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This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Weddings

2002 - "Law & Order" actor Benjamin Bratt (38) weds actress-model Talisa Soto (35) in San Francisco,
           California

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This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Divorces

1992 - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie

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Famous Birthdays

                 
US President                                           Actor Jonathan Brandis (1976)                   
Thomas Jefferson (1743) 


1506 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
1519 - Catherine de' Medici, Italian born Queen consort to Henry II of France and later regent to her
           sons
1547 - Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and 3rd wife of Philip II of Spain (d.
           1568)
1570 - Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
1626 - Aert Jansz van Nes, Lt-admiral, baptised
1648 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1713 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer
1715 - John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
1721 - John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
1729 - Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore
1732 - Frederick North, (C) British PM (1770-82)
1733 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
1735 - Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826)
1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1749 - Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt, Dutch count/vice-admiral
1756 - Louis H J Condé, French prince
1762 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
1764 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
1769 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
1771 - Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor (steam locomotive)
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder
1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1787 - John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
1791 - Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 - Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist
1799 - Joseph Rastrelli, composer
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1896)
1816 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer
1817 - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 - Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1822 - William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1828 - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham
1830 - Eduard Lassen, composer
1832 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
1841 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
1847 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
1849 - Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
1851 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
1852 - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1854 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
1860 - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1865 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
1866 - Butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1867 - Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
1868 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer
1872 - A Roda Roda, writer
1873 - Theodore Morse, composer
1873 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949)
1879 - Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
1880 - Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955)
1883 - Alexander Alexandrov, composer
1883 - Demjan Bednyi, writer
1885 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1885 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
1885 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1886 - Ethel Leginska, composer
1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d.
           1995)
1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
1890 - Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
1891 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
1891 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
1892 - Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar)
1894 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
1895 - Olga Rudge, violinist
1895 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1897 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
1899 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
1899 - Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble)
1899 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 - René-Jean Pleven, French premier (1950-52)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1902 - Duke of Marlborough
1902 - Godfrey Kenton, actor (Well's Theater)
1902 - Philippe de Rothschild, Paris, manager (Bordeaux Vineyard)
1903 - Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, dominican Theologian cardinal
1904 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
1906 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)
1906 - Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)
1907 - Harold Stassen, W St Paul Minn, (Gov-R-Minn) perennial pres candidate
1909 - Eudora Welty, Jackson Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973)
1909 - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist
1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
1911 - Nino Sanzogno, composer
1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1911 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1912 - Roy Winsor, Chicago, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life)
1913 - Bernard Chacksfield, Air Vice-Marshal
1913 - David Donald Albritton, Danville Al, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1936)
1915 - Bert [Albert L F] Peleman, [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer
1915 - R N Coote, Bishop (Colchester)
1915 - Stephan Hermlin, writer
1915 - Stephen Roberts, CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 - Tom Greenshields, sculptor
1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
1917 - Howard Keel, Ill, actor/singer and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7
           Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
1918 - Audrey Barker, writer
1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist (opppsed prayer in school)
1919 - Roland Gaucher, French journalist
1919 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
1920 - Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party)
1920 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 - Claude Cheysson, French politician
1920 - John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
1921 - Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, industrialist
1921 - Carlo Prosperi, composer
1921 - James Wilson, British Lt-General
1921 - Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 - John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top)
1922 - Jean Topart, Paris, actor (Fantastic Planet), (d. 2012)
1922 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1924 - Stanley Donen, SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
1924 - Jack Chick, American evangelist
1925 - Frank Chamberlain, CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1925 - Hilda Dianda, composer
1926 - 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
1926 - Don Adams, NYC, comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 - Godfrey Kenton, actor
1927 - Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, (d. 2012)
1927 - Mari Blanchard, Long Beach California, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 - Maurice Ronet, Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love)
1927 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist
1928 - Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1929 - Marilynn Smith, Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 - Justice Harman
1931 - Beverley Cross, playwright
1931 - Michael Burchill, actor
1931 - Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
1932 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer
1932 - Karl Kroeger, composer
1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, (Sen-D Colorado)
1933 - Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1934 - Horace Kay, US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 - Siegfried Matthus, composer
1935 - Kenneth Hayr, air marshal
1935 - Lyle Waggoner, KC Kansas, actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
