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This Day in History for 9th August


Famous Birthdays

                     
Savant Amedeo Avogadro (1776)         Singer Whitney Houston (1963)


1201 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1593 - Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
1611 - Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst Neth
1631 - John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) [NS=Aug 19]
1648 - Johann Michael Bach, Arnstadt Germany, composer (In Dulci Jubilo), (d. 1694)
1653 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
1669 - Eudoxia Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1731)
1674 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1677 - Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Venice It, composer (Lettera Famigliare) [or 7/24]
1690 - Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer
1696 - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general
1718 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer
1722 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1758 - Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law), (d. 1856)
1781 - Michael Umlauf, composer
1783 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
1797 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1805 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1808 - William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1809 - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
1819 - William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
1823 - Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1824 - Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 - Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93)
1834 - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
1845 - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator
1845 - André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1847 - Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
1861 - Wilhelm Berger, composer
1869 - Randle Ayrton, Chester England, actor (Manxman)
1872 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1875 - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
1875 - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist
1883 - George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
1884 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Genius against Violence)
1887 - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam)
1888 - Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter
1890 - Cesar Cortinas, composer
1890 - Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
1890 - Sandor Jemnitz, composer
1891 - Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator
1892 - Charles Delaney, NYC, actor (Air Police, Lonesome Trail)
1895 - Fred Badcock, cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches)
1895 - Nat Pendleton, Davenport IA, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
1896 - Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1897 - Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1898 - David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal)
1899 - Armand Salacrou, French playwright
1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996)
1901 - Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Mass, actor (Vern-My Little Margie)
1902 - Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939)
1903 - Tom Tyler, [Vincent Markowsky], Port Henry NY, actor (Mummy's Hand)
1905 - Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice
1905 - Leo Genn, London England, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo)
1907 - Berta Waterstradt, writer
1909 - John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
1909 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
1910 - Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer (Judge Ti)
1911 - Khurshed Meher-Homji, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper 1936)
1911 - Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
1911 - William A Fowler, US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1911 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
1913 - Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon)
1913 - Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
1914 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
1914 - Gordon Cullen, architect
1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
1914 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
1915 - Haim Alexander, composer
1918 - Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen)
1919 - Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier (PVDA, 1973-77)
1919 - Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
1920 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
1921 - J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979- )
1921 - Ernest Angley, televangelist
1922 - Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill)
1923 - Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch literary
1923 - Hillevi Lagerstam, Kurikka, Finnish actress
1925 - Robert Heppener, composer (Hymns & Conversations, Movie Music)
1925 - David A. Huffman, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1926 - Denis Atkinson, cricketer (WI all-rounder, 219 v Australia 1955)
1926 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch jazz historian (Mister Jazz)
1927 - Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
1927 - Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)
1927 - Daniel Keyes, American author
1928 - Bob Cousy, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, 1957 MVP)
1930 - Betty Boop, animation
1930 - Milt Bolling, Mississippi City, Mississippi, MLB shortstop (Red Sox, 1952-7), (d. 2013)
1931 - Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire
1931 - Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
1932 - John Gomery, Canadian jurist
1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1935 - George S Leotsakos, composer
1936 - Julián Javier, American baseball player
1938 - Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
1938 - Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
1938 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1938 - Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
1939 - Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners-That's What Girls Are Made For)
1939 - Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds)
1939 - Max Neuhaus, composer
1939 - Tony Budge, English contractor/tank maker/multi-millionaire
1939 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Beverlee McKinsey, Oklahoma, actress (Iris-Another World, Guiding Light)
1942 - David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End)
1942 - Miguel Littin, actor (Promised Land, Alsino & Condor)
1942 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1943 - Ken Norton, American boxer
1944 - Smokey the Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin
1944 - Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch MP (D66)
1944 - Sam Elliott, Sacramento California, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
1944 - Terry Jenner, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1971-75)
1944 - Viv Prince, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 - Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
1945 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
1946 - Rinus Gerritsen [Marinus], Dutch rock bassist/keyboardist (Golden Earring)
1946 - Jim Kiick, American football player
1947 - Barbara Mason, US singer (Yes, I'm Ready)
1948 - Bill Campbell, American baseball player
1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
1950 - Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor/director (Love Potion)
1952 - Vicki Morgan, Colo Springs Colo, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl)
1952 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
1955 - Doug Williams, Louisiana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins)
1955 - John E. Sweeney, American politician
1955 - Peter Schmuck, American sportswriter
1957 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)
1958 - Amanda Bearse, actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children)
1958 - Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1959 - Diane Williams, Hahn AFB Ger, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1959 - Kurtis Blow, NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks)
1961 - Brad Gilbert, Oakland CA, tennis star
1961 - John Key, New Zealand politician
1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
1962 - Jim Johnson, New Hope, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1962 - John Williams, NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns)
1962 - Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
1963 - Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children)
1963 - Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard), (d. 2012)
1964 - Brett Hull, Belleville Ont, NHL right wing (St Louis Blues, USA)
1964 - Yuri Khmylev, Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1964 - Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor
1965 - Ezra Polley, Georgetown Kentucky, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1965 - John Smith, Del City Oklahoma, 62kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-2 gold-88, 92)
1965 - Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1966 - Pat Petersen, Los Angeles California, actor (Michael-Knots Landing)
1966 - Vinny Del Negro, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1967 - Debbie Spence, San Jose Cal, tennis star
1967 - Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 National Amat France)
1967 - Deion Sanders, NFL cornerback/wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys and NY Yankees)
1967 - Elexa Wills/Orrange, Orange Texas, long jumper/triple jumper
1968 - Gillian Anderson, Chicago IL, actress (X-Files)
1968 - Jay Stacy, Aust field hockey midfielder (Oly-4th/silver-88, 92, 96)
1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968 - Sam Fogarino, American musician (Interpol)
1968 - Joseph McGinty Nichol, American film producer and director
1969 - Troy Percival, Fontana CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1970 - Chris Gedney, NFL tight end (Chic Bears, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rod Brind'amour, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team Canada 98)
1970 - Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
1970 - Thomas Lennon, American actor
1970 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
1971 - Alan Allen, NFL/WLAF wide receiver (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
1971 - David Merritt, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s)
1971 - Nikki Schieler, Norwalk California, playmate (Sep, 1997)
1971 - Scott Karl, Fontana CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
1971 - James Kim, technology reporter (d. 2006)
1972 - Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)
1972 - Eric Zomalt, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Robert Peal, Chicago Ill, dance skater (& Margot Contois)
1972 - Silvia Ramon-Cortes, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1994 Futures-Vigo)
1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
1972 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
1973 - James McKeehan, tight end (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Jay Hagood, tackle (NY Jets)
1973 - Jimmy King, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 - Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1973 - Larry Stallworth, WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1974 - Derek Fisher, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1974 - Tremayne Allen, tight end (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Kirill Reznik, American politician
1974 - Nicola Stapleton, English actress
1975 - Mathew James Coad, Wellington NZ, 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
1975 - Mike Lamb, American baseball player
1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
1976 - Aled Haydn Jones, Radio 1's The Chris Moyles show Producer
1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1977 - Jason Frasor, American baseball player
1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
1977 - Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
1979 - Alizah Allen, NYC NY, figure skater (1997 North Atlantic Sr champ)
1979 - Jessica Gregory, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
1981 - Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
1982 - Tyson Gay, American sprinter
1982 - Danieal Manning, American football player
1983 - Ashley Johnson, actress (Chrissy-Growing Pains)
1983 - Shane O'Brien, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
1984 - Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
1985 - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
1985 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
1985 - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
1986 - Vanessa Morley, American actress
1989 - Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
1990 - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
1991 - Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

