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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

02/21/1417 Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
02/21/1484 Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg, Constitution)
02/21/1556 Sethus Calvisius, composer
02/21/1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer
02/21/1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
02/21/1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
02/21/1710 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Menschelijk Life)
02/21/1728 Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherin

02/21/1730 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
02/21/1744 Eise J Eisinga, built planetarium Franeker
02/21/1776 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
02/21/1779 Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
02/21/1791 Carl Czerny, composer
02/21/1794 Antonio L�pez de Santa Anna, president of M�xico (1833-36) 02/21/1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
02/21/1800 John Henry Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 02/21/1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
02/21/1801 John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius) 02/21/1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882 02/21/1805 David Tod, Governor (Union), died in 1868
02/21/1814 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
02/21/1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
02/21/1817 Jos� Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco

02/21/1821 Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
02/21/1829 Johnson Hagood, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 02/21/1831 Eduard Rappoldi, composer
02/21/1836 Emil Hartmann, composer
02/21/1836 L�o Delibes, Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Copp�lia)

02/21/1844 Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory

02/21/1855 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
02/21/1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
02/21/1857 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907- )
02/21/1861 Pierre Breville, composer
02/21/1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co 02/21/1877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South Africans poet/theologist)
02/21/1878 Fritz Cortolezis, composer
02/21/1880 Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
02/21/1881 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
02/21/1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
02/21/1887 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 02/21/1888 Florence Bates, actress (County Faur, Havana Rose, Strange Alibi) 02/21/1888 Willem Banning, theologist/sociologist (Religious build up) 02/21/1889 Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)

02/21/1893 Andr�s Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
02/21/1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter) 02/21/1896 Sylvain Poons, cabaret performer (Bluejackets)
02/21/1900 Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & son)
02/21/1902 Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
02/21/1902 Bob [H�man] Scholte, singer [or 1909]
02/21/1902 John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs
02/21/1903 Ana�s Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense) 02/21/1903 Eric Fogg, composer
02/21/1903 Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir) 02/21/1903 Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author
02/21/1903 Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
02/21/1904 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
02/21/1907 Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948) 02/21/1908 Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer
02/21/1909 George G F van Renesse, pianist/music director
02/21/1909 Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
02/21/1912 Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consen

02/21/1912 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist
02/21/1913 Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969- )
02/21/1914 Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
02/21/1914 Hermanus P 'Piet' Mulder, Dutch journalist (Slogan/VARA)
02/21/1914 Zachary Scott, actor (Mildred Pierce, Pretty Baby. Ruthless) 02/21/1915 Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Good Sam) 02/21/1915 Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936) 02/21/1917 Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
02/21/1922 Murray 'the K' Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
02/21/1922 Uros Krek, composer
02/21/1923 Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School) 02/21/1924 Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe
02/21/1925 Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
02/21/1925 Sam Peckinpah, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
02/21/1926 Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], poet (Language of the Animals) 02/21/1927 Erma Bombeck, Ohio, humorist (Grass Is Always Greener...)
02/21/1927 Hubert Givenchy, fashion designer
02/21/1927 Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
02/21/1927 Pierre Mercure, composer
02/21/1931 Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
02/21/1932 Harold V, King of Norway (1990- )
02/21/1933 Nina Simone, [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, singer/pianist (Porgy) 02/21/1934 Rue McClanahan, Healdton Okla, actress (Maude, Golden Girls) 02/21/1936 Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx)
02/21/1937 Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)

02/21/1937 Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
02/21/1938 Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
02/21/1939 Richard Beymer, Iowa, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank) 02/21/1940 John Lewis, (Rep-D-Georgia)
02/21/1940 Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners) 02/21/1942 Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, actress/director (Marianne) 02/21/1943 David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum) 02/21/1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
02/21/1944 Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
02/21/1946 Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
02/21/1946 Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained) 02/21/1947 Jill Eikenberry, actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law)
02/21/1947 Olympia J Snowe, (Rep-R-ME, 1979- )
02/21/1948 Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
02/21/1949 Jerry Harrison, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-& She Was) 02/21/1952 J J Brunel, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
02/21/1953 Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)

02/21/1954 Ivo van Damme, Belgium, 800/1500m dash (Olympic-silver-1976) 02/21/1958 Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty) 02/21/1958 Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
02/21/1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Princeton NJ, country singer (This Shirt) 02/21/1961 Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon) 02/21/1961 Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
02/21/1963 Michael Gostigian, Phila Pa, US pentathlete (Olympic-92)
02/21/1964 Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
02/21/1966 Nikki Charm, XXX actress (Lucky Charm, Only the Best, Strip Search) 02/21/1966 Tommy Hendricks, rocker
02/21/1966 Wendy James, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
02/21/1968 Todd Ferich, computer language expert
02/21/1968 Wendy James, West London England, singer (Revolution Baby) 02/21/1973 Brian Rolston, Flint Mich, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 02/21/1975 Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
02/21/1986 Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz


Deaths:

02/21/ 556 Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies
02/21/1513 Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies
02/21/1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor, founder of modern botany, dies 02/21/1624 Dirck van Baburen, painter (Are), dies at about 28
02/21/1653 Adriaen Peacock, pension advisor for Holland, dies at 71
02/21/1677 [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies
02/21/1684 Pieter van de Abeelen, mohammed/jeweller, dies at about 75 02/21/1689 Isaacus Vossius, [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
02/21/1711 Joan van Receiver, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57 02/21/1730 Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81 02/21/1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64
02/21/1803 Edward Despard, last drawn & quartered in England
02/21/1842 Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85
02/21/1862 Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 02/21/1864 Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle 02/21/1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
02/21/1876 Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70
02/21/1879 Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 02/21/1884 John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 72
02/21/1887 Jean C F Demolombe, [prince l'ex�g�se], French lawyer, dies at 82 02/21/1919 Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77
02/21/1919 Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 02/21/1919 Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies
02/21/1919 Kurt Eisner, soc premier Bayern, murdered
02/21/1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78
02/21/1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52
02/21/1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, physicist (Nobel 1913), dies
02/21/1938 Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39
02/21/1938 George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
02/21/1945 Eric Liddell, runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43
02/21/1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80
02/21/1949 Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78
02/21/1951 Anton Roemer, actor, dies at 63
02/21/1956 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78
02/21/1961 Blaise Cendrars, [Fr�d�ric Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73 02/21/1965 Malcolm X, [Little], black muslim leader, assassinated at 39 in NYC 02/21/1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies
02/21/1969 Jos� de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies
02/21/1971 Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79
02/21/1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies
02/21/1976 Frieda Inescort, actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74 02/21/1979 Ray Whitley, composer, dies
02/21/1980 Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78 02/21/1984 Michail A Sjolochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies 02/21/1985 Eric Autumn, cabaret performer, dies at 47
02/21/1985 Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 92 02/21/1985 Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at

02/21/1991 Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballerina, dies of cancer at 71
02/21/1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
02/21/1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83
02/21/1992 Kate A ter Horst-Arri�ns, nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies
02/21/1992 William S Magginetti, dies
02/21/1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini, auto manufacturer, dies at 76 of heart attack



Significant Events:

02/21/1431 England begins trial against Joan of Ark
02/21/1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg surrenders
02/21/1583 Groningen begins using Gregorian calendar
02/21/1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 02/21/1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet 02/21/1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
02/21/1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John 02/21/1777 de Graaff for saluting US flag
02/21/1782 US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
02/21/1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
02/21/1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales 02/21/1816 Dutch crown prince Willem weds Russian great monarch Anna Paulowna 02/21/1828 1st Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia 02/21/1842 1st known sewing machine patent in US, John Greenough, Wash DC 02/21/1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
02/21/1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
02/21/1857 US issues flying eagle cents
02/21/1858 1st electric burglar alarm installed (Boston, Mass)
02/21/1861 Navaho indians elects Herrero Grande as chief
02/21/1862 Battle of Valverde, NM Terr - CS victory
02/21/1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM 02/21/1864 -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
02/21/1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore 02/21/1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree 02/21/1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 02/21/1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
02/21/1878 1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued, New Haven, Conn 02/21/1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 02/21/1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, DC)
02/21/1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens, in Brooklyn
02/21/1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
02/21/1895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

02/21/1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operatio

02/21/1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
02/21/1904 National Ski Association formed, Ishpeming, Mich
02/21/1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #596 Scheila
02/21/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #586 Thekla
02/21/1907 Hoek van Holland & passenger ship SS Berlin collide (142 dead) 02/21/1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse �l�gique) 02/21/1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
02/21/1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
02/21/1915 World's Fair in SF opens
02/21/1916 Battle of Verdun begins (1 million casualties)
02/21/1916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #818 Kapteynia
02/21/1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
02/21/1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die 02/21/1918 Austrians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Palestine
02/21/1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
02/21/1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
02/21/1922 Great Britain gives Egypt independence
02/21/1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
02/21/1925 1st issue of New Yorker magazine published
02/21/1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold
02/21/1927 Franz Leh�r's opera, Zarewitsch, premieres
02/21/1932 Andr� Tardieu becomes premier of France
02/21/1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
02/21/1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard 02/21/1936 F Rigaux discovers asteroid #1378 Leonce
02/21/1939 Belgian govt of Pierlot forms
02/21/1943 RC bishops protest against spread of Judaism

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On 3/4/21 11:04 PM, Robert Wolfe wrote:

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date

Robert,

Why are you sending these "This Day In History" messages to alt.bbs.wildcat?

They don't have anything specific to do with BBSes nor the Wildcat BBS.

Please stop spaming unrelated messages to the newsgroup.



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From: @p0.f18.n116.z1[ASC46]fidonet[.]org

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta

By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

03/26/1516 Konrad von Gesner, Z�rich Switz, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis

03/26/1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
03/26/1684 Johann Graf, composer
03/26/1717 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
03/26/1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
03/26/1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)

03/26/1783 Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
03/26/1806 Josef Slavik, composer
03/26/1813 Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 03/26/1817 Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 03/26/1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
03/26/1819 Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
03/26/1827 Emanuel Kania, composer
03/26/1830 Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer
03/26/1830 John Rogers Thomas, composer
03/26/1833 Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist
03/26/1840 Carli Zoeller, composer
03/26/1850 Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
03/26/1854 Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
03/26/1859 A E Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
03/26/1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
03/26/1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
03/26/1868 Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
03/26/1871 Seraf�n Alvarez Quint�ro, Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo)

03/26/1874 Oskar Nedbal, composer
03/26/1874 Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
03/26/1875 Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60)
03/26/1880 Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)

03/26/1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
03/26/1885 Julius Harrison, composer
03/26/1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
03/26/1888 Elsa Br�ndstr�m, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist 03/26/1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist (Atlas �ver Svensk Folk culture) 03/26/1889 Vaclav Kapral, composer
03/26/1890 Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
03/26/1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
03/26/1896 Richard Flury, composer
03/26/1897 Jean Epstein, French director (Sa t�te/Eau vive)
03/26/1898 Renzo Massarani, composer
03/26/1899 James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
03/26/1899 William Baines, composer
03/26/1900 Isadore Freed, composer
03/26/1904 Hermann Schroeder, composer
03/26/1904 Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
03/26/1905 Pablo Garrido, composer
03/26/1907 Leigh Harline, composer
03/26/1907 Louis Saguer, composer
03/26/1908 Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) 03/26/1908 Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) 03/26/1908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935) 03/26/1908 Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
03/26/1909 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, opera singer
03/26/1911 Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

03/26/1914 William Westmoreland, army general (Vietnam era)
03/26/1916 Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972) 03/26/1916 Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orch leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
03/26/1917 Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge in England
03/26/1917 Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
03/26/1919 Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra) 03/26/1919 Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) 03/26/1920 George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
03/26/1922 William Milliken, actor (Drive-in)
03/26/1923 Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians) 03/26/1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
03/26/1924 Bob Elliot, Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
03/26/1925 Alec McCowen, England, actress (Frenzy, Hanover Street, Stevie) 03/26/1925 Claudio Spies, composer
03/26/1925 Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip) 03/26/1925 Lord Hooson QC, crown court recorder
03/26/1925 Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial

03/26/1926 Ann Curtis, US, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) 03/26/1930 Cristobal Halffter, composer
03/26/1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man) 03/26/1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- ) 03/26/1931 Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) 03/26/1934 Alan Arkin, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark) 03/26/1934 Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964) 03/26/1936 Erich Urbanner, composer
03/26/1937 Barbara Pearl Jones, Chic Ill, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60

03/26/1937 Wayne Embry, holder of seven basketball records at Miami of Ohio 03/26/1939 James Caan, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather)
03/26/1939 Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice

03/26/1940 Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
03/26/1940 Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
03/26/1940 Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
03/26/1942 Erica Jong, NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
03/26/1943 Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes) 03/26/1944 Diana Ross, Detroit Mich, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)

03/26/1945 Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968) 03/26/1946 Johnny Crawford, LA Calif, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
03/26/1947 Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
03/26/1948 Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
03/26/1948 Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) 03/26/1949 Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family

03/26/1950 Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
03/26/1950 Graham Barlow, cricketer
03/26/1950 Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos) 03/26/1950 Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone) 03/26/1950 Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
03/26/1950 Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
03/26/1951 Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
03/26/1953 Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)

03/26/1955 Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
03/26/1956 Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
03/26/1956 Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 03/26/1957 Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
03/26/1960 Billy Warlock, Hawthorne Calif, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch) 03/26/1960 Marcus Allen, NFL footballer (LA Raiders)
03/26/1960 Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88) 03/26/1962 John Stocton, Spokane Wa, basketball player (Ut Jazz/Olympic-gold-92

03/26/1962 Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way) 03/26/1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
03/26/1963 Paul De Lion, TV host (Cry of the Lion)
03/26/1963 Rebecca Twigg, Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984) 03/26/1963 Susan Sulley, rocker (Human League-Human)
03/26/1969 Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991) 03/26/1970 Evan Richards, LA Calif, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
03/26/1979 Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
03/26/1986 Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
03/26/2228 James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)


Deaths:

03/26/ 809 Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of M�nster/saint, dies at about 66 03/26/1258 Floris, the Guardian, son of count Floris IV, dies
03/26/1350 Alfonso XI, King of Castili� & Le�n, dies
03/26/1638 Palamedes 'Stevens' Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30
03/26/1657 Jacob van Eyck, blindly flautist, dies at 69
03/26/1713 Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77
03/26/1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies 03/26/1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49
03/26/1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 69
03/26/1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
03/26/1827 Ludwig von Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 03/26/1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
03/26/1837 Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 54
03/26/1871 Fran�ois-Joseph F�tis, Belgian composer, dies at 87
03/26/1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62
03/26/1892 Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
03/26/1892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ
03/26/1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 03/26/1902 Cecil Rhodes, conqueror (Rhodesia), dies
03/26/1909 Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
03/26/1918 Cesar Cui, composer, dies at 83
03/26/1923 Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette R Bernard], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies

03/26/1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
03/26/1926 Georges Vezina, NHL hall of fame goalie, dies
03/26/1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies 03/26/1932 Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
03/26/1945 David Lloyd George, British politician, dies
03/26/1953 Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
03/26/1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
03/26/1957 Max Oph�ls, [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director, dies 03/26/1959 Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies 03/26/1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
03/26/1969 Bruno Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies
03/26/1969 G�nther Weisenborn, German/Agrgentine writer (That's Illeagal), dies

03/26/1973 George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80

03/26/1973 Noel Coward, actor (Surprise Package, Boom), dies at 73
03/26/1973 Safford Cape, composer, dies at 67
03/26/1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered 03/26/1979 Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
03/26/1982 Henri�tte [AgaHM] de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies 03/26/1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies
03/26/1986 Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 03/26/1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
03/26/1990 Roy 'Halston' Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 03/26/1991 Frans Dohmen, Dutch union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies 03/26/1993 Luis Falco, Us choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 03/26/1994 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat murdered in Algeria at 41 03/26/1994 John Bor, violinist/painter, dies at 83


Significant Events:

03/26/ 752 Stephen II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
03/26/1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier roman catholics-German emperor 03/26/1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commerate anti-Jewish violence 03/26/1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
03/26/1668 Bombay, India transferred to England
03/26/1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands 03/26/1790 Congress allows naturalization of alien free white persons 03/26/1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vend�e region of France
03/26/1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
03/26/1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana 03/26/1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
03/26/1812 Earthquake hits Caracas; about 20,000 die
03/26/1845 Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat 03/26/1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid 03/26/1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury 03/26/1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) 03/26/1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves 03/26/1871 Paris Commune founded
03/26/1872 Largest Calif quake (100-mile line)
03/26/1872 Thomas J Martin awarded patent for fire extinguisher
03/26/1878 Hastings College of Law founded
03/26/1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film 03/26/1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask 03/26/1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

03/26/1900 1st edition The (Free) People
03/26/1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
03/26/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #561 Ingwelde
03/26/1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick 03/26/1910 William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
03/26/1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
03/26/1915 Vancouver Millionaires sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 for Stanley Cup 03/26/1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
03/26/1917 Seat Metropolitans beat Mont Canadiens 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 03/26/1923 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 03/26/1926 ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
03/26/1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
03/26/1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
03/26/1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
03/26/1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio 03/26/1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
03/26/1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
03/26/1935 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1548 Palomaa
03/26/1936 200' telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech 03/26/1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
03/26/1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye 03/26/1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands) 03/26/1942 1st 'Eichmann transport' to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
03/26/1942 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21 03/26/1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Garbage 03/26/1943 1st woman to recieve air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott) 03/26/1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
03/26/1945 British premier Churchill looks out at the Rhine
03/26/1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 03/26/1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
03/26/1945 US 7th Army strikes Worms on the Rhine
03/26/1949 Kentucky wins NCAA basketball championship
03/26/1951 USAF flag approved
03/26/1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
03/26/1953 Kansas wins NCAA basketball championship
03/26/1953 Salk Polio vaccine announced
03/26/1955 'Ballad of Davy Crockett,' becomes the #1 record in US
03/26/1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
03/26/1960 Iraq sentences 30 to death after attack on Pres Kassem
03/26/1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg


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Births:

03/27/1416 Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
03/27/1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer
03/27/1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
03/27/1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
03/27/1746 Augustin Ullinger, composer
03/27/1746 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney
03/27/1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
03/27/1760 Ishmail Spicer, composer
03/27/1772 Giovanni Liverati, composer
03/27/1785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution 03/27/1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French writer (Mo�se Chatterton)
03/27/1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
03/27/1816 George Elvey, composer
03/27/1818 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
03/27/1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 03/27/1844 Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
03/27/1845 Wilhelm Konrad R�ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) 03/27/1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
03/27/1851 Paul Vincent d' Indy, composer
03/27/1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
03/27/1851 Vincent d'Indy, Paris France, dandy composer (Symphonie C�venole) 03/27/1854 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr�gorien)
03/27/1858 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
03/27/1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
03/27/1867 Edyth Walker, US singer
03/27/1871 Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thom

03/27/1871 Peter JM Aalberse, 2nd member of parliament/minister of Labor 03/27/1879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
03/27/1883 Jan Kunc, composer
03/27/1886 Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
03/27/1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
03/27/1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof�, NY, composer
03/27/1893 Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator 03/27/1897 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist
03/27/1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
03/27/1901 Albert Henneberg, composer
03/27/1901 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
03/27/1901 Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
03/27/1903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
03/27/1907 Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
03/27/1908 Jacques [Iza�k] den Haan, writer (Dangerous Book)
03/27/1909 Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
03/27/1909 Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German historian (Of Anti semitism) 03/27/1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932) 03/27/1912 James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
03/27/1912 Reuel Lahmer, composer
03/27/1912 Robert Watson Hughes, composer
03/27/1913 Godfrey Turner, composer
03/27/1914 Budd Schulberg, author (On the Waterfront)
03/27/1914 Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)

03/27/1914 Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee) 03/27/1917 Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
03/27/1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
03/27/1919 Julian Amery, conservatie minister
03/27/1919 Simon van Collem, journalist/TV host
03/27/1921 Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
03/27/1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
03/27/1923 Victor Hochhauser, impresario
03/27/1924 Harold Nicholas, US actor(?)
03/27/1924 Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)

03/27/1925 Lord Plumb, MEP
03/27/1925 Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust) 03/27/1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC, press arbiter
03/27/1927 Anthony Lewis, newspaper columnist (NY Times)
03/27/1927 Lord Fanshawe, MP
03/27/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku, cellist/teacher (Moscow Conservatory) 03/27/1928 Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
03/27/1930 Bob den Uyl, journalist/writer (Birds Look)
03/27/1930 David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O) 03/27/1930 Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) 03/27/1930 Stephen Joshua Sondheim, composer
03/27/1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
03/27/1933 Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
03/27/1934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
03/27/1934 David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science) 03/27/1935 Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela) 03/27/1936 Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
03/27/1936 Malcolm Goldstein, composer
03/27/1937 Johnny 'Clyde' Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion)
03/27/1939 Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
03/27/1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives) 03/27/1940 Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Won Daytona 500 4 times)
03/27/1941 Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
03/27/1941 June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Pajama Tops)
03/27/1941 Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
03/27/1942 Michael York, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
03/27/1942 Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
03/27/1943 Bob Carr, (Rep-D-MI, 1975-81, 83- )
03/27/1943 M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan)
03/27/1946 Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
03/27/1947 Tom Sullivan, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
03/27/1950 Maria Ewing, opera singer
03/27/1950 Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
03/27/1952 Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)

03/27/1952 Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor

03/27/1953 Annemarie Moser-Pr�ll, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1980) 03/27/1953 Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairi

03/27/1956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
03/27/1956 Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)

03/27/1957 Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch) 03/27/1957 Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980) 03/27/1958 Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-New York)
03/27/1959 Andy Farriss, Australian rock keyboardist (INXS-Original Sin) 03/27/1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter 03/27/1961 Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love) 03/27/1963 Randall Cunningham, NFL QB (Phila Eagles)
03/27/1963 Xuxa, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, singer/actress (Xuxamania)
03/27/1966 Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
03/27/1967 Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (Licence to Kill) 03/27/1971 Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time)
03/27/1986 Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby


Deaths:

03/27/ 965 Arnulf I, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
03/27/1211 Sancho I, King of Portugal, dies at 56
03/27/1378 Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), die

03/27/1482 Maria, duchess of Bourgondie/countess of Holland, dies at 25 03/27/1668 Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
03/27/1679 Abraham Mignon, still life painter, dies at 38
03/27/1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/French admiral, dies 03/27/1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
03/27/1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
03/27/1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies 03/27/1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
03/27/1826 Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
03/27/1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 03/27/1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasv�rus), dies
03/27/1878 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
03/27/1889 Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 65
03/27/1894 Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies
03/27/1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
03/27/1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 03/27/1910 Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies 03/27/1910 David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
03/27/1920 Johan G Dancer, poet (Meetings), dies
03/27/1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
03/27/1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
03/27/1928 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
03/27/1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 03/27/1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 03/27/1945 J�rgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
03/27/1948 Karel Candael, composer, dies at 64
03/27/1953 Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 77
03/27/1960 Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
03/27/1961 Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy William Show), dies at 3

03/27/1966 Mien Labberton, poetess, dies
03/27/1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, die in plane crash

03/27/1972 Mauritius C Escher, lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 03/27/1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
03/27/1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 03/27/1977 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41 03/27/1977 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies at 46 in a plane crash 03/27/1977 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
03/27/1982 Joris No�, Flemish literary, dies
03/27/1983 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75 03/27/1983 Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
03/27/1986 Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
03/27/1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
03/27/1988 John van de Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
03/27/1991 Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer 03/27/1991 Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
03/27/1992 Anita Colby, 1st $100 an hour model, dies at 77 of lung disease 03/27/1992 Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 03/27/1992 Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
03/27/1992 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
03/27/1992 Martin Engelman, cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
03/27/1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 03/27/1993 Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies at 61 of cancer
03/27/1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 03/27/1993 Wilhelmus MJ Russell, Member of Dutch 1st chamber (KVP/CDA), dies


Significant Events:

03/27/1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le�n sights Florida
03/27/1625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne 03/27/1794 Congress authorizes the president 'to provide a naval armament' (Nav

03/27/1802 Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
03/27/1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
03/27/1807 Vesta (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
03/27/1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
03/27/1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
03/27/1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
03/27/1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
03/27/1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
03/27/1860 M.L. Byrn patents the corkscrew (NY)
03/27/1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars 03/27/1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer 03/27/1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
03/27/1866 Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend 03/27/1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
03/27/1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
03/27/1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
03/27/1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #595 Polyxena
03/27/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #594 Mireille
03/27/1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
03/27/1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #825 Tanina
03/27/1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #850 Altona
03/27/1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens

03/27/1920 Hermann M�ller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
03/27/1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #976 Benjamina
03/27/1922 J Palisa discovers asteroid #975 Perseverantia
03/27/1924 Canada recognizes USSR
03/27/1924 New French govt of Poincar� begins
03/27/1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
03/27/1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
03/27/1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
03/27/1933 Japan leaves Leaguew of Nations
03/27/1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
03/27/1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
03/27/1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge 03/27/1939 University of Oregon wins 1st NCAA basketball championship 03/27/1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice

03/27/1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years 03/27/1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
03/27/1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
03/27/1942 Japan forces Java to use 'Tokyo time' 1� hour forward
03/27/1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC) 03/27/1943 Assassination group-Van der Veen on Amsterdams registers people 03/27/1943 Assassinationattempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau 03/27/1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
03/27/1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 03/27/1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
03/27/1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 03/27/1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 03/27/1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
03/27/1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
03/27/1945 Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 03/27/1945 Iwo Jima captured
03/27/1945 Okla beats NYU for NCAA basketball championship
03/27/1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
03/27/1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
03/27/1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/27/1951 Kentucky beats Kansas for NCAA basketball championship
03/27/1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer 03/27/1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins relasing records
03/27/1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
03/27/1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting 03/27/1956 French commandos land in Algeria
03/27/1956 US seizes US communistic newspaper 'Daily Worker'
03/27/1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Par

03/27/1961 Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns

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Births:

03/29/1484 Johann Spangenberg, composer
03/29/1561 Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/hereti

03/29/1616 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer
03/29/1636 Esaias Reusner, composer
03/29/1725 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer
03/29/1752 Edward Jones, composer
03/29/1790 John Tyler, Va, (D/W) 10th Pres (1841-1845)
03/29/1799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68) 03/29/1813 John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884
03/29/1816 James Gallant Spears, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869 03/29/1817 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet
03/29/1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
03/29/1819 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founded American Hebrew Congregations 03/29/1821 Joshua Thomas Owen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 03/29/1826 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German social-democratic parliament member 03/29/1829 Ritta & Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia
03/29/1829 Robert Emmett Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 03/29/1867 Cy Young, winningest pitcher (509 wins, 1890-1911)
03/29/1869 Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum) 03/29/1875 Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33)
03/29/1875 Paul Rubens, composer
03/29/1876 Jan Ingenhoven, composer
03/29/1876 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
03/29/1879 Thomas Beecham, composer
03/29/1886 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer
03/29/1888 Adrianus M de Young, writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak) 03/29/1888 James E Casey, founder (United Parcel Service)
03/29/1889 Howard Lindsay, writer
03/29/1889 Warner Baxter, US actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
03/29/1892 J�zsef Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm), Hungarian cardinal
03/29/1901 French U Kailas, Finnish poet
03/29/1902 Marcel Aym�, French writer (Jument Verte)
03/29/1902 Onslow Stevens, LA Calif, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life) 03/29/1902 William Walton, England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins)

03/29/1905 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader
03/29/1906 E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS) 03/29/1908 Arthur O'Connell, NYC, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years) 03/29/1908 Dennis O'Keefe, Fort Madison Iowa, actor (Suspicion)
03/29/1909 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
03/29/1911 Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu)
03/29/1913 Niall MacGinnis, Dublin Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon) 03/29/1913 Phil Foster, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley) 03/29/1916 Eugene McCarthy, (Sen-D-Minn, presidential candidate 1968) 03/29/1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465 03/29/1918 Pearl Bailey, Newport News Va, singer (Hello Dolly)
03/29/1918 Sam Walton, billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart)
03/29/1919 Eileen Heckart, Columbus Ohio, actress (Doll's House, Trauma Center)

03/29/1924 Jules de Corte, blind lead singer
03/29/1925 Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
03/29/1927 Arthur Jr Ravenel, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
03/29/1928 Vaclav Felix, composer
03/29/1934 Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, composer
03/29/1936 Richard Rodney Bennett, Broadstairs Kent England, composer 03/29/1937 Billy Carter, Georgia, brother of Pres Carter
03/29/1938 Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA)
03/29/1939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature) 03/29/1940 Raymond Davis, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
03/29/1941 Terence Hill, Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)

03/29/1942 Larry Pressler, (Sen-R-SD, 1979- )
03/29/1943 Eric Idle, England, comedian/actor (Monty Python)
03/29/1943 John Major, British premier (1990- )
03/29/1943 Lech Walesa, union leader/president Poland (or 9/23)
03/29/1943 Vangelis, composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire)
03/29/1944 Denny McLain, Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 AL MVP/Cy Young/31 wins) 03/29/1945 Julie Goodyear, British actress (Bet Lynch-Coronation Street) 03/29/1945 Walt 'Clyde' Frazier, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
03/29/1945 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host
03/29/1947 Aleksandr Step Viktorenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, TM-8, TM-13)

03/29/1947 Bobby Kimball, vocalist (Toto-Africa)
03/29/1949 Michael Brecker, musician (The Brecker Brothers)
03/29/1950 Bud Cort, actor (Maria's Lovers, Brewster McCloud, M*A*S*H) 03/29/1952 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 8

03/29/1954 Karen Anne Quinlan, NJ, famous comatose patient
03/29/1955 Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az, actress (Nancy-8 is Enough, Reggie, Glitter)

03/29/1955 Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans)
03/29/1956 Kurt Thomas, US, gymnist (Olympics), actor (Gymkata)
03/29/1956 LaToya Jackson, singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy 03/29/1957 Christopher Lambert, actor (Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me) 03/29/1959 Marina Sirtis, London, actress (Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation)

03/29/1961 Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster (Suriname TV/Radio)
03/29/1964 Elle Macpherson, Sydney Australia, model (Sports Illustrated 1986,7,

03/29/1964 Jill Goodacre, Lubbock Texas, model (Cosmopolitan, Victoria Secrets)

03/29/1969 James Atkin, rocker (EMF-Unbelievable)
03/29/1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (Twin Peaks)
03/29/1971 Ryan Mark Lambert
03/29/1976 Jennifer Capriati, tennis pro (Federation Cup-1990)
03/29/2334 Beverly Crusher, Copernicus Luna, fictional doctor-Star Trek Next Ge

03/29/2336 Deanna Troi, Betazed, fictional counsellor-Star Trek Next Gen


Deaths:

03/29/1058 Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belg Pope (1057-58), die

03/29/1650 Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
03/29/1745 Robert Walpole, count of Orford/1st British premier, dies
03/29/1792 Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
03/29/1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 5

03/29/1802 Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 52
03/29/1839 Bernardus JC Dibbets, baron/general-major (Maastricht), dies at 56 03/29/1847 Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies
03/29/1848 John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 03/29/1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies 03/29/1880 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62
03/29/1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
03/29/1892 William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
03/29/1911 Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
03/29/1912 Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
03/29/1917 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
03/29/1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, dies at 71
03/29/1933 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Ned's violinist/conductor, dies 03/29/1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 5

03/29/1945 Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79 03/29/1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies
03/29/1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84
03/29/1959 Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies 03/29/1959 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84
03/29/1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies
03/29/1964 Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63 03/29/1974 Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71
03/29/1979 Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
03/29/1980 Mantovani, orch leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
03/29/1981 Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79 03/29/1982 Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
03/29/1982 Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 68 of heart attac

03/29/1982 Walter Hallstein, W German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 03/29/1983 Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65 03/29/1986 Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies
03/29/1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73 03/29/1991 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40 03/29/1991 Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies
03/29/1992 Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana
03/29/1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at



Significant Events:

03/29/1461 Battle near Towton Field (33,000 die)
03/29/1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans) 03/29/1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
03/29/1807 Discovery of 4th asteroid Vesta by Heinrich Olbers
03/29/1807 H W Olbers discovers asteroid #4 Vesta
03/29/1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians 03/29/1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico [or 0327?]
03/29/1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing-for 1 day-because of an ice jam 03/29/1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
03/29/1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
03/29/1865 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
03/29/1865 Battle of Quaker Road, VA
03/29/1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passed
03/29/1871 Albert Hall opens in London
03/29/1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
03/29/1886 Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
03/29/1912 Last entry in Scott's diary, in a blizzard 18 km from the So Pole 03/29/1919 Mont & Seat win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarde

03/29/1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord
03/29/1927 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph), Henry Segrave, Daytona Beach 03/29/1927 HOD Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona 03/29/1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
03/29/1929 Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games for the Stanley Cup 03/29/1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
03/29/1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialistic worker's movement bankrupt 03/29/1935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1754 Cunningham
03/29/1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
03/29/1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1343 Nicole
03/29/1936 10,000 watch the 200' mirror blank passing through Indianapolis 03/29/1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck to retain heavyweight boxing title 03/29/1941 WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format) 03/29/1941 Wisconsin beats Wash State for NCAA basketball championship 03/29/1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea 03/29/1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
03/29/1945 Oklahoma A & M wins NCAA basketball championship
03/29/1948 Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
03/29/1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
03/29/1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2069 Hubble
03/29/1959 'Some Like it Hot' with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres 03/29/1961 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Wash DC residents to vote for pres 03/29/1961 After a 4� year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 03/29/1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/29/1962 Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army
03/29/1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the 'Tonight Show'
03/29/1963 Final episode of soap opera 'Young Doctor Malone'
03/29/1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs George Chuval in Toronto
03/29/1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/29/1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
03/29/1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
03/29/1971 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre 03/29/1971 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks
03/29/1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor 03/29/1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcastin

03/29/1973 Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
03/29/1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution 03/29/1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
03/29/1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
03/29/1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
03/29/1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State student

03/29/1976 Indiana wins NCAA basketball championship
03/29/1979 Chernykh discovers asteroid 2553 Viljev, 2566 Kirghizia & 2703 Rodar

03/29/1982 'Chariots of Fire' wins the 54th Academy Award
03/29/1982 L E Gonzalez discovers asteroid #3691
03/29/1982 North Carolina beats Georgetown, 63-63, for NCAA basketball title 03/29/1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
03/29/1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
03/29/1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist 03/29/1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
03/29/1987 Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 to win NCAA Ladies Basketball title 03/29/1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party 03/29/1987 Largest wrestling crowd ever (90,873) at Silverdome
03/29/1987 Wrestlemania III-Hulk Hogan beats Andre the Giant
03/29/1988 US Congress refuses continuing aid to Nicaraguan contras
03/29/1989 'Rainman,' Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster wins 61st Acadamy Awards 03/29/1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL 03/29/1989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (NM) 03/29/1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
03/29/1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering 03/29/1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro

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Births:

03/28/1468 Charles I, Duke of Savoy
03/28/1472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
03/28/1515 Theresia van Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint 03/28/1592 Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer 03/28/1603 Stephan Otto, composer
03/28/1615 Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat
03/28/1621 Heinrich Schwemmer, composer
03/28/1643 Jose Solana, composer
03/28/1660 Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer
03/28/1727 Maximilian III Jozef, King of Bayern (1745-77)
03/28/1729 Pieter Fouquet, art seller (Atlas of Fouquet)
03/28/1737 Francesco Zannetti, composer
03/28/1741 Johann Andre, composer
03/28/1750 Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter
03/28/1760 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation) 03/28/1766 Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline)
03/28/1779 Angelo Maria Benincori, composer
03/28/1806 Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1861-66) 03/28/1817 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer
03/28/1818 Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902
03/28/1853 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms)
03/28/1859 Jos�phin P�ladan, French writer/founder (French Red Cross) 03/28/1862 Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926) 03/28/1868 Maxim Gorki, [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer (Mother) (3/16 OS) 03/28/1868 Wojciech Gawronski, composer
03/28/1871 Willem Mengelberg, Utrecht Neth, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)

03/28/1872 Jos� Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco)
03/28/1880 Rosina Lh�vinne, Kiev Ukraine, pianist/prof (Juiliard Grad School) 03/28/1883 William H Harris, composer
03/28/1885 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer
03/28/1886 Jaroslav Novotny, composer
03/28/1887 Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Cura�ao, musician/composer
03/28/1890 Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orch leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)

03/28/1891 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (S Verlag)
03/28/1895 Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
03/28/1900 Achille Longo, composer
03/28/1900 Robert Harris, actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne)
03/28/1902 Flora Robson, actress (Dominique is Dead, Years Between)
03/28/1902 Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist
03/28/1903 Rudolf Serkin, Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro Sch of Music) 03/28/1904 Fosco Giachetti, actor (Wastrel, We the Living)
03/28/1905 Marlin Perkins, Carthage Mo, TV host (Wild Kingdom)
03/28/1906 Joseph Wright, Canada, oarsman (Olympic-gold-1928)
03/28/1909 Nelson Algren, US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm)
03/28/1910 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark
03/28/1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space

