1829 – Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield Vermont, (Republican) 21st American President (1881-85)
1833 – Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1915)
21st US President Chester A. Arthur (1829)

1836 – George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1911)
1840 – Fran Gerbic, composer
1840 – John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
1844 – Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848 – Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
1858 – Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
1863 – Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
1864 – Louis Lumière, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
1875 – Cyril Rootham, composer
1878 – Louise Dresser, [Kerlin], Evansville IN, actress (Maid of Salem)
1879 – Halfdan Cleve, composer
1879 – John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy)
1881 – Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist pres of Karelo-Finnish SR (1940-56)
1882 – Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics)
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882)

1882 – Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
1883 – Charles Maduro, Antillean composer
1884 – Hendrik W Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politician (CHU 1939-63)
1886 – Carter De Haven, IL
1887 – Max Ackermann, German “entartet” painter
1887 – René Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
1889 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1890 – Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer
1892 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1895 – Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52)
1899 – Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1899 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1962)
1901 – Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor/director
1901 – John Alton, cinematographer
1901 – Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam
1902 – Larry Fine, [Laurence Feinberg], PA, comedian (3 Stooges)
1902 – Michael Kondracki, composer
MacDonalds Entrepreneur Ray Kroc (1902)

1902 – Ray Kroc, Oak Park, Illinois, fast food entrepreneur (McDonalds), (d. 1984)
1903 – Jimmy Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Blazing Stewardesses)
1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1904 – George Chesterman Phillips, naval officer
1904 – John Hoyt, Bronxville NY, actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick & Mary)
1905 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1906 – Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher
1906 – Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1907 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 – Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific)
1911 – Flann O’Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1912 – Fritz Fischer (medical doctor), Nazi war criminal
1913 – William Lehman, (Rep-D-FL, 1973- )
1913 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
1916 – Douglas Ranger, surgeon
1917 – Robert Adams, English sculptor
1919 – Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
1919 – Donald Pleasence, Worksop England, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween)
1919 – Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary
1919 – Robin Bailey, Hucknall England, actor (See No Evil, Screamtime)
1920 – Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian
1921 – Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns)
1922 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver, (d. 2013)
1922 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1923 – Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins)
1923 – Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
1923 – Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child)
1923 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
1923 – Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
1924 – Bill Dana, Quincy Mass, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez)
1924 – Jose Donoso, writer
1924 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1925 – Gail Davis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Annie Oakley)
1925 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1926 – Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant
1926 – Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1927 – Al Hansen, artist
1927 – John Downey, composer
1928 – Willem de Kwaadsteniet, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929 – Autherine Lucy, Shiloh, Alabama, 1st African American to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
1929 – Richard F Gordon Jr, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12), born in Seattle, Washington
1929 – Skip Homeier, actor (Beachhead, Dan Raven, Interns), born in Chicago, Illinois
1930 – Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14)
1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
1932 – Madhav Apte, cricketer (bro of Arvind 7 Tests for India, 1 century)
1932 – Yvonne Braitwaite Burke, lawyer (Rep)
1933 – Diane Cilento, Queensland Aust, actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man)
1934 – David Smith, cricketer (England opening bowler v India 1961-62)
1934 – Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1935 – Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper (England twice v India 1964)
1935 – Peter Brown, actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful), born in NYC, New York
1935 – Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1936 – Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist
1936 – Vaclav Havel, writer/pres Czechoslovakia (1989-92)
1937 – Barry Switzer, football coach (Oklahoma)
1938 – Carlo Mastrangelo, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts), born in The Bronx, New York
1938 – Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
1939 – Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
1939 – Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 – Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
1940 – Bob Cowper, cricketer (Aust LHB, 307 v England MCG 1966 Very rich
1941 – Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles)
1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1942 – Richard Street, Rhythm and Blues musician (The Temptations), born in Detroit, Michigan
1943 – Benjamin L Cardin, (Rep-D-Maryland)
1943 – Inna Churikova, Russia, actress (Theme)
1943 – Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1944 – Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP (VVD)
1945 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1945 – Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 – Richard Kermode, rocker
1946 – Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
1947 – Brian Johnson, Dunston, English rocker (AC/DC)
1948 – Delroy George Wilson, singer
1948 – Lucius Ross, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove)
1948 – Sal Viscuso, American actor (Soap, Montefuscos), born in Brooklyn, New York
1948 – Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948 – Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1949 – Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
Baseball Writer and Statistician Bill James(1949)

