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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 Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (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 Jose 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 Leo Delibes, Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Coppelia)

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 Andres 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 [Hyman] Scholte, singer [or 1909]
02/21/1902 John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs
02/21/1903 Anais 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'exegese], 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, [Frederic 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 Jose 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-Arriens, 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 elegique) 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 Lehar's opera, Zarewitsch, premieres
02/21/1932 Andre 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
02/21/1943 Secret Police evacuate Apeld'se Forest, North Auschwitz
02/21/1944 'War As It Happens' news show premieres on NBC (NYC only) 02/21/1945 British Army captures Goch
02/21/1946 Anti-British demonstrates in Egypt
02/21/1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land 02/21/1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ 02/21/1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcastin

02/21/1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) 02/21/1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition 02/21/1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
02/21/1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
02/21/1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81

02/21/1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
02/21/1961 Gabon adopts constitution
02/21/1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
02/21/1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth 02/21/1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
02/21/1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
02/21/1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin 02/21/1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
02/21/1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) 02/21/1969 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #3406
02/21/1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
02/21/1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
02/21/1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
02/21/1973 Chicago Black Hawks, NHL record 262nd game without being shut-out 02/21/1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
02/21/1974 Silver hits record $5.962 an ounce in London
02/21/1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
02/21/1975 John Lennon releases 'Rock 'n' Roll' album
02/21/1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
02/21/1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
02/21/1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km) 02/21/1980 Eric Heiden skates 1500m in 1:55.44
02/21/1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)

02/21/1980 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3508 Pasternak
02/21/1981 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured 02/21/1981 Charles Rocket clearly says 'fuck' on Saturday Night Live 02/21/1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k) 02/21/1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
02/21/1982 Bowell disc asteroid 2634 James Bradley, 2635 Huggins & 2939 Coconin

02/21/1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
02/21/1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak 02/21/1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
02/21/1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
02/21/1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks 02/21/1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
02/21/1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
02/21/1988 Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
02/21/1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation 02/21/1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:11.94) 02/21/1989 US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value) 02/21/1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)
02/21/1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)

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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:

03/04/1394 Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery

03/04/1492 Francesco de Layolle, composer
03/04/1651 John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700) 03/04/1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons

03/04/1719 Aert Schouman, bird/portrait painter
03/04/1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
03/04/1745 Charles Dibdin, composer
03/04/1747 Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 03/04/1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer) 03/04/1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
03/04/1757 Ignaz Malzat, composer
03/04/1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized

03/04/1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
03/04/1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
03/04/1782 Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson) 03/04/1789 Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
03/04/1798 John Joseph Abercrombie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18

03/04/1813 Wijnand YY Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) 03/04/1819 Charles Oberthur, composer
03/04/1826 John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 03/04/1828 Elisha Franklin 'Bull' Paxton, Brig General (Confederate Army) 03/04/1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
03/04/1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)

03/04/1838 Paul Lacome, composer
03/04/1844 Josip Jurcic, Slavic writer (10th brother)
03/04/1875 Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramir

03/04/1875 Suze [Suzanna] Groeneweg, 1st female paliament member (SDAP, 1918-37

03/04/1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
03/04/1877 Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector
03/04/1885 Willem H Winkel, physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao) 03/04/1888 Knute Rockne, football player/coach (Notre Dame)
03/04/1889 Pearl White [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) 03/04/1891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs) 03/04/1897 Francis 'Lefty' O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball 03/04/1900 Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
03/04/1901 Charles H Goren, bridge master
03/04/1904 George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...%) 03/04/1905 Lili Kraus, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978)

03/04/1907 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered) 03/04/1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS] 03/04/1909 Harry Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) 03/04/1910 Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
03/04/1912 Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter
03/04/1912 John Garfield, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez) 03/04/1915 Carlos Surinach, composer
03/04/1915 Eunice Catunda, composer
03/04/1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
03/04/1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe oscure)
03/04/1916 Hans Eysenck, psychologist
03/04/1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)

03/04/1921 Halim El-Dabh, composer
03/04/1921 Joan Greenwood, London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn) 03/04/1923 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy) 03/04/1923 Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64

03/04/1927 Robert Di Domenica, composer
03/04/1927 Thayer David, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages) 03/04/1928 Alan Sillitoe, Brit, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)

03/04/1928 Samuel Adler, composer
03/04/1929 Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78

03/04/1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
03/04/1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
03/04/1931 Han Jansen, painter
03/04/1932 Guido Baggiani, composer
03/04/1932 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
03/04/1932 Miriam Makeba, South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
03/04/1933 Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
03/04/1934 Barbara McNair, Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show) 03/04/1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)

03/04/1934 Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms) 03/04/1936 Aribert Reimann, composer
03/04/1936 Jim Clark, race car driver (Indianapolis 500)
03/04/1937 Graham Dowling, cricketeer (New Zealand)
03/04/1939 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa], San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & Sh

03/04/1940 Kas Garas, Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report) 03/04/1941 Adrian Lyne, director (Fatal Attraction, 92 Weeks, Jacob's Ladder) 03/04/1941 John Hancock, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights) 03/04/1943 Zoltan Jeney, composer
03/04/1944 Bobby Womack, Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It) 03/04/1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
03/04/1945 Jaime Tirelli, NYC, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four)
03/04/1946 Harvey Goldsmith, impresario
03/04/1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, cellist
03/04/1948 Billy Gibbons, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango)
03/04/1948 Chris Squire, London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water) 03/04/1948 Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], rocker (You Drive Me Crazy) 03/04/1950 Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
03/04/1950 Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
03/04/1950 Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72

03/04/1951 Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over) 03/04/1952 Ron Moss, actor (Hot Child in the City, Hard Ticket to Hawaii) 03/04/1953 Christopher H Smith, (Rep-R-NJ, 1981- )
03/04/1953 Kay Lenz, LA Calif, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man) 03/04/1954 Catherine O'Hara, Toronto Ont, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV) 03/04/1955 Benny Alexander, sec-gen (S Afr Pan-Africanist Movement)
03/04/1959 Kelly Lynch, Golden Walley Minn, actress (Warm Summer Rain) 03/04/1960 Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World) 03/04/1961 Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring) 03/04/1963 Jason Newstedt, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em all) 03/04/1963 MDV, [Michiel de Vos], pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
03/04/1964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist, scored a perfect 10 in olympics 03/04/1965 Dana Brown, Memphis Tenn, Miss Tenn-America (1991) (3rd)
03/04/1968 Patsy Kensit, London, rocker/actress (Lethal Weapon 2, 21, Hanover S

03/04/1969 Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny & Cher/singer
03/04/1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993)


Deaths:

03/04/1172 Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies
03/04/1484 Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies
03/04/1615 Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
03/04/1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
03/04/1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
03/04/1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist Army leader, dies

03/04/1831 Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
03/04/1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, composer, dies at 72
03/04/1851 Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 71
03/04/1864 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity) 03/04/1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77

03/04/1876 Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
03/04/1883 Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies
03/04/1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 03/04/1903 Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies 03/04/1916 Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Verdun), dies at 36 03/04/1918 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
03/04/1922 Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
03/04/1925 Moritz Moszkowski, composer, dies at 70
03/04/1933 Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36 03/04/1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
03/04/1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
03/04/1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
03/04/1943 Nikolaos 'Sokrates' Politis, Greek diplomat/foreign minister, dies 03/04/1943 Pieter C Boutens, poet, dies
03/04/1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
03/04/1948 Elsa Brandstrom, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies 03/04/1953 Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61 03/04/1954 Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 80
03/04/1954 Noel Gay, composer, dies at 55
03/04/1958 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies 03/04/1960 Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48
03/04/1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed) dies at 77

03/04/1963 William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
03/04/1966 Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75
03/04/1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 85
03/04/1974 Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71
03/04/1981 Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies 03/04/1983 Herge, [Georges Remi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje), dies
03/04/1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
03/04/1986 Henri Handsome, journalist/writer, dies at 75
03/04/1986 Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40 03/04/1991 Vance Colvig, actor, dies
03/04/1992 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failu

03/04/1992 C Meijer, editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
03/04/1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
03/04/1992 Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
03/04/1992 Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 6

03/04/1993 Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies 03/04/1993 Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies
03/04/1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, actor/director (Twee Druppels Waters), dies at 7

03/04/1994 John Candy, actor (Uncle Buck), dies at 43 from a heart attack


Significant Events:

03/04/1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
03/04/1461 Edward IV recognized as king of England
03/04/1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
03/04/1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
03/04/1634 Samuel Cole opens 1st tavern in Boston, Massachusetts
03/04/1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
03/04/1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
03/04/1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn 03/04/1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
03/04/1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
03/04/1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
03/04/1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) 03/04/1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 03/04/1791 Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session 03/04/1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) 03/04/1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
03/04/1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg
03/04/1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 03/04/1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jew

03/04/1801 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) 03/04/1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 03/04/1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
03/04/1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball 03/04/1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
03/04/1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
03/04/1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 03/04/1849 US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't 03/04/1849 be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd 03/04/1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
03/04/1861 Asteroid 64, Angelina discovered
03/04/1861 Confederate States adopt 'Stars & Bars' flag
03/04/1861 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #64 Angelina
03/04/1861 Lincoln's innauguration; 1st time US has 5 former presidents 03/04/1861 Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office
03/04/1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
03/04/1863 Territory of Idaho established
03/04/1865 Confederate congress approves final design of 'official flag' 03/04/1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as US president
03/04/1876 US Congress ends 'impeachment' of Minister of War Belknap 03/04/1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan 03/04/1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 03/04/1881 Holmes & Watson begin 'A Study in Scarlet', 1st case together 03/04/1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as US president
03/04/1885 Grover Cleveland becomes 1st Democratic president since Civil War 03/04/1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as US, president
03/04/1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #325 Heidelberga
03/04/1893 Grover Cleveland (D) becomes 22nd US president (2nd term) 03/04/1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
03/04/1895 Premeir of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony (Berlin)
03/04/1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
03/04/1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)

03/04/1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, end

03/04/1901 US president William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term of office 03/04/1902 American Automobile Association opens
03/04/1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #483 Seppina
03/04/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #590 Tomyris
03/04/1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #627 Charis
03/04/1908 Collingwood Ohio school catches fire; 180 die
03/04/1909 President Taft sworn-in during 10' snowstorm
03/04/1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
03/04/1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US 03/04/1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed 03/04/1913 Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
03/04/1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress 03/04/1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 03/04/1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
03/04/1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
03/04/1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda about Red bureaucracy
03/04/1925 Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 03/04/1925 Swain's I (near American Samoa) annexed by US
03/04/1926 De Geer govt in Netherlands takes office
03/04/1928 'Bunion Run' race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne 03/04/1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kans) becomes 1st native American VP
03/04/1929 Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover
03/04/1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
03/04/1930 Mrs Charles Fahning is 1st woman to bowl a santioned perfect game 03/04/1932 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1241 Dysona
03/04/1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disolves Austrian parliament
03/04/1933 FDR inaugurated, says 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' 03/04/1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member 03/04/1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
03/04/1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
03/04/1937 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1415 Malautra & #1416 Renauxa 03/04/1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighter sentenced to death in The Hague 03/04/1941 NHL Chicago goalee Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shot

03/04/1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
03/04/1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
03/04/1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting

03/04/1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 03/04/1949 Piet Van de Pol of Neth becomes world champion billiard player 03/04/1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
03/04/1954 1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed-JE Wilkins
03/04/1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent 03/04/1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artifical planet 03/04/1960 French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 03/04/1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
03/04/1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
03/04/1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die 03/04/1966 John Lennon, says 'We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus' 03/04/1968 Joe Frazier defeats Buster Mathis for heavyweight boxing championshi

03/04/1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 03/04/1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
03/04/1970 French submarine 'Eurydice' explodes
03/04/1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game

03/04/1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 03/04/1971 'Stadscommando' kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey 03/04/1972 Keller skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
03/04/1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
03/04/1974 Harold Wilson becomes British premier
03/04/1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
03/04/1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM 03/04/1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1500
03/04/1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue 03/04/1979 200th episode of 'All in the Family'
03/04/1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
03/04/1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
03/04/1980 Robert Mugabes (ZANU-PF) wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe 03/04/1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2765 & #3705
03/04/1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin 03/04/1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
03/04/1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled 03/04/1986 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3554 Amun
03/04/1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
03/04/1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
03/04/1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
03/04/1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space 03/04/1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank 03/04/1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
03/04/1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 03/04/1994 STS-62 (Columbia) launches into orbit

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Births:

03/07/1543 Johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent)
03/07/1574 John Wilbye, composer
03/07/1602 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
03/07/1621 Georg Neumark, composer
03/07/1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
03/07/1682 Johan W van Ripperda, diplomat/baron/duke
03/07/1693 Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
03/07/1707 Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind
03/07/1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der FrUhling) 03/07/1731 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer
03/07/1762 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, director-general (East Indies Company) 03/07/1765 Joseph Niepce, inventor (photography)
03/07/1769 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
03/07/1773 Tommaso Marchesi, composer
03/07/1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
03/07/1792 John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer 03/07/1797 Karl Schwencke, composer
03/07/1799 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song) 03/07/1807 Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Of the Alchemist) 03/07/1811 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
03/07/1813 Judocus Smits, Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time) 03/07/1820 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
03/07/1822 Victor Masse, composer
03/07/1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 188

03/07/1831 John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen 03/07/1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 03/07/1837 Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) 03/07/1841 Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido the condores) 03/07/1842 Anne CAI of Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
03/07/1844 Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist 03/07/1849 Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist
03/07/1850 Tomas G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35) 03/07/1856 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne) 03/07/1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927) 03/07/1858 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
03/07/1869 Earnest J Cohen, chemist
03/07/1872 Piet Mondrian, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie) 03/07/1872 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
03/07/1875 Maurice Joseph Ravel, Cibourne France, composer (Bolero)
03/07/1875 Maurice Ravel, composer
03/07/1883 Carl Deis, composer
03/07/1887 Heino Eller, composer
03/07/1888 Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, gov of Neth Indies (1936-45

03/07/1895 Juan Jose Castro, composer
03/07/1896 Erwin Bodky, composer
03/07/1898 John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer
03/07/1900 [Albert] Carel Willink, painter (realism)
03/07/1902 Heinz RUhmann, German actor (Der Hauptmann von Kopenick)
03/07/1904 Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver) 03/07/1904 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice)) 03/07/1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Wiener Broke)
03/07/1906 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
03/07/1906 Hans Lachman, composer
03/07/1907 Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
03/07/1907 Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga)
03/07/1908 Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle) 03/07/1908 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
03/07/1908 Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
03/07/1911 Stefan Kisielewski, composer
03/07/1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician
03/07/1917 Davis Roberts, Mobile Ala, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
03/07/1917 Robert Erickson, composer
03/07/1924 Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
03/07/1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, photographer
03/07/1930 James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)

03/07/1931 Cornelis T 'Cor' van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press 03/07/1931 Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
03/07/1934 Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
03/07/1936 Georges Perec, French writer
03/07/1937 Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )
03/07/1938 Homero Blancas, golfer (1965 Rookie of the Year)
03/07/1938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indie 500 03/07/1939 Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends) 03/07/1940 Daniel J Travanti, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)

03/07/1940 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader
03/07/1940 Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
03/07/1942 Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
03/07/1942 Paul Preuss, US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire) 03/07/1942 Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
03/07/1942 Tommy F Robinson, (Rep-D-AR, 1985- )
03/07/1943 Chris White, rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
03/07/1944 Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)
03/07/1945 Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)
03/07/1945 John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD)
03/07/1946 Peter Wolf, rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame) 03/07/1947 Donna Loren, Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo) 03/07/1947 Lewis J Stadlen, Bkln NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City) 03/07/1950 Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
03/07/1952 Ernie Isley, US guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
03/07/1952 Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster 03/07/1954 Matt Frenette, rocker (Loverboy)
03/07/1960 Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
03/07/1961 Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena Calif, actress (Kayla-Days of our Lives) 03/07/1962 Taylor Dane, Long Island NY, rocker (I'll Always Love You)


Deaths:

03/07/ 161 Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at

03/07/ 322 -BC- Aristotle, Greek philosopher, dies
03/07/1040 Harold I, King of England (1035-40), dies
03/07/1111 Bohemund I van Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies
03/07/1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48
03/07/1305 Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namen, dies at 78 03/07/1724 Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68

03/07/1737 Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/field marshal, dies at 79 03/07/1750 Cornelis Consolation, portrait (It Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52 03/07/1761 Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68
03/07/1802 Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50
03/07/1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies 03/07/1809 Johann G Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer, dies at 73
03/07/1810 Albertus H Wiese, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at about 48 03/07/1842 Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61
03/07/1862 Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 50
03/07/1862 John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 03/07/1907 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64
03/07/1911 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies 03/07/1926 Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73
03/07/1931 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65 03/07/1931 Theo of Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect, dies 03/07/1932 Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69 03/07/1939 Amadeo Roldan, composer, dies at 39
03/07/1941 Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63
03/07/1945 Adolf Bartels, German writer, dies
03/07/1951 Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
03/07/1951 Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies 03/07/1959 Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies 03/07/1959 Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows dies at 88 03/07/1961 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42
03/07/1961 Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France dies at 60 03/07/1964 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
03/07/1973 Andre de Meulemaster, Belgian WW I pilot [Arend van Vlanderen], dies

03/07/1975 Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73 03/07/1976 Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90
03/07/1979 Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84 03/07/1979 Klaus Egge, composer, dies at 72
03/07/1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
03/07/1981 Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67 03/07/1982 Charles Borromeo Mills, composer, dies at 68
03/07/1983 Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70
03/07/1983 Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65

03/07/1985 George Schick, conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
03/07/1985 Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
03/07/1985 Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies 03/07/1986 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81 03/07/1988 Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema 03/07/1990 Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50
03/07/1993 Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies


Significant Events:

03/07/1138 Conrad III becomes German king
03/07/1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa 03/07/1621 John Pieterszoon Coens troops land on Lontor, East-Indies 03/07/1633 Prince Frederik Henry appointed himself viceroy of Limburg 03/07/1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies 03/07/1719 Amsterdams master builder Steven J Vennekool buried
03/07/1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
03/07/1778 Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
03/07/1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
03/07/1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
03/07/1835 HMS Beagle sails from Valparaiso to Concepcion
03/07/1843 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office 03/07/1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
03/07/1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
03/07/1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
03/07/1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends 03/07/1852 Dutch telegraph worker law established
03/07/1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes 03/07/1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed 03/07/1865 -10] Battles round Kinston NC
03/07/1870 Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & Eas

03/07/1872 -8oF in Boston, MA
03/07/1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
03/07/1894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #388 Charybdis
03/07/1900 Battle at Poplar Brutal
03/07/1902 Boers beat British troop in Two Bush, Transvaal
03/07/1906 Finnish Senate agrees for general voting right, except for poor 03/07/1907 Kopff discovers asteroid 628 Christine, 629 Bernardina & 630 Euphemi

03/07/1908 Cincinnati mayor says woman aren't physically fit to operate an auto

03/07/1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
03/07/1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker 03/07/1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
03/07/1913 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #747 Winchester
03/07/1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
03/07/1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
03/07/1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
03/07/1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan 03/07/1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball 03/07/1932 Irregularities in Ford-factory Dearborn, Michigan, kill 4 03/07/1933 Game of 'Monopoly' invented
03/07/1934 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1301 Yvonne
03/07/1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
03/07/1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland 03/07/1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
03/07/1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
03/07/1940 Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home 03/07/1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ 03/07/1941 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1')
03/07/1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
03/07/1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
03/07/1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
03/07/1943 S Arend discovers asteroid #1563 Noel
03/07/1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
03/07/1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
03/07/1945 During WW II, US crosses Rhine River
03/07/1945 US 9th Pantzer division attacks Remagen on the Rhine
03/07/1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1863 Antinous
03/07/1949 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1597 Laugier
03/07/1950 Dick Button wins 3rd consecutive world figure skating championship 03/07/1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round HW decision against Jersey Joe Walcott 03/07/1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competiton 03/07/1955 Baseball com Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter 03/07/1955 Mary Martin as 'Peter Pan' televised
03/07/1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffa

03/07/1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 03/07/1960 Builders strike for CLA
03/07/1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) 03/07/1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma 03/07/1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
03/07/1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting 03/07/1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
03/07/1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
03/07/1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahmans Awami League wins election in Bangladesh 03/07/1974 'Monitor' (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC 03/07/1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
03/07/1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate 03/07/1976 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria 03/07/1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
03/07/1977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
03/07/1978 Belgium baron Charles Brought kidnap
03/07/1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders 03/07/1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
03/07/1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death 03/07/1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) 03/07/1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
03/07/1986 M Inoue & O Muramatsu discovers asteroid #3432 Kobuchizawa 03/07/1986 South-Africa emergency crisis disbands Brabant & Limburg
03/07/1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist 03/07/1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith to win the WBA heavyweight title 03/07/1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award 03/07/1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Gr Britain over Rushdie 03/07/1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) 03/07/1990 H Wayne Huizenga buys 2 Joe Robbie Stadium & 15% of Dolphins for $30


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Births:

03/14/1623 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
03/14/1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer 03/14/1692 Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse bottle)
03/14/1726 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
03/14/1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
03/14/1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
03/14/1782 Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), 'Old Bullion'
03/14/1795 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
03/14/1800 James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) 03/14/1804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March) 03/14/1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brig General (Union volunteers) 03/14/1815 Josephine Lang, composer
03/14/1816 Montgomery Dent Corse, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895

03/14/1820 Victor Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78) 03/14/1821 Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist
03/14/1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887

03/14/1826 William Fisk Sherwin, composer
03/14/1829 Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age)
03/14/1831 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
03/14/1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) 03/14/1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist
03/14/1835 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars)
03/14/1835 Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
03/14/1837 Charles Ammi Cutter, librarian, originated Cutter system
03/14/1844 King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)
03/14/1847 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes) 03/14/1854 Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
03/14/1854 Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)
03/14/1862 Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
03/14/1864 Casey Jones, RR engineer
03/14/1873 Joannes DJ Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35) 03/14/1874 Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
03/14/1874 Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife, Pack Up Your Troubles

03/14/1875 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary) 03/14/1875 Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
03/14/1878 Carel T Scharten, poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
03/14/1879 Albert Einstein, Ulm Germany, physicist E=mc2 (Nobel 1921) 03/14/1883 Juan Manen, composer
03/14/1884 Albert Egges van Giffen, archaeologist
03/14/1884 Winter Haynes Watts, composer
03/14/1887 Lawrence Collingwood, composer
03/14/1891 John P Strijbos, writer (To Wander through South-Africa)
03/14/1894 Josef Schelb, composer
03/14/1895 French Ganshof, Belgian historian
03/14/1905 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
03/14/1906 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
03/14/1907 Bjorn-Erik Hoyer, Swedish writer (Now dansar Sara)
03/14/1908 Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
03/14/1908 Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
03/14/1909 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
03/14/1911 Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn) 03/14/1912 Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, orch leader (& his band of renown) 03/14/1913 Witold Rudzinski, composer
03/14/1914 Fiorenzo Marini, Italy, epee (Olympic-gold-1960)
03/14/1914 Jiri Reinberger, composer
03/14/1915 Alexander Brott, composer
03/14/1915 Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo)
03/14/1918 Dennis Patrick, Phila, actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals) 03/14/1919 Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orch leader (Polly Bergen Show) 03/14/1919 Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap) 03/14/1920 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48) 03/14/1920 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
03/14/1921 Lis Hartel, Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1952, 56) 03/14/1922 Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time)
03/14/1922 Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader
03/14/1925 John Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
03/14/1926 Francois d'Assise Morel, composer
03/14/1927 Joop F Wolff, head director (De Warheid)/Dutch politician (CPN) 03/14/1928 Frank Borman, Gary Ind, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8)/Eastern Airline pres

03/14/1929 Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
03/14/1930 Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
03/14/1931 Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970) 03/14/1933 Michael Caine, British actor (Blame it on Rio/Alfie/Educating Rita) 03/14/1933 Quincy Jones, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World) 03/14/1934 Eugene A Cernan, Chicago, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 17

03/14/1935 Jo van den Booren, composer
03/14/1939 Bertrand Blier, France, novelist/director (Going Places)
03/14/1939 William B Lenoir, Miami Florida, astronaut (STS-5)
03/14/1940 Rita Tushingham, Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago)

03/14/1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles) 03/14/1943 Jim Pons, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
03/14/1945 Herman[us J] van Veen, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
03/14/1945 Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire) 03/14/1945 Walter Parazaider, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
03/14/1946 Steve Kanaly, Burbank Calif, actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs-Dallas) 03/14/1946 Wes Unseld, NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets)
03/14/1947 Billy Crystal, Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, SNL, City Slickers) 03/14/1947 Jan [AJ] te Fieldhuis, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
03/14/1947 Janis Schmitt, St Louis Mo, playmate (February, 1978)
03/14/1947 William Jefferson, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
03/14/1952 David Byrne, guitarist/vocalist (Talking Heads-Burning Down the Hous

03/14/1952 J Fred Muggs, chimp (Today show)
03/14/1953 Tim McKee, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympic-silver-1972)
03/14/1954 Adrian Zmed, Chicago Ill, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
03/14/1954 David La Croix, race horse trainer
03/14/1954 Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
03/14/1955 Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
03/14/1956 Irina D Latysheva, Russia, cosmonaut
03/14/1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988

03/14/1959 Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
03/14/1960 George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980)
03/14/1961 Gary Dell'Abate, producer (Howard Stern Show)
03/14/1963 Pedro Duque, Spanish engineer/astronaut candidate (Sked: Mir-1 1994?