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This Day in History for 9th August


Famous Deaths

                                   
Roman Emperor Trajan (117)                  Nobel Laureate Novelist (1962)                 Physicist and Nobel Laureate
                                                              Hermann Hesse (1962)                              Cecil Frank Powell (1969)


117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor, dies from edema at 63
378 - Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
803 - Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies
1048 - Pope Damasus II [Poppo] dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days
1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1420 - Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies
1516 - Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66
1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1612 - Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
1613 - Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36
1634 - Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1652 - John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37
1668 - Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64
1672 - Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70
1710 - Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1727 - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52
1738 - Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1763 - John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
1806 - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33
1816 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1835 - Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78
1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1848 - Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies
1854 - Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
1862 - Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 42 or 46
1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1888 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
1888 - Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82
1892 - Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies
1896 - Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
1904 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1915 - Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
1919 - Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
1919 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62
1924 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1928 - Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
1929 - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
1942 - Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1946 - A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts), dies
1949 - Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy & Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83
1955 - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57
1957 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
1958 - Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74
1959 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55
1961 - Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1965 - Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat & Canary), dies at 83
1966 - Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75
1967 - Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66
1967 - Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34
1969 - Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
1969 - George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72
1969 - Robert Lehman, US multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies
1969 - Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26
1969 - Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist,dies at 65
1972 - Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53
1972 - Richard Elsasser, composer, dies at 45
1973 - Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88
1973 - Dean Corll, shot, he raped & killed 26 boys
1974 - Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
1975 - Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1976 - Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at 65
1976 - Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72
1977 - Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75
1978 - James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74
1978 - Johan Daisne, [Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66
1979 - Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
1979 - Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75
1979 - Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
1980 - Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
1980 - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1980 - P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies
1980 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
1982 - Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies
1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
1986 - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77
1987 - Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55
1988 - Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85
1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1990 - Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies
1990 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1991 - Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
1992 - Christopher Todd, [Todd Wangberg], dies of AIDS at 30
1992 - Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea, dies
1992 - Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
1992 - Thomas J McIntyre, (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
1993 - Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54
1994 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93
1994 - Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64
1994 - Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77
1995 - Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53
1995 - John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29
1995 - Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78
1996 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65
1996 - Ruth Holland, journalist, dies at 54
1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2000 - Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2003 - Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
2003 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
2004 - Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
2004 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
2004 - David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006 - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
2007 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
2008 - Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957)
2008 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(b. 1941)
2010 - Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)

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This Day in History for 10th August


Historical Events

                                   
English Monarch                                  Classical music prodigy Mozart                       32nd US President
Queen Elizabeth I                                                                                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                        US General George S. Patton                  King of Pop Michael Jackson
Adolf Hitler