1935 - Peter Heap, diplomat
1937 - Edward Fox, London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 - Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 - Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1937 - Edward Fox, English actor
1938 - Frederic Rzewski, Westfield Mass, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 - John Weston, diplomat
1939 - Barbara-Rose Collins, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1939 - Paul Sorvino, actor (Chiefs, Dick Tracy)
1939 - Seamus Heaney, poet
1939 - Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 - Lester Chambers, Ms, vocalist (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1940 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)
1940 - Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1941 - Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Bill Conti, Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1942 - Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.
1943 - Bill Koch, US skier
1943 - Eve Graham, rocker (New Seekers)
1943 - Billy Kidd, American skier
1944 - Brian Pendleton, rocker (Pretty Things)
1944 - Charles Burnett, director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 - Jack Casady, Wash DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1944 - Michael Saunders, barrister
1944 - Susan Davis, American politician
1945 - Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder (Theater festival of Caracas)
1945 - Edward J Caruthers Jr, Troy Ala, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 - Lowell George, rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero)
1945 - Raymond van Geytenbeek, Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Stacy Johnson, US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1945 - Tony Dow, Hollywood California, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1945 - Tony Dow, American actor
1945 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
1945 - Charles Robinson, American actor
1946 - Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1946 - Roy Loney, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1947 - Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
1948 - Amy Robinson, Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 - Peter Swevel, rocker
1948 - Sue Doughty, British politician
1948 - Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier, Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1949 - Philippe Petit, Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1949 - Ricardo Zuniño, Argentine racing driver
1950 - Riff West, rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 - Ron Perlman, Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast)
1950 - Terry Lester, Indianapolis, actor (Young & Restless, As World Turns)
1951 - Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Jack Quinn, (Rep-R-New York)
1951 - Max Weinberg, rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 - Peabo Bryson, Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I'm So into You)
1951 - Peter Davison, actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1951 - Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1952 - Jonjo O'Neill, racehorse trainer
1952 - Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
1952 - David Drew, British politician
1952 - Erick Avari, British-Indian actor
1953 - Stephen Byers, MP
1954 - Barbara Roche, MP
1954 - Jimmy Destri, rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture)
1954 - Niels Olsen, Danish singer
1955 - Kabaka of Buganda
1955 - Louis Johnson, LA California, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
1955 - Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
1955 - Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
1956 - Michael Nikolay, German DR, gymnist (Olympics)
1956 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
1957 - Gary Kroeger, Cedar Falls Iowa, comedian (SNL, Return of Shaggy Dog)
1957 - Saundra Santiago, Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 - Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 - Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
1957 - Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
1958 - Randy Piper, heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 - Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (Aug, 1978)
1960 - Rudi Völler, German football coach
1960 - Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
1960 - Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
1961 - Tammy Stephens, Arlington Tx, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1962 - Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1962 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1963 - Gary Kimovich Kasparov, USSR, world chess champion (1985- )
1963 - Jan Willem van Ede, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 - Mark Leiter, Joliet IL, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Bill D'Angelo, heavy metal rocker
1964 - Davis Milton Love III, Charlotte NC, PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 - Doug Strange, Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 - Jose Rijo, pitcher (NY Yankees, Cin Reds)
1964 - Page Hannah, Chicago Ill, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1964 - Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1965 - Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinean architect
1966 - Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
1966 - Marc Ford, American musician
1967 - Dana Barros, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1967 - Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer
1968 - Tami Lyn Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Ted Washington, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court (Olympics-96)
1969 - Harold Pruett, rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 - Eddie Robinson, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Monty Brown, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Ramona Reuter, Miss USA-NY (1997)
1970 - Rick Schroder, SI NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
1970 - Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
1971 - Charles Outlaw, NBA forward (LA Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1971 - Corey Yothers, LA California, actor (Off the Rock)
1971 - Dina Korzun, Russian actress
1971 - Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1971 - Valensia, Dutch singer
1972 - Dave Wohlabaugh, NFL center/guard (NE Patriots)
1972 - Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, Radomsko Pol, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 - Mike Kennedy, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)
1973 - Aaron Hayden, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Dave Wohlabaugh, corner (New England Patriots)
1974 - Sergei Gonchar, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Capitals, Oly-S-1998)
1974 - Darren Turner , British Race Driver
1975 - Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist
1975 - Bruce Dyer, English footballer
1976 - Everton Matambanadzo, Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (v Paki 1996)
1976 - Jonathan Brandis, Danbury Ct, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV)
1976 - Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 - Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor
1978 - Grace Murray Tubbs, Miss Montana Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1978 - Kyle Howard, American actor
1978 - Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist
1979 - Monica Ivey, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Baron Davis, American basketball player
1979 - Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
1980 - Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1980 - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
1981 - Courtney Peldon, American actress
1981 - Nat Borchers, American soccer player
1982 - Nellie McKay, American singer
1982 - Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1982 - Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 - Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1984 - Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
1987 - Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
1988 - Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1991 - Dylan Francis Penn, LA California, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright
1992 - Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
1992 - Emma Degerstedt, American actress
1997 - Sloane Momsen, American actress