03/28/1914 Edmund S Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980)
03/28/1914 Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw) 03/28/1919 Jacob Avshalomov, Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)

03/28/1920 Dirk Bogarde, England, actor (Death in Venice, Servant)
03/28/1920 Gene Chappie, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-86)
03/28/1920 Lord Butterfield
03/28/1924 Freddie Bartholomew, England, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfiel

03/28/1926 Francis Burt, composer
03/28/1928 Jose Luis de Delas, composer
03/28/1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor under Carter 03/28/1930 George Bruce, painter
03/28/1930 Robert Ashley, composer
03/28/1932 Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu) 03/28/1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R Alaska)
03/28/1934 Siegfried Thiele, composer
03/28/1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/pres candidate 03/28/1940 Kevin Loughery, NBA star/coach (Balt, Phila)
03/28/1941 Alf Clausen, Minneapolis Mn, orch leader (Mary, Simpsons)
03/28/1941 Charlie McCoy, Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw)
03/28/1942 Neil Kinnock, leader of the British opposition (Labour)
03/28/1942 Samuel Ramey, Colby Kansas, bass (La Scala)
03/28/1943 Conchata Ferrell, Charleston WV, actress (Deadly Hero, LA Law) 03/28/1944 Ken Howard, El Centro Calif, actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776)

03/28/1944 Rick Barry, ABA/NBA forward (NY Nets, Golden State Warriors) 03/28/1945 Chuck Potz, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
03/28/1945 Hans Brunhart, leader of Liechtenstein (1978- )
03/28/1948 Dianne Wiest, actress (Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters, Footloose) 03/28/1948 John Evans, drummer (Blades-A Song for Jeffrey)
03/28/1948 Wubbo J Ockels, Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22)
03/28/1949 Milan Williams, US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady) 03/28/1949 Ronnie Ray Smith, 4 X 100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1968) 03/28/1953 Nydia M Velazquez, (Rep-D-New York, 1993- )
03/28/1955 Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blue

03/28/1956 Evelin Jahl, German DR, discus thrower (Olympic-2 gold-1976) 03/28/1957 Harvey Glance, Pheonix City Ala, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976) 03/28/1958 Bart Wayne Conner, Chicago Ill, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold-1984) 03/28/1959 Todd Curtis, actor (Capitol, Skip-Young & Restless)
03/28/1962 Ged Grimes, [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer)
03/28/1969 Salt, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
03/28/1972 Jonathan Edwards, Boston Mass, doubles luger (Olympics-1994) 03/28/1977 Angelo Garcia, Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)


Deaths:

03/28/ 193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 03/28/ 593 Guntram, French king to Bourgondie, dies at about 67
03/28/1134 Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of C�teaux/saint, dies
03/28/1285 Martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies
03/28/1673 Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51
03/28/1687 Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Korenbloemen), dies at

03/28/1701 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
03/28/1712 John van Heyden, painter/inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 03/28/1758 Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies
03/28/1799 Etta LJ 'baronne' Palm-Aelders, adventurer/spy, dies at 55 03/28/1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66

03/28/1818 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
03/28/1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 03/28/1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
03/28/1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
03/28/1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
03/28/1863 James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52 03/28/1865 Albert G Bilders, landscape painter, dies at 26
03/28/1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
03/28/1880 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
03/28/1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42
03/28/1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
03/28/1889 Matilde 'Tillie' Ziegler, 1st on electric chair
03/28/1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
03/28/1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
03/28/1914 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
03/28/1927 Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
03/28/1928 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
03/28/1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To the Lighthouse), dies 03/28/1942 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67

03/28/1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies 03/28/1943 Sergej V Rachmaninoff, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 03/28/1944 Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
03/28/1944 Stephen Leacock, dies
03/28/1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
03/28/1953 James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64 03/28/1954 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies 03/28/1958 Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
03/28/1959 W C Handy, jazz star, dies at 85
03/28/1960 Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61 03/28/1963 Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52

03/28/1965 VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67
03/28/1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78 03/28/1971 Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78
03/28/1973 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies 03/28/1974 Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68 03/28/1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 03/28/1975 Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77
03/28/1979 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
03/28/1980 Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
03/28/1980 Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66, in Tucson Arizona

03/28/1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies 03/28/1983 Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies
03/28/1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 03/28/1985 Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97
03/28/1985 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53
03/28/1986 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39 03/28/1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
03/28/1987 Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82 03/28/1987 Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
03/28/1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery, Moontide), dies 03/28/1991 Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies
03/28/1992 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies
03/28/1994 Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 03/28/1994 Eug�ne Ionesco, playwright (Le�on, Le roi se meurt), dies at about 8



Significant Events:

03/28/1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed
03/28/1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India)
03/28/1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
03/28/1797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
03/28/1799 NY State abolished slavery, 1799
03/28/1802 H W Olbers discovers asteroid #2 Pallas
03/28/1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid (Pallas)
03/28/1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
03/28/1834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US 03/28/1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate 03/28/1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
03/28/1871 SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
03/28/1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
03/28/1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
03/28/1896 The opera 'Andrea Chenier' is produced (Milan)
03/28/1900 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #454 Mathesis
03/28/1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record) 03/28/1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
03/28/1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre

03/28/1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities 03/28/1920 Thomas Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia
03/28/1922 Toronto St Pats beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 03/28/1924 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
03/28/1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
03/28/1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara 03/28/1933 German Reichstage confers dictatorial powers to Adolph Hitler 03/28/1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
03/28/1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
03/28/1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship
03/28/1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
03/28/1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan
03/28/1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire 03/28/1942 RAF bombs L�beck
03/28/1942 Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire
03/28/1944 Astrid Lindgren begins writing Pippi Longstocking
03/28/1944 NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry
03/28/1944 Utah defeated Dartmouth 42-40 to win the NCAA basketball title 03/28/1945 Last V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London
03/28/1950 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same ye

03/28/1953 'Stock exchanges open, dikes closed' raises �5,200,000
03/28/1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 03/28/1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting 03/28/1957 1st National Curling Championship held
03/28/1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardin

03/28/1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland) 03/28/1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
03/28/1963 AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets
03/28/1964 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
03/28/1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska
03/28/1968 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3049
03/28/1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
03/28/1970 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) 03/28/1973 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3071 Nesterov
03/28/1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup
03/28/1975 Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also 03/28/1977 49th Academy Awards
03/28/1977 Morarji Desai forms govt in India
03/28/1977 Retiring coach Al McGuire's Marquette basketball team wins NCAA 03/28/1979 British government of Callaghan falls
03/28/1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths) 03/28/1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec) 03/28/1981 Sch�nbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
03/28/1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
03/28/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2873 Binzel
03/28/1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador 03/28/1982 Lousiana Tech wond 1st NCAA women's basketball title
03/28/1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley 03/28/1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
03/28/1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
03/28/1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
03/28/1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court 03/28/1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game

03/28/1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal 03/28/1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
03/28/1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election
03/28/1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
03/28/1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 50 killed

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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

03/30/1135 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], C�rodoba Spain, philospher/physician

03/30/1135 Rambam, Jewish leader
03/30/1222 Nichiren, Japan, Buddhist priest/saint
03/30/1432 Mohammed II [F�tih], Sultan of Turkey (1451-81)
03/30/1681 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver
03/30/1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich, composer
03/30/1697 John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor
03/30/1719 John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
03/30/1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace) 03/30/1746 Francisco Jose de Goya, Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja) 03/30/1750 John Stafford Smith, composer
03/30/1772 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
03/30/1790 Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
03/30/1804 Salomon Sulzer, composer
03/30/1805 Adrien de La Fage, composer
03/30/1815 Wincenty Studzinski, composer
03/30/1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 03/30/1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
03/30/1825 Samuel Bell Maxey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 03/30/1830 Auguste Tolbecque, composer
03/30/1830 Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher
03/30/1835 Bernhard Scholz, composer
03/30/1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician 03/30/1842 John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher
03/30/1844 Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
03/30/1853 Vincent van Gogh, Holland, artist who always lent an ear (Irises) 03/30/1864 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician
03/30/1865 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
03/30/1872 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
03/30/1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
03/30/1880 Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World) 03/30/1882 Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis
03/30/1883 Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
03/30/1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician
03/30/1887 Albert Termote, Belgian/Neth sculptor
03/30/1888 Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin) 03/30/1891 John B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
03/30/1892 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
03/30/1894 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
03/30/1895 Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
03/30/1898 Joyce Carey, English actress (Black Windmill)
03/30/1899 Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
03/30/1903 Sol C Siegel, US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes) 03/30/1904 Akarova, [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Lesson biches) 03/30/1905 Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
03/30/1908 Camille Schmit, composer
03/30/1908 Kurt Bruggemann, composer
03/30/1913 Frankie Laine, Chicago Ill, actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide) 03/30/1913 Richard Helms, former CIA head
03/30/1914 Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
03/30/1917 Els Aarne, composer
03/30/1917 Rudolf Bruci, composer
03/30/1918 Joseph Allen Jr, actor (Death of a Champion, Night Before the Divorc

03/30/1919 McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser under JFK
03/30/1920 Turhan Bey, actor (Dragon Seed, Sudam , Ali Baba & 40 Thieves) 03/30/1921 Kan Ishii, composer
03/30/1921 Oto Ferenczy, composer
03/30/1922 German Germanovich Galinin, composer
03/30/1922 Peter Jona Korn, composer
03/30/1924 Milko Kelemen, composer
03/30/1925 Ivo Malek, composer
03/30/1926 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Mission, We're No Angels) 03/30/1926 Werner Torkanowsky, Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symph) 03/30/1927 Peter Marshall, Huntington WV, TV host (Hollywood Squares) 03/30/1928 Diether de la Motte, composer
03/30/1929 Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law) 03/30/1929 Shirley Stoler, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties)
03/30/1930 John Astin, Balt Md, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Adamms Family)

03/30/1930 Rolf Harris, British cartoonist
03/30/1931 Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
03/30/1931 Sandor Szokolay, composer
03/30/1933 Jean-Claude Brialy, actor (Circle of Love, Claire's Knee, Cousins) 03/30/1935 Gordon Mumma, composer
03/30/1935 John Charles Eaton, composer
03/30/1936 Richard Baker, Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher/Dharma Sangha
03/30/1937 Jay W Macintosh, Gainesville Ga, actress (Sons & Daughters) 03/30/1937 Warren Beatty, Richmond Va, (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy) 03/30/1940 Astrud Gilberto, Brazil, singer(?)/orchestra leader(?)
03/30/1940 Jerry Lucas, NBA center (NY Knicks) (NBA rookie of year 1964) 03/30/1941 Robert C Smith, (Rep-R-NH, 1985- )
03/30/1941 Sven Hamrin, Sweden, road race cycler (Olympic-bronze-1964) 03/30/1944 Gerrit Komr�, poet/essayist (Happy Schizo)
03/30/1944 Graeme Edge, drummer (Moody Blues-Your Wildest Dreams)
03/30/1945 Eric Clapton, [Clapp], guitarist/vocalist (Cream, Tears In Heaven) 03/30/1948 Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy) 03/30/1948 Justin Deas, Penn, actor (Dream Lover, Montana, Intimate Strangers) 03/30/1950 Dave McCurdy, (Rep-D-OK, 1981- )
03/30/1950 Eugene Bowen, composer
03/30/1955 Randy Wanwarmer, vocalist (Just When I Needed You Most)
03/30/1957 Paul Reiser, NYC, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Cross My Heart) 03/30/1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russia, cosmonaut
03/30/1962 'M C' Hammer, [Stanley], rapper (It's Hammer Time)
03/30/1964 Tracy Chapman, US singer/songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car) 03/30/1967 Ian Ziering, West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 9021

03/30/1968 Celine Dion, Quebec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman)
03/30/1969 Marco Foddis, pop drummer (pestilence)
03/30/1970 Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown (1973)


Deaths:

03/30/ 988 Arnulf II, count of Flanders, dies
03/30/1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 03/30/1547 Fran�ois I van Valois-Angoul�me, King of France, dies at 52 03/30/1707 S�bastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73 03/30/1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 40
03/30/1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68 03/30/1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 03/30/1871 WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42
03/30/1872 Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76
03/30/1875 Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63
03/30/1879 David Van de Kellen, coin engraver, dies at 74
03/30/1884 Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61
03/30/1906 Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 03/30/1910 Jean Mor�as, [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies 03/30/1912 Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies
03/30/1925 Rudolf Steiner, Austria philosopher (anthroposophy), dies
03/30/1926 Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies
03/30/1930 Jean Mor�as, [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies 03/30/1935 Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51
03/30/1945 Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71
03/30/1946 John SSPV Barley, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies
03/30/1948 Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi
03/30/1949 Friedrich CR Bergius, German chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies 03/30/1950 L�on Blum, French premier (People's Front Govt), dies
03/30/1953 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75
03/30/1955 Harl McDonald, composer, dies at 55
03/30/1960 Joseph Haas, composer, dies at 81
03/30/1961 P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies 03/30/1963 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69
03/30/1964 Willem CN Andriessen, composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76 03/30/1966 Erwin Piscator, German play director (Plebeians test rebellion), die

03/30/1966 Maxfield Parrish, US painter, dies at 95
03/30/1969 Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer, dies
03/30/1971 Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82 03/30/1972 Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81
03/30/1972 Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55
03/30/1974 Ludovicus J Rogier, historian (Freedom Reborn), dies at 79 03/30/1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies 03/30/1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88
03/30/1979 Airey Neave, British Conservatives MP, killed by a bomb
03/30/1981 Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
03/30/1983 Pal Kadosa, composer, dies at 79
03/30/1985 Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 7

03/30/1986 James Cagney, actor (Yankke Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86 03/30/1986 John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
03/30/1989 Dort Clark, actor (In Harms Way), dies
03/30/1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies 03/30/1992 Art Hannes, entertainer, dies
03/30/1992 Luigi De Laurentiis, Itallian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies 03/30/1993 Jeremy Siegrist, entertainer, dies


Significant Events:

03/30/ 239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
03/30/ 804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of M�nster
03/30/ 988 Boudewijn IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
03/30/1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force 03/30/1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple 03/30/1456 Prince Louis van Bourbon elected bishop of Luik
03/30/1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spai

03/30/1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
03/30/1822 Territory of Florida organized
03/30/1842 Dr Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic 03/30/1858 Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser 03/30/1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
03/30/1865 -4] Battle at Five Forks Virginia
03/30/1866 Bedrich Smetana's 'That Verkaufte Braut' premieres
03/30/1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly) 03/30/1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race 03/30/1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
03/30/1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #224 Oceana
03/30/1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
03/30/1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Compulsory education law
03/30/1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #662 Newtonia
03/30/1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
03/30/1911 Lochtschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
03/30/1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
03/30/1914 A Massinger discovers asteroid #785 Zwetana
03/30/1916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #820 Adriana
03/30/1916 Montreal Canadiens beat Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 for Stanley C

03/30/1918 Toronto Arenas beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 03/30/1919 Belgian Army attack D�sseldorf
03/30/1919 Gandhi introduces resistance against Rowlatt Act
03/30/1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
03/30/1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
03/30/1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates 03/30/1925 Stalin supports in Komintern rights of not-Swedish Yugoslavian 03/30/1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
03/30/1929 L Volta discovers asteroid #1107 Lictoria
03/30/1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3� hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec 03/30/1940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3166
03/30/1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
03/30/1941 Indiana University wins NCAA basketball championship
03/30/1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
03/30/1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
03/30/1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
03/30/1943 University of Wyoming wins NCAA basketball championship
03/30/1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund 03/30/1945 USSR invades Austria during WW II
03/30/1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
03/30/1952 Goethe Link Observ discovers asteroids #1761 Edmondson & #1824 Hawor

03/30/1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
03/30/1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2026 Cottrell
03/30/1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/30/1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m) 03/30/1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
03/30/1966 Barbra Striesand stars on 'Color Me Barbra' special on CBS 03/30/1967 Cover picture of Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper's' is photographed
03/30/1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 03/30/1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
03/30/1970 Soap opera 'Somerset' premieres
03/30/1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
03/30/1972 North Vietnamese troops pull out of South Vietnam
03/30/1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam 03/30/1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital 03/30/1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
03/30/1981 Indiana beats North Carolina for NCAA basketball title
03/30/1981 Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
03/30/1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM 03/30/1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force [0126?] 03/30/1987 59th Oscar awards
03/30/1987 Indiana wins NCAA woman's basketball championship
03/30/1987 Vincent van Goghs 'Sunflowers' sells for record �22.5 million 03/30/1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the 'Seniors' golf tournament 03/30/1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles) 03/30/1991 Last edition of The Free People newspaper
03/30/1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper 'Vr�e Folk'
03/30/1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
03/30/1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps)
03/30/1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program 'Up To The Minute' 03/30/1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
03/30/1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
03/30/1993 French govt of Balladur forms
03/30/1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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Births:

04/07/1506 Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 04/07/1534 Jos� de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)

04/07/1613 Gerard Dou, painter (Night School)
04/07/1622 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart 04/07/1629 Juan Jos�, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands 04/07/1648 Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
04/07/1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
04/07/1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
04/07/1727 Henri Hardouin, composer
04/07/1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of S�n�gal 04/07/1745 Georg Druschetzky, composer
04/07/1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
04/07/1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
04/07/1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
04/07/1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
04/07/1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
04/07/1775 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill 04/07/1780 William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
04/07/1786 William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
04/07/1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
04/07/1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1869 04/07/1819 Hubert Leonard, composer
04/07/1820 Gy�rgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader (Kom�rom-castle) 04/07/1822 Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
04/07/1826 Johann Hermann Berens, composer
04/07/1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
04/07/1858 Adrien H Gerhard, SDAP-politician
04/07/1859 Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
04/07/1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
04/07/1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to

04/07/1870 Gustav Landauer, German socialist
04/07/1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
04/07/1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African
04/07/1878 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God) 04/07/1882 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
04/07/1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
04/07/1884 Louis HN Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter 04/07/1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci�n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945)

04/07/1893 Allan W Dulles, US politician
04/07/1894 Gerald Brenan, English writer
04/07/1895 Eduardo Toldra, composer
04/07/1896 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
04/07/1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer
04/07/1897 Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) 04/07/1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Di�mer) 04/07/1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952) 04/07/1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen R�ssl)
04/07/1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
04/07/1908 Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
04/07/1912 Val�re Depauw, Flemish writer
04/07/1915 Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Busines

04/07/1915 Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were) 04/07/1917 R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
04/07/1918 Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Sho

04/07/1918 Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], radio actor (Shoot Out)
04/07/1918 Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Styl

04/07/1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, �p�e (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/07/1919 Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance)
04/07/1920 Gino Marinuzzi, composer
04/07/1920 Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India) 04/07/1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
04/07/1924 Ikuma Dan, composer
04/07/1924 Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show) 04/07/1926 Johannes Rood, immunologist (Eurotransplant)
04/07/1928 Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
04/07/1928 James Garner, Norman Okla, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick) 04/07/1928 James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer) 04/07/1930 Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
04/07/1931 Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon whistleblower, patriot
04/07/1931 Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
04/07/1933 Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs) 04/07/1934 Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
04/07/1935 Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
04/07/1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
04/07/1938 Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey) 04/07/1938 Yvonne Lime, Glendale Calif, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gilli

04/07/1938 [Edmund] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend 04/07/1939 David Frost, Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)

04/07/1939 Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
04/07/1939 Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now) 04/07/1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
04/07/1940 Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
04/07/1943 Mick Abrahams, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick) 04/07/1943 Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian) 04/07/1943 Spencer Dryden, rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
04/07/1946 Barbara Benary, composer
04/07/1946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer (Grateful Dead-Touch of Grey)
04/07/1947 Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
04/07/1950 Janis Ian, [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17) 04/07/1951 John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels) 04/07/1952 Bruce Gary, drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
04/07/1952 Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
04/07/1953 Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/07/1954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
04/07/1958 Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
04/07/1958 Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
04/07/1960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)

04/07/1962 Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy Calif, lugist
04/07/1966 Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful) 04/07/1969 Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
04/07/1975 Beverly Peele, model


Deaths:

04/07/ 30 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer
04/07/ 924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
04/07/1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies
04/07/1524 Philip van Bourgondie, bishop of Utrecht, dies
04/07/1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown

04/07/1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 04/07/1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, classical musician, dies at 81
04/07/1767 Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
04/07/1768 Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
04/07/1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
04/07/1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
04/07/1789 Abd�l-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64 04/07/1789 Peter Camper, gene/animal scholar, dies at 59
04/07/1803 [Fran�ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, dies
04/07/1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, politician/patriot, dies at 61
04/07/1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 04/07/1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies
04/07/1858 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
04/07/1862 Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
04/07/1871 Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old 04/07/1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies

04/07/1877 Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
04/07/1880 Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican rep of people, dies at 65 04/07/1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 04/07/1891 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey, dies at 88 04/07/1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
04/07/1932 Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd 04/07/1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston 04/07/1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blauwe legends), dies
04/07/1958 Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
04/07/1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1961 Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
04/07/1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62 04/07/1961 Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
04/07/1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car 04/07/1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies 04/07/1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74 04/07/1972 'Crazy' Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party 04/07/1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
04/07/1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 7

04/07/1977 Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered
04/07/1978 Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
04/07/1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at

04/07/1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82 04/07/1984 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
04/07/1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
04/07/1988 Cesar Bresgen, composer, dies at 74
04/07/1992 Clovis Ruffin, designer, dies at 46 of AIDs
04/07/1993 Max Croiset, actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 04/07/1994 Angelus Gottfried 'Golo' Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85 04/07/1994 Evert Hartman, writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
04/07/1994 Fran�ois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 04/07/1994 Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 04/07/1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41


Significant Events:

04/07/ 30 Scholars' reckon Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
04/07/ 451 Attila's Hunnen plunder Metz
04/07/1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
04/07/1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy 04/07/1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
04/07/1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
04/07/1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
04/07/1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
04/07/1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
04/07/1712 Slave revolt (NYC)
04/07/1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
04/07/1798 Territory of Mississippi organized
04/07/1805 Premiere of Beethovens 'Eroica'
04/07/1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians 04/07/1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil 04/07/1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
04/07/1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn
04/07/1862 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #73 Klytia
04/07/1862 Island #10 falls after long siege, Battle of Shiloh
04/07/1863 Battle of Charleston SC
04/07/1863 Failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter, SC
04/07/1865 Battle of Farmville VA
04/07/1880 V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone
04/07/1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure 'Yellow Face' (BG)
04/07/1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
04/07/1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber 04/07/1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business 04/07/1922 Naval Reserve #3, 'Teapot Dome,' leased to Harry F Sinclair 04/07/1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party 04/07/1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif) 04/07/1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
04/07/1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
04/07/1931 Seals Stadium opens in SF
04/07/1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service 04/07/1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment 04/07/1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
04/07/1939 Italy annexes Albania
04/07/1940 Jimmy Demeret beats Lloyd Mangrum for the Masters
04/07/1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa 04/07/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
04/07/1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air ra

04/07/1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
04/07/1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
04/07/1945 Kamikaze attack on fleet at Okinawa
04/07/1945 Task Force 58 sinks Jap large battleship Jamamoto (on suicide missio

04/07/1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
04/07/1948 Rogers & Hammerstein's 'South Pacific' opens on Broadway
04/07/1948 World Health Organization established by UN
04/07/1949 'South Pacific' opens at Majestic Theater (for 1925 performances) 04/07/1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
04/07/1951 Ben Hogan wins Masters golf tournament
04/07/1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
04/07/1953 Dag Hammarskj�ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary 04/07/1953 J A Brouwer discovers asteroid #1660 Wood
04/07/1953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2214 Carol, 2278, 2652 Yabuuti & 2806

04/07/1954 German govt refuses to recognize DDR
04/07/1954 Pres Eisenhower fears 'domino-effect' in Indo-China
04/07/1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 04/07/1956 Philadelphia beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship 04/07/1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
04/07/1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
04/07/1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
04/07/1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
04/07/1963 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st Masters golf tournament
04/07/1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
04/07/1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) 04/07/1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
04/07/1967 Progressive Rock radio begins-KMPX-FM, San Francisco
04/07/1970 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen
04/07/1971 Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
04/07/1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 04/07/1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
04/07/1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans 'TRIS' flame-retardant
04/07/1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
04/07/1978 Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
04/07/1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8' of water

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Births:

04/23/1464 Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
04/23/1464 Robert Fayrfax, composer
04/23/1484 Julius C�sar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things) 04/23/1500 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician 04/23/1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quioxite) 04/23/1564 William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius C�sar) (approx) 04/23/1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
04/23/1629 John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanist Amsterdam)
04/23/1649 Andreas Kneller, composer
04/23/1697 George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
04/23/1715 Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
04/23/1728 Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
04/23/1731 William Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence) 04/23/1735 Ildephons Haas, composer
04/23/1747 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
04/23/1756 Alexander Reinagle, composer
04/23/1775 Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck) 04/23/1791 James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61) 04/23/1791 W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
04/23/1803 Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
04/23/1809 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
04/23/1810 Thomas Wright, historian
04/23/1812 Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
04/23/1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)

04/23/1818 James Anthony Froude, historian
04/23/1818 John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
04/23/1821 Pierre Dupont, song writer
04/23/1823 Abd�l-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61)
04/23/1827 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
04/23/1828 Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
04/23/1852 Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937

04/23/1855 Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (stichtte cabaret �berbrettl) 04/23/1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Naples Italy, composer (I Medici)
04/23/1858 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
04/23/1858 Max KE Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck constant, Nobel 1918 04/23/1861 Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Field Marshal 04/23/1867 Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher
04/23/1877 Arthur Farwell, composer
04/23/1881 Otakar Sini, composer
04/23/1882 Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle) 04/23/1882 Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II) 04/23/1890 Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
04/23/1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado) 04/23/1891 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf) 04/23/1892 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer
04/23/1893 Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo) 04/23/1894 Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
04/23/1894 Georges Renavent, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X) 04/23/1896 Margaret Kennedy, novelist
04/23/1897 Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
04/23/1897 John Wengraf, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
04/23/1897 Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957) 04/23/1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany) 04/23/1898 Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Wlassow)
04/23/1899 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew) 04/23/1899 Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada) 04/23/1900 Ary Verhaar, composer
04/23/1900 Henry Barraud, composer
04/23/1902 Halld�r Laxness, Iceland, novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955) 04/23/1904 Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
04/23/1904 Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
04/23/1905 Lord Carew
04/23/1906 Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
04/23/1906 Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
04/23/1907 Baroness Dudley
04/23/1908 Herbert Telley, British actuary
04/23/1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
04/23/1911 Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure) 04/23/1913 Jan Meyerowitz, composer
04/23/1914 Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
04/23/1914 John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie) 04/23/1914 Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
04/23/1914 Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love) 04/23/1915 Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
04/23/1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
04/23/1917 Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
04/23/1918 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
04/23/1918 Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt) 04/23/1919 Dorian Leigh, entertainer
04/23/1919 Talivaldis Kenins, composer
04/23/1920 Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
04/23/1920 Louis Barron, composer
04/23/1921 Janet Blair, Altoona Pa, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Famil

04/23/1921 Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves) 04/23/1922 Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
04/23/1922 Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
04/23/1923 Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!) 04/23/1923 James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland) 04/23/1924 Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Musi

04/23/1924 Colin Welch, columnist/critic
04/23/1924 Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
04/23/1926 James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters) 04/23/1926 Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
04/23/1927 Russell Smith, composer
04/23/1928 Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
04/23/1928 Okke Jager, theologist/writer/poet
04/23/1928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress/ambassador 04/23/1929 George Steiner, professor of English
04/23/1930 Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
04/23/1932 Halston, [R Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame) 04/23/1932 Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
04/23/1933 Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
04/23/1935 David Evans, MP
04/23/1936 Elias, [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter
04/23/1936 Glen Campbell, Billstown Ar, country singer (Gavelston)
04/23/1936 Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
04/23/1936 Roy Orbison, sings about his Pretty Woman (Traveling Willberries) 04/23/1937 Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions) 04/23/1938 Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
04/23/1938 Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981- )
04/23/1939 David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere) 04/23/1939 Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
04/23/1939 William Hagerty, editor (People)
04/23/1940 Lee Majors, [Harvey Yeary], TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man) 04/23/1940 Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest) 04/23/1941 Ed Stewart, British DJ
04/23/1941 Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981- )
04/23/1942 Sandra Dee, Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life) 04/23/1943 Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
04/23/1943 Herve Villechaize, France, 'Da Plane! Da Plane!' (Fantasy Island) 04/23/1943 Hugh Davies, composer
04/23/1943 Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
04/23/1947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist (or 1940) 04/23/1947 Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel) 04/23/1948 Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
04/23/1949 Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd) 04/23/1949 John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon) 04/23/1949 Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company) 04/23/1949 Walter Sweeney, MP
04/23/1951 Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
04/23/1952 Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
04/23/1952 Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don't Want Nobody Else) 04/23/1952 Tony Maselli, (fictional character on 'Who's the Boss')
04/23/1953 Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
04/23/1953 James Russo, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl, Extremities) 04/23/1955 Mike Smith, British DJ
04/23/1955 Su Ingle, British TV hostess
04/23/1955 Tony Miles, chess player
04/23/1957 Jan Hooks, Decatur Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women

04/23/1958 Max Planck, physicist (Quanta Physics)
04/23/1960 Steve Clark, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria)
04/23/1960 Valerie Bertinelli, Del, (1 Day at a Time, Sydney); Ms Eddie Van Hal

04/23/1964 Dan Frischman, Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class) 04/23/1964 Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & One

04/23/1967 Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over) 04/23/1967 Melina Kanakaredes, Akron Ohio, actress (Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)

04/23/1968 Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence RI, Miss RI-America (1991) 04/23/1969 Nadeem Shahid, cricketer
04/23/1981 Lady Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael


Deaths:

04/23/ 34 Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
04/23/ 303 George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded
04/23/ 990 Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet
04/23/ 997 Vojtech 'Adalbert' of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at

04/23/0303 George, knight of Cappadoci�?/saint/patron of England, beheaded 04/23/1016 Aethelbred II 'the Unready', king of England (979-1016), dies 04/23/1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies 04/23/1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at

04/23/1616 William Shakesphere, Engl author (Hamlet), dies on his 52nd birthday

04/23/1625 Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies, dies at 57
04/23/1670 Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
04/23/1695 Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
04/23/1728 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
04/23/1732 Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 64
04/23/1740 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
04/23/1742 Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
04/23/1762 Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
04/23/1774 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
04/23/1812 Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
04/23/1827 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at

04/23/1838 John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75 04/23/1847 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
04/23/1850 William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
04/23/1853 Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
04/23/1865 James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
04/23/1878 Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
04/23/1885 William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
04/23/1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
04/23/1897 Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
04/23/1905 Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
04/23/1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 04/23/1918 Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies 04/23/1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
04/23/1929 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies
04/23/1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73 04/23/1943 Fr�deric baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 56 04/23/1946 Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
04/23/1952 Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
04/23/1952 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60

04/23/1957 William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89 04/23/1960 Tojohiko Kagawa, Japanese christian-social reformer/writer, dies 04/23/1962 Stirling Moss, auto racer, killed while racing
04/23/1965 Josephina J 'Fien' de la Mar, actress (Pygmalion), dies at about 67 04/23/1969 Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
04/23/1970 Herb Shriner, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51 04/23/1971 William Tubman, president of Liberia, dies
04/23/1973 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
04/23/1975 Pete Ham, rokcer (Badfinger), dies at 27
04/23/1976 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
04/23/1976 Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies
04/23/1976 Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
04/23/1980 Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
04/23/1983 Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer/actor (Flash Gordon), dies at 75 04/23/1983 Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
04/23/1984 August 'Guus' Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
04/23/1985 Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
04/23/1985 Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
04/23/1986 Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
04/23/1986 Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 7

04/23/1988 Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies 04/23/1990 Albert Salmi, actor (Love Child, Hard to Hold), dies at 62 04/23/1990 Palmer Deane, actor, dies
04/23/1990 Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies at 78 (or 84) in Switzerlan

04/23/1991 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher
04/23/1992 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
04/23/1992 Satayajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70

04/23/1992 Victoria Kellem Lederma, entertainer, dies
04/23/1993 Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
04/23/1993 Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59 04/23/1994 Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74


Significant Events:

04/23/1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf 04/23/1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
04/23/1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
04/23/1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
04/23/1775 Opera 'Il R� Pastore' is produced (Salzburg)
04/23/1789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
04/23/1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
04/23/1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
04/23/1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks
04/23/1838 English steamship 'Great Western' crossing Atlantic docks in NYC 04/23/1860 Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
04/23/1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
04/23/1861 Battle of San Antonio, TX
04/23/1864 Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) 04/23/1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 04/23/1871 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
04/23/1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
04/23/1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera 'Patience' produced in London

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Births:

04/22/1357 Johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433)
04/22/1451 Isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columb

04/22/1610 Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91) 04/22/1640 Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun
04/22/1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8)
04/22/1682 Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter 04/22/1690 John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42) 04/22/1707 Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) 04/22/1724 Immanuel Kant, Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) 04/22/1766 Madame de Sta�l, Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman

04/22/1773 Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader
04/22/1775 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
04/22/1781 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
04/22/1799 Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure)
04/22/1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers) 04/22/1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868
04/22/1827 William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 19

04/22/1828 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
04/22/1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers) 04/22/1832 Julius Sterling Morton, Nebraska, (Gov-Neb), started Arbor Day 04/22/1839 August W Eichler, German botanist
04/22/1853 Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system 04/22/1854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) 04/22/1858 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
04/22/1863 Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher
04/22/1866 Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
04/22/1868 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
04/22/1870 Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionis

04/22/1873 Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942) 04/22/1876 O E R�lvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth) 04/22/1876 Robert B�r�ny, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914) 04/22/1878 Kitty Gordon, entertainer
04/22/1884 Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
04/22/1884 John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Dies Sept 3, 1992) 04/22/1884 Otto Rank [Rosenfeld], Austria psychoanalysis (K�nstler)
04/22/1891 Belle Bennett, actress (Way of All Flesh, Stella Dallas, Iron Mask) 04/22/1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer
04/22/1892 Nikolai Obouhov, composer
04/22/1899 Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado, Iceman Cometh) 04/22/1902 Megan Lloyd George, English politician
04/22/1904 J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project 04/22/1904 Robert J Oppenheimer, US nuclear physics/director (Los Alamos) 04/22/1906 Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society)
04/22/1908 Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Il, actor (Oliver-Green Acre

04/22/1909 Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
04/22/1910 Eric Scowen, physician
04/22/1910 R J Ritchie, tennis player
04/22/1912 Gavalda Miguel Querol, composer
04/22/1912 Kathleen Mary Ferrier, England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice) 04/22/1914 Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
04/22/1914 Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
04/22/1915 Dick Dudley, Tenn, TV host (Village Barn)
04/22/1915 Lord Airedale, British social democrat
04/22/1916 Earl of Oxford & Asquith, governor (Seychelles)
04/22/1916 Yehudi Menuhin, NYC, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata) 04/22/1917 Leo Abse, biographer/MP
04/22/1917 Mile Yvette Chauvir�, ballerina assoluta
04/22/1917 Sidney Nolan, Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
04/22/1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, world's tallest man (8'11.1')
04/22/1919 Donald Cram, US, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
04/22/1920 Hal March, SF Calif, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage) 04/22/1922 Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz bassist (Pithecanthropus Erectus) 04/22/1922 Lou Stein, Phila Pa, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark) 04/22/1922 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings) 04/22/1923 Betty Page, Kingsport Tn, playmate (Jan, 1955)/model (Dark Angel) 04/22/1923 Hugh Lloyd, actor (Punch & Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising)
04/22/1923 Paula Fox, US children's books author (Poor George)
04/22/1923 Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
04/22/1925 George Cole, actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers, Gone in 60 Seconds) 04/22/1926 Bob Flannigan, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
04/22/1926 Charlotte Rae, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Edna-Facts of Life) 04/22/1927 Pascal Bentoiu, composer
04/22/1928 Aaron Spelling, TV executive producer (Charlie's Angels)
04/22/1929 Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist
04/22/1929 Michael Atiyah, educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England) 04/22/1929 Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd) 04/22/1931 Henk Gortzak, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CPN/PSP)
04/22/1931 Robert Dickson, Canada, ice hockey player (1948)
04/22/1931 Ronald Hynd, British choreographer
04/22/1931 Siem Devout, actor
04/22/1932 Michael Colgrass, Chicago Illinois, composer (Best Wishes) 04/22/1933 John A Llewellyn, Cardiff Wales, astronaut
04/22/1933 Robin Hutton, merchant banker
04/22/1934 Nico Ladenis, restauranteur
04/22/1934 Viscount Portman
04/22/1935 Christopher Ball, linguist/warden (Keble College-Oxford)
04/22/1935 Glen Campbell, Delight Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix) 04/22/1937 Bobbi Fiedler, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
04/22/1937 David Summerscale, head master (Westminster School England) 04/22/1937 Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining) 04/22/1937 Kenneth Palmer, cricket umpire
04/22/1938 Alan Bond, tycoon/yachtsman
04/22/1939 Jason Miller, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day)
04/22/1944 Joshua Rifkin, composer
04/22/1945 Alan Dukes, Irish leader (Fine Gael)
04/22/1945 Donald Graham, US businessman(?)
04/22/1945 Giel�n Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist
04/22/1945 Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage 04/22/1946 Archy Kirkwood, MP (L-D)
04/22/1946 Dectuplets, Bacacay Brazil, 8 males & 2 females
04/22/1947 Barry Guy, composer
04/22/1948 Carole Drinkwater, actress (Father, Haunted School)
04/22/1949 Spencer Haywood, Silver City Ms, NBAer (Oly-gold-1968, Knicks) 04/22/1950 Lewis Biggs, curator (Tate Gallery-North Liverpool)
04/22/1950 Peter Frampton, rock guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive) 04/22/1952 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, cosmonaut
04/22/1954 Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara Cal, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date) 04/22/1955 Arthur Baker, rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock) 04/22/1956 Catherine Mary Stewart, actress (Passion & Paradise, Riding the Edge