612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
70 - "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the
         Qur'an.
654 - Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
843 - Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of
         Magyar invasion of Western Europe.
991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near
         Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
1304 - -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
1461 - Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
1497 - John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1511 - Portugese troops occupy parts of Malacca
1512 - Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
1519 - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
1557 - Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France
1566 - Iconoclasm begins
1585 - English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
1622 - County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
1627 - Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1628 - Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed
1653 - Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
1664 - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
1675 - Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
1678 - Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
1680 - In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
1743 - Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1759 - Carlos III becomes king of Spain
1774 - 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches
           London.
1787 - Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
1787 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792 - Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1821 - Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1822 - Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1831 - Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 - Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
1856 - Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
1862 - Battle of Nueces River TX
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
1869 - O B Brown patents moving picture projector
1876 - 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
1877 - Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians
1877 - Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
1885 - Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1887 - Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1888 - NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
1889 - Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1893 - Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
1895 - 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
1897 - Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1900 - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
1901 - Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1904 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
1904 - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1904 - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904 - Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
1906 - Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
1907 - Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
1909 - Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 - 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1914 - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914 - German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
1914 - Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms
1916 - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
1919 - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1920 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920 - Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
1920 - Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1925 - Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
1926 - Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
1929 - Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands
           near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1934 - Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1936 - 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
1936 - 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1938 - 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
1939 - 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
1940 - Prince Bernhard Fund forms
1941 - FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
1942 - Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
1943 - Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
1943 - Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
1943 - Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
1944 - Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
1944 - Race riots in Athens Alabama
1944 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese
1944 - US/French offensive at Alencon
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito
           remained unchanged
1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1948 - Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1948 - WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1949 - Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
1954 - Neth Indonesian Union breaks up
1954 - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1956 - 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1960 - Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
1961 - England applies for membership in European Common Market
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1966 - 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's
           atmosphere & leaving it again
1968 - Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1968 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
1969 - Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
1969 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open
1970 - Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1971 - 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1971 - Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
1972 - 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
1975 - 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1977 - US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
1977 - USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44
           caliber killer
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - Ecuador adopts its constitution
1979 - Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
1980 - 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
1980 - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
1980 - Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 - Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
1981 - Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 - Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1985 - Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
1986 - "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
1986 - Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1986 - Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
1986 - Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
1986 - Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
1987 - Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
1987 - Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
1988 - Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
1988 - Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
1989 - A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
1989 - Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1990 - US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1991 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
1991 - NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
1992 - Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
1992 - Soyuz TM-15 lands
1993 - Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
1993 - An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
1995 - Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
1996 - Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
1996 - Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
1996 - Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
1996 - Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
1997 - 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
1997 - Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
1997 - Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
1997 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic
1997 - Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent . It is the first
           time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United
           Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.

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This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Weddings

1912 - British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist
           Leonard Woolf (31)
1933 - Actress Hedy Lamarr (19) weds Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33)
1946 - Pulp fiction author and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara
           Northrup Hollister
2001 - "Dixie Chick's" Martie Maguire (31) weds actor Gareth Maguire in Kailua, Hawaii
2002 - Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) weds "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie
           Presley (34) at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii
2002 - "Baywatch" actress Angelica Bridges (28) weds Canadian hockey player Sheldon Souray (26)
           at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, marrying Ekaterina
           Dmitriev (on earth)
2003 - Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera (60) weds former Rivera Live producer Erica Levy
          (28) at Manhattan's Central Synagogue

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This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Divorces

2007 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable
          differences after 4 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
31st US President                                    Actor Jack Haley (1898)                       Actress Rosanna Arquette (1959)
Herbert Hoover (1874)