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This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Deaths

799 - Paul the Deacon / Paulus Diaconus Warnefred, Italian Benedictine monk and chronicler (born c. 720)
814 - Krum of Bulgaria
1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 - Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1517 - Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1612 - Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1635 - Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 - Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies
1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1728 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59
1756 - Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1806 - Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82
1822 - Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66
1826 - Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80
1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1864 - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1868 - Tewodros II / Theodorus II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818) commits suicide
1873 - Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1886 - Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68
1890 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1903 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904 - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1928 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
1932 - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
1936 - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1936 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
1944 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1946 - William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
1949 - C V France, dies at 80
1952 - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 - Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38
1961 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1971 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1973 - Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1974 - Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1975 - Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies
1978 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1980 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 - Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 - Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1986 - Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
1990 - Ronald Ibbs, dies
1992 - Brian Oulton, dies at 84
1992 - Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 - Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
1993 - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
1993 - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994 - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1995 - Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
1996 - Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
1996 - George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
1996 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 - George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1997 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1998 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2004 - Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2005 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
2008 - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
2009 - Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
2009 - Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
2009 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)

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This Day in History for 14th April


Historical Events

                                   
Lexicographer Noah Webster                US President Abraham Lincoln                 March King John Philip Sousa

                                   
26th US President                                        Author John Steinbeck                French President Georges Pompidou
Theodore Roosevelt

                 
Novelist Norman Mailer                           The Pianoman Billy Joel


43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius
            Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
193 - Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
754 - Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
966 - Christianisation of Poland
972 - Notger becomes bishop of Liege
979 - Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1191 - 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1341 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 - Battle of Barnet - King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1536 - English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1544 - Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 - Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 - Battle of Mookerhei - D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1629 - England & France sign Peace of Susa
1671 - Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1699 - Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance
           with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1756 - Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 - 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1777 - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 - Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 - Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1814 - Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1828 - 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 - 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1836 - Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published
1847 - Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.
1853 - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1860 - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
1861 - Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1861 - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 - Battle of Ft Pillow TN
1863 - William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 - Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis
           Powell.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1868 - SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 - Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 - Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1872 - San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.
1883 - Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé," premieres in Paris
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1890 - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 - 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1896 - John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
1900 - President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1900 - Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1902 - JC Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo
1903 - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1909 - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1910 - Pan American Union forms
1913 - Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 - Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 - A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
1915 - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.
1917 - Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1918 - Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1920 - Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1921 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games
1921 - Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 - Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 - Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1925 - 1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN)
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 - Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1928 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2
1930 - Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1931 - Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1931 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2
1932 - Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 - Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1939 - John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 - Allied troops land in Norway
1940 - RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 - 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 - King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1942 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 - Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 - James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in NYC
1944 - 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 - Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1944 - Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 - American planes bombed Tokyo & damaged the Imperial Palace
1945 - Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis
1945 - US 7th Army & allies forces captured Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 - US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 - US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1946 - "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs
1946 - Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR
1948 - A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 - NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 - International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment
1950 - 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1950 - Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 - Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1953 - WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1954 - Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1955 - Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1955 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1955 - WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs
1956 - Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1957 - Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1959 - (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
1959 - KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1960 - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
1961 - 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 - Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 - US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 - Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes president of France
1963 - George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1964 - Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1967 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1967 - Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1967 - Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch
1968 - 1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
1968 - 32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277
1968 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open
1968 - Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1969 - 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)
1969 - 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson & K Hepburn/Striesand win
1969 - KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 - Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 - Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
1971 - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1971 - Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 - "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1973 - Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the
           Watergate scandal
1974 - 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
1977 - Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 - David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
1978 - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978 - WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1978 - 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts
           to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1979 - Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 - 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1983 - Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1983 - Pres Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1983 - Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 - Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1985 - "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 - 49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
1985 - Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 - Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1985 - Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 - Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1985 - Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 - 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
1986 - Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 - Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 - US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1987 - Turkey asks to join European market
1988 - "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 - Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1988 - USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 - In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 - "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs
1991 - "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 - 55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
1991 - Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round
           of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
1992 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 - UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 - UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 - Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 - NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
1994 - US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven
           Seals manuscript
1995 - India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1995 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 - 60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276
1996 - Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games
1999 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75
           people are killed.
1999 - A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the
          most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This
           law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2002 - Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested
           by the country's military.
2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
           accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an
           American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 - The U.S. Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier
           by Multnomah County.
2007 - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of
           incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 - Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the
           glacier

