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MysteRy · « **Reply #450 on:** April 03, 2013, 04:49:48 PM »

This Day in History for 3rd April

Famous Weddings

1920 - Novelist and short story writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Sayre
(19) at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral
2010 - "Love and Theft" country trio Eric Gunderson weds Emily Hagar (24) at sunset on the front
porch of the historic Hazel Path mansion in Hendersonville, Tennessee
2012 - Paramore guitar player Josh Farro (22) weds Jenna Rice in Tennessee

MysteRy · « **Reply #451 on:** April 03, 2013, 04:55:59 PM »

This Day in History for 3rd April

Famous Birthdays

Actor Marlon Brando (1924) Actor Alec Baldwin (1958) Actor Eddie Murphy (1961)

1151 - Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukrainian prince (d. 1202)
1245 - Philips III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85)
1367 - Henry IV, Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413)
1438 - John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland
1485 - Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherland poet
1529 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1569 - Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1593 - George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
1603 - William Smith, composer
1617 - Antimo Liberati, composer
1627 - Johann Caspar Kerll, composer
1649 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1682 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer
1683 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
1693 - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
1720 - Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi
1727 - Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver
1751 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1757 - Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1764 - John Abernethy, London, surgeon
1769 - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
1770 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
1783 - Washington Irving, US writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
1798 - Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877
1806 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1812 - Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
1814 - Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or
Mormon Church) (d. 1901)
1821 - T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
1822 - Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country)
1823 - William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt political boss (NYC)
1825 - Adolf Rzepko, composer
1837 - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1838 - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1842 - Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1858 - Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
1859 - Reginald De Koven, composer
1860 - Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
1866 - James B Hertzog, South African general/premier (1914-39)
1871 - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
1874 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1881 - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53)
1881 - Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters)
1882 - Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator
1884 - Jackie Matthews, cricketer (Aust leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
1885 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1885 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1888 - Neville Cardus, cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
1889 - Grigoras Dinicu, composer
1893 - Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1893 - Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
1894 - Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, composer
1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1896 - Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
1898 - George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic)
1898 - Henry R Luce, Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life)
1899 - Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
1899 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
1900 - Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon
1902 - Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances)
1902 - Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson, composer
1903 - Peter Huchel, writer
1904 - Iron Eyes Cody, Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1904 - Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orchestra leader (Break the Bank)
1904 - Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976)
1905 - Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
1906 - Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College)
1907 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1911 - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist
1911 - Michael Woodruff, FRS, surgeon
1911 - W R Lee, language teacher
1912 - Addeke H Boerma, Dutch dir-gen (FAO)
1912 - Bert Bakker, Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands)
1913 - F H Tate, vice-CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1913 - George Barati, composer
1913 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
1914 - Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
1915 - Paul Touvier, war criminal
1916 - Herb Caen, Sacramento California, columnist (SF Chronicle)
1916 - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator
1917 - Bill Finegan, Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1917 - Tibor Andrasovan, composer
1918 - Enrique Iturriaga, composer
1918 - Louis Applebaum, composer
1918 - Sixten Ehrling, Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1919 - Duke of Grafton, KG
1920 - Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, pianist (Melody Tour)
1920 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi and convicted war
criminal (under appeal at death), (d. 2012)
1921 - Harry Landers, NYC, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey)
1921 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
1921 - Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
1923 - Jan Sterling, NYC, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
1923 - John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP (C)
1924 - Canon A D Caesar, Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
1924 - Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
1924 - Marlon Brando, Omaha Neb, actor (Superman, Godfather)
1924 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
1925 - Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
1926 - Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics)
1926 - Virgil Grissom, Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1926 - Alex Grammas, American baseball player
1927 - Wesley Brown, Baltimore, Maryland, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, (d.
2012)
1928 - Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Jennifer Paterson, English chef and TV personality (d. 1999)
1929 - Dennis Farr, director (Courtauld Institute Galleries)
1929 - Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1929 - Lee Leonard, American television personality
1930 - Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
1930 - Lawton Chiles, (sen/gov-D-Florida, 1971-89/91- )
1930 - Max Frankel, journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
1930 - Wally Moon, American baseball player
1931 - Johnny Nicholss, soccer star
1932 - Janet Bately, Prof of English Language (King's College London)
1932 - Nourse, British lord justice
1933 - Robert K Dornan, (Rep-R-CA, 1977-83, 85- )
1934 - David Jones, British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School)
1934 - Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1934 - Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
1934 - John Lelliott, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1935 - Jeffery Bowman, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1936 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
1936 - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist
1936 - Reginald Hill, British crime author (Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe novels)
1937 - Sandra Spuzich, LPGA golfer
1937 - Simon Brown, British high court judge
1937 - William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
1938 - Jeff Barry, Bkln NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1938 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child)
1939 - Malcolm Thornton, MP
1939 - Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1939 - François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975)
1940 - Lino Brocka, San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar)
1940 - R S Burman, CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce)
1941 - Eric Braeden, Aust, actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless, Colossus)
1941 - Jan Berry, LA California, rock vocalist (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve)
1941 - Jan Berry, American musician (d. 2004)
1941 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984)
1941 - Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
1942 - Billy Joe Royal, Valdosta Ga, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1942 - Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
1942 - Michael Elliott, US, skier (Olympics-1968)
1942 - Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300')
1942 - Wayne Newton, American singer
1942 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (d. 2005)
1943 - Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, writer/actor (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy)
1943 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1943 - Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer
1944 - Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1944 - Tony Orlando, NYC, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1945 - Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love)
1945 - Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1945 - Wim J Deetman, Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA)
1946 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (Mexico, 1988-94)
1946 - Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band)
1946 - John Virgo, British snooker player
1948 - Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1948 - H C Tomlinson, Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School)
1948 - Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 - Mary Gordon-Watson, England, equestrian 3 day event (Oly-gold-1972)
1948 - Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer
1949 - Jan Keizer, Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 - Lyle Alzado, NFLer (LA Raiders)/actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire)
1949 - Richard Thompson, vocalist/guitarist (Shoot Out the Lights)
1950 - Curtis Stone, N Hollywood California, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1951 - Gwen Welles, US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville)
1951 - Mel Schacher, MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1952 - Mike Moore, American politician and attorney
1953 - Huub van der Lubbe, Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1953 - Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1954 - Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1955 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 - Mick Mars, guitarst (Motley Crue)
1956 - Miguel Bose, Panama, spanish singer/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot)
1956 - Boris Miljkovic, Serbian director
1957 - Charles Jones, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1958 - Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)
1958 - Jaya Prada, Indian Actress
1959 - David Hyde Pierce, NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician
1960 - Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer
1961 - Eddie Murphy, Bkln NY, actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
1962 - John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 - Mike Ness, rocker (Social Distortion)
1962 - Nancy Filteau, Swift Current Saskatchawan, 72k judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 - Chris Bosio, baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Zakir Khan, cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89)
1963 - Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993)
1963 - Jack Del Rio, American football coach
1963 - Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer
1964 - Ajay Sharma, cricketer (Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988)
1964 - Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
1965 - Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d.2000)
1966 - Bo Orlando, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 - Shelley Michelle, Hollywood California, actress (Golden Eye)
1966 - Mina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1966 - John de Vries, Australian racing driver
1967 - Brent Gilchrist, Moose Jaw, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1967 - Pervis Ellison, NBA forward/center (Boston Celtics)
1968 - Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Mike Lansing, Rawlins Wyoming, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1968 - Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1968 - Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator
1969 - David Morland, North Bay Ont, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year)
1969 - Reid Hayston Hamilton, NZ, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Rodney Hampton, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1970 - Keith Franklin, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Anthony McClanahan, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 - Jonathan Star
1971 - Kevin Farkas, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Peter Schwab, Boston, Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Picabo Street, skier (Olympic-gold-94)
1971 - Quilvio Veras, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Jennie Garth, Champagn Ill, actr (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 - Sandrine Testud, Lyon France, tennis star (1993 Strasbourg)
1973 - Greg DeLong, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Jim Campbell, Worchester Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Kelly Lochbaum, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1973 - Jamie Bamber, English actor
1973 - Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
1975 - Thomas Hamilton, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Mickey Beyer Clausen, Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
1975 - Aries Spears, American comedian
1975 - Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
1975 - Koji Uehara, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1976 - Keith Closs, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1976 - Will Mellor, English actor
1976 - Drew Shirley, American musician
1977 - Veronique De Kock, Miss Universe-Belgium (1996)
1978 - Matthew Goode, English actor
1978 - Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1978 - John Smit, South African rugby player
1979 - Esmeralda Gonzales, Miss Wyoming Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Aaron Bertram, American musician
1981 - Matthew Nash, Australian soccer player
1981 - Heath Ramsay, Australian Olympic swimmer
1981 - DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
1982 - Iain Fyfe, Australian soccer player
1982 - Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
1982 - Jared Allen, American football player
1982 - Fler, German rapper
1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
1983 - Errol Barnett, English reporter
1984 - Maxi López, Argentine footballer
1984 - Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
1985 - Leona Lewis, English singer
1986 - Sergio Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
1987 - Julie Sokolow, American musician
1987 - Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
1987 - Jay Bruce, American baseball player
1988 - Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
1988 - Peter Hartley, English footballer
1989 - Israel Falou, Australian Rugby League player
1993 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer

MysteRy · « **Reply #452 on:** April 03, 2013, 04:58:34 PM »

This Day in History for 3rd April

Famous Deaths

Outlaw Jesse James (1882)

33 - Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington)
628 - Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
1287 - Honorius IV, [Giacomo Savelli], Italian Pope (1285-87), dies
1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
1512 - Richard Pafraet, Dutch printer, dies
1525 - Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49
1581 - Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies
1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
1680 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1682 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, dies
1691 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
1694 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64
1695 - Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58
1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
1728 - James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
1769 - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1792 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
1797 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66
1804 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)
1811 - Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83
1822 - Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies
1826 - Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies
1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
1838 - Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57
1849 - Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39
1850 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75
1858 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer, dies at 79
1862 - James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies
1868 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
1876 - Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
1882 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71
1882 - Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
1884 - Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59
1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63
1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
1909 - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71
1915 - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
1919 - Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62
1920 - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
1930 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
1941 - Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1942 - Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63
1942 - Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 76
1943 - Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
1945 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43
1946 - Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1949 - Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89
1950 - Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74
1950 - Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1951 - Johannes C Kielstra, Dut economist/gov (Suriname 1933-44), dies at 72
1956 - T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
1958 - Theodor Kramer, writer, dies
1960 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1962 - Benny "Kid" Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1962 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1965 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (born 1897 or 1898)
1966 - Russel Crouse, US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73
1969 - Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65
1971 - Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66
1971 - Manfred Bonnington Lee, [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65
1972 - Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80
1972 - Ferde Grofe, US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80
1975 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42
1976 - Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Jack Ryder, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 1394 runs), dies
1978 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
1980 - Luella Gear, actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
1981 - Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
1982 - Herman W Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69
1982 - Warren Oates, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53
1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1987 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1988 - Milton A Caniff, US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81
1989 - Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79
1990 - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
1990 - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1991 - Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1992 - Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
1992 - Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
1993 - Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
1993 - Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
1993 - Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
1993 - Pinky Lee, kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 - Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
1994 - Frank G Wells, US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
1994 - Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
1994 - Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
1995 - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer, dies at 86
1995 - Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89
1996 - Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleve), dies
1996 - Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45
1996 - Ron Brown, sec of Comerce, dies in an accident
1996 - Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54
1996 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman, dies at 59
1996 - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
1997 - Judy Flannery, master triathelete, killed by a car at 56
1998 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
1999 - Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
2003 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
2007 - Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
2007 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
2007 - Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
2008 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)

MysteRy · « **Reply #453 on:** April 04, 2013, 02:43:56 PM »

This Day in History for 4th April

Historical Events

Naturalist Charles Darwin Playwright George Bernard Shaw Baseball Legend Connie Mack

