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This Day in History for 15th March


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                    Roman Military and Political                 US President Woodrow Wilson
George Washington                                  Leader Julius Caesar

                                   
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                Actress Ingrid Bergman                      NBA Player Oscar Robertson

                                   
Singer Tom Jones                                    Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix                    Model & Actress Brooke Shields

                  
Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                          Singer Whitney Houston


44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus,
            Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the
          Ides of March.
221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of
         Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part
         of the Roman Empire.
493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the
           Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1560 - Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 - General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to
           support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat
           never takes place.
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827 - University of Toronto is chartered
1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands
           of the Reform party.
1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG
1885 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1916 - University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 - Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates
1919 - American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1923 - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1928 - Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 - US Information Service opens
1935 - George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1940 - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 - Blizzard in ND kills 151
1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 - Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 - Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 - WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
1950 - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 - "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs
1952 - Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 - WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 - WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs
1956 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He
           goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 - WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 - "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 - KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1963 - WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 - WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 - AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 - Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil
1967 - WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 - US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 - Uprising in South Yemen
1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll
           masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1970 - "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1975 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1976 - Failed coup in Niger
1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1977 - First official test cricket match is played between Australia and England at Melbourne
1978 - -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1979 - Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 - Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 - Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 - Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 - Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1986 - Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 - "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 - Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 - NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 - US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
1991 - Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 - UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 - Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 - Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 - Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 - "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2003 - Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China.
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar
          system so far observed.

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This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Weddings

1964 - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
2010 - Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris,
           France
2010 - Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris,     
           France

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This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US President & General                    Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (1912)            Actress Eva Longoria (1975)
Andrew Jackson (1767)


76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
938 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1275 - Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)
1455 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
1493 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1666 - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden). Died 1738
1678 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1733 - Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized
1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
1754 - Silvestro Palma, composer
1767 - Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37)
1779 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1790 - Nicola Vaccai, composer
1790 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
1791 - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
1801 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
1809 - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
1810 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
1811 - Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1813 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
1818 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
1821 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)
1824 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
1830 - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
1830 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
1835 - John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1836 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
1838 - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1844 - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
1851 - Jozef Surzynski, composer
1852 - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1858 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1864 - Johan Halvorsen, composer
1864 - Leslie Stuart, composer
1866 - Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)
1866 - Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
1867 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
1867 - Will Rossiter, composer
1868 - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
1869 - Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
1871 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
1873 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
1873 - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
1874 - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
1874 - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
1878 - Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
1879 - Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
1882 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
1884 - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
1887 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
1892 - James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
1894 - Slava Vorlova, composer
1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1899 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
1900 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
1901 - Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1902 - Kitty Masters, actress
1904 - George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 - Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1910 - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
1912 - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
1912 - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
1913 - Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1913 - MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1913 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1915 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
1915 - Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
1915 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
1916 - Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1916 - Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
1918 - Janet Leach, potter
1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
1918 - Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
1919 - John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
1919 - Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
1920 - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1921 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
1921 - Madelyn Pugh, American television writer
1922 - Louis Boon, writer
1923 - George Vogel, race horse trainer
1923 - Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
1924 - Juij Bondarew, writer
1924 - Lockrem Johnson, composer
1924 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
1925 - Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist
1926 - Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
1926 - Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
1926 - Ben Johnston, American composer
1927 - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
1927 - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
1929 - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
1932 - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1933 - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
1933 - Ronald Roseman, composer
1934 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
1934 - Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
1934 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
1935 - Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1936 - Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
1936 - David Andrews, Irish politician
1938 - Dick Higgins, composer
1939 - Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
1939 - Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author
1940 - Phil Lesh, [Chapman], California, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1940 - Frank Dobson, British politician
1940 - Margo Coleman, American advice columnist
1941 - Dick Top, Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
1941 - Mike Love, California, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1942 - Hughie Flint, London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
1943 - Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
1944 - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 - Davld Costell, rocker
1944 - Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
1944 - Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
1944 - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 - Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
1945 - Tracy Smith, runner
1945 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1946 - Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 - Howard Scott, San Pedro Cal, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
1946 - Masaharu Satō, Japanese seiyū
1947 - David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
1947 - Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
1947 - Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1948 - Kate Bornstein, American author
1949 - John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
1952 - Howard Koh, American state government official
1953 - Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
1953 - Judi Spiers, TV presenter
1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician
1954 - Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
1955 - Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1955 - Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
1955 - Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
1956 - Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1957 - Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
1957 - Park Overall, American actress
1957 - David Silverman, American animator
1957 - Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football manager
1958 - Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
1959 - Eliot Teltscher, California, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1959 - Harold Baines, Easton MD, outfielder (Chic White Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 - Renny Harlin, Finnish film director
1959 - Lisa Holton, American writer
1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
1960 - Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
1960 - Chris Sanders, American animator and director
1960 - Marco Pennette, American television producer
1961 - Craig Ludwig, Rhinelander, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 - Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1961 - John Melendez, jockey
1961 - Terry Cummings, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Phila 76ers)
1962 - Igor Aleinikov, film Maker
1962 - Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
1962 - Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 - Terrence Trent D'Arby, NYC, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
1963 - Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1963 - Don Simington, jockey
1964 - Alison Johnson, Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
1964 - Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
1964 - Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Davide Pinato, Italian footballer
1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
1966 - Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
1966 - Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
1967 - Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 - Rob Anderson, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (BC Amateur-1990, 92)
1968 - Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
1968 - Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1968 - Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth)
1968 - Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
1969 - Louis Riddick, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
1969 - Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
1969 - Kim Raver, American actress
1969 - Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer
1969 - Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
1970 - Chris Dalman, NFL guard/center (SF 49ers)
1970 - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
1970 - Eric Castle, NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1971 - Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1971 - Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama (1996)
1971 - Robbie Pratt, jockey
1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model
1972 - Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina (1997)
1972 - David Rhodes, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Filip Dewulf, Belgium, tennis star
1972 - Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Steve Danielson, Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
1973 - Franca Fehlauer, Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian Intl Jr champ 1991)
1974 - Imad Baba, Humble Tx, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player
1974 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American musician
1975 - Cornell Brown, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 - Eva Longoria, Corpus Christi, Texas, American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives)
1975 - Will.i.am, American musician
1975 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
1976 - Laurent Gras, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
1976 - Katherine Brooks, American television director
1976 - Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
1976 - Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer
1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician
1977 - Brian Tee, American actor
1978 - Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1979 - Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
1980 - Deidra Graham, Salt Lake City Utah, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Freddie Bynum, American baseball player
1981 - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
1981 - Young Buck, American rapper
1982 - Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Emily Tyndall, American actress
1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
1983 - Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
1984 - Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player
1985 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
1985 - James MacLurcan, Australian actor
1985 - F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
1985 - Eva Amurri, American actress
1985 - Tom Chilton, British racing driver
1986 - Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
1987 - Taiwan Brown, video jockey
1988 - Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer
1989 - Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
1991 - Kie Kitano, Japanese actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Deaths

                 
Roman Military and Political Leader     Swimmer Florence Chadwick (1995)
Julius Caesar (44 BC)


44 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political figure, is stabbed to death at 55
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
493 - Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered
752 - Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22]
963 - Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens at the Battle of Halmyros
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1723 - Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27
1731 - Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1880 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
1881 - Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1883 - Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1905 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
1905 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
1906 - Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
1918 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
1918 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1918 - Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1929 - Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1930 - Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1938 - Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
1940 - Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
1944 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
1945 - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1954 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
1964 - Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1966 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74
1969 - Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80
1970 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 - Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1987 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1991 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1991 - Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
1992 - Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 - Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1992 - Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
1993 - Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1993 - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1993 - Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1995 - Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, dies at 86
1995 - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
1996 - Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
1996 - Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100
1996 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
1997 - Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
2009 - Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
2011 - Nate Dogg, American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale. (b. 1969)
2011 - Smiley Culture, British reggae singer, David Victor Emmanuel. (b. 1962)
2012 - Dave Philley, American Major League Baseball switch-hitter, dies at 91

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This Day in History for 16th March


Historical Events

                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                   US Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy

                   
Pop Singer & Beatle                               Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Paul McCartney                                       Mike Tyson


597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or
           commit sucide rather than submit to baptism
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies
           on March 29.
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the
           office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in
           The Lancet.
1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 - Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
1896 - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 - AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
1907 - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 - Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course
           (131.25mph)
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg
1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 - WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1924 - The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1929 - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
1931 - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1937 - All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he
           holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 - Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 - NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the
           3rd period
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British
           bombers.
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 - KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 - Robert Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 - "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 - Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in NYC
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 - New English Bible published
1970 - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 - "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1979 - Edmer Asama
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 - South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1986 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 - NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 - Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1995 - Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
1995 - World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1997 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 - NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 - Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1997 - Toshiba Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer
           and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
1998 - Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman
           Catholics during the Holocaust.
2003 - The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq
           war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights
           Council.
2012 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul,
           Afghanistan
2012 - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Weddings

1822 - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 1st wife Opera Singer
           Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
2002 - Oscar-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli (56) weds producer David Gest (48) at the Marble
          Collegiate Church in New York City
2006 - Actress Divya Palat weds former MTV India VJ Aditya Hitkari at a temple in Matunga, India
2006 - Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss (58) weds Svetlana Erokhin in Harrisonburg,
           Virginia

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Comedian Jerry Lewis (1926)              Rapper & TV star Flavor Flav (1959)            Actor Kevin Smith (1963)


1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585 - Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1631 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1634 - Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
1651 - Zaccaria Tevo, composer
1654 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1745 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
1774 - Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1806 - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1821 - Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 - William Henry Monk, composer
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1836 - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1857 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1869 - F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
1873 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 - Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
1878 - Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], Shah of Iran
1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1884 - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In
           High Gear)
1885 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 - Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight)
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892 - Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1892 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
1893 - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
1902 - Lucie Rie, potter
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1903 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 - Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
1906 - Francisco Ayala, writer
1906 - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 - Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1911 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician
1912 - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 - Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 - Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 - John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1920 - Sid Fleischman, American author
1922 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 - George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 - Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d.
          2004)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1927 - Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1927 - Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1928 - Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 - Ramon Barce, composer
1929 - Edwin London, composer
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1930 - Minoru Miky, composer
1931 - Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1937 - Constanca Capdeville, composer
1937 - David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 - Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1940 - Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 - Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
1940 - Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter
1941 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist
1943 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
1946 - Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1947 - Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
1948 - Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 - Michael Bruce, rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
1949 - Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
1949 - Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
1949 - Victor Garber, Montreal Quebec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1951 - Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 - Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 - Ritchie Teeter, rocker
1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
1953 - Richard Stallman, American free software activist
1954 - Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 - Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1954 - Colin Ireland, Kent, England, serial killer ('Gay Slayer'/ Coleherne killer), (d. 2012)
1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1956 - Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1957 - Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1958 - Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor
1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1959 - Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 - Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality tv star
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1960 - Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 - Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)
1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Gore Verbinski, American movie director
1964 - Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist
1965 - Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1965 - Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
1966 - Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 - Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1966 - David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1966 - Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 - John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 - Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1969 - Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)
1969 - Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 - Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1971 - Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1973 - Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1973 - Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss)
1974 - Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 - Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1974 - Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1976 - Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Paul Schneider, American actor
1976 - Nick Spano, American actor
1977 - Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress
1979 - Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Rashad Moore, National Football League player
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
1981 - Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
1981 - Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
1983 - Brandon League, American baseball player
1984 - Levi Brown, American football player
1985 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
1986 - Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
1986 - T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
1989 - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer

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This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Deaths

Author/Nobel
Laureate Selma Lagerlof (1940)


455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
1072 - Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) dies in battle at
           Boroughbridge
1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing
1629 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
1649 - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
1736 - Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26
1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
1738 - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
1804 - Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1806 - Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
1819 - Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1867 - Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
1878 - William Banting, English undertaker, dies
1887 - Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
1890 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
1899 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1909 - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
1914 - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
1914 - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1919 - Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39
1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1933 - Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1935 - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1937 - J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1938 - Egon Friedell, writer, dies
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81
1941 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
1945 - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1946 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1955 - Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1956 - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
1957 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1958 - Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1961 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
1962 - John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85
1964 - Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
1967 - James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
1968 - June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
1970 - Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1970 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (You're All I Need), dies of brain tumor at 24
1971 - Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70
1971 - Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Vict & Aust), dies
1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1972 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
1973 - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1979 - Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90
1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
1983 - Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
1983 - Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 - Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
1985 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1987 - Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
1988 - Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
1990 - Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1991 - Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1991 - Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1993 - Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993 - Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
1993 - Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
1993 - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
1993 - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1995 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83
1995 - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
1995 - Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80
1996 - Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62
1996 - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104
1996 - Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76
1996 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1999 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
2003 - Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
2004 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
2005 - Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2005 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
2005 - Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2006 - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
2007 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2008 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
2008 - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
2008 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
2008 - G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
2008 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
2011 - Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (b. 1931)
2012 - Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer, dies at 85

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This Day in History for 17th March


Historical Events

                                   
Roman Military and Political Leader              26th US President                    Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
Julius Caesar                                               Theodore Roosevelt

                 
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin             Queen Elizabeth II


45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey
         the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor of the Roman Empire.
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
1521 - Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1526 - French king Francois I freed from Spain
1537 - French troops invade Flanders
1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1672 - England declares war on Netherlands
1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1757 - Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 - Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1824 - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1833 - Phoenix Society forms (NY)
1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
1842 - Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1861 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities)
1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1870 - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
1876 - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1877 - Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng
1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1894 - US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1897 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
1901 - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1901 - A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death,
          creates a sensation.
1902 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game,
           Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1908 - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
1912 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1913 - The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
1917 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
1917 - Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
1918 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1918 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1919 - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1924 - Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
1924 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1926 - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
1926 - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 - US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1931 - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
1934 - Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the
           Japanese breaks out.
1942 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 - Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 - F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC
1945 - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 - Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 - Government of Drees takes power
1951 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch
1953 - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal
1956 - 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 - WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
1965 - Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 - South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1968 - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations
1968 - Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 - Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1970 - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
1970 - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1976 - Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
1978 - Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
1979 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1979 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1981 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 - 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 - 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 - Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 - John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC
1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1992 - "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs
1992 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992 - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
1992 - De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark
1995 - British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs
1996 - Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 - Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena
1996 - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 - CNN begins spanish broadcasts
2000 - The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten
           Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by
            leaders of the cult.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35
          Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute.
           David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
2012 - Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live
           football match against Tottenham Hotspur
2012 - Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nation's Championship
2012 - John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91

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This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Weddings

1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New
           York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
1944 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1955 - Erotic writer Anaïs Nin marries actor Rupert Pole at Quartzsite, Arizona, while still married to
           her first husband
2006 - Publicist Lizzie Grubman (35) weds Chris Stern in New York

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This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Divorces

2008 - Musician Paul McCartney (65) divorces former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills
          (40) on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour

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This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Musician Nat King Cole (1919)                  Actor Kurt Russell (1951)                        Musician Billy Corgan (1967)


1231 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513)
1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1628 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1664 - Georg Osterreich, composer
1675 - Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1725 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
1746 - Jan David Holland, composer
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1780 - Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
1781 - Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1787 - George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1820 - Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
1825 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1826 - Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
1828 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 - Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1839 - Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1846 - Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
1848 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
1856 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1862 - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
1866 - Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1872 - Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
1873 - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
1873 - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1874 - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1874 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1876 - Frederic Ayers, composer
1877 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1880 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1881 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1883 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
1884 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1886 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1887 - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1888 - Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
1888 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
1890 - Harold Morris, composer
1892 - Sayed Darwish, composer
1892 - Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
1894 - Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
1895 - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
1897 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1900 - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1901 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1902 - Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, amateur golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
1906 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
1906 - Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
1906 - Tamara Geva, dancer
1907 - Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
1907 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (d. 1991)
1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
1908 - Radie Britain, composer
1908 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1909 - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
1910 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1911 - Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
1914 - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
1915 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915 - William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1915 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
1916 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1917 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist
1917 - Brian Boydell, composer
1918 - D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
1918 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1919 - Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)
1919 - Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
1920 - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1921 - Mick Harvey, cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
1922 - Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1922 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1923 - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
1924 - Stephen Dodgson, composer
1925 - G M Hughes, British zoologist
1925 - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1927 - Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927 - Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
1927 - Nancy Sheehan, writer
1927 - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
1927 - Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
1928 - Edino Krieger, composer
1928 - William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1932 - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
1932 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1934 - Erhard Grosskopf, composer
1934 - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
1935 - Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1936 - Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1936 - Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1936 - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
1936 - Robert Daniel, Richmond, Virginia, republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), (d.
           2012)
1937 - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1937 - Galina Samsova, ballerina
1937 - Frank Calabrese [Frankie Breeze], Chicago, Illinois, mafia hitman, (d. 2012)
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1939 - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pak Test)
1939 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1940 - Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
1940 - Mark White, American politician
1941 - Paul Kantner, SF California, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1941 - Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1941 - Edward Harper, composer
1941 - Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
1942 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
1942 - Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
1942 - Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor
1943 - Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
1944 - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1944 - John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1944 - Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1944 - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
1945 - Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1945 - Michael Hayden, General USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1946 - Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1946 - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
1947 - Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1947 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
1948 - Fran Byrne, rocker
1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1948 - William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1948 - Alex MacDonald, Scottish Footballer and football manager
1949 - Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1951 - Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1951 - Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1952 - Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer
1953 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1953 - Chuck Muncie, American former football running back
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1954 - Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1955 - Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1955 - Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
1955 - Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1956 - Will Rigby, rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1956 - Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
1957 - Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1959 - Brian Douglas Jones, Auckland NZ, tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 - Danny Ainge, NBA coach (Phoenix Suns)
1959 - Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 - Terry Hall (Specials, Fun Boy 3)
1959 - Paul Black, American rock singer
1959 - Christian Clemenson, American actor
1960 - Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
1960 - Vicki Lewis, Cincinnati, actress (Beth-Newsradio)
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1961 - Casey Siemaszko, Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
1961 - Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1962 - Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Patrick Thomas Burke, Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician
1963 - Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1963 - Roger Harper, cricketer (Guyana & WI off-spinner Extraordinary field)
1963 - Nick Peros, Canadian composer
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1964 - Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1964 - Don Griffin, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1964 - Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class)
1964 - Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
1964 - Lee Dixon, English footballer
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1965 - Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
1965 - Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)
1965 - John Smiley, Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992)
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Chris Luongo, Detroit, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1967 - Kim Cathrein, Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-24th)
1967 - Melissa Allen, Port OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994)
1967 - Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1968 - Judy Mosley McAfee, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1968 - Tyrone Hill, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 - Andrew McMarlin, Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Domenic "Filane" Figliomeni, Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1970 - Shannan Mitchem, Decatur GA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 - Katrina Colleton, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1971 - Tommy Thigpen, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Bill Mueller, American baseball player
1972 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1972 - Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1973 - Amelia Weatherly, actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 - Jerome Woods, safety (KC Chiefs)
1974 - Eric Lane, running back (NY Giants)
1974 - John Hall, kicker (NY Jets)
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, TV show host
1975 - Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness)
1975 - Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1976 - Stephen Gately, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1976 - Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1976 - Scott Downs, American baseball player
1977 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
1977 - Iveta Jankularova, Miss Universe-Slovak Republic (1996)
1978 - Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and film director
1979 - Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1980 - Danny Califf, American soccer player
1981 - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
1981 - Servet Çetin, Turkish Football Player
1982 - Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
1986 - Olesya Rulin, American actress

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This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Deaths

                 
Physicist Christian Doppler (1853)               Physicist/Chemist
                                                               Irene Joliot-Curie (1956)


45 BC - Titus Labienus, Roman leader
180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58
461 - St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess, patron saint of travellers, dies at about 32
1040 - Harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40), dies
1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland
1199 - Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow
1272 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1425 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
1516 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence, dies at 37
1565 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], Scottish theologist/physician, dies at 64
1588 - Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
1605 - Pieter Bast, [Bastius], Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34
1640 - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
1649 - Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
1649 - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1653 - Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48
1680 - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies
1704 - Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1713 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw [b. 1688)
1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
1741 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1764 - George Parker, English astronomer, dies
1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
1796 - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
1801 - Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
1803 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 42
1806 - David Dale, industrialist & philanthropist, dies
1830 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1846 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
1849 - William II King of the Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, dies at 49
1855 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
1857 - Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
1861 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 56
1862 - Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
1863 - John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
1864 - Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
1889 - Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
1891 - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68
1893 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
1898 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington
1901 - Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
1902 - George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
1906 - Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82
1910 - Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
1915 - Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
1927 - James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
1933 - Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
1941 - Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46
1941 - Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
1941 - Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1946 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1949 - Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
1949 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1953 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
1956 - Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 58
1959 - Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
1961 - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1962 - Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82
1963 - William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
1965 - Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (U of Chic), dies in California at 102
1965 - Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62
1966 - Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
1967 - Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
1970 - Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
1971 - Ernst Bachmeister, writer, dies
1972 - Manny Martindale, cricketer (10 Tests for WI, 34 wickets), dies
1973 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1974 - Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 - Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
1976 - Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69
1978 - George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies
1979 - Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
1980 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68
1981 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1982 - Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1985 - Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies
1986 - Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1987 - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
1988 - Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies
1988 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 - Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59
1990 - Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1992 - Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
1992 - George Lovi, US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
1992 - Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1992 - Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
1993 - Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
1993 - Laadi Flici, Algerian MP, murdered
1993 - Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
1994 - Arthur C Jacobs, poet, dies at 57
1994 - Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81
1994 - Mai Zetterling, actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at 68
1994 - Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79
1995 - Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1995 - Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71
1995 - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
1995 - Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
1995 - Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
1995 - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
1996 - Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83
1996 - Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83
1996 - Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83
1996 - Thomas Enders, diplomat, dies at 64
1996 - Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
1997 - Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
1999 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
1999 - Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
2002 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
2002 - Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
2003 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2004 - J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
2005 - George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
2005 - Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
2006 - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
2006 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
2006 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
2007 - John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
2007 - Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b.
           1951)
2007 - Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2008 - Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
2009 - Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)
2010 - Alex Chilton, American musician (b. 1950)
2010 - Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
2011 - Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
2012 - Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dies from
           prostate cancer at 88
2012 - Chaleo Yoovidhya, Thai co-creator of Red Bull, dies from natural causes at 88

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This Day in History for 18th March


Historical Events

                                   
3rd Roman Emperor Caligula                   Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Abolitionist Frederick Douglass 

                 
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi       Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champion             Basketball Superstar
Mike Tyson                                                Michael Jordan


37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
417 - St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
731 - St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1123 - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1167 - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at
           the stake.
1325 - According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the
           Mexican coat of arms.
1438 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 - Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1541 - Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)
1582 - Prince William of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 - Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1754 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1773 - Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
1781 - Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
1793 - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1793 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph
           Hofmann.
1810 - "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
1813 - David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 - Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to
           Australia for forming a trade union.
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1858 - Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
1859 - Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1864 - Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
1865 - Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
1865 - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
1871 - Communards revolt in Paris
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1877 - President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC
1881 - Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden)
1890 - 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1892 - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1900 - Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1902 - Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
1904 - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1914 - White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
1915 - Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 - French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1918 - Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 - Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1919 - Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1920 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 - 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1922 - 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 - Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1922 - Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1922 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held
            in New York City.
1925 - ( 8 ) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689
1929 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad
1930 - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1931 - Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1933 - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1933 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1937 - Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
1938 - Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
1938 - NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
1938 - Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1942 - Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
1942 - 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White
           Sox, they are allowed to work out
1943 - James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1944 - 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for
           sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store
1945 - 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1948 - France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
1948 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1948 - Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split.
1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1949 - WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1950 - CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1951 - Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1952 - 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila)
1952 - Communist offensive in Korea
1953 - 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
1953 - Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1953 - Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1953 - KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
1955 - I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1957 - WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
1958 - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
1959 - Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
1959 - President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1961 - Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1962 - Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR
1963 - "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 - WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances
1965 - Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
1965 - USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins)
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the
           first person to walk in space.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
1966 - General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1966 - Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1967 - Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1967 - Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock & spills oil
1968 - Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1968 - WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 - -25) US Postal begins strike
1970 - Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1970 - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1970 - Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 - NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
1971 - 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
1972 - AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
1972 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 - Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U)
1972 - Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game
1973 - "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1975 - Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 - Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
1977 - US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 - 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario Calif
1978 - Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1979 - "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1979 - Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1980 - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1981 - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
1982 - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
1985 - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
1985 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
1986 - Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
1986 - Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
1987 - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8 ), returns to Earth
1989 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1989 - Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a game
1989 - Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ), where 12
          paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990 - 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
1990 - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
1990 - Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
1990 - Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
1991 - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
1991 - Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1991 - Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf
1992 - Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
1992 - Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
1993 - "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs
1993 - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
1993 - Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
1994 - South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
1995 - STS 67 (Endeavour 8 ) lands after 16½ days
1996 - 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1997 - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham,
          Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.
2012 - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after
           fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
2012 - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly

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This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Weddings

1991 - Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
1993 - Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
1995 - Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville
           Cathedral in Seville, Spain
2006 - Television star Adita Wahi weds director Ameet Sawant in New Delhi