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Famous Weddings

2007 - Supermodel Esther Canadas (30) weds MotoGP rider Sete Gibernau (34) in Spain
2007 - Two and a Half Men actress Melanie Lynskey (29) weds actor Jimmi Simpson (31) in a chapel
           overlooking a vineyard on Lake Hayes, near Queenstown, New Zealand
2007 - "Rocky" film series actor Carl Weathers (59) weds award-winning producer Jennifer Peterson
            on a seaside wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2012 - "Lady Antebellum" singer Dave Haywood (29) weds executive with Warner Bros. Records Kelli
            Cashiola (30) in Nashville, Tennessee

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This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Musician Billy Joel & supermodel Christie Brinkley announce plans to divorce

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This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (1945)          Actor Robert Carlyle (1961)            Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977)


1336 - Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
1578 - Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
1592 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1629 - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1668 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General (d. 1741)
1676 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1710 - Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer
1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
1718 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
1721 - William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
1723 - John Wainwright, composer
1738 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783, 1807-09) Dies 1809.
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1762 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist
1770 - George Canning, London, British PM (1827)
1782 - Carlo Coccia, composer
1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1803 - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter
1809 - George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician
1813 - Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
1818 - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
1819 - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
1820 - Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1827 - Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
1832 - James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1842 - Sven August Korling, composer
1843 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1852 - Henrique Oswald, composer
1857 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
1861 - Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
1862 - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
1866 - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912)
1870 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1873 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
1874 - Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
1876 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910)
1877 - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar
1879 - James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1881 - Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
1882 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
1886 - Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
1886 - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
1889 - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1889 - Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
1889 - James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
1891 - B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d.1956)
1892 - Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)
1892 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1895 - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
1895 - Wiktor Labunski, composer
1897 - Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader
1897 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1898 - Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1900 - Salvatore Baccaloni, Rome, actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby)
1901 - Alfred West, champion cyclist/record hair splitter (17 splits)
1901 - Martin Kessel, writer
1902 - Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1902 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
1904 - John Gielgud, London England, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
1904 - Lionel Birkett, cricketer (WI vice-capt on Australian tour 1930-31)
1904 - Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist
1904 - Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer
1905 - Frits Philips, Dutch engineer/CEO (Philips)
1905 - Holmesdale Charles "Slinger" Nitschke, cricket batsman (S Aus & Test)
1905 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
1906 - Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75)
1906 - Hunter Johnson, composer
1907 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti
1907 - Otto F A H van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden)/MP (KVP)
1907 - Phyllis Konstam, London England, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
1910 - Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
1912 - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher
1912 - Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist/conductor (Neth Chamber Orch)
1912 - Robert Doisneau, photographer
1913 - Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder (Alma musica)
1913 - Jean Fournet, French conductor
1913 - John Howard, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dave-My Three Sons)
1916 - Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48)
1916 - Denis ApIvor, composer
1916 - Emerson Buckley, composer
1917 - Valerie Hobson, North Ireland, actress (Great Expectations)
1917 - Marvin Miller, American labor activist, (d. 2012)
1918 - Mary Healy, New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married his Wife)
1920 - Eduardo Maturana, composer
1920 - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
1921 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
1922 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer
1922 - Maria Luisa Bemberg, film maker
1923 - William Darling, journalist
1923 - Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golf player
1924 - Shorty Rogers, [Milton M Rajonsky], composer
1925 - Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier (Rhodesia)
1925 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin')
1925 - H G Kischenchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52)
1925 - Rod Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)
1926 - Jan Carl Christian Maegaard, composer
1926 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
1926 - Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
1927 - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta)
1927 - Gloria Jean, Buffalo NY, actress (Never Give a sorryer an Even Break)
1929 - William Edgar Thornton, Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
1929 - Gerry Anderson, English television producer, (d. 2012)
1930 - Bradford Dillman, SF California, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
1930 - George W Gekas, (Rep-R-PA, 1983- )
1930 - Jay Robinson, NYC, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1931 - Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 - Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
1933 - Buddy Knox, Happy Tx, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey)
1933 - Morton Subotnick, LA California, composer (Wild Bull)