04/22/1957 Ethel White, WBL guard (NY Stars)
04/22/1960 Lloyd Honeyghan, welterweight boxing champ
04/22/1961 Byron Allen, LA Calif, comedian (Real People, Byron Allen Show) 04/22/1961 Jeff Hostetler, NFL QB (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl)
04/22/1962 Michael Damien, actor (Young & Restless)
04/22/1964 Chris Makepeace, actor (Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs, Oasis) 04/22/1967 Sheryl Lee, actress (Love Lies & Murder)
04/22/1968 Vernell Coles, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
04/22/1969 Craig Logan, Scotland, rock bassist (Bros Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey

04/22/197- Scott Nemes, actor (Grant Schumacker-It's Garry Shandling) 04/22/1972 Anna Falchi, Tampera Finland, actress (La Dolce Vita '90)
04/22/1980 Aaron Metchnik, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Stephen-Torkelsons) 04/22/1985 Lauri Hendler, Ft Belvoir Va, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)


Deaths:

04/22/ 536 Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies
04/22/1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 04/22/1355 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II, dies at 36 04/22/1462 Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies 04/22/1648 Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69 04/22/1662 John Tradescant, gardener, dies
04/22/1699 Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, poet, dies
04/22/1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 04/22/1778 James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
04/22/1782 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66
04/22/1788 Zacharias H Alewijn, poet, dies at 46
04/22/1827 Thomas Rowlandson, cartoonist, dies
04/22/1830 Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary, dies at 69
04/22/1833 Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62 04/22/1844 Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
04/22/1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
04/22/1878 Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rh�n-N], writer, dies
04/22/1883 Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
04/22/1892 Edouard Lalo, composer, dies at 69
04/22/1901 William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
04/22/1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
04/22/1925 Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46
04/22/1929 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
04/22/1930 Jeppe Aakj�r, Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at

04/22/1933 Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
04/22/1944 Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
04/22/1946 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 7

04/22/1946 Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61 04/22/1950 Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54 04/22/1951 Stanley Ridges, actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies
04/22/1957 I Roy D Campbell, British writer (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 04/22/1957 Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell, poet, dies
04/22/1962 Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61
04/22/1962 Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62 04/22/1967 Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62 04/22/1975 Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
04/22/1976 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79
04/22/1977 Charles Sanford, orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71 04/22/1978 Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
04/22/1980 Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72 04/22/1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76 04/22/1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80 04/22/1983 Earl 'Fatha' Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
04/22/1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Lifeboat, Spy Hunt, Black Beauty), dies at 80 04/22/1984 Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
04/22/1988 Irene Rich, US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
04/22/1989 Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
04/22/1990 Bertil Unger, actor, dies
04/22/1992 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas, at 34
04/22/1992 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies 04/22/1992 Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
04/22/1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72 04/22/1993 Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66 04/22/1993 Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
04/22/1994 D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
04/22/1994 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies at 81 of strok



Significant Events:

04/22/ 296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04/22/ 536 St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04/22/ 687 -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra
04/22/1073 Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII 04/22/1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
04/22/1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III 04/22/1370 Bastille begins being built in Paris
04/22/1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal 04/22/1509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
04/22/1526 1st slave revolt occurs in SC
04/22/1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa 04/22/1662 Royal Society incorporates
04/22/1674 Netherlands & M�nster sign peace treaty
04/22/1676 Battle of Etna (Ned/Spain-France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded 04/22/1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's 'official' mistress 04/22/1796 Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
04/22/1809 Battle at Eckm�hl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl
04/22/1817 Cura�ao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight 04/22/1823 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
04/22/1838 English steamship 'Sirius' docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing 04/22/1861 Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces
04/22/1864 US mints 2� coin (1st appearance of 'In God We Trust')
04/22/1876 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
04/22/1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos) 04/22/1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were 'sooner'
04/22/1897 NYC Jewish newspaper 'Forward' begins publishing (stiil active) 04/22/1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship 04/22/1898 Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
04/22/1898 Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
04/22/1898 US gunboat Nashville defeats Spanish ship Buena Ventura
04/22/1898 US president Mckinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
04/22/1903 American Power Boat Association forms
04/22/1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950 04/22/1905 Operations beginn uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam 04/22/1906 10th anniversay Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
04/22/1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva
04/22/1911 H E Wood discovers asteroid #715 Transvaalia
04/22/1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
04/22/1914 Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
04/22/1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I 04/22/1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
04/22/1915 Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time 04/22/1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region established in Georgian SSR 04/22/1924 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
04/22/1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1042 Amazone & #1043 Beate 04/22/1926 Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
04/22/1927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1209 Pumma
04/22/1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1226 Golia
04/22/1930 US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
04/22/1931 Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
04/22/1933 Dutch govt forbids leftwing radio address
04/22/1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike

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Births:

04/24/1538 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
04/24/1594 Benedikt Lechler, composer
04/24/1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 04/24/1660 Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver
04/24/1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
04/24/1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
04/24/1721 Johann Kirnberge, German music theroist, baptised
04/24/1721 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, composer
04/24/1742 Roman Hoffstetter, composer
04/24/1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
04/24/1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
04/24/1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
04/24/1769 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
04/24/1773 Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
04/24/1791 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)

04/24/1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
04/24/1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 18

04/24/1814 Vincente F L�pez, Argentina historian (La novia del hereje) 04/24/1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) 04/24/1815 James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875

04/24/1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 04/24/1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp designer
04/24/1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 04/24/1829 George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 04/24/1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
04/24/1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) 04/24/1845 Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) 04/24/1849 Joseph S Galli�ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) 04/24/1851 Eduardo Acevedo D�az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) 04/24/1856 Henri POBJ P�tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
04/24/1864 George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20

04/24/1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death) 04/24/1873 Theodor K�rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
04/24/1874 John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
04/24/1874 Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist
04/24/1875 Jeno Huszka, composer
04/24/1877 Charles Cuvillier, composer
04/24/1883 Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik)
04/24/1886 R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)

04/24/1892 Jack Hulbert, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
04/24/1893 Robert Harron, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
04/24/1895 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner 04/24/1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
04/24/1897 Gyorgy Kosa, composer
04/24/1903 Jos� A Primo de Rivera y Sa�nz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)

04/24/1903 Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
04/24/1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, dies
04/24/1904 Willem De Kooning, Netherlands, artist (North Atlantic Light) 04/24/1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) 04/24/1907 Vaclav Trojan, composer
04/24/1909 Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
04/24/1911 Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly) 04/24/1911 Karl O Schiller, German economist/minister of Economic
04/24/1911 Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976) 04/24/1911 Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
04/24/1914 Ruth White, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
04/24/1916 Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
04/24/1921 Laci Boldemann, composer
04/24/1922 J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory) 04/24/1924 Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show) 04/24/1924 Yehoshua Lakner, composer
04/24/1927 Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952) 04/24/1928 Gustav Krivinka, composer
04/24/1929 Ferit Tuzun, composer
04/24/1931 Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
04/24/1932 Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje

04/24/1933 Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
04/24/1934 John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People)
04/24/1934 Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce) 04/24/1935 Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births) 04/24/1936 Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino) 04/24/1941 John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award) 04/24/1942 Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People) 04/24/1943 Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira) 04/24/1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat) 04/24/1945 Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary

04/24/1945 Eugene O'Brien, composer
04/24/1946 Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer
04/24/1947 Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick) 04/24/1947 Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat) 04/24/1948 Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72

04/24/1953 Eric Bogosian, actor (Talk Radio)
04/24/1953 John P Hiler, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
04/24/1953 Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover) 04/24/1954 Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st) 04/24/1954 Jack Blades, rocker (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age)
04/24/1954 Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montr�al Alouettes) 04/24/1955 Jack Kingston, (Rep-R-Georgia)
04/24/1955 Michael O'Keefe, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife) 04/24/1957 Tricia Lange, Hollywood Calif, playmate (June, 1984)
04/24/1960 (weatherman (WNYW TV NYC)
04/24/1960 Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes) 04/24/1963 Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
04/24/1976 Shane McDermott, actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing)


Deaths:

04/24/ 709 Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76
04/24/ 729 Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
04/24/1077 Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
04/24/1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
04/24/1731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
04/24/1758 Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
04/24/1776 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
04/24/1776 Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49
04/24/1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 04/24/1827 Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
04/24/1848 Francois van Campenhout, composer, dies at 69
04/24/1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
04/24/1855 Walenty karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
04/24/1875 Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58 04/24/1891 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/field marshal, dies 04/24/1900 George JD Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 04/24/1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies
04/24/1922 Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
04/24/1928 Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72
04/24/1935 Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
04/24/1936 Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
04/24/1939 John Foulds, composer, dies at 58
04/24/1943 Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
04/24/1945 Anton de Come, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
04/24/1945 Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
04/24/1948 Jazeps Vitols, composer, dies at 84
04/24/1948 Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
04/24/1948 Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover the Waterfront, Big Parade), dies 04/24/1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 04/24/1952 Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
04/24/1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer, dies at 79
04/24/1956 Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
04/24/1957 Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84 04/24/1959 Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72
04/24/1960 John P 'John' Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
04/24/1961 Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies at 72
04/24/1965 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at

04/24/1967 Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
04/24/1967 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 04/24/1968 Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies
04/24/1968 Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45 04/24/1974 Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
04/24/1975 William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67 04/24/1976 Mark Tobey, US abstract artist, dies at 85
04/24/1979 John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72 04/24/1980 Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del tiempo), dies 04/24/1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at

04/24/1990 Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
04/24/1990 Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone), dies
04/24/1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
04/24/1993 Oliver Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75


Significant Events:

04/24/ 858 Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
04/24/1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
04/24/1311 Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India 04/24/1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht 04/24/1547 Battle of M�hlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave 04/24/1704 Boston News-Letter, 1st successful newspaper in US, established 04/24/1792 'La Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 04/24/1792 -25) Officer Joseph Rouget d'Isle writes Marseillaise Natl Anthem 04/24/1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
04/24/1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
04/24/1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth AE 'Sissi'
04/24/1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid) 04/24/1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF) 04/24/1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars 04/24/1871 Opera 'Aida' is produced (Cairo)
04/24/1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts
04/24/1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) 04/24/1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)

04/24/1888 Eastman Kodak forms
04/24/1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure 'Final Problem'
04/24/1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 04/24/1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
04/24/1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat 04/24/1897 1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House
04/24/1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 04/24/1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines 04/24/1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
04/24/1901 1st AL game, White Sox beat Indians 8-2, 3 other games rained out 04/24/1905 Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
04/24/1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 second

04/24/1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
04/24/1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
04/24/1915 Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
04/24/1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 04/24/1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway 04/24/1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years) 04/24/1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
04/24/1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
04/24/1923 General harbor strike begins in NYC
04/24/1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
04/24/1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
04/24/1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1165 Imprinetta
04/24/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1193 Africa
04/24/1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
04/24/1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1862 Apollo
04/24/1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell

04/24/1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
04/24/1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China 'over the Hump'
04/24/1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
04/24/1945 Albert B 'Happy' Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner 04/24/1950 Independent republic of South Molukken's declared
04/24/1950 Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
04/24/1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
04/24/1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina 04/24/1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
04/24/1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
04/24/1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism & self determination, ends

04/24/1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 04/24/1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcastin

04/24/1957 Asteroid #3648 discovered
04/24/1958 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
04/24/1959 Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
04/24/1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 04/24/1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
04/24/1961 JFK accepts 'sole responsibility' following Bay of Pigs
04/24/1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
04/24/1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
04/24/1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
04/24/1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
04/24/1963 Boston beat LA, 4 games to 2, for NBA title; Bob Cousy retires 04/24/1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
04/24/1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic 04/24/1967 Philadelphia beats San Francisco, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship

04/24/1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
04/24/1969 Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
04/24/1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
04/24/1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumours he is dead 04/24/1969 US B-52 drops 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
04/24/1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song 'East is Red' 04/24/1970 Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
04/24/1970 Senegal adopts constitution
04/24/1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
04/24/1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion

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Births:

04/25/1214 Louis IX, King of France (1226-70)
04/25/1284 Edward II, King of England (1307-27)
04/25/1567 Aurelio Signoretti, composer
04/25/1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) 04/25/1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
04/25/1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
04/25/1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
04/25/1690 Gottlieb Muffat, composer
04/25/1710 James Ferguson, astronomer
04/25/1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
04/25/1730 Fedele Fenaroli, composer
04/25/1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
04/25/1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
04/25/1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
04/25/1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
04/25/1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones
04/25/1837 William Charles Levey, composer
04/25/1840 James Dearing, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 04/25/1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS) 04/25/1841 Pauline Lucca, soprano
04/25/1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
04/25/1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
04/25/1862 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affair

04/25/1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
04/25/1869 Karl Prohaska, composer
04/25/1871 Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
04/25/1872 Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/writer
04/25/1873 Walter De la Mare, English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer) 04/25/1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio) (Nobel 1909) 04/25/1876 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
04/25/1881 Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
04/25/1883 Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
04/25/1895 Stanley Rous, British soccer official
04/25/1897 Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
04/25/1897 VAA Mary, English princess
04/25/1900 Lord Gladwyn, British Liberal
04/25/1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945) 04/25/1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
04/25/1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
04/25/1906 William J Brennan Jr, Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court justice (1956-90

04/25/1906 Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
04/25/1907 Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
04/25/1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
04/25/1908 Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person) 04/25/1909 Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
04/25/1912 Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
04/25/1913 Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation) 04/25/1913 Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye) 04/25/1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
04/25/1915 Aja Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
04/25/1918 Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56) 04/25/1918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (Is it live or is it Memorex) 04/25/1919 Heinz Wunderlich, composer
04/25/1920 Marre, reformer of the bar
04/25/1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
04/25/1923 Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitar (Bad Look Blues) 04/25/1923 Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People) 04/25/1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
04/25/1923 Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl) 04/25/1924 Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
04/25/1924 Franco Mannino, composer
04/25/1925 Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist
04/25/1926 Paul Walter Furst, composer
04/25/1927 Ernst Widmer, composer
04/25/1929 Yvette Corlett, athlete
04/25/1929 Yvette Williams, NZ, long jumper (Oly-gold-52)
04/25/1930 Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
04/25/1930 Paul Mazursky, US, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
04/25/1931 David Shepherd, painter
04/25/1932 Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1968)
04/25/1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter) (or 0421) 04/25/1932 William Roache, England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street) 04/25/1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge
04/25/1934 David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner
04/25/1934 Denny 'Scott' Miller, Bloomington Ind, actor (Wagon Train) 04/25/1937 Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange) 04/25/1937 Thomas Faber, publisher
04/25/1939 Lord Lichfield, British photographer
04/25/1939 Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat
04/25/1940 Al Pacino, NYC, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio) 04/25/1940 Marian Norrie
04/25/1940 OB McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me) 04/25/1941 Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
04/25/1941 Lawrence J Smith, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
04/25/1942 John Martin Dalby, composer
04/25/1942 Jon Kyl, (Rep-R-Arizona)
04/25/1944 John Bryant, editor (Europeans)
04/25/1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen

04/25/1945 Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary) 04/25/1945 Walt Wesley, NBA star (Cleve Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers) 04/25/1946 ... Zhirinovsky [Edelstein), Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite 04/25/1946 Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
04/25/1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
04/25/1946 Talia Shire, [Coppola], Lake Success NY, actress (Adrienne-Rocky) 04/25/1947 Bill Fontana, composer
04/25/1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City, Sessions) 04/25/1947 Johan Cruyff, soccer manager
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee) 04/25/1950 Steve Ferrone, drummer (Average White Band)
04/25/1951 Ian McCartney, MP
04/25/1951 Linda Stone, pharmacist
04/25/1954 Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
04/25/1955 Buster Mottram, tennis player
04/25/1955 John Nunn, British chess player
04/25/1957 Eric Bristow, England, dart thrower (5 World Masters titles) 04/25/1958 Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)

04/25/1964 Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour)
04/25/1966 Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue) 04/25/1967 Cameo, XXX actress (Patriot Dames, Suburban Buttnicks, Women in Need

04/25/1975 Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
04/25/1985 Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)


Deaths:

04/25/ 974 Ratherius Van Verona/Luik, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
04/25/1295 Sancho IV, the brave, leader/king of Castili�/Le�n, dies
04/25/1342 Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies
04/25/1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies

04/25/1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies
04/25/1566 Diane de Poitiers, of French King Henry II, dies
04/25/1595 Torquato Tasso, poet, dies
04/25/1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle 04/25/1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle 04/25/1635 Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (La secchia rapita), dies 04/25/1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62 04/25/1663 Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53
04/25/1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79 04/25/1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies
04/25/1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies 04/25/1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
04/25/1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined
04/25/1800 William Cowper, poet, dies
04/25/1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 67
04/25/1828 John Goldberg, patriot/statesman, dies at 64
04/25/1840 Sim�on-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies

04/25/1845 Thomas Duncan, painter, dies
04/25/1853 William Beaumont, physiologist, dies
04/25/1882 Johann CF Z�llner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies 04/25/1905 Jacob Olie, photographer, dies
04/25/1906 John Knowles Paine, composer, dies at 67
04/25/1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
04/25/1925 George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81
04/25/1926 Ellen Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies 04/25/1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies
04/25/1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to ope

04/25/1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 04/25/1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47
04/25/1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
04/25/1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77 04/25/1955 Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies
04/25/1960 Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
04/25/1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62 04/25/1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92
04/25/1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, dies at 70
04/25/1969 Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80
04/25/1970 Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at 53 04/25/1971 Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80
04/25/1972 George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 04/25/1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies
04/25/1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
04/25/1981 Dixie, a mouse who lived 6� years
04/25/1982 Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happhy Breed), dies at 73 04/25/1982 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
04/25/1982 John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74 04/25/1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies
04/25/1982 William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82 04/25/1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack 04/25/1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
04/25/1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 04/25/1988 Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76
04/25/1988 Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43 04/25/1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at

04/25/1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85 04/25/1990 Dexter Gordon, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 67 in Philadelphia 04/25/1991 Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies
04/25/1991 Theo Laseroms, [Tank], soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
04/25/1992 Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
04/25/1992 Dany [Dani�l S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77 04/25/1992 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies
04/25/1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema 04/25/1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies
04/25/1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 04/25/1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant moslem leader, shot dead at 32


Significant Events:

04/25/ 404 Army of Sparta conquerors Athens
04/25/1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Joritomo beats Taira-family 04/25/1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
04/25/1541 -26) Luik flooded after heavy down pour
04/25/1604 Earl Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
04/25/1607 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet 04/25/1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan established
04/25/1660 Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
04/25/1678 French troops conquer Ieper
04/25/1684 Patent granted for thimble
04/25/1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese 04/25/1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
04/25/1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 04/25/1848 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis
04/25/1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
04/25/1861 7th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC
04/25/1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX
04/25/1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La
04/25/1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - captured by US Admiral Farragut 04/25/1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
04/25/1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
04/25/1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3')
04/25/1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout) 04/25/1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany 04/25/1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
04/25/1890 J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica
04/25/1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
04/25/1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) 04/25/1898 US declares war on Spain
04/25/1901 Erve Beck hit 1st home run in American League
04/25/1905 Whites win suffrage in South-Africa
04/25/1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #599 Luisa
04/25/1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
04/25/1925 Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany
04/25/1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowned himself Shah Palawi 04/25/1926 Puccini's opera 'Turandot' 1st performed
04/25/1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) 04/25/1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0 04/25/1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard
04/25/1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
04/25/1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF 04/25/1945 British troops reach Grebbelinie
04/25/1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmissi

04/25/1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
04/25/1945 Red army completely surrounding Berlin
04/25/1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
04/25/1946 'Exposition Flyer' rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 04/25/1946 45 die in a train crash in Naperville Illinois
04/25/1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling cham

04/25/1949 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1922 Zulu
04/25/1949 Michael Brown, rocker (Left Banke-Don't Walk Away Renee)
04/25/1950 Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
04/25/1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
04/25/1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter 04/25/1952 German 'Country' Bathe-W�rttemberg forms
04/25/1952 Minneapolis beats New York, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship 04/25/1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
04/25/1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya
04/25/1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting 04/25/1956 Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' goes #1
04/25/1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
04/25/1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian govt
04/25/1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

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Births:

04/27/1410 John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand
04/27/1623 Johann Adam Reincken, composer
04/27/1701 Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardina
04/27/1707 John Burman, botanist/director botanical gardens
04/27/1724 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
04/27/1737 Edward Gibson, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Emp) 04/27/1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)

04/27/1767 Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of Glocke) 04/27/1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph) 04/27/1802 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
04/27/1803 Alfred Julius Becher, composer
04/27/1812 Friedrich von Flotow, composer
04/27/1820 Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Static

04/27/1822 Ulysses S Grant, [Hiram], Ohio (R), 18th president (1869-77) 04/27/1824 William Richard Bexfield, composer
04/27/1828 Gerben Colmjon, Fries language publisher
04/27/1835 John Murray Corse, Pitts, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 04/27/1840 Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
04/27/1861 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer
04/27/1861 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
04/27/1865 Emile Erens, Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
04/27/1869 William Victor Harris, composer
04/27/1871 Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
04/27/1873 Harry M O'Connor, entertainer
04/27/1875 Lumsden Hare, actor (Svengali, Great Impersonation, His Double Life)

04/27/1883 Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter 04/27/1884 Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids), actor (Bluejackets)
04/27/1892 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)
04/27/1893 Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead En

04/27/1894 Nicolas Slonimsky, composer
04/27/1896 Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
04/27/1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
04/27/1900 Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator)
04/27/1902 Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors) 04/27/1903 Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown)
04/27/1904 Arthur F Burns, economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board) 04/27/1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake) 04/27/1904 Ragnar Skrede, Norse poet (Lauvfall)
04/27/1905 Philip Radcliffe, composer
04/27/1909 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place)
04/27/1911 Colin Gordon, Ceylon, actor (John-Baron)
04/27/1911 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje)
04/27/1914 Albert Soboult, French historian
04/27/1916 Jan Rychlik, composer
04/27/1918 John Scali, newspaperman/correspondant (ABC)
04/27/1918 Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads) 04/27/1922 Daphne Anderson, actress (Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice) 04/27/1922 Jack Klugman, Phila (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus) 04/27/1927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
04/27/1927 John Joseph Moakley, (Rep-D-Massachusetts, 1973- )
04/27/1929 Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60

04/27/1930 Roelof F 'Pik' Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs 04/27/1931 Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
04/27/1931 Krzystzof Komeda, composer
04/27/1932 Anouk Aimee, [Francoise Dreyfus], Paris, actress (8�, La Dolce Vita)

04/27/1932 Casey Kasem, Detroit, radio personality (American Top 40)
04/27/1932 Charles Adkins, US, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952) 04/27/1932 Chuck Knox, NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
04/27/1932 Francois Bayle, composer
04/27/1932 Petar Ozgijan, composer
04/27/1937 Phil Jones, newsman (CBS)
04/27/1937 Sandy Dennis, Nebraska, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 04/27/1938 Earl Anthony, bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3)
04/27/1939 Jerry Mercer, rocker (April Wine)
04/27/1939 Judy Carne, Northhampton Engl, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) 04/27/1941 Friedrich Goldmann, composer
04/27/1941 Jan D Blaauw, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
04/27/1941 Judith Blegen, Missoula Mont, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute) 04/27/1942 Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6) 04/27/1943 Helmut Marko, auto racer (Le Mans Grand Prix)
04/27/1944 Cuba Gooding, US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
04/27/1944 Herb Pedersen, Berkley Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited) 04/27/1944 Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
04/27/1945 August Wilson, US, playwright (Fences, Puilitzer 1987)
04/27/1947 Ann Peebles, Missouri, singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
04/27/1947 Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything) 04/27/1947 Pete Ham, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It) 04/27/1947 Peter Gena, composer
04/27/1948 Katie Pierson, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack) 04/27/1949 Douglas Sheehan, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ben-Knots Landing) 04/27/1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara, wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF)
04/27/195- Cora Ann Mahalick, news anchor (WNYW-TV)
04/27/1951 Ace Frehley, Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Come

04/27/1951 Boris Kinberg, rocker (Mink DeVille)
04/27/1953 Ellen L Shulman Baker, Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50) 04/27/1959 Sheena Easton, [Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls)

04/27/1963 Arther van Dijk, drummer (Ivy Green)
04/27/1963 Schae Harrison, Orange Calif, actress (Darla-Bold & Beautiful) 04/27/1967 Bridgette Gordon, Deland Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988) 04/27/1967 Willem-Alexander CGF, Prince of Orange/son of Queen Beatrix of Neth 04/27/1969 Mica Paris, rocker (So Good)
04/27/1971 Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)

04/27/1973 Andr� Govan, Culver City Calif, actor (Monster Squad)
04/27/1975 Andr� Gower, actor (Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President) 04/27/1992 James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason


Deaths:

04/27/1076 Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies

04/27/1404 Philips de Stoute, Duke of Burgundy, dies
04/27/1521 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives 04/27/1605 Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 04/27/1656 Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65
04/27/1656 John J van Goyen, landscape painter, dies at 60
04/27/1694 Johan Georg IV, ruler of Saxon (1691-94)
04/27/1695 Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, [Asbaje], Mexican poetress/nun, dies 04/27/1702 Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies 04/27/1758 Jan Francisci, composer, dies at 67
04/27/1764 Jaime de Casellas, composer, dies at 73
04/27/1806 Amalia F�rstin Gallitzin, Prussian daughter of Golitsyn, dies at 57 04/27/1813 Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34 04/27/1871 Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59
04/27/1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 04/27/1881 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76
04/27/1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive men), dies
04/27/1893 John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 04/27/1901 Richard Redhead, composer, dies at 81
04/27/1902 Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
04/27/1915 Alexander N Skrjabin, Russian composer (Prometheus), dies at 43 04/27/1932 Hart Crane, sailing from Mexico to NY commits suicide
04/27/1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46 04/27/1938 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Germany, dies at 44
04/27/1950 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70
04/27/1950 Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies
04/27/1957 Mario A Gianini, creator of maraschino cherry, dies
04/27/1959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor of baby incubator, dies
04/27/1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67 04/27/1965 Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61
04/27/1965 Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57 04/27/1969 Dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies
04/27/1970 Arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73
04/27/1972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62
04/27/1973 Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72
04/27/1975 Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies
04/27/1977 Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies 04/27/1978 Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
04/27/1982 Tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85
04/27/1984 Piet Kraak, soccer, dies at 63
04/27/1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 04/27/1991 Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies
04/27/1993 Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 04/27/1994 John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48 04/27/1994 Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39


Significant Events:

04/27/1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
04/27/1518 Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant 04/27/1526 Mogol Kingt Babur beats sultan of Delhi
04/27/1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
04/27/1576 Peace of Beaulieu/Paix de Monsieur
04/27/1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant
04/27/1773 British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) 04/27/1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
04/27/1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
04/27/1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
04/27/1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening 04/27/1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited 04/27/1859 'Pomona' sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
04/27/1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
04/27/1861 President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
04/27/1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US 04/27/1863 Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
04/27/1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
04/27/1867 Opera 'Rom�o et Juliette' is produced (Paris)
04/27/1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms 04/27/1877 Opera 'Le Roi de Lahore' is produced (Paris)
04/27/1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 04/27/1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
04/27/1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
04/27/1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0
04/27/1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
04/27/1905 World Exposition opens in Luik
04/27/1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
04/27/1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
04/27/1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting right

04/27/1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
04/27/1918 Bkln Dodgers get 1st victory after worse major league start (0-9) 04/27/1919 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #912 Maritima
04/27/1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
04/27/1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
04/27/1922 Fritz Langs 'Dr Mabuse, der Spieler' premieres in Berlin
04/27/1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
04/27/1923 Mussolini govt italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
04/27/1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
04/27/1931 100� F (38� C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
04/27/1932 Apollo asteroid discovered, with a perigee of 2 million miles 04/27/1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC 04/27/1935 Brussel's World Expo opens
04/27/1935 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8
04/27/1937 1st US social security payment made
04/27/1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
04/27/1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 04/27/1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
04/27/1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
04/27/1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland

04/27/1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 04/27/1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0
04/27/1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
04/27/1945 Italian partisans take Mussolini prisoner
04/27/1945 US 5th army enters Genua
04/27/1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
04/27/1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through US
04/27/1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
04/27/1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
04/27/1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
04/27/1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 04/27/1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term 'Pencil neck geek'
04/27/1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing 04/27/1959 'Today' show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
04/27/1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
04/27/1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee) 04/27/1960 South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns
04/27/1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm 04/27/1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays 04/27/1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
04/27/1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
04/27/1962 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #2334 Cuffey & #3474 04/27/1963 'Jopie' Pengel forms govt in Suriname
04/27/1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
04/27/1964 John Lennon's 'In His Own Write' is published in US
04/27/1965 RC Duncan patents 'Pampers' disposable diaper
04/27/1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd cello concert
04/27/1967 Expo '67 opens in Montreal
04/27/1968 Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
04/27/1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands 04/27/1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title 04/27/1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2469 Tadjikistan
04/27/1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
04/27/1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported 04/27/1973 KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
04/27/1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
04/27/1976 Abu Dhabi establishes Arabic Monetary Fund
04/27/1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
04/27/1977 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2234 Schmadel

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Births:

04/28/1442 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83)
04/28/1592 George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral
04/28/1698 Karel Jozef, ruler of Batthy�nyi
04/28/1715 Franz Sparry, composer
04/28/1748 Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer
04/28/1750 Paul Ignaz Kurzinger, composer
04/28/1753 Franz K Achard, German physicist
04/28/1757 Claus Nielsen Schali, composer
04/28/1758 James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
04/28/1774 Francis Baily, describer of 'Baily's Beads' during solar eclipse 04/28/1795 Charles Sturt, England, explorered Australia
04/28/1809 Conradus Leemans, archaeologist
04/28/1810 Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 04/28/1812 Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 04/28/1815 Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897

04/28/1825 James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 04/28/1826 Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
04/28/1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911) 04/28/1842 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)
04/28/1846 Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)
04/28/1848 Ludvig Schytte, composer
04/28/1870 Hermann Suter, composer
04/28/1873 Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
04/28/1874 Sidney Toler, US actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
04/28/1876 Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
04/28/1878 Lionel Barrymore [Blythe], US actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildaire) 04/28/1879 Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher
04/28/1882 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist
04/28/1886 Erich Salomon, German photographer
04/28/1888 Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
04/28/1889 Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68) 04/28/1889 Bryant Washburn, acrtor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga) 04/28/1889 Karel WFM Doorman, spy
04/28/1892 Georges Antoine, composer
04/28/1892 John Jacob Niles, composer
04/28/1892 Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger)
04/28/1900 Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized 'Oort Cloud') 04/28/1900 Maurice Thorez, secretary-general French Communistic Party 04/28/1901 Corry Vonk, [Cornelia D], wife of Wim Kan (ABC-cabaret)
04/28/1906 Bartholomeus J 'Bart' Buck, Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way) 04/28/1906 Kurt G�del, Austria, mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem) 04/28/1907 Marion Coulon, Belgian theoriest (Jeunesse � la d�rive)
04/28/1908 Arnoud Breefield, Suriname bishop
04/28/1908 Michael T Fitzmaurice, actor (Reported Missing, 14 Hours)
04/28/1911 French Vroons, actor/tenor/director (Neth Opera)
04/28/1914 Skuli Halldorsson, composer
04/28/1917 Joop Waasdorp, writer (Cousin Cash, Wallpaper Hanger)
04/28/1917 Robert Anderson, NY, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Fathe

04/28/1917 Robert Cornthwaite, St Helen Oregon, actor (Thing, War of the Worlds

04/28/1920 Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer
04/28/1921 Rowland Evans, White Marsh Pa, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak) 04/28/1922 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish Volksunie politician
04/28/1922 William S Broomfield, (Rep-R-MI, 1956- )
04/28/1923 Adele Mara, Dearborn Mich, actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels) 04/28/1923 Wolfgang Steffen, composer
04/28/1924 Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president (Zambia, 1964- )
04/28/1925 Richard C Sarafian, NYC, director/actor (Foley Square)
04/28/1926 Harper Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
04/28/1928 Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter
04/28/1929 Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family) 04/28/1930 Christopher Headington, composer
04/28/1930 James Baker 3, Houston, Sec of Treasury (1985-88), Sec State (1989-9

04/28/1932 Marek Kopelent, composer
04/28/1933 Karl Heinz Wahren, composer
04/28/1936 John Martin Tchicai, composer
04/28/1937 Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti], president of Iraq (1979- )
04/28/1938 Madge Sinclair, Kingston Jamaica, actress (Bell-Roots, Trapper John)

04/28/1941 Ann-Margret, Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Carnal Knowledge, Tommy) 04/28/1943 Fantastic Johnny C, [Johnny Corley], US inger (Boogaloo down Broadwa

04/28/1943 John O Creighton, Orange Tx, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48) 04/28/1948 Marcia Strassman, NYC, actress (Julle Kotter-Welcome Back Kotter) 04/28/1949 Jerome 'Jay' Apt, Springfield Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59) 04/28/1950 Jay Leno, New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show) 04/28/1950 Willie Colon, Bronx NY, actor (Last Flight)
04/28/1955 Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasur

04/28/1958 Hal Sutton, Shreveport La, PGA golfer (PGA 1983)
04/28/1958 Kathy Willets, nymphomaniac (1991 Florida Sex Scandal)
04/28/1959 Nancy Grahn, actress (Santa Barbara)
04/28/1960 Wally Langdon, bassist (Bob Color)
04/28/1964 Barry Larkin, shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
04/28/1964 Helen Marina Lucy Windsor, England, daughter of Prince Edward 04/28/1967 Monique Noel, Salem Oregon, playmate (May, 1989)
04/28/1971 Chris Young, Penn, actor (Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors)


Deaths:

04/28/1089 Dirk, the Great, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies 04/28/1109 Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies
04/28/1770 Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 04/28/1799 Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62
04/28/1804 Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49
04/28/1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies 04/28/1860 Isaac da Costa, poet/writer (R�veil, Wachter!), dies at 62 04/28/1881 Robert W Ollinger, US warden (Billy the Kid), dies
04/28/1887 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67
04/28/1896 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies
04/28/1925 Louis FJ Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies
04/28/1933 Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31
04/28/1935 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer, dies at 87
04/28/1936 Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
04/28/1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader & mistress captured, tried, & shot

04/28/1945 Claretta Petacci, wife of Mussolini, executed
04/28/1965 Ferdinand Bordew�k, lawyer/writer (Character), dies
04/28/1966 Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies
04/28/1969 Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70
04/28/1970 Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 04/28/1973 Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies
04/28/1974 Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70
04/28/1975 John A de Young, historian, dies at 48
04/28/1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 04/28/1979 Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86
04/28/1980 Dee Carroll, actress, dies
04/28/1980 Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
04/28/1981 Mickey 'Toy Bulldog' Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79

04/28/1982 Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], singer/actor, dies at 66 04/28/1984 Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80
04/28/1987 Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua 04/28/1989 Olaff J the Landell [JB Wemmerslager of Sparwoude], writer, dies 04/28/1990 Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies
04/28/1991 Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies
04/28/1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
04/28/1992 Francis Bacon, British painter, dies
04/28/1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Fran�ois d'Assise), dies at 82

04/28/1993 Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47


Significant Events:

04/28/1202 King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France 04/28/1253 -May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire
04/28/1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
04/28/1635 Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office 04/28/1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published
04/28/1788 Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
04/28/1789 Mutiny on HMS Bounty
04/28/1796 Ceasefire of Cherasco
04/28/1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony 04/28/1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain 04/28/1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
04/28/1847 George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar
04/28/1848 Free last slaves in French colonies
04/28/1855 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
04/28/1865 Opera 'L'Africaine' is produced (Paris)
04/28/1901 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherland (0)
04/28/1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #509 Iolanda
04/28/1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
04/28/1913 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #751 Faina
04/28/1913 J Palisa discovers asteroid #750 Oskar
04/28/1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
04/28/1914 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #788 Hohensteina
04/28/1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
04/28/1916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #826 Henrika
04/28/1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) 04/28/1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
04/28/1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station 04/28/1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) 04/28/1924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
04/28/1924 J Hartmann discovers asteroid #1029 La Plata
04/28/1925 Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
04/28/1925 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
04/28/1930 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
04/28/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1242 Zambesia
04/28/1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
04/28/1934 Spanish govt of Samper forms
04/28/1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
04/28/1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
04/28/1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
04/28/1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
04/28/1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
04/28/1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect 04/28/1940 Glenn Miller records 'Pennsylvania 6-5000'
04/28/1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz 04/28/1942 'WW II' titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
04/28/1942 Nightly 'dim-out' begins along East Coast
04/28/1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
04/28/1944 Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
04/28/1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
04/28/1947 Thor Heyerdahl & 'Kon-Tiki' sail from Peru to Polynesia
04/28/1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
04/28/1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 04/28/1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
04/28/1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting 04/28/1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
04/28/1958 Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America 04/28/1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 04/28/1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 04/28/1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting 04/28/1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting 04/28/1961 Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
04/28/1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants, 1-0 04/28/1964 Japan joins OECD
04/28/1965 Barbra Striesand stars on 'My Name is Barbra' special on CBS 04/28/1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 04/28/1966 Boston beats LA, 4 games to 3, for 8th straight NBA championship 04/28/1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
04/28/1967 Expo 67 opens in Montr�al
04/28/1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title 04/28/1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
04/28/1968 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2422 Perovskaya
04/28/1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France
04/28/1969 King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
04/28/1971 Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election 04/28/1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy 04/28/1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2093 Genichesk
04/28/1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
04/28/1975 John Lennon appears on 'Tonight' & Ringo on 'Smother Brothers' 04/28/1975 South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president
04/28/1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
04/28/1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
04/28/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2956 Yeomans & #3253 Gradie
04/28/1982 L G Taff discovers asteroid #3343 Nedzel
04/28/1983 Argentine govt declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead 04/28/1983 Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Series tied 1-1
04/28/1983 NASA launches Goes-F
04/28/1985 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 4th time
04/28/1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season 04/28/1985 Flyers ?-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers win series 4-1
04/28/1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 04/28/1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess

04/28/1988 Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
04/28/1988 NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
04/28/1990 'Chorus Line' closes on Broadway after 6,137 performances (15 yrs) 04/28/1990 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-12

04/28/1990 Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year) 04/28/1990 Last copy of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) 04/28/1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
04/28/1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings 04/28/1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian govt with ex-communists
04/28/1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die 04/28/1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
04/28/1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium

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Births:

04/29/1584 Melchior Teschner, composer
04/29/1642 Christian Weise, German writer (Niederl�ndische Bauer)
04/29/1660 Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
04/29/1667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
04/29/1727 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action) 04/29/1745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800) 04/29/1771 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
04/29/1780 Charles Nodier, French writer (La f�e aux miettes)
04/29/1806 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician/philos

04/29/1815 Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 04/29/1818 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
04/29/1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels 04/29/1842 Karl Mill�cker, Austria conductor/composer (Up the Bettel student) 04/29/1854 Henri Poincar�, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher 04/29/1855 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitch more)
04/29/1855 Edmund van der Straeten, composer
04/29/1857 Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
04/29/1857 Frantisek Ondricek, composer
04/29/1860 Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
04/29/1862 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
04/29/1863 William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) 04/29/1871 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children

04/29/1872 Eyvind Alnaes, composer
04/29/1879 Thomas Beecham, England, composer, found London Philharmonic 04/29/1883 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
04/29/1885 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
04/29/1885 Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle) 04/29/1893 Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsjeva], Bulgaria, poetess
04/29/1893 Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
04/29/1894 Paul H�rbiger, Austria actor (Liebelei)
04/29/1895 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
04/29/1896 Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
04/29/1899 Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take 'A' Trai

04/29/1899 Karl Yngve Skold, composer
04/29/1899 Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
04/29/1901 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
04/29/1902 Theodore Chanler, composer
04/29/1903 Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party) 04/29/1904 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
04/29/1904 Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
04/29/1907 Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia) 04/29/1907 Tino Rossi, French singer
04/29/1908 Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers)
04/29/1909 Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch

04/29/1912 Richard Carlson, Mn, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi

04/29/1914 Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
04/29/1915 Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
04/29/1919 Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve) 04/29/1920 Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera) 04/29/1921 Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (Sun)
04/29/1922 George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins) 04/29/1922 Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
04/29/1922 Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes, Promises Promises) 04/29/1922 Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer 04/29/1923 Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
04/29/1923 Maxine Audley, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards) 04/29/1924 Ren�e Jeanmaire, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
04/29/1925 Ab Abspoel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
04/29/1926 Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
04/29/1927 Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948) 04/29/1928 Carl Gardner, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
04/29/1929 Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
04/29/1929 Vaclav Kucera, composer
04/29/1929 Walter Kempowski, German writer (Tadell�ser & Wolff)
04/29/1931 Lonnie Donegan, vocalist
04/29/1931 William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
04/29/1932 Alexei A Gubarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
04/29/1933 Darijan Bozic, composer
04/29/1933 Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street) 04/29/1933 Rod Marvin McKuen, singer/composer/versifier (Alone, Beatsville) 04/29/1934 Pedro Pires, premier (Cape Verde, 1975- )
04/29/1935 Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
04/29/1935 Otto M Zykan, composer
04/29/1936 April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple) 04/29/1936 Richard Lynch, actor (Xavier-Battlestar Galactica)
04/29/1936 Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
04/29/1942 Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Might Quinn)
04/29/1943 Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira

04/29/1944 Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals) 04/29/1945 [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain't no Mt High) 04/29/1947 Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)

04/29/1947 Johnny Miller, golfer (1974 PGA Player of Year)
04/29/1947 Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver) 04/29/1948 Reb Brown, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break)
04/29/1949 Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
04/29/1949 Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972)
04/29/1949 Francis Rossi, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
04/29/1952 Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)

04/29/1952 Nora Dunn, Chic Ill, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl) 04/29/1953 Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Russia, cosmonaut
04/29/1954 Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York)
04/29/1954 Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
04/29/1954 Jerry Seinfeld, author (SeinLanguage)/comedian (Seinfeld)
04/29/1955 Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Heartbeat, Kate Loves a Mystery

04/29/1956 Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
04/29/1957 Richie Robertson, rocker (Fabulous Poodles)
04/29/1958 Daniel Day-Lewis, English, actor (Last of the Mohicans)
04/29/1958 Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Suck

04/29/1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City Calif, actress (Married to the Mob) 04/29/1958 Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love) 04/29/1960 Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
04/29/1960 Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy)
04/29/1967 Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle) 04/29/1968 Carnie Wilson, singer (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
04/29/1970 Andre Agassi, US, tennis pro (US & French Open finalist-1990) 04/29/1970 Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen)
04/29/1993 Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle


Deaths:

04/29/ 852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76 04/29/1499 John IV, army leader/earl of Egmont, dies
04/29/1676 Michiel A the Ruyter, spy/fleet supervisor (Newport), dies 04/29/1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
04/29/1813 Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
04/29/1873 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage), dies 04/29/1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
04/29/1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnisch murderer of arch duke French Ferdinand, di

04/29/1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (Ich l�sche das Licht), dies 04/29/1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman, dies
04/29/1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56 04/29/1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
04/29/1943 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
04/29/1947 Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
04/29/1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher
04/29/1953 Mo�se Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 6

04/29/1954 Earnest Heldring, merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82 04/29/1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
04/29/1957 Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
04/29/1964 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
04/29/1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 04/29/1967 Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies
04/29/1973 Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
04/29/1976 Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 74
04/29/1979 Julia Perry, composer, dies at 55
04/29/1980 Alfred Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 04/29/1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies at 25
04/29/1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies 04/29/1988 Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
04/29/1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
04/29/1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84 04/29/1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies
04/29/1993 Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
04/29/1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 4

04/29/1994 Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 8



Significant Events:

04/29/1091 Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petsjenegen 04/29/1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English 04/29/1522 Emperor Charles V named French van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlan

04/29/1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
04/29/1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England 04/29/1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
04/29/1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
04/29/1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701 04/29/1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
04/29/1784 Premiere of Mozarts Sonate in B mol, K454 (Vienna)
04/29/1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
04/29/1813 Rubber is patented
04/29/1834 Charles Darwins expedition sees top of Andes
04/29/1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice 04/29/1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
04/29/1856 Peace between England & Russia
04/29/1857 US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently established at Presidio (SF) 04/29/1861 Asteroid 68-Leto & Asteroid 69-Hesperia discovered
04/29/1861 Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from Union 04/29/1861 R Luther discovers asteroid #68 Leto
04/29/1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss 04/29/1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
04/29/1863 Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern) 04/29/1864 -30] Skermish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas
04/29/1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
04/29/1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
04/29/1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
04/29/1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #484 Pittsburghia
04/29/1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta) 04/29/1905 2' rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
04/29/1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
04/29/1912 108� F (42� C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
04/29/1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
04/29/1916 Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin
04/29/1921 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #953 Painleva
04/29/1922 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia) 04/29/1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard
04/29/1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I
04/29/1927 Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
04/29/1930 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1268 Libya
04/29/1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens 04/29/1931 Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
04/29/1938 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1484 Postrema
04/29/1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
04/29/1940 Norwegian king Haakon & govt flees to England
04/29/1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio
04/29/1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France 04/29/1943 Dietrich Bonh�ffer arrested by nazis
04/29/1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hagu

04/29/1945 1st food drop by RAF (operation Manna)
04/29/1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
04/29/1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
04/29/1945 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany
04/29/1946 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
04/29/1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

04/29/1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasti

04/29/1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting 04/29/1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 04/29/1961 ABC's 'Wide World of Sports, debuts
04/29/1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
04/29/1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma 04/29/1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
04/29/1967 Aretha Franklin releases 'Respect'
04/29/1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops land in Cambodia
04/29/1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
04/29/1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration 04/29/1975 Ethiopia nationalizes everything
04/29/1975 Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
04/29/1975 US Forces pull out of Vietnam
04/29/1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water 04/29/1981 Phillie Steve Carlton strikes out his 3,000th batter
04/29/1982 Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador
04/29/1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
04/29/1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
04/29/1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
04/29/1985 Tony Tubbs KOs Greg Page to win WBA heavyweight boxing championship 04/29/1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library
04/29/1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners 04/29/1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
04/29/1987 Japans premier Nakasone visits the US
04/29/1988 '60 Minutes' newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
04/29/1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
04/29/1988 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses 04/29/1991 Croatia declares independence
04/29/1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless 04/29/1991 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
04/29/1992 'March of Falsettos & Falsettoland' opens on Broadway
04/29/1992 1st day of LA riots-Acquittal of 4 white cops in Rodney King beating


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Births:

04/30/1309 Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70)
04/30/1602 William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler 04/30/1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
04/30/1717 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
04/30/1743 Robert Jasper van de Capellen, mister of Marsch/politician 04/30/1767 Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance
04/30/1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians
04/30/1790 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist
04/30/1792 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
04/30/1797 Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra 04/30/1797 Paul van Vlissingen, ship owner
04/30/1805 William Kerley Strong, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867

04/30/1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)

04/30/1830 Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 04/30/1837 Alfred Gaul, composer
04/30/1851 Indri� Einarsson, Iceland playwright (Nyj�rsn�ttin)
04/30/1858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
04/30/1864 French Netscher, writer/journalist (Studies of nude model) 04/30/1870 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
04/30/1874 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
04/30/1882 Trijntje 'Nine' van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible)
04/30/1883 David John de Lloyd, composer
04/30/1884 Albert Israel Elkus, composer
04/30/1885 Luigi Russolo, composer
04/30/1886 Frank Merrik, composer
04/30/1888 John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
04/30/1889 Acario Cotapos, composer
04/30/1889 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
04/30/1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS f�hrer/foreign minister
04/30/1896 Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith) 04/30/1899 Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
04/30/1899 Lucie Mannheim, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps, High Command) 04/30/1902 Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer
04/30/1902 Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer
04/30/1903 G�nther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve)
04/30/1905 Henrich Schl�ppi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924) 04/30/1909 Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
04/30/1910 Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
04/30/1911 Hans Studer, composer
04/30/1911 John-Baptist J Walgrave, [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist 04/30/1912 Eve Arden, Mill Valley Calif, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks) 04/30/1916 Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian playwright
04/30/1916 Robert Shaw, Red Bluff Calif, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale

04/30/1917 Bea Wain, US actress/radio hostess
04/30/1919 Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer
04/30/1920 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer
04/30/1924 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway songwriter (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)

04/30/1926 Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising)
04/30/1926 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day) 04/30/1927 Lars Hall, Sweden, Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/30/1929 Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible) 04/30/1930 Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
04/30/1931 William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969- )
04/30/1932 Anton Larrauri, composer
04/30/1933 Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again) 04/30/1936 Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra

04/30/1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands (1980- ) 04/30/1938 Gary Collins, Venice Calif, actor (6th Sense, Home Show)
04/30/1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star) 04/30/1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 198

04/30/1939 Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Dutch Princess Margriet 04/30/1940 Burt Young, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
04/30/1941 Wilfried Jentzsh, composer
04/30/1943 Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes) 04/30/1943 Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977- )
04/30/1944 Jill Clayburgh, NY, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
04/30/1945 Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood)
04/30/1945 Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory

04/30/1945 Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr (51L-Challenger disaste

04/30/1946 Donald Schollander, Charlotte NC, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64) 04/30/1946 Karl XVI Gustav F H, King of Sweden (1973- )
04/30/1947 Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia)
04/30/1948 Perry King, actor (Andy Warhol's 'Bad')
04/30/1951 Panuta Rosani, Poland, discus (Olympic 1976) drug disqualified 04/30/1952 Tom Pesek, creator of HAL 9000 program for the PC
04/30/1953 Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)

04/30/1954 G�nther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968)
04/30/1956 Richard Farina, folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind) 04/30/1959 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Neth actor
04/30/1961 Isiah Thomas, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP) 04/30/1966 David Meggett, NFL running back (NY Giants)
04/30/1969 Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies) 04/30/1971 Matt Martin, Hamden Conn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 04/30/1975 Johnny Galecki, actor (Danny-American Dreamer)


Deaths:

04/30/ 313 Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies
04/30/ 535 Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
04/30/1030 Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies 04/30/1196 Boudewijn II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
04/30/1214 Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies
04/30/1328 ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies
04/30/1630 Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44
04/30/1632 Jean de Tilly, field marshal, dies
04/30/1632 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65
04/30/1660 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
04/30/1671 P�ter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49 04/30/1708 Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
04/30/1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies 04/30/1784 Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
04/30/1785 Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 6

04/30/1792 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
04/30/1793 Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88
04/30/1795 Jean-Jacques Barth�lemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies 04/30/1800 John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
04/30/1828 Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed
04/30/1829 George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC 04/30/1847 Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies 04/30/1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 04/30/1855 Henry Rowley Bishop, composer, dies at 68
04/30/1859 Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67 04/30/1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
04/30/1893 Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61
04/30/1893 Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
04/30/1896 Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68
04/30/1900 John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck 04/30/1912 Frantisek Kmoch, composer, dies
04/30/1922 David M Chumaceiro, Cura�aos poet, dies
04/30/1929 Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (T�rmer), dies at 63
04/30/1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza

04/30/1934 William Henry Welch, dies at 75
04/30/1942 Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
04/30/1943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85

04/30/1943 Etty Hillesum, diary writer (Auschwitz), dies
04/30/1945 Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 04/30/1945 Eva Braun, girlfriend/wife of Hitler, dies
04/30/1952 Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies
04/30/1956 Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
04/30/1957 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80 04/30/1959 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81
04/30/1963 Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74 04/30/1965 Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56 04/30/1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker, dies of a heroin overdose
04/30/1970 Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82
04/30/1970 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at

04/30/1970 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies
04/30/1971 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
04/30/1972 Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38 04/30/1972 Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered
04/30/1973 Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies at 75
04/30/1974 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched), dies at 67
04/30/1976 Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51
04/30/1977 Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73
04/30/1980 Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies
04/30/1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies
04/30/1982 Herman Tholen, cabaretier (Juveniles), dies
04/30/1982 Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at

04/30/1983 George Balanchine, Russian composer, dies at 79
04/30/1983 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71 04/30/1984 Arthur T 'Bomber' Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies
04/30/1984 Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at

04/30/1985 George Pravada, actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66
04/30/1987 Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies 04/30/1988 James McCracken, US tenor, dies at 61
04/30/1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies
04/30/1991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 04/30/1991 Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies
04/30/1992 Dan van Driel, cartoonist (Nervous Cop), dies
04/30/1993 Dave Waymer, NFLer, dies at 34
04/30/1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at

04/30/1994 Richard Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74 04/30/1994 Roland Ratzenberger, Austria Formula 1-cyclist, dies in accident at



Significant Events:

04/30/ 311 Roman emperor Galerius delegates tolerance edict of Serdica 04/30/1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
04/30/1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland 04/30/1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
04/30/1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
04/30/1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
04/30/1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews
04/30/1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenot
04/30/1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
04/30/1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande) 04/30/1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
04/30/1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa 04/30/1722 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
04/30/1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna 04/30/1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
04/30/1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
04/30/1790 Colonial troops occupy Booni's bosnegerdorp Arouku Suriname 04/30/1798 Dept of Navy established
04/30/1803 US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million) 04/30/1804 Hague's Theater opens
04/30/1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 04/30/1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
04/30/1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation 04/30/1857 San Jose State University forms
04/30/1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires 04/30/1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
04/30/1861 Federal Troops, under orders from Lincoln, evacuate Indian Territory

04/30/1862 Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
04/30/1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed 04/30/1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee 04/30/1865 -5/1] Gen Shermans 'Haines's Bluff' at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 04/30/1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
04/30/1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die

04/30/1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi 04/30/1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration 04/30/1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
04/30/1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
04/30/1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match 04/30/1900 USA annexes Hawaii
04/30/1903 Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home opener; Chesbro beats Senators 6-2 04/30/1905 1st offical soccer game between Belgium-Netherland (1-4)
04/30/1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage
04/30/1913 Neujmin & Belyavskij discover asteroids #752 Sulamitis & #753 Tiflis

04/30/1919 Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
04/30/1921 American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron
04/30/1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical 'On Dante'
04/30/1922 Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0 04/30/1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
04/30/1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1957) 04/30/1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austrian
04/30/1934 Austrian gets 'Austrian facist' constitution
04/30/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1355 Magoeba & #1368 Numidia 04/30/1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
04/30/1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
04/30/1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair 04/30/1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
04/30/1940 Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
04/30/1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
04/30/1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi 04/30/1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews established
04/30/1943 Dutch strike against obligatory Labor camps
04/30/1944 NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
04/30/1944 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th ti

04/30/1945 'Arthur Godfrey Time' begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
04/30/1945 Concentration camp M�nchen-Allag freed
04/30/1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolshevics
04/30/1945 Red army storms German parliament
04/30/1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbr�ck concentration camp

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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

05/04/1006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
05/04/1611 Carlo Rainaldi, composer
05/04/1635 Willem van Outhoorn, governor-general (Dutch Indies)
05/04/1655 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
05/04/1738 Josef Kohaut, composer
05/04/1744 Marianne von Martinez, composer
05/04/1763 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
05/04/1769 Charles Hague, composer
05/04/1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philospher/psychologist 05/04/1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
05/04/1796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools 05/04/1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864 05/04/1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack 05/04/1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45) 05/04/1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
05/04/1826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) 05/04/1835 Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
05/04/1846 Emile Gall�, French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gall� Glaze) 05/04/1860 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer
05/04/1860 Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana) 05/04/1867 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
05/04/1875 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)

05/04/1877 Arthur Long, US, boxer/businessman (?-Died 8/8/1992)
05/04/1881 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism) 05/04/1889 Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
05/04/1891 Frederick Jacobi, composer
05/04/1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...farmer's gang)
05/04/1902 Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author 05/04/1902 Cvjetko Rihtman, composer
05/04/1903 Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
05/04/1905 M�ty�s Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
05/04/1906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder) 05/04/1909 Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776) 05/04/1910 Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
05/04/1912 Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
05/04/1914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63) 05/04/1915 Pedro Saenz, composer
05/04/1917 Edward Toner Cone, composer
05/04/1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking 05/04/1919 Dimiter Petkov, composer
05/04/1921 John van Kesteren, tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
05/04/1921 Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor) 05/04/1922 John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- )
05/04/1924 Dennis Weaver, actor (McCloud)
05/04/1924 Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer
05/04/1925 Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
05/04/1926 Milton 'Milt' Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15) 05/04/1928 Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60) 05/04/1928 Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981- )
05/04/1928 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
05/04/1929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady

05/04/1930 Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
05/04/1931 Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
05/04/1931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio) 05/04/1932 Fausto Razzi, composer
05/04/1934 Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
05/04/1936 El Cordob�s, [Manuel Ben�tez], Spanish toreador
05/04/1937 Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
05/04/1938 Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious)
05/04/1938 William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
05/04/1941 George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
05/04/1941 George Will, news anchor (ABC)
05/04/1942 Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
05/04/1943 Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock) 05/04/1944 Dave, [Otto Levenbach], singer (Du cot� the Chez Swann
05/04/1944 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard)
05/04/1945 Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed fathers)
05/04/1948 Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)
05/04/1949 Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
05/04/1949 Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat) 05/04/1950 Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes) 05/04/1950 Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
05/04/1950 Ren� CM van Asten, actor (Herenstraat 10)
05/04/1951 Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
05/04/1951 Jackie [Sigmund] Jackson, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
05/04/1954 Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
05/04/1956 Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut
05/04/1956 Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972

05/04/1957 Richard E Grant, actor (Posse, Warlock, Bram Stoker's Dracula) 05/04/1958 Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Revie

05/04/1959 Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones) 05/04/1961 Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons) 05/04/1962 Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983)
05/04/1967 Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World) 05/04/1968 Patsy Kensit, London, actress (Claire's Knee, Bitter Harvest) 05/04/1975 Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer


Deaths:

05/04/1594 Paul Buys, land advocate of Holland, dies at 62
05/04/1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
05/04/1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
05/04/1770 Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
05/04/1855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 05/04/1879 William Froude, British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies

05/04/1885 Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78

05/04/1891 Sherlock Holmes, 'dies' at Reichenbach Falls
05/04/1893 George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
05/04/1928 Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies
05/04/1929 Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
05/04/1935 Louis Scharp�, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65
05/04/1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 52 05/04/1953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies
05/04/1953 Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
05/04/1955 Georges Enescu, composer, dies at 73
05/04/1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
05/04/1965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66 05/04/1966 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69
05/04/1967 Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
05/04/1969 F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 7

05/04/1970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard 05/04/1971 Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87 05/04/1974 Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
05/04/1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 05/04/1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strikes 05/04/1983 Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
05/04/1984 Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
05/04/1987 Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
05/04/1987 Dick Hillenius, biologist/writer, dies at 59
05/04/1987 Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44 05/04/1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
05/04/1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89


Significant Events:

05/04/1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg
05/04/1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha 05/04/1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal 05/04/1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
05/04/1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
05/04/1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
05/04/1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
05/04/1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
05/04/1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
05/04/1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
05/04/1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
05/04/1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus 05/04/1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
05/04/1814 Bourbon reign restored in France
05/04/1818 Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling 05/04/1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 05/04/1846 US state Michigan ends death penalty
05/04/1851 1st major SF fire
05/04/1858 War of Reform (M�xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz 05/04/1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
05/04/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
05/04/1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
05/04/1864 -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
05/04/1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee 05/04/1865 Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
05/04/1865 Battle of Mobile, AL
05/04/1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
05/04/1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
05/04/1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
05/04/1886 R Luther discovers asteroid #258 Tyche
05/04/1896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana
05/04/1896 Grease fire ignites � ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado 05/04/1897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
05/04/1910 Tel Aviv founded
05/04/1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
05/04/1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
05/04/1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
05/04/1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 05/04/1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) 05/04/1919 Student revolt at Tian An Men Square, Peking
05/04/1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
05/04/1923 Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna 05/04/1923 NY state revokes Prohibition law
05/04/1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
05/04/1924 German Republic election fascists & communists win
05/04/1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage 05/04/1926 General strike hits Britain
05/04/1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
05/04/1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
05/04/1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 05/04/1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
05/04/1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
05/04/1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiar

05/04/1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 05/04/1935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 61st Kentucky Derby
05/04/1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 05/04/1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
05/04/1940 21 NSB'ers (fascist & communist) arrested in Netherlands
05/04/1940 Gallahadion (35-1 longshot) wins Kentucky Derby
05/04/1942 Battle of Coral Sea begins
05/04/1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) 05/04/1942 Food 1st rationed in US
05/04/1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
05/04/1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 05/04/1945 German troops in Netherland, Denmark & Norway surrender
05/04/1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz pirison in SF bay
05/04/1946 Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 72nd Kentucky Derby (2:06.6) 05/04/1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 05/04/1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
05/04/1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
05/04/1956 Queen Juliana unveals National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam 05/04/1957 Anne Frank Foundation established in Amsterdam
05/04/1957 Bill Shoemaker misjudges finish & loses Derby to Iron Liege 05/04/1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
05/04/1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
05/04/1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
05/04/1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
05/04/1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
05/04/1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
05/04/1961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 05/04/1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
05/04/1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
05/04/1964 'Another World' & 'As the World Turns' premieres on TV
05/04/1964 70 GATT-countries confere in Geneva
05/04/1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 05/04/1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 05/04/1965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
05/04/1966 Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR 05/04/1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7 05/04/1968 Dancer's Image wins 94th Kentucky Derby, but disqualified for drugs 05/04/1968 Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers in 1st ABA championship, 4 games to

05/04/1969 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
05/04/1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
05/04/1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt

05/04/1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
05/04/1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary govt in Quang Tri South Vietnam 05/04/1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine 05/04/1973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 05/04/1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
05/04/1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
05/04/1973 Wings release 'Red Rose Speedway' in UK
05/04/1974 Cannonade wins Kentucky Derby
05/04/1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots 05/04/1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert
05/04/1978 Russian president Breznev visits West-Germany
05/04/1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st 05/04/1979 Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
05/04/1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
05/04/1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
05/04/1981 T Furuta discovers asteroid #2478 Tokai
05/04/1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket

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Births:

05/08/1492 Andreas Alciatus, [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer 05/08/1521 Peter Canisius, [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
05/08/1527 Johann Walter, composer
05/08/1592 Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems) 05/08/1629 Niels Juel, Danish admiral (Oland, Moen, Kj�gebocht)
05/08/1641 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
05/08/1668 Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
05/08/1673 Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
05/08/1703 Gottlob Harrer, composer
05/08/1737 Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire) 05/08/1745 Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
05/08/1750 Elias Mann, composer
05/08/1753 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of M�xican independence
05/08/1763 John Goldberg, patriot/statesman
05/08/1778 Johann Gansbacher, composer
05/08/1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
05/08/1803 Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
05/08/1806 Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
05/08/1810 James Cooper, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 05/08/1814 Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
05/08/1824 William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57) 05/08/1828 Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 190

05/08/1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist 05/08/1833 Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 05/08/1836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 05/08/1839 Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer 05/08/1842 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
05/08/1844 Hermann Gradener, composer
05/08/1846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
05/08/1853 Charles Lee Williams, composer
05/08/1857 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor/wife of Alida Little
05/08/1858 John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
05/08/1871 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (French revolutionary) 05/08/1882 Philips C Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat
05/08/1884 Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1949) 05/08/1886 Jef van Hoof, composer
05/08/1891 Chet 'Red' Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+ 05/08/1892 Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)

05/08/1893 Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913) 05/08/1895 Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
05/08/1895 Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living) 05/08/1895 Jos� G�mez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
05/08/1899 August von Hayek, economist
05/08/1899 Friedrich A von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom) 05/08/1899 Jan F van Hall, sculptor/resistance fighter
05/08/1903 Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday) 05/08/1904 John Snagge, BBC commentator
05/08/1905 Inglis Gundry, composer
05/08/1906 David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
05/08/1906 Roberto Rossellini, Italy, director (Open City)
05/08/1910 Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite) 05/08/1911 Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
05/08/1911 Wilhelm F de Gay Fortman, lawyer/foreign minister
05/08/1912 Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende) 05/08/1914 Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman of Comm House of Lords

05/08/1915 John Archer, Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
05/08/1919 Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer
05/08/1920 Maurice Cranston, political scientist
05/08/1920 Sloan Wilson, US, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal Suit)
05/08/1921 Graham Leonard, bishop of London
05/08/1922 Brian Kellett, CEO (Port of London Authority)
05/08/1925 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- )
05/08/1925 Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
05/08/1926 Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey) 05/08/1926 Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
05/08/1926 Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
05/08/1927 Ian Denholm, CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
05/08/1927 Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank) 05/08/1928 Theodore Sorenson, pesidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days) 05/08/1928 William Jay Sydeman, composer
05/08/1929 V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
05/08/1930 Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints) 05/08/1930 Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems

05/08/1930 Heather Harper, soprano
05/08/1931 Charles M Wilson, composer
05/08/1933 Alistair Service, writer/publisher
05/08/1934 Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
05/08/1934 Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)
05/08/1934 Sonny Liston, US heavyweight boxing chmap (1962-64)
05/08/1935 Jack Charlton, soccer manager (Rep of Ireland)
05/08/1935 Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity) 05/08/1935 Viscount Falkland, British Lib-Dem peer
05/08/1936 Neville Purvis, British vice admiral/Chief of Fleet Support 05/08/1937 Dani�l Robberechts, Belgian writer (Labia Majora)
05/08/1937 Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-AZ, 1977- )
05/08/1937 Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense) 05/08/1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
05/08/1939 Otis Paul Drayton, Glen Cove NY, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964) 05/08/1940 James Blyth, CEO (Boots)
05/08/1940 Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, Deep)
05/08/1940 Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party

05/08/1941 James A Traficant Jr, (Rep-D-OH, 1985- )
05/08/1942 Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew-1978 Ky Derby) 05/08/1942 Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
05/08/1943 Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
05/08/1943 Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
05/08/1943 Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille) 05/08/1944 Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II) 05/08/1945 Keith Jarrett, jazz musician
05/08/1947 Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
05/08/1948 John Reid, MP
05/08/1951 Chris Frantz, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was)
05/08/1951 Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us

05/08/1951 Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover) 05/08/1954 David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter) 05/08/1955 Alex Van Halen, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
05/08/1957 Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
05/08/1959 Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er) 05/08/1964 Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Jennie-General Hospital

05/08/1964 Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie) 05/08/1964 Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
05/08/1971 Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)


Deaths:

05/08/ 535 John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies
05/08/ 685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
05/08/1319 Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
05/08/1577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies 05/08/1725 John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
05/08/1773 Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
05/08/1785 Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
05/08/1794 Antoine-Laurent Lavosier, chemist, gullotined
05/08/1809 Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
05/08/1818 Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
05/08/1829 Mauro Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
05/08/1844 Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies 05/08/1846 Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
05/08/1853 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67 05/08/1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 05/08/1873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 05/08/1880 Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammb�), dies
05/08/1885 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
05/08/1887 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar

05/08/1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
05/08/1903 Eug�ne-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
05/08/1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies 05/08/1909 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
05/08/1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
05/08/1930 Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 62
05/08/1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
05/08/1936 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), die

05/08/1941 Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
05/08/1943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 05/08/1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
05/08/1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
05/08/1957 John CB 'John' Sluyters, painter, dies at 75
05/08/1958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
05/08/1960 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
05/08/1961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
05/08/1973 Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
05/08/1975 Avery Brundage, US chairman Intl Oly Committee (1952-72), dies at 87

05/08/1976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
05/08/1979 Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76
05/08/1981 Daniel Gill�s, Belgian writer, dies at 64
05/08/1982 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident 05/08/1985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gimme a Break), dies of cancer at 64
05/08/1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies at 69 of Alzheimer's 05/08/1985 Karl Marx, composer, dies at 87
05/08/1987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off 05/08/1988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at

05/08/1991 Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84
05/08/1992 Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
05/08/1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java, dies 05/08/1992 Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer 05/08/1993 Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
05/08/1994 Cobina W 'Coby' Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
05/08/1994 George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65


Significant Events:

05/08/ 535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05/08/ 615 St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05/08/ 685 St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05/08/1360 Treaty of Br�tigny signed by English & French
05/08/1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI 05/08/1541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
05/08/1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
05/08/1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII 05/08/1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
05/08/1792 British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash 05/08/1794 US Post Office established
05/08/1823 'Home Sweet Home' 1st sung (London)
05/08/1834 Charles Darwins expedition returns to the Beagle
05/08/1834 Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium 05/08/1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
05/08/1846 1st major battle of M�xican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
05/08/1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
05/08/1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va 05/08/1863 Confederaci�n Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia 05/08/1864 Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge Virginia (Drewry's Bluff) 05/08/1864 Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
05/08/1864 Battle of Antietam, VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill) 05/08/1864 Initial fighting at Spotslyvania Court House
05/08/1866 Australian Rules Football is created
05/08/1871 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
05/08/1878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines 05/08/1878 Paul Hines made baseball's unassisted 1st triple play
05/08/1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl 05/08/1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
05/08/1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
05/08/1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
05/08/1900 Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
05/08/1902 Mt Pel�e erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000 05/08/1906 Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs 05/08/1907 Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
05/08/1907 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Jack O'Brien in LA
05/08/1915 Regret becomes 1st of 3 fillys to win Kentucky Derby
05/08/1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
05/08/1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
05/08/1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut 05/08/1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
05/08/1926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
05/08/1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 05/08/1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
05/08/1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway 05/08/1929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
05/08/1935 Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-

05/08/1937 War Admiral wins 63rd Kentucky Derby on his way to Triple Crown 05/08/1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
05/08/1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunks by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea

05/08/1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
05/08/1943 Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 68th Preakness Stakes (1:57.4) 05/08/1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
05/08/1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet 05/08/1945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
05/08/1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe

05/08/1946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
05/08/1949 West German constitution approved
05/08/1950 Chang Kai Shek asks US for weapons
05/08/1951 Dacron men's suits introduced
05/08/1953 WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting 05/08/1954 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA 05/08/1958 Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock

05/08/1958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru 05/08/1960 USSR & Cuba regain diplomatic relations
05/08/1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas

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Births:

05/09/1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)
05/09/1596 Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
05/09/1738 John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
05/09/1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Il Barbiere the Siviglia) 05/09/1783 Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
05/09/1785 James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms) 05/09/1793 John C de Young, historian/archivist
05/09/1796 August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
05/09/1800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
05/09/1801 Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
05/09/1810 Louis Gallait, historical painter
05/09/1810 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I 05/09/1814 Adolf Henselt, composer
05/09/1824 William Edmonson 'Grumble' Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army) 05/09/1829 Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
05/09/1833 Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
05/09/1843 Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
05/09/1846 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer
05/09/1855 Julius Rontgen, composer
05/09/1860 James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan

05/09/1865 August de Boeck, composer
05/09/1873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)

05/09/1873 Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater) 05/09/1882 Henry J Kaiser, builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam) 05/09/1892 Eric Westberg, composer
05/09/1892 Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
05/09/1895 Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
05/09/1895 Richard Barthelmess, US, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
05/09/1906 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
05/09/1907 Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame) 05/09/1910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
05/09/1911 Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show) 05/09/1912 Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor (From Russia With Love)
05/09/1913 John Hayes, Admiral
05/09/1913 Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
05/09/1914 Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
05/09/1914 Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader
05/09/1914 Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Weddin

05/09/1914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices) 05/09/1915 Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral
05/09/1916 Bernard Rose, composer
05/09/1916 Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
05/09/1916 Douglas Guest, organist
05/09/1917 John Arnatt, actor (Circumstantial Evidence)
05/09/1918 Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes) 05/09/1918 Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69

05/09/1919 Arthur English, comedian/actor (Malachi's Cove)
05/09/1920 Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
05/09/1922 Sheila Burrell, actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark) 05/09/1924 Boelat S Okoedzjava, Russian author (Student!)
05/09/1924 Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large) 05/09/1924 Gerard Wernars, graphic form engraver (bibliotheekwerkpostz's 1991) 05/09/1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
05/09/1925 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance
05/09/1926 Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England) 05/09/1926 Bernard Rose, organist
05/09/1926 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
05/09/1926 Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter)
05/09/1926 Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
05/09/1927 John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
05/09/1927 Manfred Own, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
05/09/1927 Ray Katt, baseball player
05/09/1928 Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948)