1949 – Bill James [George William James], Holton Kansas, American baseball writer and statistician
1949 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1950 – Jeff Conaway, actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving), born in NYC, New York
1950 – Edward P. Jones, American writer
1951 – Karen Allen, Illinois, actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers)
1951 – Leah Poulis Mueller, Berwyn Ill, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1952 – Clive Barker, English author and film director (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions)
1952 – Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1952 – Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
1953 – James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1953 – John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher
1953 – Russell Mael, [Dwight Russel Day], California, rock vocalist (Sparks)
1953 – Sandra “Puma” Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1954 – Bob Geldof, rocker
1954 – Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards & Warriors)
1955 – Adair Ferguson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1955 – Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers-I’m Sorry, Don’t Go)
1957 – Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris’ sister
1957 – Larry Saumell, jockey
1957 – Lee “Kix” Thompson, saxophonist (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
1957 – Mark Geragos, American attorney
1957 – Bernie Mac, American comedian (d. 2008)
1958 – Brent W Jett Jr, Pontiac Mich, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 72, sk:81)
1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1959 – Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
1961 – Shell Kepler, actress (Amy Vining-General Hospital)
1961 – Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1961 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
1961 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1962 – J C Estrada, jockey
1962 – John Sala, LA CA
1962 – Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 – Ken Noda, pianist (Rivalry), born in NYC, New York
1962 – Michael Alexander Conley, Chic, triple jumper (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1962 – Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986)
1962 – Mike Conley, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1984), born in Chicago, Illinois
1962 – Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1963 – Hugh Morris, cricketer (England lefty opening batsman 1991)
LPGA Golfer Laura Davies(1963)

1963 – Laura Davies, Coventry England, LPGA golfer (1989 Lady Keystone Open)
1963 – Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress (Sans Interdits)
1963 – Tony Dodemaide, cricketer (Victorian, Sussex & Australian all-rounder)
1964 – Denean Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 – Terry Mathews, Alexandria LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1964 – Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
1964 – Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
1965 – John Keller Jr, Toledo Ohio, team handball back court (Olympics-1996)
1965 – Mario Lemieux, Montreal Quebec, NHL high scoring center (Pitts Penguin, #66)
1965 – Patrick Roy, Quebec City Quebec, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1965 – Paul Moloney, Australian golfer, born in Melbourne, Victoria
1965 – Penny Baker, playmate (January, 1984), born in Buffalo, New York
NHL Goalie and Head Coach Patrick Roy (1965)

1965 – Richey Reneberg, Phoenix AZ, tennis star (1995 Australian doubles)
1965 – Theo Bos, Dutch soccer player: Vitesse
1965 – Trace Armstrong, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 – Fredrik Olausson, Vaxsjo Swe, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 – Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper (Oly-silv/gold-92, 96)
1966 – Peter Fonseca, Lisbon Portugal, Canadian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 – Therese Brisson, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
1967 – Ellie Gibson, Corpus Christi TX, golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-5th)
1967 – Rex Chapman, NBA guard (Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns)
1967 – Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
1968 – Omar Berlo, jockey
1968 – Sally Smith, Orange NSW, golfer (1993 T67 Alpine Aust Ladies Masters)
1968 – Wayne Holdsworth, cricketer (NSW fast bowler, Australian tourist 1993)
1969 – Karyn Parsons, actress (Hilary-Fresh Prince of Bel Air) [or Oct 8 66]
1969 – Martin Driever, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 – Anthony Phillips, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 – Josie Bissett, actress (Jane Mancini-Melrose Place), born in Seattle, Washington
1970 – Mark Luijpers, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 – Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 – Tina Poitras, Thompson Manitoba, 10k walker (Olympics-96)
1970 – Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1970 – South Park Mexican, American rapper
1971 – Chad Lewis, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 – Chris Whitney, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1971 – Coni Lyn Hull, Jackson Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1996)
1971 – Dan Plante, Hayward, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
1972 – Derek Sholdice, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 – Grant Hill, NBA forward/guard (Det Pistons, Oly-gold-96), born in Dallas, Texas
1972 – Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
1974 – Douglas Emerson, Glendale California, actor (Robbie-Herbie the Love Bug)
1974 – Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 – Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
1974 – Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
Actress Kate Winslet (1975)