1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296 - John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520 - Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1556 - Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer
1567 - Girolamo Giacobbi, composer
1589 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer
1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1652 - Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones)
1654 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist
1657 - Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
1699 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer
1708 - John Stinstra, baptist vicar
1720 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
1737 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1740 - Samuel Arnold, composer
1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de
           Pompadour (d. 1754)
1750 - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer
1762 - Santiago Ferrer, composer
1782 - Charles Napier, London, soldier
1793 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1794 - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1801 - Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1808 - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1810 - Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1810 - Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
1814 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1814 - John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1814 - William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863
1814 - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1823 - Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
1823 - Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886)
1835 - Gyula Beliczay, composer
1836 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904)
1854 - J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
1856 - Paul Geisler, composer
1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1861 - Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist
1865 - Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
1869 - Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds)
1874 - Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933), (d. 1964)
1874 - James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
1874 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1877 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Clarence Cameron White, composer
1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d.
           1964)
1881 - Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
1882 - Max Kowalski, composer
1883 - Carlos Lavin, composer
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
1888 - Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)
1889 - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
1889 - Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
1889 - Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1891 - Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)
1893 - Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
1893 - Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
1893 - Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1895 - Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
1895 - Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
1897 - Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924)
1897 - Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat)
1897 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1898 - Jack Haley [John Joseph], Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford
           Star Revue)
1900 - Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1903 - Lisle, British lord
1905 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905 - Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
1906 - Era Bell Thompson, [Dakota Dick], US actress (Ebony)
1908 - Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer
1908 - Adelino ("Billy") Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
1909 - Brian Easdale, composer
1909 - Claude Thornhill, composer
1909 - Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner
1909 - George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980- )
1909 - Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
1909 - Leo Fender, Anaheim California, rocker (Fender guitars)
1909 - Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
1910 - Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
1911 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
1912 - Herman Strategier, Dutch organist/composer/conductor
1912 - Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)/mayor of Amsterdam
1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval)
1912 - Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
1912 - Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist (Tour de France 1935)
1913 - Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)
1913 - Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
1914 - Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
1914 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
1916 - John Clark, Hampton IA, actor (Graveyard of Horror)
1919 - Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
1919 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
1920 - William "Red" Holzman, NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers, 754 wins)
1921 - Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
1923 - Fred Ridgway, England cricket pace bowler (1951-52 Indian tour)
1923 - Gillian Brown, diplomat
1923 - Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound)
1924 - Martha Hyer, TX, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
1925 - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
1925 - George Cooper, general
1925 - Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1926 - Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer
1926 - Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer
1927 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
1928 - Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
1928 - Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1929 - John Alldis, composer/conductor
1930 - Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island), (d. 2012)
1930 - Saeedi Sirjani, poet
1932 - Alexander Goehr, composer
1933 - Alan Hardcastle, chairman (Lloyds Regulatory Board)
1933 - Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 - Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice
1933 - David Rowland, chairman (Lloyd's)
1933 - Rocky Colavito, Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1933 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; d. 2005)
1934 - James Carl Tenney, composer
1935 - Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Georgian composer (Night Prayers)
1935 - Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general
1935 - Lord Stewartby
1936 - Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao
1937 - Lucinda Williams, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1939 - Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973- )
1939 - Kate O'Mara, Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty, AbFab)
1940 - Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
1940 - Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
1940 - Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire)
1940 - Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
1941 - Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
1941 - Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder (Simplistic Union)
1942 - Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
1943 - Ronnie Spector, [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Little Baby)
1943 - Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricket batsman (5 Tests 1964-69)
1943 - Veronica Bennett, rocker
1943 - Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
1945 - Harry Thomas, Dutch founder (Schlager Festival Gay Party)
1945 - Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
1947 - Alan Ward, England cricket pace bowler (1969-76)
1947 - Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle)
1948 - Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
1948 - Patti Austin, soul singer/actress (Real Me)
1949 - Gene Johnson, Sugar Grove Pa, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1950 - A L Harris, clinicaloncologist
1950 - James Reynolds, Oskaloosa Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
1950 - Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
1951 - Maria Combs, LPGA golfer
1952 - Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
1952 - Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1952 - Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist
1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 - Diane Venora, American actress
1953 - Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
1955 - Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, Finnish cross country skier (Oly-gold-1984)
1956 - Dianne Fromhottz, Balestrat Australia, tennis star
1956 - Tugboat, [Fred Ottman], WWF wrestler
1958 - Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper (mid-80's)
1959 - Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour)
1959 - Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings)
1960 - [James] Kenneth Perry, Elizabethtown KY, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial)
1960 - Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
1960 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
1961 - Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian rock vocalist/drummer (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
1962 - Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad)
1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1963 - Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001)
1964 - Andy Stankiewicz, Inglewood CA, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1964 - Aaron Hall, American songwriter
1965 - Carolyn Schuwalow, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1965 - John Starks, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
1965 - Patricia Spurgin, US scherpschutser (Olympics-gold-1984)
1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
1965 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1966 - Gerald Williams, New Orleans LA, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967 - Carlos Briceno, Fountain Valley, CA, beach volleyball (Oly-br-92, 96)
1967 - Lori Tatum, LPGA golfer
1967 - Lorraine Pearson, rocker
1967 - Peter Murphy, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Reinout Scholte, cricketer (Netherlands batsman 1996 World Cup)
1967 - Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn NY, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
1967 - Philippe Albert, Belgian former footballer
1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1968 - Alex Andrievski, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Jennifer Horton, Dover NJ, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Michael Bivins, Boston, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1968 - Michel Doesburg, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Miroslav Mosner, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Moe Gardner, NFL nose tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Peter Docter, American film director
1969 - Earl of Iveagh
1969 - Iain Fraser, Scarborough, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Brendon Julian, cricketer (in NZ Australian left-arm quickie 1993-)
1970 - Bret Hedican, St-paul, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Gino Torretta, quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1992, Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Jeff Mangum, American musician
1971 - Craig Newsome, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Martin Quinney, Quesnel BC, Canada Tour golfer (1994 Glen Meadows-2nd)
1971 - Mike Morreale, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Paul Newlove, rugby league player
1971 - Roy Keane, soccer player
1971 - Sal Fasano, Chicago IL, catcher (KC Royals)
1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban boxer
1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
1971 - Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
1971 - Stephan Groth, Norwegian musician
1972 - Julann Vadnais, Miss Maine USA (1996)
1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
1972 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
1973 - Jessica Grieco, Englewood NJ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Keisha Delancy, Miss Turks & Caicos islands Universe (1997)
1973 - Lisa Raymond, Norristown Penn, tennis star (1995 Indian Wells doubles)
1973 - Mark Doubleday, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Sherriden May, NFL fullback (NY Jets)
1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1974 - Dave Fiore, tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 - Miro Simonovic, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 - Walt Harris, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
1974 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1975 - Lise Mackie, Te Kuiti NZ, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Michael Depoli, American wrestler
1977 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
1977 - Matt Morgan, British comedian
1978 - Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 - Chris Read, English cricketer
1979 - Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1979 - Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author
1979 - Joanna Garcia, Cuban actress
1979 - Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
1981 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
1981 - Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
1982 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
1983 - Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Mariel Rodriguez, Filipino TV host
1985 - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
1989 - Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1989 - Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress

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This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Deaths

                   
Rocket Pioneer                                      Guitarist Michael Houser (2002) 
Robert H. Goddard (1945)


