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This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Weddings

1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1598 - Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
2009 - Actress and singer Mandy Moore (28) weds alt-country/rock singer-songwriter Ryan Adams
          (37) Savannah, Georgia

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This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Media Mogul                                            Author Douglas Adams (1952)               Actress Thora Birch (1982)
Rupert Murdoch (1931)


1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)
1549 - Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel)
1596 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
1654 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
1683 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
1781 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
1793 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1811 - Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune)
1812 - James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1818 - John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1819 - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
1822 - Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1827 - Septimus Winner, composer
1832 - Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test)
1832 - William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1840 - Edmund Kirby Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1846 - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1863 - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
1863 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
1872 - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
1876 - Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
1876 - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
1879 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1879 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
1884 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
1884 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min)
1887 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1892 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
1897 - Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1899 - Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72)
1902 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer
1903 - Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post)
1903 - George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests)
1903 - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1904 - Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch/US nuclear physicist
1904 - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1906 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1907 - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)
1907 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
1907 - Jessie Matthews, London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)
1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1909 - Ljubica Maric, composer
1910 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
1911 - Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
1911 - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian
1912 - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1913 - Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist
1915 - Karl Krolow, writer
1915 - Vijay Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54)
1915 - J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
1916 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916 - Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983)
1917 - Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of
           Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012)
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1920 - D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920 - Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
1920 - Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University)
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1922 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1922 - Vinnette Carroll, NYC, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers)
1922 - José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor
1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1923 - A X Gwerder, writer
1923 - Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 - Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
1923 - Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
1925 - James Miskin, QC/recorder of London
1926 - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
1926 - Patricia Tindaole, England, architect
1926 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
1927 - Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
1927 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
1927 - Ron Todd, British trade unionist
1928 - Albert Salmi, Bkln NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
1928 - Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
1929 - Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant
1929 - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
1929 - Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50')
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - David Gentleman, designer/painter
1931 - Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1932 - Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1932 - Valerie French, London England, actress (Jubal)
1932 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
1933 - Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
1934 - George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1934 - Keith Speed, British MP
1934 - Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1934 - Sydney Burke, cricketer (S Afr quick, 11 wkts on Test debut v NZ 1961)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
1935 - Sandra Milo, Italian actress
1936 - Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )
1937 - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1937 - Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor
1938 - Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1939 - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
1942 - Peter Eyre, actor (Hedda)
1942 - Charles Swan, American actor
1944 - Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1945 - Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1945 - Timothy Mason, consultant (British Arts Council)
1945 - Tricia O'Neal, Shreveport Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
1945 - Dock Ellis, American baseball player
1946 - Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
1947 - Dominique Sanda, [Varaigne], Paris France, actress (1900, First Love)
1947 - Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player
1947 - Mark Stein, singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
1948 - George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
1948 - Roy Barnes, 80th Governor of Georgia
1948 - César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player
1949 - Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
1950 - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
1952 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1952 - Susan Richardson, Coatesville Pa, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
1953 - Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician
1954 - Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 - [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel)
1956 - Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
1956 - D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
1957 - Lady Chablis, American entertainer
1957 - Cheryl Lynn, American singer
1957 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Leningrad, Soviet Union, Chess Grandmaster, (d. 2012)
1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1958 - Jim Pinkerton, American pundit
1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1958 - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director
1961 - Bruce Watson, Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
1962 - Peter Berg, actor (Chicago Hope)
1962 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
1964 - Raimo Helminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1964 - Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
1965 - Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
1965 - Wallace Langham, American actor
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1966 - Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 - Ralph Tamm, NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
1966 - Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Andrew Zesers, cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1967 - Bill Houlder, Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - John Barrowman, Glasgow, Scottish born actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)
1967 - Brad Carson, American politician
1969 - Dan Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1969 - John Fina, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
1970 - Brett Liddle, Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1970 - Evgeniy Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Delia Gallagher, American journalist
1971 - Bob Kronenberg, WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Jiri Vykoukai, Olomouc CZ, hockey player (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gold-98)
1971 - Marta Lovera Parquet, Miss Universe-Paraguay (1996)
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Most Cze, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Oly-Gold-1998)
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
1972 - Carl Greenwood, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1972 - Chris Shelling, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Jamal Duff, NFL defensive end (NY Giants, Wash Redskins)
1973 - Kennedy Otieno, Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 v Aust 1996 World Cup)
1973 - Mike Mihelic, CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Sammie Brennan, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1973 - Tony Veland, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Billy Granville, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - David Cameron, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kevin Donovan, Des Plaines Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1974 - Jon Dalton, the infamous "Jonny Fairplay" from the 7th and 16th season of Survivor
1975 - Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Shawn Springs, cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1975 - Eric the Midget, American radio personality
1976 - Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
1977 - Andre Nickatina, American rapper
1977 - Becky Hammon , WNBA player
1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1978 - Christopher Rice, American author
1979 - Fred Jones, American basketball player
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1980 - Dan Uggla, American baseball player
1981 - David Anders, American actor
1981 - Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster
1981 - Lee Evans, American football player
1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)
1981 - Paul Wall, American rapper
1982 - Hasan Raza, cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)
1982 - Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
1982 - Thora Birch, Los Angeles, California, American actress (American Beauty, Ghost World)
1982 - Lindsey McKeon, American actress
1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1984 - Tom James, British rower
1984 - Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor
1985 - Derek Schouman, American football player
1985 - Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)
1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