1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress (Titanic, Revolutionary Road), born in Reading
1975 – Scott E Weinger, actor (Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House), born in NYC, New York
1975 – Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
1976 – Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
1976 – J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
1977 – Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1978 – Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
1978 – James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 – Jaime Chambers, American television reporter
1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Vincenzo Grella, Australian soccer player
1979 – Yao Chen, Chinese actress and Sina Weibo personality, born in Shishi City, Quanzhourn
1980 – Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
1981 – Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1982 – Natalie Vlandis, Northridge California, pairs skater (& Jered Guzman)
1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1985 – Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1987 – Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)
1988 – Bobby Edner, American actor
1988 – Maja Salvador, Filipina Actress
1990 – Myles Jeffrey, American actor

WEDDINGS

1937 – Two-time Oscar winner actor Anthony Quinn (22) weds actress Katherine de Mille (26)
1945 – Actress Janet Leigh (18) weds Stanley Reames at Morris Chapel in Stockton, California
1968 – “The Dirty Dozen” actor Charles Bronson (46) weds Jill Ireland
1981 – “The Hollywood Knights” actress Michelle Pfeiffer (23) weds actor Peter Horton (28) in Santa Monica
1991 – Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
2001 – “The Golden Boy” professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya (28) weds Puerto Rican pop singer Millie Corretjer (27) in a secret ceremony held at “El Invernino” in San Juan
Formula 1 Racing Driver Ralf Schumacher (2001)

2001 – F1 racing driver Ralf Schumacher (26) weds former model Cora Brinkmann at the church of Maria Plain in Salzburg, Austria
2002 – “Angel” actress Charisma Carpenter (32) weds Damian Hardy
2004 – Professional golfer Tiger Woods (28) weds former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (24) at Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados
2008 – American Idol season 6 fourth finalist LaKisha Jones (28) weds financial adviser Larry Davis at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
2013 – Skateboarder and actor Bam Margera (34) weds Nicole Boyd in Reykjavík, Iceland

DIVORCES

1991 – Director Martin Scorsese (48) divorces producer Barbara De Fina (41) after 6 years of marriage
2007 – Actress Reese Witherspoon (30) divorces actor Ryan Phillippe (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

DEATHS

578 – Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78), dies
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1111 – Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader), dies
1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1285 – King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1399 – Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies
1496 – Ferdinand II, king of Naples, dies
1528 – Richard Foxe, English churchman
1557 – Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter, dies at 63
1564 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1631 – Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies
1707 – Daniel Speer, composer, dies at 71
1714 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1763 – August III, king of Poland, dies at 66
1777 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1787 – Thomas Stone, US attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44
1799 – Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68
1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 – Etienne Ozi, composer, dies at 58
Native American Leader of the Shawnee Tecumseh(1813)

1813 – Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief (Battle of Thames), dies in battle at 45
1837 – Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54
1848 – Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1867 – Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67
1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1892 – Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1892 – Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies
1892 – Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1892 – Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1899 – Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer, dies at 57
1906 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter, dies aged 58
1911 – Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer, dies at 58
1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1915 – Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
1915 – Otto Valdemar Malling, composer, dies at 67
1918 – Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
1919 – Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66
1924 – Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75
1924 – Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies
1930 – Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 – Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
1933 – Renee Adoree, actress (Big Parade), dies at 35
1933 – Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1934 – Jean Vigo, French filmer, dies
1936 – Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman’s Grave), dies at 38
1938 – Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, dies at 40
1940 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 – Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America
1941 – Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
1943 – Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1944 – Joseph B “Aristide” Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies
1950 – Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
1953 – Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64
1954 – Flor Alpaerts, Flem composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel/Pallieter), dies at 78
1965 – Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer, dies at 79
1967 – Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1976 – Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1979 – Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies
1981 – Gloria Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 55
1981 – Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48
1983 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1984 – Leonard Rossiter, actor (2001, Water), dies of a heart attack at 57
1986 – Hall B Wallis, US movie production (Barefoot in Park), dies at 87
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1990 – Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
1992 – Cornelis Berkhouwer, Dutch MP (VVD), dies
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations), dies of lung cancer at 52
1992 – Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies
1993 – Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67
1993 – Karl G Henize, astronaut (STS 51-F), dies of heart failure at 66
1995 – Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader, dies at 85
1995 – Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89
1995 – Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman, dies at 79
1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 – Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant, dies at 77
1996 – Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71
1997 – Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt), dies at 71
1997 – Dave Marr, golfer/commentator, dies at 63
1997 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 – Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 – Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 – Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
Comedian and Actor Rodney Dangerfield (2004)

2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006 – Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2006 – Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2007 – Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
2010 – Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
2010 – Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
2010 – Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
2011 – Steve Jobs, American Businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple, dies from respiratory arrest at 56
2011 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
2011 – Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
Civil Rights Activist Fred Shuttlesworth (2011)