612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
794 - Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30
955 - Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
1002 - Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies
1250 - Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1589 - Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49
1628 - Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, [Bestevaer], lt-adm, dies in battle at 55
1655 - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
1717 - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1730 - Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74
1759 - Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter and artist (b. 1713)
1802 - Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77
1806 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
1821 - Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1841 - Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
1843 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
1857 - John Wilson Croker, politician
1859 - George Staunton, writer
1861 - Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1867 - Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
1875 - Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
1886 - Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
1902 - George Vernon, cricketer (scored 11* & 3 in only England Test), dies
1904 - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
1905 - Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
1911 - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1921 - John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 - Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75
1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1930 - William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
1932 - Slang, writer, dies
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1934 - John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73
1938 - Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73
1943 - C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1943 - J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1943 - J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1944 - Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies
1945 - Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer, dies at 62
1948 - E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63
1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1960 - Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
1960 - Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72
1960 - Oswald Veblin, mathematician
1962 - Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
1963 - Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
1963 - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1965 - Rayford Robinson, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1937), dies
1966 - Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
1966 - Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies
1967 - John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1970 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52
1973 - Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies at 57
1974 - Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
1974 - Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57
1976 - Bert Oldfield, cricketer (54 Tests, 52 stumpings), dies
1976 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
1977 - Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
1979 - Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69
1985 - Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 - Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1987 - Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
1987 - I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
1987 - Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
1988 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
1988 - Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86
1990 - Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
1991 - Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
1993 - Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1994 - Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58
1994 - Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91
1994 - Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
1995 - Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76
1995 - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81
1996 - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
1996 - Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83
1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b.
           1925)
2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b.
           1920)
2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
2010 - Adam Stansfield, Professional footballer who played for Exeter City F.C. (b. 1978)
2012 - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
2012 - Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78

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Historical Events

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                      British war time Prime Minister               Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
                                                                       Winston Churchill

                                   
Singer & Cultural Icon                                 Rocker Keith Moon                         Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Elvis Presley                                                                                                               Carl Lewis


264th Pope John Paul II


3114 BC - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican
                civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian
                nation.
480 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an
              engagement fought near promontory on the north coast of Euboea. Greek fleet holds its
              own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws upon news of the defeat
               at Thermopylae.
355 - Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius
         II.
1304 - Sea battle of Zierikzee
1492 - Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
1522 - Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails
1597 - Germany throws out English sales people
1611 - Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia
1674 - 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III)
1695 - English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
1718 - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1780 - Barbados hurricane begins
1786 - Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1804 - Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria
1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
1860 - US's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1863 - Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1866 - World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
1874 - Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1884 - 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
1885 - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1888 - California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
1896 - Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
1904 - German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
1907 - St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
1909 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1909 - Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1914 - John Wray patents animation
1914 - Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
1918 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1919 - Green Bay Packers football club founded
1919 - Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1920 - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1923 - Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1924 - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1924 - US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
1926 - Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
1928 - Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
1928 - Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
1929 - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
1929 - Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1929 - Russian-Chinese border fights
1933 - Temp reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record)
1934 - 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1935 - Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1936 - Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
1939 - Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
1940 - 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
1942 - - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
1942 - 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
1942 - British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
1943 - Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1943 - Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres
1943 - US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1944 - French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées
1944 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
1944 - US air raid on Palembang
1945 - Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 - Summer Olympics opens in London
1949 - 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1949 - Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovernment
1950 - 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1950 - Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
1950 - Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
1950 - King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
1951 - 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Oklahoma, Mo & Ill
1951 - 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1951 - NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
1951 - NY Giants lose to go 13½ games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant
1952 - Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1954 - BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
1954 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French &
           Communist Vietminh
1955 - Indonesia government of Harahap forms
1956 - 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1956 - Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1957 - Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
1960 - Chad declares Independence from France
1960 - French colony of Chad became independent
1961 - Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
1962 - Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 - Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1962 - Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
1962 - Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
1963 - Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
1964 - Race riot in Paterson NJ
1965 - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
1965 - Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
1966 - Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
1967 - Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
1968 - Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
1968 - Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is
           signed by Braves
1968 - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam
           locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool
           before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen
           Guinea Special.
1969 - Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1969 - Pittsburgh Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 - Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1970 - Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
1971 - Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
1971 - Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
1972 - "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
1974 - 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
1974 - Coup in East-Timor under UDT
1974 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1975 - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1976 - Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
1976 - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1977 - Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley
1978 - Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1978 - Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1979 - 28°F in Embarrass Minnesota
1979 - Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1980 - Angola revises its constitution
1980 - Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
1980 - Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
1982 - Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France
1984 - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 - During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia
           forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 - Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
1984 - USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1985 - "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
1985 - 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
1985 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
1986 - 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
1987 - France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1988 - 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
1988 - Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
1988 - Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1988 - Al-Qaeda formed
1989 - "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
1989 - Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
1989 - Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1990 - Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
1991 - 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1991 - 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind
1991 - Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - Shite Moslems release US hostage Edward Tracy
1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
1991 - Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
1992 - Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
1993 - Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
1993 - NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
1993 - Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
1993 - Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
1994 - Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
1996 - "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
1996 - 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY
1996 - Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1997 - Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1999 - Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
1999 - The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok,
           Thailand.
2003 - A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144
           people dead.
2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major
           operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2012 - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to
           6.4 magnitude
2012 - 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh

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Famous Weddings

1990 - "General Hospital" actor Maurice Benard (27) weds Paula Smith
2007 - U.S. Women's Olympic ice hockey team member Krissy Wendell (25) weds NHL player John
           Pohl (28) at the Rose Hill Alliance Church in West Roseville, Minnesota
2012 - "The Hangover" actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis (42) weds co-founder of the Growing Voices
           charity Quinn Lundberg at the UBC Farm in Vancouver, Canada

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This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Divorces

1993 - Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth

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This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Bacteriologist                                          Writer Alex Haley (1921)                    WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan (1953)
Christiaan Eijkman (1858)