1934 - Bruce Pairaudeau, cricketer (WI opening bat in 13 Tests, 115 on debut)
1934 - Fredric Jameson, American philosopher, cultural theorist
1935 - Joan Darling, Boston, actress (Frieda-Owen Marshall)
1935 - Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1935 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
1936 - Robert Herman Nichols, Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1986 Showdown)
1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
1936 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
1938 - Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/pres (Beaumont College)
1939 - Jennifer Fowler, composer
1940 - Patricia Bruder, Bkln NY, actress (Ellen-As the World Turns)
1941 - Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov, cosmonaut
1941 - Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
1941 - Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, Charlie hustle (most hits in majors)
1941 - Ryan O'Neal, actor (Love Story, Paper Moon)
1942 - Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
1942 - Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
1943 - Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants (EPA)
1943 - Yvonne Vriens-Auerbach, Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Derek Leckenby, rocker/actor (Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter)
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, Engld, guitarist (Rainbow-Stone Cold, Deep Purple)
1945 - Steve Martin, Waco TX, writer/actor (Jerk, Housesitter)
1945 - Uwe Beyer, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1945 - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 - Patrick Fairley, guitarist (Marmalade-Oh La Di Oh La Do)
1946 - Tom Monteleone, US writer (Dark Star & Illumination)
1947 - Bob Massie, cricketer (Aust swing bowler, 16 wkts on debut v Eng 1972)
1948 - Chester G Atkins, (Rep-D-MA)
1948 - Larry Ferguson, Nassau, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 - Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums
1948 - Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
1949 - John Shea, North Conway NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark)
1949 - Michael Shea, Glendale NY, actor (Lucas- New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1949 - DeAnne Julius, American/English economist
1950 - Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes, actress (Blindgangers)
1950 - Randolph Powell, Iowa City Iowa, actor (Alan-Dallas, Logan's Run)
1950 - Francis Collins, American scientist
1951 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician
1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
1952 - Kenny Aaronson, rocker
1952 - Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
1953 - Irina Rudolfovna Pronina, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
1954 - Bruce Sterling, US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)
1955 - Simone Griffeth, Savannah Georgia, actress (Death Race 2000, Amanda's)
1957 - Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
1957 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
1958 - Michael Patrick Hulbert, Elmira NY, PGA golfer (1989 BC Open)
1958 - John D'Aquino, American actor
1960 - Brian Forster, rocker (Partridge Family Drums)
1960 - Pat Symcox, cricketer (South African off-spinner 1993- )
1961 - John Clarke, actor (Mickey-Days of Our Life)
1961 - Robert Carlyle, Glasgow, Scotland, British actor (Trainspotting, The Full Monty)
1962 - James Carpenter, Canton Conn, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1963 - Cynthia Cooper, WNBA guard (Houston Comets/Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 - Meg Mallon, Natick MA, LPGA golfer (1991 US Women's Open)
1964 - Allen James, Sacramento California, 50K walker (Olympics-24th-92, 96)
1964 - Greg Battle, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1964 - Jim Grabb, Tucson AZ, tennis star
1965 - Craig McDermott, cricket pace bowler (tireless Austr since 1984)
1965 - Stan Humphries, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Tom Dey, American film director
1966 - David Justice, baseball player (Atlanta Braves)/husband of Halle Barry
1966 - Greg Maddux, San Angelo TX, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1966 - Greg Myers, Riverside CA, catcher (Minnesota Twins)
1966 - Ricky Andrews, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1966 - André Boisclair, Quebec politician (Parti Québécois)
1967 - Barret Martin, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 - Jeff Finley, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Marla Wynne, Easton Penn, Miss Penn-America (1991) (top 10)
1967 - Steve Chiasson, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Barrett Martin, American drummer and composer
1967 - Nicola Berti, Italian International footballer
1967 - Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Andrew Trim, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, Boston Mass, comedian (SNL, Breakfast Club)
1968 - Jesse Levis, Philadephia PA, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Brad Ausmus, New Haven CT, catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Brad Pennington, Salem IN, pitcher (California Angels)
1969 - David Archibald, Chilliwack, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Mark Macon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1969 - Tim Roberts, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
1969 - Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
1970 - Brian Stablein, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Jan Siemerink, Neth, tennis star
1970 - Steve Avery, Trenton MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer
1970 - Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
1971 - Antonio London, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Gregory Zaun, Glendale CA, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1971 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer, (d. 2012)
1971 - Peter Gibson, American writer
1972 - Jason Mallett, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Zev Lumelski, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
1973 - Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
1973 - Adrien Brody, American actor
1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
1974 - Mike Allen Lambert, Honolulu HI, volleyball opposite hitter (Oly-96)
1974 - Shawntae Harris, American rapper
1975 - Petra Begerow, Germany, tennis star (1996 quarter Hilton Head)
1975 - Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
1975 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
1975 - Veronika Zemanová, Czech model
1975 - Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 - Baedon Choppy, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Jason Wiemer, Kimberley, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1976 - Christian Älvestam, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy)
1978 - Paul O'Brien, Australian actor
1979 - Randal McCloy, Survivor of the Sago Mine Disaster
1979 - Noé Pamarot, French footballer
1979 - Rebecca DiPietro, American model
1980 - Ben Wells, American actor
1980 - Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1983 - James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 - William Yaw Obeng, Arena Football League lineman
1983 - Nikoloz Tskitishvili, American basketball player
1984 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
1986 - Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986 - Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
1993 - Vivien Cardone, an American actress
1993 - Graham Phillips (actor), American actor
1996 - Abigail Breslin, American child actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Deaths