2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist, dies at 89
2011 – Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)
2012 – Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist, dies at 58

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1947 First presidential speech on TV

• American Revolution

• 1775 Washington informs Congress of espionage

• Automotive

• 1919 Enzo Ferrari makes his debut as a race car driver

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Allatoona

• Cold War

• 1986 Iran-Contra scandal unravels

• Crime

• 1892 The Dalton gang performs their last robbery attempt

• Disaster

• 1930 Blimp crashes in France

• General Interest

• 1813 Tecumseh defeated
• 1877 Chief Joseph surrenders
• 1969 Cuban defector lands MiG in Miami
• 1974 American circumnavigates the globe on foot
• 1989 Dalai Lama wins Peace Prize
• 2011 Apple founder Steve Jobs dies

• Hollywood

• 1990 Henry & June is first NC-17 film

• Literary

• 1978 Isaac Singer wins Nobel Prize

• Music

• 1991 Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch earn a #1 hit with “Good Vibrations”

• Old West

• 1892 The Dalton Gang is wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas

• Presidential

• 1829 Chester Arthur is born

• Sports

• 1953 Yanks win their fifth series in a row

• Vietnam War

• 1963 South Vietnamese generals plan coup
• 1964 President Johnson under fire from his own party

• World War I

• 1915 Britain and France commit troops to operation in Salonika, Greece

• World War II

• 1942 Stalingrad must not be taken by the enemy.

1892 – The Dalton Gang is wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas

On this day in 1892, the famous Dalton Gang attempts the daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time. But if the gang members believed the sheer audacity of their plan would bring them success, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they were nearly all killed by quick-acting townspeople.

For a year and a half, the Dalton Gang had terrorized the state of Oklahoma, mostly concentrating on train holdups. Though the gang had more murders than loot to their credit, they had managed to successfully evade the best efforts of Oklahoma law officers to bring them to justice. Perhaps success bred overconfidence, but whatever their reasons, the gang members decided to try their hand at robbing not just one bank, but at robbing the First National and Condon Banks in their old hometown of Coffeyville at the same time.

After riding quietly into town, the men tied their horses to a fence in an alley near the two banks and split up. Two of the Dalton brothers-Bob and Emmett-headed for the First National, while Grat Dalton led Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers in to the Condon Bank. Unfortunately for the Daltons, someone recognized one of the gang members and began quietly spreading the word that the town banks were being robbed. Thus, while Bob and Emmett were stuffing money into a grain sack, the townspeople ran for their guns and quickly surrounded the two banks. When the Dalton brothers walked out of the bank, a hail of bullets forced them back into the building. Regrouping, they tried to flee out the back door of the bank, but the townspeople were waiting for them there as well.

Meanwhile, in the Condon Bank a brave cashier had managed to delay Grat Dalton, Powers, and Broadwell with the classic claim that the vault was on a time lock and couldn’t be opened. That gave the townspeople enough time to gather force, and suddenly a bullet smashed through the bank window and hit Broadwell in the arm. Quickly scooping up $1,500 in loose cash, the three men bolted out the door and fled down a back alley. But like their friends next door, they were immediately shot and killed, this time by a local livery stable owner and a barber.

When the gun battle was over, the people of Coffeyville had destroyed the Dalton Gang, killing every member except for Emmett Dalton. But their victory was not without a price: the Dalton’s took four townspeople to their graves with them. After recovering from serious wounds, Emmett was tried and sentenced to life in prison. After 14 years he won parole, and he eventually leveraged his cachet as a former Wild West bandit into a position as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Several years after moving to California, he died at the age of 66 in 1937.

October 4th

EVENTS

1209 – Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1537 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1571 – -13] Synod of Emden
1582 – Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states
1636 – Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1636 – In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony’s 1st law drafted
1648 – Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1675 – Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1712 – Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington’s troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania
First US President George Washington

1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1824 – Mexico becomes a republic
1830 – Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1834 – Franz Grillparzer’s “Der Traum ein Leben,” premieres in Vienna
1854 – Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1862 – Battle of Corinth ends
1864 – National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 – New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1873 – Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1873 – 13th British Golf Open: Tom Kidd shoots a 179 at St Andrews
1878 – 18th British Golf Open: Jamie Anderson shoots a 157 at Prestwick Golf Club
1880 – University of California founded in Los Angeles
1881 – Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
US President Abraham Lincoln