1467 - Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)
1600 - Paul Hallman, composer
1613 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer
1635 - Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus)
1667 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)
1673 - Richard Mead, London, physician
1718 - Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
1720 - Martin Gerbert, composer
1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
1737 - Joseph Nollekins, London, sculptor
1744 - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1748 - Joseph Schuster, composer
1772 - Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general
1778 - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
1794 - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
1799 - Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
1805 - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
1807 - David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
1811 - Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]
1823 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
1828 - Edward Saloman, Gov (Union), died in 1909
1832 - Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 - Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
1833 - Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
1836 - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
1836 - Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
1837 - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated
1855 - John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Nijkerk Netherlands, bacteriologist (avitaminos, Nobel 1929), (d. 1930)
1860 - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie)
1862 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
1863 - Arpad Szendy, composer
1867 - Hobart Bosworth, Marietta OH, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade)
1867 - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields)
1870 - Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler (1893-98)
1870 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
1872 - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1873 - John Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)
1877 - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954)
1880 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer
1882 - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia
1883 - Ernst Stadler, writer
1888 - Owen Nares, actor-manager (Maiden Erleigh)
1890 - Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor
1892 - Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scotland, poet (Scots Unbound)
1892 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general
1892 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
1892 - Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)
1894 - Wilhelm Grosz, composer
1897 - Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury)
1897 - Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret
           Seven, The Adventure)
1898 - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist
1900 - Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS]
1900 - Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker (Olympic-2 gold-
           1920) (d. 1943)
1900 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
1902 - Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu)
1902 - Lloyd Nolan, SF California, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
1902 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1903 - Michael Whalley Wickham, artist
1904 - Jess Stacy, pianist
1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
1907 - Ted a'Beckett, cricketer (Australian Test player)
1909 - Gaston Gilbert Litaize, composer
1909 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian
1909 - Jean Lancaster, director (WRNS)
1910 - Denis Moloney, NZ cricket all-rounder (1937 England tour)
1911 - Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher (Psychosis)
1911 - Benny Lee, entertainer
1911 - Henry Kulky, Hastings-on-Hudson NY, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
1911 - Prem Bhatia, journalist
1911 - Ronald Batty, bookseller
1911 - Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand (1958..73)
1912 - Jean Parker, Butte Mont, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)
1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
1913 - Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)
1913 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
1913 - Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1914 - José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
1915 - Kunio Toda, composer
1916 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)
1917 - Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible)
1919 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
1920 - Derry Jeffares, Honorary Prof of English Studies (Stirling U)
1920 - William Masselos, Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juilliard 1976)
1921 - Alex Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), (d. 1992)
1923 - Stan Chambers, American television reporter
1924 - Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
1925 - Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
1925 - Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)
1925 - Robert Linn, composer
1925 - Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)
1926 - Aaron Klug, OM/PRS/biochemist
1926 - Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/pres (Laura Ashley)
1926 - Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife
1926 - J R S Fincham, geneticist
1926 - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist
1927 - James Eaton, Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry
1927 - Kenneth Eastham, MP
1927 - Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch MP (VVD)
1927 - Raymond Leppard, London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
1928 - Richard Barratt, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1928 - Arlene Dahl, American actress
1929 - Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
1929 - Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)
1930 - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
1930 - Michael Quinlan, civil servant
1930 - William A O'Neal, (Gov-D-Ct)
1932 - Angela Rumbold, MP
1932 - Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer (Baal Babilonia)
1932 - Geoffrey Cass, CEO (Cambridge U Press)
1932 - Lord Varley
1932 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist
1932 - Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer
1932 - Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
1932 - John Gorrie, English director
1933 - Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority)
1933 - Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet
1933 - Justin Connolly, composer
1933 - Tamas Vasary, pianist/conductor
1934 - Bob Hepple, master (Clare College Cambridge)
1936 - D V Day, Principal (St John's College, Durham U)
1936 - J L Thompson, Bishop (Bath & Wells)
1937 - Allegra Kent, US actress (Addams Family)
1937 - Anna Massey, actress (De Sade, Doll's House)
1937 - Taki Theodoracopoulos, Greek/British journalist/multi-millionaire
1938 - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher
1938 - Allegra Kent, Santa Monica, California, ballerina
1938 - Rainer Boesch, composer
1938 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
1939 - Attila Bozay, composer
1939 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)
1940 - Kip King, Chicago Ill, actor (Charlie & Company)
1941 - Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
1941 - Patricio Guzman, director/actor (Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador)
1942 - Mike Huggs, rock drummer (Manfred Mann) [or 3/11/40]
1943 - Denis Payton, London, English rocker (Dave Clarke Five - Glad All Over)
1943 - James Kale, rocker (Guess Who)
1943 - Kenny Gamble, US songwriter (Me & Mrs Jones)
1943 - Krzysztof Meyer, composer
1943 - Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 - David Pearl, British judge
1944 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
1946 - John Conlee, Versailles Ky, country singer (Common Man)
1946 - Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (228)
1947 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Schumann/Brahms)
1947 - Sergey Kovalneko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1947 - Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
1948 - Don Boyd, director (Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock)
1948 - Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969)
1949 - Eric Carmen, Cleveland Ohio, rocker (All by Myself)
1949 - Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire)
1949 - Tim Hutchinson, (Rep-R-Arkansas)
1950 - Erik Brann, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
1950 - Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers)
1950 - Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor
1951 - Donald DeCicco, Brockton Mass, fictional ID of Beldar in Coneheads
1951 - Vincent Bilodeau, Quebec actor and comedian
1952 - Ann Michelle, England, actress (Virigin Witch, Mistress Pamela)
1952 - Bob Mothersbaugh, AKA Bob 1, American Musician (DEVO)
1953 - Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)
1953 - Sanford Jensen, South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square)
1954 - Joe Jackson, English singer/pianist/composer (The Harder they Come)
1954 - Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love & Anarchy)
1954 - M V Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79)
1954 - Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (Indian right-handed batsman early 80')
1954 - Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
1955 - Norio Honaga, wrestler (NJPW)
1955 - Sylvia Hermon, British politician
1955 - Marc Bureau, French Canadian politician
1956 - Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
1957 - Richie Ramone, [Richie Beau], rock drummer (Ramones-Pet Semtary)
1958 - Cordelia Gonzalez, San Juan PR, actor (La Gran Fiesta)
1958 - Lori Garbacz, South Bend IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Circle K Tucson Open)
1959 - Linda Rhys Vaughn, Grossmont Ca, playmate (Apr, 1982)
1959 - Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor
1959 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)
1960 - Leora "Sam" Jones, Mt Olive NC, US team handball player (Olympic-92)
1961 - Craig Ehlo, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1961 - Frederick W Sturckow, La Mesa California, USMC capt/astronaut (sk: STS 88)
1962 - Jonathan Hayes, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1962 - Uvais Karnain, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI bowler in mid 1980's)
1963 - Mike Huff, Honolulu HI, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1964 - Grant Osten Waite, Palmerston NZ, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open)
1964 - Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
1964 - Jim Lee, Korean-born comic book artist
1964 - Miguel A. Núñez Jr., American actor
1965 - Marc Bergevin, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1965 - Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)
1965 - Viola Davis, American actress
1965 - Embeth Davidtz, Lafayette, Indiana, American actress (Bicentennial Man, Schindler's List)
1966 - Antonio Goss, NFL linebacker (SF 49ers)
1966 - Nigel Martyn, English footballer
1967 - Brad Dalgarno, Vancouver, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1967 - Mike Lodish, NFL nose tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer
1967 - Eric Maleson, Brazilian Bobsleigh 2002 Olympian
1967 - Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor
1967 - Joe Rogan, American television host
1968 - Charlie Sexton, rocker (Arc Angels)
1968 - Alan Kelly, England-born Irish footballer
1968 - Veda Hille, Canadian singer
1968 - Anna Gunn, American actress
1969 - Dave Pashko, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 CPGA Winter Tour)
1969 - Eddie Garcia, LA, actor/musician (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1969 - Wilfried Elzinga, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Jonah Matranga, American singer
1970 - Andy Bell, English musician (Ride, Hurricane #1, Oasis)
1971 - Aaron Miller, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Julie Anne Clark, Tucson Az, playmate (Mar, 1991)
1971 - Tommy Mooney, English football player
1971 - Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
1972 - Curtis Ceaser, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1972 - Jonathon Prandi, American model
1973 - Edgardo Alfonzo, Sta Teresa Venezuela, infielder (NY Mets)
1973 - Thomas Haskins, CFL running back (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Nigel Harman, British actor
1974 - Audrey Mestre, French diver
1974 - Will Friedle, American actor
1974 - Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani pop star
1974 - Anju Jain, Indian cricketer(women's team)
1975 - Chris Kelly, [Mack Daddy], Teaneck NJ, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
1975 - Natasha Bell, Miss Michigan USA (1996)
1975 - Davey von Bohlen, American musician, (The Promise Ring, Maritime)
1975 - Ronald Clarke, American musician and founder of aliennetwork Records
1976 - Lubomir Visnovsky, Topolcany CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1976 - Will Friedle, Hartford Ct, actor (Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love)
1976 - Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
1976 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
1976 - Erick Lindgren, American poker player
1977 - Gemma Hayes, Irish born singer
1978 - Jermain Taylor, American boxer
1978 - Amber Brkich, American reality television personality
1980 - Lee Suggs, American football player
1981 - Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
1981 - Sandi Thom, Scottish born singer
1982 - Alan Halsall, British actor
1983 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian Actor
1984 - Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant
1984 - Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
1985 - Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
1986 - Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
1987 - Nkem Ojougboh, American basketball player
1988 - Patrick Mills, Australian basketball player
1992 - Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
1993 - Alyson Stoner, American actress