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This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Deaths

                 
Penicillin Discoverer                                        Detective Writer
Alexander Fleming (1955)                           Erle Stanley Gardner (1970)


222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180). Ruler during her son's minority, murdered by
         the Praetorian Guard
222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (218-22) murdered by the Praetorian Guard aged 18
638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1715 - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1772 - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1787 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1807 - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
1820 - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1833 - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1857 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1894 - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1897 - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
1897 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1900 - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1915 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
1919 - Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1921 - Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 - Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1926 - John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1941 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1944 - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
1950 - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 - Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
1962 - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1969 - John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
1971 - Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
1971 - Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56
1971 - Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 - Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
1975 - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1979 - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1988 - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 - David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 - Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
1996 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86
1996 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
1996 - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70
1996 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
1996 - Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67
1999 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2009 - Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
2010 - Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b.
          1931)
2010 - Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
2010 - Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940)
2012 - Sid Couchey, American comic book artist, dies at 92

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This Day in History for 12th March


Historical Events

                                   
Composer Giuseppe Verdi                    Playwright George Bernard Shaw         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

                                   
33rd US President Harry Truman       African American Activist Malcolm X            NBA Legend Larry Bird


538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the
         city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 - University of Vienna founded
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 - Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1832 - The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
1881 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football
           player and captain.
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 - President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1908 - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1910 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 - Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1912 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 - George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 - Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 - Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 - -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 - Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 - SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 - 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 - 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 - Coal Miners' strike ended
1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world
           championships
1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 - Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first
           time in the nation's history.
2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his
           resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases
           radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2012 - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
2012 - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2012 - China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade

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This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Weddings

1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London

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This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer Jack Kerouac (1922)                 Singer & Actress Liza Minnelli (1946)          Baseball Player
                                                                                                                             Darryl Strawberry (1962)