                                   
Composer                                               Musician Pete Farndon (1983)
George Friedrich Handel (1759)


711 - Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
911 - Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies
1099 - Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death
1132 - Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)
1240 - Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies
1279 - Boleslaus of Greater Poland
1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
1427 - John IV, duke of Brabant, dies
1433 - Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53
1471 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42
1552 - Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies
1574 - Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle
1574 - Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle
1574 - Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
1655 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39
1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)
1692 - Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1764 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
1813 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34
1843 - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1874 - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curacao, dies at 86
1888 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62
1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1911 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
1913 - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68
1914 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58
1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1915 - James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
1917 - Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
1924 - Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67
1924 - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, Fr officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65
1925 - Pieter D van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54
1930 - W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36
1934 - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
1934 - Karl Dane, dies at 57
1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1941 - Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
1941 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
1943 - Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
1943 - Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63
1948 - Walter P Reuther, Pres (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1949 - Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
1950 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
1953 - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
1960 - Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies
1964 - Bert McGirr, cricketer (2 Tests for NZ, 51 runs), dies
1964 - Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
1964 - Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56
1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1965 - Leonard Mudie, dies of heart ailment at 82
1965 - Perry E Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1965 - Robert E Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1968 - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1971 - Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
1973 - Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
1973 - Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA
1975 - Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77
1976 - Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60
1976 - José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
1977 - Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44
1980 - Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
1983 - Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952), dies at 64
1983 - Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders), dies
1983 - Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42
1984 - Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies
1985 - Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1987 - Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
1988 - Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79
1988 - John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1989 - Lance Pierre, cricketer (Test WI v Engl 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies
1990 - Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
1990 - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1992 - David Miller, dies of cancer at 82
1992 - Sammy Price, US boogie-woogie pianist, dies
1993 - Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85
1993 - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1994 - Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 - Brian Coffey, poet, dies at 89
1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
1995 - Donald Keech, entrepreneur, dies at 74
1995 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75
1995 - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89
1996 - Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91
1996 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
1996 - Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80
1996 - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81
1996 - William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67
1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
2000 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2004 - Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
2006 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
2007 - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
2008 - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2008 - Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
2008 - Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
2010 - Peter Steele, American musician. (b. 1968)
2011 - Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2012 - Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 92

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th April


Historical Events

                                   
Composer                                               Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
George Friedrich Handel

                                   
MacDonalds Entreprenuer                           Dictator Fidel Castro                     Composer & Singer Quincy Jones Jr
Ray Kroc


Actor William Shatner


69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire
           during the Thirty Years' War.
1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann S Bachs "Mattheus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out 1st £5 note
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former
           to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - 1st British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1906 - The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1915 - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1957 - KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million
1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt
1958 - 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 - US Sect of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 - US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 - "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 - James Baldwin's "Amen Corner," premieres in NYC
1965 - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1966 - KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1967 - "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 - North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1970 - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 - Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George
           McGovern for President
1973 - 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1973 - Walt Disney Story opens
1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11
1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 - 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
1975 - Gabon amends constitution
1975 - Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1976 - Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 - 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1979 - A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post
           relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 - Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 - Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1986 - US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 - Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1987 - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs
1987 - Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in NYC
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles," premieres in NYC
1989 - 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 - Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best
1991 - "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 - East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1991 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1992 - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of
           Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1992 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of
           Vietnam.
1994 - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
1994 - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 - America On Line, begins service in Japan
1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is
           343.
2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog
           near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace
           over most of Europe.
2012 - 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
2012 - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US
           dollar
2012 - US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Weddings

1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1925 - Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna
           Slonim (23) in Berlin
1989 - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
2006 - Miss Nigeria 2002 Sylvia Ansa Edem weds businessman Chris Emecheta at the the Recreation
           Park, Victoria Garden City, Lekki Lagos
2006 - "Maria Full of Grace" actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (24) weds lighting technician David
           Michael Ewell in an intimate civil ceremony in Cartagena de Indies, Colombia