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This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Deaths

                 
Pulitzer prize winning novelist                Actor Peter Cushing (1994)
Edith Wharton (1937) 


480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)
353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
1171 - Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies
1180 - Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
1183 - Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194) and founder of the Order of Poor
           Ladies (the Poor Clares)
1394 - Jan III, mister of Polanen, dies
1456 - Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49
1464 - Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies
1490 - French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25
1494 - Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
1519 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79
1522 - Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500)
1578 - Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
1589 - Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49
1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
1729 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, dies at 51
1757 - Jose Pradas Gallen, composer, dies at 67
1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1794 - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72
1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1820 - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
1844 - Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
1852 - Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70
1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1860 - James Wilson, politician
1868 - Halfdan Kierulf, composer, dies at 52
1868 - Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
1872 - Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
1886 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1890 - John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89
1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1901 - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1903 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
1908 - Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
1919 - Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 83
1935 - William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
1936 - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
1937 - Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies
1937 - Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75
1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1942 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60
1949 - Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68
1951 - Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52
1952 - Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77
1953 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
1954 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
1956 - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1961 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
1965 - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies
1968 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
1972 - Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73
1973 - Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46
1974 - Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1953-55, 8 wickets), dies
1974 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1975 - Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at 81
1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 - Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63
1984 - Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91
1984 - Percy Mayfield, US singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63
1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1916)
1987 - Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
1988 - Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1988 - Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
1989 - John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies
1991 - Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
1991 - J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
1994 - Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60
1994 - Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
1994 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33
1994 - Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58
1995 - Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96
1995 - Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur, dies at 81
1995 - Phil Harris, American actor/singer, dies of heart failure at 91
1995 - Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83
1996 - Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63
1996 - Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82
1996 - Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79
2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
2002 - Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
2010 - Markus Liebherr, German born Swiss owner of Southampton Football Club (b. 1948)
2011 - Jani Lane, American singer (Warrant) (b. 1964)

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This Day in History for 12th August


Historical Events

                                   
Explorer of the New World                       Inventor Thomas Edison                       Artist/Cubist Co-founder
Christopher Columbus                                                                                          Pablo Picasso

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Soviet Union Premier                             Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                               Joseph Stalin                                           South African President
                                                                                                                              Nelson Mandela


Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


3 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
1071 - Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
1099 - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth leading the Crusaders beats Egyptians Fatimid army
1121 - Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over
           the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the
           Principality of Antioch.
1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first
           time.
1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
1336 - English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World
1499 - First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1508 - Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1530 - Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
1549 - French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
1588 - Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
1658 - 1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
1665 - English fleet beat Dutch fleet
1676 - 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
1687 - Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
1687 - Battle of Mohacs: Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed by forces of Holy Roman Emperor
           under Charles of Lorraine
1759 - Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
1793 - The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split
           into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
1812 - Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
1831 - Dutch troops conquer Leuven
1831 - Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
1833 - Chicago is founded.
1851 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1851 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
1856 - Anthony Fass patents accordion
1861 - Skirmish at Texas - rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
1863 - 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1867 - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
1876 - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
1877 - Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1879 - 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1884 - Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
1886 - W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval
1888 - Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
1896 - Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
1896 - Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US
1898 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1901 - Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1905 - King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
1908 - Ford builds the first Model T.
1914 - Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
1914 - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1914 - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 - Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
1915 - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
1916 - Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris
1920 - Battle of Warsaw (Vistula) between Poland and Russia begins
1922 - Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
1923 - Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
1923 - Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
1925 - KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
1925 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West
           Virginia, is initiated.
1927 - "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
1928 - 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
1931 - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
1933 - Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
1936 - 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
1936 - Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
1936 - Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
1940 - Netherlands starts rationing textile
1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1942 - British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1942 - German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS
           Eldridge.
1944 - Churchill & Tito meet in Naples
1944 - Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1948 - Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1948 - Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
1949 - 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
1950 - NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 - Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1953 - Ann Davison arrives in Miami, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
1953 - Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed
1953 - Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 - Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1955 - 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1955 - Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1955 - WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1959 - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
1959 - Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
1960 - 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
1960 - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1960 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
1960 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
1962 - 1st time 2 people in space
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1962 - Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1963 - Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
1963 - Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
1964 - 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
1964 - Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game
1964 - Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
1965 - Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
1965 - Race riot in West Side of Chicago
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
1969 - Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1970 - Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
1971 - Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1972 - "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs
1972 - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
1972 - Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
1972 - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1973 - 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve
1973 - Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens
1973 - WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
1974 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
1974 - Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same
           day
1976 - 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
1976 - Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
1977 - For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
1977 - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 - Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1978 - Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
1978 - China & Japan sign peace treaty
1978 - ICE is launched
1979 - "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
1979 - Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1979 - Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
1980 - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
1981 - IBM introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
1981 - Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1983 - General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
1984 - 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif
1984 - Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
1984 - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into
           Hall of Fame
1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 - 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1985 - Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1985 - Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1986 - Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
1986 - Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
1987 - Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
1988 - Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
1988 - Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1988 - Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
1988 - Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
1988 - Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
1990 - 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
1990 - 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
1990 - Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from
           occupied territories
1991 - Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
1991 - Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North
           American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1993 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1994 - 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
1994 - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
1994 - Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
1994 - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 - Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
1996 - "Breakfast on Fox" premieres
2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the
           Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
2005 - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his
           home.
2005 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100
           homes and killing two people.
2005 - Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
2005 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
2007 - Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of
           Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games

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This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Weddings

1941 - "I Love Lucy" actress Vivan Vance (32) weds actor Philip Ober (39)
1949 - Multi-Tony award-winning actress Angela Lansbury (23) weds actor and producer Peter Shaw
           (31) at St. Columba's Presbyterian Church of Scotland in London, England
1956 - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand
2000 - "Saturday Night Live" actor-comedian Will Ferrell (33) weds Swedish actress Viveca Paulin (31)
2006 - "Syfy" actor Sam Huntington (24) weds actress Rachel Klein in Hancock, New Hampshire
2006 - Phil McGraw's son and "Renovate My Family" host Jay McGraw (27) weds former Playboy
           Playmates Erica Dahm (28) in Beverly Hills, California
2011 - Actress and model Brooke Burke (40) weds singer/actor David Charvet (39) in St.
           Barthelemy, Guadeloupe

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This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Divorces

2011 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (59) divorces model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (41) after 18 years of
           marriage