05/09/1928 Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
05/09/1928 Richard A 'Pancho' Gonzalez, LA Calif, tennis star (US 1948-49) 05/09/1929 Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
05/09/1930 Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
05/09/1931 Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35) 05/09/1932 David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council)
05/09/1932 Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim)
05/09/1932 Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
05/09/1932 J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
05/09/1933 Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood
05/09/1934 Alan Bennett, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball) 05/09/1934 John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
05/09/1934 Roy Massey, Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral)
05/09/1936 Albert Finney, UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
05/09/1936 Floyd Robinson, baseball player
05/09/1936 Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
05/09/1936 Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ (1961-62)
05/09/1936 Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS)
05/09/1937 Dave Prather, singer (Sam & Dave)
05/09/1937 David Talker, US singer (Sam & Dave-Hold on I'm Coming)
05/09/1937 Sonny Curtis, guitarist (Crickets)
05/09/1938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
05/09/1938 Nokie Edwards, rocker (Ventures)
05/09/1939 Bruce Mather, composer
05/09/1939 Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph) 05/09/1939 Ralph Harold Boston, Laurel MS, long jumper (Olympic-gold-60) 05/09/1940 Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
05/09/1940 James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi)
05/09/1941 Dorothy Hyman, England, sprinter (Oly-silver-60)
05/09/1941 Jan Dibbets, speed artist (Dutch Mountains)
05/09/1942 John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO)
05/09/1942 Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
05/09/1942 William Olner, MP
05/09/1943 Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
05/09/1944 Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle)
05/09/1944 Richard Furay, rocker (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
05/09/1945 Steve Katz, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die, Blues Project) 05/09/1946 Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)

05/09/1947 Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone) 05/09/1949 Billy Joel, Bronx, singer (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
05/09/1949 Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
05/09/1950 James A Butts, LA Calif, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976) 05/09/1950 Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host
05/09/1951 Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years) 05/09/1952 Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
05/09/1953 Ron Jackson, baseball player
05/09/1953 Scott McInnis, (Rep-R-Colorado)
05/09/1955 Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
05/09/1957 Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
05/09/1957 John Stuper, baseball player
05/09/1958 Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980)
05/09/1960 Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers)
05/09/1960 Tony Gwynn, baseball player
05/09/1962 David Gahan, English rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me) 05/09/1962 Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
05/09/1964 Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988) 05/09/1965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)


Deaths:

05/09/1280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 05/09/1443 Niccol� d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
05/09/1590 Karel 'Cardinal' van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 05/09/1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
05/09/1688 Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 67 05/09/1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82
05/09/1760 Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, leader of Moravian Church, di

05/09/1785 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44
05/09/1791 Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
05/09/1799 Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72
05/09/1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45

05/09/1822 Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 63
05/09/1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
05/09/1853 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73
05/09/1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident 05/09/1880 Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54
05/09/1884 Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69
05/09/1903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
05/09/1905 Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
05/09/1926 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
05/09/1928 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
05/09/1931 Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, dies
05/09/1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 05/09/1944 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86
05/09/1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
05/09/1952 Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies at 45 in NYC 05/09/1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies 05/09/1958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
05/09/1965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies
05/09/1966 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56
05/09/1966 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
05/09/1967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies

05/09/1967 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35
05/09/1968 Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74

05/09/1968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
05/09/1970 Percy Brier, composer, dies at 85
05/09/1970 Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president CIO, dies 05/09/1974 Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69
05/09/1976 Raymond Chevreuille, composer, dies at 74
05/09/1976 Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
05/09/1977 James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 5

05/09/1977 Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 72
05/09/1979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95
05/09/1979 Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73
05/09/1981 Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 05/09/1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (Ka�n sloeg Abel), dies
05/09/1986 Dirk de Vroome, Limburg activist, dies at about 59
05/09/1986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 05/09/1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 05/09/1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 05/09/1989 Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 05/09/1989 Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82
05/09/1990 Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66
05/09/1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84 05/09/1991 James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies 05/09/1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor, dies
05/09/1991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
05/09/1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident 05/09/1993 Lady Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 05/09/1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author


Significant Events:

05/09/1002 After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11 05/09/1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
05/09/1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
05/09/1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
05/09/1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
05/09/1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
05/09/1671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
05/09/1689 English King Willem III declares war on France
05/09/1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake 'Join or die' 05/09/1785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles 05/09/1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius 05/09/1837 'Sherrod' burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies 05/09/1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande 05/09/1862 Battle of Farmington, MS
05/09/1862 Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
05/09/1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI 05/09/1864 -20] Skermish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
05/09/1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling

05/09/1864 Battle of Dalton, GA
05/09/1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
05/09/1874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens
05/09/1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
05/09/1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) 05/09/1901 Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-

05/09/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #565 Marbachia
05/09/1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #564 Dudu
05/09/1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
05/09/1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
05/09/1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote 05/09/1914 Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
05/09/1915 German & French fight Battle of Artois
05/09/1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
05/09/1917 R Schorr discovers asteroid #869 Mellena
05/09/1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
05/09/1926 Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole 05/09/1927 Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra 05/09/1929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
05/09/1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
05/09/1930 Gallant Fox wins 55th Preakness Stakes en route to triple crown 05/09/1932 Burgoo King wins Preakness Stakes
05/09/1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
05/09/1932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC 05/09/1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
05/09/1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
05/09/1936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
05/09/1937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
05/09/1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
05/09/1942 Alsab wins Preakness Stakes
05/09/1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
05/09/1944 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
05/09/1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
05/09/1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
05/09/1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
05/09/1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
05/09/1945 Jersey liberated from nazis
05/09/1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
05/09/1946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, 'NBC's Hour Glass' premieres 05/09/1946 1st variety show on TV 'NBC's Hour Glass,' premieres
05/09/1946 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto

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Births:

05/20/1364 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
05/20/1470 Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
05/20/1537 Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu

05/20/1547 Melchior Bischoff, composer
05/20/1554 Paulo Bellasio, composer
05/20/1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist
05/20/1743 [Fran�ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, (� Breda), leader (Haiti) 05/20/1750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
05/20/1754 Hans Gram, composer
05/20/1759 William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
05/20/1764 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer 05/20/1768 Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
05/20/1772 William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
05/20/1799 Honor� de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy) 05/20/1806 John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian 05/20/1812 Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
05/20/1815 Barth�l�my Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter
05/20/1818 William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
05/20/1822 Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
05/20/1822 Fr�d�ric Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
05/20/1828 James William Reilly, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 05/20/1830 Amalia Mdga, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry 05/20/1830 Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family, Alleen on de world) 05/20/1841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate 05/20/1844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter (Dream)
05/20/1850 Eaton Faning, composer
05/20/1851 Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record) 05/20/1851 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne 05/20/1872 Albert Steinr�ck, German actor (Golem)
05/20/1874 Folkert E Posthuma, minister of Agriculture/Industry
05/20/1876 John Owen Jones, composer
05/20/1881 Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland
05/20/1882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928) 05/20/1889 Felix Arndt, composer
05/20/1889 Margery Allingham, detective story writer
05/20/1889 William Lawther, union leader
05/20/1890 Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
05/20/1894 Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondant) 05/20/1899 Estelle Taylor, US, actress (8 Commandments)
05/20/1899 John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71) 05/20/1901 Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
05/20/1903 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
05/20/1905 Harry Campion, founder (British Central Statistical Office) 05/20/1908 Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life) 05/20/1909 John Arkell, director of BBC administration
05/20/1911 Annie Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee/Jip & Janneke)
05/20/1911 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman

05/20/1912 Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives) 05/20/1913 Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
05/20/1913 Ion Dumitrescu, composer
05/20/1913 William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co
05/20/1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
05/20/1915 Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
05/20/1916 John McIntyre, theologian
05/20/1916 Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
05/20/1917 Enyss Djemil, composer
05/20/1917 Richard Cobb, historian
05/20/1919 George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife) 05/20/1920 Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
05/20/1920 John Cruickshank, banker
05/20/1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader
05/20/1921 John Harrison, Vice admiral british/surgeon
05/20/1921 John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
05/20/1922 Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough University of Technol

05/20/1923 Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets) 05/20/1923 Hugh Beach, General British
05/20/1924 Peter Shore, MP/labour minister
05/20/1925 D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
05/20/1926 David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea

05/20/1927 Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota) 05/20/1927 David Frederick Barlow, composer
05/20/1927 Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
05/20/1928 David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds trustees 05/20/1929 Andr� Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
05/20/1929 David Hedison, [Ara Heditsian], Providence RI, actor (Licence to Kil

05/20/1930 James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
05/20/1930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
05/20/1931 Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
05/20/1933 Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss) 05/20/1933 Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
05/20/1936 Anthony Zerbe, US, actor (Papillon, They Call Me Mr Tibbs) 05/20/1937 Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
05/20/1938 Alan Smithers, British professor
05/20/1938 Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K spped skater (Olympic-gold-1972) 05/20/1940 Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
05/20/1941 Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990- )
05/20/1941 Maria Liberia-Peters, premier of Dutch Antilles (-1993)
05/20/1942 Lynn Davies, long jumper
05/20/1942 Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
05/20/1943 Deryck Murray, cricket Manager (West Indies team)
05/20/1943 Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
05/20/1943 Tison Street, composer
05/20/1944 Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president) 05/20/1944 Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter 05/20/1944 David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, sk:STS-44

05/20/1944 Joe Cocker, England, rock musician (You are so Beautiful to me) 05/20/1944 Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
05/20/1945 Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
05/20/1945 Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
05/20/1945 Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut
05/20/1945 Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
05/20/1946 Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified 05/20/1946 Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask) 05/20/1948 Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV)
05/20/1948 John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
05/20/1948 Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981- )
05/20/1949 Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977- )
05/20/1951 Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
05/20/1951 Thomas D 'Tom' Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61

05/20/1951 William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
05/20/1952 Warren Cann, rocker (Ultravox)
05/20/1954 James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
05/20/1955 Nigel Griffiths, labour MP
05/20/1955 Steve George, rocker (Mr Mister)
05/20/1958 Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour) 05/20/1958 Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show) 05/20/1959 Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop) 05/20/1960 John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
05/20/1961 Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
05/20/1961 Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts) 05/20/1962 Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2) 05/20/1962 Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model
05/20/1963 Brian Nash, Glendale Calif, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies) 05/20/1964 Earl Spencer
05/20/1964 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 05/20/1965 Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live) 05/20/1966 Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
05/20/1969 Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)


Deaths:

05/20/1277 John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Port Pope (1276-77), dies 05/20/1444 Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
05/20/1449 Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies

05/20/1471 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies 05/20/1506 Christopher Colombus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55 05/20/1597 Matth�s Heldt, dies in battle
05/20/1622 Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
05/20/1648 Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
05/20/1650 Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44
05/20/1669 Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
05/20/1751 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38
05/20/1782 Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68
05/20/1782 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82
05/20/1834 Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, 1834, dies 05/20/1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
05/20/1841 Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
05/20/1847 Mary Lamb, writer, dies
05/20/1864 John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 05/20/1875 Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
05/20/1876 Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old 05/20/1876 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
05/20/1883 William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
05/20/1896 Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76 05/20/1900 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
05/20/1910 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
05/20/1919 Jacob Verdam, philospher, dies
05/20/1923 Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
05/20/1935 Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68

05/20/1939 Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59 05/20/1940 Joris [Georges) of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament, di

05/20/1956 Andr� Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
05/20/1956 Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
05/20/1968 Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
05/20/1972 Cornelis J van der Klauw, biologist/zoologist, dies at 78
05/20/1972 Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75 05/20/1975 Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies
05/20/1975 Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
05/20/1984 Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at

05/20/1985 George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
05/20/1986 Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
05/20/1986 Willem P�e, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83
05/20/1989 Gilda Radner, comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer 05/20/1989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
05/20/1991 Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65


Significant Events:

05/20/ 325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nic�a, Asia Minor
05/20/ 526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
05/20/1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
05/20/1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
05/20/1498 Vasco da Gama, navigator arrives at Calcutta India
05/20/1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
05/20/1570 Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

05/20/1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius 05/20/1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg 05/20/1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II 05/20/1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
05/20/1774 Britain gives Qu�bec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
05/20/1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain 05/20/1784 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
05/20/1825 Charles X becomes King of France
05/20/1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) 05/20/1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
05/20/1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
05/20/1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
05/20/1861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union 05/20/1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
05/20/1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured 05/20/1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women sufferage 05/20/1867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid
05/20/1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant 05/20/1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

05/20/1875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
05/20/1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #293 Brasilia
05/20/1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
05/20/1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
05/20/1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #510 Mabella
05/20/1910 Funeral for Britian's King Edward VII
05/20/1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo 05/20/1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918) 05/20/1918 1st electrically propelled warship (New M�xico)
05/20/1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
05/20/1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
05/20/1926 Belgian govt of Jaspar takes power
05/20/1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 05/20/1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris 05/20/1927 Great Britain via treaty grants Saudi Arabia's kingdom independent 05/20/1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent (Treaty of Jedda)
05/20/1930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot 05/20/1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlanti

05/20/1932 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
05/20/1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger & air mail service
05/20/1940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 05/20/1940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
05/20/1941 Archer's 'Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform' published 05/20/1941 Former Dutch premier Colijn says Neth Indie not ready for independen

05/20/1941 Germany invades Crete
05/20/1944 US Communist Party dissolved
05/20/1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian arm

05/20/1950 Hill Prince wins Preakness
05/20/1954 Chang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
05/20/1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
05/20/1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll 05/20/1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
05/20/1959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
05/20/1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog

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Births:

05/21/ 427 -BC- Plato, [Aristocles], Athens(?), Greek philosopher (Politeia) 05/21/1471 Albrecht D�rer, N�rnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker 05/21/1527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
05/21/1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer
05/21/1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
05/21/1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
05/21/1688 Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
05/21/1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer
05/21/1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
05/21/1775 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
05/21/1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
05/21/1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
05/21/1808 G�rard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia)
05/21/1821 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director
05/21/1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900

05/21/1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 05/21/1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 05/21/1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
05/21/1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) 05/21/1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 05/21/1841 Joseph Parry, composer
05/21/1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer
05/21/1844 Henri 'le Douanier' Rousseau, French ambassador/painter
05/21/1851 L�on Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) 05/21/1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) 05/21/1858 Jos� Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
05/21/1860 Willam Einthoven, inventor (electrocardiograph)
05/21/1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages 05/21/1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
05/21/1872 Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock) 05/21/1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
05/21/1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
05/21/1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN)
05/21/1880 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
05/21/1888 May Aufderheide, composer
05/21/1892 John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
05/21/1898 Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)

05/21/1898 Charles H�ba, Czech violinist/composer
05/21/1898 Karel Haba, composer
05/21/1899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)

05/21/1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon) 05/21/1901 Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador) 05/21/1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7) 05/21/1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Plane

05/21/1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
05/21/1904 (Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist/composer
05/21/1904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
05/21/1904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jac

05/21/1904 Thomas 'Fats' Waller, US jazz pianist (Honeysuckle Rose)
05/21/1905 Edward Lockspeiser, composer
05/21/1909 Guy de Rothschild, banker
05/21/1911 Andr� Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi�) 05/21/1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
05/21/1916 Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)

05/21/1916 Leonard Manasseh, architect
05/21/1917 Dennis Day, NYC, singer/actor (Jack Benny Show)
05/21/1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
05/21/1917 Raymond Burr, Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla) 05/21/1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
05/21/1919 Lord Maxwell, College of Justice (Scotland)/senator
05/21/1919 Mark Wood, bishop of Ludlow
05/21/1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
05/21/1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75) 05/21/1924 Peggy Cass, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth)
05/21/1924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings) 05/21/1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
05/21/1926 Joseph Horovitz, composer
05/21/1926 Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn) 05/21/1926 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
05/21/1927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls) 05/21/1929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center) 05/21/1929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith
05/21/1930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University) 05/21/1930 Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia
05/21/1930 Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham) 05/21/1931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
05/21/1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988- )
05/21/1932 John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham) 05/21/1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
05/21/1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
05/21/1934 Phillip King, British sculptor
05/21/1935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader
05/21/1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun 05/21/1936 Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
05/21/1937 Marsha Grant, NYC, XXX actress (Naughty Blue Knickers)
05/21/1938 David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
05/21/1939 Heinz Holliger, composer
05/21/1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
05/21/1941 Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
05/21/1942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state
05/21/1942 Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38) 05/21/1943 Hilton Valentine, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 05/21/1944 Janet Dailey, US, author
05/21/1944 Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland
05/21/1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer
05/21/1945 Ernst Messersclmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22) 05/21/1947 Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica) 05/21/1948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
05/21/1949 Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
05/21/1949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
05/21/1949 Rosalind Plowright, soprano
05/21/1952 Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T) 05/21/1954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975) 05/21/1955 John Galvin, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
05/21/1955 Stan Lynch, rocker (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
05/21/1957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
05/21/1957 Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984) 05/21/1958 Mike Barson, rocker (Madness)
05/21/1959 Nick Cassavet�s, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
05/21/1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
05/21/1963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
05/21/1964 Annabel Schofield, Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
05/21/1972 Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)


Deaths:

05/21/ 987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies 05/21/1481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
05/21/1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R 05/21/1639 Giovan D 'Tommaso' Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 05/21/1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about

05/21/1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
05/21/1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
05/21/1786 Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
05/21/1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
05/21/1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 05/21/1812 Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
05/21/1815 Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
05/21/1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
05/21/1844 Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
05/21/1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
05/21/1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
05/21/1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 05/21/1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 05/21/1897 Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
05/21/1919 Victor AD S�galen, [Max An�ly], French ship's doctor/writer, dies 05/21/1924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
05/21/1926 Arthur A R Firbank, British writer (Valmouth, Prancing Nigger), dies

05/21/1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
05/21/1935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87 05/21/1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
05/21/1949 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
05/21/1954 Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
05/21/1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 6

05/21/1973 Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Giornale Guerra), dies at 79

05/21/1973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 05/21/1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
05/21/1978 Joseph EA 'Jo' Spier, cartoonist/water colors painter, dies at 77 05/21/1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
05/21/1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70

05/21/1987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
05/21/1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92 05/21/1990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies 05/21/1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
05/21/1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated 05/21/1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59, dies
05/21/1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
05/21/1992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
05/21/1992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
05/21/1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 8

05/21/1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81


Significant Events:

05/21/ 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
05/21/1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
05/21/1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
05/21/1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 05/21/1502 Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
05/21/1526 -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
05/21/1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) 05/21/1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
05/21/1793 Cura�ao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange 05/21/1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
05/21/1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon 05/21/1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
05/21/1832 1st Democratic party national convention
05/21/1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
05/21/1856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
05/21/1861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
05/21/1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
05/21/1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
05/21/1871 -July 28) French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die 05/21/1879 Battle of Iquiquw
05/21/1879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete
05/21/1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
05/21/1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed
05/21/1897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40' (1 m) refractor used for 1st time
05/21/1898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
05/21/1901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa
05/21/1904 Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris 05/21/1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago 05/21/1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
05/21/1916 Britain begins 'Summer Time' (Daylight Savings Time)
05/21/1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
05/21/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild
05/21/1922 H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina
05/21/1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
05/21/1922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million 05/21/1924 Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
05/21/1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 05/21/1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole 05/21/1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double 05/21/1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 05/21/1928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa
05/21/1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
05/21/1930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
05/21/1931 Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
05/21/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba
05/21/1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands 05/21/1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
05/21/1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
05/21/1940 Reynaud forms French govt
05/21/1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
05/21/1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
05/21/1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators

05/21/1948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR) 05/21/1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
05/21/1952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1 05/21/1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
05/21/1953 French govt of Mayer resigns
05/21/1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset 05/21/1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 05/21/1956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
05/21/1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 05/21/1957 French govt of Mollet resigns
05/21/1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
05/21/1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
05/21/1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations
05/21/1964 Fire in W�gimond Belgium resort, kills 19
05/21/1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
05/21/1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
05/21/1966 Kauai King wins Kentucky Derby
05/21/1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert 05/21/1968 US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost
05/21/1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

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Births:

05/25/1494 Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Funeral procession of Christ) 05/25/1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 05/25/1688 Christian August Jacobi, composer
05/25/1726 Giuseppi Paolucci, composer
05/25/1767 Ferdinand Franzl, composer
05/25/1767 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
05/25/1779 Henry M Baron de Kock, officer/politician
05/25/1781 Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
05/25/1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn) 05/25/1821 Diederich Krug, composer
05/25/1830 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
05/25/1845 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL) 05/25/1847 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
05/25/1847 John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist 05/25/1852 Louis FMF Franchet d'esp�rey [Desperate Frankey], Fren marshal (WW I

05/25/1865 Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
05/25/1865 John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
05/25/1865 Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
05/25/1878 Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel) 05/25/1879 W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker
05/25/1882 Harry Fox, entertainer
05/25/1886 Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) 05/25/1888 Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock) 05/25/1889 Gilardo Gilardi, composer
05/25/1889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
05/25/1889 Sverre Jordan, composer
05/25/1891 Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper) 05/25/1898 Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line) 05/25/1898 Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
05/25/1898 Mischa Levitzki, composer
05/25/1947 Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
05/25/1901 Milenko Zivkovic, composer
05/25/1902 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
05/25/1904 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
05/25/1905 Binnie Barnes, actress (Adv of Marco Polo, Holiday, Diamond Jim) 05/25/1905 Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
05/25/1907 U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
05/25/1908 David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
05/25/1908 Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
05/25/1911 Andr� Renard, Belgian worker union leader (Movement Syndical Unifi�)

05/25/1916 Lou van Raised, impresario
05/25/1917 Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
05/25/1917 Steve Cochran, actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas, Copacabana) 05/25/1917 Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president (Notre Dame)
05/25/1918 Claude Akins, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
05/25/1918 Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
05/25/1919 Gino Negri, composer
05/25/1919 Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
05/25/1921 Hal David, lyricist (Promises Promises-Grammy 1969)
05/25/1922 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist/sec-gen of CPI
05/25/1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places) 05/25/1925 Aldo Clementi, composer
05/25/1925 Jeanne Crain, Barstow Calif, actress (Man Without a Star)
05/25/1926 Miles D Davis, US, jazz trumpeter (L'ascenseur pour l'�chafaud) 05/25/1927 Robert Ludlum, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
05/25/1928 Frigyes Hidas, composer
05/25/1929 Beverly Sills, [Belle 'Bubbles' Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano 05/25/1929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission 05/25/1931 John Gabriel, US, actor (Cat Gang, Fantasies)
05/25/1932 Georgi M Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
05/25/1932 John Grogery Thin, US writer
05/25/1932 K C Jones, Taylor Tx, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956) 05/25/1934 David J Burke, writer
05/25/1934 Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
05/25/1935 Barbara Harris, US, actress (Family Plot, Plaza Suite)
05/25/1936 Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)

05/25/1938 Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972) 05/25/1938 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season)
05/25/1939 Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
05/25/1939 Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel) 05/25/1943 Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots) 05/25/1943 Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
05/25/1943 Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
05/25/1944 Frank Oz, Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show) 05/25/1945 Dave Lee Travis, DJ
05/25/1946 Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold) 05/25/1946 Janet E[llen] Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus) 05/25/1947 Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lis

05/25/1947 Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa Cal, actress (Room 222)
05/25/1951 Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover) 05/25/1953 Jane Priest, Perth Australia, Prince Charles' lover
05/25/1953 Rich Alves, Pleasanton Calif, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake) 05/25/1954 Alison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern
05/25/1955 Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
05/25/1956 Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
05/25/1957 Hillary Bailey Smith, actress (Nora-One Life to Live)
05/25/1958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun)
05/25/1958 Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council) 05/25/1959 Cathryn Harrison, London England, actress (Old Woman in Black Moon) 05/25/1960 Beno�t van Innis, Belgian cartoonist/painter/cartoonist (NY Post) 05/25/1961 Hiro Saito, wrestler (All-Japan/NJPW/Calgary)
05/25/1963 Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL, Wayne's World)
05/25/1965 Mark Knight, Calif, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals) 05/25/1965 Remco Prince, pop guitarist/singer (Burma Shave-Stash)
05/25/1967 Danny Gonzales, jockey
05/25/1969 Matt Borlenghi, LA Calif, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children) 05/25/1970 Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)

05/25/1970 Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie) 05/25/1971 Justin Henry, actor (Kramer vs Kramer, 16 Candles)


Deaths:

05/25/ 615 Boniface IV, Pope (608-15), dies
05/25/ 709 Aldhelmus Ealdhelm, English abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 6

05/25/ 946 Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
05/25/1085 Gregory VII, [Ildefireo], Pope (1073-85), dies
05/25/1261 Alexander IV, [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies 05/25/1510 Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 4

05/25/1555 Gemma Frisius, Fries geographer/astronomer, dies at 46
05/25/1765 Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer, dies at 53
05/25/1826 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer, dies at 72
05/25/1849 Andreas Michiels, Dutch milt gov of West Sumatra, dies in battle at

05/25/1890 Rosa Bonheur, French painter, dies
05/25/1895 Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish lawyer/Justice, dies
05/25/1914 Paolo Giorza, composer, dies at 81
05/25/1917 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72
05/25/1919 Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51 05/25/1924 Theodore Morse, composer, dies at 51
05/25/1926 Symon Petljoera, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), dies at 47
05/25/1934 Gustav T Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59 05/25/1934 Gustavus Theodore von Holst, composer, dies at 59
05/25/1936 Jan Levoslav Bella, composer, dies at 92
05/25/1937 Henry O Tanner, artist, dies
05/25/1949 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47 05/25/1964 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer, dies at 92
05/25/1968 Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63 05/25/1968 George KFW von K�chler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 8

05/25/1971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss 05/25/1971 Mark Brunswick, composer, dies at 69
05/25/1971 Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62 05/25/1974 Donald Crisp, actor/director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91

05/25/1981 Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
05/25/1981 Roy James Brown, US boxer/singer (Good rockin' tonight), dies at 55 05/25/1982 Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68 05/25/1983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
05/25/1984 Piet Ketting, composer, dies at 79
05/25/1985 Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
05/25/1985 Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91 05/25/1986 Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
05/25/1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies at 60 of a heart attack 05/25/1991 Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies
05/25/1992 Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83 05/25/1992 Johan B W Polak, publisher/publicist (Bloom of d�cadence), dies at 6

05/25/1992 Marshall Thompson, US actor (To Hell & Back), dies at 66
05/25/1992 Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72 05/25/1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies 05/25/1993 Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies 05/25/1993 Louise Tazewell, entertainer, dies at 93


Significant Events:

05/25/ 585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
05/25/1085 St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
05/25/1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
05/25/1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
05/25/1787 Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding 05/25/1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day) 05/25/1825 American Unitarian Assn founded
05/25/1862 Battle of Winchester VA
05/25/1864 Battle of New Hope Church, GA
05/25/1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Qu�bec
05/25/1876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
05/25/1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
05/25/1898 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
05/25/1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
05/25/1906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Red Sox lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0

05/25/1911 Revolution in M�xico overthrows President Jos� Porfirio Diaz 05/25/1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
05/25/1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 05/25/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #874 Rotraut
05/25/1924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1030 Vitja
05/25/1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
05/25/1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean 05/25/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1244 Deira
05/25/1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates 05/25/1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
05/25/1935 Jesse Owens sets 4 track world records
05/25/1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1393 Sofala
05/25/1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
05/25/1939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
05/25/1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
05/25/1940 Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
05/25/1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
05/25/1943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers 05/25/1943 Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan) 05/25/1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit 05/25/1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
05/25/1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
05/25/1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 05/25/1948 Ben Hogan wins PGA golf tournament
05/25/1948 SF receives its 1st telecast
05/25/1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
05/25/1950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
05/25/1951 NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
05/25/1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada 05/25/1953 1st noncommercial educational television station-Houston, Texas 05/25/1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla 05/25/1959 Khrushchev visits Angolia
05/25/1959 Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional 05/25/1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 05/25/1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m 05/25/1962 Isley Brother relase 'Twist & Shout'
05/25/1962 US unions AFL-CIO begins campaign for 35-hour work week
05/25/1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
05/25/1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket 05/25/1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia 05/25/1965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage 05/25/1965 India & Pakistan border fights
05/25/1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for HW boxing title 05/25/1965 Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
05/25/1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
05/25/1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce 05/25/1968 Rolling Stones release 'Jumping Jack Flash'
05/25/1969 Sudan military coup under colonel Ja'far al-Numeiry
05/25/1970 Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2 05/25/1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
05/25/1973 Argentina peronist Hector C�mpora installed as president
05/25/1973 George Harrison releases 'Give Me Love' in UK
05/25/1973 Skylab 2 (US) launched
05/25/1973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
05/25/1975 Warriors beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 0
05/25/1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
05/25/1977 'Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany' released
05/25/1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
05/25/1978 'Star Wars' released
05/25/1978 Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 05/25/1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
05/25/1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
05/25/1979 Raul Gonz�les of M�xico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 05/25/1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8')
05/25/1981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
05/25/1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters 05/25/1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
05/25/1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad

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Births:

05/29/1627 Anne ML of Orl�ans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle) 05/29/1630 Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
05/29/1673 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council 05/29/1716 Louis JM Daubenton, French zoologist
05/29/1730 William Jackson, composer
05/29/1731 Orazio Mei, composer
05/29/1736 Patrick Henry, US, patriot 'Give me liberty or give me death' 05/29/1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
05/29/1791 Pietro Romani, composer
05/29/1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895

05/29/1810 Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer
05/29/1810 Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875

05/29/1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
05/29/1825 David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 05/29/1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
05/29/1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890

05/29/1837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU) 05/29/1837 Luca Fumagalli, composer
05/29/1843 Emile Pessard, composer
05/29/1851 L�on VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
05/29/1852 Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
05/29/1860 Isaac [Manuel F] Alb�niz, Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia) 05/29/1864 AH Borgesius, amateur astronomer
05/29/1868 Fr�deric baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker
05/29/1874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold) 05/29/1880 Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
05/29/1881 Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
05/29/1883 William Beatton Moonie, composer
05/29/1885 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)

05/29/1890 Francis de Bourguignon, composer
05/29/1894 Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)

05/29/1894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
05/29/1896 George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
05/29/1897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta) 05/29/1897 Ignace Lilien, composer
05/29/1903 Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile

05/29/1904 Robert Knox, bacteriologist
05/29/1905 Fela Sowande, composer
05/29/1905 Gerrit Achterberg, poet (Sailing)
05/29/1905 Jan (Johannes) Teulings, actor/director
05/29/1905 Sebastian Shaw, London, actor (High Season, Spy in Black)
05/29/1906 Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
05/29/1906 Terence Hanbury White, novelist
05/29/1909 Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds) 05/29/1911 James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
05/29/1911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
05/29/1912 John BMR 'John' Hanlo, poet (Go to the Mosque)
05/29/1913 Douglas Black, physician
05/29/1913 Iris Adrian, LA Calif, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
05/29/1915 David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
05/29/1915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65) 05/29/1915 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
05/29/1916 Lou van Raised, impresario
05/29/1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963) 05/29/1918 Isabel Dean, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom) 05/29/1920 Robin Haydon, British diplomat
05/29/1921 Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
05/29/1921 George Terry, chief constable of Sussex England
05/29/1921 James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
05/29/1922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician 05/29/1922 John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
05/29/1923 Earl of Morley, Lord Lt of Devon
05/29/1923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General
05/29/1925 Anthony Grant, MP
05/29/1925 Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
05/29/1926 Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
05/29/1927 Carl Toms, stage designer
05/29/1927 Dick Hillenius, biologist/writer
05/29/1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
05/29/1928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds) 05/29/1929 Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
05/29/1930 Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer
05/29/1934 Heihatjir� T�j�, Japanese admiral
05/29/1935 Andr� P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
05/29/1935 Denis J Worrall, South African DP-politician/leader
05/29/1935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
05/29/1936 Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
05/29/1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
05/29/1937 Peter Kolman, composer
05/29/1939 Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
05/29/1939 Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage) 05/29/1941 Douglas Scott, mountaineer
05/29/1942 Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
05/29/1943 Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
05/29/1943 E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976- )
05/29/1943 Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
05/29/1944 Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)

05/29/1944 Quentin Davies, (C) MP
05/29/1945 Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
05/29/1945 Martin Pipe, horse trainer
05/29/1946 Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
05/29/1948 Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital) 05/29/1948 Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
05/29/1948 Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
05/29/1949 Francis Rossi, rocker (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man) 05/29/1949 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
05/29/1950 Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff) 05/29/1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturn

05/29/1953 Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)

05/29/1955 Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)

05/29/1955 John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan in 1981
05/29/1955 Mike Porcaro, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
05/29/1956 Greg R, rocker (Bad)
05/29/1956 La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede) 05/29/1956 Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
05/29/1958 Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) [or 5/

05/29/1958 Ivar Sisniega, M�xico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
05/29/1959 Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
05/29/1959 Tamayo Otsuki, actress (Mrs Yamagami-Davis Rules)
05/29/1960 Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
05/29/1961 Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough) 05/29/1961 Todd Boonstra, Minneapolis Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)

05/29/1963 Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life) 05/29/1963 Tracey E Bregman Recht, actress (Young & Restless, Concrete Jungle) 05/29/1965 Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze) 05/29/1973 Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county Calif, playmate (Oct, 1992) 05/29/1977 Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge) 05/29/1989 Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
05/29/1991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77


Deaths:

05/29/1453 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49 05/29/1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, dies 05/29/1544 Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about

05/29/1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44
05/29/1680 Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73
05/29/1691 Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61 05/29/1750 Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70
05/29/1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
05/29/1814 Jos�phine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
05/29/1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64
05/29/1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies 05/29/1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lam), dies 05/29/1833 William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
05/29/1862 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
05/29/1877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 05/29/1883 Albrecht of Prussia/mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 05/29/1883 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies
05/29/1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 05/29/1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies 05/29/1899 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
05/29/1905 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
05/29/1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 05/29/1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at

05/29/1923 Adolf Oberl�nder, German painter, dies
05/29/1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
05/29/1934 Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 05/29/1934 Heihatjir� T�g�, Japanese admiral (Russ-Japanese war), dies 05/29/1935 Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
05/29/1942 John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 05/29/1943 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
05/29/1948 May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82 05/29/1951 Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66
05/29/1951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59 05/29/1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91
05/29/1951 Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85
05/29/1955 Dani�l G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
05/29/1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75

05/29/1961 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
05/29/1967 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
05/29/1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 05/29/1971 Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83
05/29/1973 Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies
05/29/1977 Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
05/29/1979 Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86 05/29/1982 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 05/29/1985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor mat

05/29/1985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93 05/29/1991 Coral Browne, actress (Auntie Mame, Ruling Class), dies at 77 05/29/1992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
05/29/1992 Peter John 'Ollie' Halsall, guitarist, dies at 43 of a heart attack 05/29/1992 Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies
05/29/1993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies at 75 of pneumonia 05/29/1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdams activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
05/29/1994 Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 8

05/29/1994 Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94


Significant Events:

05/29/ 526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die
05/29/ 757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05/29/1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II 05/29/1176 Battle of Legnano
05/29/1415 Council of Konstanz
05/29/1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire 05/29/1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
05/29/1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont

05/29/1576 Spanish army under Mondrag�n conquerors Zierik sea
05/29/1630 Gov John Winthrop begins 'History of New England'
05/29/1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tro

05/29/1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth 05/29/1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
05/29/1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
05/29/1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
05/29/1787 'Virginia Plan' proposed
05/29/1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifing Constitution 05/29/1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
05/29/1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
05/29/1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
05/29/1861 Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves

05/29/1861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia
05/29/1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 05/29/1864 M�xican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
05/29/1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
05/29/1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
05/29/1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia
05/29/1900 Trademark 'Escalator' registered by Otis Elevator Co
05/29/1902 Dutch State Mine law established
05/29/1909 Frank 'Home Run' Baker's 1st career home run
05/29/1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers 05/29/1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500
05/29/1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 di

05/29/1916 Official flag of president of US adopted
05/29/1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
05/29/1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington 05/29/1922 Ecuador becomes independent
05/29/1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
05/29/1935 Hague local museum opens
05/29/1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec) 05/29/1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart intalled as Reich commissar of Hague
05/29/1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
05/29/1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US
05/29/1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
05/29/1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
05/29/1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
05/29/1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends 05/29/1953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest

05/29/1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
05/29/1954 Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
05/29/1956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast 05/29/1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
05/29/1957 Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
05/29/1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French govt
05/29/1960 Everly Brothers 'Cathy's Clown' hits #1
05/29/1962 Barbra Striesand appears on 'Garry Moore Show'
05/29/1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium 05/29/1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19

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Births:

05/30/1220 Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63) 05/30/1524 Sel�m II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
05/30/1578 Valentin Dretzel, composer
05/30/1672 Peter I, (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
05/30/1757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04) 05/30/1797 Johann Christian Lobe, composer
05/30/1800 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach) 05/30/1808 Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer
05/30/1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers) 05/30/1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
05/30/1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 05/30/1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army)
05/30/1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden) 05/30/1844 Louis Varney, composer
05/30/1845 Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
05/30/1846 Peter Carl Faberg�, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
05/30/1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independenc

05/30/1853 Andries Andr�, actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
05/30/1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
05/30/1859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist 05/30/1867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
05/30/1881 George KFW von K�chler, German field marshal (Invasion Netherlands) 05/30/1883 Riccardo Zandonai, composer
05/30/1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
05/30/1887 Gino Tagliapietra, composer
05/30/1888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
05/30/1891 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
05/30/1894 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonization (1942-45) 05/30/1896 Howard Hawks, US director/producer: Rio Bravo/Scarface
05/30/1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay) 05/30/1902 Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], actor (Miracle in Harlem) 05/30/1903 Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) 05/30/1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panam� (1956-60)
05/30/1908 Hannes OG Alfv�n, Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970)
05/30/1908 Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig 05/30/1909 Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, 'King of Swing' 05/30/1911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats) 05/30/1912 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!) 05/30/1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
05/30/1914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show) 05/30/1916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium) 05/30/1922 Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld) 05/30/1923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill) 05/30/1924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952) 05/30/1925 Claude Prey, composer
05/30/1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
05/30/1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
05/30/1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph) 05/30/1927 Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen) 05/30/1927 Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
05/30/1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
05/30/1929 Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
05/30/1932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns) 05/30/1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
05/30/1934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II Soyuz 19) 05/30/1936 Galina Sjostakovitsj, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
05/30/1936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
05/30/1936 Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar) 05/30/1938 Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA)
05/30/1939 Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne) 05/30/1940 David Ackroyd, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
05/30/1942 Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
05/30/1943 Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
05/30/1944 Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
05/30/1945 Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)

05/30/1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise) 05/30/1952 Zoltan Kocsis, composer
05/30/1955 Nicky 'Topper' Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control) 05/30/1957 Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
05/30/1957 Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
05/30/1958 Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Lov

05/30/1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronau

05/30/1960 Stephen 'Tea Tower' Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song) 05/30/1961 Ella Arolovich, entertainer
05/30/1961 Ralph Carter, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
05/30/1961 Trey Parker, actor (Newsies)
05/30/1962 Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children) 05/30/1963 Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12) 05/30/1963 Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
05/30/1964 Wynonna Judd, [Christina], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me) 05/30/1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know) 05/30/1972 Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Hull High)
05/30/1976 Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana) 05/30/1986 Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney


Deaths:

05/30/ 727 Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 05/30/1035 Boudewijn IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
05/30/1252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castili�/Le�n, dies
05/30/1416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
05/30/1431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19
05/30/1434 Prokopius, [Bohemia?], leader of taboriets, dies in battle 05/30/1574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
05/30/1593 Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist/poet/spy, murdered
05/30/1640 Andr� Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
05/30/1718 Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 05/30/1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
05/30/1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 05/30/1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
05/30/1778 Voltaire, [Fran�ois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies 05/30/1791 Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
05/30/1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
05/30/1809 Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
05/30/1833 Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
05/30/1840 Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 05/30/1864 James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26 05/30/1865 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at

05/30/1870 Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
05/30/1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
05/30/1912 Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
05/30/1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
05/30/1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 05/30/1923 Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
05/30/1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
05/30/1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
05/30/1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
05/30/1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies
05/30/1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
05/30/1953 George Barnes, cinematographer, dies
05/30/1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
05/30/1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 86
05/30/1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
05/30/1961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69

05/30/1964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
05/30/1966 W�in� V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72
05/30/1967 Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
05/30/1969 Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 67
05/30/1969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies at 45 of ephysema
05/30/1971 Marcel Dupr�, French composer, dies at 85
05/30/1971 Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66

05/30/1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
05/30/1973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 05/30/1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80 05/30/1977 Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
05/30/1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
05/30/1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment 05/30/1981 Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
05/30/1983 Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 05/30/1986 Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
05/30/1987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
05/30/1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
05/30/1988 Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66 05/30/1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
05/30/1991 Manolo Gomez Bur, entertainer, dies
05/30/1992 Daniel Addes, actor, dies
05/30/1992 Karl Carstens, president Germany (1979-84), dies at 77
05/30/1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
05/30/1993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 7

05/30/1993 Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 05/30/1994 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85 05/30/1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79



Significant Events:

05/30/1035 Boudewijn V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
05/30/1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
05/30/1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
05/30/1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
05/30/1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
05/30/1434 Battle at Lipany
05/30/1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
05/30/1527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded
05/30/1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida
05/30/1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
05/30/1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

05/30/1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland 05/30/1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade Englan

05/30/1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary ceasefire
05/30/1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
05/30/1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 05/30/1832 �variste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 3

05/30/1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
05/30/1848 William Young patents ice cream freezer
05/30/1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery

05/30/1854 Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
05/30/1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
05/30/1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth 05/30/1862 Battle of Front Royal, VA
05/30/1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
05/30/1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
05/30/1866 Opera 'Die Verkaufte Braut' premieres (Prague)
05/30/1889 Brasierre is invented
05/30/1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
05/30/1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
05/30/1901 Memorial Day 1st observed in US
05/30/1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida
05/30/1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
05/30/1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
05/30/1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System 05/30/1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 05/30/1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
05/30/1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH) 05/30/1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
05/30/1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
05/30/1913 Conclusion of 1st Balkan War
05/30/1913 New country of Albania, formed
05/30/1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
05/30/1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
05/30/1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
05/30/1924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri
05/30/1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 05/30/1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
05/30/1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy 05/30/1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
05/30/1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
05/30/1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
05/30/1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies 05/30/1937 Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament
05/30/1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 d

05/30/1937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
05/30/1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 05/30/1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium 05/30/1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
05/30/1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government 05/30/1941 German capture Kreta
05/30/1942 1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers)
05/30/1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
05/30/1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
05/30/1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
05/30/1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 di

05/30/1949 East Germans constitution approved
05/30/1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
05/30/1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting 05/30/1951 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in Chicago
05/30/1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 05/30/1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs 05/30/1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
05/30/1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasti

05/30/1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
05/30/1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
05/30/1959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
05/30/1959 Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
05/30/1959 World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England
05/30/1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
05/30/1961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs

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Births:

05/31/1469 Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration 05/31/1472 Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
05/31/1656 Marin Marias, composer
05/31/1664 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal
05/31/1674 Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer
05/31/1701 Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible 05/31/1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader
05/31/1802 Cesare Pugni, composer
05/31/1804 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
05/31/1810 Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
05/31/1817 Edouard Deldevez, composer
05/31/1818 John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
05/31/1819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
05/31/1837 Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
05/31/1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864

05/31/1837 William Henry Fitzhugh 'Rooney' Lee, Major General (Confederate Army

05/31/1838 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
05/31/1857 Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
05/31/1860 Walter Richard Sickert, Danish/English painter (The Miner) 05/31/1863 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
05/31/1864 Albert J M Bakker, actor (Teun the night watch)
05/31/1866 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
05/31/1872 Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
05/31/1872 William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote

05/31/1875 Italo Montemezzi, composer
05/31/1879 Mark Hambourg, composer
05/31/1887 Gunnar Olof Bj�rling, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Vilande Day) 05/31/1887 Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960)
05/31/1888 Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimston

05/31/1889 Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
05/31/1892 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader 05/31/1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) 05/31/1892 Louis Fourestier, composer
05/31/1892 Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
05/31/1894 Fred Allen, [John Sullivan], radio comedian (Fred Allen Show) 05/31/1897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society) 05/31/1898 Johan Brouwer, pianist/writer/resistance fighter
05/31/1898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) 05/31/1900 Helma Wolf-Catz, author
05/31/1902 Billy Mayerl, composer
05/31/1902 Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
05/31/1902 Ralph Walter Wood, composer
05/31/1908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
05/31/1909 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 05/31/1912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern

05/31/1912 Henry M 'Scoop' Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
05/31/1912 Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
05/31/1914 Akira Ifukube, composer
05/31/1916 Bert Hanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
05/31/1916 Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie)
05/31/1920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles) 05/31/1921 Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man) 05/31/1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X) 05/31/1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat) 05/31/1922 Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein 05/31/1923 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949- )
05/31/1923 Wolfgang Lesser, composer
05/31/1928 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
05/31/1929 Aladar Zoltan, composer
05/31/1929 Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground)
05/31/1930 Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry), mayor (Carmel, Calif)

05/31/1931 John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
05/31/1931 Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens) 05/31/1931 Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
05/31/1934 Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
05/31/1934 Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
05/31/1934 Karl-Erik Welin, composer
05/31/1938 Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon) 05/31/1939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
05/31/1941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job & Shove It) 05/31/1941 Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln) 05/31/1942 Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
05/31/1943 Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl) 05/31/1943 Sharon Gless, LA Calif, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey) 05/31/1944 Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
05/31/1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German play director
05/31/1947 John Bonham, entertainer
05/31/1948 Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
05/31/1948 John 'Bonzo' Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven) 05/31/1948 Rhea Perlman, Bkln NY, actress (Carla-Cheers, Zena-Taxi)
05/31/1949 Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
05/31/1950 Gregory Harrison, Catalina Calif, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run) 05/31/1950 Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
05/31/1956 Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine) 05/31/1958 Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots) 05/31/1960 Chris Elliot, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show) 05/31/1960 Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk)
05/31/1961 Harry Enfield, comedian
05/31/1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Casual Sex, Howard the Duck, Space Camp) 05/31/1963 Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
05/31/1964 Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love) 05/31/1965 Brooke Shields, NYC, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) 05/31/1967 Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police) 05/31/1971 Sarah O'Hare, model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
05/31/1990 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam


Deaths:

05/31/ 455 Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
05/31/1091 Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies
05/31/1504 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
05/31/1551 Aristotele 'Basiano' da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies 05/31/1567 P�reguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 05/31/1594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75
05/31/1620 Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59
05/31/1665 Pieter J Saenredam, architect, dies at 67
05/31/1696 Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75
05/31/1740 Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 05/31/1806 Micha�l FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, dies
05/31/1809 Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33 05/31/1809 Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 76 05/31/1832 �variste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 05/31/1849 L�onard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69 05/31/1854 Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34
05/31/1862 Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34 05/31/1900 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 05/31/1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 05/31/1906 Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 05/31/1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
05/31/1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
05/31/1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
05/31/1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 05/31/1928 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
05/31/1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinat

05/31/1947 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39 05/31/1947 Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 6

05/31/1948 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80
05/31/1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 05/31/1955 'Wild Bill' Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
05/31/1955 Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95
05/31/1960 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 7

05/31/1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

05/31/1962 Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67
05/31/1963 Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art critic of Rome), dies at 63 05/31/1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at 78
05/31/1973 Albert Egges van Giffen, archaeologist, dies at 89
05/31/1974 Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70 05/31/1976 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
05/31/1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at

05/31/1983 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87
05/31/1987 Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies 05/31/1989 Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72

05/31/1989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondant, dies at 53 of cancer 05/31/1991 Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies 05/31/1991 H N 'Swanie' Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke 05/31/1992 Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52 05/31/1993 John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent), dies
05/31/1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86


Significant Events:

05/31/ 70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
05/31/1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 05/31/1531 'Women's Revolt' in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 05/31/1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
05/31/1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
05/31/1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk
05/31/1790 US copyright law enacted
05/31/1821 1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md
05/31/1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape the Good Hope
05/31/1837 NY's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
05/31/1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
05/31/1849 last edition of Orange sheet 'Journal de La Haye'
05/31/1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
05/31/1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 05/31/1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
05/31/1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
05/31/1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
05/31/1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
05/31/1878 German battleship Grosser Kurf�rst sinks, 284 killed
05/31/1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
05/31/1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
05/31/1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 05/31/1884 John Kellogg patents 'flaked cereal'
05/31/1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
05/31/1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begans
05/31/1899 -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
05/31/1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
05/31/1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
05/31/1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
05/31/1900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
05/31/1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transva

05/31/1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid 05/31/1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)

05/31/1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
05/31/1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
05/31/1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
05/31/1912 US marines land on Cuba
05/31/1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 05/31/1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
05/31/1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
05/31/1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)

05/31/1916 British battlecruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 05/31/1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
05/31/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina 05/31/1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlanti

05/31/1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 05/31/1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
05/31/1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup
05/31/1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
05/31/1927 Ford Motor Company produces last 'Tin Lizzie'
05/31/1927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 05/31/1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
05/31/1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
05/31/1929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter
05/31/1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
05/31/1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
05/31/1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
05/31/1937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak 05/31/1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
05/31/1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria
05/31/1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
05/31/1941 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) 05/31/1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools 05/31/1942 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
05/31/1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
05/31/1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 05/31/1947 Italian govt of Gasperi forms
05/31/1949 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
05/31/1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins 05/31/1951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
05/31/1951 S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize
05/31/1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
05/31/1953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 05/31/1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities 05/31/1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 05/31/1955 Supreme Court orders school integration 'with all deliberate speed' 05/31/1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 05/31/1958 Dick Dale invents 'surf music' with 'Let's Go Trippin'
05/31/1961 Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated
05/31/1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
05/31/1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrat

05/31/1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 05/31/1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim

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Births:

06/01/1503 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
06/01/1549 Allesandre Spontone, composer
06/01/1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625) 06/01/1611 Felician Schwab, composer
06/01/1653 Georg Muffat, composer
06/01/1679 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
06/01/1755 Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
06/01/1757 Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (M�de the piano) 06/01/1763 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
06/01/1765 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
06/01/1765 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
06/01/1769 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
06/01/1771 Ferdinando Paer, composer
06/01/1776 John George Schetky, composer
06/01/1780 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
06/01/1790 Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
06/01/1801 Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist 06/01/1804 Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)

06/01/1806 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
06/01/1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander) 06/01/1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
06/01/1826 Hermann Zopff, composer
06/01/1831 John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
06/01/1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916 06/01/1848 Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
06/01/1862 Ant�nio JdC Fe��, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
06/01/1878 John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) 06/01/1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) 06/01/1886 Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
06/01/1887 Clive Brook, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
06/01/1890 Frank Morgan [Francis P Wupperman], US, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) 06/01/1892 Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
06/01/1892 Samuel L M Barlow, composer
06/01/1898 Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
06/01/1898 Edgar 'Cookie' Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show) 06/01/1898 Lieb Glantz, composer
06/01/1898 Molly Picon, yiddish actress (Milk & Honey, Fiddler on the Roof) 06/01/1899 Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) 06/01/1901 John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
06/01/1903 Percy William Whitlock, composer
06/01/1905 Dinora de Carvalho, composer
06/01/1905 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days) 06/01/1907 Frank Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
06/01/1909 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch) 06/01/1911 Gertrude Michael, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana) 06/01/1915 John Randolph, US, actor (King Kong)
06/01/1919 Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
06/01/1921 Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)

06/01/1922 Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960) 06/01/1922 Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband) 06/01/1922 Joan Copeland, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
06/01/1925 Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
06/01/1926 Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock) 06/01/1926 Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot) 06/01/1928 Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
06/01/1928 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
06/01/1929 Yehudi Wyner, composer
06/01/1930 Edward Woodward, England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman) 06/01/1930 Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109)
06/01/1932 Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, writer (Dingen die niet Voorbjgaan) 06/01/1933 Alan 'the Horse' Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts) 06/01/1933 Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
06/01/1934 Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade) 06/01/1934 Peter Masterson, Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
06/01/1934 Sylvia Syms, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine) 06/01/1934 Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
06/01/1935 James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956) 06/01/1935 John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
06/01/1935 Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister
06/01/1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro) 06/01/1937 Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory) 06/01/1939 Cleavon Little, Chickasha Okla, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers

06/01/1940 Ren� Auberjonois, NYC, actor (Clayton-Benson, Deep Space Nine) 06/01/1941 Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976) 06/01/1942 Tom Mankiewicz, LA Calif, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever) 06/01/1943 Ely of Tongeren, guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
06/01/1943 Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award) 06/01/1944 Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets) 06/01/1945 Frederica Von Stade, Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberfl�te) 06/01/1945 Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
06/01/1946 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
06/01/1947 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Brazil, Praying Mantis)
06/01/1947 Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones) 06/01/1948 Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
06/01/1949 Mike Levine, rocker (Triumph)
06/01/1950 Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 06/01/1950 Gemma Craven, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
06/01/1950 Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10

06/01/1950 Graham Russell, rocker (Air Supply-All out of Love)
06/01/1953 Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
06/01/1955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
06/01/1956 Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)

06/01/1956 Robin Mattson, actress (Gina-Santa Barbara, Bonnie's Kids, Wolf Lake

06/01/1959 Alan 'Wild'er, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!) 06/01/1961 Paul Coffey, NHL forward (Edmonton Oilers, Pitts Penguins) 06/01/1962 Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984) 06/01/1963 Mike Joyce, rocker (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
06/01/1965 India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987) 06/01/1968 Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)


Deaths:

06/01/1191 Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
06/01/1340 Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
06/01/1434 Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies
06/01/1557 Jo�o III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54
06/01/1568 G�sbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 06/01/1625 Honor� d'urf�, French writer (L'astr�e), dies at 67
06/01/1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (�land), dies in battle
06/01/1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (�land), dies in battle
06/01/1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
06/01/1729 Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 6

06/01/1763 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
06/01/1810 Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
06/01/1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall, dies at 53
06/01/1846 Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80 06/01/1861 John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse 06/01/1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, 06/01/1864 assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
06/01/1868 James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
06/01/1879 E Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Fr/English prince, dies in battle at 22 06/01/1909 Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
06/01/1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 06/01/1918 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
06/01/1918 Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
06/01/1925 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'od�on), dies at 64

06/01/1926 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
06/01/1935 Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
06/01/1938 Od�n, [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer, dies at 36 06/01/1941 Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
06/01/1942 Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
06/01/1943 Leslie Howard, actor/director (Berkeley Square, Invaders), dies at 5

06/01/1946 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed 06/01/1946 Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Mein Lebensm�rchen), dies at 72 06/01/1952 John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
06/01/1954 Martin Anderson Nex�, Danish poet/writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at

06/01/1955 F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
06/01/1960 Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
06/01/1964 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
06/01/1968 Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 06/01/1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 7

06/01/1973 Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
06/01/1973 Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57

06/01/1973 Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76

06/01/1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 06/01/1979 Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91 06/01/1979 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
06/01/1980 Richard 'Rube' Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
06/01/1981 Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
06/01/1981 Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
06/01/1982 Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/2nd-Chamber (ARP), dies 06/01/1983 Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies 06/01/1984 Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
06/01/1985 Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
06/01/1987 Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
06/01/1987 Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65

06/01/1990 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies 06/01/1991 David Ruffin, US musician (My Whole World Ended), overdoses at 50 06/01/1992 Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
06/01/1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies
06/01/1992 Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies
06/01/1994 Juan JH Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
06/01/1994 Willem CL 'Wim' van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80


Significant Events:

06/01/ 794 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
06/01/1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market 06/01/1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
06/01/1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
06/01/1670 Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 06/01/1676 Sea battle at �land: Danish/Dutch fleet beat Sweden
06/01/1746 French troops conquer Antwerp
06/01/1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed
06/01/1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) 06/01/1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
06/01/1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
06/01/1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
06/01/1808 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio 06/01/1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship' 06/01/1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
06/01/1835 6th national black convention (Phila)
06/01/1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
06/01/1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
06/01/1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activis

06/01/1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 06/01/1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 06/01/1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
06/01/1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War 06/01/1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
06/01/1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
06/01/1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties) 06/01/1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 06/01/1862 Slavery abolished in all US possessions
06/01/1864 -Nov) Shenanoah Valley campaign
06/01/1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
06/01/1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
06/01/1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
06/01/1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
06/01/1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
06/01/1869 Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison
06/01/1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
06/01/1880 US census at 50,155,783
06/01/1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
06/01/1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
06/01/1890 US census at 62,622,250
06/01/1893 Opera 'Falstaff' is produced (Berlin)
06/01/1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
06/01/1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
06/01/1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
06/01/1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon 06/01/1907 -27�F (-33�C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) 06/01/1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
06/01/1911 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
06/01/1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
06/01/1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
06/01/1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
06/01/1918 Yanks turn triple-play, beat Tigers 5-4
06/01/1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
06/01/1921 Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
06/01/1923 NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5
06/01/1925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) 06/01/1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
06/01/1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
06/01/1935 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
06/01/1935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
06/01/1937 Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
06/01/1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
06/01/1938 Superman Comics launched
06/01/1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) 06/01/1939 1st televised heavyweight boxing match-Max Baer vs Lou Nova 06/01/1939 British sub 'Thetis' sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 06/01/1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
06/01/1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard

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Births:

06/01/1503 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
06/01/1549 Allesandre Spontone, composer
06/01/1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625) 06/01/1611 Felician Schwab, composer
06/01/1653 Georg Muffat, composer
06/01/1679 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
06/01/1755 Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
06/01/1757 Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (M�de the piano) 06/01/1763 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
06/01/1765 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
06/01/1765 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
06/01/1769 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
06/01/1771 Ferdinando Paer, composer
06/01/1776 John George Schetky, composer
06/01/1780 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
06/01/1790 Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
06/01/1801 Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist 06/01/1804 Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)

06/01/1806 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
06/01/1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander) 06/01/1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
06/01/1826 Hermann Zopff, composer
06/01/1831 John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
06/01/1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916 06/01/1848 Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
06/01/1862 Ant�nio JdC Fe��, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
06/01/1878 John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) 06/01/1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) 06/01/1886 Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
06/01/1887 Clive Brook, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
06/01/1890 Frank Morgan [Francis P Wupperman], US, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) 06/01/1892 Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
06/01/1892 Samuel L M Barlow, composer
06/01/1898 Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
06/01/1898 Edgar 'Cookie' Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show) 06/01/1898 Lieb Glantz, composer
06/01/1898 Molly Picon, yiddish actress (Milk & Honey, Fiddler on the Roof) 06/01/1899 Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) 06/01/1901 John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
06/01/1903 Percy William Whitlock, composer
06/01/1905 Dinora de Carvalho, composer
06/01/1905 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days) 06/01/1907 Frank Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
06/01/1909 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch) 06/01/1911 Gertrude Michael, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana) 06/01/1915 John Randolph, US, actor (King Kong)
06/01/1919 Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
06/01/1921 Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)

06/01/1922 Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960) 06/01/1922 Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband) 06/01/1922 Joan Copeland, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
06/01/1925 Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
06/01/1926 Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock) 06/01/1926 Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot) 06/01/1928 Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
06/01/1928 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
06/01/1929 Yehudi Wyner, composer
06/01/1930 Edward Woodward, England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman) 06/01/1930 Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109)
06/01/1932 Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, writer (Dingen die niet Voorbjgaan) 06/01/1933 Alan 'the Horse' Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts) 06/01/1933 Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
06/01/1934 Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade) 06/01/1934 Peter Masterson, Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
06/01/1934 Sylvia Syms, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine) 06/01/1934 Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
06/01/1935 James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956) 06/01/1935 John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
06/01/1935 Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister
06/01/1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro) 06/01/1937 Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory) 06/01/1939 Cleavon Little, Chickasha Okla, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers

06/01/1940 Ren� Auberjonois, NYC, actor (Clayton-Benson, Deep Space Nine) 06/01/1941 Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976) 06/01/1942 Tom Mankiewicz, LA Calif, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever) 06/01/1943 Ely of Tongeren, guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
06/01/1943 Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award) 06/01/1944 Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets) 06/01/1945 Frederica Von Stade, Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberfl�te) 06/01/1945 Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
06/01/1946 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
06/01/1947 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Brazil, Praying Mantis)
06/01/1947 Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones) 06/01/1948 Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
06/01/1949 Mike Levine, rocker (Triumph)
06/01/1950 Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 06/01/1950 Gemma Craven, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
06/01/1950 Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10

06/01/1950 Graham Russell, rocker (Air Supply-All out of Love)
06/01/1953 Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
06/01/1955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
06/01/1956 Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)

06/01/1956 Robin Mattson, actress (Gina-Santa Barbara, Bonnie's Kids, Wolf Lake

06/01/1959 Alan 'Wild'er, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!) 06/01/1961 Paul Coffey, NHL forward (Edmonton Oilers, Pitts Penguins) 06/01/1962 Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984) 06/01/1963 Mike Joyce, rocker (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
06/01/1965 India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987) 06/01/1968 Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)


Deaths:

06/01/1191 Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
06/01/1340 Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
06/01/1434 Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies
06/01/1557 Jo�o III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54
06/01/1568 G�sbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 06/01/1625 Honor� d'urf�, French writer (L'astr�e), dies at 67
06/01/1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (�land), dies in battle
06/01/1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (�land), dies in battle
06/01/1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
06/01/1729 Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 6

06/01/1763 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
06/01/1810 Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
06/01/1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall, dies at 53
06/01/1846 Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80 06/01/1861 John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse 06/01/1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, 06/01/1864 assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
06/01/1868 James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
06/01/1879 E Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Fr/English prince, dies in battle at 22 06/01/1909 Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
06/01/1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 06/01/1918 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
06/01/1918 Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
06/01/1925 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'od�on), dies at 64

06/01/1926 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
06/01/1935 Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
06/01/1938 Od�n, [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer, dies at 36 06/01/1941 Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
06/01/1942 Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
06/01/1943 Leslie Howard, actor/director (Berkeley Square, Invaders), dies at 5

06/01/1946 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed 06/01/1946 Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Mein Lebensm�rchen), dies at 72 06/01/1952 John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
06/01/1954 Martin Anderson Nex�, Danish poet/writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at

06/01/1955 F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
06/01/1960 Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
06/01/1964 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
06/01/1968 Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 06/01/1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 7

06/01/1973 Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
06/01/1973 Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57

06/01/1973 Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76

06/01/1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 06/01/1979 Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91 06/01/1979 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
06/01/1980 Richard 'Rube' Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
06/01/1981 Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
06/01/1981 Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
06/01/1982 Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/2nd-Chamber (ARP), dies 06/01/1983 Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies 06/01/1984 Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
06/01/1985 Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
06/01/1987 Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
06/01/1987 Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65

06/01/1990 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies 06/01/1991 David Ruffin, US musician (My Whole World Ended), overdoses at 50 06/01/1992 Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
06/01/1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies
06/01/1992 Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies
06/01/1994 Juan JH Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
06/01/1994 Willem CL 'Wim' van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80


Significant Events:

06/01/ 794 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
06/01/1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market 06/01/1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
06/01/1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
06/01/1670 Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 06/01/1676 Sea battle at �land: Danish/Dutch fleet beat Sweden
06/01/1746 French troops conquer Antwerp
06/01/1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed
06/01/1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) 06/01/1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
06/01/1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
06/01/1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
06/01/1808 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio 06/01/1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship' 06/01/1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
06/01/1835 6th national black convention (Phila)
06/01/1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
06/01/1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
06/01/1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activis

06/01/1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days 06/01/1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 06/01/1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
06/01/1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War 06/01/1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
06/01/1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
06/01/1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties) 06/01/1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 06/01/1862 Slavery abolished in all US possessions
06/01/1864 -Nov) Shenanoah Valley campaign
06/01/1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
06/01/1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
06/01/1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
06/01/1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
06/01/1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
06/01/1869 Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison
06/01/1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
06/01/1880 US census at 50,155,783
06/01/1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
06/01/1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
06/01/1890 US census at 62,622,250
06/01/1893 Opera 'Falstaff' is produced (Berlin)
06/01/1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
06/01/1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
06/01/1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
06/01/1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon 06/01/1907 -27�F (-33�C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) 06/01/1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
06/01/1911 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
06/01/1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
06/01/1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
06/01/1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
06/01/1918 Yanks turn triple-play, beat Tigers 5-4
06/01/1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
06/01/1921 Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
06/01/1923 NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5
06/01/1925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) 06/01/1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
06/01/1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
06/01/1935 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
06/01/1935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
06/01/1937 Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
06/01/1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
06/01/1938 Superman Comics launched
06/01/1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) 06/01/1939 1st televised heavyweight boxing match-Max Baer vs Lou Nova 06/01/1939 British sub 'Thetis' sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 06/01/1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
06/01/1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard

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Births:

06/05/1664 Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
06/05/1665 Nicolas Bernier, composer
06/05/1686 Cristoph Raupach, composer
06/05/1718 Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
06/05/1723 Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)

06/05/1759 Theodor Zwetler, composer
06/05/1760 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
06/05/1771 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51) 06/05/1771 Willem F Graaf van Bylandt, military man
06/05/1798 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
06/05/1813 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
06/05/1819 John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune) 06/05/1823 George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
06/05/1825 Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61) 06/05/1826 Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
06/05/1827 Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army) 06/05/1831 Marcus Joseph Wright, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1922 06/05/1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
06/05/1863 Arthur Somervell, composer
06/05/1867 Max Friedl�nder, German art historian (Altniederl�ndische Malerei) 06/05/1874 Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904) 06/05/1877 Johan W Albarda, 1st SDAP-minister (1939-45)
06/05/1878 Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)

06/05/1878 [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader 06/05/1879 Adolf Wiklund, composer
06/05/1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS

06/05/1883 John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist 06/05/1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
06/05/1885 Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940) 06/05/1887 Ruth Benedict, US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
06/05/1888 Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
06/05/1892 Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)
06/05/1893 Albert M�hl, German writer (Heart vull Drift)
06/05/1895 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
06/05/1895 William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
06/05/1898 Federico Garc�a Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding) 06/05/1900 Barbara Gooden, novelist
06/05/1900 Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) 06/05/1901 Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar 06/05/1905 Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas) 06/05/1905 John Abbott, London, actor (Smogasboard)
06/05/1906 Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
06/05/1906 Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
06/05/1906 Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
06/05/1907 Rudolf Peieris, physicist
06/05/1908 Jack Jacob, senior master of British Supreme Court
06/05/1909 Alfred Uhl, composer
06/05/1911 Arthur Vick, vice chancelor (Queens University, Belfast)
06/05/1911 Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO (ASH)
06/05/1912 Adrian Morri�n, literary (1 Untidy Man)
06/05/1912 Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)

06/05/1913 Friedrich Wildgans, composer
06/05/1914 Beatrice de Cardi, archeaeoligist
06/05/1914 Rose Hill, singer/actress
06/05/1914 Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
06/05/1915 Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf)
06/05/1915 Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
06/05/1916 Eddie Joost, baseball player
06/05/1918 Branimir Sakac, composer
06/05/1919 Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68) 06/05/1920 Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation) 06/05/1920 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist
06/05/1920 Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh) 06/05/1923 Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac

06/05/1925 Bill Hayes, Harvey Ill, actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)

06/05/1925 Dorothy Claire, LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
06/05/1925 William L Dickinson, (Rep-R-AL, 1965- )
06/05/1928 Robert Lansing, SD Calif, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan

06/05/1928 Tony Richardson, England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH) 06/05/1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
06/05/1930 Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University

06/05/1931 Jacques Demy, France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
06/05/1931 John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
06/05/1932 A R Dawson, rugby player
06/05/1932 Christy Brown, Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days) 06/05/1934 Bill D Moyers, Hugo Okla, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal) 06/05/1934 F Curtis Michel, LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut
06/05/1935 Misha Mengelberg, composer
06/05/1935 Peter Schat, composer
06/05/1935 Peter Treasure, opera composer (Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion) 06/05/1936 Barry Wilson, deputy chief (British Defense Staff)
06/05/1937 Stanley Lunetta, composer
06/05/1937 Waylon Jennings, Littlefield Tx, country singer (Dukes of Hazzard) 06/05/1938 Karin Balzer, German DR, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
06/05/1938 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g) 06/05/1939 Joe Clark, [Charles Joseph], (P-C) 16th Canadian PM (1979-80) 06/05/1939 Ken Follett, spy author (Eye of the Needle)
06/05/1939 Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye)
06/05/1940 Moira Anderson, singer
06/05/1941 Duane Duke Sims, baseball player
06/05/1941 Jeffrey Rooker, Labour MP
06/05/1941 Martha Argerich, Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949) 06/05/1941 Spalding Gray, actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting) 06/05/1942 Charles Dodge, composer
06/05/1942 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, pres of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979- ) 06/05/1943 Bill Hopkins, composer
06/05/1944 Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968) 06/05/1944 Tommie Smith, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968); gave black power salu

06/05/1945 Don Reid, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall) 06/05/1945 John Carlos, track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salu

06/05/1945 John Wesley Carlos, NYC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1968) 06/05/1945 Spencer Batiste, conservative MP
06/05/1946 Fred Stone, rock guitarist (Sly & Family Stone-Stand)
06/05/1946 Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange) 06/05/1946 Michael Monarch, rocker (Steppenwolf)
06/05/1946 Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress (Key)
06/05/1947 David Hare, playwright
06/05/1947 Eric Molobi, South Africa, ANC-activist
06/05/1947 Laurie Anderson, composer
06/05/1950 Adrian Cosma, Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976) 06/05/1950 Ronnie Dyson, US, singer (Hair, All over your face)
06/05/1954 Nicko McBrain, English hard rock drummer (Iron Maiden-Powerslave) 06/05/1954 Phil Neale, cricketer
06/05/1955 Nancy Stafford, Fla, Miss Florida (1977)/actress (Joan-St Elsewhere)

06/05/1956 Kenny G, saxophonist (Duotones)
06/05/1956 Richard A Searfoss, Mount Clemons Mich, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 58) 06/05/1959 Michael Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
06/05/1961 Terri Nunn, Calif, singer (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away) 06/05/1962 Astrid, Belgian princess/daughter of Albert II
06/05/1964 Mags, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
06/05/1966 Billy Spiers, baseball player
06/05/1967 Joe Deloach, US, 200m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
06/05/1967 Ray Lankford, baseball player
06/05/1971 Marky Mark, [Wahlberg], Mass, rap singer
06/05/1974 Chad Allen Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actor (David-Our House, My 2 Dads)

06/05/1974 Chassity Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actress


Deaths:

06/05/ 221 -BC- Chu Yuan, China's poet drowns
06/05/ 754 Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79 06/05/ 754 Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
06/05/1288 Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle 06/05/1443 Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
06/05/1568 Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded
06/05/1568 Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded 06/05/1568 Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
06/05/1625 Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41

06/05/1667 Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies 06/05/1722 Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
06/05/1816 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76 06/05/1826 Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39 06/05/1852 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
06/05/1861 John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle 06/05/1861 Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
06/05/1864 William Edmonson 'Grumble' Jones, Conf brig-gen, dies in battle at 3

06/05/1868 Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
06/05/1885 Julius Benedict, composer, dies at 80
06/05/1894 Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
06/05/1900 Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies
06/05/1908 Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
06/05/1915 Brzeska, sculptor, dies
06/05/1916 Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65 06/05/1919 Eugen Levin�, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated 06/05/1923 George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
06/05/1927 Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
06/05/1930 Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies

06/05/1939 El�ah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies
06/05/1939 Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
06/05/1944 Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
06/05/1953 Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
06/05/1953 Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65 06/05/1953 William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76 06/05/1966 Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
06/05/1967 Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
06/05/1970 'Jopie' Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies 06/05/1970 Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
06/05/1973 Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82 06/05/1976 Jean Paul Getty, US oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83
06/05/1976 Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
06/05/1978 John Meulenhoff, publisher, dies at 71
06/05/1979 Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
06/05/1980 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies
06/05/1981 Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
06/05/1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
06/05/1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) die

06/05/1990 J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies
06/05/1992 Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies
06/05/1992 Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
06/05/1993 Conway Twitty, country singer (Linda on My Mind), dies at 59


Significant Events:

06/05/ 70 Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
06/05/ 754 Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
06/05/1288 Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
06/05/1305 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V 06/05/1507 England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
06/05/1625 Spanish troops under Sp�nola conquer Breda
06/05/1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
06/05/1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge 06/05/1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight 06/05/1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces 06/05/1805 1st recorded tornado in 'Tornado Alley' (Southern Illinois) 06/05/1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
06/05/1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
06/05/1808 -6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians
06/05/1827 Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ 06/05/1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage 06/05/1848 Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled
06/05/1849 Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy 06/05/1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention

06/05/1857 Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta)

06/05/1861 Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE 06/05/1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
06/05/1863 CSS 'Alabama' captures 'Tailsman' in Mid Atlantic
06/05/1864 Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City)
06/05/1869 3rd Belmont Stakes, Fenian wins
06/05/1870 Constantinople in fire; 900 die
06/05/1872 Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
06/05/1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
06/05/1876 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila 06/05/1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
06/05/1885 J Palisa discovers asteroid #248 Lameia
06/05/1888 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
06/05/1899 Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
06/05/1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria
06/05/1910 J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela & #700 Auravictrix 06/05/1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win 06/05/1912 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
06/05/1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
06/05/1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
06/05/1920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell 06/05/1925 Willie MacFarlane wins US Open golf tournament
06/05/1926 Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
06/05/1929 2nd British Labour govt of MacDonald forms
06/05/1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour govt in Britain
06/05/1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
06/05/1933 US goes off gold standard
06/05/1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
06/05/1937 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1455 Mitchella
06/05/1937 Charles Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 69th Belmont Stakes (2:28.6) 06/05/1937 Henry Ford introduces 32 hour work week
06/05/1940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
06/05/1940 American Negro Threater organizes
06/05/1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
06/05/1940 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
06/05/1940 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
06/05/1940 Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees 06/05/1940 Netherlands rations petroleum
06/05/1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ

06/05/1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie

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Births:

06/06/1436 Regiomontanus (Johannes M�ller), prepares astronomical tables 06/06/1502 Jo�o III, King of Portugal (1521-57)
06/06/1599 Diego Vel�zquez, Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized)
06/06/1606 Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
06/06/1621 P�ter Zrinyi, Hungarian exile of Croatia
06/06/1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
06/06/1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
06/06/1676 Georg Reidel, composer
06/06/1695 Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)
06/06/1722 Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
06/06/1735 Anton Schweitzer, composer
06/06/1755 John Flaxman, English sculptor (Tomb of Westminster Abbey) 06/06/1755 Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his countr

06/06/1756 John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
06/06/1765 Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Dwingeland�)
06/06/1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 06/06/1799 Alexandr Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS) 06/06/1804 Petter Conrad Boman, composer
06/06/1807 Adrien Francois Servais, composer
06/06/1813 Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
06/06/1815 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
06/06/1819 William Howard Glover, composer
06/06/1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 06/06/1840 John Stainer, composer
06/06/1840 William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 06/06/1847 Gerben Postma, [Ids], Fries writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
06/06/1850 Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)

06/06/1860 William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral 06/06/1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expediti

06/06/1869 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
06/06/1872 Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918) 06/06/1875 Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929) 06/06/1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp (1925)
06/06/1878 Vincent [de Moro-]Giafferi, French criminal (Dieudonn�, Landru) 06/06/1879 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
06/06/1880 William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
06/06/1886 Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
06/06/1890 Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
06/06/1891 Istvan Kardos, composer
06/06/1891 Ted Lewis, actor/writer (Is Everybody Happy?)
06/06/1893 Ludovic Feldman, composer
06/06/1894 Sabin V Dragoi, composer
06/06/1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome) 06/06/1896 Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
06/06/1898 Johannes J Fouch�, president South-Africa
06/06/1898 Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet) 06/06/1898 Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
06/06/1900 Arthur Askey, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
06/06/1901 Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
06/06/1902 Avraham Daus, composer
06/06/1903 Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane

06/06/1905 John Gart, Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show)
06/06/1906 Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
06/06/1907 Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43), manager (1946

06/06/1909 Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
06/06/1910 Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
06/06/1910 Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
06/06/1913 Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
06/06/1915 Dhimit�r Shuteriqi, Albania, writer (�lirimtar�t The liberator) 06/06/1915 Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
06/06/1916 Robert McNamara, US banker/min of Defense
06/06/1917 Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
06/06/1918 Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
06/06/1920 Maria Montez, [Maria AV de Santo Silas], US actress (Arabian Nights)

06/06/1922 Ian Hamilton, composer
06/06/1924 Serge Nigg, composer
06/06/1926 Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
06/06/1928 George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
06/06/1929 Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
06/06/1932 Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine) 06/06/1932 David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15

06/06/1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986) 06/06/1934 Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
06/06/1934 Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- )
06/06/1934 Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch) 06/06/1935 Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back, wide receiver (Browns, Redskins) 06/06/1935 Dalai Lama 14, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhist

06/06/1935 Harry Crews, US writer
06/06/1935 Misja Mengelberg, jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
06/06/1936 Levi Stubbs, rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
06/06/1939 Gary 'US' Bonds, [Anderson] singer/songwriter (New Orleans) 06/06/1939 Louis Andriessen, composer (Reconstruction)
06/06/1939 Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund

06/06/1939 Nganani Enos J Mabuza, S African leader of Inyandza Natl Movement 06/06/1940 Phillip Rhodes, composer
06/06/1942 Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956) 06/06/1943 Willie D Davenport, Troy Al, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) 06/06/1944 Peter Albin, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
06/06/1945 David Dukes, SF, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War) 06/06/1945 David E Bonior, (Rep-D-MI, 1977- )
06/06/1946 Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln) 06/06/1947 Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)

06/06/1949 Edgar Warren Williams, composer
06/06/1949 Robert Englund, actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V) 06/06/1951 Dwight Twilley, country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
06/06/1952 Yukihiro Yakahashi, rocker (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
06/06/1953 Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
06/06/1954 Harvey Fierstein, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy)
06/06/1954 Nicko McBrain, rocker (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast)
06/06/1955 Dana Carvey, US comedian (SNL, Wayne's World)
06/06/1955 Sandra Bernhard, Flint Mich, actress (King of Comedy)/bugs Letterman

06/06/1956 Bj�rn B�rg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1976-79) 06/06/1956 Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
06/06/1959 Amanda Pays, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
06/06/1960 Gary Graham, actor (Money on the Side)
06/06/1960 Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
06/06/1960 Steve Val, rock guitarist (Passion & Warfare)
06/06/1961 Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
06/06/1964 Dee C Lee, [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing) 06/06/1964 Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991) 06/06/1965 David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 06/06/1966 Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
06/06/1967 Max Casella, actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
06/06/1969 Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang) 06/06/1975 Damon Pampolina, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
06/06/1975 Staci Keanan, [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads) 06/06/1976 Lukas Hass, actor (Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)


Deaths:

06/06/ 840 Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
06/06/1134 Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
06/06/1686 Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60 06/06/1735 Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
06/06/1784 Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42

06/06/1785 Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
06/06/1816 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51 06/06/1852 Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
06/06/1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian child singer, dies at 59
06/06/1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA
06/06/1877 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies 06/06/1878 Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
06/06/1881 Henry Vieuxtemps, composer, dies at 61
06/06/1883 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
06/06/1898 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
06/06/1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies 06/06/1916 Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
06/06/1917 Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
06/06/1922 Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
06/06/1926 Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
06/06/1928 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
06/06/1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of Erde), dies at 68 06/06/1937 Jean Harlow, [Harlenean Carpenter], US actress (China Seas), dies 06/06/1940 E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 06/06/1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist, dies at 75
06/06/1944 Danny Brotheridge, British, 1st to die during D-Day
06/06/1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 06/06/1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide 06/06/1956 Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 75
06/06/1958 Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
06/06/1961 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (�ber Alchemie), dies at 85 06/06/1962 Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies at 63
06/06/1962 Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
06/06/1964 Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85 06/06/1965 Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64 06/06/1966 Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash 06/06/1967 Edward G Givens Jr, astronaut, dies in an auto accident at 37 06/06/1968 Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
06/06/1968 Robert F Kennedy, (Sen-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan 06/06/1971 Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
06/06/1974 Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at

06/06/1975 Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49 06/06/1976 J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London 06/06/1976 Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85 06/06/1977 Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
06/06/1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 79
06/06/1984 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at

06/06/1985 Siem Devout, actor, dies at 54
06/06/1988 Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 67 06/06/1991 Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS
06/06/1991 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 06/06/1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
06/06/1992 Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58 06/06/1992 Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 3

06/06/1992 Th�s van Lier, lawyer/2rd Chamber member (PvdA), dies at 44 06/06/1993 James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 06/06/1993 Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
06/06/1994 John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies


Significant Events:

06/06/1002 German king Henry II the Saint crowned
06/06/1523 Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
06/06/1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill 06/06/1664 New Amsterdam renamed New York
06/06/1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed 06/06/1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago 06/06/1795 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
06/06/1801 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
06/06/1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established 06/06/1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
06/06/1816 10' snowfall in New England, 'year without a summer' (Krakatoa) 06/06/1831 2nd national black convention (Phila)
06/06/1844 Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London 06/06/1862 Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
06/06/1862 Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
06/06/1862 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
06/06/1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
06/06/1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
06/06/1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard
06/06/1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
06/06/1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
06/06/1885 Opera 'Lakm�' is produced (Paris)
06/06/1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
06/06/1890 United States Polo Association formed, NYC
06/06/1896 George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
06/06/1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ 06/06/1905 French Foreign minister Delcass� resigns on German request 06/06/1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) 06/06/1913 Rabbit Maranville, was thrown out trying to steal home 3 times 06/06/1914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
06/06/1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
06/06/1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
06/06/1919 Man O' War wins 1st victory as a 2-year-old at Belmont
06/06/1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
06/06/1924 Cyril Walker wins US Open golf tournament
06/06/1924 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1031 Arctica
06/06/1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca was 8 months ol

06/06/1926 Egyptian cabinet-Adly Pasja forms
06/06/1931 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1210 Morosovia
06/06/1931 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
06/06/1932 Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
06/06/1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
06/06/1933 1st drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
06/06/1933 US Employment Service created
06/06/1934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
06/06/1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
06/06/1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
06/06/1936 Tony Manero wins US Open golf tournament
06/06/1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
06/06/1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
06/06/1939 NY supreme court justice JF Crater legally declared dead
06/06/1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
06/06/1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
06/06/1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
06/06/1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
06/06/1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France

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Births:

06/07/1502 Gregory XIII, Pope, introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
06/07/1619 Paulus Voet, jurist/historian
06/07/1730 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
06/07/1736 Karl Frieberth, composer
06/07/1770 Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
06/07/1778 George Bryan 'Beau' Brummel, London England, English dandy 06/07/1811 James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform) 06/07/1812 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/07/1825 Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
06/07/1829 Eduard F W Pfl�ger, German physiologist (Ademhalings Quotient) 06/07/1833 Alexander Ritter, composer
06/07/1840 Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67) 06/07/1843 Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education 06/07/1845 Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist
06/07/1846 Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
06/07/1848 Eug�ne-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti)
06/07/1848 Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter 06/07/1865 Guido Gasperini, composer
06/07/1867 Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
06/07/1873 Landon Ronald, composer
06/07/1874 Theodor Streicher, composer
06/07/1879 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule)
06/07/1884 Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last New

06/07/1885 Percy Brier, composer
06/07/1887 William Walraven, journalist/writer (Indian Current)
06/07/1891 Athos Palma, composer
06/07/1891 Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician (SDAP/AJC/PvdA) 06/07/1896 Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
06/07/1896 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
06/07/1897 George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45) 06/07/1899 Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters) 06/07/1900 Jan [Johannes AA] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros) 06/07/1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, France/US writer (M�moires d'Hadrien) 06/07/1909 Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Include

06/07/1909 Peter W Rodino, (Rep-D-NJ, 1949- )/chaired Watergate council 06/07/1911 Franz Reizenstein, composer
06/07/1917 Dean Martin, [Dino Crocetti], singer/comedian (Jerry Lewis' partner)

06/07/1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950) 06/07/1918 Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister of health & environment
06/07/1920 Georges Marchais, leader French Communist Party
06/07/1922 Hubert Du Plessis, composer
06/07/1922 Rocky Graziano, boxer/entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Martha Raye Show)

06/07/1924 Dolores Gray, Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet) 06/07/1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning) 06/07/1925 Pieternella 'Nel' van Arem, actress (Sea Gull)
06/07/1926 Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show) 06/07/1928 Charles Louis Strouse, composer
06/07/1929 John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984) 06/07/1931 Henry Weinberg, composer
06/07/1931 Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8)
06/07/1931 Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)

06/07/1933 Henk E King, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
06/07/1934 Philippe Entremont, French pianist
06/07/1937 Neeme J�rvi, Tallinn Estonia, conductor (Estonia Opera 1971) 06/07/1940 Tom Jones, [Thomas Woodward], Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat) 06/07/1941 Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959

06/07/1942 Anneke Gr�nloh, Indonesian/Dutch singer (Fire Sand)
06/07/1943 Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
06/07/1943 Mel Levine, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
06/07/1943 Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)
06/07/1944 Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People) 06/07/1944 Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
06/07/1944 Townes Van Zandt, US singer/songwriter
06/07/1946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer (Grateful Dead-Uncle John's Band) 06/07/1946 Jenny Jones, comedienne/talk show host (Jenny Jones Show)
06/07/1947 Thurman Munson, baseball catcher/captain (NY Yankees)
06/07/1951 Anne Twomey, actress (Refuge, Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker) 06/07/1952 Liam Neeson, actor (Schindler's List, Husbands & Wives, Suspect) 06/07/1954 Lui Passaglia, Vancouver BC, CFL place kicker (B.C. Lions) 06/07/1955 Joey Scarbury, Ontario Calif, singer (Greatest American Hero) 06/07/1958 Christopher Marcantel, Smithtown NY, actor (Chip-Nurse, Loving) 06/07/1958 Francesca Thyssen, lugano Switz, baroness
06/07/1958 O+> (Prince), [Rogers Nelson], Minn, rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain

06/07/1962 Janice Lawrence, Lucedale Miss, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984

06/07/1962 Paddy McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
06/07/1967 Sarah Malin, Greenwich Ct, actress (Stephane Prescott-Another World)

06/07/1971 Mark Wahlberg, Mass, rapper/Calvin Klein underwear model
06/07/1989 Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89


Deaths:

06/07/ 555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
06/07/1329 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53
06/07/1337 Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49 06/07/1492 Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
06/07/1549 Eelke Fouckens, Fries
06/07/1555 Maarten van Rossum, army leader, dies at about 76
06/07/1571 Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
06/07/1624 Anna van H Bartolomaeus, Flemish monk/saint, dies at 74
06/07/1631 Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal) 06/07/1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 06/07/1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried 06/07/1672 Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37 06/07/1701 Ferdinand W, Prince of W�rttemberg-Neustadt, dies at 41
06/07/1754 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52 06/07/1778 Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
06/07/1784 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
06/07/1789 Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
06/07/1800 Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75 06/07/1838 Laure S-MP duchess d'abrant�s, French marshal Junot, dies
06/07/1840 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69 06/07/1862 William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42 06/07/1863 Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
06/07/1877 Winand CH Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68 06/07/1893 Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
06/07/1906 Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74 06/07/1915 Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
06/07/1926 Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
06/07/1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
06/07/1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
06/07/1932 Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
06/07/1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
06/07/1937 Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies at 26 from gallbladder infection

06/07/1938 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies 06/07/1940 James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39 06/07/1945 Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74 06/07/1945 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
06/07/1948 Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90
06/07/1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt

06/07/1951 Nazi war criminals, hanged
06/07/1956 Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies

06/07/1957 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
06/07/1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
06/07/1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65 06/07/1965 Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42 06/07/1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies 06/07/1966 Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78 06/07/1967 Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies
06/07/1967 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies
06/07/1968 Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies at 60
06/07/1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53
06/07/1970 Edward M Forster, England, writer (Maurice, A passage to India), die

06/07/1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk) , dies
06/07/1976 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orch leader (Air time '57), dies at 61

06/07/1980 Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies 06/07/1980 Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
06/07/1983 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
06/07/1983 Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
06/07/1984 George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
06/07/1987 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73 06/07/1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
06/07/1989 Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
06/07/1990 Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack 06/07/1991 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
06/07/1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies
06/07/1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
06/07/1993 Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28 06/07/1994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59 06/07/1994 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
06/07/1994 Thadd� Nsengijumva, chairman of Rwandan bishop's conference, murdere

06/07/1994 Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered


Significant Events:

06/07/ 421 Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II
06/07/ 555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/07/1099 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
06/07/1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded
06/07/1413 King Ladislaus of Naples occupies Rome
06/07/1494 Treaty of Tordesillas
06/07/1601 Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderschei

06/07/1614 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation 06/07/1654 Louis XIV crowned king of France
06/07/1672 Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 06/07/1692 Earthquake in Port Royal, Jamaica, kills 3000
06/07/1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
06/07/1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
06/07/1775 United Colonies change name to United States
06/07/1776 Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress 06/07/1780 Anti-Catholice riot in London, 100s die
06/07/1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
06/07/1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
06/07/1862 Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular)
06/07/1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
06/07/1863 Mexico City captured by French troops
06/07/1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
06/07/1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Qu�bec
06/07/1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC 06/07/1892 John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game 06/07/1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
06/07/1896 G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days) 06/07/1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chi

06/07/1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal

06/07/1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #471 Papagena
06/07/1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
06/07/1906 Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0 06/07/1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
06/07/1912 St Pius X encyclical 'On Indians of South America'
06/07/1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
06/07/1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
06/07/1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit 06/07/1926 Swedish cabinet of Ekman forms
06/07/1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
06/07/1930 Earl Sande on Gallant Fox wins 62nd Belmont Stakes (2:31.l) 06/07/1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in 'Negro'
06/07/1936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout 06/07/1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, 'Susan & God' 06/07/1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
06/07/1939 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth 06/07/1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik
06/07/1941 Craig Wood wins US Open golf tournament
06/07/1941 Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 73rd Belmont (2:31) & triple crown 06/07/1942 Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
06/07/1942 Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
06/07/1944 Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
06/07/1944 Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
06/07/1946 US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
06/07/1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns 06/07/1948 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
06/07/1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Mass 06/07/1953 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants

06/07/1953 WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins

06/07/1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
06/07/1955 '$64,000 Question' premieres on CBS TV
06/07/1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
06/07/1958 Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
06/07/1959 KLX-AM in Oakland Calif changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW) 06/07/1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m 06/07/1964 Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam
06/07/1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
06/07/1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
06/07/1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of mino

06/07/1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem 06/07/1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
06/07/1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special 06/07/1969 Tommy James & Shondells release 'Crystal Blue Persuasion'
06/07/1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win 06/07/1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
06/07/1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut

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Births:

06/08/1318 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II 06/08/1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discovered 4 satellites of Saturn 06/08/1671 Tommaso Albinioni, Ital's composer (Adagio in G-minor)
06/08/1722 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
06/08/1740 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
06/08/1753 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
06/08/1756 Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
06/08/1783 Joseph Lincke, composer
06/08/1804 Jan Baptist van Son, RC politician
06/08/1805 Luigi Ricci, composer
06/08/1806 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878

06/08/1810 Robert A Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiest�cke

06/08/1812 Spyridon Xyndas, composer
06/08/1813 David D Porter, US Admiral (Civil War)
06/08/1813 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891 06/08/1814 Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
06/08/1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897 06/08/1824 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
06/08/1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 190

06/08/1829 John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
06/08/1834 George Garrett, composer
06/08/1837 Jan Kleczynski, composer
06/08/1837 Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
06/08/1847 Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901)
06/08/1856 Natalia Janotha, composer
06/08/1858 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
06/08/1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim

06/08/1881 Prospero Bisquertt, composer
06/08/1888 Gu�mundur J�nsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Sk�lholt)
06/08/1888 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
06/08/1889 Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
06/08/1894 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
06/08/1896 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
06/08/1900 Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merl�n], writer (Last general)
06/08/1902 Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusisch Diary) 06/08/1903 Gerrit C Berkouwer, theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
06/08/1903 Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara) 06/08/1906 Charel Janssens, Belgium, actor
06/08/1910 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor
06/08/1910 John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
06/08/1911 Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
06/08/1913 Janos Jagamas, composer
06/08/1914 Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948) 06/08/1915 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn Neth 06/08/1916 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962) 06/08/1917 Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-

06/08/1918 Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)

06/08/1920 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director
06/08/1921 Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)

06/08/1921 Sheila Ryan, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury) 06/08/1921 Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- )
06/08/1922 Myron Healy, Petalumus Calif, actor (Wyatt Earp)
06/08/1923 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
06/08/1924 George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour)
06/08/1924 Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World) 06/08/1925 Barbara Pierce Bush, Rye NY, 1st lady (1989-93)
06/08/1925 Eddie Gaedel, 3'7' St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked) 06/08/1926 Anatol Vieru, composer
06/08/1928 Jiri Dvoracek, composer
06/08/1928 Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap) 06/08/1929 Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Stiller & Meara, Hairspray) 06/08/1930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malm� Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan) 06/08/1930 Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatcher

06/08/1930 Yannis Ioannidis, composer
06/08/1932 Hans Gunter Helms, composer
06/08/1933 Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq) 06/08/1934 Millicent Martin, Romford Eng, actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)

06/08/1936 James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs) 06/08/1937 Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31) 06/08/1939 Bernie Casey, Wyco WV, actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop)
06/08/1939 Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys) 06/08/1940 Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer, her boots were made for walkin' 06/08/1941 Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep) 06/08/1941 Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
06/08/1942 Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
06/08/1942 Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) 06/08/1943 Colin Baker, actor (Swallows & Amazons)
06/08/1943 Willie Davenport, US, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
06/08/1944 Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band) 06/08/1944 Don Grady, actor (Robbie Douglas-My 3 Sons)
06/08/1946 Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk) 06/08/1947 Joan La Barbara, composer
06/08/1947 Mick Box, rocker (Uriah Heep)
06/08/1949 Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974) 06/08/1949 Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) 06/08/1950 Alex Van Halen, drummer (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
06/08/1950 Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978) 06/08/1950 Kathy Whitton Baker, Midland Tx, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles) 06/08/1955 Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl) 06/08/1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian (In Living Color)
06/08/1960 Mike Hucknail, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye) 06/08/1961 Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline

06/08/1962 Nick Rhodes, rocker (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
06/08/1963 Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine)
06/08/1964 Nelli [Antoinette HC] Fiere-Cooman, Neth, runner (WR 60 m in 7.00) 06/08/1965 Robert Platus, NYC, rocker (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This) 06/08/1966 Doris Pearson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
06/08/1967 Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
06/08/1972 P[eter] J[ason] Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good



Deaths:

06/08/ 218 Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-18), murdered
06/08/ 632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) 06/08/1115 Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64 06/08/1376 'Black Prince' of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 06/08/1612 Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49
06/08/1688 Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried
06/08/1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 06/08/1711 Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61 06/08/1768 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
06/08/1790 Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75
06/08/1796 Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80
06/08/1803 Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80 06/08/1806 George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79 06/08/1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 06/08/1814 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48
06/08/1831 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75 06/08/1845 Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78
06/08/1870 Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
06/08/1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
06/08/1876 George Sand, author, dies in Nohant France
06/08/1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
06/08/1906 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
06/08/1908 Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
06/08/1919 Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78
06/08/1940 Frederick Shepherd Converse, composer, dies at 69
06/08/1947 Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
06/08/1948 Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
06/08/1953 Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68 06/08/1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing machine), dies 06/08/1967 Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74
06/08/1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies at 57
06/08/1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40 06/08/1972 Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68
06/08/1973 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76
06/08/1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 06/08/1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 06/08/1979 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
06/08/1982 Jean Wi�ner, French composer (Olive chez les n�gres), dies at 86 06/08/1982 [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
06/08/1987 Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33 06/08/1988 Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies
06/08/1988 Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer, dies
06/08/1991 Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies
06/08/1991 Heidi Br�hl, German actress (M�dels vom Immenhof), dies
06/08/1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 06/08/1992 Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies
06/08/1992 Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
06/08/1993 Ren� Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84


Significant Events:

06/08/ 68 Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
06/08/ 452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
06/08/ 536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
06/08/ 570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
06/08/ 793 Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
06/08/ 979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
06/08/1551 Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma 06/08/1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
06/08/1694 English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
06/08/1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
06/08/1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
06/08/1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
06/08/1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
06/08/1829 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool

06/08/1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
06/08/1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
06/08/1856 Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
06/08/1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
06/08/1861 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
06/08/1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
06/08/1865 Tristanderl und Z�sholde, premieres
06/08/1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks) 06/08/1875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina
06/08/1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
06/08/1887 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea
06/08/1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
06/08/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure 'Boscombe Valley Mystery' (BG) 06/08/1892 Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson

06/08/1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of 6 Napoleons' (BG)
06/08/1911 Belgium govt of Schollaert falls
06/08/1914 34.7�F (1.5�C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
06/08/1915 92�F (33.3�C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
06/08/1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
06/08/1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
06/08/1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered 06/08/1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga
06/08/1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
06/08/1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
06/08/1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo 06/08/1935 Sam Parks Jr wins US Open golf tournament
06/08/1935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 67th Belmont Stakes (2:30.6) 06/08/1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily

06/08/1939 British king George VI visits US
06/08/1940 British troop leave Narvik, Norway
06/08/1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
06/08/1940 Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
06/08/1941 English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
06/08/1942 Bing Cosby records 'Silent Night'
06/08/1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
06/08/1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
06/08/1948 'Milton Berle Show' premieres on NBC TV
06/08/1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines 06/08/1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
06/08/1950 Boston Red Sox beats St Louis Browns 29-4
06/08/1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
06/08/1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 06/08/1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court 06/08/1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
06/08/1956 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcastin

06/08/1959 1st official 'missile mail' lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
06/08/1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
06/08/1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel 'Nobel House'
06/08/1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
06/08/1961 English prince Edward, duke of Knows, marries Katharine Worsley 06/08/1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
06/08/1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
06/08/1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
06/08/1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
06/08/1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen 06/08/1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution
06/08/1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning 06/08/1968 Gary Puckett & Union Gap release 'Lady Will Power'
06/08/1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured 06/08/1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
06/08/1968 Rolling Stones release 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'
06/08/1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting 06/08/1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) 06/08/1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
06/08/1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230
06/08/1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
06/08/1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group 'Yes'
06/08/1974 US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
06/08/1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

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Births:

06/09/1510 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem
06/09/1573 Henricus Hondius, etcher/publisher
06/09/1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, composer
06/09/1597 Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
06/09/1640 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire
06/09/1672 Peter I Aleksejevitsj, the Great, Russian tsar/Emperor (Zaandam) 06/09/1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, (principal RR locomotive) 06/09/1791 John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) 06/09/1792 Fr�d�ric LG, Earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary
06/09/1810 Otto Nicolai, composer
06/09/1812 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
06/09/1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
06/09/1828 Carlo Marsili, composer
06/09/1829 Gaetano Braga, composer
06/09/1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 06/09/1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905) 06/09/1849 Joseph Vezina, composer
06/09/1854 Gerardus J P J Bolland, philospher (Bolland Society)
06/09/1865 Alberic Magnard, composer
06/09/1865 Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige) 06/09/1879 Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
06/09/1884 Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, journalist/conductor
06/09/1886 Kusaku Yamada, composer
06/09/1888 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
06/09/1888 Hugo Kauder, composer
06/09/1890 Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours) 06/09/1893 Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate

06/09/1893 Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs

06/09/1898 Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt) 06/09/1900 Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blende

06/09/1900 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
06/09/1905 Walter Kraft, composer
06/09/1906 Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja) 06/09/1908 Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder)

06/09/1910 Vbilmos Demian, composer
06/09/1912 Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso)
06/09/1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Army (Heils)
06/09/1914 Barbara Mullen, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners)
06/09/1914 Hermann Haller, composer
06/09/1915 Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar) 06/09/1916 Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head of World Bank 06/09/1918 Rob de Vries, actor/director
06/09/1919 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian skater
06/09/1921 Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
06/09/1922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany)
06/09/1923 Gerald G�tting, German DR president (CDU)
06/09/1924 Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964)
06/09/1924 Tony Britton, Birmingham Eng, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup)

06/09/1925 [John] Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], US, sf author (Retief's War)

06/09/1926 Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress) 06/09/1927 Franco Donatoni, composer
06/09/1927 Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
06/09/1929 Johnny Ace, [John M Alexander Jr], US R&B singer (My Song) 06/09/1929 Keith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960) 06/09/1929 Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977- )
06/09/1930 Jackie Mason, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup) 06/09/1930 Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria) 06/09/1930 Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC)
06/09/1933 Dick Orkin, Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show)
06/09/1933 Don Young, (Rep-R-AK, 1973- )
06/09/1934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
06/09/1934 Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960) 06/09/1934 Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops)
06/09/1934 Joe Santos, Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus) 06/09/1934 Pal Karolyi, composer
06/09/1938 Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980)
06/09/1940 Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster
06/09/1941 John Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush)
06/09/1943 Joe [William] Haldeman, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apar

06/09/1944 Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady)
06/09/1945 Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972)
06/09/1947 Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze) 06/09/1948 Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Calif, cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978) 06/09/1951 Benny Neyman, singer (I Know Not How)
06/09/1951 Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart) 06/09/1951 Dave Parker, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978) 06/09/1954 Pete Byrne, rocker (Naked Eyes)
06/09/1958 Donald Michael Santini, Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 06/09/1961 Michael J Fox, Edm, actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wol

06/09/1962 Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
06/09/1963 Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor (21 Jump Street)
06/09/1969 Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)


Deaths:

06/09/ 68 Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31 06/09/1361 Philippe de Vitry, composer, dies at 69
06/09/1382 Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies
06/09/1572 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44
06/09/1597 Jos� de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies
06/09/1717 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69 06/09/1717 Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64
06/09/1820 Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68
06/09/1825 M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla, dies at 44

06/09/1832 Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57
06/09/1839 Gerrit J P�man, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89 06/09/1847 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orph�e), dies 06/09/1863 Benjamin Franklin 'Grimes' Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30 06/09/1870 Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies
06/09/1870 Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82
06/09/1892 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
06/09/1897 Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40' lens 06/09/1907 Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
06/09/1908 Jos� FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46 06/09/1922 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies
06/09/1931 Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
06/09/1932 Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
06/09/1939 Owen Moore, actor (High Voltage, She Done Him Wrong), dies at 52 06/09/1957 Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
06/09/1958 Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 5

06/09/1960 Ren� Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies 06/09/1962 Henry Kendall, actor (Shadow, Romance & Riches), dies at 65 06/09/1964 W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info, dies at 85 06/09/1967 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
06/09/1975 David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48
06/09/1976 James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88 06/09/1976 Paul T B Rodenko, poet/writer (No Loyality with 1 heks), dies 06/09/1976 Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93 06/09/1977 Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant), poet, dies at 51
06/09/1980 Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73 06/09/1981 Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), dies at 63
06/09/1981 Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice), dies 06/09/1982 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60
06/09/1982 Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74 06/09/1987 Grandon Rhodes, actor (Gentleman From Nowhere), dies
06/09/1987 Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies 06/09/1989 Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies 06/09/1991 Bob Irwin, entertainer, dies
06/09/1991 Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88
06/09/1991 Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
06/09/1992 Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert, dies of breast cancer at 41 06/09/1992 Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack 06/09/1993 Alexis Smith, dancer/actress (Follies), dies at 72 of Cancer 06/09/1993 Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53

06/09/1994 Jan Tinbergen, economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91


Significant Events:

06/09/ 641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
06/09/ 922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
06/09/1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen 06/09/1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
06/09/1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
06/09/1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
06/09/1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass 06/09/1720 Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
06/09/1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
06/09/1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia 06/09/1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion 06/09/1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
06/09/1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 06/09/1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book 06/09/1822 Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth
06/09/1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
06/09/1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp 06/09/1863 Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
06/09/1864 Battle of Big Shanty, GA
06/09/1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha) 06/09/1865 Battle of Grand Gulf, MS
06/09/1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
06/09/1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
06/09/1870 Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud
06/09/1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El) 06/09/1890 Opera 'Robin Hood' is produced (Chicago)
06/09/1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
06/09/1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years 06/09/1899 Jim Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons for Heavyweight boxing crown 06/09/1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
06/09/1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila)
06/09/1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #635 Vundtia
06/09/1914 Honus Wagner becomes 1st baseball player to get 3,000 hits 06/09/1919 General steel metal strike in France
06/09/1919 Red Army captures Ufa
06/09/1919 Universal metal strike in France
06/09/1923 Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown 06/09/1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia
06/09/1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Cura�aose hostages free 06/09/1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
06/09/1931 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
06/09/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia
06/09/1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
06/09/1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power
06/09/1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
06/09/1934 Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for US Open
06/09/1936 Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for US Open
06/09/1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
06/09/1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 06/09/1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
06/09/1940 W Lawson Little wins US Open golf tournament
06/09/1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500

06/09/1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio 06/09/1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in cabinet-Gerbrandy 06/09/1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe 06/09/1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
06/09/1943 Congress passes 'pay-as-you-go' income tax
06/09/1944 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn 06/09/1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
06/09/1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa)
06/09/1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest 06/09/1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand
06/09/1946 NY Giant Mel Ott becomes 1st manager to be ejected from both 06/09/1946 games of a doubleheader
06/09/1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
06/09/1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US 06/09/1953 South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
06/09/1953 Tornado strikes Worcester Mass destroying Assumption College 06/09/1955 100�F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington
06/09/1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
06/09/1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
06/09/1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct) 06/09/1960 ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
06/09/1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-

06/09/1963 Barbra Striesand appears on 'Ed Sullivan Show'
06/09/1963 JFK names Winston Churchill US honarary citizen
06/09/1963 Movie 'Cleopatra' opens in NY
06/09/1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
06/09/1965 Michel Fazy runs mile in 3:53.6
06/09/1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
06/09/1967 Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl
06/09/1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms
06/09/1969 Brian Jones quits Rolling Stones
06/09/1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
06/09/1970 Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongan�a 06/09/1970 Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice
06/09/1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
06/09/1971 Paul McCartney's album 'Ram' goes gold
06/09/1972 14' of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 200
06/09/1972 1st all-nite grad parties
06/09/1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
06/09/1973 Secretariat wins 105th Belmont Stakes (2:24) & Triple Crown 06/09/1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert 06/09/1975 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok
06/09/1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla) 06/09/1977 George & Patti Harrison divorce
06/09/1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks

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Births:

06/13/ 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England 06/13/ 823 Charles II, the Bald, King of France (843-77)/emperor (875-77) 06/13/ 823 Karel II de Kale, Roman emperor (875-77)
06/13/1592 Tobias Michael, composer
06/13/1612 Karel van Cro�, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot
06/13/1627 Fidel Molitor, composer
06/13/1701 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
06/13/1736 Henryk Klein, composer
06/13/1752 Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
06/13/1757 Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
06/13/1761 Anton Wranitzky, composer
06/13/1763 Jos� B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
06/13/1765 Anton Eberl, composer
06/13/1773 Thomas Young, philospher/artist (light interference)
06/13/1775 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer
06/13/1786 Winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate 06/13/1795 Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome) 06/13/1806 Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian
06/13/1809 George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895

06/13/1820 WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral 06/13/1821 Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
06/13/1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883
06/13/1823 Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1900

06/13/1824 Julius Eichberg, composer
06/13/1825 Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 18

06/13/1829 Antonio Zamara, composer
06/13/1831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory 06/13/1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine) 06/13/1863 Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
06/13/1864 Johan R Kjell�n, Swedish sociologist
06/13/1865 William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)

06/13/1866 Lambertus Z�l, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
06/13/1869 Ede Poldini, composer
06/13/1875 Max d' Ollone, composer
06/13/1879 John G Golden church, reformed vicar
06/13/1881 Lois Weber, 1st US woman film director (What Do Men Want?) 06/13/1888 Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
06/13/1892 Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes) 06/13/1893 Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors)
06/13/1894 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarm�a, Mar�a)
06/13/1894 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer
06/13/1894 Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic)
06/13/1897 Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28) 06/13/1899 Carlos Ch�vez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfon�a India) 06/13/1900 Ian Hunter, S Africa, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood)
06/13/1901 Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier (1946-69)
06/13/1903 Harold 'Red' Grange, 'Galloping Ghost' of football (Illinois Bears) 06/13/1903 Philipp Kutev, composer
06/13/1911 Albert Cleage, famous African
06/13/1911 Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968)
06/13/1912 Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc) 06/13/1913 Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
06/13/1915 J Donald Budge, US tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles

06/13/1918 Ben Johnson, Foraker Okla, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger) 06/13/1919 Leif Kayser, composer
06/13/1920 Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer players (Olympic-gold-1948)
06/13/1924 Percy Rodrigues, Canada, actor (Brainwaves)
06/13/1926 Paul Lynde, Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched) 06/13/1927 Knut Wiggen, composer
06/13/1935 Christo, Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
06/13/1937 Eleanor Norton, (Rep-D-Dist of Col)
06/13/1938 Gwynne Howell, British opera singer
06/13/1940 Bobby Freeman, SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
06/13/1941 Robert Forester, Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
06/13/1941 Tom Hallick, Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
06/13/1942 James Carr, US, gospel singer (To Love Somebody)
06/13/1943 Edward Skorek, Poland, volleball player (Olympic-gold-1976) 06/13/1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Royal Flash) 06/13/1944 Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
06/13/1945 Ronald J Grabe, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, 30, 42, 57) 06/13/1947 Daniel PA 'Danie' Schutte, S African underminister of Justice 06/13/1947 Jerrold Nadler, (Rep-D-NY)
06/13/1947 Peter Holm, boyfriend of Joan Collins
06/13/1951 Liz Phillips, composer
06/13/1951 Richard Thomas, NYC, (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda)

06/13/1953 Tim Allen, Denver Colo, comedian (Home Improvement)
06/13/1954 Daniel Seemiller, Pitts, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)

06/13/1963 Bettina Bunge, Switz, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Calif 1983) 06/13/1963 Catarina Lindqvist, Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986) 06/13/1964 Jennifer Gillom, basketball player, (Olympic-gold-1988)
06/13/1968 Deniece Peterson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
06/13/197- Charlie Rivera, singer (Menudo)
06/13/1970 Lance Ringnald, Des Moines Iowa, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
06/13/1971 Broderick nonuplets, Sydney Australia (7 of 9 survived infancy) 06/13/1986 Ashley Olsen, actress (Full House)
06/13/1986 Mary Kate Olsen, actress (Full House)


Deaths:

06/13/ 323 -BC- Alexander III the Great, King of Macedonia, dies of fever at 32

06/13/1142 Godfried II, duke of Brabant/Neth-Lotharingen, dies
06/13/1371 Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (pledge Vollenhove), dies 06/13/1550 Johann Spangenberg, composer, dies at 66
06/13/1550 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64
06/13/1612 Charles van Cro�, prince of Chimay, dies at 51
06/13/1665 Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about

06/13/1665 Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29 06/13/1665 Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55

06/13/1821 [Iza�k J] Alexander Gogel, minister of Finance/patriot, dies at 55 06/13/1825 Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
06/13/1839 Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
06/13/1865 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29 06/13/1873 Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer, dies at 51
06/13/1886 Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns
06/13/1905 Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
06/13/1905 Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67

06/13/1920 Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confe

06/13/1927 Henry CK 'Clan' Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 8

06/13/1928 Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
06/13/1934 Theodor D�bler, German writer (Tie Sternenkind), dies
06/13/1939 Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64 06/13/1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71 06/13/1954 Nikolai Obouhov, composer, dies at 62
06/13/1961 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79

06/13/1962 Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
06/13/1965 Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at

06/13/1972 Clyde L Mcphatter, US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39) 06/13/1973 Alvin Derold Etler, composer, dies at 60
06/13/1973 Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 82
06/13/1976 Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona), dies
06/13/1977 Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 7

06/13/1979 Darla Hood, actress (Little Rascals), dies
06/13/1982 Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
06/13/1984 Marinus de Jong, composer, dies at 92
06/13/1986 Benny Goodman, the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77 06/13/1987 Geraldine Page, actress (Blue & Gray), dies at 62
06/13/1993 Donald 'Deke' K Slayton, US major/astronaut: Apollo 18, dies at 69 06/13/1994 James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55


Significant Events:

06/13/1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca 06/13/1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed 06/13/1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fail

06/13/1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
06/13/1655 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater 06/13/1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
06/13/1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves 06/13/1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
06/13/1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington 06/13/1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
06/13/1828 Sim�n Bol�var proclaimed dictator
06/13/1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio 06/13/1855 Opera 'Les V�pres Sicilenne' is produced (Paris)
06/13/1863 Battle of Winchester VA
06/13/1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of 'Erewhon,' Christchurch, NZ 06/13/1863 Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
06/13/1865 Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
06/13/1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
06/13/1868 Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana 06/13/1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
06/13/1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra
06/13/1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella
06/13/1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
06/13/1888 Congress creates Department of Labor
06/13/1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
06/13/1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
06/13/1895 �mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph) 06/13/1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital 06/13/1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
06/13/1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
06/13/1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0 06/13/1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2�F in Tamarack Calif 06/13/1908 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Paris
06/13/1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila 06/13/1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia 06/13/1912 NY Giant Christy Matthewson wins his 300th game
06/13/1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
06/13/1917 Germany bombs London
06/13/1918 Philles & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
06/13/1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
06/13/1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
06/13/1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
06/13/1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
06/13/1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
06/13/1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta 06/13/1932 Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
06/13/1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
06/13/1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
06/13/1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
06/13/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana
06/13/1935 James T Braddocks beats Max Baer for HW boxing champ
06/13/1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns 06/13/1937 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch

06/13/1940 Paris evacuates before German advance
06/13/1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km 06/13/1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
06/13/1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
06/13/1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
06/13/1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks 06/13/1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
06/13/1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland

06/13/1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
06/13/1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
06/13/1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th 06/13/1950 South African parliament accept 'Groups Area Act'
06/13/1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
06/13/1952 soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 06/13/1953 Ben Hogan wins his 4th US Golf Open
06/13/1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast 06/13/1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
06/13/1956 Parliamentary election: Dutch democratics 50/KVP 49
06/13/1956 Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
06/13/1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass 06/13/1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season 06/13/1959 Billy Casper wins US Open golf tournament
06/13/1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
06/13/1962 Norway named ombudsman
06/13/1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

06/13/1967 'You Only Live Twice' premieres in US
06/13/1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice 06/13/1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones 06/13/1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina
06/13/1970 Beatles' 'Let It Be,' album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks 06/13/1970 Beatles' 'Long & Winding Road,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 week

06/13/1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LGPA championship
06/13/1971 NY Times began publishing 'Pentagon Papers'
06/13/1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice & #1978 Patrice 06/13/1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604
06/13/1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci 06/13/1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured 06/13/1980 Paul McCartney releases 'Waterfall'
06/13/1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in 'Abscam' investigation 06/13/1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela 06/13/1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
06/13/1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
06/13/1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on 'Tomorrow'
06/13/1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69 06/13/1982 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA title
06/13/1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System 06/13/1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
06/13/1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play 06/13/1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East 06/13/1988 George Harrison releases 'This is Love'
06/13/1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist


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Births:

06/14/1529 Ferdinand, archduke of Austria
06/14/1671 Tomaso Albinoni, composer
06/14/1691 Jan Francisci, composer
06/14/1730 Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer
06/14/1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law) 06/14/1760 Candido Jose Ruano, composer
06/14/1763 Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
06/14/1769 Dominique Della-Maria, composer
06/14/1805 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 06/14/1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
06/14/1820 John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
06/14/1821 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
06/14/1835 Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
06/14/1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 06/14/1844 Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
06/14/1854 Frederik Rung, composer
06/14/1855 Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive) 06/14/1856 Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
06/14/1864 Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Diseas

06/14/1865 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
06/14/1868 Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930) 06/14/1874 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
06/14/1882 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
06/14/1882 Michael Zadora, composer
06/14/1883 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible leader
06/14/1884 John Mccormack, Irish/US singer (Irish People's Leader)
06/14/1895 Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
06/14/1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
06/14/1904 Benno Ammann, composer
06/14/1906 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
06/14/1906 Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High) 06/14/1907 Ren� Char, French poet/painter
06/14/1908 John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show) 06/14/1909 Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 06/14/1910 Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-7

06/14/1916 Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
06/14/1917 Lash La Rue, Gretna La, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp) 06/14/1918 Carter Harman, composer
06/14/1918 Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic) 06/14/1918 Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72) 06/14/1919 Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal) 06/14/1920 Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
06/14/1921 Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law

06/14/1923 Theodore Bloomfield, composer
06/14/1925 Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy) 06/14/1928 Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary
06/14/1929 Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity

06/14/1931 Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227) 06/14/1932 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
06/14/1933 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
06/14/1935 Jan N�land, cattle breeder/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
06/14/1939 Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
06/14/1940 Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
06/14/1940 Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
06/14/1940 Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center) 06/14/1940 John Mizelle, composer
06/14/1941 John Edgar Widerman, US writer
06/14/1943 F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
06/14/1943 Muff Mervyn Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin) 06/14/1943 W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )
06/14/1946 Donald Trump, master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
06/14/1946 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
06/14/1949 Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)
06/14/1949 Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
06/14/1952 Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley) 06/14/1953 David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
06/14/1954 Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun) 06/14/1958 Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
06/14/1958 Eric Heiden, Wisc, �/1/1�/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980) 06/14/1960 Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988) 06/14/1961 'Boy George' O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club) 06/14/1961 Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988) 06/14/1963 Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence) 06/14/1967 Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92) 06/14/1968 Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live)
06/14/1969 Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988) 06/14/1970 Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
06/14/1994 Nicholas Pietro, son of Vanna White
06/14/2160 Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek)


Deaths:

06/14/1144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at

06/14/1349 G�nther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 06/14/1594 Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61 06/14/1709 Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65
06/14/1750 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47
06/14/1752 Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88 06/14/1789 Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61
06/14/1800 Jean-Baptiste Kl�ber, French general/architect, murdered at 47 06/14/1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 06/14/1828 Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies 06/14/1828 Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70
06/14/1873 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 06/14/1891 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
06/14/1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
06/14/1911 Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70
06/14/1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
06/14/1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies
06/14/1933 Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85
06/14/1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 06/14/1944 Joaqu�n Alvarez Quint�ro, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71 06/14/1944 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
06/14/1944 Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle 06/14/1948 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79
06/14/1948 John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
06/14/1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
06/14/1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 6

06/14/1960 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57
06/14/1962 Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
06/14/1962 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65
06/14/1964 Ko Arnoldi, actor/director, dies at 81
06/14/1965 Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74
06/14/1965 H V Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86
06/14/1968 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, composer, dies at 51
06/14/1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies 06/14/1974 Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81
06/14/1977 Alan Reed, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69

06/14/1977 Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66
06/14/1978 Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74
06/14/1982 Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 9

06/14/1982 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of canc

06/14/1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
06/14/1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 06/14/1986 Marlin Perkins, 'Wild Kingdom' host, dies near St Louis at 81 06/14/1989 Pete de Freitas, drummer Echo & the Bunnyman, dies
06/14/1991 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies
06/14/1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies 06/14/1993 Vincent Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93
06/14/1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther), dies of cancer at 70 06/14/1994 Marcel Mouloudji, French actor/chansonnier (Le d�serteur), dies at 7

06/14/1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries


Significant Events:

06/14/1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
06/14/1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands 06/14/1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
06/14/1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts 06/14/1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 06/14/1775 US Army founded
06/14/1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union fl

06/14/1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
06/14/1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine 06/14/1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont 06/14/1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
06/14/1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
06/14/1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
06/14/1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide 06/14/1850 Fire destroys part of SF
06/14/1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance 06/14/1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
06/14/1864 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action
06/14/1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
06/14/1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games 06/14/1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics) 06/14/1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise 06/14/1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass 06/14/1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes US Territory of Hawaii
06/14/1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants 06/14/1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa
06/14/1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
06/14/1907 Govt of Transvaal gets 50,000 Chinese day workers
06/14/1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights
06/14/1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
06/14/1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld 06/14/1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
06/14/1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane

06/14/1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
06/14/1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover 06/14/1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
06/14/1931 French 'St Philbert' overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 06/14/1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
06/14/1932 German cabinet of von Papen forms
06/14/1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna
06/14/1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island Ci

06/14/1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
06/14/1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
06/14/1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo
06/14/1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
06/14/1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
06/14/1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) 06/14/1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
06/14/1940 Nazis open a concentration camp at Auschewitz
06/14/1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS 06/14/1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
06/14/1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
06/14/1942 French cabinet of Reynaud resigns
06/14/1942 Walt Disney's 'Bambi' is released
06/14/1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
06/14/1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
06/14/1945 Rod Argent, rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
06/14/1946 Canadian Library Association established
06/14/1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
06/14/1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
06/14/1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting 06/14/1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 06/14/1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings 06/14/1952 General strike in Tunisia
06/14/1952 Julius Boros wins US Open golf tournament
06/14/1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
06/14/1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
06/14/1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn 06/14/1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Columbia 06/14/1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight

06/14/1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge 06/14/1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record) 06/14/1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ 06/14/1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
06/14/1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
06/14/1958 Tommy Bolt wins US Open golf tournament
06/14/1961 106�F, hottest temperature in San Francisco
06/14/1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
06/14/1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days 06/14/1965 Beatles release album 'Beatles VI'
06/14/1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 06/14/1965 John Lennon's 2nd book 'A Spaniard in the Works' is published 06/14/1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
06/14/1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by
06/14/1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit 06/14/1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing 06/14/1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
06/14/1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 06/14/1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight 06/14/1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
06/14/1975 Janis Ian releases 'At 17'
06/14/1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
06/14/1976 'Gong Show' premieres on TV (syndication)
06/14/1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
06/14/1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR 06/14/1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
06/14/1979 Rock group 'Little Feat' disbands
06/14/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi & #3160 Angerhof

06/14/1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict


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Births:

06/15/1221 Frederik II, [Strijdbare], duke of Austria
06/15/1330 Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376)
06/15/1553 Ernst, archduke of Austria
06/15/1623 Cornelis de Witt, statesman
06/15/1636 Johann David Mayer, composer
06/15/1728 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
06/15/1749 George Joseph Vogler, composer
06/15/1763 Franz Danzi, composer
06/15/1767 Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of Pres Andrew (1828-37) (died 1828) 06/15/1815 Phiz [Habl�t Knight Browne], English illustrator (Pickwick Papers) 06/15/1821 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
06/15/1833 Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/15/1843 Edvard Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
06/15/1864 Joseph Guy Ropartz, composer
06/15/1865 L H Perquin, religious radio speaker
06/15/1865 Paul Gilson, composer
06/15/1878 Eduard R Verkade, actor/director
06/15/1884 Harry Langdon, US, comic/director (Strong Man)
06/15/1886 Charles Wood, composer
06/15/1888 Maria Dermo�t, Java, Dutch novelist (10,000 Things)
06/15/1888 Ram�n L�pez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
06/15/1894 Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!) 06/15/1898 Willem Scheps, journalist
06/15/1900 Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon

06/15/1900 Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues) 06/15/1901 John Wesley Work, composer
06/15/1902 Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist)
06/15/1902 Max Rudolf, Frankfurt Germany, conductor (G�teberg Symphony Orch) 06/15/1906 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, mayor of Zoelen
06/15/1910 Berend Giltay, composer
06/15/1910 David Rose, London England, orch leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)

06/15/1914 Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, cartoonist/illustrator
06/15/1914 Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (NYer)
06/15/1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
06/15/1918 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader
06/15/1918 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
06/15/1921 Erroll Garner, US, jazz pianist (Misty)
06/15/1922 John Veale, composer
06/15/1922 Morris K [Mo] Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961- )
06/15/1923 Erland Josephson, Swedish actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
06/15/1925 Gene Baker, baseball player
06/15/1925 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
06/15/1926 Jan Carlstedt, composer
06/15/1929 Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer
06/15/1932 Mario Cuomo, NYC, (Gov-D-NY)
06/15/1935 Belinda Lee, England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus)
06/15/1936 Alexandru Hrisanide, composer
06/15/1937 Rolf Riehm, composer
06/15/1937 Waylon Jennings, singer of innumerable country songs (Ramblin' Man) 06/15/1938 Billy Williams, baseball player
06/15/1938 Jean-Claude Eloy, composer
06/15/1940 Willem Frederik Bon, composer
06/15/1941 Harry Nilsson, [Johnny Niles], laid-back singer/songwriter (Popeye) 06/15/1942 Bruce DalCanton, baseball player
06/15/1942 Tony Coelho, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
06/15/1942 Xaveria Hollander, [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker

06/15/1943 Aron Kincaid, LA Calif, actor (Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party) 06/15/1944 Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-7

06/15/1945 Nicola Pagett, actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade) 06/15/1945 Rod Argent, England, keyboardist (Zombies-She's Not There) 06/15/1946 Jim Varney, Lexington KY, 'Hey Vern', actor (Ernest Goes to Jail) 06/15/1946 Judy Pace, LA Calif, actress (Young Lawyers)
06/15/1946 Ken Henderson, baseball player
06/15/1947 Lee Purcell, NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk)
06/15/1947 Paul Patterson, composer
06/15/1948 Champ Summers, baseball player
06/15/1949 Dusty Baker, baseball player (LA Dodgers)
06/15/1950 Heidi Sch�ller, Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath (1972) 06/15/1950 Noddy Holder, rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade-Cum On Feel The Noize) 06/15/1951 Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
06/15/1953 Rita Lee, Federic Wisc, playmate (November, 1977)
06/15/1954 Jim Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places) 06/15/1954 Terri Gibbs, Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin') 06/15/1955 Julie Hagerty, actress (Airplane, Princesses)
06/15/1955 Tree Rollins, Winter Haven Fla, NBA center (Cleve Cavaliers) 06/15/1956 Lance Parrish, baseball player
06/15/1956 Polly Draper, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Ellyn-30 Something, Hooters)

06/15/1957 Brett Butler, baseball player
06/15/1957 Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire) 06/15/1958 Wade Boggs, Nebraska, Red Sox/Yank 3rd baseman (AL bat champ 1985-88

06/15/1959 Eileen Davidson, actress (Young & Restless, House on Sorority Row) 06/15/1963 Helen Hunt, LA Calif, actress (Jill-Amy Prentiss, Lisa-It Takes Two)

06/15/1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence) 06/15/1964 Courtney Cox, Birmingham Ala, actress (Family Ties, Cocoon II) 06/15/1965 Carrie Mitchum, LA Calif, actress (Donna-Bold & Beautiful) 06/15/1970 Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach Calif, US cyclist (Olympic-92)
06/15/1973 Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser) 06/15/1978 RoRo, [Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)


Deaths:

06/15/ 923 Robert I, King of France, dies in battle
06/15/ 948 Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies 06/15/ 991 Theophano, German Emperor/wife of Emperor Otto II, dies
06/15/1246 Frederik II 'the Strijdbare', duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25 06/15/1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies
06/15/1341 Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies 06/15/1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 06/15/1389 Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle
06/15/1389 Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle
06/15/1397 Earl of Eu, French knight (in Turkish captivity), dies
06/15/1467 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 76
06/15/1557 Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies
06/15/1580 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70 06/15/1666 Pieter de Bitter, admiral (Colombo, Goa)
06/15/1677 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67
06/15/1702 Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies
06/15/1703 Gillis Schey, admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58
06/15/1708 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62
06/15/1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69
06/15/1772 Louis C Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La rose), dies

06/15/1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 06/15/1828 Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91
06/15/1831 Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78
06/15/1836 Th�odore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74 06/15/1839 Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41
06/15/1844 Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 06/15/1849 James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 5

06/15/1858 Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63
06/15/1865 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
06/15/1865 Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61
06/15/1869 Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60
06/15/1875 Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
06/15/1888 Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, di

06/15/1893 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer/conductor (B�nk B�n), dies at 82 06/15/1895 Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
06/15/1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies 06/15/1907 William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies
06/15/1920 Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
06/15/1923 Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
06/15/1934 Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77
06/15/1938 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
06/15/1952 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70
06/15/1958 Fran�ois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
06/15/1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84
06/15/1967 Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at

06/15/1968 Samuel Earl 'Wahoo Sam' Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 06/15/1968 West Montgomery, jazz guitarist dies of a heart attack at 48 06/15/1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies
06/15/1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83
06/15/1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56
06/15/1982 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90 06/15/1984 Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82 06/15/1984 Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies at 78 of heart failur

06/15/1984 Robert Meredith Willson, composer, dies at 82
06/15/1987 Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 7

06/15/1989 Ray McAlly, actor, dies in Dublin at 63
06/15/1989 Victor French, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 of cancer 06/15/1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
06/15/1992 Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
06/15/1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76
06/15/1993 Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
06/15/1993 Vera, fashion designer (scarves), dies at 87
06/15/1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue) 06/15/1994 Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 2

06/15/1994 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68


Significant Events:

06/15/ 763 -BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet 06/15/1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupiess Valencia on the Moren 06/15/1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
06/15/1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
06/15/1246 Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
06/15/1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 06/15/1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians
06/15/1567 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
06/15/1590 Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther
06/15/1643 Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania 06/15/1664 NJ established
06/15/1741 Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
06/15/1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 06/15/1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
06/15/1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident 06/15/1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship H�ros 06/15/1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president 06/15/1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
06/15/1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
06/15/1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49�N
06/15/1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory 06/15/1857 SF Water Works organized
06/15/1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
06/15/1861 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
06/15/1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his 'ride around McClellan'
06/15/1864 -17]6 Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
06/15/1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line 06/15/1864 Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers 06/15/1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery 06/15/1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe
06/15/1866 Prussia attacks Austria
06/15/1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
06/15/1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout 06/15/1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school 06/15/1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential cconventi

06/15/1876 Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 06/15/1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point
06/15/1887 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1
06/15/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv 'Stockbroker's Clerk' (BG)
06/15/1894 Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
06/15/1897 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election 06/15/1898 US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
06/15/1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guant�namo Cuba
06/15/1901 Willie Anderson wins US Open golf tournament
06/15/1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time 06/15/1902 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game 06/15/1904 Side-wheeler 'General Slocum' burns in NY's East River (1,031 die) 06/15/1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
06/15/1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
06/15/1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo 06/15/1918 1' of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
06/15/1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)
06/15/1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland 06/15/1923 Belgium's Theunis term ends because of mine, post & railroad strike 06/15/1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
06/15/1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile 06/15/1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
06/15/1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda
06/15/1926 7th French cabinet-Briand falls
06/15/1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

06/15/1931 Poland & USSR sign friendship treaty
06/15/1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda
06/15/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna
06/15/1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
06/15/1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus
06/15/1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba
06/15/1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
06/15/1940 Bread & flour rationed in Holland
06/15/1940 French Fort Verdun & Paris captured by Germans
06/15/1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
06/15/1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
06/15/1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
06/15/1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
06/15/1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms
06/15/1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) 06/15/1947 Lew Worsham wins US Open golf tournament
06/15/1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NY, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
06/15/1948 WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting 06/15/1950 Dutch police seize condoms
06/15/1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Para

06/15/1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila

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Births:

06/17/1239 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307)
06/17/1604 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
06/17/1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
06/17/1703 John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder (Methodists)
06/17/1714 Cesar F Cassini, 'the Thury', French astronomer (geodesic labor) 06/17/1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
06/17/1742 William Hooper, signer (Decl of Ind)
06/17/1750 Michel Woldemar, composer
06/17/1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public 06/17/1811 Jon Sigurdsson, Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends 06/17/1817 Ivan K A�vazovski, Russan painter (Harbor Scenes)
06/17/1817 Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/17/1818 Charles Gounod, Paris, France, opera composer (Faust)
06/17/1818 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of W�rttemberg
06/17/1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 190

06/17/1828 Jan K J de Jonge, historian
06/17/1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 19

06/17/1832 William Crookes, chemist/physicist; discovered thallium
06/17/1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
06/17/1838 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
06/17/1838 Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Deligh

06/17/1845 Hendrik P Staal
06/17/1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer
06/17/1858 Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
06/17/1861 Sidney James Jones, composer
06/17/1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
06/17/1870 George Cormack, created 'Wheaties' cereal
06/17/1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar) 06/17/1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania 06/17/1875 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World) 06/17/1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
06/17/1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [NS

06/17/1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer
06/17/1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
06/17/1895 Louise Fazenda, US, actress/com�dienne (Almost an actress) 06/17/1895 Slavko Osterc, composer
06/17/1898 Maurits C Escher, graphic artist
06/17/1900 Hermann Reuter, composer
06/17/1900 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister of Hitler
06/17/1904 Coenrad van Emde Boas, sexologist
06/17/1904 Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places

06/17/1908 John Verrall, composer
06/17/1910 Herbert Owen Reed, composer
06/17/1910 Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington

06/17/1912 Don Gillis, Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5�)
06/17/1914 John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
06/17/1915 Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw) 06/17/1916 Einar Englund, composer
06/17/1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
06/17/1919 Antonius C 'Ton' Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
06/17/1919 Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
06/17/1919 Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
06/17/1919 Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], literary
06/17/1920 Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard) 06/17/1920 Fran�ois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965) 06/17/1920 Patrick Duffy, MP
06/17/1922 Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
06/17/1922 Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Lively Ones)
06/17/1922 Paul Schall�ck, German writer (Don Quixote in Cologne)
06/17/1923 Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams) 06/17/1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president (CPN)
06/17/1925 Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle) 06/17/1926 Alan Walters, political economist
06/17/1926 Manuel Enriquez, composer
06/17/1927 Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
06/17/1928 James Brown, soul singer (Hot Pants)
06/17/1929 Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
06/17/1929 Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
06/17/1930 Brian Statham, cricketer
06/17/1930 James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952) 06/17/1930 Romuald Twardowski, composer
06/17/1931 Virginia McKenna, London, actress (Born Free, Gathering Storm) 06/17/1932 Derek Ibbotson, athlete
06/17/1932 John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974- )
06/17/1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor
06/17/1939 Donald Anderson, Labour MP
06/17/1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
06/17/1940 Tony Marlow, conservative MP
06/17/1942 Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)

06/17/1943 Christopher Brown, composer
06/17/1943 Newton L Gingrich, (Rep-R-Georgia, 1979- )
06/17/1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France) 06/17/1945 Ken Livingstone, Labour MP
06/17/1945 Tony Roche, tennis coach
06/17/1946 Barry Manilow, NYC, singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs) 06/17/1946 Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983- )
06/17/1948 David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds) 06/17/1948 Rub�n Blades, Panama, singer/actor (Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition

06/17/1951 Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials) 06/17/1954 Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers) 06/17/1956 Nicholas Cook, cricketer
06/17/1957 Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love) 06/17/1958 Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful) 06/17/1964 Christy Cannon, XXX actress (Christy in the Wild)
06/17/1964 Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984) 06/17/1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer
06/17/1965 Kami Cotler, Long Beach Calif, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons) 06/17/1969 Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up

06/17/1975 Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
06/17/1977 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
06/17/1977 Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)


Deaths:

06/17/ 656 Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
06/17/ 676 Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies
06/17/ 855 Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies
06/17/1091 Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies
06/17/1119 Boudew�n VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies 06/17/1501 Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies
06/17/1672 Orazio Benevoli, composer, dies at 67
06/17/1678 Giacomo Torelli, composer, dies at 69
06/17/1696 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72
06/17/1696 Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies
06/17/1719 Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47 06/17/1797 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed 06/17/1815 Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
06/17/1863 Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battl

06/17/1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies 06/17/1905 M�ximo G�mez, Cuban general, dies at 68
06/17/1906 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
06/17/1906 William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
06/17/1910 Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
06/17/1918 Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
06/17/1928 Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies

06/17/1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies 06/17/1938 Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
06/17/1939 Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
06/17/1941 Johan Wagenaar, composer/conductor (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78 06/17/1951 Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77
06/17/1952 Alberto Williams, composer, dies at 89
06/17/1953 Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
06/17/1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68

06/17/1961 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40 06/17/1963 Alain FB Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79 06/17/1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
06/17/1965 Arnold Me�er, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies
06/17/1973 Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
06/17/1974 Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50 06/17/1978 Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
06/17/1979 Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
06/17/1983 Peter Mennin, composer, dies at 60
06/17/1984 Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51 06/17/1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
06/17/1985 Piet de Somer, Belgian rector of University of Leuven, dies at 67 06/17/1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
06/17/1986 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78 06/17/1987 Dick Howser, NY Yankee & KC Royal mgr, dies at 51 of brain cancer 06/17/1989 David S Griggs, astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane 06/17/1989 John Matusek, Oakland Raider/actor, dies at 38 of a heart attack 06/17/1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
06/17/1990 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies at 44 of cerebral hemorrhage 06/17/1992 Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
06/17/1992 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
06/17/1993 Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46
06/17/1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88


Significant Events:

06/17/ 2 -BC- Venus-Jupiter conjunction, 'star of Bethlehem?'
06/17/ 653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/17/ 656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
06/17/ 676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/17/1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
06/17/1119 Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
06/17/1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed 06/17/1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway 06/17/1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of Calif
06/17/1580 Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
06/17/1583 Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
06/17/1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
06/17/1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French 06/17/1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
06/17/1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
06/17/1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
06/17/1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
06/17/1850 Paddle-wheeler 'G P Griffith' burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die) 06/17/1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
06/17/1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia 06/17/1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Conmfederate force

06/17/1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia
06/17/1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia 06/17/1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta 06/17/1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer) 06/17/1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia 06/17/1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
06/17/1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
06/17/1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)

06/17/1876 Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
06/17/1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
06/17/1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
06/17/1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' 06/17/1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont 06/17/1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti 06/17/1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
06/17/1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar
06/17/1911 Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms
06/17/1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
06/17/1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
06/17/1916 US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
06/17/1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor
06/17/1919 'Barney Google' cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres 06/17/1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
06/17/1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games 06/17/1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
06/17/1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob

06/17/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in NY
06/17/1938 Japan declares war on China
06/17/1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
06/17/1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
06/17/1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
06/17/1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 06/17/1944 -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
06/17/1944 Col Blake, poet [Mr of Heaven Good Heart] arrive in London 06/17/1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark at Thingvallir, Iceland 06/17/1944 Resistance fighter Col Blake reachs London
06/17/1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
06/17/1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis 06/17/1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
06/17/1947 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
06/17/1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
06/17/1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
06/17/1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
06/17/1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
06/17/1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification
06/17/1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co) 06/17/1954 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in NYC
06/17/1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
06/17/1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
06/17/1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy 06/17/1959 Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
06/17/1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
06/17/1961 Gene Littler wins US Open golf tournament
06/17/1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt 06/17/1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago 06/17/1962 Jack Nicklaus wins US Open golf tournament
06/17/1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair 06/17/1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 06/17/1965 11.08' (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record

06/17/1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

06/16/1633 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
06/16/1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
06/16/1752 Meingosus Gaelle, composer
06/16/1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 06/16/1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
06/16/1843 David Popper, composer
06/16/1843 Jan Malat, composer
06/16/1853 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
06/16/1858 Gustav V, king of Sweden
06/16/1861 Scato Gocko de Vries, paleography/librarian
06/16/1863 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
06/16/1874 Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
06/16/1879 Fritz Schulz, German historic rights (Classical Novel Law) 06/16/1879 Theo[dorus J] Th�ssen, writer (Kees the boy)
06/16/1895 Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy) 06/16/1896 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer (Peugot)
06/16/1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants) 06/16/1899 Helen Traubel, US, singer (Sieglinde in Walk�re, Nightclubs) 06/16/1899 Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
06/16/1900 Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
06/16/1901 Conrad Beck, composer
06/16/1902 Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983) 06/16/1902 Kornelis Posthumus, chemist
06/16/1903 Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
06/16/1904 Gerard Holt, architect
06/16/1907 Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico & the Man) 06/16/1907 John Hadfield, author/publisher
06/16/1909 Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
06/16/1910 E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny

06/16/1910 Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show) 06/16/1910 Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
06/16/1911 Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumpl�nen)
06/16/1912 Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
06/16/1912 John Peel, MP
06/16/1914 Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
06/16/1915 Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
06/16/1916 Francis Lopez, composer
06/16/1917 Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
06/16/1919 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
06/16/1920 John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me) 06/16/1921 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England) 06/16/1923 Ake Hermanson, composer
06/16/1923 Henryk Czyz, composer
06/16/1925 Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
06/16/1927 Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
06/16/1927 Tom Graveny, cricketer
06/16/1928 Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
06/16/1928 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64) 06/16/1929 James Kirtland Randall, composer
06/16/1930 David Konstant, bishop of Leeds
06/16/1931 Ivo Petric, composer
06/16/1931 Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
06/16/1932 Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
06/16/1934 Eileen Atkins, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
06/16/1934 Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
06/16/1934 Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
06/16/1935 Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
06/16/1936 August Willemsen, poet/interpreter
06/16/1936 Fred Oster, TV host
06/16/1937 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch)
06/16/1937 Erich Segal, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
06/16/1938 James Bolam, actor (Crucible of Terror)
06/16/1938 Joyce Carol Oates, US, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) (1946) 06/16/1938 Mickie Finn, Hugo Okla, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's) 06/16/1940 Billy 'Crash' Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
06/16/1940 Hans Dorrest�n, cabaret performer
06/16/1941 Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier) 06/16/1942 Eddie Levert, US singer (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
06/16/1942 Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion 06/16/1943 Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas/Knots Landing)
06/16/1944 Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion 06/16/1946 Lord Astor, of Hever
06/16/1946 Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
06/16/1948 Brian Eno, rocker (Here Comes the Warm Jets)
06/16/1949 Kale Browne, San Rafael Calif, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World) 06/16/1950 James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything) 06/16/1950 Jesse Dizon, Oceanside Calif, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat) 06/16/1951 Roberto Duran, boxer (fists of stone, no m�s)
06/16/1951 Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands) 06/16/1952 Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80

06/16/1952 Gino Vanelli, Canada, singer (Living Inside Myself)
06/16/1953 Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drums, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws

06/16/1955 Ian Buchanan, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show) 06/16/1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress (Roseanne)
06/16/1957 Adri van Tiggelen, soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
06/16/1968 Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children



Deaths:

06/16/ 956 Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
06/16/1216 Innocent III, pope, dies at 54
06/16/1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64 06/16/1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 06/16/1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 6

06/16/1620 Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies 06/16/1644 Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 5

06/16/1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
06/16/1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured, executed in Moscow 06/16/1686 -BC- Hammurabi the Great, dies in Babylon
06/16/1722 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 7

06/16/1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 06/16/1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies

06/16/1804 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
06/16/1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
06/16/1812 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 06/16/1815 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle 06/16/1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
06/16/1837 Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
06/16/1892 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
06/16/1901 Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
06/16/1910 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
06/16/1932 Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies 06/16/1940 Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies 06/16/1940 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
06/16/1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
06/16/1946 Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
06/16/1958 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
06/16/1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind), shoots himself 06/16/1962 Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens S�n), dies at 64 06/16/1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at

06/16/1969 John BMR 'John' Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
06/16/1969 John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25
06/16/1969 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
06/16/1970 Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
06/16/1975 Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
06/16/1976 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed 06/16/1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking 06/16/1979 Ben Weber, composer, dies at 62
06/16/1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered 06/16/1981 John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
06/16/1982 John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs 06/16/1987 Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Ka�n), dies at 80 06/16/1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
06/16/1990 Megan Leigh, XXX actress (Deep Throat III), commits suicide 06/16/1991 Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
06/16/1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies

06/16/1993 John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76


Significant Events:

06/16/ 632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
06/16/1338 German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
06/16/1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
06/16/1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow 06/16/1673 Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenbur

06/16/1755 British capture Fort Beaus�jour, expel Acadians
06/16/1779 Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada 06/16/1784 Holland forbids orange clothes
06/16/1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
06/16/1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
06/16/1822 Denamrk Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
06/16/1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
06/16/1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
06/16/1842 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
06/16/1858 Abraham Lincoln says 'A house divided against itself cannot stand' 06/16/1861 Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
06/16/1864 Battle of Lynchburg VA
06/16/1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins
06/16/1864 Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia
06/16/1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC 06/16/1873 Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perc� indians
06/16/1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore' debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC 06/16/1882 17' hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
06/16/1883 1st baseball 'Ladies' Day' (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) 06/16/1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
06/16/1896 Temperture hits 127�F at Fort Mojave, Calif
06/16/1898 China's emperor De Sang (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
06/16/1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox 06/16/1903 Ford Motors incorporates
06/16/1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
06/16/1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 06/16/1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
06/16/1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
06/16/1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
06/16/1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronauti

06/16/1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
06/16/1927 Tommy Armour wins US Open golf tournament
06/16/1931 Austrian govt of Ender falls
06/16/1932 Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
06/16/1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention 06/16/1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) 06/16/1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
06/16/1936 Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
06/16/1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator) 06/16/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in LA
06/16/1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row 06/16/1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania
06/16/1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
06/16/1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
06/16/1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
06/16/1944 Iceland adopts constitution
06/16/1944 US bombs Kyushu, Japan
06/16/1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after 2 playoffs
06/16/1947 1st network news-Dumont's 'News from Washington'
06/16/1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
06/16/1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
06/16/1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row
06/16/1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down 06/16/1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months 06/16/1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
06/16/1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron
06/16/1956 Cary Middlecoff wins US Open golf tournament
06/16/1957 French offensive in Algeria
06/16/1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6

06/16/1958 Govt troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
06/16/1960 Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
06/16/1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
06/16/1961 Discoverer 25 launched
06/16/1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 06/16/1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
06/16/1962 Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra char

06/16/1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
06/16/1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 06/16/1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
06/16/1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
06/16/1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
06/16/1968 Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par 06/16/1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House 06/16/1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
06/16/1970 Race riots in Miami Florida
06/16/1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
06/16/1973 Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
06/16/1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players 06/16/1975 Hale Irwin wins US Open golf tournament
06/16/1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
06/16/1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
06/16/1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day) 06/16/1977 'Beatlemania' opens on Broadway
06/16/1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
06/16/1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
06/16/1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
06/16/1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
06/16/1978 Ringo releases 'Bad Boy' album; Wings releases 'I've Had Enough' 06/16/1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
06/16/1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275
06/16/1979 Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 shiks in Aleppo Syria
06/16/1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners 06/16/1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr 'nonstop' cycling in Leiria Portugal

06/16/1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 06/16/1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
06/16/1983 Ringo releases 'Old Wave' album in West Germany
06/16/1983 USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
06/16/1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

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