03/14/1964 Richard Migliore, jockey
03/14/1966 Theo Joosten, pop guitarist/singer (Rowwen Heze-Bestel Mar) 03/14/1967 Melissa Brennan Reeves, Eatontown NJ, actress (Jen-Days of our Lives

03/14/1982 Kate Maberly, actress
03/14/1989 Oliver Bernsen, son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays


Deaths:

03/14/ 840 Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69

03/14/1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 03/14/1298 Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies
03/14/1490 Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
03/14/1559 Jacques d'auchy, Waals baptist merchant, executed
03/14/1573 Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies

03/14/1590 Philip van Egmont, strategist/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30

03/14/1612 Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
03/14/1647 Frederik Henry, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies
03/14/1682 Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53 03/14/1757 John Byng, English admiral (Minorca), executed at 52
03/14/1760 Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
03/14/1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
03/14/1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
03/14/1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
03/14/1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies 03/14/1899 Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
03/14/1903 Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter, dies
03/14/1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
03/14/1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), dies
03/14/1944 Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
03/14/1953 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 03/14/1954 Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
03/14/1961 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies 03/14/1969 Am Shahn, US painter, dies at 70
03/14/1973 Murat B 'Chic' Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 03/14/1975 Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
03/14/1976 Alberta Franklin, dies
03/14/1976 Busby Berkeley, [William B Enos], US choreographer, dies at 80 03/14/1981 Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? 03/14/1982 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
03/14/1983 Maurice Ronet, actor (Ciurcle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55 03/14/1984 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman of Club Rome, dies at 7

03/14/1986 Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 82
03/14/1986 Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74 03/14/1986 Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
03/14/1989 Zita, Empress of Austria-Hungary, dies at 96
03/14/1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies
03/14/1991 Robert Maroff, dies
03/14/1992 C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies at 71 of cancer

03/14/1992 Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies 03/14/1992 Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies
03/14/1992 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st executed in Delaware in 45 years, at 34 03/14/1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered


Significant Events:

03/14/1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth 03/14/1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 03/14/1629 Royal charter granted Massachusetts Bay Colony
03/14/1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 03/14/1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
03/14/1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
03/14/1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
03/14/1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
03/14/1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
03/14/1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama 03/14/1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
03/14/1862 Battle of New Bern, NC
03/14/1864 Rossini's 'Petite Messe Solennelle,' premieres in Paris
03/14/1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
03/14/1870 Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible 03/14/1885 R Luther discovers asteroid #247 Eukrate
03/14/1885 The opera 'The Mikado' is produced (London)
03/14/1888 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21')
03/14/1896 Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) 03/14/1899 Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens Univ (Kingston Ont) for the Stanley C

03/14/1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
03/14/1900 US currency goes on gold standard
03/14/1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL 03/14/1903 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage (Kenora) Thisles for Stanley Cup 03/14/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroids #524 Fidelio & #526 Jena
03/14/1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #591 Irmgard
03/14/1908 Mont Wanderers beat Tor Trolley Leaguers for Stanley Cup (3rd of 190

03/14/1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
03/14/1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attem

03/14/1913 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #748 Simeisa
03/14/1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 03/14/1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
03/14/1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 03/14/1916 Battle of Verdun - Germany attacks France
03/14/1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF 03/14/1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
03/14/1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
03/14/1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
03/14/1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland
03/14/1923 German High advisor prohibits NSDAP
03/14/1923 Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
03/14/1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
03/14/1931 M Wolf discovers asteroid #2650
03/14/1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
03/14/1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
03/14/1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
03/14/1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US govt, publishes 1st issue 03/14/1939 Hungarian troops occupy Czechoslovakia Ruthenie
03/14/1939 Nazi dissolve republic of Czechoslovakia
03/14/1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
03/14/1945 RAF bombs railway link at Hannover-Hamm
03/14/1946 Belgian govt of Spaak, forms
03/14/1948 Freedom Train arrives in SF
03/14/1950 FBI's '10 Most Wanted Fugitives' program begins
03/14/1950 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1602 Indiana
03/14/1951 During Korean War, UN forces recapture Seoul
03/14/1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
03/14/1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/14/1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party 03/14/1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins 03/14/1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
03/14/1957 Indonesian govt of Sastroamidjojo resigns
03/14/1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
03/14/1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
03/14/1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points 03/14/1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
03/14/1962 Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals 03/14/1963 SF Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists
03/14/1964 Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder 03/14/1965 Israeli govt approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 03/14/1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith
03/14/1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 03/14/1971 Barbra Striesand appears on 'The Burt Bacharach Special' on CBS TV 03/14/1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
03/14/1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 03/14/1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City 03/14/1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
03/14/1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins hias 7,000th race
03/14/1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) 03/14/1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
03/14/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2270 Yazhi & #2822 Sacajawea 03/14/1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)

03/14/1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
03/14/1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission 03/14/1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 03/14/1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 03/14/1987 Katarina Witt wins her 3rd world figure skating championship 03/14/1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 03/14/1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave 03/14/1992 Farm Aid V
03/14/1992 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape 03/14/1992 Soviet newspaper 'Pravada' suspends publication
03/14/1993 3,000th performance of 'Nunsense'
03/14/1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)

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Births:

03/15/1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere 03/15/1754 Silvestro Palma, composer
03/15/1767 Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1828-37) 03/15/1779 William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41) 03/15/1790 Nicola Vaccai, composer
03/15/1801 Conrad J van Wooden, cocoa manufacturer
03/15/1808 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
03/15/1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
03/15/1810 Aernout Drost, literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
03/15/1811 Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886 03/15/1824 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Swedish Uprising)
03/15/1830 Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
03/15/1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
03/15/1835 Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
03/15/1836 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
03/15/1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)

03/15/1851 Jozef Surzynski, composer
03/15/1852 Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
03/15/1855 Lutzen Wagenaar, Fries writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
03/15/1864 Johan Halvorsen, composer
03/15/1864 Leslie Stuart, composer
03/15/1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems) 03/15/1867 Will Rossiter, composer
03/15/1871 Betsy van den Arend, [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
03/15/1873 David Vaughan Thomas, composer
03/15/1874 Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
03/15/1879 Gerrit J Heering, Roman theologist (Fall of Christianity) 03/15/1884 Rudolf Piskacek, composer
03/15/1894 Slava Vorlova, composer
03/15/1900 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
03/15/1901 Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)

03/15/1901 Theo Uden Marsman, orchestra leader
03/15/1902 Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela)
03/15/1904 George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
03/15/1905 Berthold Donate von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler 03/15/1905 Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show

03/15/1907 Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice) 03/15/1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race

03/15/1912 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensban)
03/15/1913 Lex Goudsmit, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
03/15/1913 MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Gir

03/15/1915 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris) 03/15/1915 Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
03/15/1916 Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy At)
03/15/1916 Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable) 03/15/1918 Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde) 03/15/1919 John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)

03/15/1919 Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
03/15/1920 Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56

03/15/1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
03/15/1923 Italo Calvino, Italian writer (Split Viscount)
03/15/1923 Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
03/15/1924 Lockrem Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 I T Valentine, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
03/15/1926 Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
03/15/1926 Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
03/15/1927 Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) 03/15/1928 Nicolas Flagello, composer
03/15/1929 Tiezo Matsumura, composer
03/15/1932 Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3

03/15/1933 Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer
03/15/1933 Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
03/15/1933 Ronald Roseman, composer
03/15/1933 Roy Clark, country singer (Hee Haw)
03/15/1934 Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
03/15/1935 Judd Hirsch, NYC, actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary Peopl

03/15/1936 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
03/15/1938 Dick Higgins, composer
03/15/1939 Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man) 03/15/1940 Phil Lesh, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
03/15/1941 Mike Love, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room) 03/15/1943 Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
03/15/1943 David Cronenberg, Canada, director (Shivers, Fly, Bread)
03/15/1943 Don Mitchell, US, actor (Ironside)
03/15/1944 Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
03/15/1944 David Costell, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring) 03/15/1944 Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People) 03/15/1945 Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
03/15/1945 Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System) 03/15/1945 Tracy Smith, runner
03/15/1946 Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
03/15/1946 Howard Scott, US guitarist (War, Cisco Kid)
03/15/1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russia, cosmonaut
03/15/1947 Ry Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
03/15/1947 Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
03/15/1947 Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
03/15/1949 John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
03/15/1954 Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club) 03/15/1955 Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It) 03/15/1955 Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live) 03/15/1957 Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning

03/15/1958 Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
03/15/1959 Eliot Teltscher, Calif, tennis player (US Davis Cup team) 03/15/1959 Harold Baines, Maryland, outfielder (White Sox, Rangers)
03/15/1960 Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
03/15/1961 Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark) 03/15/1961 John Melendez, jockey
03/15/1962 Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
03/15/1962 Terence Trent D'Arby, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
03/15/1963 Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me) 03/15/1963 Don Simington, jockey
03/15/1963 French Koenn, pop bassist (Lois Lane-Precious)
03/15/1963 Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap)
03/15/1968 Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys) 03/15/1971 Robbie Pratt, jockey
03/15/1986 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)


Deaths:

03/15/ 44 -BC- Julius Casar, Emperor of Rome, assassinated in Roman Senate 03/15/ 493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
03/15/ 752 Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
03/15/ 963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies
03/15/1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
03/15/1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 03/15/1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, diplomat/politician, dies at 75
03/15/1842 Luigi Cherubini, composer, dies at 81
03/15/1842 M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian director, dies
03/15/1880 John KJ de Young, historian, dies at 51
03/15/1883 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
03/15/1905 Arnold Kerdijk, liberal founder Social Weekly newspaper, dies at 60 03/15/1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norse author (Paa St J0rgen), dies at 58 03/15/1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82 03/15/1918 Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
03/15/1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer, dies at 70
03/15/1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies
03/15/1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, SDAP resistance fighter, dies at 41 03/15/1954 Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
03/15/1962 Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
03/15/1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75 03/15/1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63 03/15/1966 Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 75
03/15/1969 Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80 03/15/1970 Arthur Adamov, French playwright, dies
03/15/1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Norse author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 03/15/1971 Jean-Pierre Monsere, Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
03/15/1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
03/15/1975 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49 03/15/1975 Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies
03/15/1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
03/15/1983 Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80 03/15/1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY) dies at 82
03/15/1990 Tom Harmon, former Heisman Trophy winner, dies at 70 in LA 03/15/1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies
03/15/1991 Eileen Sedgwick, dies
03/15/1992 Helen Deutsch, writer, dies
03/15/1992 Jack Washburn, actor, dies
03/15/1992 Vanessa Lee, dies
03/15/1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61 03/15/1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies
03/15/1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68


Significant Events:

03/15/ 493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
03/15/ 752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/15/ 933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
03/15/1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 03/15/1382 Conservative 'Popolo Grasso' regain power in Florence Italy 03/15/1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews 03/15/1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 03/15/1672 King Charles II removes Declaration of Indulgence
03/15/1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans 03/15/1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
03/15/1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
03/15/1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (English beat US)
03/15/1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
03/15/1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
03/15/1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
03/15/1827 University of Toronto is chartered
03/15/1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 03/15/1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN 03/15/1863 R Luther discovers asteroid #78 Diana
03/15/1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
03/15/1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 03/15/1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team 03/15/1872 R Luther discovers asteroid #118 Peitho
03/15/1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
03/15/1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 03/15/1889 6 US & German warships fight in harbor at Apia Samoa, 200 die 03/15/1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
03/15/1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #400 Ducrosa
03/15/1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden 03/15/1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 03/15/1906 Britten Rolls & Royce Johnson found Rolls Royce Ltd
03/15/1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
03/15/1912 Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine) 03/15/1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
03/15/1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
03/15/1915 Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea 03/15/1916 Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 03/15/1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
03/15/1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (3/3 OS)
03/15/1919 American Legion forms
03/15/1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
03/15/1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
03/15/1926 Belgium's 'black monday', franc falls
03/15/1928 Mussolini modifies Italian electoral system
03/15/1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
03/15/1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched 03/15/1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination 03/15/1934 US Information Service opens
03/15/1937 1st blood bank established, Chicago, Ill
03/15/1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
03/15/1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia indepen

03/15/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #3380
03/15/1940 Goring ays 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 03/15/1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
03/15/1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
03/15/1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
03/15/1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 03/15/1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

03/15/1950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1616 Filipoff
03/15/1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official 'rainmaker' 03/15/1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
03/15/1952 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #1622 Chacornac
03/15/1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean 03/15/1953 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #3156
03/15/1953 West Germany loses in soccer to The Netherlands, 2-1
03/15/1954 'CBS Morning Show' premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar 03/15/1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasti

03/15/1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
03/15/1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1956 'My Fair Lady' opens on Broadway (NYC)
03/15/1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ

03/15/1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
03/15/1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s 03/15/1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) 03/15/1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
03/15/1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 03/15/1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jum

03/15/1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4000 pts in an NBA season 03/15/1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting 03/15/1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
03/15/1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
03/15/1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
03/15/1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
03/15/1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
03/15/1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Civil Rights Act

03/15/1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast 03/15/1968 Bob Beamon, sets long jump record of 27' 2 3/4'
03/15/1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
03/15/1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
03/15/1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
03/15/1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?)
03/15/1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
03/15/1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama 03/15/1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 03/15/1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
03/15/1974 Civil rights activist president Garastazu Medici resigns
03/15/1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
03/15/1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
03/15/1976 Failed coup in Niger
03/15/1977 US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions 03/15/1978 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon 03/15/1978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas 03/15/1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for the Radio Shack's TRS-80 03/15/1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
03/15/1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
03/15/1982 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3571
03/15/1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan 03/15/1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) 03/15/1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
03/15/1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
03/15/1986 Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
03/15/1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
03/15/1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
03/15/1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
03/15/1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
03/15/1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Civil rights activist 03/15/1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
03/15/1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 204'
03/15/1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
03/15/1994 Asteroid 0 20m comes within 160-180,000 km of Earth
03/15/1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet

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

03/15/1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere 03/15/1754 Silvestro Palma, composer
03/15/1767 Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1828-37) 03/15/1779 William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41) 03/15/1790 Nicola Vaccai, composer
03/15/1801 Conrad J van Wooden, cocoa manufacturer
03/15/1808 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
03/15/1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
03/15/1810 Aernout Drost, literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
03/15/1811 Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886 03/15/1824 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Swedish Uprising)
03/15/1830 Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
03/15/1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
03/15/1835 Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
03/15/1836 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
03/15/1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)

03/15/1851 Jozef Surzynski, composer
03/15/1852 Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
03/15/1855 Lutzen Wagenaar, Fries writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
03/15/1864 Johan Halvorsen, composer
03/15/1864 Leslie Stuart, composer
03/15/1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems) 03/15/1867 Will Rossiter, composer
03/15/1871 Betsy van den Arend, [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
03/15/1873 David Vaughan Thomas, composer
03/15/1874 Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
03/15/1879 Gerrit J Heering, Roman theologist (Fall of Christianity) 03/15/1884 Rudolf Piskacek, composer
03/15/1894 Slava Vorlova, composer
03/15/1900 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
03/15/1901 Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)

03/15/1901 Theo Uden Marsman, orchestra leader
03/15/1902 Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela)
03/15/1904 George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
03/15/1905 Berthold Donate von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler 03/15/1905 Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show

03/15/1907 Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice) 03/15/1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race

03/15/1912 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensban)
03/15/1913 Lex Goudsmit, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
03/15/1913 MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Gir

03/15/1915 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris) 03/15/1915 Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
03/15/1916 Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy At)
03/15/1916 Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable) 03/15/1918 Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde) 03/15/1919 John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)

03/15/1919 Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
03/15/1920 Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56

03/15/1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
03/15/1923 Italo Calvino, Italian writer (Split Viscount)
03/15/1923 Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
03/15/1924 Lockrem Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 I T Valentine, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
03/15/1926 Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
03/15/1926 Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
03/15/1927 Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) 03/15/1928 Nicolas Flagello, composer
03/15/1929 Tiezo Matsumura, composer
03/15/1932 Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3

03/15/1933 Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer
03/15/1933 Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
03/15/1933 Ronald Roseman, composer
03/15/1933 Roy Clark, country singer (Hee Haw)
03/15/1934 Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
03/15/1935 Judd Hirsch, NYC, actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary Peopl

03/15/1936 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
03/15/1938 Dick Higgins, composer
03/15/1939 Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man) 03/15/1940 Phil Lesh, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
03/15/1941 Mike Love, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room) 03/15/1943 Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
03/15/1943 David Cronenberg, Canada, director (Shivers, Fly, Bread)
03/15/1943 Don Mitchell, US, actor (Ironside)
03/15/1944 Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
03/15/1944 David Costell, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring) 03/15/1944 Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People) 03/15/1945 Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
03/15/1945 Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System) 03/15/1945 Tracy Smith, runner
03/15/1946 Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
03/15/1946 Howard Scott, US guitarist (War, Cisco Kid)
03/15/1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russia, cosmonaut
03/15/1947 Ry Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
03/15/1947 Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
03/15/1947 Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
03/15/1949 John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
03/15/1954 Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club) 03/15/1955 Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It) 03/15/1955 Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live) 03/15/1957 Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning

03/15/1958 Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
03/15/1959 Eliot Teltscher, Calif, tennis player (US Davis Cup team) 03/15/1959 Harold Baines, Maryland, outfielder (White Sox, Rangers)
03/15/1960 Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
03/15/1961 Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark) 03/15/1961 John Melendez, jockey
03/15/1962 Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
03/15/1962 Terence Trent D'Arby, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
03/15/1963 Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me) 03/15/1963 Don Simington, jockey
03/15/1963 French Koenn, pop bassist (Lois Lane-Precious)
03/15/1963 Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap)
03/15/1968 Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys) 03/15/1971 Robbie Pratt, jockey
03/15/1986 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)


Deaths:

03/15/ 44 -BC- Julius Casar, Emperor of Rome, assassinated in Roman Senate 03/15/ 493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
03/15/ 752 Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
03/15/ 963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies
03/15/1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
03/15/1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 03/15/1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, diplomat/politician, dies at 75
03/15/1842 Luigi Cherubini, composer, dies at 81
03/15/1842 M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian director, dies
03/15/1880 John KJ de Young, historian, dies at 51
03/15/1883 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
03/15/1905 Arnold Kerdijk, liberal founder Social Weekly newspaper, dies at 60 03/15/1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norse author (Paa St J0rgen), dies at 58 03/15/1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82 03/15/1918 Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
03/15/1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer, dies at 70
03/15/1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies
03/15/1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, SDAP resistance fighter, dies at 41 03/15/1954 Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
03/15/1962 Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
03/15/1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75 03/15/1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63 03/15/1966 Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 75
03/15/1969 Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80 03/15/1970 Arthur Adamov, French playwright, dies
03/15/1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Norse author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 03/15/1971 Jean-Pierre Monsere, Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
03/15/1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
03/15/1975 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49 03/15/1975 Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies
03/15/1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
03/15/1983 Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80 03/15/1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY) dies at 82
03/15/1990 Tom Harmon, former Heisman Trophy winner, dies at 70 in LA 03/15/1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies
03/15/1991 Eileen Sedgwick, dies
03/15/1992 Helen Deutsch, writer, dies
03/15/1992 Jack Washburn, actor, dies
03/15/1992 Vanessa Lee, dies
03/15/1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61 03/15/1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies
03/15/1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68


Significant Events:

03/15/ 493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
03/15/ 752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/15/ 933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
03/15/1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 03/15/1382 Conservative 'Popolo Grasso' regain power in Florence Italy 03/15/1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews 03/15/1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 03/15/1672 King Charles II removes Declaration of Indulgence
03/15/1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans 03/15/1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
03/15/1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
03/15/1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (English beat US)
03/15/1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
03/15/1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
03/15/1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
03/15/1827 University of Toronto is chartered
03/15/1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 03/15/1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN 03/15/1863 R Luther discovers asteroid #78 Diana
03/15/1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
03/15/1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 03/15/1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team 03/15/1872 R Luther discovers asteroid #118 Peitho
03/15/1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
03/15/1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 03/15/1889 6 US & German warships fight in harbor at Apia Samoa, 200 die 03/15/1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
03/15/1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #400 Ducrosa
03/15/1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden 03/15/1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 03/15/1906 Britten Rolls & Royce Johnson found Rolls Royce Ltd
03/15/1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
03/15/1912 Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine) 03/15/1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
03/15/1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
03/15/1915 Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea 03/15/1916 Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 03/15/1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
03/15/1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (3/3 OS)
03/15/1919 American Legion forms
03/15/1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
03/15/1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
03/15/1926 Belgium's 'black monday', franc falls
03/15/1928 Mussolini modifies Italian electoral system
03/15/1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
03/15/1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched 03/15/1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination 03/15/1934 US Information Service opens
03/15/1937 1st blood bank established, Chicago, Ill
03/15/1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
03/15/1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia indepen

03/15/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #3380
03/15/1940 Goring ays 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 03/15/1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
03/15/1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
03/15/1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
03/15/1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 03/15/1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

03/15/1950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1616 Filipoff
03/15/1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official 'rainmaker' 03/15/1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
03/15/1952 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #1622 Chacornac
03/15/1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean 03/15/1953 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #3156
03/15/1953 West Germany loses in soccer to The Netherlands, 2-1
03/15/1954 'CBS Morning Show' premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar 03/15/1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasti

03/15/1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
03/15/1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1956 'My Fair Lady' opens on Broadway (NYC)
03/15/1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ

03/15/1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
03/15/1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s 03/15/1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) 03/15/1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
03/15/1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 03/15/1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jum

03/15/1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting 03/15/1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4000 pts in an NBA season 03/15/1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting 03/15/1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
03/15/1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
03/15/1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
03/15/1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/15/1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
03/15/1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
03/15/1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Civil Rights Act

03/15/1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast 03/15/1968 Bob Beamon, sets long jump record of 27' 2 3/4'
03/15/1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
03/15/1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
03/15/1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
03/15/1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?)
03/15/1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
03/15/1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama 03/15/1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 03/15/1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
03/15/1974 Civil rights activist president Garastazu Medici resigns
03/15/1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
03/15/1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
03/15/1976 Failed coup in Niger
03/15/1977 US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions 03/15/1978 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon 03/15/1978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas 03/15/1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for the Radio Shack's TRS-80 03/15/1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
03/15/1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
03/15/1982 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3571
03/15/1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan 03/15/1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) 03/15/1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
03/15/1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
03/15/1986 Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
03/15/1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
03/15/1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
03/15/1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
03/15/1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
03/15/1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Civil rights activist 03/15/1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
03/15/1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 204'
03/15/1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
03/15/1994 Asteroid 0 20m comes within 160-180,000 km of Earth
03/15/1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet

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Births:

03/16/1585 Gerbrand Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe) 03/16/1585 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Spanish Brabander)
03/16/1609 Michael Franck, composer
03/16/1651 Zaccaria Tevo, composer
03/16/1663 Nicholas Siret, composer
03/16/1739 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution) 03/16/1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
03/16/1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronome

03/16/1751 James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17) 03/16/1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
03/16/1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs 03/16/1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
03/16/1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18

03/16/1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
03/16/1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869 03/16/1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
03/16/1822 John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 03/16/1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
03/16/1823 William Henry Monk, composer
03/16/1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer) 03/16/1836 Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
03/16/1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)

03/16/1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger 03/16/1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
03/16/1868 Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) (3/28 NS) 03/16/1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
03/16/1876 Charles Halton, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again) 03/16/1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi 03/16/1878 Henry B Walthall, actor (Birth of a Nation, China Clipper, Klondike)

03/16/1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
03/16/1884 Harrison Ford (II), actor
03/16/1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
03/16/1885 Sydney Chaplin, actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters, Limelight) 03/16/1896 Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
03/16/1901 Walter E Schafer, German playwright
03/16/1903 Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
03/16/1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)

03/16/1904 Clive Morton, actor (His Excellency, Run for Your Money)
03/16/1906 Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife, please)
03/16/1910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
03/16/1910 Norman Wooland, Germany, actor (Hamlet)
03/16/1912 Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74) 03/16/1916 Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
03/16/1918 Aldo E van Eyck, architect (City Hall)
03/16/1918 Howard Boatwright, composer
03/16/1919 Erno Kiraly, composer
03/16/1920 John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award) 03/16/1920 Leo McKern, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
03/16/1922 Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World) 03/16/1925 Cornell Borchers, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul) 03/16/1926 Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France 03/16/1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- ) 03/16/1927 Karlheinz Boehm, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural) 03/16/1927 Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus) 03/16/1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1) 03/16/1928 Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera) 03/16/1928 Ramon Barce, composer
03/16/1929 Edwin London, composer
03/16/1930 Minoru Miky, composer
03/16/1931 Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show) 03/16/1932 R Walter M Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7) 03/16/1936 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
03/16/1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer
03/16/1937 David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer) 03/16/1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris) 03/16/1940 Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
03/16/1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
03/16/1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, composer (Mr BoJangles)
03/16/1946 Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast) 03/16/1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

03/16/1949 Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
03/16/1949 Victor Garber, Montreal Quebec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd) 03/16/1951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle) 03/16/1951 Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights) 03/16/1954 Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977,78)
03/16/1954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart-Never, Barracuda, What about Love) 03/16/1955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate) 03/16/1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
03/16/1959 Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) 03/16/1963 Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 03/16/1965 Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
03/16/1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli


Deaths:

03/16/ 37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77 03/16/1072 Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
03/16/1629 Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59 03/16/1736 Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26 03/16/1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 7

03/16/1806 Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
03/16/1819 Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
03/16/1838 Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64 03/16/1841 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
03/16/1843 Anton R Falck, minister of Education/Colonization, dies at 65 03/16/1867 Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
03/16/1881 Modest P Moessorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godoenov), dies at 42 03/16/1882 Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies 03/16/1887 Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
03/16/1909 George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
03/16/1910 Eduard FW PflUger, German physiologist, dies at 80
03/16/1914 Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, killed by Mme Caillaux 03/16/1919 Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 40
03/16/1930 Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Spain's dictator (1923-30), dies 03/16/1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
03/16/1935 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies 03/16/1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English min of Foreign affairs (Nobel), dies 03/16/1940 Selma O Lagerlof, Swedish author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel 1909), dies

03/16/1941 John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73 03/16/1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Tanz), dies at 6

03/16/1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 03/16/1946 Marius HLW 'Max' Blokzijl, NSB-minister of propaganda, executed at 6

03/16/1946 Max Blokzijl, NSB-minister of propaganda, executed
03/16/1955 Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
03/16/1956 Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
03/16/1957 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian communist/parliament chairman, dies 03/16/1958 Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
03/16/1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111 03/16/1962 John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85
03/16/1964 Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
03/16/1967 James Friskin, composer, dies at 81
03/16/1968 Bengt G Ekelof, Swedish poet (Nun Serviam), dies at 60
03/16/1968 June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
03/16/1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
03/16/1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
03/16/1970 Tammi Terrell, singer, dies at 23 of a brain tumor
03/16/1971 Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70 03/16/1971 Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 03/16/1972 Harold 'Pie' Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72

03/16/1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79 03/16/1975 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64 03/16/1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists 03/16/1979 Jean Monnet, French economist/chairman (EGKS), dies at 90 03/16/1983 Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
03/16/1985 BVA Roling, lawyer, dies at 78
03/16/1985 Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88 03/16/1987 Scott McKay, actor (Guest in the House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies

03/16/1988 Dorothy Adams Foulger, dies
03/16/1990 Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
03/16/1991 Jan H van Royen, diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies
03/16/1991 Wim van den Brink, actor (Turkish Fruit/Dig Up Sien), dies 03/16/1993 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies at 86 03/16/1993 Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered 03/16/1993 Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl, Deadly Mantis), dies
03/16/1993 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
03/16/1993 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered


Significant Events:

03/16/1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
03/16/1190 Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
03/16/1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: 'the miracle of Amsterdam' (legend) 03/16/1621 1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass
03/16/1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe 03/16/1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands 03/16/1792 Murder attempt on king Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera 03/16/1802 Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
03/16/1802 US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
03/16/1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium 03/16/1827 'Freedom's Journal', 1st African-American newspaper, founded 03/16/1827 1st US black newspaper, 'Freedom's Journal' (NYC), begins publishing

03/16/1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
03/16/1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college 03/16/1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands 03/16/1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
03/16/1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
03/16/1865 Battle of Averasboro, NC
03/16/1869 Hiram R Revels makes the 1st official speech by a black in the Senat

03/16/1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) 03/16/1881 Barnum & Baily Circus debuts
03/16/1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
03/16/1895 M Wolf discovers asteroid #401 Ottilia
03/16/1896 Premier of Mahlers 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen'
03/16/1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'The Adventure of The Devil's Foot' (BG) 03/16/1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona 03/16/1911 Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 for the Stanley Cup 03/16/1915 British battle cruisers Irresistible approaches Dardanellen 03/16/1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
03/16/1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Par

03/16/1922 England recognizes Kingdom of Egypt under King Fuad I
03/16/1922 Sultan Foeud crowned king of Egypt
03/16/1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
03/16/1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters

03/16/1928 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1303 Luthera
03/16/1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
03/16/1931 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #3754
03/16/1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
03/16/1931 Society of Our Language forms
03/16/1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of German Republic
03/16/1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
03/16/1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 03/16/1936 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1380 Volodia & #1392 Pierre
03/16/1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimage game between seniors & 03/16/1937 sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
03/16/1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
03/16/1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
03/16/1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
03/16/1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
03/16/1941 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj receives the Stalin Prize
03/16/1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
03/16/1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
03/16/1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested 03/16/1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/16/1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record)
03/16/1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
03/16/1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1

03/16/1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
03/16/1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
03/16/1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167 03/16/1962 USSR launch 1st Cosmos-satellite
03/16/1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/16/1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension

03/16/1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits 03/16/1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down 03/16/1968 Mi-Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
03/16/1968 Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
03/16/1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
03/16/1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 03/16/1970 New English Bible published
03/16/1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/16/1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting 03/16/1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
03/16/1972 T Gehrels discovers asteroid #2272
03/16/1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
03/16/1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
03/16/1977 US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
03/16/1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil
03/16/1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed 03/16/1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
03/16/1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
03/16/1979 CBS-TV airs 'Wings Over the World' with Paul McCartney
03/16/1980 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroids #2902 Westerlund & #3634 03/16/1980 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3386
03/16/1983 E Barr discovers asteroid #3445
03/16/1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) 03/16/1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
03/16/1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beiru

03/16/1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yr

03/16/1988 Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair 03/16/1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
03/16/1991 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash 03/16/1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade 03/16/1991 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games 03/16/1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted bal

03/16/1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government

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Births:

03/17/1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (At-Hemelopneming van Maria) 03/17/1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian 03/17/1664 Georg Osterreich, composer
03/17/1675 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
03/17/1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
03/17/1746 Jan David Holland, composer
03/17/1777 Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec) 03/17/1781 Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
03/17/1789 Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
03/17/1804 James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance 03/17/1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 03/17/1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)

03/17/1826 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder) 03/17/1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army) 03/17/1832 Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine) 03/17/1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 03/17/1834 Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle

03/17/1839 Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conse

03/17/1846 Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window) 03/17/1848 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
03/17/1873 Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader/1st woman cabinet member 03/17/1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
03/17/1874 Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
03/17/1876 Frederic Ayers, composer
03/17/1877 Albert P Hahn, political cartoonist
03/17/1880 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
03/17/1887 Ben Sajet, physician/politician
03/17/1890 Harold Morris, composer
03/17/1892 Sayed Darwish, composer
03/17/1894 Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
03/17/1895 Shemp Howard, comic actor (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891] 03/17/1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Indiscreet, Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees) 03/17/1900 Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)

03/17/1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
03/17/1902 Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) 03/17/1906 Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life) 03/17/1907 Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
03/17/1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS] 03/17/1908 Radie Britain, composer
03/17/1909 Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
03/17/1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
03/17/1911 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
03/17/1914 Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
03/17/1915 Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala) 03/17/1915 William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976) 03/17/1917 Brian Boydell, composer
03/17/1918 D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], pianist/composer (Eleonora)
03/17/1918 Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill (Exorcist, All the King's Men) 03/17/1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell, attorney/ Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA) 03/17/1919 Hank Sauer, baseballer (NL MVP 1952)
03/17/1919 Nat 'King' Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa) 03/17/1920 John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
03/17/1922 Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
03/17/1924 Stephen Dodgson, composer
03/17/1925 G M Hughes, British zoologist
03/17/1926 Siegfried Lenz, German writer
03/17/1927 Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
03/17/1927 Patrick Allen, actor (High Hell, Roman Holiday, Dial 'M' for Murder)

03/17/1927 Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
03/17/1928 Edino Krieger, composer
03/17/1930 James B Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15) 03/17/1931 Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love

03/17/1934 Erhard Grosskopf, composer
03/17/1935 Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
03/17/1936 Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
03/17/1936 Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C) 03/17/1937 Galina Samsova, ballerina
03/17/1938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov) 03/17/1941 Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow) 03/17/1941 Edward Harper, composer
03/17/1941 Gene Pitney, Hartford Ct, rock singer (Town without Pity) 03/17/1941 Paul Kantner, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit) 03/17/1942 John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
03/17/1942 Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
03/17/1943 Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
03/17/1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
03/17/1944 John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter) 03/17/1944 Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)

03/17/1945 Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
03/17/1946 Harold Brown, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
03/17/1946 Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
03/17/1948 Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database 03/17/1948 William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zer

03/17/1949 Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis

03/17/1951 Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Season

03/17/1951 Scott Gorham, guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak)
03/17/1954 Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker) 03/17/1954 Wally Stocker, vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
03/17/1955 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
03/17/1955 Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
03/17/1955 Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Aroun

03/17/1957 Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980) 03/17/1959 Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water) 03/17/1960 Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
03/17/1961 Casey Siemaszko, actor (Biloxi Blues, Young Guns, 3 O'Clock High) 03/17/1962 Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
03/17/1962 Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up) 03/17/1962 Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up) 03/17/1963 Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)

03/17/1964 Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class

03/17/1964 Ron Warren Jr, jockey
03/17/1965 Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
03/17/1965 Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)


Deaths:

03/17/ 180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 5

03/17/ 659 Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32 03/17/1040 Harold, British King (1035-40), dies
03/17/1565 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64 03/17/1588 Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies 03/17/1605 Pieter Bast, [Bastius], engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34 03/17/1649 Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Jansz Vos], regent, dies at 71 03/17/1653 Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48 03/17/1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 6

03/17/1764 George Parker, English astronomer, dies
03/17/1796 Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Chairman National Meeting, dies at 41 03/17/1801 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
03/17/1803 Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 43
03/17/1846 F W Bessel, measured distance to 61 Cygni, dies
03/17/1846 Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies 03/17/1849 Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56 03/17/1855 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
03/17/1857 Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
03/17/1861 Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 57
03/17/1862 Fromental Halevy, composer, dies at 62
03/17/1864 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53 03/17/1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68 03/17/1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Meeting, dies at 6

03/17/1898 Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washingto

03/17/1901 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Proof), dies at 69
03/17/1902 George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
03/17/1906 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies
03/17/1910 Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
03/17/1927 James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
03/17/1933 Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies
03/17/1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), dies at 46 03/17/1949 Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54 03/17/1953 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
03/17/1954 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
03/17/1956 Fred Allen, comedian (Colgate Comedy Hour), dies at 61
03/17/1956 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Neutron, Nobel 1935), dies 03/17/1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
03/17/1961 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader dies at 101 03/17/1962 Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82 03/17/1963 William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
03/17/1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (U of Chic), dies in Calif at 102

03/17/1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies 03/17/1966 Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69
03/17/1967 Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
03/17/1967 Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54 03/17/1973 Geertruida MW 'Truus' Bakker, actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81 03/17/1974 Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
03/17/1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
03/17/1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Ital director (Terra Diaeresis), dies 03/17/1980 Rudolf Escher, composer, dies at 68
03/17/1982 Hans ter Lag, sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Jan Kuiper, IKON news editor, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Joop Willemsen, cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1982 Koos Koster, IKON newscaster, murdered in El Salvador
03/17/1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 03/17/1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies
03/17/1990 Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 57 03/17/1990 Mari Mejia, Guatemalian feminist, murdered
03/17/1992 Charles Rea, dies
03/17/1992 George Lovi, US columnist (Sky & Telescope's 'Ramblings'), dies 03/17/1992 Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87 03/17/1992 Jack Arnold, actor/director (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies 03/17/1993 Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at

03/17/1993 Laadi Flici, Algerian parliament leader, murdered
03/17/1993 Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies
03/17/1994 Walter Janka, German writer (Schwierigkeiten mit Wahrheit), dies at



Significant Events:

03/17/ 455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
03/17/1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
03/17/1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
03/17/1537 French troops attack Flanders
03/17/1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
03/17/1722 Willem KH Friso appointed viceroy of Drente
03/17/1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
03/17/1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern 03/17/1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
03/17/1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary W

03/17/1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
03/17/1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
03/17/1833 Phoenix Society founded (NY)
03/17/1847 The opera 'Macbeth' is produced (Florence)
03/17/1852 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #16 Psyche
03/17/1852 DeGasparis discovers asteroid Psyche (16)
03/17/1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
03/17/1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
03/17/1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
03/17/1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
03/17/1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
03/17/1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 03/17/1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
03/17/1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
03/17/1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif 03/17/1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
03/17/1891 British Steamer 'Utopia' sinks off Gibraltor killing 574
03/17/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #363 Padua
03/17/1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James Corbert & becomes world heavyweight cha

03/17/1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 03/17/1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
03/17/1900 Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 for the Stanley Cup 03/17/1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
03/17/1902 Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup 03/17/1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
03/17/1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term 'muckrake'
03/17/1908 Quckest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds

03/17/1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick 03/17/1917 1st US bowling tournament for women, St Louis
03/17/1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
03/17/1919 Dutch strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
03/17/1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
03/17/1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
03/17/1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognizition
03/17/1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
03/17/1926 Calvinist oust Rev J G Golden out of office
03/17/1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
03/17/1927 US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty 03/17/1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 03/17/1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera shuts university of Madrid 03/17/1931 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1192 Prisma
03/17/1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
03/17/1932 German police raid Hitlers nazi-headquarter
03/17/1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) 03/17/1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
03/17/1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1757 Porvoo
03/17/1941 National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
03/17/1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens
03/17/1950 Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
03/17/1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
03/17/1951 Govt of Drees takes power
03/17/1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/17/1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/17/1955 Maurice 'Rocket' Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal 03/17/1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
03/17/1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 03/17/1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape 03/17/1959 Australia & USSR recover diplomatic relations
03/17/1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
03/17/1960 Eisenhower decides anti-Castro-exile army to form under the CIA 03/17/1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 03/17/1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
03/17/1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
03/17/1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
03/17/1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
03/17/1965 Beatles announce their film is named '8 Arms to Hold on to You' (Hel

03/17/1966 South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
03/17/1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
03/17/1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM
03/17/1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
03/17/1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) 03/17/1972 Ringo releases 'Back of Bugaloo' in UK
03/17/1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commerating Bloody Sunday 03/17/1975 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2387 & #2425 03/17/1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
03/17/1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
03/17/1976 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter is retried
03/17/1977 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2395 Aho
03/17/1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 03/17/1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
03/17/1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
03/17/1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' 03/17/1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF 03/17/1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
03/17/1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 11

03/17/1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
03/17/1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade 03/17/1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
03/17/1991 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
03/17/1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together 03/17/1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29

03/17/1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
03/17/1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
03/17/1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbeidzjan (32 killed)

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Births:

03/18/1380 Liduina van Schiedam, 'Christ's bride'/saint
03/18/1483 Raphael, painter (Sistine Madonna)
03/18/1548 Cornelis Ketel, portrait painter/poet
03/18/1556 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant
03/18/1609 Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist 03/18/1644 Gottfried Wegner, composer
03/18/1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
03/18/1690 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position) 03/18/1734 Joseph Schmitt, composer
03/18/1756 Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
03/18/1765 David H Chasse, Antwerp baron (fought Napoleon at Waterloo) 03/18/1781 Gustave Vogt, composer
03/18/1782 John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)
03/18/1829 William Robertson Boggs, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 19

03/18/1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
03/18/1837 Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) 03/18/1838 Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903) 03/18/1839 Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 03/18/1842 Stephane Mallarme, French poet (L'Apres-midi d'un faune)
03/18/1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade) 03/18/1848 Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
03/18/1858 Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
03/18/1864 Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten) 03/18/1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
03/18/1866 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
03/18/1869 [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
03/18/1872 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
03/18/1881 Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963) 03/18/1881 Paul Le Flem, composer
03/18/1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
03/18/1886 Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) 03/18/1886 Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist
03/18/1886 Marianne (Goudeket-)Philips, author (Between Heaven & Earth) 03/18/1890 Gerardus van de Lion, religion historian/Dutch minister of Education

03/18/1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)
03/18/1893 Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) 03/18/1898 Otto Jochum, composer
03/18/1899 Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 03/18/1901 Piotr Perkowski, composer
03/18/1905 John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
03/18/1905 Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection) 03/18/1905 Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
03/18/1906 Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
03/18/1907 Eleanor L 'Betty' Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble) 03/18/1910 Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek
03/18/1911 Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) 03/18/1914 Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
03/18/1916 Louis Toebosch, composer
03/18/1919 Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936) 03/18/1920 John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Poland, Pope (1978- )
03/18/1922 Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician
03/18/1925 Peter Graves, Minneapolis Mn, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible

03/18/1927 George Plimpton, sports writer (Paper Lion)
03/18/1927 John Harold Kander, composer (Kander & Ebb, Cabaret)
03/18/1928 William R Boggs, Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg 03/18/1929 Christa Wolf, German prozaiste
03/18/1929 Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
03/18/1930 Maurice Peress, NYC, conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80)
03/18/1931 Howard Coble, (Rep-R-North Carolina)
03/18/1932 Frederik W de Klerk, president South Africa (1989- )
03/18/1932 John Updike, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
03/18/1934 Pavle Despalj, composer
03/18/1936 Robert Lee Smith, US singer (Tams, Your song to your daddy) 03/18/1936 Tony Nash, England, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1964)
03/18/1937 Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500
03/18/1937 Robin Wright, race horse trainer
03/18/1938 Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
03/18/1938 Charley Pride, Sledge Miss, country singer (Sweet Country) 03/18/1938 Shashi Kapoor, actor (Shalimar, Pretty Polly, Heat & Dust, Siddharth

03/18/1940 Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer
03/18/1941 Wilson Pickett, Prattville Alabama, R&B singer (Funky Broadway) 03/18/1942 Ann Packer, England, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
03/18/1943 Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)

03/18/1945 Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964) 03/18/1947 Barry Wilson, drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale) 03/18/1947 Robert Harrison, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale) 03/18/1947 Steven H Schiff, (Rep-R-New Mexico)
03/18/1950 Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty) 03/18/1950 James Conlon, NYC, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979) 03/18/1950 John Hartman, drummer (Doobie Brothers-Taking it to the Streets) 03/18/1953 Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
03/18/1956 'The Model' Rick Martel, [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA) 03/18/1956 Ingamar Stenmark, Sweden, slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
03/18/1957 Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist/astronaut candidate (Mir-1?) 03/18/1957 Melvin Gentry, vocalits/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking) 03/18/1958 Andreas Wenzel, Liechtenstein, skier (Olympic-silver-1980) 03/18/1959 Irene Cara, Bronx NYC, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury) 03/18/1960 Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce) 03/18/1960 Patricia Farinelli, LA Calif, playmate (December, 1981)
03/18/1960 Richard Biggs, Columbus Ohio, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives) 03/18/1963 Vanessa Williams, Millwood NY, 1st black Miss America (1983)/singer 03/18/1964 Bonnie Blair, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Olympics-gold-1994) 03/18/1964 Christina Ferguson, Phoenix Az, playmate (Apr, 1983)
03/18/1966 Jerry Cantrell, US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
03/18/1972 Craig Johnson, St Paul Minn, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)


Deaths:

03/18/ 978 Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/saint, murdered 03/18/1227 Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies
03/18/1314 Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies 03/18/1493 John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82

03/18/1582 Jean Jaurqui, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched 03/18/1584 Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 03/18/1768 Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies 03/18/1799 John Randall, composer, dies at 82
03/18/1816 Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
03/18/1817 Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
03/18/1870 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
03/18/1875 Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
03/18/1886 Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Prose), dies at 91 03/18/1889 William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
03/18/1899 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 03/18/1899 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Vertrapte Ideals), dies 03/18/1900 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32
03/18/1913 George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas 03/18/1918 Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
03/18/1924 John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79
03/18/1928 Paul van Ostayen, Flemish writer (Free as a Bird), dies
03/18/1933 Luigi A hertog der Abruzzen, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies 03/18/1936 Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies 03/18/1938 Cyril Rootham, composer, dies at 62
03/18/1947 Willem Pyper, composer, dies at 52
03/18/1964 Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (Cybernetica), dies at 69 03/18/1965 Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies
03/18/1967 Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
03/18/1968 Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85
03/18/1969 Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43 03/18/1973 Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at

03/18/1974 David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies
03/18/1976 James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies
03/18/1976 Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69
03/18/1977 Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murder
03/18/1978 Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84
03/18/1978 Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
03/18/1980 Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
03/18/1982 Georg G Lampe, painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60 03/18/1983 Umberto van Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies 03/18/1984 Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies at 76 of Parkinson's disease 03/18/1985 Jack Miller, orch leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89 03/18/1986 Bernard Malamud, US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71
03/18/1987 Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
03/18/1989 Piet Kruiver, soccer player, dies
03/18/1989 William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
03/18/1990 Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies 03/18/1991 Jack McCoy, dies
03/18/1991 Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93 03/18/1992 Cornelis B Vaandrager, [Cor Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies


Significant Events:

03/18/ 417 St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
03/18/ 731 St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
03/18/1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 03/18/1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt Franken vs Amalrik-Syrians
03/18/1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
03/18/1229 German emperor Frederik II crowns himself king of Jerusalem 03/18/1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
03/18/1543 De Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R) 03/18/1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attck at Antwerp
03/18/1583 Dutch States-General & Anjou signs treaty
03/18/1766 British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act
03/18/1793 Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
03/18/1810 'Converse', 1st US opera, premieres in NY
03/18/1813 David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas 03/18/1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
03/18/1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long) 03/18/1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile north of Portillo Pass 03/18/1847 1st Dutch public telegram
03/18/1850 American Express forms
03/18/1858 Van Brugghen govt resigns
03/18/1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform 03/18/1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
03/18/1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
03/18/1871 Communards revolt in Paris
03/18/1874 J Palisa discovers asteroid #136 Austria
03/18/1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC 03/18/1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)
03/18/1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
03/18/1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) 03/18/1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #328 Gudrun
03/18/1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
03/18/1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
03/18/1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
03/18/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #592 Bathseba
03/18/1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
03/18/1910 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC 03/18/1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
03/18/1914 J Palisa discovers asteroid #782 Montefiore & #783 Nora
03/18/1914 White Wolf troop beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
03/18/1915 Failed British attack in Dardanellen
03/18/1915 French battleship Bouvet explode, 640 killed
03/18/1918 AJC organizes
03/18/1919 Order of DeMolay established in Kansas City
03/18/1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
03/18/1921 2nd peace of Riga & Poland enlarged
03/18/1921 Steamer 'Hong Kong' runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 03/18/1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) 03/18/1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #973 Aralia & #974 Lioba
03/18/1922 Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
03/18/1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
03/18/1923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #994 Otthild
03/18/1925 (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689 03/18/1929 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 'The new Babylon,' premieres in Leningrad 03/18/1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
03/18/1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US)
03/18/1931 1st electric dry razor marketed, by Schick
03/18/1931 Juan Bautista Aznar become(s) premier of Spain
03/18/1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
03/18/1936 R Suvanto discovers asteroid #1927 Suvanto
03/18/1936 Vaisala discovers asteroids #1421 Esperanto, #1723 Klemola& #2020 Uk

03/18/1937 Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas: 294 die
03/18/1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
03/18/1938 NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women 03/18/1938 Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British businesses 03/18/1939 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #1512 Oulu
03/18/1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1696 Nurmela
03/18/1941 L Oterma discovers asteroids #1679 Nevanlinna & #2640 Hallstrom 03/18/1942 Illegal Free Netherland announces boycot of theaters
03/18/1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
03/18/1944 Nazi-Germany occupies Hungary
03/18/1945 Maurice 'Rocket' Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals 03/18/1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
03/18/1948 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
03/18/1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
03/18/1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting 03/18/1950 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
03/18/1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila)
03/18/1952 Communist offensive in Korea
03/18/1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
03/18/1953 Indiana wins NCAA basketball championship
03/18/1953 KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasti

03/18/1953 NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) 03/18/1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins 03/18/1959 Bill Sharman begins a streak of 56 consecutive foul shots 03/18/1959 Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throw

03/18/1959 Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
03/18/1962 Algerian War ends after 72 years of fighting (250,000 killed) 03/18/1962 Algerians politician Ben Bella flees
03/18/1962 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR 03/18/1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers 03/18/1963 WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/18/1965 Rolling Stones fined L5 each for public urination
03/18/1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 min) 03/18/1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
03/18/1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
03/18/1967 Beatles' 'Penny Lane,' single goes #1
03/18/1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hit a rock & spills oil
03/18/1968 WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/18/1968 WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/18/1970 -25) US Postal begins strike
03/18/1970 Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees 03/18/1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting 03/18/1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official tim

03/18/1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
03/18/1972 AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-4

03/18/1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston

03/18/1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game 03/18/1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
03/18/1975 Kurds strike against Iraqi army
03/18/1977 Clash releases their 1st recording 'White Riot'
03/18/1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodi

03/18/1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
03/18/1978 250,000 attend rock concert Calif Jam II in Ontario Calif 03/18/1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death sentence 03/18/1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break out
03/18/1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto) 03/18/1982 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2814 Vieira
03/18/1982 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident 03/18/1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
03/18/1986 Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
03/18/1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth 03/18/1989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios 03/18/1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a game
03/18/1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists 03/18/1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
03/18/1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch 03/18/1990 Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston 03/18/1990 German Dem Rep holds its 1st free election
03/18/1990 Loyola Marymount beats Mich Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score 03/18/1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
03/18/1991 Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
03/18/1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games 03/18/1992 Donna Summers gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
03/18/1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
03/18/1993 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record f12.2 billion
03/18/1993 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
03/18/1994 STS-62 (Columbia) lands
03/18/1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police

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Births:

03/21/1466 French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
03/21/1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
03/21/1527 Hermann Finck, composer
03/21/1609 Jan II Kazimierz, King of Poland (1648-68)
03/21/1624 Francois Roberday, composer
03/21/1642 Georg Schmezer, composer
03/21/1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Matthaus-Passion)

03/21/1708 Caspar Ruetz, composer
03/21/1713 Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
03/21/1716 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
03/21/1765 Henry Fagel, baron/diplomat
03/21/1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
03/21/1779 Alexis Garaude, composer
03/21/1806 Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72) 03/21/1813 James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56) 03/21/1820 Frank Mori, composer
03/21/1836 Jesus Monasterio, composer
03/21/1839 Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS] 03/21/1863 Hugo Kaun, composer
03/21/1866 Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
03/21/1869 Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
03/21/1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
03/21/1878 Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
03/21/1880 Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
03/21/1880 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
03/21/1881 Hermann Sandby, composer
03/21/1883 Jules van Nuffel, composer
03/21/1884 George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
03/21/1887 Edwin Scharff, German 'entartet' painter/sculptor
03/21/1900 Eugenie Leontovich, Russia, actor(?)
03/21/1900 Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
03/21/1902 Eddie James 'Son' House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues) 03/21/1903 Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer (Exercises in Style) 03/21/1904 Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
03/21/1905 Phyllis Mcginley, US, poetress (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters) 03/21/1906 John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist
03/21/1910 Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland) 03/21/1913 Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
03/21/1914 Paul Tortelier, composer
03/21/1916 Harold Robbins, US, novelist (Carpetbaggers) [or 0521]
03/21/1918 Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football

03/21/1918 Joe Carveth, NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons) 03/21/1919 Lois Collier, SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie)
03/21/1920 Bruno Maderna, composer
03/21/1921 Antony Hopkins, composer
03/21/1921 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
03/21/1921 Logan Ramsey, Long Beach Calif, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes) 03/21/1923 Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orch leader (Merv Griffin Show)
03/21/1923 Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur-The FBI)
03/21/1924 Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
03/21/1925 John E Grotberg, (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86)
03/21/1925 Peter Brook, English director (1776)/TV writer
03/21/1926 Andre Delvaux, Flemish screen writer
03/21/1927 Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German FDP-minister of Foreign affairs 03/21/1928 Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
03/21/1928 James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
03/21/1929 James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death) 03/21/1929 Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
03/21/1932 Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch) 03/21/1933 Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986) 03/21/1934 Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie) 03/21/1934 Lister Carney, Bellaire Oh, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1960) 03/21/1936 Marek Stachowski, composer
03/21/1937 Tom Flores, Fresno Calif, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders) 03/21/1939 Kathleen Widdoes, Wilmington Del, actress (Without a Trace) 03/21/1939 Martha Hudson, Eastman Ga, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960) 03/21/1941 Dirk D Frimout, Belgium, cosmonaut
03/21/1942 Francoise Dorleac, Paris France, actress (That Man From Rio) 03/21/1943 Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1968)
03/21/1944 Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)

03/21/1944 Henrik Colding-Jorgensen, composer
03/21/1944 Jamary Oliveira, composer
03/21/1944 Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories) 03/21/1945 Charles E Greene, US, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1968) 03/21/1945 Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People

03/21/1945 Vernon Guy, US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees)
03/21/1946 Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights) 03/21/1950 Roger Hodgston, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again) 03/21/1951 Russell Thompkins Jr, US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing) 03/21/1953 Carl Wolfson, Wash DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
03/21/1953 Shotgun Johnson, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Boys-Give it Up) 03/21/1955 Barbel Wockel-Eckert, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80) 03/21/1955 Jean Marie Hon, SF Calif, actress (Jane-Man From Atlantis) 03/21/1956 Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway, marathoner (Olympic-4th-1984) 03/21/1957 Sabrina Le Beauf, New Orleans La, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show) 03/21/1958 Brad Hall, Santa Barbara Calif, comedian (SNL)
03/21/1958 Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace) 03/21/1958 Marlies Gohr, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 03/21/1960 Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
03/21/1960 Dale Baze, jockey
03/21/1960 Guy Chadwick, English singer/songwriter (House of Love)
03/21/1962 Matthew Broderick, NYC, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
03/21/1962 Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne (League of Their Own)
03/21/1963 Ronald Koeman, soccer star (Ajax, PSV, Barcelona)
03/21/1963 Sharon June Howe Pederson, Glencoe Mn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up) 03/21/1968 Jeff Lazaro, Waltham Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 03/21/1968 Samantha Leah Dorman, Lakeland Fla, playmate (Sept, 1991) 03/21/1969 Jennifer Lyn Jackson, Cleveland Ohio, playmate (April, 1989)


Deaths:

03/21/1487 Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies 03/21/1538 Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Friesland, dies at about 79 03/21/1652 Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/mayor (Brugge), dies 03/21/1654 Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51
03/21/1656 Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at

03/21/1734 Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48
03/21/1768 John J Mauricius, governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75

03/21/1793 Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
03/21/1801 Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59
03/21/1844 Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, politician, dies at 65
03/21/1857 Abraham J van Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64 03/21/1894 Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
03/21/1916 Victor de Stuers, art collector, dies
03/21/1920 Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies 03/21/1921 'Big Jim' Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
03/21/1934 Franz Schrecker, composer, dies at 55
03/21/1936 Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer, dies at 70
03/21/1939 Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39
03/21/1941 Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67 03/21/1945 J Woortman, resistance fighter (in Belsen), dies at about 39 03/21/1952 AJ Pieters, SS-UntersturmfUhrer, executed
03/21/1952 Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
03/21/1954 Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
03/21/1958 Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34 03/21/1973 Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
03/21/1975 Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 65
03/21/1980 Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75
03/21/1982 Harry Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57 03/21/1985 Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78
03/21/1986 August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
03/21/1987 Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35 03/21/1987 Robert Preston, actor (Music Man), dies at 68
03/21/1991 Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
03/21/1992 John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies at 78 of leukemia
03/21/1994 Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 52 from AIDs 03/21/1994 Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 8

03/21/1994 MacDonald Carey, actor (Days of our Lives), dies at 81


Significant Events:

03/21/1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
03/21/1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
03/21/1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
03/21/1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans 03/21/1791 Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN 03/21/1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
03/21/1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
03/21/1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat maj (Op 130) premieres in Vienna 03/21/1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
03/21/1843 Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today 03/21/1844 Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) 03/21/1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
03/21/1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
03/21/1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated 03/21/1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
03/21/1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon

03/21/1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapides) Louisiana
03/21/1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman 03/21/1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
03/21/1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, founded in NYC 03/21/1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
03/21/1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #194 Prokne
03/21/1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
03/21/1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia 03/21/1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #329 Svea
03/21/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroids #365 Corduba & #366 Vincentina 03/21/1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #402 Chloe
03/21/1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #631 Philippina
03/21/1907 US invades Honduras
03/21/1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin

03/21/1913 -26) Flood in Ohio, kills 400
03/21/1915 J Palisa discovers asteroid #803 Picka
03/21/1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indie

03/21/1918 During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive (till March 28th) 03/21/1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
03/21/1923 J Palisa discovers asteroid #996 Hilaritas
03/21/1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognization 03/21/1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC) 03/21/1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
03/21/1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 03/21/1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
03/21/1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
03/21/1935 Persia becomes Iran
03/21/1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 03/21/1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communi

03/21/1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
03/21/1941 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon
03/21/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
03/21/1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
03/21/1943 British 8th army opens assault on Marethlinie, Tunisia
03/21/1943 Vivian Stanshall, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
03/21/1945 1st Japanese morning bomber attacks on Okinawa
03/21/1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany 03/21/1945 Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested
03/21/1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFler since 1933 03/21/1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) 03/21/1947 Pres Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal 03/21/1947 employees to have allegiance to the United States
03/21/1948 'Stop the Music' with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
03/21/1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting 03/21/1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
03/21/1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
03/21/1952 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US 03/21/1953 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2182 Semirot
03/21/1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) 03/21/1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasti

03/21/1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece 03/21/1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team 'Bums' 03/21/1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
03/21/1959 California wins NCAA basketball championship
03/21/1960 Bloodbath in Sharpeville, South-Africa
03/21/1960 South Africa kills 69 blacks in Sharpeville & outlaws ANC 03/21/1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
03/21/1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds 03/21/1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Neth for birth control 03/21/1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
03/21/1964 Beatles' 'She Loves You,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 03/21/1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
03/21/1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

03/21/1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact 03/21/1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tome
03/21/1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono hold bed in Amsterdam Hilton, thru 31st 03/21/1970 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
03/21/1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2'
03/21/1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/21/1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
03/21/1974 Asteroid #3708 discovered
03/21/1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
03/21/1980 On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
03/21/1982 Bowell discovers asteroid 2660 Wasserman, 2709 Sagan & 3248 Farinell

03/21/1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard 03/21/1982 Movie 'Annie' premieres
03/21/1984 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3357
03/21/1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
03/21/1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon

03/21/1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircrft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 03/21/1985 Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
03/21/1985 Bloodbath at Longa (Uitenhage) South-Africa
03/21/1986 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
03/21/1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02) 03/21/1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (f17 million) 03/21/1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral 03/21/1990 'Normal Life' starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV

03/21/1990 'Sydney' starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
03/21/1990 Namibia becomes independent of S Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes presiden

03/21/1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
03/21/1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship 03/21/1992 2nd WLAF season begins
03/21/1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
03/21/1993 South Africa White Wolven kills 5 year old black girl
03/21/1994 Schindler's List wins 66th Academy Awards
03/21/1994 Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals

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Births:

03/22/1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria 03/22/1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
03/22/1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
03/22/1728 Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
03/22/1728 Giacomo Insanguine, composer
03/22/1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
03/22/1767 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
03/22/1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
03/22/1799 F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars 03/22/1803 Anthonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer
03/22/1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 03/22/1814 Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
03/22/1817 Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
03/22/1819 William Wirt Adams, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 03/22/1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Education/Justice 03/22/1822 Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)/min to Cologne 03/22/1822 Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866 03/22/1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army) 03/22/1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 03/22/1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
03/22/1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrater (Caldecott Medal namesake) 03/22/1852 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
03/22/1857 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
03/22/1857 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) 03/22/1865 Theophile Ysaye, composer
03/22/1867 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's street hawker 03/22/1868 Hamish MacCunn, composer
03/22/1868 Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics) 03/22/1868 Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923) 03/22/1885 Adriano Lualdi, composer
03/22/1885 Jakabs Medins, composer
03/22/1887 Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin] NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers) 03/22/1895 Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Aus, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents) 03/22/1902 Ellin Berlin [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain) 03/22/1903 James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
03/22/1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
03/22/1905 Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director
03/22/1905 Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion) 03/22/1907 James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy) 03/22/1907 Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)

03/22/1908 Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) 03/22/1908 Maurice H Stans, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
03/22/1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
03/22/1910 Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
03/22/1913 Karl Malden, actor (Streets of SF); don't leave home without it 03/22/1913 Martha Modl, German singer/soprano (Wagner)
03/22/1916 George Wyle, NYC, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show) 03/22/1916 Josephine van Gasteren, actress/director (Bluejackets)
03/22/1917 Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho

03/22/1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/ Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64

03/22/1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
03/22/1920 Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) 03/22/1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP) 03/22/1922 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/politician
03/22/1923 Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch 2nd chamber member (SGP, 1971-94) 03/22/1923 Marcel Marceau, France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
03/22/1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
03/22/1924 Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman) 03/22/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, composer
03/22/1928 Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971- )
03/22/1928 Ed Macauley, NBA'er (Boston Celtics)
03/22/1930 Derek Bok, college president (Harvard)
03/22/1930 Lynden O Pindling, premier Bahamas (1967-92)
03/22/1930 Pat Robertson, televangelist (Pres candidate-R-1989)
03/22/1930 Stephen Sondheim, US composer (Side by Side by Sondheim)
03/22/1931 William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker) 03/22/1933 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
03/22/1934 Orrin G Hatch, (Sen-R-UT, 1977- )
03/22/1936 May Britt, Germany, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr 03/22/1936 Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer
03/22/1937 Jon Hassell, composer
03/22/1938 Glen Campbell, singer (By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston) 03/22/1938 Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
03/22/1941 Gary Lewis, horse trainer
03/22/1942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum) 03/22/1942 Jon Arthur English, composer
03/22/1943 George Benson, Pittsburgh, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All) 03/22/1943 Joseph Schwantner, composer
03/22/1943 Keith Reif, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance) 03/22/1945 Charles 'Chuck' Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents) 03/22/1945 Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone) 03/22/1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware) 03/22/1946 Serge, [Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge) 03/22/1947 Harry Vanda, rocker (Easy Beats)
03/22/1947 Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing) 03/22/1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway composer (Into the Woods, Phantom) 03/22/1948 Randy Hobbs, rocker (McCoys)
03/22/1951 Moesa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11) 03/22/1952 Bob Costas, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
03/22/1953 Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
03/22/1957 Stephanie Mills, singer/actress (Wiz)
03/22/1958 Pete Wylie, rocker (Sinful)
03/22/1959 Matthew Modine, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
03/22/1970 Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 03/22/1971 Richard Castillo, jockey
03/22/1972 Pieter Christian, Prince of Netherlands
03/22/1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams, Wash DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)


Deaths:

03/22/ 337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
03/22/1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
03/22/1627 Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish States-General, dies at about 81 03/22/1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
03/22/1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Marriage Force), dies at 54 03/22/1758 Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philospher (Original Sin), dies at 54 03/22/1777 John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
03/22/1796 Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
03/22/1798 Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
03/22/1820 Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41 03/22/1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 77
03/22/1838 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies
03/22/1845 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
03/22/1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 71
03/22/1906 Martin Wegelius, Finnish composer, dies at 59
03/22/1909 Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
03/22/1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies
03/22/1923 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
03/22/1924 R G Nivelle, French military man, dies
03/22/1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 65
03/22/1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 03/22/1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
03/22/1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
03/22/1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68 03/22/1951 J Willem Mengelberg, conductor (Matthaus Passion), dies
03/22/1956 George Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
03/22/1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 03/22/1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
03/22/1964 Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies 03/22/1974 Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35 03/22/1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75 03/22/1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR, at 73 03/22/1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58 03/22/1993 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 03/22/1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist, dies at 83
03/22/1993 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
03/22/1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
03/22/1994 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42 03/22/1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32 03/22/1994 Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93


Significant Events:

03/22/ 752 Stephen begins his reign as Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
03/22/1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 03/22/1621 Hugo the Great escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein
03/22/1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth) 03/22/1622 1st Indian massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va; 347 slain
03/22/1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) 03/22/1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony 03/22/1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
03/22/1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
03/22/1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
03/22/1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
03/22/1822 NY Horticultural Society founded
03/22/1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
03/22/1841 Orlando Jones patents cornstarch
03/22/1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation 03/22/1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
03/22/1871 Wm Holden of NC is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment 03/22/1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment 03/22/1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
03/22/1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association founded in NYC
03/22/1882 Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons
03/22/1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #327 Columbia
03/22/1894 Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins the 1st Stanley Cup 03/22/1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
03/22/1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
03/22/1922 British court sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 year
03/22/1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1041 Asta
03/22/1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
03/22/1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
03/22/1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor 03/22/1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
03/22/1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) 03/22/1939 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1511 Dalera
03/22/1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany 03/22/1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2486 Metsahovi
03/22/1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
03/22/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
03/22/1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
03/22/1943 Obligatory work for woman begins in Belgium
03/22/1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 03/22/1945 Arab League forms
03/22/1945 US 3rd Army attacks Nierstein on the Rhine
03/22/1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 03/22/1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
03/22/1949 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1574 Meyer
03/22/1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
03/22/1953 Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia
03/22/1956 Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
03/22/1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
03/22/1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 03/22/1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
03/22/1958 Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 for NCAA basketball championship 03/22/1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
03/22/1960 AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
03/22/1962 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' opens on Broadway
03/22/1963 Beatles release 1st album, 'Please Please Me'
03/22/1963 Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler

03/22/1964 Barbra Striesand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section 03/22/1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 03/22/1967 Cassius Clay's (aka Muhammad Ali) 1st MSG fight; KOs Zora Folley 03/22/1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidenvy of Czechoslovakia
03/22/1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone 03/22/1968 Student riot in Nanterre at Paris
03/22/1969 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
03/22/1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) 03/22/1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
03/22/1972 US Senate passes 27th amendement (Equal rights)
03/22/1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
03/22/1974 C Torres discovers asteroids #2282 Andres Bello & #2518 Rutllant 03/22/1975 'Dinge-competed' wins Eurovisie Song festival
03/22/1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship 03/22/1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
03/22/1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
03/22/1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2149 Schwambraniya & #2563 Boyarchuk

03/22/1977 Uyl govt falls
03/22/1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated 03/22/1978 Rutle's 'All You Need is Cash' is show on NBC-TV
03/22/1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
03/22/1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) 03/22/1981 1st class postage raised to 18c from 15c
03/22/1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
03/22/1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)
03/22/1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
03/22/1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
03/22/1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
03/22/1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game 03/22/1985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3713
03/22/1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
03/22/1986 Debi Thomas is 1st black to win world figure skating champ 03/22/1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
03/22/1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament 03/22/1986 Heart's 'These Dreams,' single goes #1
03/22/1986 Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
03/22/1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces his retirement
03/22/1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years

03/22/1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estima

03/22/1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 03/22/1991 NY Daily News begins using motto 'Forward with NY'
03/22/1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at Laguardia, 27 die 03/22/1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS 03/22/1994 South African Govt/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland

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Births:

03/23/1599 Thomas Selle, composer
03/23/1638 Frederik Ruysch, anatomist
03/23/1699 John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 03/23/1736 Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
03/23/1749 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer
03/23/1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
03/23/1750 Johannes Sperger, composer
03/23/1761 John W de Winter, Dutch vice-admiral (Battle at Kamperduin) 03/23/1769 William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) 03/23/1795 Leopold Jansa, composer
03/23/1801 Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
03/23/1808 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)

03/23/1811 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
03/23/1811 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
03/23/1818 Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898 03/23/1821 Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper)
03/23/1823 Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
03/23/1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1898 03/23/1826 Leon Minkus, composer
03/23/1834 Julius Reubke, composer
03/23/1837 Joseph Wieniawski, composer
03/23/1844 Eugene Gigout, composer
03/23/1847 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
03/23/1854 Alfred Milner, British governor Cape colony
03/23/1857 Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
03/23/1863 Godfried CE van Daalen, general/governor of Atjeh
03/23/1864 Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer
03/23/1876 Muirhead Bone, Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
03/23/1878 Franz Schrecker, composer
03/23/1881 Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)

03/23/1881 Roger Martin du Guard, France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937) 03/23/1883 Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria
03/23/1884 Glauco Velasquez, composer
03/23/1887 Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
03/23/1887 Felix F Joessoepov, Russian monarch
03/23/1887 Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window) 03/23/1887 Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation
03/23/1891 Catherine Murphy Urner, composer
03/23/1895 Dane Rudhyar, composer
03/23/1898 Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus 03/23/1900 Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) 03/23/1900 Jose Antonio Calcano, composer
03/23/1901 Edmund Rubbra, composer
03/23/1901 Jan H de Great, founder (Free Netherland)
03/23/1902 Philip Ober, Fort Payne Ala, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie) 03/23/1906 George Posford, composer
03/23/1907 Daniel Bovet, Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
03/23/1908 Joan Crawford [Lucille Le Sueur], actress (Mildred Pierce) 03/23/1910 Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living) 03/23/1910 Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer
03/23/1911 Charles Joseph A Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison for James Bond films 03/23/1911 Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur) 03/23/1912 Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936) 03/23/1912 John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge)
03/23/1912 Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars

03/23/1914 Robert Gross, composer
03/23/1917 Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show) 03/23/1917 Kenneth Tobey, actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders)
03/23/1920 Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer
03/23/1920 Geoffrey Bush, composer
03/23/1920 James Brown, Desdemona Tx, actor (Lt Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin) 03/23/1920 Neal Smith, (Rep-D-IA, 1959- )
03/23/1921 Donald M Campbell, boat racer, sets some speed records
03/23/1922 Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi), 'Hello Dere' 03/23/1923 Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants) 03/23/1925 Cees de Ruyter, European champion billiards player
03/23/1926 Martha Wright, Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, Martha Wright Show) 03/23/1927 Osvaldo Lacerda, composer
03/23/1929 Gerrit den Braber, composer/producer
03/23/1929 Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a mile under 4 minutes 03/23/1931 Norman F Lent, (Rep-R-NY, 1971- )
03/23/1933 Monique Van Vooren, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
03/23/1935 Szilard Kun, Hungary, rapid fire pistol (Olympic-silver-1952) 03/23/1937 Craig Breedlove, LA, auto-racing champion (600 MPH-Spirit of America

03/23/1937 Heinz Martin Lonquich, composer
03/23/1938 Christopher Glenn, NYC, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
03/23/1939 Bert Berdis, Pitts, comedian (Tim Conway Show)
03/23/1939 Boris Ivanovich Tischenko, composer
03/23/1943 Gail Goodrich, NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
03/23/1947 Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There) 03/23/1949 Karen English, (Rep-D-Arizona)
03/23/1949 Ric Ocasek, rocker (Cars-Double Life, All Mixed Up, Bye Bye Love) 03/23/1950 Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
03/23/1953 Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker (Rufus-I am Every Woma

03/23/1953 Louie Anderson, Minn, comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys)
03/23/1954 Moses Malone, NBA all star center (Phila '76ers)
03/23/1955 Cindy Olavarri, Pleasant Hills Calif, cyclist (7-Eleven team) 03/23/1957 Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker) 03/23/1957 Sheila Rena Ingram, Wash DC, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976) 03/23/1957 Teresa Ganzel, Toledo Ohio, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory) 03/23/1960 Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL)
03/23/1965 Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker) 03/23/1966 Marti Pellow, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
03/23/1971 Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, wrestler (NJPW)
03/23/1976 Keri Russell, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
03/23/1977 Josh Ackerman, actor (Mickey Mouse Club)
03/23/1990 Eugenie OF, Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguso



Deaths:

03/23/1169 Sjirkoeh, vizer of Cairo, dies
03/23/1237 Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies 03/23/1369 Pedro de Wrede, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered
03/23/1555 Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies
03/23/1606 Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], classic philologist, dies at 58 03/23/1653 Johan van Galen, fleet supervisor (Monte Christo), dies at about 48 03/23/1658 Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79
03/23/1669 Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54
03/23/1676 Paul Wirtz, [WUrtz], German/Neth army commander, dies at 63 03/23/1748 Johann Gottfried Walther, composer, dies at 63
03/23/1756 Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer, dies at 57
03/23/1783 Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67
03/23/1786 Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 03/23/1801 Czar Paul I, assassinated
03/23/1806 George Frederic Pinto, composer, dies at 20
03/23/1809 Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer, dies at 60
03/23/1816 Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, dies at 95
03/23/1818 Nicolas Isouard, composer, dies at 42
03/23/1821 Bernhard Anselm Weber, composer, dies at 56
03/23/1832 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer, dies at 41
03/23/1869 Charles Lucas, composer, dies at 60
03/23/1880 Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67
03/23/1881 Nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 46
03/23/1902 Kalman Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71
03/23/1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies 03/23/1918 Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27
03/23/1937 Helge Red, Danish poet/essayist, dies
03/23/1943 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72 03/23/1943 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
03/23/1944 OC Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash 03/23/1946 Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
03/23/1952 Klaas Painter, vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
03/23/1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
03/23/1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 03/23/1961 James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61)
03/23/1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80 03/23/1963 Davey Moore, dies 2d after being KOed in feather-weight championship

03/23/1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59
03/23/1966 John W Elsensohn, actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82
03/23/1968 Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49
03/23/1971 Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67
03/23/1971 Simon Fortress Dike, author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 03/23/1982 Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85
03/23/1983 Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days 03/23/1985 Anton Constandse, anarchist/writer, dies at 85
03/23/1985 Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), dies at 60
03/23/1985 Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium
03/23/1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68 03/23/1991 Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies
03/23/1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (road to serfdom), dies 03/23/1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 87 03/23/1994 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei-bishop, dies at 80
03/23/1994 Giulietta Masina, daughter of Federico Felini/(La Strada), dies at 7

03/23/1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican pres candidate, assassinated at 44


Significant Events:

03/23/1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
03/23/1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I 'Barbarossa' & Pope Eugene III

03/23/1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides 'Mishna Torah' published
03/23/1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
03/23/1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk 03/23/1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio 'Messiah' premieres in London 03/23/1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 03/23/1775 Patrick Henry asks 'give me liberty or give me death'
03/23/1794 Josiah Pierson patents a 'cold-header' (rivet) machine
03/23/1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
03/23/1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
03/23/1832 British Parliament passes reform bill
03/23/1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
03/23/1839 1st known use of term OK [oll korrect] (Boston)
03/23/1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) 03/23/1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 03/23/1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator intalled (488 Broadway, NYC)
03/23/1858 Eleazer Gardner of Philadelphia patents a cable car
03/23/1860 Asteroid 58, Concordia, discovered (Named for goddess of peace) 03/23/1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign 03/23/1864 Encounter at Camden AR
03/23/1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
03/23/1873 Slavery is abolish in Puerto Rico
03/23/1880 John Stevens, Wisc, patents the flour rolling mill
03/23/1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
03/23/1889 Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
03/23/1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast 03/23/1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
03/23/1908 M Wolf discovers asteroid #659 Nestor
03/23/1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway) 03/23/1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
03/23/1917 4 day series of tonadoes kills 211 in Midwest US
03/23/1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
03/23/1918 Lithuania proclaims independence
03/23/1918 Paris bombs 'Thick Bertha's Dike' (nickname for the widow Krupp) 03/23/1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
03/23/1919 Benito Mussolini founds Fascist movement in Milan Italy
03/23/1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
03/23/1919 Mussolini fights Fasci di Combattimento
03/23/1920 J Palisa discovers asteroid #932 Hooveria
03/23/1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 03/23/1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
03/23/1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
03/23/1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution 03/23/1929 1st telephone installed in White House
03/23/1933 Arend discovers asteroids 1262 Sniadeckia, 1263 Varsavia & 1348 Mich

03/23/1933 Delporte discovers asteroids 1261 Legia, 1329 Eliane & 2236 Austrasi

03/23/1933 German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
03/23/1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
03/23/1936 Italy & Austria-Hungary sign Pact of Rome
03/23/1937 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
03/23/1938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1492 Oppolzer
03/23/1939 L Oterma discovers asteroid #1504 Lappeenranta
03/23/1940 All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim homeland
03/23/1942 2,500 Jews in Lublin, massacred
03/23/1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
03/23/1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1850 Kohoutek & #1950 Wempe 03/23/1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome 03/23/1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives 03/23/1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
03/23/1946 Oklahoma A&M wins NCAA basketball championship
03/23/1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) 03/23/1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2546
03/23/1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
03/23/1950 UN World Meteorological Org established
03/23/1951 Wages in France increase 11%
03/23/1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day) 03/23/1956 Sudan becomes independent
03/23/1956 U of SF wins its 2nd consecutive national championship in basketball

03/23/1957 North Carolina wins NCAA basketball championship in 3 overtimes 03/23/1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
03/23/1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
03/23/1962 JFK visits SF
03/23/1963 Loyola Ill wins NCAA basketball championship
03/23/1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
03/23/1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young) 03/23/1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
03/23/1968 Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from D

03/23/1968 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
03/23/1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)
03/23/1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
03/23/1972 NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
03/23/1973 After a 52 year run soap 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing' ends 03/23/1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
03/23/1974 NC State ends UCLAs 7 year reign as NCAA basketball champions 03/23/1976 Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify
03/23/1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
03/23/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2710 Veverka
03/23/1982 Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees

03/23/1982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals
03/23/1982 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2661 & #2766
03/23/1983 US president Ronald Reagan introduces 'Star Wars'-plan (SDI) 03/23/1984 Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
03/23/1985 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3563
03/23/1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission 03/23/1985 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
03/23/1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
03/23/1987 Soap 'Bold & Beautiful' premieres
03/23/1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brent resigns
03/23/1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperatur

03/23/1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter 03/23/1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
03/23/1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
03/23/1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
03/23/1993 Belgian govt of Dehaene, falls
03/23/1993 NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
03/23/1994 Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail
03/23/1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
03/23/1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor 03/23/1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
03/23/1994 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored

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Births:

03/25/1133 Henry II, King of England (1154-89)
03/25/1252 Konradyn Hohenstaufen, [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV 03/25/1495 Leonhard Paminger, composer
03/25/1528 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Schwabische Konkordie)
03/25/1532 Pietro Pontio, composer
03/25/1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, writer
03/25/1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist
03/25/1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
03/25/1699 Johann Adolf Hasse, composer
03/25/1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
03/25/1702 Pieter Teyler van de Holly, founder (Teylers Museum, Haarlem Neth) 03/25/1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
03/25/1723 Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
03/25/1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
03/25/1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
03/25/1767 Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15) 03/25/1769 Salvatore Vigano, composer
03/25/1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
03/25/1782 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), daughter of Napoleon

03/25/1784 Francois-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicology/composer
03/25/1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
03/25/1797 John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
03/25/1800 Paulin Paris, French historian
03/25/1808 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes) 03/25/1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 186

03/25/1820 Xavier FMG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of Defense
03/25/1823 William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 191

03/25/1839 William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
03/25/1867 Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC) 03/25/1867 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
03/25/1869 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
03/25/1872 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina) 03/25/1873 Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
03/25/1877 Alphonse de Chateaubriant, French writer (Instantanes aux Pays-Bas) 03/25/1878 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
03/25/1879 Otakar Zich, composer
03/25/1881 Bela Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra) 03/25/1881 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (At Assault!)
03/25/1882 Haydn Wood, composer
03/25/1892 Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie) 03/25/1893 Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activitie

03/25/1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
03/25/1899 Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
03/25/1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
03/25/1901 Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry) 03/25/1902 Sten Broman, composer
03/25/1903 Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orch leader (Golden Touch)
03/25/1905 Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers) 03/25/1906 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915) 03/25/1906 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
03/25/1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
03/25/1908 David Lean, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
03/25/1908 Helmut Kautner, German director (Der Hauptmann von Kopenick) 03/25/1909 Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
03/25/1910 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
03/25/1914 Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
03/25/1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
03/25/1921 Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James) 03/25/1921 Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top) 03/25/1922 Eileen Ford, Modeling agency head
03/25/1923 Lee Hale, Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers) 03/25/1923 Wim Van Est, [Locomotief/Pletmolen], cyclist
03/25/1924 Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant) 03/25/1925 Flannery O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man Is Hard to Find) 03/25/1926 Laszlo Papp, Hungary, Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956) 03/25/1927 Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56) 03/25/1928 James A Lovell Jr, Cleveland Oh, USN/astr (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 1

03/25/1929 Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
03/25/1929 Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile) 03/25/1930 David Russell Burge, composer
03/25/1931 Bohumil Golian, Czech, volleyball player (Olympic-bronze-1968) 03/25/1934 Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine) 03/25/1934 Johnny Burnette, Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16

03/25/1938 Hoyt Axton, Duncan Okla, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters) 03/25/1940 Anita Bryant, Barnsdall Okla, Miss America candidate/singer/homophob

03/25/1942 Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect) 03/25/1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamsp

03/25/1942 Paul Michael Glaser, Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)

03/25/1943 Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980)
03/25/1943 Ronald Jeffers, composer
03/25/1944 Frank Oz, muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
03/25/1944 Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
03/25/1946 Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel

03/25/1947 Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
03/25/1947 Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] England, singer (Rocketman) 03/25/1948 Richard Lundy, horse trainer
03/25/1949 Nick Lowe, England, rocker (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
03/25/1953 Mary Gross, Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)

03/25/1956 Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980) 03/25/1958 Maria Caridad Colon, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980) 03/25/1959 Vince Guerra, jockey
03/25/1960 Haywood Nelson, NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening) 03/25/1960 Steve Norman, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True)
03/25/1964 Alex Solls, jockey
03/25/1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Oh, actress (Square Pegs, LA Story

03/25/1965 Sean 'Hollywood' Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100) 03/25/1966 Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
03/25/1967 Debi Thomas, US, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988)
03/25/197- Lark Voorhies, actress (Wendy-Days of Our Lives)
03/25/1973 Alexandra Quinn, [Dianne Stewart], XXX actress (Man Bait, Taboo 9) 03/25/1989 Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
03/25/2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)


Deaths:

03/25/ 752 Stephen II, Pope, dies, only 2 days after his election (752) 03/25/1223 Afonso II, King of Portugal (1211-23), dies
03/25/1692 Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
03/25/1697 Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
03/25/1751 Frederik van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74 03/25/1766 Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
03/25/1799 Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 61
03/25/1823 Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
03/25/1825 Rutger John Schimmelpenninck, patriot/earl, dies at 63
03/25/1852 Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
03/25/1880 Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
03/25/1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
03/25/1910 Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 6

03/25/1918 Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies at 55 in Par

03/25/1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in hand), dies 03/25/1940 Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
03/25/1949 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed 03/25/1951 Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies 03/25/1956 George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
03/25/1957 Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
03/25/1958 Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
03/25/1959 Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
03/25/1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist dies at 78
03/25/1963 David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
03/25/1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
03/25/1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist: murder
03/25/1969 Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
03/25/1969 Max F Eastman, US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies 03/25/1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
03/25/1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew

03/25/1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
03/25/1979 Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
03/25/1983 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72 03/25/1987 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
03/25/1992 Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies at 69 of cancer 03/25/1992 Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies
03/25/1994 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32


Significant Events:

03/25/ 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
03/25/ 31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
03/25/ 421 Friday 12 hour (Venice asylum) (legend)
03/25/ 708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
03/25/ 752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th)
03/25/1409 Council of Pisa opens
03/25/1598 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet departs East-Indies
03/25/1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
03/25/1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satelite) 03/25/1668 1st horse race in America takes place
03/25/1669 Mount Etna, Sicily destroys Nicolosi & takes 20,000 lives 03/25/1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for Gen Washington 03/25/1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
03/25/1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex 03/25/1814 Netherlands Bank established
03/25/1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
03/25/1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
03/25/1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical 'On aid for Ireland'
03/25/1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
03/25/1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
03/25/1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
03/25/1864 Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
03/25/1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
03/25/1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
03/25/1865 Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) 03/25/1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 03/25/1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 03/25/1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, O for Wash 03/25/1895 Italian troops move into Abyssinia
03/25/1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens (4/6 New Style)
03/25/1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
03/25/1900 US Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis
03/25/1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa 03/25/1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 03/25/1911 L.D. Swamikannu publishes 'Manual of Indian Chronology' in Bombay 03/25/1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls 03/25/1913 Great Dayton Flood
03/25/1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC)
03/25/1915 1st submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost 03/25/1915 German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
03/25/1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #824 Anastasia
03/25/1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC 03/25/1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
03/25/1920 Greek Independence Day
03/25/1923 British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
03/25/1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier 03/25/1924 Mont Canadiens sweep Calgary Tigers in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 192

03/25/1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabam

03/25/1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1587 Kahrstedt
03/25/1934 Horton Smith win 1st Master's golf championship
03/25/1935 M Laugier discovers asteroid #2677
03/25/1936 200' mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
03/25/1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30

03/25/1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads 03/25/1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) 03/25/1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
03/25/1937 Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page 03/25/1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase 03/25/1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon, SC, incorporated
03/25/1943 Artsen strike against obligatory report to Artsen chamber 03/25/1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
03/25/1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
03/25/1945 US 4th Pantzer div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
03/25/1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs to Okinawa
03/25/1947 Agreement of Linggadjati signed in Batavia
03/25/1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 lives
03/25/1947 Holy Cross wins NCAA basketball championship
03/25/1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
03/25/1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab 03/25/1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical 'On consecrated virginity'
03/25/1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set
03/25/1955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR 03/25/1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
03/25/1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt) 03/25/1958 West German Bondsdag desires German atomic weapons
03/25/1959 French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
03/25/1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) 03/25/1960 DH Lawrence' 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' ruled not obscene (NYC) 03/25/1960 Italian govt Tambroni forms
03/25/1961 Cincinatti wins NCAA basketball championship
03/25/1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
03/25/1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) 03/25/1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered 03/25/1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
03/25/1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting 03/25/1964 Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
03/25/1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
03/25/1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al 03/25/1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
03/25/1966 US Supreme court rules 'poll tax' unconstitutional
03/25/1967 The Turtle's 'Happy Together' goes #1
03/25/1967 UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years 03/25/1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
03/25/1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting 03/25/1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
03/25/1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
03/25/1969 Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres 03/25/1969 Train crash in La Louviere Belgium kills 14
03/25/1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) 03/25/1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
03/25/1971 C J Van Houten discovers asteroid #1873 Agenor
03/25/1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers 03/25/1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
03/25/1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
03/25/1974 Barbra Striesand records the album 'Butterfly'
03/25/1976 Argentine milt junta bans leftmost political parties
03/25/1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season 03/25/1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) 03/25/1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
03/25/1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
03/25/1986 Brian Boitano (US) wins his 2nd world figure skating title 03/25/1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump 03/25/1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
03/25/1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money 03/25/1991 63rd Academy Awards - Dances with Wolves wins 7 Oscars
03/25/1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 75683

03/25/1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
03/25/1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
03/25/1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)

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Births:

03/26/1516 Konrad von Gesner, ZUrich 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 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, 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 Brandstrom, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist 03/26/1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist (Atlas over 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 tete/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 MUnster/saint, dies at about 66 03/26/1258 Floris, the Guardian, son of count Floris IV, dies
03/26/1350 Alfonso XI, King of Castilie & Leon, 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 Francois-Joseph Fetis, 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 OphUls, [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 GUnther 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 Henriette [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 Vendee 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

03/26/1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
03/26/1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard goes into use
03/26/1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
03/26/1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
03/26/1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
03/26/1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
03/26/1972 LA Lakers set NBA record of 69 wins in a season (69-13)
03/26/1973 Soap 'Young & Restless' premieres
03/26/1973 UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
03/26/1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president 03/26/1976 Wings release 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' album
03/26/1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record 'Less Than Zero'
03/26/1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
03/26/1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 03/26/1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 03/26/1982 Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial 03/26/1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release 'Ebony & Ivory' in the UK 03/26/1982 Soap opera 'Capitol' premieres
03/26/1985 57th Academy Awards, Amadeus wins 8
03/26/1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
03/26/1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
03/26/1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins 03/26/1991 63rd Academy Awards: Kathy Bates, Jeremy Irons & Dance with Wolves 03/26/1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC 03/26/1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-3

03/26/1992 Mike Tyson is sentenced to 10 years for rape
03/26/1992 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 year

03/26/1993 Daytime Emmy Awards
03/26/1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) 03/26/1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60

03/26/1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
03/26/1994 Picture released showing 1st moon of an Asteroid (Ida)
03/26/1994 Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo

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Births:

03/31/1499 Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian lawyer/Pope (1559-65) 03/31/1519 Henry II, King of Germany (1547-59)
03/31/1570 Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau
03/31/1596 Rene Descartes, France, philospher (he thought, therefore he was) 03/31/1621 Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
03/31/1675 Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58) 03/31/1684 Francesco Durante, composer
03/31/1717 Florian Wrastill, composer
03/31/1723 Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
03/31/1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austria, composer, help develop classical style 03/31/1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (The Mouth)
03/31/1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
03/31/1809 Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) 03/31/1809 Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls) 03/31/1809 Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
03/31/1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)

03/31/1822 Rafael Hernando, composer
03/31/1831 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
03/31/1837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
03/31/1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 18

03/31/1838 Leon Dierx, French poet
03/31/1839 Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS) 03/31/1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 03/31/1844 Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
03/31/1847 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
03/31/1848 John Henry Roberts, composer
03/31/1854 Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
03/31/1868 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
03/31/1872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein
03/31/1872 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet) 03/31/1878 Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915) 03/31/1880 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Juno & Paycock)
03/31/1885 Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist 03/31/1887 Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) 03/31/1887 Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
03/31/1887 Saint-John Perse, [MRA Alexis Leger], French poet (Nobel 1960) 03/31/1891 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
03/31/1891 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
03/31/1891 Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City) 03/31/1893 Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937) 03/31/1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man) 03/31/1895 Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep)
03/31/19-- Brigitte Aime, XXX actress (Battle of the Superstars Round 1) 03/31/1900 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters
03/31/1900 Lorinc Szabo, Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik ev)
03/31/1903 Arthur Godfrey, NYC, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts) 03/31/1906 Lauri Saikkola, composer
03/31/1907 Eddie Quillan, Phila, actor (Julia, Hell Town)
03/31/1909 Pieter Youngster, editor-in-chief (Neth Newspaper)
03/31/1909 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator
03/31/1914 Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas) 03/31/1915 Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer
03/31/1915 Henry Morgan, NYC, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena) 03/31/1916 John Vivyan, Chic Ill, actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky) 03/31/1920 Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco, writer (Bitter Herb)
03/31/1922 Patrick J G McGee, North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange) 03/31/1922 Richard Kiley, Chicago, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love) 03/31/1923 Donald Argee Barksdale, Berkley Cal, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1948

03/31/1924 Leo Buscaglia, LA Calif, 'Dr Hug', psycholigist (Love)
03/31/1926 John Fowles, England, novelist (Collector)
03/31/1926 Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie/ actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sister

03/31/1927 Cesar Chavez, Yuma Az, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers) 03/31/1927 William Daniels, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776) 03/31/1928 Gordie Howe, Floral Sask, NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings) 03/31/1929 Lee Patterson, Vancouver BC, actor (Dave-Surfside Six)
03/31/1932 John [William] Jakes, US, sci-fi author (Time Gate)
03/31/1932 Nagisa Oshima, Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope) 03/31/1933 Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond) 03/31/1933 Shirley Jones, Smithton Pa, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)

03/31/1935 Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M) 03/31/1935 Judith Rossner, US, writer (August)
03/31/1935 Richard Chamberlain, Beverly Hills Calif, actor (Dr Kildare) 03/31/1936 Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
03/31/1937 Willem Duyn, [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
03/31/1938 John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters) 03/31/1938 Nathaniel Taylor, St Louis Mo, actor (Rollo-Sanford & Sons) 03/31/1939 Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, fashion designer (women) 03/31/1940 Barney Frank, (Rep-D-MA, 1981- )
03/31/1940 Patrick J Leahy, (Sen-D-VT, 1975- )
03/31/1943 Christopher Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm) 03/31/1946 Gabe Kaplan, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter) 03/31/1947 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, president (Colombia, 1990- )
03/31/1948 Albert Gore Jr, Wash DC, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1985-92)/45th US VP (1993- ) 03/31/1948 Rhea Perlman, Brooklyn, actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers) 03/31/1948 Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Introspection)
03/31/1951 Ed Marinaro, NYC, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)

03/31/1952 Vanessa Del Rio, [Anna Maria Sanchez], XXX actress (Babylon Gold) 03/31/1953 Greg Martin, Louisville Ky, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett) 03/31/1953 Sean Hopper, keyboardist (Huey Lewis & the News)
03/31/1954 Tony Brock, drummer (Babys-Missing You)
03/31/1957 Marc McClure, San Mateo Calif, actor (Ross-California Fever) 03/31/1957 Mary Cadorette, East Hartford Ct, actress (Vicky-3's a Crowd) 03/31/1959 Angus Young, Glascow Scotland, rock guitar (AC/DC-Highway to Hell) 03/31/1960 Anne Howard, San Diego Calif, actress (Nicole Love-Another World) 03/31/1961 Ron Brown, LA Calif, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
03/31/1964 Erik Turner, Omaha Nebraska, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie) 03/31/1964 Isabelle Ferrari, Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager)
03/31/1974 Carol Ann Plante, actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons) 03/31/1976 Josh Saviano, actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years)


Deaths:

03/31/1201 Absalon Assersson, Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies 03/31/1340 Ivan I Kalita, ruler of Vladimir, dies
03/31/1389 Everhard Tserclaes, of Brussels, murdered
03/31/1567 Philip, the Generous, count of Hessen, dies
03/31/1621 Felipe III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies
03/31/1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
03/31/1656 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64
03/31/1722 Campegius Vitringa, theologist, dies
03/31/1741 Peter Burmannus, [Peter Burman], attorney/classical, dies 03/31/1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday
03/31/1837 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 03/31/1850 John Calhoun, dies at 68
03/31/1855 Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
03/31/1877 Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 03/31/1880 Henryk Wieniawski, composer, dies at 44
03/31/1881 Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73
03/31/1884 John T Beelen, Neth/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77 03/31/1885 Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies
03/31/1885 Franz Wilhelm Abt, composer, dies at 65
03/31/1885 Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
03/31/1886 Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57
03/31/1892 Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
03/31/1895 Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies
03/31/1898 Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies 03/31/1901 John Stainer, composer, dies at 61
03/31/1913 John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies 03/31/1928 Gustave Ador, union president of Austria 1919, dies at 82 03/31/1928 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69
03/31/1931 Knute Rockne, football player/coach dies in a plane crash at 43 03/31/1934 Franz Ehrle, German jesuit of Vatican library, dies at 88 03/31/1938 Willem Kloos, poet, dies
03/31/1939 Indrio Einarsson, Iceland playwright (Skipio Sekkur), dies at 87 03/31/1944 Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
03/31/1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies
03/31/1948 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter), dies 03/31/1951 Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45
03/31/1957 Gene Lockhart, NYC actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
03/31/1959 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (S Verlag), dies at 68
03/31/1960 Joseph Hare, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 03/31/1961 Seerp Anema, poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies 03/31/1967 Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62 03/31/1967 Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
03/31/1970 Semjon Timosjenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 7

03/31/1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68
03/31/1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57

03/31/1978 Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68 03/31/1982 Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85
03/31/1983 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 03/31/1986 Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 03/31/1986 O'Kelly Isley, US singer/composer (Twist & Shout), dies at 48 03/31/1988 Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48
03/31/1990 Lillian 'Miss' Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies

03/31/1991 John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies 03/31/1993 Brandon Lee, US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at

03/31/1994 Leon J Ramirez Reine, [Degrelle], Belg/Spanish nazi Rex, dies at 87


Significant Events:

03/31/1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews 03/31/1547 Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France
03/31/1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
03/31/1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
03/31/1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family nam

03/31/1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
03/31/1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
03/31/1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
03/31/1849 Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
03/31/1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) 03/31/1854 Commodore Perry forces Japan to open its ports to foreign trade 03/31/1856 Asteroid 40, Harmonia discovered (named for daughter of Mars) 03/31/1856 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #40 Harmonia
03/31/1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
03/31/1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
03/31/1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
03/31/1865 Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
03/31/1865 Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg 03/31/1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
03/31/1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ) 03/31/1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN) 03/31/1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
03/31/1886 J Palisa discovers asteroids #254 Augusta & #255 Oppavia
03/31/1889 Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens
03/31/1891 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #308 Polyxo
03/31/1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) 03/31/1899 J Coggia discovers asteroid #444 Gyptis
03/31/1900 Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
03/31/1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand) 03/31/1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
03/31/1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian revolt
03/31/1909 Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic
03/31/1916 Dutch govt ends all milt engagements
03/31/1917 US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
03/31/1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
03/31/1919 Srike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
03/31/1921 British coal miners goes on strike
03/31/1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
03/31/1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
03/31/1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs 03/31/1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die 03/31/1923 Ottawa Senators sweep Edm Eskimos in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1923)

03/31/1924 London public transport strike ends
03/31/1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts) 03/31/1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands 03/31/1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
03/31/1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
03/31/1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, 'Soperton News' (Ga) 03/31/1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
03/31/1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
03/31/1934 Netherland's Indies BC Ltd begain radio transmission (Indonesia) 03/31/1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 03/31/1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) 03/31/1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
03/31/1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, SF
03/31/1943 Allies bombs Wilton-Feyenoordwerf (326 dead)
03/31/1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical 'Oklahoma!' opens on Broadway 03/31/1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
03/31/1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
03/31/1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa 03/31/1946 Belgian govt of Acker, forms
03/31/1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
03/31/1951 US tanks exceed 38o of latitude in Korea
03/31/1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general 03/31/1954 USSR offers to join NATO
03/31/1955 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes
03/31/1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
03/31/1959 Tibet's Dalai Lama reaches India
03/31/1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
03/31/1962 Asteroid #3179 discovered
03/31/1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
03/31/1964 Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 03/31/1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
03/31/1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
03/31/1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
03/31/1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
03/31/1967 NATO headquarter moves to Casteau-Maisieres, Belgium
03/31/1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
03/31/1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
03/31/1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined L250 each for illeagal drugs 03/31/1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwauk

03/31/1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
03/31/1972 Offical Beatles Fan Club, closes down
03/31/1973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots 03/31/1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision 03/31/1975 John Wooden's final game, UCLA wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs

03/31/1976 Cleve Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth
03/31/1976 Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator 03/31/1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
03/31/1978 Wings release 'London Town' album
03/31/1980 Heavyweight champ Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in Knoxville
03/31/1981 53rd Academy Awards-'Ordinary People' wins
03/31/1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil 03/31/1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
03/31/1984 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3078 Horrocks
03/31/1985 El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election 03/31/1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
03/31/1986 Louisville beats Duke for NCAA basketball title
03/31/1987 Indiana beats Syracuse for NCAA basketball title
03/31/1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Genk Belgium
03/31/1988 NY Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
03/31/1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for 'Beloved'
03/31/1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
03/31/1990 'Carol & Company' starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV 03/31/1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
03/31/1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
03/31/1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az 03/31/1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 03/31/1992 Bruce Springsteen releases 'Human Touch' & 'Lucky Town'

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Births:

04/01/1283 Ludwig IV van Baveria, Roman Catholic German emperor (1314-47) 04/01/1578 William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation) 04/01/1582 Thomas Simpson, composer
04/01/1643 Christian Demelius, composer
04/01/1697 Abbe Prevost, French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut)
04/01/1721 Pieter Hellendaal, violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
04/01/1725 Francois Bainville, composer
04/01/1732 Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer (That Schopfung)
04/01/1755 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto) 04/01/1772 Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
04/01/1785 J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
04/01/1793 Edouard Corbiere, French captain/writer (Le negrier)
04/01/1802 Hubert Reis, composer
04/01/1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
04/01/1809 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner
04/01/1815 Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
04/01/1817 Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist
04/01/1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914 04/01/1834 Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
04/01/1843 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader
04/01/1847 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
04/01/1852 Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail) 04/01/1858 Arnold Aletrino, physician-criminologist/author (Out the Life) 04/01/1858 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite) 04/01/1864 Marie Jungius, fairy tale writer
04/01/1865 Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
04/01/1866 Ferruccio Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer
04/01/1866 Johannes C H de Meyere, zoologist
04/01/1868 Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) 04/01/1869 Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
04/01/1871 F Melius Christiansen, composer
04/01/1872 Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
04/01/1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)

04/01/1875 Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror) 04/01/1878 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
04/01/1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
04/01/1883 Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) 04/01/1884 Laurette Taylor, [Heal LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
04/01/1886 Casimir von Paszthory, composer
04/01/1886 Wallace Beery, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness)

04/01/1887 Leonard Bloomfield, US translator
04/01/1893 Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure, L Shaped Room) 04/01/1895 Alberta Hunter, blues singer
04/01/1897 Willem H van de Pol, theologist (Christian Dilemma)
04/01/1898 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley), US actress (Blood & Sand) 04/01/1898 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica)
04/01/1898 Roger Bastide, French sociologist
04/01/1901 Boris Koutzen, composer
04/01/1905 Clara 'Mother' Hale, US social worker (Hale House)
04/01/1905 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
04/01/1905 Winifried Petrus Ignatius Zillig, composer
04/01/1906 Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie)

04/01/1906 Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
04/01/1907 Walter Kaufmann, composer
04/01/1908 Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology) 04/01/1909 Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak) 04/01/1909 Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch) 04/01/1911 Evert H 'Bep' Bakhuys, soccer star/writer
04/01/1915 Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
04/01/1917 Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
04/01/1917 Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk)
04/01/1920 Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
04/01/1921 Douglas Allenbrook, composer
04/01/1921 William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island) 04/01/1922 William Manchester, historian (Death of a President)
04/01/1923 Bobby Jordan, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild) 04/01/1924 Gunther Becker, composer
04/01/1925 Sala Burton, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
04/01/1926 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)

04/01/1926 Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
04/01/1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa)
04/01/1928 George Grizzard, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica) 04/01/1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary
04/01/1928 Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brother

04/01/1929 Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (The Joke)
04/01/1930 Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek) 04/01/1930 Joan Franks-Williams, composer
04/01/1931 George Baker, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker, Curse of the Fly) 04/01/1932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain) 04/01/1932 Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains)

04/01/1932 Jiri Smutny, composer
04/01/1933 Dan Flavin, US speed artist (minimal art)
04/01/1934 Don Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns) 04/01/1939 Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus) 04/01/1939 Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves) 04/01/1939 Rudolph Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Shout)
04/01/1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryon

04/01/1944 Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
04/01/1945 Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of Giants) 04/01/1946 Arthur Conley, US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music)
04/01/1946 John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
04/01/1946 Ronnie 'Plonk' Lane, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)
04/01/1946 William F Fisher, Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)
04/01/1947 David Eisenhower, grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie Nixon 04/01/1949 Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon) 04/01/1950 Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD) 04/01/1952 Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat People, Superman III) 04/01/1952 Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)

04/01/1952 Rey Robinson, US, 100m sprinter (Olympic-1972)
04/01/1954 Jeff Porcaro, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa) 04/01/1956 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People) 04/01/1957 Peter Deutsch, (Rep-D-Florida)
04/01/1958 Anton Innauer, Austria, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980) 04/01/1960 Shanna McCullough, [Shauna], XXX actress (Chest Fever, Adultery) 04/01/1961 Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
04/01/1961 Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
04/01/1962 Phillip Schofield, TV personality
04/01/1965 Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Normandy/Neth), dies at 76 04/01/1965 John 'Jumbo' Elliot, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
04/01/1965 Peter O'Toole, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
04/01/1969 Traci Lin-Tavi, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2)


Deaths:

04/01/1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II, dies at about 81
04/01/1205 Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies
04/01/1548 Sigismund I, the old, King of Poland, dies
04/01/1734 Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69
04/01/1799 Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52
04/01/1807 Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
04/01/1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
04/01/1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 04/01/1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51
04/01/1832 Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies 04/01/1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
04/01/1866 Johannes C H de Meyere, Dutch zoologist
04/01/1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies 04/01/1870 Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98 04/01/1878 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
04/01/1901 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies 04/01/1910 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
04/01/1915 Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
04/01/1916 Gabrielle Petit, executed
04/01/1916 Sjoerd van de Schaaf, Fries journalist/writer (Abbingawald) 04/01/1917 Scott Joplin, composer, dies at 48
04/01/1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
04/01/1922 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies 04/01/1925 Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77
04/01/1930 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies 04/01/1930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
04/01/1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-Indies (1916-21), dies

04/01/1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 62 04/01/1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies
04/01/1946 Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 64 04/01/1947 George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
04/01/1950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 04/01/1951 Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51
04/01/1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at

04/01/1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies 04/01/1960 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist (Telegraph, Free People), dies 04/01/1964 Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
04/01/1965 Henry DG Crerar, Canada general (WW I, Normandy), dies
04/01/1966 Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 04/01/1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies
04/01/1969 Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89 04/01/1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
04/01/1975 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish cartoonist, dies at 95
04/01/1976 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 04/01/1976 Max Earnest, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 04/01/1976 Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
04/01/1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
04/01/1979 Marinus Peijnenburg, politician, dies at 51
04/01/1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 04/01/1984 Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44 04/01/1988 Jim Jordan, radio's Fibber McGee, dies at 91 in a fall
04/01/1988 Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85

04/01/1989 Henk Gortzak, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CPN/PSP), dies
04/01/1991 Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 04/01/1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
04/01/1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash 04/01/1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car driver, dies at 38
04/01/1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, kill

04/01/1993 Wayne Mack, actor, dies
04/01/1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81


Significant Events:

04/01/ 705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
04/01/1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
04/01/1572 Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle
04/01/1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
04/01/1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
04/01/1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
04/01/1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates '$' symbol 04/01/1789 House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker 04/01/1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 04/01/1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
04/01/1803 French law rules the use of intention
04/01/1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
04/01/1850 SF County Govt established
04/01/1853 Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary 04/01/1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA 04/01/1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
04/01/1865 -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
04/01/1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
04/01/1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US 04/01/1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
04/01/1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris
04/01/1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies 04/01/1868 Hampton Institute opens
04/01/1872 1st edition of The Standard
04/01/1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die

04/01/1873 Mehmed Kemals play 'Vatan' premeirs in Constantinople
04/01/1873 Steamer 'Atlantic' sank off Nova Scotia drowning 481
04/01/1876 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
04/01/1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
04/01/1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
04/01/1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
04/01/1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea
04/01/1899 NC Mutual opens doors for business
04/01/1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper 'The People'
04/01/1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 04/01/1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk 04/01/1916 1st US national women's swiming championships held
04/01/1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
04/01/1920 Church disestablished in Wales
04/01/1920 Ottawa Senators beat Seat Metropolitans 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup

04/01/1921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #950 Ahrensa
04/01/1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 04/01/1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted 04/01/1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
04/01/1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
04/01/1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
04/01/1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice 04/01/1928 Chaing Kai-sheks army crosses Yang-tse
04/01/1929 Austrian govt of Ignaz Seipel falls
04/01/1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
04/01/1929 Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate 04/01/1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
04/01/1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball 04/01/1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
04/01/1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses

04/01/1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
04/01/1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
04/01/1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta
04/01/1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India
04/01/1937 Aden becomes British crown colony
04/01/1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1417 Walinskia & #3417 Tamblyn 04/01/1937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1426 Riviera
04/01/1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
04/01/1938 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in NYC
04/01/1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
04/01/1941 Nazi's forbid Jewish access to cafes
04/01/1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
04/01/1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
04/01/1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
04/01/1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
04/01/1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen 04/01/1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
04/01/1945 US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
04/01/1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
04/01/1946 Belgian govt of Acker forms (without CVP)
04/01/1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii 04/01/1946 Underseas earthquake at Aleoeten, flooding in Hawaii, kills 179 04/01/1946 Van Acker forms Belgian govt (without CVP)
04/01/1946 Weight Watchers forms
04/01/1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow

04/01/1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
04/01/1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 04/01/1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
04/01/1954 1st army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
04/01/1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
04/01/1954 US Air Force Academy established
04/01/1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 04/01/1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

04/01/1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British govt buildings in Cyprus 04/01/1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1852 Carpenter 04/01/1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast 04/01/1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting 04/01/1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
04/01/1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 04/01/1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting 04/01/1957 World's biggest glass oven used
04/01/1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 04/01/1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
04/01/1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
04/01/1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
04/01/1960 RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched 04/01/1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
04/01/1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
04/01/1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike 04/01/1963 Soap operas 'General Hospital' & 'Doctors' premier on TV
04/01/1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years 04/01/1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 year

04/01/1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
04/01/1966 China premier Tsjoe en-lai start 'Cultural revolution'
04/01/1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadca

04/01/1970 Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
04/01/1970 John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations 04/01/1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid 1805 Dirikis, 1957 Angara & 1976 Kaver

04/01/1970 Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 04/01/1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
04/01/1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
04/01/1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 04/01/1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike 04/01/1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
04/01/1974 Pioneer Hall opens
04/01/1974 Yourdon, Inc forms
04/01/1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees to Red Khmer
04/01/1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
04/01/1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason game

04/01/1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 04/01/1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz 04/01/1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist 04/01/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3480 Abante
04/01/1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
04/01/1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
04/01/1983 NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons 04/01/1984 8 men record longest distance rowed in 24 hours at 13 miles 04/01/1985 Villanova beats Georgetown for NCAA basketball title
04/01/1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
04/01/1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
04/01/1989 1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3 04/01/1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseba

04/01/1990 'Ha!' commedy Channel on cable tv begins transmitting
04/01/1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
04/01/1990 Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singger for Lame Flames

04/01/1990 It becomes illeagal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers 04/01/1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
04/01/1990 Wrestlemania VI-Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for championship 04/01/1991 Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 for NCAA championship
04/01/1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets 04/01/1991 Iran releases british hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
04/01/1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
04/01/1991 Warsaw Pact officially disolves
04/01/1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
04/01/1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned

04/01/1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games 04/01/1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
04/01/1994 Asteroid #511 Davida (0 337 km) eclipses star GSC 62662121

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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:

04/02/ 742 Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
04/02/1602 Maria de Jesus de Agreda, [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscan 04/02/1618 Francesco M Grimaldi, naturalist (light defraction)
04/02/1628 Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
04/02/1632 Georg Caspar Weckler, composer
04/02/1711 John Point, engraver/illustrator/actor
04/02/1713 Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Fatherland)
04/02/1728 Franz Asplmayr, composer
04/02/1733 Giacomo Tritto, composer
04/02/1735 Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
04/02/1735 Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer
04/02/1763 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
04/02/1803 Franz Paul Lachner, composer
04/02/1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales 04/02/1814 Henry Lewis 'Old Rock' Benning, Brig General (Confederate Army) 04/02/1817 Teodulo Mabellini, composer
04/02/1826 Philip Dale Roddey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 04/02/1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 04/02/1834 Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, France, Statue of Liberty sculptor 04/02/1840 Emile Zola, France, novelist (Nana, J'Accuse)
04/02/1841 Clement Ader, French engineer
04/02/1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia U pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931) 04/02/1863 Henry C Van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau) 04/02/1868 Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
04/02/1875 Walter Chrysler, founded car company
04/02/1877 Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik) 04/02/1891 Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism) 04/02/1894 Rudolph P Cleveringa, lawyer (anti-nazi leader)
04/02/1894 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
04/02/1900 Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist
04/02/1901 Anis Fuleihan, composer
04/02/1902 Danilo Svara, composer
04/02/1905 Serge Lifar, Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet) 04/02/1908 Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jone

04/02/1909 Jean Kurt Forest, composer
04/02/1910 Arnie Herber, NFL QB (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
04/02/1910 Irene Mayer Selznick, producer (Street Car Named Desire)
04/02/1910 Joeri German, Russian writer
04/02/1911 Charles 'Honi' Coles, tap dancer (Tap)
04/02/1912 Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers)
04/02/1914 Alec Guinness, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
04/02/1915 Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine
04/02/1917 Dabbs Greer, Fairview Mo, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie) 04/02/1917 Lou Monte, NJ, singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse)
04/02/1919 Antoon J Hubben, mayor (Maasbree)/Political chairman (KVM) 04/02/1919 Ian Hunter, impresario
04/02/1920 Jack Webb, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet) 04/02/1922 Nikolaj G Bassov, Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964) 04/02/1923 Hugh Overton, British diplomat
04/02/1923 Jacob 'Cut' Firet, theologist (Agogisch Moment)
04/02/1924 Denis Rooke, CEO (British Gas)
04/02/1925 George MacDonald Fraser, poet/author (Flashman at the Charge) 04/02/1926 Michael Rizzello, sculpter/coin designer
04/02/1927 Billy Pierce, pitcher (Chicago White Sox) seven time all star 04/02/1928 Joseph 'Cardinal' Bernardin, of Chicago
04/02/1928 Rita Gam, Pittsburgh, actress (Distortions, Hannibal, Sierra Baron) 04/02/1928 Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginsburg], Russian/French singer/songwriter 04/02/1929 Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife) 04/02/1929 Frans H J J Andriessen, Dutch 2nd chamber member (KVP/CDA) 04/02/1930 Girolamo Arriego, composer
04/02/1931 Imre Olsvai, composer
04/02/1934 Brian Glover, actor (McGuffin)
04/02/1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary (Dept of Health) 04/02/1934 Diane Cilento, actress (Hombre, Tom Jones, Wicker Man, Negatives) 04/02/1934 Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary (Treasury)
04/02/1935 Sharon Acker, Toronto Canada, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason 1973

04/02/1936 Jack Brabham, race car driver
04/02/1937 Paul E Kanjorski, (Rep-D-PA, 1985- )
04/02/1939 Marvin P Gaye Jr, Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
04/02/1940 Penelope Keith, British actress (Norman Conquests, Priest of Love) 04/02/1940 Peter Haining, writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft)
04/02/1941 Leon Russell, pianist/singer (Carny)
04/02/1942 Graham Bright, private sec to British PM
04/02/1943 Larry Coryell, Galveston Tx, jazz guitarist (11th House)
04/02/1945 Don Sutton, baseball pitcher (LA Dodgers)
04/02/1945 Linda Hunt, Morristown NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado) 04/02/1945 Lord Skelmersdale, British minister (C)
04/02/1946 Kurt Winter, rocker (Guess Who)
04/02/1947 Emmylou Harris, Birmingham Alabama, country singer (Together Again) 04/02/1948 Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune) 04/02/1949 Pamela Reed, Tacoma Wash, actress (Grand, Kindergarten Cop) 04/02/1949 Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey
04/02/1953 Debralee Scott, Elizabeth NJ, actress (Cathy-Mary Hartman, Angie) 04/02/1954 Ron Palillo, Ct, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter) 04/02/1955 Dana Carvey, comedian (Church Lady-SNL)
04/02/1959 Brian Goodell, US, 400m/1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1976) 04/02/1959 Dean Townson, St Petersburg Fla, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake) 04/02/1959 Gelindo Bordin, Italian marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1988) 04/02/1960 Linford Christie, St Andrews Jamaica, 4x100m runner (Oly-silver-1988

04/02/1961 Keren Woodward, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
04/02/1962 Billy Dean, Quincy Fla, country singer (Billy the Kid)
04/02/1963 Dermot Reeve, British cricketeer
04/02/1965 Rodney King, Sacramento Calif, black motorist beaten by LA cops 04/02/1969 Yj Nagata, [Yuji], wrestler (NJPW)
04/02/1975 Deedee Magno, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
04/02/1984 Ashley Peldon, actress (Child of Rage, Deceived)


Deaths:

04/02/1118 Boudewijn I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies

04/02/1416 Ferdinand I, the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52 04/02/1502 Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon 04/02/1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 04/02/1657 Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 04/02/1705 Johann Lohner, composer, dies at 59
04/02/1758 Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67
04/02/1784 Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74
04/02/1803 Hieronymus van Alphen, attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 04/02/1831 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
04/02/1865 Ambrose P Hill, confederate general, dies at 39
04/02/1865 Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
04/02/1872 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 04/02/1876 Paul van Vlissingen, ship owner, dies at 78
04/02/1892 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, genealogist, dies at 79 04/02/1910 Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), dies at 37 04/02/1910 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies
04/02/1928 Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 04/02/1932 Hugo Kaun, composer, dies at 69
04/02/1937 Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher ('zionism'), dies at about 72 04/02/1941 Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies
04/02/1944 Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71
04/02/1945 Maurice Rose, US Gen-maj, dies in battle of Paderborn
04/02/1951 Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall 04/02/1952 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies 04/02/1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
04/02/1956 Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65
04/02/1956 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies
04/02/1961 August Defresne, director (Anno Christi 967), dies
04/02/1961 Wallingford Rieger, composer, dies at 75
04/02/1965 Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81
04/02/1969 Fortunio Bonanova, actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74 04/02/1972 Gil Hodges, NY Mets manager, dies at 57
04/02/1974 Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84 04/02/1974 Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris
04/02/1976 Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74
04/02/1979 Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72
04/02/1987 Buddy Rich, drummer/orch leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
04/02/1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies 04/02/1992 Paula (II) Kelly, actress (Sweet Charity, Andromeda Strain), dies 04/02/1993 Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93 04/02/1993 Kaus Schenk, ice skater/skating coach/father of Ard, dies at 86


Significant Events:

04/02/ 999 Gerbert van Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
04/02/1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon
04/02/1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
04/02/1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
04/02/1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht 04/02/1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope

04/02/1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
04/02/1819 1st successful agricultural journal ('American Farmer') begins 04/02/1845 H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
04/02/1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
04/02/1863 Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
04/02/1864 Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
04/02/1864 Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas
04/02/1865 Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station) 04/02/1865 CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA 04/02/1866 Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & V

04/02/1869 R Luther discovers asteroid #108 Hecuba
04/02/1876 Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila 04/02/1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
04/02/1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
04/02/1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
04/02/1902 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
04/02/1902 Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act 04/02/1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
04/02/1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
04/02/1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
04/02/1916 Belyavskij disc asteroid #851 Zeissia & #852 Wladilena & #853 Nansen

04/02/1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps 04/02/1917 Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
04/02/1926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2500
04/02/1926 Riots between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
04/02/1930 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
04/02/1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son 04/02/1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 04/02/1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
04/02/1937 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1549 Mikko
04/02/1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting assn
04/02/1941 USS Hotnet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
04/02/1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
04/02/1944 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY
04/02/1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
04/02/1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
04/02/1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcastin

04/02/1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see 0126]
04/02/1956 Soap operas 'As the World Turns' & 'Edge of Night' premieres on TV 04/02/1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
04/02/1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
04/02/1958 Operations begin at Antillian Brewery (Amstel beer)
04/02/1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record) 04/02/1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
04/02/1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacom, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast 04/02/1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
04/02/1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
04/02/1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria 04/02/1964 Military coup between Gen Castello Branco & Pres Goulart in Brazil 04/02/1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
04/02/1965 Hochhuths play 'Stellvertreter' banned in Italy
04/02/1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 04/02/1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
04/02/1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
04/02/1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
04/02/1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
04/02/1968 Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin 04/02/1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
04/02/1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state 04/02/1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
04/02/1971 Sci-fi soap opera 'Dark Shadows' concludes an almost 5 year run 04/02/1972 44th Academy Awards presented
04/02/1972 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
04/02/1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
04/02/1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
04/02/1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean pres election 04/02/1974 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
04/02/1976 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier 04/02/1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2190 Coubertin & #2593 Buryatia 04/02/1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
04/02/1977 Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumors,' album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks 04/02/1977 Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lo

04/02/1978 TV show 'Dallas' premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) 04/02/1979 Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt
04/02/1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season 04/02/1981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3400
04/02/1981 Belgium's 4th govt of Martens resigns
04/02/1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon

04/02/1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands
04/02/1984 Georgetown beats Houston for NCAA basketball title
04/02/1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece 04/02/1986 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans 04/02/1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule
04/02/1986 P Jensen discovers asteroid #3459 Bodil
04/02/1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
04/02/1988 Simply Majestic sets horseracing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 04/02/1989 Wrestlemania V-Hulk Hogan beats Randy 'Macho Man' Savage
04/02/1989 Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games 04/02/1991 Rotterdam Newspaper begins publishing
04/02/1992 'Hamlet' opens at Criterion Center on Broadway
04/02/1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
04/02/1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
04/02/1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
04/02/1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
04/02/1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10

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Births:

04/06/1483 Raphael, [Raffaello Sanzio], Neth, painter (Sistine Madonna) 04/06/1631 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
04/06/1660 Johann Kuhnau, composer
04/06/1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)

04/06/1672 Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
04/06/1708 George Reuter, composer
04/06/1752 Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
04/06/1757 Alessandro Rolla, composer
04/06/1773 James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India) 04/06/1778 Joseph Funk, composer
04/06/1810 Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos) 04/06/1812 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
04/06/1815 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
04/06/1818 Francis Henry Brown, composer
04/06/1819 Johann AH Scheler, Belgian librarian
04/06/1823 Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)

04/06/1826 Gustave Moreau, French painter
04/06/1828 Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 189

04/06/1830 James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop 04/06/1833 Johan HC Nucleus, Dutch translator (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
04/06/1835 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer
04/06/1844 Joseph Ludwig, composer
04/06/1860 Rene Lalique, French jeweler
04/06/1866 Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker), US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage) 04/06/1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities) 04/06/1869 Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
04/06/1871 Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
04/06/1874 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Hungary, famous magician/escape artist

04/06/1878 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
04/06/1883 Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
04/06/1884 Walter Huston, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre) 04/06/1885 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
04/06/1888 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
04/06/1890 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
04/06/1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider) 04/06/1892 Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas) 04/06/1892 Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure) 04/06/1892 Mateusz Glinski, composer
04/06/1896 Juan Tomas Perez, composer
04/06/1900 Andres Sas, composer
04/06/1900 Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
04/06/1901 Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer/music reviewer
04/06/1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
04/06/1903 Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg) 04/06/1904 Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be) 04/06/1906 John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion) 04/06/1908 Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
04/06/1910 Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
04/06/1911 Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate, composer
04/06/1912 Endre Szekely, composer
04/06/1914 George Reeves, Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind) 04/06/1920 Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
04/06/1921 Andrew Welsh Imbrie, composer
04/06/1921 Franta Belsky, British sculptor
04/06/1925 John Knox, British supreme court justice
04/06/1926 Ian Paisley, Northiers clergyman
04/06/1927 Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader
04/06/1928 James Watson, chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
04/06/1928 Joi Lansing, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show) 04/06/1929 'Crazy' Joe Gallo, mobster
04/06/1929 Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist 04/06/1929 Edison Denisov, composer
04/06/1929 Willis Hall, British writer
04/06/1931 Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
04/06/1931 Joan Carlyle, British soprano
04/06/1933 Dudley Sutton, British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle) 04/06/1934 Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
04/06/1934 Reijo Jyrkiainen, composer
04/06/1935 John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat) 04/06/1936 Manfred Schoof, composer
04/06/1937 Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back) 04/06/1937 Merle Haggard, Bakersfield Calif, country singer (Death Valley Days)

04/06/1938 Paul Daniels, British magician
04/06/1938 Roy Thinnes, Chicago Ill, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest)
04/06/1940 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
04/06/1942 Phil Austin, comedian (Firesign Theater)
04/06/1943 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist
04/06/1943 Susan Tolsky, Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Comes the Bride

04/06/1944 Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano
04/06/1944 John Stax, rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
04/06/1944 Michelle Phillips, Long Beach Calif, singer/actress (Mama & Papas) 04/06/1945 Bob Marley, reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)
04/06/1947 Jan Kees Wiebenga, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
04/06/1947 John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers) 04/06/1947 Tony Cooner, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
04/06/1949 Jane Actman, NYC, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
04/06/1950 Dennis E Eckart, (Rep-D-OH, 1981- )
04/06/1951 Ralph Cooper, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
04/06/1952 Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shad

04/06/1952 Udo Dirkshneider, heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)

04/06/1953 Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
04/06/1954 Judi Bowker, Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans) 04/06/1959 Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night

04/06/1962 Stan Cullimore, bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There) 04/06/1964 Johnny Dee, heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra

04/06/1965 Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980) 04/06/1966 Kymberly Paige, Newport Beach Ca, playmate (May, 1987)
04/06/1969 Ari Meyers, San Juan PR, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie) 04/06/1972 Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
04/06/1975 Damon Pampolina, drummer (Party)
04/06/1975 Dannon Phillip Pampolina, rapper (Party)
04/06/1976 Candace H Cameron, actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
04/06/1976 Soleil Moon Frye, Glendora Calif, actress (Punky Brewster) 04/06/1979 Frederick MGDL Windsor, under English prince Michael


Deaths:

04/06/ 912 Nottker 'the Stamelaar', benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71 04/06/1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41 04/06/1252 Peter van Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45 04/06/1348 Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
04/06/1362 Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
04/06/1472 Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies 04/06/1489 Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
04/06/1490 Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies
04/06/1520 Raphael, artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 35th birthday 04/06/1528 Albrecht DUrer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany 04/06/1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies
04/06/1605 John Stow, British historian, dies
04/06/1674 Charles de Mean, Belgian lawyer (Observations), dies at 69 04/06/1707 Willem Van de Velde, the Young, seascape painter, dies a 73 04/06/1779 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer/bandmaster (Farnace), di

04/06/1782 Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90
04/06/1805 Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
04/06/1817 Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
04/06/1822 Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62
04/06/1829 Niels H Able, Norse mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26 04/06/1838 Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74 04/06/1854 William Strickland, US architect, dies
04/06/1862 Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51 04/06/1862 Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle 04/06/1865 John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36 04/06/1906 Alexander L Kielland, Norse writer (Working People), dies at 57 04/06/1913 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
04/06/1919 Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63
04/06/1926 Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 4

04/06/1931 Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
04/06/1935 Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
04/06/1939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
04/06/1940 Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49
04/06/1945 Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies 04/06/1947 Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
04/06/1951 Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71
04/06/1961 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90 04/06/1962 J C Heldring, businessman, dies at 74
04/06/1968 Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
04/06/1971 Igor F Strawinsky, Russ composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 89

04/06/1972 Heinrich LUbke, West Germany chancellor (1959-69), dies at 77 04/06/1974 Willem Dudok, architect (Hilversum town hall), dies at 89 04/06/1975 Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
04/06/1978 Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
04/06/1978 Reinoud Anders, actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
04/06/1979 M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61 04/06/1979 Milton Ager, US composer, dies
04/06/1981 Bob 'the bear' Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Goin' up the Country), dies

04/06/1983 Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
04/06/1984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies 04/06/1990 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
04/06/1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies at 72 from kidney failur

04/06/1992 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 9

04/06/1993 Divya Bharati, 'baby doll', Indies actress, dies by accident at 19 04/06/1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, murdered 04/06/1994 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1994), assassinated 04/06/1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda, assassinated
04/06/1994 Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54


Significant Events:

04/06/ 610 Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
04/06/ 648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
04/06/ 774 Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
04/06/1106 Fire in Venice
04/06/1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
04/06/1362 Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
04/06/1516 A Willaert installed as cardinal Ippolito I d'este
04/06/1634 Heeren XIX askes 'to secure Eylands Curacao'
04/06/1652 John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
04/06/1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
04/06/1712 Slave revolt in NY
04/06/1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC 04/06/1830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY 04/06/1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
04/06/1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
04/06/1853 Asteroid 25, Phocaea discovered
04/06/1853 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #25 Phocaea
04/06/1855 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #34 Circe
04/06/1859 US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform 04/06/1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee 04/06/1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
04/06/1865 Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off

04/06/1866 G.A.R. established
04/06/1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
04/06/1878 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #186 Celuta
04/06/1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Speckled Band' (BG) 04/06/1886 City of Vancouver, BC incorporated
04/06/1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
04/06/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #309 Fraternitas
04/06/1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds

04/06/1893 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
04/06/1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS]
04/06/1896 American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history

04/06/1900 Jim Jeffries KO's Jack Finnegan in 55 seconds
04/06/1903 General railroad strike against 'worgwetten' (anti-strike laws) 04/06/1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #563 Suleika
04/06/1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
04/06/1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #755 Quintilla
04/06/1909 1st credit union established in US
04/06/1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson 04/06/1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
04/06/1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #857 Glasenappia
04/06/1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
04/06/1920 French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
04/06/1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #977 Philippa
04/06/1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight 04/06/1924 Bayern: Volkische Block (nazi's) recieves 17.8% of vote
04/06/1924 Italy fascists recieves 65% of vote of parliament
04/06/1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
04/06/1926 Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 04/06/1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
04/06/1931 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape 04/06/1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
04/06/1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more 04/06/1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
04/06/1936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia 04/06/1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
04/06/1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific) 04/06/1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) 04/06/1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
04/06/1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
04/06/1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces 04/06/1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2249 Yamamoto
04/06/1943 British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
04/06/1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested 04/06/1945 Coevorden freed from nazis
04/06/1945 Japanese large battleship Jamamoto heads to Okinawa
04/06/1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
04/06/1945 US marines explores Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
04/06/1947 Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
04/06/1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson 04/06/1952 Sam Snead wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
04/06/1954 Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det 04/06/1956 Polish communist Gomulka resigns
04/06/1957 NYC ends trolley car service
04/06/1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
04/06/1964 Egypt & Belgium recover diplomatic relations
04/06/1965 Intelsat 1 ('Early Bird') 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite 04/06/1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
04/06/1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government
04/06/1967 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1804 Chebotarev
04/06/1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution 04/06/1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) 04/06/1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
04/06/1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
04/06/1973 Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
04/06/1973 Indies troops invade Sikkim
04/06/1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
04/06/1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #
04/06/1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks 04/06/1974 200,000 attend rock concert 'California Jam'
04/06/1974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
04/06/1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo 04/06/1975 Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson) 04/06/1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: 'Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones

04/06/1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
04/06/1977 Kingdome in Seattle opens
04/06/1979 Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
04/06/1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
04/06/1981 Yugoslav govt routes troops to Kosovo
04/06/1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands 04/06/1983 Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead 04/06/1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched 04/06/1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
04/06/1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab 04/06/1986 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
04/06/1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
04/06/1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington 04/06/1988 NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round 04/06/1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy 04/06/1991 NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17 04/06/1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher 04/06/1992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
04/06/1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses 04/06/1992 Duke beats Michigan 71-51 for NCCA basketball championship 04/06/1992 Swedish troops begin siege of Sarajevo
04/06/1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
04/06/1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
04/06/1993 Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
04/06/1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns 04/06/1994 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records

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Births:

04/07/1506 Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 04/07/1534 Jose 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 Jose, 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 Senegal 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 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader (Komarom-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 (Desolacion, 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 Diemer) 04/07/1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952) 04/07/1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen Rossl)
04/07/1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
04/07/1908 Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
04/07/1912 Valere 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, epee (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 AbdUl-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 [Francois 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 Francois 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 Hammarskjold 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
04/07/1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
04/07/1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
04/07/1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 04/07/1981 Belgium Eyskens govt forms
04/07/1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec 04/07/1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
04/07/1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
04/07/1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
04/07/1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk 04/07/1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
04/07/1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
04/07/1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
04/07/1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
04/07/1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
04/07/1990 Farm Aid IV concert
04/07/1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scand

04/07/1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations 04/07/1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary 04/07/1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
04/07/1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
04/07/1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 04/07/1994 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
04/07/1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
04/07/1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust for 1st time (Nazis killing Jews) 04/07/1994 Vatican for 1st time ever commemorates Nazi murder of Jews in WW II

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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 Lopez, 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 Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) 04/24/1851 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) 04/24/1856 Henri POBJ Petain, 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 Korner 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 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz 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, Montreal 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 MUhlberg: 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
04/24/1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
04/24/1975 Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
04/24/1977 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2063 Bacchus
04/24/1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
04/24/1980 US miltary operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die 04/24/1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jocke

04/24/1981 IBM-PC introduced
04/24/1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record 04/24/1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
04/24/1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormatory in West Germany 04/24/1982 C Torres discovers asteroid #3361 Orpheus
04/24/1983 Austrian socialistic party loses parliamentary election
04/24/1984 Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot 04/24/1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for 'Yin'
04/24/1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
04/24/1989 Massachusetts declares today 'New Kids on the Block Day'
04/24/1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies 04/24/1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orb

04/24/1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st 04/24/1992 'Man of La Mancha' with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater 04/24/1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
04/24/1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
04/24/1992 Vinson Pike fined L1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures 04/24/1993 1000 kg heavy IRA-autobomb explodes in London, killing 1
04/24/1994 Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election 04/24/1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
04/24/1994 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs

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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 Castilie/Leon, 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 Simeon-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 Zollner, 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 62 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 [Daniel 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-WUrttemberg 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 04/25/1959 St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping 04/25/1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton) 04/25/1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin 04/25/1961 Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
04/25/1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
04/25/1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
04/25/1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
04/25/1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island 04/25/1964 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup 04/25/1965 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship 04/25/1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
04/25/1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
04/25/1969 BBC Radio serial 'Dales' 5,400th & last episode
04/25/1970 Freda Payne releases 'Band of Gold'
04/25/1970 Melanie releases 'Lay Down'
04/25/1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire 04/25/1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12 04/25/1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect GUnther Guillaume found to be a spy 04/25/1974 Dictator Antonio Salazar overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolutio

04/25/1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium govt
04/25/1974 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
04/25/1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
04/25/1975 Portugal holds its 1st free election in 50 years
04/25/1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
04/25/1976 Portugal adopts constitution
04/25/1977 Cin Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9 04/25/1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
04/25/1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more 04/25/1979 'Rock 'n Roll High Schools' premieres
04/25/1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2656 Evenkia & #3653
04/25/1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran 04/25/1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28) 04/25/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2688 Halley, #3275 Oberndorfer & #3692

04/25/1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl 04/25/1983 'Nightline' expands from 2 hour to a full hour
04/25/1983 Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election 04/25/1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR 04/25/1984 Rock group Wings disbands
04/25/1985 Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
04/25/1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game 04/25/1985 West German Parliament makes it punishable to deny the holocaust 04/25/1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
04/25/1988 'Nightline' goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
04/25/1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 04/25/1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
04/25/1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY 04/25/1989 Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st perio

04/25/1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards (Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win

04/25/1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle discovery 04/25/1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres

04/25/1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)

04/25/1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment

04/25/1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
04/25/1994 14' of snow in Southern Calif
04/25/1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
04/25/1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed

04/25/1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
04/25/1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan

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

05/01/1238 Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)
05/01/1493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) 05/01/1545 Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologi

05/01/1567 Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter
05/01/1577 Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer
05/01/1582 Marco da Gagliano, composer
05/01/1592 Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
05/01/1620 Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general
05/01/1633 Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, French fortress architect 05/01/1672 Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
05/01/1735 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder of Marines
05/01/1759 Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
05/01/1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol) 05/01/1764 Gottfried Rieger, composer
05/01/1769 Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30) 05/01/1771 George Guest, composer
05/01/1775 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
05/01/1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 05/01/1807 John Bankhead 'Prince John' Magruder, Major General (Confederate Arm

05/01/1818 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
05/01/1819 William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 05/01/1825 George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
05/01/1829 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice
05/01/1830 Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
05/01/1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander 'Natti' Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers

05/01/1839 Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
05/01/1858 Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
05/01/1859 Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
05/01/1859 Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat 05/01/1862 Anthony G Kroller, entrepreneur/govt advisor/husband of Helene MUlle

05/01/1862 Marcel Prevost, French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges) 05/01/1872 Hugo Alfven, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
05/01/1880 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
05/01/1881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist 05/01/1884 Felipe Boero, composer
05/01/1892 Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) 05/01/1895 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) 05/01/1898 Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)
05/01/1899 Jon Leifs, Iceland, composer/conductor
05/01/1900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) 05/01/1905 Leila Hyams, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)
05/01/1907 Jan Pauw, CEO (Universal Netherlands Workers Aruba)
05/01/1907 John Peacock, founder (Stage group Gen Dutch Covenant Aruba) 05/01/1908 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone) 05/01/1909 George Melachrino, composer
05/01/1909 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm 05/01/1909 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
05/01/1910 Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins) 05/01/1912 Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
05/01/1913 Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor 05/01/1916 Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway) 05/01/1916 Jack Parr, Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
05/01/1917 Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling) 05/01/1917 John Beradino, LA Calif, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital) 05/01/1919 Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)

05/01/1921 Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgramige committee) 05/01/1923 Joseph Heller, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award) 05/01/1924 Earl George, composer
05/01/1924 Enrico Josif, composer
05/01/1925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila) 05/01/1925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7 (Aurora 7)) 05/01/1927 Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) 05/01/1927 Harry Belefonte, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song)
05/01/1927 Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea gulls die of illness) 05/01/1928 Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist
05/01/1930 Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles) 05/01/1933 Joan Hackett, East Harlem NYC, actress (Defenders, Another Day) 05/01/1937 Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
05/01/1939 Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds) 05/01/1939 Max Robinson, Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News) 05/01/1939 Ray Aranha, actor (Nick-Married People)
05/01/1941 Juraj Hatrick, composer
05/01/1942 Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey) 05/01/1944 Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higer & Higher, We're All Alone

05/01/1946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Serv)

05/01/1946 Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956) 05/01/1947 Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
05/01/1948 James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
05/01/1949 Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy)
05/01/1952 George Strait, country singer
05/01/1953 Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
05/01/1954 Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
05/01/1954 Ray Parker Jr, rock vocalist (Ghostbusters Theme)
05/01/1956 Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren-St Elsewhere) 05/01/1957 Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire)
05/01/1957 Steve Ferris, rocker (Mr Mister)
05/01/1959 Paul Smith, rocker (Haircut 100)
05/01/1960 Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby)
05/01/1961 Charlie O'Brien
05/01/1964 Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowd

05/01/1967 Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989)
05/01/1968 Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good) 05/01/197- Roy Rosello, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)


Deaths:

05/01/1171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
05/01/1277 Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies 05/01/1308 Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered 05/01/1447 Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
05/01/1456 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies 05/01/1471 Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 05/01/1555 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 05/01/1572 Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies 05/01/1679 Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
05/01/1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 05/01/1772 Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 05/01/1863 Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29

05/01/1870 Francisco Solano Lopez, field marshal/president of Paraguay 05/01/1872 Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, die

05/01/1874 Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39
05/01/1886 Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens)
05/01/1886 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56
05/01/1892 Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
05/01/1898 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
05/01/1900 Mihaly von Munkacsy, [Michael von Lieb], German painter, dies at 56 05/01/1902 John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 05/01/1903 Luigi Arditi, composer, dies at 80
05/01/1904 Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 05/01/1917 Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
05/01/1921 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43
05/01/1926 Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60 05/01/1932 Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargal

05/01/1934 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35
05/01/1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 05/01/1939 Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies
05/01/1941 John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 05/01/1945 Joseph Goebbels, nazi-German minister of propaganda, commits suicide

05/01/1946 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
05/01/1946 Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 43
05/01/1948 Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
05/01/1952 William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies
05/01/1954 Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
05/01/1957 Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 8

05/01/1959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
05/01/1965 Leo Spies, composer, dies at 66
05/01/1965 Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
05/01/1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at

05/01/1969 Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 05/01/1971 Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75
05/01/1971 Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 05/01/1976 Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75 05/01/1978 Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, composer, dies at 75
05/01/1978 Aram Katchaturian, Armeens/Russian composer (The earth), dies 05/01/1981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75 05/01/1982 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
05/01/1984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 05/01/1988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer 05/01/1988 Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies 05/01/1989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdere

05/01/1989 Douglas Watson, actor (Satan Murders), dies at 68
05/01/1989 Marion Mack, actress (General), dies
05/01/1990 Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 05/01/1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies 05/01/1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 05/01/1993 Pierre Beregovoy, French premier (1992-93), commits suicide at 67 05/01/1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, president (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), murdered at 68

05/01/1994 Ayrton Senna da Silva, Brazil's Formula 1 driver, dies at 34 05/01/1994 Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64


Significant Events:

05/01/1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus 05/01/1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
05/01/1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badg

05/01/1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
05/01/1528 Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida 05/01/1551 Council of Trente resumes
05/01/1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
05/01/1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
05/01/1628 Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women 05/01/1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
05/01/1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
05/01/1725 Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
05/01/1751 1st American cricket match was played
05/01/1756 France & Austria sign alliance
05/01/1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
05/01/1786 Mozart's opera 'Marriage of Figaro' premieres in Wien (Vienna) 05/01/1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
05/01/1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ('Penny Blacks' from England) issued 05/01/1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif 05/01/1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
05/01/1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate 05/01/1850 John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
05/01/1851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, with Crystal Palace 05/01/1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution
05/01/1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes 05/01/1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy 05/01/1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry 05/01/1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
05/01/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
05/01/1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
05/01/1863 Confederate 'National Flag' replaces 'Stars & Bars'
05/01/1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers 05/01/1864 -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
05/01/1864 Atlanta campaign, GA
05/01/1864 Wilderness campaign
05/01/1867 Howard University chartered
05/01/1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
05/01/1869 'Folies-Bergere' opens in Paris
05/01/1869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio 05/01/1869 Folies Bergere opens in Paris
05/01/1873 1st US postal card issued
05/01/1873 International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna)
05/01/1875 238 members of 'Whiskey Ring' accused of anti-US activities 05/01/1883 Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
05/01/1883 NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer

05/01/1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) 05/01/1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
05/01/1885 Maria 'Goeie Mie' Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth

05/01/1886 US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
05/01/1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International 05/01/1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
05/01/1893 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
05/01/1898 George Dewey commands, 'You may fire when you are ready, Gridley' 05/01/1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah 05/01/1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox 05/01/1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
05/01/1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
05/01/1906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
05/01/1907 Belgium govt of De Trooz forms
05/01/1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
05/01/1908 World's most intense shower (2.47' in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama

05/01/1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
05/01/1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 05/01/1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
05/01/1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
05/01/1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds 05/01/1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
05/01/1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
05/01/1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda 05/01/1923 Earl Sande aboard Zev wins his 1st Kentucky Derby
05/01/1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
05/01/1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
05/01/1926 British coal-miners go on strike
05/01/1926 Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings 05/01/1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League 05/01/1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 05/01/1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam 05/01/1928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania 05/01/1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman harasses VARA-radio transmitter 05/01/1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
05/01/1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
05/01/1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds 05/01/1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
05/01/1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstraters in Berlin
05/01/1931 Empire State Building opens in NYC
05/01/1931 Norway claims Peter I Island
05/01/1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS 05/01/1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
05/01/1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
05/01/1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence 05/01/1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
05/01/1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 05/01/1936 FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
05/01/1937 FDR signs act of neutrality
05/01/1939 Batman comics hit street
05/01/1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 05/01/1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship 05/01/1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
05/01/1941 'Citizen Kane,' directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY 05/01/1941 German assault on Tobroek
05/01/1943 1st edition of illegal 'The Free Artist' appears in Amsterdam 05/01/1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes 05/01/1943 Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 69th Kentucky Derby (2:04) 05/01/1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
05/01/1943 food rationing begins in US
05/01/1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight 05/01/1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 05/01/1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
05/01/1945 Admiral Donitz forms German government
05/01/1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
05/01/1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II

05/01/1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
05/01/1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named 'American Mother of Year' 05/01/1947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
05/01/1947 Vice Adm Roscoe Hillenkoeter becomes 1st director of CIA
05/01/1948 Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 74th Kentucky Derby (2:05.4) 05/01/1948 People's Republic North-Korea forms
05/01/1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) 05/01/1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry) 05/01/1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
05/01/1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
05/01/1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific) 05/01/1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcastin

05/01/1951 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
05/01/1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
05/01/1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
05/01/1952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3428
05/01/1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada 05/01/1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialistic org forbidden) 05/01/1954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (Moonies)
05/01/1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting 05/01/1955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) 05/01/1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
05/01/1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million
05/01/1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
05/01/1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
05/01/1959 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London
05/01/1959 West Germany ntroduces 5 day work week
05/01/1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
05/01/1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states 05/01/1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
05/01/1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovs

05/01/1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
05/01/1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba 05/01/1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) 05/01/1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain 05/01/1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
05/01/1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
05/01/1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
05/01/1963 1st American (James Whittaker) to conquer Mount Everest
05/01/1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth 05/01/1964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
05/01/1965 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks, 4 games to 3, for Stanley Cup 05/01/1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
05/01/1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
05/01/1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
05/01/1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
05/01/1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
05/01/1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
05/01/1967 Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas
05/01/1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
05/01/1969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
05/01/1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
05/01/1969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting 05/01/1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
05/01/1971 Rolling Stones release 'Brown Sugar'
05/01/1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 05/01/1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
05/01/1973 SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 05/01/1975 Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs 05/01/1975 Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
05/01/1976 Bold Forbes wins Kentucky Derby
05/01/1976 Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 m, 57:24.2 05/01/1977 Empress Lilly dedicated
05/01/1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated 05/01/1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 05/01/1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
05/01/1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
05/01/1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
05/01/1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett 05/01/1981 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges 05/01/1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
05/01/1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
05/01/1982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
05/01/1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) 05/01/1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
05/01/1985 'Communistic' bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
05/01/1985 US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
05/01/1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
05/01/1987 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
05/01/1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun 05/01/1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
05/01/1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
05/01/1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days 05/01/1991 A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks 05/01/1991 Angola's civil war ends
05/01/1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
05/01/1991 Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0

05/01/1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs pri

05/01/1992 NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils) 05/01/1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
05/01/1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
05/01/1994 -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed

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Births:

05/02/1551 William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales)
05/02/1601 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern)
05/02/1660 Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigran

05/02/1729 Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
05/02/1729 Florian Johann Deller, composer
05/02/1740 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society 05/02/1752 Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
05/02/1754 Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
05/02/1768 Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist
05/02/1779 John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd) 05/02/1810 Hans Christian Lumbye, composer
05/02/1810 Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
05/02/1817 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
05/02/1821 Abram Sanders Piatt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1908 05/02/1837 Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order) 05/02/1840 Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founded Zionist movement 05/02/1843 Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
05/02/1844 Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
05/02/1846 Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
05/02/1849 FUrst Bernhard HM von BUlow, German chancellor/Prussian PM (1900-09)

05/02/1855 Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
05/02/1857 Frederic Cliffe, composer
05/02/1859 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
05/02/1860 D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
05/02/1860 Theodor Herzl, Austria journalist (founded zionism)
05/02/1872 G G van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
05/02/1884 Francois de Vries, economist
05/02/1887 Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's) 05/02/1890 E[dward] E[lmer] 'Doc' Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary) 05/02/1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [Red Baron], German WW I ace 05/02/1893 Beppie Nooij, actress [or 5/13/1912]
05/02/1895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads

05/02/1898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last, poet/Spanish politician
05/02/1902 Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez)
05/02/1903 Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Bay Care) 05/02/1903 Oivin Fjeldstad, composer
05/02/1904 Georgi Dimitrov, composer
05/02/1905 Alan Rawsthorne, Haslingden England, composer (Corteges)
05/02/1906 Aileen Riggin, Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)

05/02/1906 Maurice Thiriet, composer
05/02/1908 William Bakewell, LA Calif, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show) 05/02/1912 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
05/02/1912 Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
05/02/1915 Jan Hanus, composer
05/02/1915 Van Alexander, NYC, orch leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
05/02/1919 Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
05/02/1920 Jacob Gilboa, composer
05/02/1921 Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary) 05/02/1923 Christina Spierenburg, singer
05/02/1924 Aafje Heynis, singer
05/02/1924 Theodore Bikel, folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
05/02/1925 John Neville, actor (Adventures of Baron MUnchausen)
05/02/1925 Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap) 05/02/1925 Svatopluk Havelka, composer
05/02/1929 Edward Levy Irving, composer
05/02/1929 Luc Ferrari, composer
05/02/1932 Bruce Glover, Chicago Ill, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
05/02/1932 Kees de Galan, economist
05/02/1932 Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer
05/02/1935 Feisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58)
05/02/1935 Hoessein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952- )
05/02/1936 Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
05/02/1936 Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless) 05/02/1937 Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor (Carlton-Rhoda)
05/02/1940 Roger Robinson, Seattle Wash, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law) 05/02/1940 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 05/02/1941 Jules Wydenbosch, premier Suriname
05/02/1945 Bianca Perez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wif

05/02/1945 Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
05/02/1945 Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
05/02/1945 Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
05/02/1946 Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (cries at her own party)
05/02/1946 Robert Henriit, rocker (Argent)
05/02/1947 Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
05/02/1948 Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady) 05/02/1949 Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover) 05/02/1950 Lou Gramm, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
05/02/1953 'Keith' Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975) 05/02/1954 Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/UDF-leader
05/02/1959 Brian Tochi, LA Calif, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades) 05/02/1961 Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) 05/02/1962 Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse) 05/02/1977 Jenna Von Oy, actress (Seven-Blossom)


Deaths:

05/02/ 649 Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies 05/02/1250 Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
05/02/1488 Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
05/02/1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
05/02/1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
05/02/1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 05/02/1685 Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried
05/02/1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 05/02/1799 Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58
05/02/1818 Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55 05/02/1845 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 05/02/1849 David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84 05/02/1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies 05/02/1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72
05/02/1892 Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
05/02/1897 William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
05/02/1919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
05/02/1937 Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 74
05/02/1945 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
05/02/1954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
05/02/1955 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
05/02/1957 Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R), dies at 47
05/02/1957 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
05/02/1958 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies
05/02/1959 Yryo Henrik Kilpinen, composer, dies at 67
05/02/1960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39 05/02/1963 Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
05/02/1963 Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77 05/02/1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies 05/02/1968 Donald L Hall, US flyer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
05/02/1969 Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89 05/02/1972 J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77 05/02/1973 Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
05/02/1982 Hugh Marlowe, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 71
05/02/1983 Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
05/02/1984 Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
05/02/1984 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64 05/02/1985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery 05/02/1985 Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
05/02/1990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38 05/02/1990 William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
05/02/1992 Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies at 77 of cardiac arrest 05/02/1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
05/02/1992 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82 05/02/1993 WLPM, the Short, Dutch 2nd chamber member (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83

05/02/1994 Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65


Significant Events:

05/02/1345 'Quaden Maendach' in Gent: Battles between volders & weavers 05/02/1526 German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
05/02/1536 King Henry VIII accuses Anna Boleyn of adultery/incest
05/02/1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth 05/02/1598 Peace of Vervins
05/02/1652 Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik 05/02/1668 1st peace of Aken: ends French/Spanish war in The Netherlands 05/02/1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
05/02/1670 Hudson Bay Company founded
05/02/1776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
05/02/1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris 05/02/1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
05/02/1824 Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
05/02/1845 Domingo Sarmiento publishes 'Civilizacion y Barbarie'
05/02/1847 Sabbath famine
05/02/1863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
05/02/1864 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #80 Sappho
05/02/1865 Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 05/02/1876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
05/02/1878 US stops minting 20c coin
05/02/1885 'Good Housekeeping' magazine is 1st published
05/02/1885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium 05/02/1887 G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
05/02/1890 Territory of Oklahoma created
05/02/1907 Belgium: Jules baron de Trooz forms govt
05/02/1915 Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
05/02/1919 1st US air passenger service starts
05/02/1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis 05/02/1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
05/02/1922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft Worth Texas
05/02/1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0 05/02/1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
05/02/1925 Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
05/02/1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
05/02/1927 Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens 05/02/1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
05/02/1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
05/02/1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
05/02/1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
05/02/1933 Germany forbids trade union
05/02/1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
05/02/1935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1926 Demiddelaer
05/02/1936 'Peter & Wolf' premieres in Moscow
05/02/1936 Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
05/02/1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
05/02/1939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-

05/02/1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
05/02/1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
05/02/1941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400 05/02/1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcas

05/02/1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Queries 05/02/1945 Germany Army in Italy surrenders
05/02/1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
05/02/1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
05/02/1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
05/02/1949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
05/02/1949 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur Miller (Death of a salesman) 05/02/1950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
05/02/1950 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
05/02/1952 1st commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet
05/02/1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherland 05/02/1953 Dark Star, noses out Native Dancer to win Kentucky Derby
05/02/1953 Feisal II intalled as king of Iraq
05/02/1953 Hussein I intalled as king of Jordan
05/02/1954 Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
05/02/1955 India poses discrimination 'onaanraakbaren' punishable
05/02/1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 05/02/1955 WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting 05/02/1956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus 05/02/1956 US Methodist church disallows race separation
05/02/1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
05/02/1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
05/02/1962 WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast 05/02/1964 Beatles' 'Beatles' 2nd Album' goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks 05/02/1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ 05/02/1964 Northern Dancer wins Kentucky Derby
05/02/1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
05/02/1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days) 05/02/1967 Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 05/02/1968 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship 05/02/1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London 05/02/1968 Israelli television begins transmitting
05/02/1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
05/02/1970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast 05/02/1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho) 05/02/1973 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2014 Vasilevskis
05/02/1974 Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
05/02/1975 Apple records closes down
05/02/1978 Portland Trail Blazers win their only NBA championship, in 4 games 05/02/1979 'Quadrophenia' premieres in London
05/02/1980 Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
05/02/1980 Pope John Paul II begins African tour
05/02/1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes 05/02/1982 Argentina cruiser Belgrano off Falkland Islands sinks; about 300 die

05/02/1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif
05/02/1984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid 05/02/1986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
05/02/1987 Chris Mccarron on Alysheba wins 113rd Kentucky Derby (2:03.4) 05/02/1988 Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park

05/02/1988 Jackson Pollock's 'Search' sold for $4,800,000
05/02/1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

05/02/1991 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
05/02/1992 Lil E Tees (17-1 shot) wins 118th Kentucky Derby
05/02/1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
05/02/1994 Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
05/02/1994 Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros 'Love is Wonderful Thing'


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Births:

05/03/1446 Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie
05/03/1455 Johan II de Volmakte, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jew

05/03/1469 Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
05/03/1514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal 05/03/1649 Johann Valentin Meder, composer
05/03/1691 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction a l'amour

05/03/1692 John J Mauricius, governor-general of Suriname (1742-51)
05/03/1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
05/03/1737 Friedrich Schwindl, composer
05/03/1742 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
05/03/1744 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
05/03/1752 Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
05/03/1773 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 05/03/1815 Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist
05/03/1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892 05/03/1819 Nicola De Giosa, composer
05/03/1826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
05/03/1844 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
05/03/1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe) 05/03/1849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun) 05/03/1859 Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
05/03/1873 Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS) 05/03/1873 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den) 05/03/1874 Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
05/03/1886 Marcel Dupre, French organist/composer
05/03/1892 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
05/03/1892 George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) 05/03/1895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
05/03/1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (Le petit general) 05/03/1895 Zoltan Korda, Hong Kong/England, director (Jungle Book)
05/03/1897 V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
05/03/1898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) 05/03/1899 Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven) 05/03/1902 Hugo Friedhofer, composer
05/03/1902 Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette

05/03/1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General) 05/03/1903 Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way) 05/03/1904 Charles 'Red' Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46) 05/03/1906 Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific) 05/03/1907 Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
05/03/1910 Alceo Galliera, composer
05/03/1913 Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
05/03/1913 William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
05/03/1915 Evencio Castellanos, composer
05/03/1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- ) 05/03/1916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
05/03/1917 James Penberthy, composer
05/03/1919 Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing) 05/03/1919 Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
05/03/1920 Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ

05/03/1921 Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
05/03/1923 Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
05/03/1924 Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
05/03/1925 Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol) 05/03/1928 James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pant

05/03/1928 Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage) 05/03/1929 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
05/03/1930 David Evatt Tunley, composer
05/03/1931 Alex Cord, actor (Dead are Alive)
05/03/1934 Georg Kroll, composer
05/03/1935 Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secreatary of Interior (1985-89) 05/03/1936 Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer 05/03/1937 Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherr

05/03/1939 Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhause

05/03/1939 Jose Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
05/03/1939 Samantha Eggar, England, actress (Collector)
05/03/1941 Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78) 05/03/1942 Vera Caslavska-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1964, 68) 05/03/1944 Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
05/03/1946 Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
05/03/1947 Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
05/03/1949 Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
05/03/1950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
05/03/1951 Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
05/03/1952 Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
05/03/1953 Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
05/03/1957 Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry) 05/03/1957 Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps) 05/03/1959 David Ball, rocker (Soft Cell)
05/03/1968 Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter) 05/03/1970 Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)


Deaths:

05/03/1010 Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69 05/03/1294 Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
05/03/1410 Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies 05/03/1442 Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
05/03/1481 Mohammed II, [Fatih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
05/03/1567 Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
05/03/1614 Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66 05/03/1654 Francois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at

05/03/1703 Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
05/03/1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer, dies at 59
05/03/1707 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53 05/03/1737 Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65 05/03/1758 Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 84 05/03/1764 Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53 05/03/1774 Heinrich A Fouque, Prussian general (7 year war), dies
05/03/1792 Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
05/03/1839 Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 68
05/03/1841 Cornelis T Elout, minister of Finance/Naval/Colony, dies at 74 05/03/1854 William Beale, composer, dies at 70
05/03/1856 Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
05/03/1856 Adolphe C Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52 05/03/1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, composer, dies at 52
05/03/1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
05/03/1868 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
05/03/1881 Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
05/03/1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
05/03/1916 Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad

05/03/1925 Clement Ader, French engineer (stream engine airplane), dies at 84 05/03/1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
05/03/1931 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
05/03/1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
05/03/1932 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies 05/03/1942 Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed 05/03/1943 Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
05/03/1945 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN), dies at 66 05/03/1961 Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies 05/03/1965 Howard Jump, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies
05/03/1965 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75 05/03/1968 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
05/03/1969 Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42
05/03/1970 Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82
05/03/1972 Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
05/03/1975 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78 05/03/1978 Wim van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
05/03/1979 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76 05/03/1982 Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
05/03/1982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73 05/03/1983 Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at

05/03/1986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
05/03/1990 Pimen, [Sergei M Irzjekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, di

05/03/1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/2nd-Member of parliament (D66), dies 05/03/1991 Gerrit Mik, psychiatrist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66), dies 05/03/1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
05/03/1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies at 98 of heart seizure 05/03/1992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71), dies at 89 of Leukemia 05/03/1994 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78 05/03/1994 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, CDA-2nd-Member of parliament, dies at 63


Significant Events:

05/03/1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
05/03/1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
05/03/1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
05/03/1455 Jews flee Spain
05/03/1494 Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
05/03/1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it 'St Iago'
05/03/1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 05/03/1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
05/03/1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen 05/03/1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
05/03/1678 French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
05/03/1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon 'Baily's Beads' 05/03/1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
05/03/1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
05/03/1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
05/03/1808 Goya's 'Executions of 3rd of May'
05/03/1810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont
05/03/1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
05/03/1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
05/03/1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
05/03/1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
05/03/1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
05/03/1851 Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
05/03/1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
05/03/1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
05/03/1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen 05/03/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
05/03/1863 Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
05/03/1863 Battle of Salem Church, VA
05/03/1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault 05/03/1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
05/03/1888 A Charlois discovers asteroid #277 Elvira
05/03/1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
05/03/1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
05/03/1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey 05/03/1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain 05/03/1919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
05/03/1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
05/03/1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium 05/03/1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
05/03/1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed 05/03/1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
05/03/1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
05/03/1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 05/03/1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
05/03/1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz) 05/03/1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office 05/03/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1356 Nyanza & #1638 Ruanda 05/03/1936 French People's Front wins elections
05/03/1936 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits 05/03/1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitizer Prize for 'Gone With the Wind' 05/03/1938 Concentration camp at FlossenbUrg goes into use
05/03/1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
05/03/1941 Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 67th Kentucky Derby (2:01.4) 05/03/1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands 05/03/1942 Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands 05/03/1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
05/03/1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 05/03/1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed 05/03/1943 US Panzer division conquer Mateur Tunisia
05/03/1944 'Meet Me in St Louis' opens on Broadway
05/03/1944 Meat rationing ends in US
05/03/1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
05/03/1945 British troop join in Rangoon
05/03/1945 German ship 'Cap Arcona' sinks in East Sea, 5800 killed
05/03/1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
05/03/1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
05/03/1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams 05/03/1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
05/03/1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning 05/03/1951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1952 Hesburgh 05/03/1951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) 05/03/1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
05/03/1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 05/03/1953 Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims 'Freedom to Read' 05/03/1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 05/03/1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick 05/03/1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting 05/03/1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') 05/03/1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits 05/03/1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader 05/03/1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train
05/03/1962 and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
05/03/1963 Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat 05/03/1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite 05/03/1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
05/03/1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
05/03/1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast 05/03/1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
05/03/1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcastin

05/03/1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
05/03/1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl 05/03/1969 Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins Kentucky Derby
05/03/1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio station

05/03/1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader 05/03/1971 National Public Radio begins programming
05/03/1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days 05/03/1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
05/03/1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out 05/03/1973 KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
05/03/1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) 05/03/1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
05/03/1978 'Sun Day' - solar energy events are held in US
05/03/1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) 05/03/1980 Genuine Risk becomes 2nd philly to win Kentucky Derby
05/03/1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & N

05/03/1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) 05/03/1982 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget 05/03/1982 Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
05/03/1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead 05/03/1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe 05/03/1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
05/03/1984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3325
05/03/1984 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3616
05/03/1985 Date of $5 million check in 'View to a Kill'
05/03/1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
05/03/1986 Bill Shoemaker, 54, wins Kentucky Derby
05/03/1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
05/03/1986 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game 05/03/1986 Willie Shoemaker on Ferdinand wins 112th Kentucky Derby (2:02.8) 05/03/1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart 05/03/1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida 05/03/1988 Jasper Johns' 'Diver' sold for $4,200,000
05/03/1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
05/03/1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs 05/03/1992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor, dies at 89
05/03/1992 NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
05/03/1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 05/03/1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election 05/03/1994 US space probe Clementine launched

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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, Kjogebocht)
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 Mexican 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 Jose Gomez, [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 Daniel 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 (Salammbo), 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 Eugene-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 Gilles, 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 Bretigny 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 Mexican 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 Confederacion 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 Pelee 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
05/08/1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington 05/08/1962 'Funny Thing Happened on Way to the Forum' opens on Broadway 05/08/1963 'Dr No' premieres in US
05/08/1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
05/08/1965 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7')
05/08/1966 Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF 05/08/1966 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) 05/08/1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army 05/08/1968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0) 05/08/1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)

05/08/1969 Cambodia recognizes German DR
05/08/1970 Beatles release 'Let it Be' album
05/08/1970 Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 for their 1st NBA championship 05/08/1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
05/08/1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians 05/08/1973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender 05/08/1974 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
05/08/1974 Canada govt of Trudeau falls
05/08/1977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in 'Son of Sam' 44-caliber shootings 05/08/1978 ABC TV airs 'Stars Salute Israel at 30'
05/08/1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
05/08/1980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game 05/08/1981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3419
05/08/1981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record 05/08/1982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
05/08/1984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9) 05/08/1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed 05/08/1984 USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics 05/08/1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair) 05/08/1988 Francois Mitterrand elected president of France
05/08/1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC 05/08/1989 Paul McCartney releases 'My Brave Face' & 'Ferry Cross the Mersey' 05/08/1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
05/08/1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns
05/08/1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
05/08/1994 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
05/08/1994 Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica

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Births:

05/24/ 15 Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant
05/24/1544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism

05/24/1610 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer
05/24/1619 Philip Wouwerman, painter
05/24/1677 Alexandre de Villenueve, composer
05/24/1736 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer
05/24/1743 Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
05/24/1751 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardina (1796-1802)
05/24/1753 Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington 05/24/1754 Giacomo Conti, composer
05/24/1767 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer
05/24/1781 Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer/horn player
05/24/1794 William Whewell, British philospher (History of Inductive Science) 05/24/1803 Karel LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano 05/24/1807 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature
05/24/1807 Thomas Duncan, painter
05/24/1810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism 05/24/1811 Charles Clark, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 05/24/1816 Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware) 05/24/1816 Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894) 05/24/1819 Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
05/24/1831 Richard Hoffman, composer
05/24/1838 Paul Laband, German lawyer
05/24/1840 Frederick Walker, painter
05/24/1841 Charles Napier Henry, painter
05/24/1841 Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
05/24/1850 Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
05/24/1852 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician
05/24/1854 Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
05/24/1855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
05/24/1858 Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer) 05/24/1866 Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years) 05/24/1870 Jan C Smuts, philosopher/general/premier South-Africa (1919..48) 05/24/1870 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth & League of Nations 05/24/1878 Lillian M Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
05/24/1881 Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer
05/24/1882 Creighton Hale, actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East)
05/24/1886 Paul Paray, Le Treport Normandy, conductor/composer (Artemis Trouble

05/24/1891 Benedictus H Dancer, botanist
05/24/1891 William F Albright, US old testament scholar/archaeologist 05/24/1893 W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
05/24/1895 Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)

05/24/1898 Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando) 05/24/1899 Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) 05/24/1903 Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth)
05/24/1903 Hilding Hallnas, composer
05/24/1904 George Formby, [William Hoy Booth], British singer/comic
05/24/1904 Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral
05/24/1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965

05/24/1905 Zdenek Blazek, composer
05/24/1906 Edmund Sargant, solicitor
05/24/1906 John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
05/24/1908 Kresimir Fribec, composer
05/24/1909 Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)
05/24/1909 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe
05/24/1910 Margers Zarins, composer
05/24/1910 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer
05/24/1912 Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
05/24/1912 Joseph Anthony (Deuster), US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow) 05/24/1913 Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936) 05/24/1914 Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)
05/24/1914 Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weima

05/24/1916 Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales)
05/24/1917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
05/24/1917 Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC
05/24/1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
05/24/1918 D V Jennings, solicitor
05/24/1922 Sadao Bekku, composer
05/24/1923 Paul Bramley, oral surgeon
05/24/1923 Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan)
05/24/1925 Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip of S Afr Conserv Party 05/24/1925 Mai Zetterling, director/actress (Frieda, Quartet, Lost People) 05/24/1927 John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-bronze-1956)/brother of Grace Kelly 05/24/1927 Martinus J Mentz, South African Conservative parliament leader 05/24/1927 Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank)
05/24/1928 Peter Griffiths, MP
05/24/1928 Stanley Baxter, British comic
05/24/1928 William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)

05/24/1930 Hans-Martin Linde, composer
05/24/1930 Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
05/24/1932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright
05/24/1932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer
05/24/1932 Graham Arnold, artist
05/24/1932 James Anderton, Chief constable of Manchester England
05/24/1932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
05/24/1933 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal
05/24/1933 Tony Mullett, director-general (National Criminal Intelligence Servi

05/24/1934 Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic)
05/24/1936 Harold Budd, composer
05/24/1938 Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong) 05/24/1939 Gert J Schutte, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (GPV)
05/24/1940 Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
05/24/1941 Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark) 05/24/1941 Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia) 05/24/1941 Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind) 05/24/1941 Brian Dennis, composer
05/24/1941 Konrad Boehmer, composer
05/24/1941 Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison)
05/24/1941 Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
05/24/1942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now) 05/24/1942 Sarah Dash, Trenton, NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
05/24/1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
05/24/1943 James Levine, British conductor
05/24/1944 Arthur Brown, rock vocalist (Fire)
05/24/1945 Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun) 05/24/1945 Richard Ottaway, MP
05/24/1945 Steven Norris, British MP
05/24/1946 Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lennigrad, long jumper (Oly-bronze-197

05/24/1946 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor (TLS)
05/24/1946 Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In) 05/24/1947 Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council)
05/24/1947 Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith)
05/24/1949 John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)
05/24/1951 Pat Bradley, golfer (leader in LPGA career earnings)
05/24/1951 Rob Baker, rocker (Red Rider)
05/24/1953 Alfred Molina, actor (Enchanted April, Prick up your Ears) 05/24/1953 Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror) 05/24/1955 Patti LaBelle, [Holt], Phila Pa, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade) 05/24/1955 Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)

05/24/1955 Thad Ackel, horse trainer
05/24/1956 Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
05/24/1957 John G Rowland, (Rep-R-CT, 1985- )
05/24/1959 George Glanos, horse trainer
05/24/1962 Lois Ayres, [Sondra Stillman], XXX actress (Black Chill, Sin City) 05/24/1963 Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, actor (Leroy-Fame)
05/24/1963 Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
05/24/1964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic-gold-1988) 05/24/1965 Chris Jorgis, Palo Alto Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92) 05/24/1966 Tommy Turner, jockey
05/24/1967 Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross)
05/24/1970 Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough) 05/24/1982 ?, heaviest known viable baby, South Africa (10.2 kg)


Deaths:

05/24/1144 Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies

05/24/1153 David I, King of Scotland, dies
05/24/1543 Copernicus, allegedly sees 1st copy of De Revolutionibus &, dies 05/24/1543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
05/24/1612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, dies
05/24/1665 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies 05/24/1670 Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59
05/24/1696 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62
05/24/1751 William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
05/24/1762 Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51
05/24/1773 Jan Zach, composer, dies at 73
05/24/1792 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
05/24/1792 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
05/24/1804 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
05/24/1817 Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63
05/24/1826 Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37
05/24/1831 Bemnjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62
05/24/1844 William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
05/24/1850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
05/24/1851 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 05/24/1861 Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 05/24/1871 Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40
05/24/1872 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
05/24/1876 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
05/24/1879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 05/24/1881 Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies
05/24/1894 William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63
05/24/1941 Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle

05/24/1948 Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78
05/24/1953 Cor Hermus, actor, dies at 63
05/24/1956 Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74 05/24/1959 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71 05/24/1963 Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack 05/24/1968 Bernard Rogers, composer, dies at 75
05/24/1969 Mitzi Green, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer), dies at 48 05/24/1972 Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88
05/24/1972 Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64 05/24/1974 Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies at 75 of cancer
05/24/1976 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/2nd-Member of parliament (PSP), dies at 62 05/24/1976 Melle J Oldeboerrigter ('Melle'), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65 05/24/1979 Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies
05/24/1981 George Jessel, actor (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 83 05/24/1981 Jack Warner, [Waters], actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84
05/24/1981 Jaime Roldos, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash
05/24/1986 Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76 05/24/1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33

05/24/1986 Yakima Canutt, actor/director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 05/24/1987 Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 05/24/1988 Hamish Hamilton, publisher, dies
05/24/1989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies 05/24/1991 Gene Clark, singer/composer (Byrds), dies
05/24/1992 Joan Sanderson, actress, dies
05/24/1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, dies at 66 05/24/1994 Jean-Pierre E Plooij, writer (Vogel House), dies at 48
05/24/1994 Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69 05/24/1994 Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96


Significant Events:

05/24/1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
05/24/1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
05/24/1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
05/24/1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV 05/24/1430 Jeanne d'Arc captured during battle
05/24/1487 Lambert Simnel, pretender to English throne, crowned in Dublin 05/24/1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
05/24/1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands
05/24/1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 05/24/1726 -26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
05/24/1738 Methodist Church established
05/24/1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
05/24/1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
05/24/1818 Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
05/24/1822 Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secures independence of Quito from Spai

05/24/1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
05/24/1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
05/24/1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland

05/24/1844 Samuel FB Morse taps out 'What hath God wrought' (1st telegraph msg)

05/24/1846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
05/24/1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston 05/24/1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts 05/24/1861 Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
05/24/1861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves 'contraband of war' 05/24/1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
05/24/1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
05/24/1866 Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) 05/24/1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
05/24/1873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala
05/24/1878 1st American bicycle race held (Boston)
05/24/1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston 05/24/1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario 05/24/1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
05/24/1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US 05/24/1890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma 05/24/1890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
05/24/1895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
05/24/1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
05/24/1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State
05/24/1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
05/24/1908 Belgium catholic socialistic/liberal parliamentary election 05/24/1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
05/24/1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
05/24/1916 Conscription begins in Britain
05/24/1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
05/24/1918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
05/24/1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
05/24/1921 British Legion forms
05/24/1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6oC)
05/24/1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
05/24/1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)
05/24/1927 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1117 Reginita
05/24/1928 Umberto Nobile fly airship over North Pole again
05/24/1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings 05/24/1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

05/24/1930 Amy Johnson lands at Port Darwin after flying from London 05/24/1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
05/24/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1195 Orangia
05/24/1933 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Preludes, premieres in Moscow
05/24/1934 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
05/24/1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)

05/24/1935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1385 Gelria
05/24/1936 Bishops forbid NSB-membership
05/24/1940 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
05/24/1940 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) 05/24/1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
05/24/1940 Dutch army demobilizes
05/24/1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood (1416 die) 05/24/1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
05/24/1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
05/24/1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
05/24/1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
05/24/1951 Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
05/24/1951 Willie Mays begins playing for NY Giants
05/24/1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 05/24/1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit 05/24/1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
05/24/1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
05/24/1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
05/24/1958 Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion 05/24/1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press Internationa

05/24/1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa 05/24/1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
05/24/1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
05/24/1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
05/24/1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
05/24/1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit 05/24/1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 05/24/1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
05/24/1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) 05/24/1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
05/24/1967 AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
05/24/1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
05/24/1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 05/24/1969 Beatles' 'Get Back,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks 05/24/1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
05/24/1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 05/24/1975 Dutch Govt of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
05/24/1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
05/24/1976 1st commerial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC) 05/24/1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
05/24/1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
05/24/1980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6) 05/24/1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages 05/24/1980 NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 05/24/1981 Al Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
05/24/1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 05/24/1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria 05/24/1984 Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
05/24/1985 'View to a Kill' premieres in US
05/24/1985 -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
05/24/1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
05/24/1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
05/24/1986 Mont Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 05/24/1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hrs
05/24/1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
05/24/1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals 05/24/1989 'Indiana Jones & Last Crusade' premieres
05/24/1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 05/24/1989 NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito
05/24/1990 Andre Dawson recieves a record 5 intentional walks in a game 05/24/1990 Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 05/24/1992 Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
05/24/1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement 05/24/1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey

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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'esperey [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 Andre Renard, Belgian worker union leader (Movement Syndical Unifie)

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'echafaud) 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 Benoit 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 KUchler, 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 decadence), 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, Quebec
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 Mexico overthrows President Jose 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 Campora 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 Gonzales of Mexico 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
05/25/1983 'Return of the Jedi' (Star Wars 3) released
05/25/1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
05/25/1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
05/25/1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
05/25/1986 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from Calif to NY 05/25/1986 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
05/25/1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
05/25/1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
05/25/1989 Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens for Stanley Cup
05/25/1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots 05/25/1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
05/25/1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of 'Tonight Show'
05/25/1992 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7


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Births:

05/26/1478 Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)
05/26/1566 Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)
05/26/1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
05/26/1650 John Churchill up Marlborough, English duke/general strategist 05/26/1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) 05/26/1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric 05/26/1773 Hans Georg Nageli, composer
05/26/1782 Joseph Drechsler, composer
05/26/1799 Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
05/26/1799 August Kopisch, German writer (Die Heinzelmannchen von Koln) 05/26/1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
05/26/1825 Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
05/26/1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General (Confederate Army)
05/26/1846 Arthur Coquard, composer
05/26/1850 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Stupid force)
05/26/1853 Monroe A Althouse, composer
05/26/1856 George Templeton Strong, composer
05/26/1859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life) 05/26/1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator 05/26/1866 John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers)
05/26/1867 Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
05/26/1871 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47)
05/26/1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
05/26/1876 Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
05/26/1877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
05/26/1877 Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
05/26/1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
05/26/1884 Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show) 05/26/1886 Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee) 05/26/1890 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits)
05/26/1893 Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus) 05/26/1893 Norma Talmadge, US actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
05/26/1894 Paul Lukas, Hungarian/US actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx) 05/26/1897 Norma Talmadge, actress (Du Barry Woman of Passion)
05/26/1898 Ernst Bacon, composer
05/26/1898 Gerard Bertouille, composer
05/26/1899 Pieter Menten, war criminal
05/26/1903 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
05/26/1905 Hans Holewa, composer
05/26/1907 Carleton Young, actor (Reefer Madness, Pride of the Bowery) 05/26/1907 John Wayne, 'Duke', [Marion Michael Morrison], actor (True Grit) 05/26/1908 Malando, [Arie Maasland], composer/orchestra leader (Ole Guapa) 05/26/1908 Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen) 05/26/1909 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United)
05/26/1909 Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
05/26/1910 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico
05/26/1910 Laurance S Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
05/26/1911 Ben Alexander, actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles Kicks Off) 05/26/1912 Janos Kadar, premier Hungary (1956-58)
05/26/1913 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician
05/26/1913 Peter Cushing, England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles, Star Wars) 05/26/1914 Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
05/26/1920 Peggy Lee, [Norma Egstrom], Jamestown ND, singer (Thats All There Is

05/26/1923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick)
05/26/1923 James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
05/26/1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)

05/26/1923 Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (Wizard)
05/26/1924 Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87)
05/26/1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
05/26/1925 Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)

05/26/1926 Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer
05/26/1926 Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz artist (cool jazz)
05/26/1927 Jacques Bergerac, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) 05/26/1929 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
05/26/1934 Abdulah M 'Dulah' Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader 05/26/1937 Yehuda Yannay, composer
05/26/1938 Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto Canada, soprano 05/26/1938 William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles) 05/26/1939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV)
05/26/1941 Imants Kalnins, composer
05/26/1942 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band)
05/26/1942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good) 05/26/1943 Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 05/26/1944 Verden 'Phally' Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
05/26/1945 Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who)
05/26/1946 Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna) 05/26/1947 Sherry Bain, Calif, actress (Pipe Dreams)
05/26/1949 Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders) 05/26/1949 Dayle Haddon, Montreal Quebec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes) 05/26/1949 Hank Williams Jr, Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk) 05/26/1949 Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough) 05/26/1949 Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice)
05/26/1951 Muhammed Ahmad Fares, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3)
05/26/1951 Sally Kristen Ride, LA Calif, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G

05/26/1955 Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
05/26/1956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake & Fatman)
05/26/1959 Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
05/26/1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy)
05/26/1962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
05/26/1962 Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence

05/26/1963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)

05/26/1963 Eddie Martin Jr, jockey
05/26/1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer (911 is a Joke)
05/26/1966 Helena Bonham Carter, UK, actress (Getting it Right, Lady Jane) 05/26/1966 Zola Budd, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988) 05/26/1968 Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
05/26/1976 Benji Gregory, Encino Calif, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
05/26/1990 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra


Deaths:

05/26/ 735 Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 6

05/26/1421 Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
05/26/1512 Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies 05/26/1609 Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried
05/26/1703 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70 05/26/1753 Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies 05/26/1818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal/War Minister, dies

05/26/1831 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies 05/26/1832 Francois-Louis Perne, composer, dies at 59
05/26/1871 Aime Maillart, composer, dies at 54
05/26/1873 August Conradi, composer, dies at 52
05/26/1876 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian, dies at 77
05/26/1880 John Curwen, composer, dies at 63
05/26/1883 Abd el-Frame, Algerian sultan, dies at about 74
05/26/1891 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 68
05/26/1905 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
05/26/1908 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69

05/26/1912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61 05/26/1924 Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67
05/26/1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65 05/26/1933 Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
05/26/1939 Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74 05/26/1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies 05/26/1946 Friedrich AH von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
05/26/1951 Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71
05/26/1956 Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 5

05/26/1959 Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
05/26/1959 Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
05/26/1963 Sharon Lynn, actress (Big Executive, Wild Company), dies at 53 05/26/1966 Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47 05/26/1966 Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86 05/26/1967 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies
05/26/1967 George E Stone, actor (5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64 05/26/1968 William E 'Little Willie' John, US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30) 05/26/1969 Kathryn Minner, entertainer, dies
05/26/1971 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
05/26/1973 Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
05/26/1974 Kitty Gordon, entertainer, dies at 96
05/26/1976 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86 05/26/1977 Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63 05/26/1977 William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
05/26/1979 George Brent, actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St), dies at 75 05/26/1991 Tom Eyen, US musical/TV writer (Dreamgirls, Mary Hartman), dies 05/26/1993 Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78 05/26/1993 Marvin Young, actor, dies
05/26/1994 George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 05/26/1994 Sonny Sharrock, US free-jazz guitarist, dies at 53


Significant Events:

05/26/ 961 German King Otto II crowned
05/26/1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 05/26/1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven Ct kills 500 indians
05/26/1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
05/26/1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French 05/26/1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
05/26/1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain 05/26/1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
05/26/1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
05/26/1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with Sou

05/26/1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
05/26/1864 Territory of Montana organized
05/26/1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
05/26/1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
05/26/1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration 05/26/1887 Legal betting at race tracks begins
05/26/1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 05/26/1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
05/26/1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
05/26/1898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies 05/26/1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 05/26/1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of 3 Gables' (BG)
05/26/1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
05/26/1907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game

05/26/1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
05/26/1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
05/26/1916 F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair
05/26/1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
05/26/1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russi

05/26/1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
05/26/1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
05/26/1923 Socialistic Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
05/26/1924 German govt of Marx resigns
05/26/1924 Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 05/26/1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
05/26/1927 15 millionth T-Ford produced
05/26/1928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
05/26/1930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Carawa

05/26/1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
05/26/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia
05/26/1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
05/26/1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
05/26/1937 Dutch Rail NV at law established
05/26/1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
05/26/1938 House on un-American Activities begins work
05/26/1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila 05/26/1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
05/26/1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
05/26/1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
05/26/1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
05/26/1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia

05/26/1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
05/26/1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa 05/26/1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
05/26/1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
05/26/1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
05/26/1948 South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy 05/26/1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
05/26/1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
05/26/1956 Aircraft carrier 'Bennington' burns off RI, killing 103
05/26/1956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, 05/26/1956 broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 05/26/1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
05/26/1958 Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
05/26/1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
05/26/1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta 05/26/1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 05/26/1963 Organization of African Unity established
05/26/1963 Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a double header 05/26/1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
05/26/1965 Revised intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect 05/26/1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hue South-Vietnam 05/26/1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 05/26/1969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth
05/26/1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montrael)

05/26/1972 Nixon & Brezjnev signs SALT accord
05/26/1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
05/26/1973 Beatles' 'Beatles 1967-1970,' album goes #1
05/26/1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/2

05/26/1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled 05/26/1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
05/26/1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov
05/26/1977 'Beatlemania' opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
05/26/1977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
05/26/1977 Movie 'Star Wars' debuts
05/26/1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
05/26/1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8' 05/26/1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
05/26/1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
05/26/1981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
05/26/1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
05/26/1983 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws 05/26/1983 NASA launches Exosat
05/26/1984 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3317 Paris
05/26/1984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
05/26/1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
05/26/1984 Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13' of rain, 14 die
05/26/1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin 05/26/1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka 05/26/1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
05/26/1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals 05/26/1990 Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
05/26/1991 Austria passenger flight explodes in Bangkok, 223 die

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

05/27/1332 Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah) 05/27/1595 Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
05/27/1626 William II, prince of Orange
05/27/1738 Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
05/27/1756 Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria
05/27/1774 Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale) 05/27/1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
05/27/1799 Fromental Halevy, composer
05/27/1799 Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer 05/27/1806 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
05/27/1815 Henry Parkes, statesman
05/27/1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons 05/27/1819 Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) 05/27/1822 Henry Wylde, composer
05/27/1822 Joseph Joachim Raff, composer
05/27/1823 John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 05/27/1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 05/27/1836 Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
05/27/1837 'Wild Bill' Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
05/27/1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 191

05/27/1849 'Blind' Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
05/27/1854 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
05/27/1861 Victoria E Matthews, educator
05/27/1867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon) 05/27/1871 Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)

05/27/1874 Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870] 05/27/1874 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) 05/27/1879 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance) 05/27/1881 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
05/27/1884 Bax Brod, composer
05/27/1887 Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts)
05/27/1888 Louis Durey, composer
05/27/1891 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
05/27/1892 Sara Heyblom, actress
05/27/1894 Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon) 05/27/1894 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night) 05/27/1894 Samuel Dashiell Hammett, detective story writer (Maltese Falcon) 05/27/1895 Marij Kogoj, composer
05/27/1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951) 05/27/1902 Celius Dougherty, composer
05/27/1332 Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah) 05/27/1595 Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
05/27/1626 William II, prince of Orange
05/27/1906 Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC)
05/27/1907 Felix de Nobel, orchestra leader
05/27/1907 Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) 05/27/1908 Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
05/27/1908 Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], painter/cartoonist
05/27/1909 Isador Goodman, composer
05/27/1738 Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
05/27/1910 Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
05/27/1911 Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate

05/27/1911 Torolf Elster, Norse journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati) 05/27/1911 Vincent Price, St Louis Mo, actor (Fly, Laura)
05/27/1912 John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
05/27/1912 Sam Snead, Hot Springs Va, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54) 05/27/1756 Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria
05/27/1774 Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale) 05/27/1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
05/27/1799 Fromental Halevy, composer
05/27/1913 Mervyn Stockwood, bishop of Southwark England
05/27/1799 Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer 05/27/1806 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
05/27/1914 Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
05/27/1915 Herman Wouk, US, author (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
05/27/1915 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
05/27/1916 Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association)
05/27/1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87)
05/27/1919 Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-0)
05/27/1920 Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
05/27/1920 William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
05/27/1815 Henry Parkes, statesman
05/27/1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons 05/27/1819 Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) 05/27/1822 Henry Wylde, composer
05/27/1822 Joseph Joachim Raff, composer
05/27/1823 John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 05/27/1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 05/27/1836 Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
05/27/1837 'Wild Bill' Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
05/27/1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 191

05/27/1849 'Blind' Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
05/27/1854 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
05/27/1921 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
05/27/1921 Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)

05/27/1922 Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles) 05/27/1922 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Iron Laurel)
old Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
05/27/1871 Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)

05/27/1874 Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870] 05/27/1874 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) 05/27/1879 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance) 05/27/1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (197

05/27/1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff
05/27/1925 John Moberly, diplomat
05/27/1927 Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
05/27/1927 Jan Blokker, writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper) 05/27/1928 Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scot

05/27/1881 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
05/27/1929 Donald Howard Keats, composer
05/27/1884 Bax Brod, composer
05/27/1930 Eino Tamberg, composer
05/27/1887 Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts)
05/27/1930 John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
05/27/1888 Louis Durey, composer
05/27/1930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
05/27/1931 Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
05/27/1931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
05/27/1931 Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Ha

05/27/1891 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
05/27/1892 Sara Heyblom, actress
05/27/1894 Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon) 05/27/1894 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night) 05/27/1894 Samuel Dashiell Hammett, detective story writer (Maltese Falcon) 05/27/1895 Marij Kogoj, composer
05/27/1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951) 05/27/1902 Celius Dougherty, composer
05/27/1931 Veroslav Neumann, composer
05/27/1932 Jeffrey Bernard, singer
05/27/1934 Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman) 05/27/1935 Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
05/27/1935 Lee Meriwether, LA Calif, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones) 05/27/1935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
x de Nobel, orchestra leader
05/27/1907 Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) 05/27/1908 Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
05/27/1908 Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], painter/cartoonist
05/27/1909 Isador Goodman, composer
05/27/1910 Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
05/27/1911 Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate

05/27/1911 Torolf Elster, Norse journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati) 05/27/1911 Vincent Price, St Louis Mo, actor (Fly, Laura)
05/27/1912 John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
05/27/1912 Sam Snead, Hot Springs Va, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54) 05/27/1936 Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff
05/27/1936 Eric Anderson, headmaster (Eton)
05/27/1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
05/27/1936 Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep) 05/27/1939 Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You) 05/27/1939 Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
05/27/1913 Mervyn Stockwood, bishop of Southwark England
05/27/1913 Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
05/27/1914 Hugh Le Caine, composer
05/27/1914 Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
05/27/1914 Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
05/27/1915 Herman Wouk, US, author (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
05/27/1915 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
05/27/1916 Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association)
05/27/1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87)
05/27/1919 Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-0)
05/27/1940 Rene Koering, composer
05/27/1941 Adrian Venema, journalist
05/27/1941 Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
05/27/1941 Davina Phillips, actress
05/27/1942 Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympic-bronze-1964) 05/27/1942 Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
05/27/1920 Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
05/27/1920 William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
05/27/1921 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
05/27/1921 Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)

05/27/1922 Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles) 05/27/1922 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Iron Laurel)
05/27/1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (197

05/27/1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff
05/27/1942 Roger Freeman, British minister of transport
05/27/1943 Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold

05/27/1943 Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World) 05/27/1943 Don Williams, singer
05/27/1925 John Moberly, diplomat
05/27/1927 Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
05/27/1927 Jan Blokker, writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper) 05/27/1928 Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scot

05/27/1929 Donald Howard Keats, composer
05/27/1930 Eino Tamberg, composer
05/27/1944 Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-CT, 1981- )
05/27/1945 Bruce Cockburn, Canada singer/songwriter/folk rocker
05/27/1947 Liana Alexandra, composer
05/27/1947 Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
05/27/1930 John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
05/27/1930 Simon Barrington-Ward
n, revue-artists/actress (Sweet Chairty)
05/27/1930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
05/27/1931 Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
05/27/1931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
05/27/1931 Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Ha

05/27/1954 Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972) 05/27/1956 Lisa Niemi, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies) 05/27/1956 Steve Pagano, horse trainer
05/27/1957 Duncan Goodhew, swimmer
05/27/1957 Siouxsie Sioux, [Susan Ballion], Kent England (Siouxsie & Banshees) 05/27/1958 Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of Demons) 05/27/1931 Veroslav Neumann, composer
05/27/1932 Jeffrey Bernard, singer
05/27/1934 Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman) 05/27/1935 Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
05/27/1935 Lee Meriwether, LA Calif, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones) 05/27/1935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
05/27/1958 Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
05/27/1960 Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984) 05/27/1961 Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square) 05/27/1961 John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, US canoist/kayaker (Olympic-92) 05/27/1962 Ravi Shastri, cricketer
05/27/1965 Pat Cash, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987)
05/27/1936 Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff
05/27/1936 Eric Anderson, headmaster (Eton)
05/27/1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
05/27/1936 Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep) 05/27/1939 Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You) 05/27/1939 Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
05/27/1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
05/27/1966 Sean Kinney, US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young) 05/27/1967 Chin Yang, jockey
05/27/1967 Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
05/27/1969 Dondre T Whitfield, Bkln NY, actor (Terence-All My Children) 05/27/1940 Rene Koering, composer
05/27/1941 Adrian Venema, journalist
05/27/1941 Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
05/27/1941 Davina Phillips, actress
05/27/1942 Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympic-bronze-1964) 05/27/1942 Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
05/27/1942 Roger Freeman, British minister of transport
05/27/1943 Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold

05/27/1943 Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World) 05/27/1943 Don Williams, singer
05/27/1944 Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-CT, 1981- )
05/27/1945 Bruce Cockburn, Canada singer/songwriter/folk rocker
05/27/1947 Liana Alexandra, composer
05/27/1947 Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
05/27/1947 Robert Reinacher Jr, horse trainer
05/27/1948 Anna E 'Annelies' Balhan, revue-artists/actress (Sweet Chairty) 05/27/1948 Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
05/27/1951 John Conteh, boxer
05/27/1954 Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972) 05/27/1956 Lisa Niemi, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies) 05/27/1956 Steve Pagano, horse trainer
05/27/1957 Duncan Goodhew, swimmer
05/27/1957 Siouxsie Sioux, [Susan Ballion], Kent England (Siouxsie & Banshees) 05/27/1958 Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of Demons) 05/27/1958 Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
05/27/1960 Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984) 05/27/1961 Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square) 05/27/1961 John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, US canoist/kayaker (Olympic-92) 05/27/1962 Ravi Shastri, cricketer
05/27/1965 Pat Cash, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987)
05/27/1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
05/27/1966 Sean Kinney, US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young) 05/27/1967 Chin Yang, jockey
05/27/1967 Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
05/27/1969 Dondre T Whitfield, Bkln NY, actor (Terence-All My Children)


Deaths:

05/27/ 866 Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
05/27/1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
05/27/1178 Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
05/27/1525 Thomas MUntzer, anabaptist campaigner, executed
05/27/1541 Margaretha, duchess of Salisbury, beheaded
05/27/1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
05/27/1564 Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, dies at 54 05/27/1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
05/27/1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
05/27/1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies 05/27/1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
05/27/1627 Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73
05/27/1638 Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71
05/27/1647 Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA)

05/27/1652 Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39
05/27/1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 05/27/1690 Giovanni Legrenzi, composer, dies at 63
05/27/1708 Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51
05/27/1768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies 05/27/1797 Francois-Noal 'Gracchus' Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 3

05/27/1840 Niccolo Paganini, violinist, dies at 57
05/27/1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies

05/27/1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union brig general, dies at 31
05/27/1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
05/27/1878 Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 50
05/27/ 866 Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
05/27/1887 Coenraad J van Wooden, cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
05/27/1896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies 05/27/1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
05/27/1178 Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
a, Nobel), dies
05/27/1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
05/27/1916 Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 05/27/1525 Thomas MUntzer, anabaptist campaigner, executed
05/27/1541 Margaretha, duchess of Salisbury, beheaded
05/27/1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
05/27/1564 Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, dies at 54 05/27/1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
05/27/1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
05/27/1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies 05/27/1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
05/27/1627 Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73
05/27/1638 Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71
05/27/1918 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 05/27/1934 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdams street hawker, dies 05/27/1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist/writer (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies 05/27/1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 05/27/1941 GUnther LUtjens, German admiral (Bismarck), dies
05/27/1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 05/27/1647 Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA)

05/27/1652 Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39
05/27/1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 05/27/1690 Giovanni Legrenzi, composer, dies at 63
05/27/1708 Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51
05/27/1768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies 05/27/1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
05/27/1958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46 05/27/1958 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
05/27/1960 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65 05/27/1960 George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74

05/27/1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
05/27/1797 Francois-Noal 'Gracchus' Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 3

05/27/1840 Niccolo Paganini, violinist, dies at 57
05/27/1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies

05/27/1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
05/27/1969 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43 05/27/1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
05/27/1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union brig general, dies at 31
05/27/1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
05/27/1878 Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 50
05/27/1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 05/27/1975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53 05/27/1976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80 05/27/1982 Jo Lagrilliere, [Joke], Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47 05/27/1983 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67
05/27/1887 Coenraad J van Wooden, cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
05/27/1986 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
05/27/1896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies 05/27/1988 Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies at 79 of a stroke 05/27/1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
05/27/1988 Melvin J 'Cy' Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 05/27/1988 Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies
05/27/1910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies 05/27/1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
05/27/1916 Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 05/27/1918 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 05/27/1934 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdams street hawker, dies 05/27/1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist/writer (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies 05/27/1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 05/27/1941 GUnther LUtjens, German admiral (Bismarck), dies
05/27/1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 05/27/1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 05/27/1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
05/27/1992 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55

05/27/1992 Glenn White, actor, dies
05/27/1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies
05/27/1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
05/27/1992 Tony 'Big Tuna' Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86 05/27/1958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
es
05/27/1993 Willem PG Assmann, Second-Member of parliament, dies at 85 05/27/1994 Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66 05/27/1994 Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95
05/27/1958 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
05/27/1960 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65 05/27/1960 George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74

05/27/1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
05/27/1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
05/27/1969 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43 05/27/1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
05/27/1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 05/27/1975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53 05/27/1976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80 05/27/1982 Jo Lagrilliere, [Joke], Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47 05/27/1983 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67
05/27/1986 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
05/27/1988 Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies at 79 of a stroke 05/27/1988 Melvin J 'Cy' Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 05/27/1988 Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies
05/27/1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 05/27/1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
05/27/1992 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55

05/27/1992 Glenn White, actor, dies
05/27/1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies
05/27/1992 Tony 'Big Tuna' Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86 05/27/1993 Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies 05/27/1993 Willem PG Assmann, Second-Member of parliament, dies at 85 05/27/1994 Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66 05/27/1994 Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95


Significant Events:

05/27/1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brug

05/27/1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
05/27/1647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass 05/27/1679 Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK
05/27/1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland 05/27/1703 St Petersburg (Lenningrad) founded by Peter the Great
05/27/1813 Americans capture Ft George, Canada
05/27/1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
05/27/1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
05/27/1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
05/27/1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
05/27/1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa
05/27/1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) 05/27/1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die 05/27/1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA
05/27/1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
05/27/1887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza
05/27/1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo) 05/27/1896 Bay District Race Track closes
05/27/1896 Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die
05/27/1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa
05/27/1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam 05/27/1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) 05/27/1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

05/27/1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
05/27/1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
05/27/1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brug

05/27/1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
05/27/1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
05/27/1917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
05/27/1918 Battle of Aisne
05/27/1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days 05/27/1920 Tatar ASSR established in Russian SFSR
05/27/1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 05/27/1647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass 05/27/1679 Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK
05/27/1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland 05/27/1703 St Petersburg (Lenningrad) founded by Peter the Great
05/27/1813 Americans capture Ft George, Canada
05/27/1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
05/27/1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
05/27/1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
05/27/1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va 05/27/1931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon 05/27/1933 Austrian communistic party banned
05/27/1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
05/27/1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
White Sox 15-11
05/27/1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
05/27/1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional anover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
05/27/1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die 05/27/1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage 05/27/1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (sine July 17, 1936) 05/27/1937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
05/27/1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 05/27/1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA
05/27/1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
05/27/1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
05/27/1941 FDR proclaimes an 'unlimited national emergency'
05/27/1887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza
05/27/1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
05/27/1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo) 05/27/1896 Bay District Race Track closes
05/27/1896 Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die
05/27/1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 05/27/1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris 05/27/1943 US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
05/27/1944 Allies landing on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
05/27/1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa
05/27/1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam 05/27/1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) 05/27/1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

05/27/1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
05/27/1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
05/27/1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
05/27/1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
05/27/1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
05/27/1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
05/27/1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
05/27/1917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
05/27/1918 Battle of Aisne
05/27/1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days 05/27/1920 Tatar ASSR established in Russian SFSR
05/27/1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 05/27/1952 European Defense Community forms
05/27/1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections 05/27/1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 05/27/1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
Central HS
05/27/1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president

05/27/1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va 05/27/1931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon 05/27/1933 Austrian communistic party banned
05/27/1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) 05/27/1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
05/27/1933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 05/27/1933 Walt Disney's '3 Little Pigs' released
05/27/1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional 05/27/1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage 05/27/1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (sine July 17, 1936) 05/27/1937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
05/27/1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
05/27/1961 Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
05/27/1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 05/27/1961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2'
05/27/1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
05/27/1963 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval 05/27/1941 FDR proclaimes an 'unlimited national emergency'
4 'From Russia With Love' premieres in US
05/27/1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
05/27/1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 05/27/1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris 05/27/1943 US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
05/27/1944 Allies landing on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
05/27/1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
05/27/1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
05/27/1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
05/27/1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
05/27/1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
05/27/1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
05/27/1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
05/27/1968 NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
05/27/1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
05/27/1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
05/27/1952 European Defense Community forms
05/27/1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections 05/27/1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 05/27/1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS 05/27/1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
05/27/1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) 05/27/1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
05/27/1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
05/27/1973 Rick Wohlhuter uns record 880 yards in 1:44.6
05/27/1975 Paul McCartney releases 'Venus & Mars'
05/27/1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
Cup
05/27/1961 Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
f elderly women plunge
05/27/1961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2'
05/27/1963 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval 05/27/1963 to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils)
05/27/1964 'From Russia With Love' premieres in US
05/27/1975 Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
05/27/1977 NYC fines George Willig 1c for each of 110 stories he climbed 05/27/1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
05/27/1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
05/27/1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
roid #2434 Bateson
05/27/1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
rdosing on Tylenol
05/27/1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
rds Montreal & SD major league franchises
05/27/1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
05/27/1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
05/27/1982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey
05/27/1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress 05/27/1984 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
05/27/1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day 05/27/1985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
Annapurna I
05/27/1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
05/27/1973 Rick Wohlhuter uns record 880 yards in 1:44.6
PTL scandal
05/27/1975 Paul McCartney releases 'Venus & Mars'
00th start (Young & Sutton)
05/27/1975 Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 05/27/1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunge

05/27/1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
05/27/1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow 05/27/1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
05/27/1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
05/27/1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
05/27/1975 Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
05/27/1977 NYC fines George Willig 1c for each of 110 stories he climbed 05/27/1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
05/27/1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
05/27/1981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson
05/27/1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol

Significant Events:

05/27/1982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey
05/27/1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress 05/27/1984 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
05/27/1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day 05/27/1985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
05/27/1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
05/27/1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appears on 'Nightline' after PTL scandal 05/27/1987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher making 700th start (Young & Sutton) 05/27/1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
05/27/1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
05/27/1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow 05/27/1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
05/27/1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
05/27/1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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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 (Mede 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 Antonio JdC Feyo, 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 Rene 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 Zauberflote) 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 Joao III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54
06/01/1568 Gysbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 06/01/1625 Honore d'urfe, French writer (L'astree), dies at 67
06/01/1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Oland), dies in battle
06/01/1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Oland), 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'odeon), 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 Odon, [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 Lebensmarchen), dies at 72 06/01/1952 John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
06/01/1954 Martin Anderson Nexo, 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 Oland: 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 -27oF (-33oC), 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
06/01/1941 12.59' (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record) 06/01/1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
06/01/1941 Germany occupies Kreta
06/01/1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
06/01/1946 Assault wins 78th Belmont Stakes (2:30.8) & Triple Crown
06/01/1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
06/01/1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
06/01/1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) 06/01/1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence 06/01/1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting 06/01/1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast 06/01/1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada 06/01/1951 International Cheese treaty signed
06/01/1951 S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes
06/01/1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides 'Labor' on the index
06/01/1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting

06/01/1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 06/01/1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) 06/01/1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
06/01/1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956] 06/01/1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
06/01/1958 Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France
06/01/1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
06/01/1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting

06/01/1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
06/01/1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
06/01/1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
06/01/1963 King Victor Emmanual III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia 06/01/1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3oK primordial background radiation 06/01/1965 Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
06/01/1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 06/01/1966 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London 06/01/1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
06/01/1966 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

06/01/1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes go

06/01/1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC 06/01/1968 Simon & Garfunkel's 'Mrs Robinson' hits #1
06/01/1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
06/01/1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
06/01/1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
06/01/1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #2167 Erin
06/01/1972 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 15th Symphony, premieres in West Berlin 06/01/1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
06/01/1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
06/01/1973 Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for 'parliamentary presidential republi

06/01/1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release 'Live & Let Die'
06/01/1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
06/01/1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 06/01/1975 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0 06/01/1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
06/01/1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist 06/01/1976 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
06/01/1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
06/01/1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten 06/01/1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
06/01/1979 Supersonics beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 1 06/01/1979 Wings release 'Old Siam, Sir'
06/01/1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
06/01/1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
06/01/1980 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
06/01/1980 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411
06/01/1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
06/01/1984 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
06/01/1984 Netherland's Lubbers govt gives 48 sites for cruise missiles 06/01/1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg 06/01/1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
06/01/1989 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
06/01/1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
06/01/1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 197

06/01/1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
06/01/1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years 06/01/1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
06/01/1992 Pitts Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks to win Stanley Cup 06/01/1992 Snowfall in Colorado
06/01/1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
06/01/1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News 06/01/1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by the army
06/01/1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi

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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 (Mede 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 Antonio JdC Feyo, 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 Rene 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 Zauberflote) 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 Joao III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54
06/01/1568 Gysbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 06/01/1625 Honore d'urfe, French writer (L'astree), dies at 67
06/01/1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Oland), dies in battle
06/01/1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Oland), 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'odeon), 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 Odon, [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 Lebensmarchen), dies at 72 06/01/1952 John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
06/01/1954 Martin Anderson Nexo, 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 Oland: 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 -27oF (-33oC), 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
06/01/1941 12.59' (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record) 06/01/1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
06/01/1941 Germany occupies Kreta
06/01/1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
06/01/1946 Assault wins 78th Belmont Stakes (2:30.8) & Triple Crown
06/01/1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
06/01/1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
06/01/1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) 06/01/1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence 06/01/1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting 06/01/1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast 06/01/1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada 06/01/1951 International Cheese treaty signed
06/01/1951 S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes
06/01/1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides 'Labor' on the index
06/01/1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting

06/01/1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 06/01/1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2) 06/01/1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
06/01/1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956] 06/01/1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
06/01/1958 Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France
06/01/1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
06/01/1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting

06/01/1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
06/01/1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
06/01/1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
06/01/1963 King Victor Emmanual III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia 06/01/1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3oK primordial background radiation 06/01/1965 Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
06/01/1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 06/01/1966 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London 06/01/1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
06/01/1966 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW

06/01/1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes go

06/01/1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC 06/01/1968 Simon & Garfunkel's 'Mrs Robinson' hits #1
06/01/1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
06/01/1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
06/01/1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
06/01/1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #2167 Erin
06/01/1972 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 15th Symphony, premieres in West Berlin 06/01/1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
06/01/1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
06/01/1973 Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for 'parliamentary presidential republi

06/01/1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release 'Live & Let Die'
06/01/1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
06/01/1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK 06/01/1975 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0 06/01/1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
06/01/1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist 06/01/1976 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
06/01/1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
06/01/1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten 06/01/1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
06/01/1979 Supersonics beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 1 06/01/1979 Wings release 'Old Siam, Sir'
06/01/1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
06/01/1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
06/01/1980 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
06/01/1980 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411
06/01/1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
06/01/1984 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
06/01/1984 Netherland's Lubbers govt gives 48 sites for cruise missiles 06/01/1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg 06/01/1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
06/01/1989 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
06/01/1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
06/01/1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 197

06/01/1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
06/01/1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years 06/01/1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
06/01/1992 Pitts Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks to win Stanley Cup 06/01/1992 Snowfall in Colorado
06/01/1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
06/01/1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News 06/01/1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by the army
06/01/1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi

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