1883 – Orient Express’ 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1883 – First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
1895 – 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
1897 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Devil’s Disciple,” premieres in NYC
1900 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Problem of Thor Bridge” (BG)
1900 – In a final confrontation, some 4000 rebellious Ashantis are defeated by the British, Ashanti, Gold Coast, Africa
1901 – Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America’s Cup
1904 – 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1906 – Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
1910 – Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1910 – Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1911 – 1st public elevator (London’s Earl’s Court Metro Station)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw

1913 – Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
1913 – Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 – Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1915 – Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
1916 – Market Street’s “Path of Gold” lit for 1st time
1917 – British assault on Broodseinde, France
1918 – Musical “Sometime” with Mae West premieres in NYC
1921 – League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1921 – Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
1922 – For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
1922 – Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
1923 – Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
1924 – NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1925 – Harry Heilmann’s 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ
1926 – Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1928 – 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1928 – KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
1930 – A’s Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
1931 – Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
1931 – Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
1932 – Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
1932 – Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1933 – Esquire magazine is 1st published
1936 – Italian lire devalued
1936 – Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson

1939 – Last Polish troops surrender
1940 – 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 – Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
1940 – French Vichy-regime proclaims end of “Statut of the Juifs”
1940 – Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1942 – German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1943 – Corsica freed by Free French
1943 – German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1944 – British troops land on Greek continent
1944 – 1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman’s Park
1944 – St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
1947 – Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1948 – Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1948 – World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1949 – American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
1949 – United Nations’ permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1950 – French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
1951 – In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1952 – “Top Banana” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs
1953 – Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
1953 – Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
1955 – Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
1955 – Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1956 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 – “Leave It to Beaver,” debuts on CBS
1957 – USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle

1958 – 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
1958 – 5th French republic forms
1958 – Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1959 – 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 – Cleveland Browns’ Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
1959 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
1959 – LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
1959 – Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
1959 – USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon’s far side
1960 – Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 – Whitey Ford’s 3rd straight World Series shutout
1962 – USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
MLB Pitcher Whitey Ford

1962 – Whitey Ford’s World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
1963 – -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
1963 – Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 – -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga
1964 – 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1964 – 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1964 – Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
1964 – Patriots’ Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 – Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis
1965 – “Pickwick” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
1965 – Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 – USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 – Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
LPGA Golfer Mary Mills

1966 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 – Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 – 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1968 – A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled; eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march.
1969 – Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Bkln Myrtle Beach el
1969 – UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 – Baseball’s 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
1970 – KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 – Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
1970 – WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 – Borden’s opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1971 – KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
Baseball Player Ted Williams

1972 – Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
1973 – Hans of Manens ballet “Adagio Hammerklavier” premieres in Amsterdam
1974 – John Lennon releases “Walls & Bridges” album
1975 – A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA’s Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.
1976 – Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1976 – Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
1977 – Pier 39 opens in SF
1978 – Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1979 – Hugh Leonards “Life,” premieres in Dublin
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test
1980 – Mike Schmidt’s 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies
MLB Third Baseman Mike Schmidt

1980 – ABC premiere of Saturday futuristic fantasy cartoon “Thundarr the Barbarian”
1981 – Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1981 – Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ
1981 – Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1982 – Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1983 – Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 – US government closes down due to budget problems
1984 – Detroit Tigers clinch AL East
1985 – Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 – Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
1986 – NY Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
1986 – Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
MLB Pitcher and Coach Dave Righetti

1986 – Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
1987 – 1st “Scrub Sunday” of NFL football with replacement players
1987 – Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
1987 – James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
1987 – “The Last Emperor” directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring John Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O’Toole premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival (Best Picture 1988)
1988 – Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
1989 – Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
1989 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – “Stand Up Tragedy” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
1990 – Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
1990 – U.S. premiere of Fox TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210”
1991 – Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
NHL Legend Mark Messier

1991 – NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
1991 – San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
1991 – Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – “Anna Karenina” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 – “Real Inspector Hound” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1992 – 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
1992 – 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats US, 11½-6½ at Dalmahoy CC Scotland
1992 – El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
1992 – Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1993 – Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1994 – 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
1994 – Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
1994 – Soyuz TM-20 launches
1995 – 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win
1995 – Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
1995 – 29th CMT Music Awards: Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, and Alison Krauss win
1996 – BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
1996 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson
1996 – Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1997 – Farm Aid 10 concert in Texas cancelled due to weak ticket sales and moved to Illinois
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
Country Singer Faith Hill