1270 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
1336 - Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence
1515 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1607 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1613 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
1620 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 - John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1637 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1647 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1672 - Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1685 - George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1718 - Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
1755 - Georges Couthon, French politician
1758 - Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1768 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
1788 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1800 - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
1808 - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 - David Stuart, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818 - John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821 - John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821 - Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1823 - William Flank Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824 - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826 - Robert Lowry, composer
1827 - John Robert Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827 - William Richard Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830 - William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 - Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 - Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1838 - William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848 - Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 - John White, composer
1859 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1859 - Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896)
1860 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1862 - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 - Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacao, poet
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1863 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
1864 - W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1874 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 - Julio Garreta, composer
1877 - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1878 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1880 - House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1880 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958)
1880 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d.
          1952)
1881 - Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
1883 - Judge Jackson, composer
1883 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
1885 - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 - Hall Johnson, composer
1889 - Philip Guedalla, historian
1889 - Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
1890 - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1890 - William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965)
1891 - Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1891 - George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954)
1895 - William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
1896 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1898 - Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1900 - David Croll, QC senator
1900 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1904 - Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907 - (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
1907 - Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
1907 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
1908 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
1908 - Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1908 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1910 - Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 - Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
1910 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
1912 - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 - Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 - Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1912 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
1913 - Harold Butler, cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1914 - Jan Kapr, composer
1915 - Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917 - Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 - Tom Normanton, British MP
1918 - James Bracken, race horse trainer
1918 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1921 - Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 - Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 - Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1921 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (d. 2007)
1922 - Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 - Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 - Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 - Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 - Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923 - Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1923 - Mae Young, American professional wrestler
1925 - Georges Delerue, composer
1925 - Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy), (d. 2012)
1925 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925 - William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926 - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 - George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926 - Gudrun Ure, British actress (Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926 - Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 - John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926 - Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926 - Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1926 - Freddie Williams, Port Talbot, Wales, motorcycle speedway rider (world champion, 1950,
          1952), (d. 2013)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1927 - Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
1928 - Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 - Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 - Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1928 - Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, Quebec politician and senator
1928 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
1929 - Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1929 - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1929 - U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
1930 - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930 - Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
1930 - Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 - Stanko Horvat, composer
1931 - Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1931 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
1931 - Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
1932 - Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1932 - Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
1934 - Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 - John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1935 - John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 - Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 - Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936 - Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 - Patrick Procktor, painter
1937 - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 - Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938 - Johnny Rutherford, auto racer (26 championship races)
1938 - Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 - Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 - Norman Hogg, British MP
1938 - Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938 - Vijay Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939 - Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 - David Mlinaric, British interior director
1940 - Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940 - Albert Johanneson, soccer star
1940 - M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
1942 - Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 - Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942 - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1942 - Ratko Mladić, Republika Srpska leader
1942 - Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player, 1963-1977
1945 - Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1945 - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, American gangster
1946 - Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1946 - Frank Welker, American voice actor
1946 - Peter Whalley, British television writer and author
1947 - Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1947 - Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
1947 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
1948 - Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 - James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948 - Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948 - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 - Virginia Bottomley, British minister of health and heritage
1949 - Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 - David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949 - Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 - Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 - Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1949 - Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
1949 - Moctesuma Esparza, Mexican-American producer and filmmaker
1950 - Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950 - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1950 - Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
1950 - Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
1951 - Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 - Jack Green, rocker
1952 - Eliézer Niyitegeka, Rwandan journalist, politician and genocidaire
1952 - Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1953 - Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1953 - Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
1953 - Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1953 - Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
1956 - Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, slugger (Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP)
1957 - Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 - Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 - Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 - Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1960 - Courtney B Vance, Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960 - Eldine Baptiste, cricketer (WI all-rounder early 80's)
1960 - Kipp Lennon, American singer
1960 - Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
1961 - Joseph Facal, Quebec politician
1962 - Darryl Strawberry, LA California, baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
1962 - Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963 - Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - John Andretti, race car driver
1963 - Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 - Paul Way, British golfer
1963 - Ian Holloway, English football manager
1964 - Tony Terry, rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965 - Fran Harris, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965 - Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star
1965 - Randy Dixon, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 - Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1965 - Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
1965 - Steve Levy, American sports journalist
1965 - Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
1966 - Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
1966 - Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1966 - Grant Long, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1966 - John Thompson III, NCAA Basketball Head Coach
1967 - Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1967 - Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer
1968 - Merton Hanks, NFL safety (SF 49ers)
1968 - Aaron Eckhart, American actor
1969 - Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
1969 - J P Izquierdo, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969 - Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Jake Tapper, American journalist
1970 - Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rex Walters, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970 - Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
1970 - Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
1970 - John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver (d. 1997)
1971 - Greg Hansell, Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1971 - Isaiah Rider, NBA guard/forward (Minn Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971 - Raul Mondesi, San Cristobal Dom Rep, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 - Tony Eveready (Duane Moore), American adult film actor
1972 - Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA (1996)
1972 - Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
1972 - James Maritato, American professional wrestler
1973 - Antonio Banks, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974 - Chris Carr, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minn Timberwolves)
1975 - Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist
1975 - Kelle Bryan, English singer
1975 - Annabel Port, English radio presenter
1976 - Simon Young, English music journalist
1976 - Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
1977 - Ramiro Corrales, American footballer
1978 - Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle NY, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96)
1978 - Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1978 - Casey Mears, American auto racer
1978 - Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1978 - Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka
1978 - Masuimi Max, American model
1979 - Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Pete Doherty, English musician
1979 - Nidia Guenard, American professional wrestler
1980 - Douglas Murray, Swedish ice-hockey player
1982 - Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1982 - Zach Miner, American baseball player
1984 - Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1984 - Jaimie Alexander, American Actress
1985 - Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1985 - Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
1986 - Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
1987 - Chris Seitz, American footballer

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This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Deaths

                                   
Entrepreneur and Engineer            Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust        Jazz Saxophonist and Composer
George Westinghouse (1914)                         Anne Frank (1945)                           Charlie "Bird" Parker (1955)


417 - Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 - Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1471 - Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies
1496 - Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 - Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1563 - John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies
1570 - Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1608 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1628 - John Bull, English organist/composer, dies
1648 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 - French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
1734 - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1753 - George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1790 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
1824 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1834 - Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1840 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
1852 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1872 - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1877 - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
1883 - Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
1888 - Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 - Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1894 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
1902 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909 - Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1909 - Joe Petrosino, NYPD lieutenant (b. 1860)
1913 - Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1914 - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1916 - M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
1924 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1930 - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
1930 - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
1932 - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 - Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93
1937 - Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
1941 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1943 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1944 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1946 - Philip Merivale, dies at 59
1947 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
1949 - Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1950 - L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1955 - Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
1957 - Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
1957 - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 - Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 - Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37
1973 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
1973 - Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1974 - George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b.
           1904)
1978 - John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1978 - Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
1980 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1982 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90
1983 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984 - Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 - Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85
1988 - Billie Rhodes, dies
1988 - William Camp, dies at 74
1989 - Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1990 - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
1991 - Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1991 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1992 - Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 - Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70
1992 - Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 - Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies
1992 - Philippe Soupault, writer, dies
1992 - Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
1993 - Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
1993 - June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
1993 - Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993 - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1994 - Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
1996 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996 - Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67
1998 - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1998 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
1998 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2002 - Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2002 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003 - Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003 - Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2005 - Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2005 - Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2008 - Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
2008 - Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (b.
           1949)
2010 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (b. 1920)
2012 - Mike Hossack, American rock drummer, dies from cancer at 65

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This Day in History for 13th March


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Playwright George Bernard Shaw               US President John F. Kennedy

                                   
264th Pope John Paul II                           Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby          US Tennis Player Martina Navratilova


483 - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 - Academie Francaise opens
1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 - Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Königsberg
1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1865 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 - Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 - Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1884 - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 - US adopts Standard Time
1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
1900 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
1900 - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1904 - Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
1912 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but
           the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1918 - 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2
            game set
1920 - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 - George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
1922 - WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1922 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1923 - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1924 - German Republic day
1925 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1929 - Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 - Banks reopen
1933 - Josef Goebbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1941 - A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 - Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 - Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 - Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 - "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 - 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 - 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 - NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 - Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 - Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 - NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 - White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 - Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1962 - Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 - Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1963 - Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 - Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 - Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 - SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 - Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 - Syria adopts constitution
1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 - Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 - Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 - Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 - Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 - NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 - Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1982 - Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
1982 - Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 - Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1983 - "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
1983 - 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1987 - Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 - Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
1988 - 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 - 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 - Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1993 - Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
1994 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 - Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a
           spree killer who then commits suicide.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on
           television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-
            walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at
           Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
2012 - 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
2012 - Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its
           encyclopedia
2012 - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka,
            Bangladesh
2012 - 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Weddings

1961 - Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1994 - Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855)         CIA Director William Casey (1913)               Actor Emile Hirsch (1985)


1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
1548 - Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 - Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
1696 - Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal
1700 - James Kent, composer
1700 - Michel Blavet, composer
1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1733 - Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1764-90) (d. 1790)
1744 - David Allan, Scottish painter
1746 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1752 - Josef Reicha, composer
1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
1764 - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
1767 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
1768 - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1770 - Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1779 - Oliver Shaw, composer
1781 - Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
1818 - Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 - Louis Herbert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1855 - Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1858 - Maximilien Luce, French painter
1859 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1870 - Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953)
1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1875 - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 - Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1884 - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1886 - John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1890 - Michael Taube, composer
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1892 - Alec Rowley, composer
1892 - Janet Flanner, journalist (New Yorker)
1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
1897 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 - William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
1898 - Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
1899 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
1900 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1901 - Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
1907 - Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga) [O.S. 02-28]
1907 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
1907 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 - Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 - Oscar Brink, latinist
1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1908 - Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 - Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
1909 - Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1911 - Jose Ardevol, composer
1911 - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1912 - James Friell, political cartoonist
1913 - Sammy Kaye, saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)
1913 - William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer
1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1914 - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
1914 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1916 - Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- )
1917 - Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
1917 - Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
1918 - Faye Glenn Abdellan, US government official (health services)
1918 - George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1921 - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
1921 - Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
1922 - Brun Smith, cricketer (NZ right-handed batsman of late 1940's)
1922 - Jim Rodger, sports writer
1923 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
1925 - Bertha Tickey, Dinuba California, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1926 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist
1926 - RaulAlfonsín, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
1927 - Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet
1927 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
1929 - J D Slater, writer
1929 - Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji), (d. 2012)
1929 - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
1931 - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
1933 - Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
1933 - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1934 - Barry Hughart, American author
1935 - Don Nute, Connellsville Penn (Denver University), actor
1935 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor
1935 - Leslie Parrish, American actress
1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1936 - Clarence Nash, animation voice (Donald Duck)
1937 - Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1938 - Patricia W Amicone, educator/midwife
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1941 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(d. 2008)
1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1943 - Andre Techine, director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous)
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
1947 - Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
1947 - Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1948 - Robert S. Woods, American actor
1949 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 - Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
1950 - Robert S Woods, California, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1950 - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
1951 - Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
1952 - Wolfgang Hihm, composer
1953 - Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1953 - Deborah Raffin, LA California, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
1954 - Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1955 - Glenne Headly, New London CT, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 - Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1956 - Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1957 - Steve Lake, American baseball player
1957 - John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota
1958 - Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance California, playmate (October, 1984)
1958 - Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)
1959 - Dirk Wellham, cricketer (century on NSW debut & Australian debut )
1959 - Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1959 - Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nikki Hilton and Paris Hilton
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1961 - Cor Lems, soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht '90)
1962 - Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1963 - Mariano Duncan, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, infielder (NY Yankees)
1963 - Vance Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos)
1964 - Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Will Clark, American baseball player
1966 - Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
1967 - Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 - Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Chris Zorich, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1969 - Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1971 - Curtis Conway, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chic Bears)
1971 - Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1971 - Paul Henderson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 - Ralf Kleinmann, WLAF kicker/punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1971 - Ryan Hayden, Indianapolis Indiana, 400m hurdler
1971 - Tony Vinson, NFL running back (Atl Falcons, Lon Monarchs, Balt Ravens)
1971 - Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1972 - Avrom Smith, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1972 - Brian Saxton, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1972 - Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)
1972 - Trent Dilfer, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 - Ann Coale, Miss USA-Maryland (1997)
1973 - Bobby Jackson, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1973 - Dan Wilkinson, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)
1973 - Trezelle Jenkins, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1974 - Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Stockholm Sweden, tennis star (1991 Wimbledon jr boys)
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Landon Wilson, St Louis, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1978 - Kenny Watson, American football player
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1979 - Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
1980 - Caron Butler, American basketballer
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1982 - Jeremy Curl, British explorer
1982 - Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1984 - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
1984 - Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyū
1984 - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
1985 - Emile Hirsch, Topanga, California, American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer)
1985 - Alcides, Brazilian football player
1985 - Austin Scott, American football player
1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)
1990 - Alec Medlock, American actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress

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This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Deaths

Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855)


1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
1558 - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
1569 - Louis Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenots, dies in Battle of Jarnac
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1817 - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
1837 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
1839 - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b.
           1868)
1890 - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, dies at 67
1903 - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
1906 - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
1911 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1915 - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1918 - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1930 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
1934 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1941 - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941 - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1945 - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
1946 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1951 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies
1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
1955 - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1965 - George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1967 - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies
1969 - Felix Locher, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
1970 - Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
1971 - Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
1971 - Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1973 - Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
1974 - Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
1974 - Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
1975 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1975 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1975 - Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1976 - Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
1977 - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
1978 - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
1978 - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
1982 - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
1983 - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
1984 - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies
1986 - Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
1987 - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1988 - Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
1990 - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 - Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
1992 - Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84
1992 - Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
1993 - Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
1994 - Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
1994 - Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player
1994 - Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59
1995 - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
1995 - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
1995 - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1995 - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
1996 - Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54
1996 - Lucio Fulci, filem director, dies at 68
1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2009 - Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
2009 - Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)
2009 - James Purdy, American author, dies at 94
2010 - He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988)
2011 - Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b.
           1935)
2012 - Jock Hobbs [Michael], New Zealand Rugby Union chairman and All Black, dies from leukemia at
           52

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This Day in History for 14th March


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin          Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller

                                   
First Secretary of the Communist           US President John F. Kennedy            Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev

                 
Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                        Singer Janet Jackson


1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, English Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for
           neglecting his duty.
1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1826 - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1840 - Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid
1843 - Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1845 - -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen
1862 - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 - Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris
1864 - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.
1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1875 - Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1888 - 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889 - August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen
1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
1896 - Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 - US currency goes on gold standard
1901 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1903 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
1903 - WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin
1906 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
1909 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to
           atmosphere.
1912 - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1914 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
1922 - KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 - KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 - WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland
1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923 - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes
1926 - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.
1931 - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1937 - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen,
           Texas
1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 - Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1945 - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF
1950 - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1951 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1953 - KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party
1954 - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
1954 - KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 - Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 - Recording Industry Association of American created
1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 - George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets
1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 - Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 - SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs
1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is
           sponsored by the CIA
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 - Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ
1971 - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC
1973 - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 - NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a
           factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 - 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1980 - Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 - Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central
           Belfast.
1985 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 - Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 - Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 - Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition
           game, causes bench clearing brawl
1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 - Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 - Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
1991 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 
          1975 to life imprisonment
1992 - Farm Aid V
1992 - NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 - "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs
1993 - "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 - "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 - Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 - 1st time 13 people in space
1996 - Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 - Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 - 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 - Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 - Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered
           municipality.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
2003 - Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 - Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to
           demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government,
           following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Weddings

1850 - French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
1946 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary
          Welsh
2006 - OVW Heavyweight wrestling champion Matt Cappotelli (26) weds Lindsay Seeders at Makena
          Cove Beach in Maui
2006 - Argentinean actress Andrea Frigerio (44) weds Lucas Boccino in an intimate civil ceremony
2006 - Comedian actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur,
          California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Theoretical Physicist                                 Actor Michael Caine (1933)                    Composer & Singer
Albert Einstein (1879)                                                                                            Quincy Jones Jr (1933)


1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1692 - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)
1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1782 - Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), "Old Bullion"
1790 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
1800 - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
1808 - Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1815 - Josephine Lang, composer
1816 - Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
1821 - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist
1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
1823 - Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
1826 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1829 - Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age)
1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1833 - John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866)
1835 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) [or March 4]
1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1837 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)
1844 - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)
1847 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)
1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
1854 - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
1862 - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
1864 - [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones)
1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1873 - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
1874 - Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
1874 - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
1875 - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)
1875 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
1878 - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity)
1880 - Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor/director (Pink Kate)
1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
1883 - Juan Manen, composer
1884 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
1884 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
1887 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1887 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
1888 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
1891 - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa)
1892 - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
1894 - Josef Schelb, composer
1894 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
1895 - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
1903 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP)
1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl
1905 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 - Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1908 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991)
1909 - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
1911 - Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn)
1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, orchestra leader (& his band of renown)
1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier
1914 - Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1915 - Alexander Brott, composer
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1915 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter
1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter
1917 - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet
1918 - Dennis Patrick, Phila, actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals)
1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1919 - Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1920 - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48)
1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
1921 - Lis Hartel, Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1921 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
1922 - Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time)
1922 - Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1923 - Diane Arbus, photographer/innovator
1925 - John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
1926 - Francois d'Assise Morel, composer
1927 - Bill Rexford, auto racer
1927 - Joop F Wolff, Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)
1928 - Frank Borman, Gary Ind, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8 )/CEO (Eastern Airline)
1929 - Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
1930 - Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1930 - Ray Flockton, cricketer (prolific NSW batsman of 50's)
1931 - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
1931 - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
1932 - Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
1933 - Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite], London, actor (Alfie)
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World)
1933 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
1934 - Eugene A Cernan, Chicago, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 17)
1934 - Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer
1936 - Bob Charles, Carterton NZ, PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open)
1936 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1937 - Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's)
1938 - Johnny Gleeson, cricketer (mystery spinner for Australia 1966-72)
1939 - Bertrand Blier, Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places)
1939 - William Benjamin Lenoir, Miami Florida, astronaut (STS 5)
1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American actor
1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1940 - Eleanor Fount, English actress (Women in Love, Bedazzled)
1940 - Rita Tushingham, Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago)
1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, Emden Germany, actor (Shattered, Enemy Mine)
1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles)
1942 - John Whittaker, English real estate developer (Peel Holdings)
1942 - Rita Tushingham, British actress
1943 - Jim Pons, Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention)
1944 - Clyde Lee, NBAer
1944 - Peter Paul Zahl, writer
1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 - Walt Parazaider, Chicago Ill, rock saxophonist (Chicago)
1946 - Jasper Carrott, English comedian (Jane & the Lost City, Detectives)
1946 - Steve Kanaly, Burbank California, actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs-Dallas)
1946 - Wes Unseld, NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets, MVP 1969)
1947 - Billy Crystal, Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, Saturday Night Live, City Slickers)
1947 - Jan [AJ] te Veldhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 - Janis Schmitt, St Louis Mo, playmate (February, 1978)
1947 - Jimmy O'Rourke, rocker
1947 - William Jefferson, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet
1948 - Tom Coburn, American politician, junior senator from Oklahoma
1949 - Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author
1950 - Michael Ford, son of pres Gerald & Betty Ford
1951 - Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)
1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - J Fred Muggs, chimp (Today show)
1953 - Tim McKee, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1954 - Adrian Zmed, Chicago Ill, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
1954 - David La Croix, race horse trainer
1954 - Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 - Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1956 - Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova, Russia, cosmonaut
1956 - Tessa Sanderson, Kingston Jamaica, Brit javelin thrower (Oly-gold-84)
1956 - Colin Ayre, British football player
1957 - Andrew Robinson, British author
1957 - Tad Williams, American author
1958 - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988)
1959 - Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
1960 - George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980)
1960 - Helen Hopkins, Donneybrook Australia, golfer (Australian Intl 1983)
1961 - Gary Dell'Abate, producer (Howard Stern Show)
1961 - Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)
1961 - Russell Todd, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1961 - Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
1962 - Kirby Puckett, centerfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1963 - Bruce Reid, cricketer (brilliant left-arm Aust pace bowler 1985-92)
1963 - Pedro Duque, Madrid Spain, engineer/astronaut (STS 78 alt, sk:95)
1964 - Donald Evans, NFL defensive end/tackle (NY Jets)
1964 - Richard Migliore, jockey
1965 - John Stephenson, cricketer (Engld opening bat in one Test v Aust 1989)
1965 - Kevin Brown, Mcintyre GA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress
1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor
1965 - Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
1966 - Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
1966 - Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992)
1966 - Elise Neal, American actress
1967 - Edward M Fincke, Pitts PA, Capt USAF/astronaut
1967 - Melissa Brennan Reeves, Eatontown NJ, actress (Jen-Days of our Lives)
1967 - Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia)
1968 - Megan Follows, actress (Chase, Anne of Green Gables)
1969 - Greg Biekert, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Larry Johnson, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, NY Knicks)
1969 - Laura Leighton, actress (Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman)
1969 - Ty[rel] Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Meredith Salenger, actress (Dream a Little Dream, The Kiss)
1970 - Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
1971 - Ernie Brown, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Antowain Smith, running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Aris Brimanis, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Clover Maitland, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-96)
1972 - Tom Barndt, NFL/WLAF guard (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1973 - Chris Sullivan, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1974 - Justine Joyce, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Stephen Harper, British/English footballer
1975 - Wendy Rice, American actress
1975 - Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
1976 - Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, Auckland NZ, 3k ind pursuit cyclist (Oly-96)
1977 - Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
1978 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
1979 - Love, Angolan footballer
1979 - Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 - Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
1980 - Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1982 - Kate Maberly, actress (Secret Garden)
1982 - Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
1982 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1984 - Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer
1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor
1986 - Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
1989 - Oliver Bernsen, son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Deaths

Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (1883)


840 - Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895)
1272 - Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
1298 - Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies
1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1490 - Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
1559 - Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1573 - Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies
1590 - Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at Ivry at 30
1612 - Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
1647 - Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63
1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1682 - Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53
1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
1757 - John Byng, English Admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for for neglecting his duty in
           defence of Minorca
1760 - Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
1768 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1801 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78
1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
1811 - August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75
1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
1861 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1899 - Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
1903 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1932 - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
1933 - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
1944 - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1953 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1954 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
1957 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1958 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1961 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78
1968 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
1969 - Ben Shahn, US painter, dies at 70
1973 - Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1975 - Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
1976 - Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79
1976 - Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1976 - Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies
1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1981 - Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1982 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
1983 - Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1984 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75
1986 - Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1986 - Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1986 - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1989 - Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62
1989 - Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
1991 - Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 - Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1991 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1991 - Robert Maroff, dies at 57
1991 - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
1992 - C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65
1992 - Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
1992 - Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34
1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 - Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57
1995 - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
1995 - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
1995 - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1996 - Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
1996 - Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74
1997 - Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89
1997 - John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58
1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
2006 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2008 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954)
2009 - Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
2009 - Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s third wife. (b. 1943)
2010 - Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (b. 1926)
2012 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, dies at 98
2012 - Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award winning director and screen writer, dies from
           surgical complications at 83