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
2011 - Grammy-winning pop singer Christina Aguilera (29) divorces music executive Jordan Bratman
          (33) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Painter, Scientist & Visionary               First Secretary of the Communist          Actor & Writer Seth Rogen (1982)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452)                            Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                   Nikita Khrushchev (1894)


1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 - John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 - Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 - Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1837 - Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
1841 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 - Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
1845 - Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1858 - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1875 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1875 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1878 - Robert Walser, writer
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1882 - Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1888 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1894 - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First
           Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)
1895 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1898 - Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 - Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1903 - Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 - John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1906 - A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1908 - Louise Chaplin, actress
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1910 - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 - Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 - John Gregory, dancer
1915 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1915 - Elizabeth Catlett, Washington D.C., sculptor and print maker (Mother and Child), (d. 2012)
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 - Clive Beadon, airman
1919 - Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1920 - Thomas Szasz, Budapest, Hungary, psychiatrist (The Myth of Mental Illness, The Manufacture
           of Madness), (d. 2012)
1921 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 - Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 - John Grigg, British historian
1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
1927 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 - Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 - Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 - Adrian Cadbury, candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1931 - Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor (Ireland)
1932 - David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 - Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1933 - Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, LA California, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)
1933 - Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw)
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1935 - Gene Cherico, bassist
1936 - Hector Quintanar, composer
1936 - Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936 - Maurice Shock, rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1936 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1937 - Earl Russell, historian
1938 - Carles Marsden, professor (neurology)
1938 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1938 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress (The Pink Panther)
1939 - Marti Wilder, father of rocker Kim Wilde
1939 - Marty Wilde, British singer
1940 - Edy Hubacher, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
1940 - Robert Walker Jr, NYC, actor (Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver)
1940 - Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1940 - Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1941 - Howard L Berman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 - Walter Raphael Hazzard, Wilmington Del, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1943 - Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
          (1991), (d. 1996)
1944 - Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Jos F B van Rey, Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 - Wayne Gilchrest, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1947 - Bojoura, [Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 - DeDe Lind, LA California, playmate (Aug, 1967)
1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
1947 - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1947 - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1947 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 - Craig Zadan, American film producer
1950 - Amy Wright, Chicago Illinois, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)
1951 - Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
1951 - Heloise II, columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 - John L Phillips, Ft Belvoir Va, PhD/astronaut
1951 - Marsha S Ivins, Baltimore Maryland, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1952 - Sam McMurray, actor (Tracey Ullman)
1952 - Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 - Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1954 - Emmanuel, Mexico City Mexico, spanish singer
1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 - Barbara Barrow, LPGA golfer
1955 - Enith Salle Brigitha, Neth, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 - Gregory J Harbaugh, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1956 - Michael Cooper, NBA star (LA Lakers)
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, Shreveport LA, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1976, 84)
1958 - John Bracewell, NZ cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 - Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1958 - Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 - Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1959 - Emma Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
1959 - Kevin Lowe, Lachute, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1959 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1960 - Marvin Clyde Goodwin, New Orleans La, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Philip, Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola
1960 - Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1961 - Lynne Austin, Plant City Fla, playmate (Jul, 1986)
1961 - Tiina Lillak, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 - Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 - Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 - Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 - Teresa Wentzel DeWitt, Ft Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1963 - Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1964 - Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital)
1964 - Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)
1965 - Anthony Miller, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 - Kevin Stevens, Brockton, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Mark Dennis, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 - Michele Redman, Zanesville OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd)
1965 - Soichi Noguchi, Yokohama Japan, astronaut
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Andrei Olhovskiy, Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1966 - Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 - Samantha Karen Fox, East End London England, singer (Touch Me)
1967 - Dara Torres, Beverly Hills CA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-gold-84)
1967 - Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 - Mark Mortimer, actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 - Suzy Green, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th)
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 - Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1968 - Billy Brewer, Fort Worth Texas, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1968 - Stacey Williams, Phila Penn, model (SI Swimsuit 1996)
1969 - Chris Smith, Indianapolis IN, Nike golfer (1993 BC Open-8th)
1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, Westminster CA, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1969 - Michael Jones, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 - Phillippi Sparks, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 - Darrin Smith, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 - Craig Whelihan, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Derek Brown, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1971 - Guivi Sissaouri, Tbilisi Georgia, Canada freestyle wrestler (Oly-s-96)
1971 - Jason Sehorn, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Giants)
1971 - Rich McKenzie, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Tim Tindale, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Katy Hill, British television presenter
1971 - Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress
1972 - Melvin Johnson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Peter Billingsley, NYC, actor (Real People)
1972 - Ricky Otero, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Ronald Cherry, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Vickie Johnson, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1972 - Lou Romano, American voice actor
1973 - Jeremy Burkett, NFL/WLAF tight end (NY Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 - Marena Bencomo, Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 - Mike Quinn, quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Sergei Krivokrasov, Angarsk Russia, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Oly-S-98)
1974 - Danny Pino, American actor
1974 - Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 - Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Lisa Bell, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Midwestern Sr champ)
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Mark Mizzark, [Marlis Pugh], Akron Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Deaths