Actor Charlton Heston Baseball Player Hank Aaron Microsoft Founder Bill Gates

Singer Gloria Estefan Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

1081 - Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1460 - University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 - Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
1552 - Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1558 - Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1581 - Francis Drake awarded a Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford
1588 - Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1655 - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1655 - The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of
Cardinal Harrach.
1660 - English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1686 - English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1687 - King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King
George I.
1737 - Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1818 - Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1828 - Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1832 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1850 - City of Los Angeles incorporated
1859 - Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1859 - Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1862 - Battle of Yorktown (US Civil War) begins
1862 - US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War
1864 - Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1865 - Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
1870 - Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1887 - Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1896 - Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1899 - South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
1900 - Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-
Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
1900 - British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1902 - Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1905 - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1911 - Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1912 - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1912 - Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1913 - The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air
Force when his plane crashes.
1914 - "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1916 - US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1918 - Battle of Somme, ends
1918 - Food riot in Amsterdam
1920 - Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1921 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1922 - WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1926 - Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1929 - "New Moon" musical opens in London
1929 - 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1930 - Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
1930 - Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
1930 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
1932 - George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
1932 - Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1933 - US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1937 - 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
1938 - 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
1939 - Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1940 - R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher," premieres in NYC
1941 - German troops conquer Banghazi
1944 - British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1944 - De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1944 - Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000
1945 - Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1945 - US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1945 - US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld
1947 - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1947 - Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 - UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1948 - 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st
base; it ends in a tie
1949 - Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1949 - WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
1951 - Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Peron in Buenos Aires
1953 - KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1955 - British government signs military treaty with Iraq
1956 - Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
1957 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
1958 - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1958 - Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
1958 - The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
1959 - Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1960 - 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win
1960 - Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra
1960 - Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 - Senegal declares independence from France
1964 - "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
1964 - Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1965 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
1965 - The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
1966 - Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
1967 - Dutch De Young government forms
1967 - Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
1968 - "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs
1968 - Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
1969 - Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
1970 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1971 - "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
1971 - Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
1972 - 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 - 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
1975 - Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 - USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1975 - Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1976 - 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
1976 - Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1982 - 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
1983 - 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52
1983 - 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1984 - Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1984 - Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1985 - Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1986 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1987 - Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1988 - 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79
1988 - Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds
1988 - Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)
1988 - Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1988 - Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 - NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th
overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1990 - "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1990 - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1991 - "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with
their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1992 - Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
1992 - Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1992 - Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1993 - 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
1993 - 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
1993 - Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
1993 - Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
1994 - 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
1994 - 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
1994 - Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening
1994 - KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 - LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1994 - Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1994 - Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 - Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1994 - Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden
1996 - "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM
1997 - Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
1997 - Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
1997 - DMSP Titan 2 launched
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
1998 - NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2007 - 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
2008 - The raid on the FLDS owned ranch called the YFZ Ranch in Texas, 401 children were taken
into custody. 133 woman were taken into state custody also, the total number of woman
and children is 534.
2012 - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is
plotting to wipe out Iran
2012 - Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the
presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
2012 - Boris Todic, President of Serbia, resigns

MysteRy · « **Reply #454 on:** April 04, 2013, 02:47:03 PM »

This Day in History for 4th April

Famous Weddings

1625 - Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
1992 - John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
2001 - Actress and model Brooke Shields (35) weds sitcom writer Chris Henchy (37) in Catalina
Island, California
2004 - Latina singer Joy Enriquez (25) weds Grammy-winner Rodney Jerkins (26) at the Ritz-Carlton
in Laguna Niguel, California
2008 - Singer-songwriter and actress Beyonce Knowles (30) weds one of the greatest rappers of all-
time Jay-Z (43) at 13,500-square foot penthouse apartment in New York

MysteRy · « **Reply #455 on:** April 04, 2013, 02:57:03 PM »

This Day in History for 4th April

Famous Birthdays

Comedian Robert Downey Jr (1965) Actor Heath Ledger (1979) Actress Jamie Lynn Spears (1991)

188 - Caracalla, [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius], Roman emperor (211-17)
1492 - Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)
1527 - Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer
1572 - William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
1593 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
1646 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
1648 - Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver
1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
1716 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer
1718 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
1731 - Francisco Morera, composer
1740 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
1752 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
1755 - Vincenc Masek, composer
1758 - John Hoppner, portrait painter
1762 - Stephen Storace, composer
1772 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
1785 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to
the King)
1786 - John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic)
1792 - Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)
1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
1804 - Joseph Fischhof, composer
1809 - Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer
1814 - John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1817 - John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1818 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
1820 - Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 - Linus Yale, US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
1823 - Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor (laid undersea cables)
1823 - Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
1828 - Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City)
1831 - Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1832 - Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido)
1836 - Jerome Hopkins, composer
1842 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
1843 - Hans Richter, composer
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1853 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1858 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
1866 - George P Baker, US playwright (47 Workshop)
1870 - George A Smith, Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church
1872 - Nikolai Amani, composer
1872 - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch singer
1875 - Jozef Szulc, composer
1875 - Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
1875 - Samuel S Hinds, Brooklyn NY
1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
1879 - Gabriel Groulez, composer
1881 - Charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1882 - Mary Howe, composer
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1888 - Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1888 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
1892 - Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1892 - Esther Howard, MT
1895 - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1895 - Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
1896 - Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
1896 - Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
1897 - Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion)
1898 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
1899 - William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23)
1901 - Carmel Myers, SF California, actress (Carmel Myers Show)
1902 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)
1902 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935)
1905 - Eugene Bozza, composer
1906 - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) [NS]
1907 - Nathan M Pusey, Iowa, educator (Natl Ass for Social Sciences-1963)
1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
1910 - Agnes Patrick, campaigner
1911 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
1913 - Frances Langford, Lakeland Fla, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1913 - Jerome Weidman, US writer (Tenderloin)
1913 - Rosemary Lane, Indianola IA, actress (4 Mothers, Harvest Melody)
1913 - Muddy Waters, [McKinley Morganfield], American blues guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)
1913 - Jules Léger, Quebec diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980)
1914 - Gustave Camus, Belgian painter
1914 - John Beith, British diplomat
1914 - Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)
1915 - Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani)
1915 - Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer (Death of Me)
1916 - David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched)
1916 - Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist
1916 - Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
1916 - Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1917 - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising)
1918 - Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)
1919 - Antony Tudor, England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957)
1920 - Eric Rohmer, Nancy France, actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval)
1921 - Willem J "Wim" the Villiers, S Afr minister of Administration
1922 - Elmer Bernstein, NYC, movie music composer (Robot Monster)
1923 - Manon H E Alving, Dutch actress (Short American)
1923 - Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee)
1924 - Christopher Prater, screen printer
1924 - Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager (Bkln Dodgers, NY Mets)
1924 - Peter Vaughan, actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
1925 - Elizabeth Wilson, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)
1925 - Erna Spoorenberg, Dutch singer
1925 - Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979)
1925 - Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1927 - Bob Stump, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- )
1928 - Bill Ryan, Bkln NY, newscaster (Smithsonian)
1928 - Jimmy Logan, British comedian (Mad Death)
1928 - Maya Angelou, [Marguerite Johnson], St Louis, poet/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1928 - Monty Norman, composer/writer
1929 - William F Clinger Jr, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1930 - David Sexton, soccer manager
1931 - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian
1931 - Harold L Volkmer, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
1931 - Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
1932 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Solaris, Stalker)
1932 - Anthony Perkins, NYC, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1932 - Bapu Nadkarni, cricketer (economical Indian slow left-armer 1956-68)
1932 - Richard G Lugar, (Sen-R-IN, 1977- )
1932 - Clive Davis, American record producer
1932 - Estelle Harris, American actress
1933 - Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch CEO (Shell)/Minister of Defense (VVD)
1933 - Robin Phillips, English multi-millionaire manufacturer (hand-dryer)
1933 - Seoirse Bodley, composer
1933 - Bill France, Jr., NASCAR pioneer (d. 2007)
1934 - Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster
1935 - Easton Dudley Ashton St John McMorris, cricketer (WI batsman of 60's)
1935 - Francois-Bernard Mache, composer
1935 - Lord Ichayra, secretary-general (British Banking Association)
1935 - Trevor Griffiths, playwright (Absolute Beginners)
1936 - Margo J Sylvia, rocker (Tune Weavers)
1937 - Ian St James, novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
1937 - J Hans van den Doel, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 - A Bartlett Giamatti, Boston, pres of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 - Michael Parks, Corona California, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1938 - Peter Attenborough, British headmaster (Charterhouse)
1939 - Hugh Masekela, Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1939 - JoAnne Carner, Kirkland WA, LPGA golfer (1976 US Women's Open)
1939 - Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994)
1940 - Bijan, Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, NYC, London)
1940 - Robby Mueller, cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak)
1940 - Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 - Richard Attwood, British racing driver
1940 - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter
1941 - Bill Tarmey, Ardwick, Manchester, actor (Coronation Street), (d. 2012)
1942 - Kitty Kelley, author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1942 - Kris Jensen, rocker
1943 - Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum)
1944 - David Melville, professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
1944 - Lawrence A Hough, US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 olympic silver)
1944 - Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
1944 - Craig T. Nelson, Spokane, Wash, actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach)
1945 - Bryan Andrews, cricketer (NZ medium-pacer, toured Australia 1973-74)
1945 - Caroline McWilliams, Seattle Wash, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson)
1945 - Walter Charles, East Strousberg PA, actor (Fletch Lives, Weeds)
1946 - Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
1947 - Salvatore Sciarrino, composer
1947 - Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster
1947 - Wiranto, Indonesian general
1948 - Berry Oakley, Chicago Ill, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
1948 - Gail Davies, Broken Bow Ok, country singer (Blue Heartache)
1948 - Pick Withers, rocker (Dire Straits)
1948 - Dan Simmons, American writer
1948 - Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor
1949 - Larry Lingle, rocker
1949 - Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician
1950 - Christine Lahti, Detroit, actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
1951 - Steve Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1951 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
1952 - Dave Hill, England, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
1952 - Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman)
1952 - Peter Haycock, rock guitarist (All Along the Watchtower)
1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German DR, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and car racer (d. 1995)
1953 - Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
1954 - Julie Carmen, Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
1955 - Mick Mars, rocker
1956 - Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
1956 - Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103)
1956 - Tom Herr, American baseball player
1956 - David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer
1957 - Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid)
1957 - Paul Downton, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 80's)
1957 - Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
1957 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
1957 - Kelso, American racehorse (d. 1983)
1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star)
1958 - Derek Kallicharran, cricket all-rounder (Guyana, USA 1994 ICC Trophy)
1958 - Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist
1958 - John Wesley Jones, Lawton Ok, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1958 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter
1958 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990)
1960 - Bev Smith, Armstrong BC, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1960 - Jon Agnew, cricketer (England pace bowler late 80's)
1960 - Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster/test bowler
1960 - Jane Eaglin, English soprano
1960 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born English-Australian actor
1961 - Matt Cole, Stratford Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Space Coast)
1962 - Ava Fabian, Brewster NY, playmate (Aug, 1986)/actress (Cafe Nostra)
1962 - Sherrin Smyers, Newcastle Aust, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1962 - Tina Tombs, Montreal Quebec, LPGA golfer (1990 Jamie Farr Toledo)
1963 - Anthony Clark, comedian (Boyd Pritchett-Boston Common)
1963 - Dale Hawerchuk, Toronto, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1963 - David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blind)
1963 - Jack Del Rio, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 - Gregory Thomas Kraft, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-2nd)
1964 - Paul Parker, soccer player
1964 - Robbie Rist, California, actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch)
1964 - Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach
1965 - Black Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1965 - Robert Downey Jr, NYC, comedian (SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School)
1965 - Tony Burse, CFL fullback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 - Zwart Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1966 - Mike Starr [Michael], Honolulu Hawaii, musician (Alice in Chains bassist), (d. 2011)
1966 - Michal Clingman, Indio California, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-9th-1994)
1966 - Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star
1966 - Nancy McKeon, Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
1966 - Stanislav Medrik, Nitra CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1967 - Juliana "Juli" Furtado, NYC, cyclist (Olympics-10th-96)
1968 - Andre Bowden, WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Jennifer Lynch, American director
1969 - Anthony Tucker, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1969 - Carlos Reyes, Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Dennis de Nooijer, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 - Gerard de Nooijer, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1970 - Barry van Galen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Jason Stoltenberg, Australia, tennis star
1970 - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
1970 - Michael Schwartz, American turntablist, known as Mix Master Mike, DJ for the Beastie Boys
1971 - Allan Houston, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Detroit Pistons)
1971 - Felipe Lira, Miranda Venezeula, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Jaime Fernandez, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Yanic Perreault, Sherbrooke, NHL center (LA Kings)
1971 - John Zandig, American professional wrestler
1972 - Chad Eaton, defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1972 - Jim Werland, Ventura California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Matt Wagner, Cedar falls IA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1972 - Jill Scott, American soul singer
1972 - Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Damon Allen, Winston-Salem NC, figure skater (1997 Midwestern champ)
1973 - Peter Hoekstra, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Ajax)
1973 - Ryan Coughlin, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Tiffany Woosley, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1973 - Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1973 - David Blaine, American illusionist
1973 - Chris McCormack, Australian triathlete
1974 - O J Santiago, tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Dave Mirra, American athlete
1975 - Kisha Ford, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1975 - Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman
1975 - Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier
1975 - Pamela Ribon, American author, actress
1976 - Emerson, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (d. 1997)
1977 - Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer(Killswitch Engage)
1977 - Stephen Mulhern, British magician, CITV Presenter
1977 - Omarr Ali Hasan Smith, American Arena Football League defensive back
1978 - Irene Skliva, Athens Greece, Miss World (1996)
1978 - Jason Ellison, American baseball player
1978 - Lemar, English R'n'B singer
1978 - Alan Mahon, Irish footballer
1978 - Sam Moran, Australian entertainer
1978 - Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer
1979 - Charles Butler, Salt Lake City Utah, dance skater (& Joseph-1997 Natl)
1979 - Rebecca Stoyel, South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Andy McKee, American musician
1979 - Heath Ledger, Australian/American Actor. (d.2008)
1979 - Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1980 - Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
1980 - Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight)
1980 - Trevor Moore, American comedian
1983 - Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer
1983 - Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Angelle Tymon, American journalist and TV game show host
1983 - Ben Gordon, American professional basketball player
1984 - Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
1985 - Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
1986 - Aiden McGeady, Republic of Ireland and Celtic footballer,
1986 - Cameron Barker, Professional ice hockey player
1987 - Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
1987 - Devon Anderson, English actor
1987 - Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
1988 - Frank Fielding, English footballer
1991 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
1992 - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
1994 - Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer

MysteRy · « **Reply #456 on:** April 04, 2013, 03:06:56 PM »

This Day in History for 4th April

Famous Deaths

Industrialist Andre Michelin (1941) Clergyman and civil rights activist Actress Gloria Swanson (1983)
Martin Luther King Jr, (1968)

397 - Ambrosius, gov of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
636 - Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560)
896 - Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies
1229 - Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies
1284 - Alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castile/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62
1292 - Nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217)
1393 - Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1406 - Robert III, King of Scots (1390-1406), dies
1417 - John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies
1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
1585 - Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57
1588 - Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53
1604 - Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies
1609 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
1617 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1643 - Simon Episcopius, [Bisschop], Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1661 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1662 - Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57
1662 - Leonhart Kern, German sculptor , dies at about 73
1664 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies
1701 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
1714 - Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies
1734 - Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79
1743 - Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
1761 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1766 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1784 - Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies
1792 - James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
1806 - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
1807 - Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies
1817 - André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince d'Essing and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
1841 - William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68
1844 - Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
1846 - Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
1861 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
1862 - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1863 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1864 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1878 - Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
1879 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
1883 - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
1889 - Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56
1890 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (b. 1820)
1890 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
1893 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86
1900 - Edward VII, King, assassinated
1905 - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
1908 - Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64
1919 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1923 - L Martov, [Joulij O Tsederbaum], Russ revolutionary, dies at 49
1923 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
1929 - Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84
1930 - Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
1931 - George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
1932 - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1934 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80
1937 - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
1938 - Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24
1941 - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
1941 - Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29
1943 - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54
1943 - Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66
1944 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
1944 - Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82
1947 - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
1951 - Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1881)
1951 - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS
or Mormon Church) (b. 1870)
1953 - Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59
1953 - Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93
1957 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
1958 - Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
1958 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
1959 - Stanley Snooke, cricketer (bro of S J, duck in South African Test), dies
1961 - Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1962 - James Hanratty, executed at Bedford Prison, England, for the murder of Michael Gregsten (b.
1936)
1963 - Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1963 - Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
1967 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1967 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39
1970 - Byron Foulger, actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
1972 - John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1972 - Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69
1976 - Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
1977 - Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82
1978 - Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70
1979 - Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1980 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (b. 1917)
1981 - Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
1982 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer, dies at 50
1983 - Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84
1983 - Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78
1984 - John Arnold, cricketer (Eng bat v NZ 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies
1984 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
1985 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891)
1986 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87
1987 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1987 - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
1991 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
1991 - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
1991 - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
1991 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1991 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
1992 - Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
1992 - Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1992 - Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
1992 - Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
1993 - Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
1993 - Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, [Rita la Roche], singer, dies
1994 - Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
1994 - Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
1995 - Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50
1995 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67
1995 - Priscilla Lane, actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77
1996 - Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68
1996 - David Keylsey, actor/director, dies at 63
1996 - David Whitton, campaigner, dies at 44
1996 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist, dies at 97
1996 - Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82
1996 - Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83
1996 - Seamas NacNeill, piper, dies at 79
1996 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
1999 - Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
1999 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2001 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (b. 1932)
2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
2003 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
2004 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
2004 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan (b. 1979)
2005 - Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)
2007 - Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1941)
2007 - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
2008 - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
2011 - Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (b. 1956)
2011 - Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (b. 1958)
2012 - Claude Miller, French director and screen writer, dies at 70

MysteRy · « **Reply #457 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:18:02 PM »

This Day in History for 5th April

Historical Events

First US President Author Helen Keller Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde
George Washington

Baseball Great Babe Ruth Singer & Cultural Icon Singer & Actress
Elvis Presley Barbra Streisand

Playwright Tom Stoppard NHL all-time top scorer Comedian David Letterman
Wayne Gretzky

WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan

456 - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
823 - Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France
1058 - Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
1242 - Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1566 - 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1585 - Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
1603 - New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1609 - Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful
invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1621 - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1648 - Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1722 - Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1739 - French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
1751 - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1762 - British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1768 - 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
1792 - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1803 - 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1804 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1806 - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1812 - Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
1814 - Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
1815 - Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
1818 - In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José
de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean
patriots dead.
1861 - Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
1862 - Siege of Yorktown VA
1865 - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 - Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
1874 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead, England. Designed by
Joseph Paxton
1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1881 - Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG)
1893 - Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1894 - 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1894 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG)
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
1895 - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of
homosexual practices
1896 - 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
1897 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the
Ottoman Empire.
1900 - Attempted assassination of Edward, British Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1902 - Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris
1902 - In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses
killing 25 and injuring 517
1904 - The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other
Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1905 - James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
1906 - St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1908 - British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1911 - MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
1911 - Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1915 - French begin Woëvre-offensive
1915 - Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1916 - French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
1919 - Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1922 - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1922 - WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1923 - Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
1925 - Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1925 - Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
1929 - Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
1930 - England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
1932 - Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of
self-government.
1935 - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1936 - Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1939 - Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1941 - In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1943 - Allies bomb Mortsel
1943 - Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943 - Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1944 - 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 - Almelo Netherlands freed
1945 - Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1946 - 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1948 - WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 - 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
1949 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1950 - Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 - Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
1953 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1953 - WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is
destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1959 - 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
1961 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
1961 - Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1962 - Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in NYC
1962 - Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962 - St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 - Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 - Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 - 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
1964 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1965 - 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison & J Andrews win
1965 - Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 - '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1967 - ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1968 - Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1968 - US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1970 - WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 - Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1971 - US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
1971 - WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front
government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1972 - Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1972 - Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
1973 - NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
1973 - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 - Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1975 - Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 - Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 - Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1981 - 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1981 - Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1982 - British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
1982 - Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season
1982 - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1983 - France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1983 - NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
1984 - "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419
points (31,421)
1986 - Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1986 - US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1987 - 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1987 - Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1987 - Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1988 - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
1989 - David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 - Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1990 - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1990 - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman
foods to charity
1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 - Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 - Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8 ) launched
1991 - US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 - "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 - 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62
1992 - 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
1992 - Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
1992 - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1992 - Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
1992 - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 - Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1993 - 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
1993 - 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0
1993 - Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 - Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
1993 - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1994 - "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs
1994 - Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1996 - John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 - Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 - Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1998 - 10th Seniors Golf Tradition:
1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for
eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 - North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over
mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security
Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2012 - Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
2012 - 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in
Athens
2012 - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to
censorship
2063 - Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe

MysteRy · « **Reply #458 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:22:19 PM »

This Day in History for 5th April

Famous Weddings

1614 - American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John
Rolfe
1992 - Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka

MysteRy · « **Reply #459 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:37:42 PM »

This Day in History for 5th April

Famous Birthdays

Education Pioneer Booker US General & Secretary of State Singer Agnetha Fältskog (1950)
Taliaferro Washington (1856) Colin Powell (1937)

1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)
1595 - John Wilson, composer
1598 - Laurentius Erhard, composer
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
1626 - Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter
1643 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria
1649 - Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1698 - Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer
1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
1727 - Pasquale Ankossi, composer
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1752 - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
1784 - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
1788 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1795 - Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
1799 - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer
1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
1818 - Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist
1822 - James Nagle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1824 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
1825 - David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army)
1827 - Joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
1828 - Pietro Plantania, composer
1830 - Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)
1832 - Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman
1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
1838 - Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 - Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
1839 - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer
1845 - Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
1853 - Alfonso Randano, composer
1854 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
1856 - Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)
1857 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
1859 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
1862 - Louis Ganne, composer
1868 - J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
1869 - Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1871 - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1913?)
1872 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
1876 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer
1882 - Don Blackie, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46)
1885 - Dimitrie Cuclin, composer
1886 - Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
1899 - William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
1900 - Spencer Tracy, Milwaukee, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
1901 - Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter/graphic artist
1901 - Chester Bowles, Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 - Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], Macon Ga, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
1903 - Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer
1905 - Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1905 - Jef Maes, composer
1906 - Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist
1906 - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
1907 - J Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist/anatomist
1908 - Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1908 - George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908 - Grady Sutton, Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Nazi/conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1909 - Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond)
1909 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer
1909 - Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16)
1911 - Goddard Lieberson, Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
1911 - Gordon Jones, Alden Iowa, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1912 - John Le Mesurier, Bedford England, actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army)
1913 - Alan Cheales, dominican priest
1914 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
1916 - Bernard Baily, comic artist
1916 - Gregory Peck, La Jolla California, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1917 - Richard Yardumian, Philadelphia, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
1917 - Robert [Albert] Bloch, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
1919 - Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
1920 - Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
1920 - Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921 - Les Jackson, cricket bowler (England twice, 1949 & 1961)
1921 - Robert Q Lewis, NYC, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
1922 - Harry Freedman, composer
1922 - Tom Finney, British soccer star
1922 - Tom Finney, English footballer
1923 - Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher/economist
1923 - Michael V Gazzo, Hillside NJ, actor (Cookie, Fear City)
1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president (1965-75)
1923 - Stanley Orme, Chairman (British Labour Party)
1924 - Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist/sculptor
1925 - Oldrich Flosman, composer
1926 - Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1926 - Roger Corman, Detroit, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1927 - John Gilbert, MP
1928 - David Farquhar Andress, composer
1928 - Michael Bryant, London England, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
1928 - Peter Moore, Principal (London Business School)
1928 - Tony Williams, Elizabeth NJ, singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights)
1928 - Will Gaines, jazz dancer
1929 - Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar)
1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer
1931 - Denis Lawton, director (London University Institute of Educ)
1932 - Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
1933 - Frank Gorshin, Pittsburgh Pa, comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman)
1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
1934 - Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist (Wonderland)
1934 - Tina Maria Stone, runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician
1935 - Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
1935 - Peter Grant, rock band manager
1936 - John Albert, professor (Master of University College Oxford)
1936 - John White, Berlin, English composer and musical performer
1936 - Michael Livesay, British admiral/pres (RN College Greenwich)
1936 - John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
1937 - Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs)
1937 - Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1937 - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
1938 - Colin Bland, cricketer (South African bat Maybe the best cover field)
1938 - Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer
1939 - Andrew Buxton, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1939 - David Winters, London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1939 - Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
1939 - Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941 - Dave Swarbrick, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1941 - Michael Moriarty, Detroit, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1941 - Roman Balayan, Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk)
1942 - Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-Air That I Breathe)
1942 - Arthur Barrett, cricketer (WI leggie early 70's)
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 - Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
1943 - Max Gail, Detroit, (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
1943 - Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1944 - Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1944 - James Buckley, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1944 - Lord Rockley
1944 - Nicholas Caldwell, rocker (Whispers)
1944 - Peter T King, (Rep-R-New York)
1944 - Willeke van Ammelrooy, Amsterdam, actress (Cidke de Rat, Antonia)
1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 - Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend/actress (Deep End)
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1946 - Larry Frederick Wendt, composer
1946 - Robert E McKee, CEO/managing director (Conoco-UK)
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
1949 - Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Ohio, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog [Anna Ulvaeus], Swedish singer (ABBA)
1950 - Franklin R Chang-Diaz, Costa Rica, astro (STS 61C, 34,46,60,75, sk:91)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1950 - Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
1951 - Everett Morton, rocker (English Beat)
1951 - Roosevel Ferguson, Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1951 - Dean Kamen, American inventor
1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor
1953 - John Buchanan, cricketer (Qld batsman 78-79, Shield coach 1995)
1954 - Christopher S Nelson, New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1954 - Michael W Butler, computer programmer (created TODAY program)
1954 - Stan Ridgeway, rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale)
1955 - Janice Long, British radio host (Crash FM)
1955 - Renate Bruemmer, astronaut/cosmonaut
1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 - Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
1957 - Vince Gill, Norman Oklahoma, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1958 - Cammie Lusko, LA California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1958 - Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1961 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow Pilot
1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 - Martha Faulconer, Indianapolis IN, golfer (1993 ShopRite LPGA-5th)
1964 - Robert "Bob" Kaehler, Burlingame California, rower (Olympics-5th-1992, 96)
1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1965 - Cris Carpenter, American baseball player
1966 - Brent Hughes, New Westminster Ca, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 - Larry Norman, Toronto Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-19-92, 96)
1966 - Scott Dill, NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Bucs, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
1968 - Gianna Amore, Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
1968 - Tasia Valenza, NYC, actress (All My Children)
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1970 - Erlan Sagymbayev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Tim Jacobs, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
1971 - Bob Kuberski, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Finidi George, soccer player (Ajax)
1971 - Stuart Peele, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Shigemasa Ito, WLAF offensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Krista Allen, American actress
1972 - Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
1972 - Paul Okon, Australian former footballer
1973 - Ed Hobbs, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1973 - Emile Palmer, WLAF DT (London Monarchs)
1973 - Estefania Knuth, Barcelona Spain, LPGA golfer (1992 French Intl)
1973 - Spencer Folau, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Balt Ravens, Rhein Fire)
1973 - Tony Banks, quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Yutaka Kawaguchi, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 - Élodie Bouchez, French actress
1973 - Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Mike DuHaney, New Haven Ct, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Rick Terry, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 - Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
1974 - Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
1975 - Nikki Dryden, Calgary Alberta, 800m swimmer (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1975 - John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1976 - Ike Hilliard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1976 - Ryan Drese, SF California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter
1976 - Ross Gload, American baseball player
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1977 - JoAnn Sevin, Dubois PA, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1977 - Sevilay Ozturk, Miss Universe-Turkey (1996)
1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
1980 - Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1980 - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
1980 - John McLaughlin, American television reporter
1981 - Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor.
1982 - Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver
1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1982 - Matt Pickens, American soccer player
1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor
2173 - Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)

MysteRy · « **Reply #460 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:43:16 PM »

This Day in History for 5th April

Famous Deaths

WW2 General Rocker Kurt Cobain (1994) Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg (1997)
Douglas MacArthur (1964)

582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)
828 - Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1258 - Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1270 - Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1531 - Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1649 - John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
1673 - Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1684 - William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
1693 - Anne M L of Orleans, duchess (Grande Mademoiselle), dies at 65
1695 - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax, dies at 61
1697 - Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97), dies at 41
1712 - John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1723 - J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66
1732 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer, dies at 52
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81
1794 - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
1811 - Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1820 - Henrik C Cras, lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at 81
1871 - Georg Andreas Henkel, composer, dies at 66
1878 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87
1884 - John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies
1896 - John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66
1900 - Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle
1907 - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
1908 - Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55
1918 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73
1921 - Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
1922 - Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 - Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies
1928 - Roy Kilner, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at 38
1934 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer, dies at 74
1935 - Emil Mlynarski, composer, dies at 64
1939 - William Cooper, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1882-84), dies
1941 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1944 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944 - Willy Derby, [Dieben], singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies
1945 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 41
1946 - Vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), dies at 47
1951 - Edward Rigby, dies at 72
1952 - Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75
1952 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1954 - Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66
1958 - Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at 87
1960 - Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88
1963 - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73
1963 - Julius Harrison, composer, dies at 78
1964 - Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84
1966 - Sven Fleuron, writer, dies at 91
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1968 - Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44
1969 - Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73
1969 - Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 - Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor, dies at 78
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
1972 - Isabel Jewell, dies at 62
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 - William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1975 - Inez Courtney, dies at 67
1975 - Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65), dies at 58
1976 - Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1977 - John Marriott, dies at 83
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 - Bob "Bear" Hite, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36
1981 - Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder, dies at 80
1982 - Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1984 - Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
1984 - Theo Koomen, Dutch sportscaster, dies in auto-accident at 54
1985 - Tyrell Johnson, cricketer (WI left-arm quickie, one Test 1939), dies
1986 - Colin McCool, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia, 36 wkts), dies
1986 - Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82
1988 - Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor/director (Juggler), dies
1989 - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1990 - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
1991 - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
1991 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, USN/astro (STS 33), dies at 43
1992 - Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65
1992 - Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
1992 - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1994 - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at 92
1994 - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at 65
1994 - Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
1994 - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
1994 - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 in Seattle, Washington
1995 - Christian Pineau, French politician, dies
1996 - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, dies at 80
1997 - Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 - Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American Actor, dies at 84
2012 - Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer, dies at 76

MysteRy · « **Reply #461 on:** April 06, 2013, 11:31:51 AM »

This Day in History for 6th April

Historical Events

Russian Tsar Peter the Great Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

Playwright Arthur Miller French President Georges Pompidou Singer Rod Stewart

Soccer Legend Diego Maradona

46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in
the battle of Thapsus.
402 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
610 - Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
774 - Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
1106 - Fire in Venice
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1362 - Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1385 - John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1516 - A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1634 - Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao"
1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India
Company under John of Riebeeck
1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1664 - France & Saksen sign alliance
1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1672 - France declares war on Netherlands
1712 - Slave revolt in NY
1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1724 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1727 - Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 - English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup
d'état.
1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
1815 - English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1848 - Jews of Prussia granted equality
1859 - US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1860 - Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by
reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1865 - Battle of Sayler's Creek during US Civil War, 1/4rd of Lee's army cut off
1865 - Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox) during US Civil war;
1866 - G.A.R. forms
1869 - 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1883 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
1886 - City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1886 - Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1890 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1893 - Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins
1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1900 - James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to
later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 - 1st credit union forms in US
1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1919 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike.
1920 - French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 - 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 - Völkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1925 - 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1926 - Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
1930 - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 - 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1934 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1935 - H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1936 - 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
1936 - ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1936 - Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1939 - Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 - US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1941 - 8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280
1941 - Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 - British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941 - German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1941 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1943 - British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1943 - British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1944 - Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1945 - Coevorden freed from nazis
1945 - Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 - Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 - US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1947 - 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281
1947 - 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win
1947 - The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
1950 - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
1952 - 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
1954 - Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 - NYC ends trolley car service
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds
Olympic Airlines.
1958 - 22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
1959 - 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward & David Niven win
1964 - Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
1965 - Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
1966 - Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1967 - Premier Georges Pompidou forms new French government
1968 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
1968 - Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1968 - HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
1968 - In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1972 - Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1973 - Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1973 - Indies troops invade Sikkim
1973 - Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
1973 - Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #
1973 - US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter & Saturn
1973 - Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" in Ontario
1974 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1974 - Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1975 - "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs
1975 - "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1975 - Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1975 - Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1976 - 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1977 - Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1977 - Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
1978 - Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn & 193 to win Ranji Trophy
1979 - Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1980 - 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1980 - Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1980 - Post It Notes, introduced
1981 - Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1982 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1982 - Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minn 52,279
1983 - Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1984 - 1st time 11 people in space
1984 - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the
government headed by Paul Biya.
1985 - Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
1985 - Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 - Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1987 - 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1987 - Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball
management, sparking a racial controversy
1988 - Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1988 - NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 - NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1991 - Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1991 - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing
positive for cocaine use
1992 - 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1992 - 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51
1992 - Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 - Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1992 - Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
1992 - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 - US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-
order child pornography
1992 - Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
1993 - 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1993 - Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
1994 - 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
1994 - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1994 - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
1994 - Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994 - Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal
Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1995 - "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 - Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the
hand prior to a game
1997 - "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - 9th Seniors Golf Tradition: Gil Morgan wins
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
1997 - Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
1997 - Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
1997 - Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic
1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2004 - Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the
post by impeachment.
2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is
named premier the next day.
2006 - NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
2009 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253.
2012 - US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities

MysteRy · « **Reply #462 on:** April 06, 2013, 11:34:32 AM »

This Day in History for 6th April

Famous Weddings

1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
2012 - "Sex and the City" actor Chris Noth (57) weds actress Tara Wilson (30) in Hawaii

MysteRy · « **Reply #463 on:** April 06, 2013, 11:38:23 AM »

This Day in History for 6th April

Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49)
due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage
2012 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49)
due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage

MysteRy · « **Reply #464 on:** April 06, 2013, 11:59:14 AM »

This Day in History for 6th April

Famous Birthdays

Actor Billy Dee Williams (1937) Actor Paul Rudd (1969) Actor Zach Braff (1975)

1483 - Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
1613 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
1631 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1632 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
1660 - Johann Kuhnau, composer
1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1672 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
1708 - George Reuter, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
1757 - Alessandro Rolla, composer
1773 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1778 - Joseph Funk, composer
1810 - Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1812 - Aaron Bernstein, writer
1812 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
1815 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
1818 - Francis Henry Brown, composer
1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1819 - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
1823 - Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
1828 - Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1830 - James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1833 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1835 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer
1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
1844 - Joseph Ludwig, composer
1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1860 - René Lalique, French jewel designer
1866 - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1869 - Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
1871 - Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1878 - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
1878 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1883 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
1884 - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1885 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
1886 - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
1888 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1889 - Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
1889 - Gabriela Mistral, writer
1890 - Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer born
1890 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
1890 - Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 - Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 - Mateusz Glinski, composer
1894 - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
1896 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
1898 - Bobby Gilbert, PA
1900 - Andres Sas, composer
1900 - Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
1901 - Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer/music reviewer
1901 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1902 - Gertrude Short, Cincinnati OH, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 - Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
1903 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1904 - Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1906 - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1908 - Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
1909 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
1909 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
1910 - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1911 - Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate, composer
1912 - Endre Szekely, composer
1912 - Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Don Carlos)
1917 - Julian Faber, CEO (Willis Faber)
1917 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], Miss, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1918 - Joan Bernard, Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
1918 - Karen Verne, Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X)
1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
1920 - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
1921 - Andrew Welsh Imbrie, composer
1921 - Franta Belsky, British sculptor
1921 - Lord Moore of Wolvercote
1922 - Barry Levinson, director (Rain Man)
1925 - Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
1925 - John Knox, British supreme court justice
1925 - Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012)
1926 - Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
1927 - David Ingram, Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury)
1927 - Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
1928 - James Dewey Watson, chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1928 - Joi Lansing, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1929 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
1929 - Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist
1929 - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
1929 - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer
1929 - Li Yuan-chia, artist
1929 - Willis Hall, British writer
1931 - Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1931 - Joan Carlyle, British soprano
1933 - Dudley Sutton, British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle)
1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
1934 - Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1934 - Reijo Jyrkiainen, composer
1935 - Duke of Montrose
1935 - John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat)
1936 - Manfred Schoof, composer
1937 - Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)
1937 - Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1937 - Tom Veivers, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in the 60's)
1938 - Paul Daniels, British magician
1938 - Roy Thinnes, Chicago Ill, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, Gen Hospital)
1939 - André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
1940 - Anne Campbell, MP
1940 - Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
1940 - Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
1941 - Hans W Geissendorfer, Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof)
1941 - Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
1942 - Phil Austin, comedian (Firesign Theater)
1943 - Harry Conroy, trade unionist
1943 - Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist
1943 - Roger Cook, investigative journalist/broadcaster
1943 - Susan Tolsky, Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Comes the Brides)
1944 - Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano
1944 - John Stax, rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
1945 - Rodney Bickerstaffe, trade unionist
1945 - Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality
1946 - Paul Beresford, MP
1947 - Jan Kees Wiebenga, Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 - John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1947 - Tony Cooner, Essex, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 - Patrika Darbo, American actress
1949 - Jane Actman, NYC, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
1949 - Mary Maples Dunn, college president (Smith College)
1950 - Dennis E Eckart, (Rep-D-OH, 1981- )
1951 - Ralph Cooper, Australia, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
1951 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
1952 - Judith McConnell, actress (Sophia Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1952 - Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade)
1952 - Udo Dirkshneider, heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)
1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, German singer
1953 - Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1953 - Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
1954 - Judi Bowker, Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans)
1955 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
1955 - Michael Rooker, American actor
1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92)
1956 - Mudassar Nazar, cricketer (son of Nazar Mohammad Pakistani bat)
1957 - Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker (30K World Record)
1957 - Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
1959 - Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1961 - Mike Schuchart, Omaha NE, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Tour Championship)
1961 - Rory Bremner, impressionist
1962 - Stan Cullimore, bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1963 - Lorenzo Lynch, NFL safety (Az Cardinals, Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Bill Brooks, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Johnny Dee, heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra)
1964 - Phil Gayle, English news presenter
1965 - Gerald Diduck, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1965 - Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980)
1965 - Virginia Lee, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1965 - Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete
1966 - Kymberly Paige, Newport Beach Ca, playmate (May, 1987)
1966 - Young Man Kang, South Korean film director
1967 - Derrick Fenner, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1968 - Chris Anderson, Australian high jumper (Olympics-96)
1968 - Vanessa Lann, American composer
1969 - Andy Harmon, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Ari Meyers, San Juan PR, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie)
1969 - Bret Boone, El Cajon CA, infielder (Cin Reds)
1969 - Brian Williams, NBA center/forward (Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers)
1969 - Jack Canfora, American playwright
1969 - Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
1970 - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesbourg Saf, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Oliver Miller, NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
1971 - Anthony Redmon, guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Tamara Henry, Miss USA-Arkansas (1997)
1971 - Tom Sorensen, Racine Wisc, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Vivian Y Herding, Albuquerque NM, Miss America-NM (1996)
1971 - Lou Merloni, American baseball player
1972 - Dickey Simpkins, NBA forward (SF Warriors, Chicago Bulls)
1972 - Donald Blair, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 - Hurvin McCormack, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
1973 - Donnie Edwards, linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Randall Godfrey, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
1973 - Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
1973 - Gina Yashere, English comedian
1974 - Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
1975 - Dannon Phillip Pampolina, rapper/drummer (Party)
1975 - Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs)
1976 - Candace H Cameron Bure, actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
1976 - Simon Coombes, Melbourne VIC Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
1977 - Andy Phillips, American Baseball Player
1978 - Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
1978 - Myleene Klass, British singer
1978 - Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth)
1978 - Blaine Neal, American baseball player
1979 - Ali Burr, Miss North Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael
1980 - Matthew Thomas Carey, actor (Once You Meet a Stranger)
1981 - Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer
1982 - Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
1982 - Bret Harrison, American actor
1982 - Michael Guy Chislett, Australian born, American guitarist of The Academy Is...
1983 - Diora Baird, American actress
1983 - Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
1983 - James Wade, English Darts Player
1984 - Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter
1985 - Garrett Zablocki, American musician
1985 - Clarke MacArthur, Canadian-born ice hockey player
1987 - Levi Porter, English footballer
1988 - Mike Bailey, English actor
1988 - Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer
2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan

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