2000 – 34th Country Music Association Award: Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins
2000 – 34th CMT Music Awards: Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill win
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2001 – Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run, tying Mark McGwire for the most home runs hit in a single season
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2009 – George Papandreou’s Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeats Greece’s governing New Democracy party in an electoral landslide.
2010 – 38th Ryder Cup: Europe wins 14.5-13.5 at Celtic Manor Resort, Wales
2011 – US State Department lists Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIL) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist with a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture
2012 – Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
2012 – 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China
2012 – Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
2012 – Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires
2014 – New Zealand win the 2014 Rugby Championship

BIRTHDAYS

1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)
1276 – Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
1289 – Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France (1314-16)
1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
1379 – King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 – Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter
1542 – Roberto Bellarmino, Italian saint/theologist (Doctor of the Church)
1550 – Charles IX, King of Sweden
1562 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
1570 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1585 – Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
1607 – Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno)
1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
1626 – Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1659 – Franz Weichlein, composer
1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher
1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
1744 – Domenico Corri, composer
1749 – Jean-Louis Duport, composer
1759 – Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
1762 – Tommaso Sogner, composer
1772 – Francois-Louis Perne, composer
1787 – Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
1796 – John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
1797 – J Gotthelf, writer
1804 – “Felix”, cricketer (Nicholas Wanostracht)
1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
1809 – Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
1809 – Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1890)
1810 – Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I’s son
1816 – Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1818 – Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
19th US PresidentRutherford B. Hayes(1822)

1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th US president (1877-81)
1832 – William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography)
1836 – Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1840 – Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1841 – Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1841 – Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
1850 – John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1857 – Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1858 – Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
1859 – Henryk Pachulski, composer
1860 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
1861 – Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1861 – Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1865 – Max Halbe, writer
1868 – Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28)
1876 – Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1879 – Edward Murray East, Du Quoin Illinois, American Botanist and Geneticist who developed hybrid corn
Journalist and Author Damon Runyon (1880)

1880 – Damon Runyon, Manhattan, Kansas, journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work), (d. 1946)
1881 – [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal
1885 – Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect (Peace Palace)
1886 – Luis Alberni, Spain, actor (Topaze)
1887 – Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian)
1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1889 – John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1892 – Luis Trenker, Sankt Ulrich, actor (Berge in Flammen)
1892 – Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
1894 – Cliff Hall, American actor (Crime Photographer), born in Brooklyn, New York
1895 – Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
1895 – Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
1895 – Sergei Jessenin, writer
1901 – [Robert] Carroll Nye, Akron Ohio, actor (Gone with the Wind)
1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian nazi (SS/SD)
1903 – Lord Roborough, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1903 – Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
1904 – Harris Rhoad, rocker
1904 – Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator
1905 – Leon Orthel, composer
1905 – Rene Defossez, composer
1906 – Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight)
1909 – James B Pritchard, US, theologist/archaeologist
1909 – Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/Sax
1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1912 – Alfonso Letelier-Llonas, composer
1912 – John de Mol, Dutch accordianist/producer (Baantjer, Pril Geluk)
1913 – Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian
1914 – Brendan Gill, writer/critic (New Yorker magazine)
1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1915 – Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses)
1916 – Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer
1916 – George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
1917 – Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor
1917 – Jan Murray, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear), born in The Bronx, New York
1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1920 – George Tribe, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler, Northants)
1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1922 – Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
Actor Charlton Heston(1923)

1923 – Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben-Hur, Planet of Apes), (d. 2008), born in Illinois (d. 2008)
1928 – Alvin Toffler, author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave)
1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1929 – Scotty Beckett, actor (Listen Darling, Battleground), born in Oakland, California
1930 – Jozsef Soproni, composer
1931 – Basil D’Oliveira, cricketer (England all-rounder of late 60’s)
1931 – Dick Tracy, comic strip crimestopper
1932 – Dottie West, country singer
1932 – Felicia Farr, Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1932 – Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
1934 – Malva M Basoalto, daughter of Pablo Neruda & Marie Hagenaar Vogelzang
1934 – Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1935 – Eddie Applegate, Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
1936 – David Pithey, cricketer (bro of Tony, S Afr all-rounder in 8 Tests)
1936 – Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer
1937 – Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor (1986- )
1937 – Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud, Lucky), born in London, England (d. 2015)
1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
1939 – W Henson Moore, (Rep-R-LA, 1975- )
1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
1940 – Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
Author Anne Rice (1941)

1941 – Anne Rice, author (Interview with a Vampire), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1941 – Lori Saunders, Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
1942 – Christopher Stone, Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns)
1942 – Jenny Arean, [Joanna Klarenbeek], Dutch actress (Paul Chevrolet)
1942 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
1943 – Bonnie Bryant, LPGA golfer
1943 – Buddy Roemer, (Gov/Rep-D-LA, 1981- )
1943 – Owen Keir Davidson, Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ
1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1944 – Tony La Russa, MLB manager (Chicago, Oakland, St. Louis), born in Tampa, Florida
Baseball Manager Tony La Russa (1944)

1945 – Clifton Davis, actor/singer (That’s My Mama, Amen), born in Chicago, Illinois
1945 – Richard Bickell, race horse trainer
1946 – Andre Bolhuis, hockey player (World Cup 1973, European Cup 1978
1946 – Susan Sarandon, [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
1946 – Chuck Hagel, American politician
1947 – James Fielder, Denton TX, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1947 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician
1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer
1948 – Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
1949 – Armand Assante, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours), born in NYC, New York
1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
1950 – Meg Bennett, actress (Young & Restless), born in Los Angeles, California
1951 – Alan Rosenberg, actor (Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill)
1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
1952 – Anita Luceete Defrantz, Phila Pa, rower (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1952 – Jody Stephens, rock drummer (Big Star)
1952 – Nina Carter, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde), born in London, England
1953 – Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
1955 – Joe Orseno, race horse trainer
1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
1956 – Hans van Breukelen, Dutch soccer goaltender (PSV)
LPGA Golfer Sherri Turner(1956)

1956 – Sherri Turner, Greenville South Carolina, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda LPGA Champ)
1957 – Christina Smith, playmate (Mar, 1978), born in Miami, Florida
1957 – Gregory T Linteris, Demarest NJ, astronaut (sk: STS 83)
1957 – Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
1957 – Kyra Schon, American actress
1958 – Anneka Rice, Dutch TV hostess
1958 – Barbara MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1959 – Tony Meo, English billiards champion (snookers)
1960 – Gregg “Hobie” Hubbard, Apopka Fla, country singer (Betty’s Bein’ Bad)
1960 – Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
1961 – David W Harper, Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
1961 – John Secada, singer
1961 – Mary Ellen Stuart, actress (Frannie Crawford-As the World Turns)
1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
1962 – Aldo Sprenger, Dutch pop guitarist (Kong-Phlegm)
1962 – Dennis Cook, Lamarque TX, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1963 – A C Green, NBA forward (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1963 – Bruce Ruffin, Lubbock TX, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1963 – Patti Berendt, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank Classic-24th), born in San Diego, California
1963 – Koji Ishikawa (children’s book author and illustrator)Japanese children’s author
1964 – David Brain, cricketer (Zimbabwe lefty seamer 1993-)
1964 – Mark McLemore, infielder (Texas Rangers), born in San Diego, California
1964 – Matthew Cetlinski, US 400m freestyle swimmer
1964 – Yvonne Murray, athlete
1965 – “Stuttering John” Melendez, interviewer (Howard Stern Show)
1965 – Skip Heller, American musician
1966 – John van de Brom, soccer player (Ajax)
1966 – Mike Walker, Brooksville FL, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 – Nick Green, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 – Roger Pavlik, pitcher (Texas Rangers), born in Houston, Texas
1967 – Vicky Bullett, WNBA forward/center (Oly-gold-1988/Charlotte Sting)
1967 – Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
1968 – Kanavis McGhee, NFL defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1969 – Lucas Parsons, Australian golfer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
1970 – Brian Kozlowski, NFL halfback (Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants)
1970 – Hency Charles, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 – Lucy Nusrala, St Louis Mo, 5k runner
1970 – Ryan McNeil, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions, St Louis Rams)
1970 – Richard Hancox, English footballer
1971 – Corey Sawyer, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1971 – Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1972 – Joanna Stone, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1972 – Kurt Thomas, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat)
1972 – Norberto Garrido, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1972 – Rusty Fitzgerald, Minneapolis, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1973 – Emy Snook, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 – Kantroy Barber, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 – Kerry Joseph, WLAF quarterback (London Monarchs)
1973 – Chris Parks, American wrestler
1974 – Claudia Elena Vasquez, Miss Universe-best costume (Colombia, 1997)
1974 – Paco León, Spanish actor
1975 – Heather Tom, Hinsdale Ill, (Victoria-Y&R, Deadly Whispers)
1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
1976 – Alicia Silverstone, actress (Clueless, Batman Forever), born in San Franciso, California
1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
1976 – Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
1978 – Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor
1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
1979 – Stefan Booth, British actor
1979 – Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
1980 – Jimmy Workman, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
1980 – Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater
1980 – Me’Lisa Barber, American athlete
1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1980 – Tim Peper, American actor
1980 – Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Scott Hammond, American photographer
1981 – Juka, Japanese singer
1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
1982 – Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
1983 – Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
1983 – Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1983 – Dan Clarke, British racing driver
1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1984 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
1986 – Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character (General Hospital)
1986 – Yuridia, Mexican singer
1987 – Michael Roman, actor (Al-One Life to Live)
1987 – Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
1989 – Dakota Johnson, American actress and daughter of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson, born in Austin, Texas
1989 – Lil Mama, American rapper
1989 – Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
2005 – Prince Emmanuel of Belgium

WEDDINGS

1539 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his 4th wife
1767 – Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
1795 – “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker
1795 – Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (22) weds Sara Fricker in Bristol, England
1802 – English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson
1905 – 30th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington, Vermont
1925 – Jurist Earl Warren (34) weds Nina Elisabeth Palmquist Meyers
Physicist/Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (1926)

1926 – Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot (26) in Paris, France
1932 – Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1942 – Actor Gregory Peck (26) weds real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (31)
1980 – “The Princess Bride” actor Chris Sarandon (38) weds model Lisa Cooper
1996 – Former undisputed boxing heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield (34) weds Janice Itson (34) at Glynn Wedding Chapel in nearby Fayetteville
1997 – MTV news anchor Tabitha Soren (30) weds “Liars Poker” author Michael Lewis (37) in Garrison, New York

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1221 – William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1226 – Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, dies at 45
1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1540 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies
1564 – Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies
1571 – Claude Togniel d’Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60
1582 – Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies
1590 – Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68
1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
1669 – Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter, dies at 63
1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
1713 – Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
1721 – Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
Painter Rembrandt van Rijn(1669)

1743 – John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64
1749 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 – Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1755 – Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1785 – David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
1821 – John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
1830 – Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71
1838 – Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79
1848 – Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82
1851 – Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 – Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1862 – William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
1863 – Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
1864 – Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
1880 – William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies
1890 – Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1892 – Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
1893 – Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1904)

1904 – Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, dies of tuberculosis at 70
1904 – Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
1904 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1907 – Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57
1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
1912 – Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1929 – John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
1943 – Richard T Ely, US economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (b. 1906)
1944 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
1947 – Max Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies aged 89
1949 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1951 – Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
1961 – Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1961 – Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962 – E H Hendren, cricketer (57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever), dies
1962 – John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 – Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1969 – Vibart Wight, cricketer (member of WI 1st Test touring 1928), dies
1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
1970 – George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
Singer-Songwriter Janis Joplin (1970)

1970 – Janis Joplin, American rocker and blues singer-songwriter (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1971 – Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
1972 – Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61
1972 – Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1974 – Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
1976 – Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1979 – Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56
1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1982 – Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 – Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50
1989 – Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1989 – Norman Yardley, cricketer (England captain 1947-50), dies
1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1990 – Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
1990 – Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
1991 – Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1992 – Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 – Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
1992 – Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1993 – Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
1993 – Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1994 – Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
1994 – Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
1994 – Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48
1995 – Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
1996 – Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
1996 – Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
1996 – Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87
1999 – Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
1999 – Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
2000 – Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2002 – Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 – Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959)
2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
2006 – Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer (b. 1935)
2009 – Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
2010 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1915)
2013 – Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician, dies at 102
2014 – Paul Revere, American musician, dies from cancer at 76
President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier (2014)

2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, 41st President of Haiti (1971-86), dies of a heart attack at 63

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1957 Sputnik launched

• American Revolution

• 1777 Both sides battered at Germantown

• Automotive

• 1937 Blues singer Bessie Smith, killed in Mississippi car wreck, is buried

• Civil War

• 1861 Lincoln watches a balloon ascension

• Cold War

• 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

• Crime

• 1988 Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges
• 2011 Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA

• Disaster

• 1992 Plane crashes into apartment building

• General Interest

• 1777 The Battle of Germantown
• 1965 Pope visits U.S.
• 1993 White House siege ends in Moscow

• Hollywood

• 1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 debuts

• Literary

• 1941 Anne Rice is born

• Music

• 1970 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose

• Old West

• 1861 Frederic Remington is born in Canton, New York

• Presidential

• 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes is born
• 1927 Work begins on Mount Rushmore

• Sports

• 1955 So-called Brooklyn bums win their first World Series

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Johnson orders the commencement of Oplan 34A raids
• 1966 Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War

• World War I

• 1918 Germany telegraphs President Wilson seeking armistice

• World War II

• 1943 Heinrich Himmler encourages his SS group leaders
• 1944 Ike warns of the risk of “shell shock”