                                   
US President                                         Poet/Critic Matthew Arnold  (1888)          Writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1980)
Abraham Lincoln (1865)


Actress Greta Garbo (1990)


1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1472 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 - Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged
           42
1765 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1824 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1911 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1916 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1925 - John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
1927 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1938 - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1947 - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1956 - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1958 - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
1962 - Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962 - Esther Minciotti, dies at 74
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1965 - Syd Chaplin, dies at 80
1966 - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81
1967 - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1972 - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Charles Marshall, dies
1975 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies
1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1976 - Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 78
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 - French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1982 - Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 - Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1983 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983 - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76
1986 - Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1988 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 - Kenneth Williams, dies at 61
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
1989 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
1991 - Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88
1991 - Martin Ashe, dies
1993 - George Ives, dies at 111
1993 - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
1993 - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
1995 - Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79
1997 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian, dies at 76
1997 - Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
2009 - Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and former liberal MP (b.1924)
2010 - Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)
2011 - Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)
2012 - Murray Rose, Australian Olympic gold winning swimmer, dies from leukemia at 73

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th April


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                   Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley
George Washington

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                                  Writer Alex Haley                          265th Pope Benedict XVI


1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his
               kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish
       Revolt.
556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1346 - The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV
           Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans.
1395 - Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1509 - French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 - Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 - 1st Easter observed (OS=Apr 9)
1746 - Battle at Culloden: Troops of George II of Great Britain defeat Charles Stuart
1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits
1780 - The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1787 - 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," made its debut in NYC
1789 - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1799 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the
           River Jordan near Acre.
1818 - Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1849 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète, premieres in Paris
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1854 - Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres
1854 - San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 - Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1861 - US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 - Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1862 - US Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years)
1865 - Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)
1866 - Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1866 - Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes
1868 - Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 - Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1870 - Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
1871 - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1874 - Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1883 - Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal
1888 - Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 - Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell Utah)
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
1912 - Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1921 - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 - Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1924 - 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
1924 - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1925 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are
            wounded.
1926 - Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by
           Sylvia Townsend Warner
1929 - Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
1929 - NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
1935 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1935 - Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR
1938 - Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 - Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1939 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1940 - 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chic, 1-0
1940 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1941 - Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
1942 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942 - King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
1943 - 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Neth (85 killed)
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - German troops in Groningen surrender
1945 - Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
1945 - US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II
1945 - US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1946 - 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt
1946 - NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail
1947 - -17] Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1947 - Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1947 - Massive explosion & fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx
1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1949 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1951 - British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1952 - "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 - British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
1953 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open
1953 - Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game
1953 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1953 - WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1956 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1957 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 perfs
1959 - Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1959 - NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1959 - Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
1961 - 15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1961 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1962 - Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1964 - 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1964 - Geraldine Mock of US is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1965 - Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 - Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 - "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
1967 - Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
1970 - 70 die in a snow crush (France)
1972 - "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1972 - 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
1972 - 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
1972 - Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 - Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
1972 - China sends 2 giant pandas to US
1974 - "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 - Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1978 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1978 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1978 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
1979 - 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1
1979 - 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
1979 - 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
1979 - Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1979 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980 - Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
1981 - Columbia space shuttle returns [04/24]
1982 - Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1983 - Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1984 - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28
1984 - 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
1984 - Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
1984 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1985 - "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
1985 - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isle win series 3-2
1986 - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
1986 - West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1987 - FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1987 - Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
1987 - Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
1987 - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 - Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1987 - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London
           charged with gross indecency.
1989 - 1st Seniors Golf Tradition: Don Bies wins
1989 - Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
1989 - Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 - Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
1990 - "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
1990 - 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
1990 - 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
1990 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for
           murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1991 - M Leander & E Seago's musical "Matador," premieres in London
1991 - St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat
           the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
1992 - "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
1992 - 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
1992 - NY Rangers win team record 50th game
1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the
           ocean.
1993 - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict
           is not read until April 17th
1994 - Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
1995 - 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Ray Floyd wins
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St Paul on WRQC 100.3 FM
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European
           Union.
2004 - The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden
           age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The
           gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing
           suicide.
2008 - Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
2012 - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
2012 - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction