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This Day in History for 6th April


Famous Deaths

Country singer Tammy Wynette (1998)


885 - Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
912 - Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71
1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
1199 - Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
1252 - Peter of Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1348 - Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1362 - Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
1472 - Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1489 - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1490 - Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies
1520 - Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1528 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
1551 - Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66
1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
1593 - Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
1593 - John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
1605 - John Stow, British historian, dies
1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1707 - Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73
1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
1779 - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
1782 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90
1805 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
1817 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
1822 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62
1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
1829 - Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
1838 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
1854 - William Strickland, US architect, dies
1862 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
1865 - John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36
1865 - Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1884 - Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
1906 - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
1913 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
1919 - Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63
1926 - Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
1931 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
1935 - Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
1939 - Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
1940 - Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49
1945 - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
1947 - Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
1947 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
1949 - Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC Pres during WWII), dies
1951 - Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71
1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
1961 - Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1962 - J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at 74
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1966 - Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
1968 - Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
1971 - Igor F Strawinsky, Russ composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 88
1974 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89
1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
1975 - Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1976 - Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies
1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1978 - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1978 - Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
1979 - M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
1979 - Milton Ager, US composer, dies at 85
1983 - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1984 - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 - Ral Donner, singer/narrator, dies at 41
1990 - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
1990 - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
1991 - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1992 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
1993 - Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously
           falling from her husband's apartment
1993 - Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
1994 - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1994 - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 - Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77
1994 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
1994 - Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
1995 - Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
1996 - Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92
1997 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84
1998 - Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
2006 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
2007 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
2009 - Shawn Mackay, Brumbies rugby player (b. 1982)
2010 - Wilma Mankiller, Native-American activist, chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1945)
2010 - Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
2012 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident, dies at 76
2012 - Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, dies from heart attack at 78
2012 - Thomas Kinkade, American artist, dies from acute intoxication at 54

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This Day in History for 7th April


Historical Events

                                   
Composer                                        US President & General Andrew Jackson    Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi
Johann Sebastian Bach

                                   
Education Pioneer Booker                         Golfer Jack Nicklaus                               Actress Maggie Smith
Taliaferro Washington

                                   
WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan                       Actress Shannen Doherty                   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


30 - Scholars' estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
451 - Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern
          Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 - Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 - Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 - France declares war on Venice
1521 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 - Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1584 - Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 - Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 - Slave revolt (NYC)
1724 - Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1798 - Mississippi Territory organized
1805 - Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
1827 - English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1831 - Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 - Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1863 - Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 - Battle of Farmville VA
1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the
            Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician.
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
1890 - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1891 - Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1901 - SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 - Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1917 - De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
1917 - James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1919 - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1922 - Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by
           Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 - Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1926 - Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 - Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1928 - 44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game,
           & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
1931 - Seals Stadium opens in SF
1933 - 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1933 - Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 - University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 - Italy invades Albania
1940 - 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1940 - 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280
1941 - British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 - Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1943 - NFL adopts free substitution rule
1944 - General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
1945 - 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 - US B-17's bombs range at Luneburg
1945 - US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato &
           four destroyers were sunk
1946 - 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1946 - Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 - World Health Organization forms by UN
1948 - A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1949 - "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1951 - 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 - American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1954 - German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1954 - WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1956 - Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1957 - 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1957 - Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
1958 - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is
           only 250 feet down the line
1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 - Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1962 - Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1962 - Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 - 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1963 - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000
           shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
1965 - Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 - Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 - Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1968 - Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing
           accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.
1969 - Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 - Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1970 - "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1970 - 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 - Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
1971 - Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1971 - WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit
           Court of Appeals
1973 - Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 - Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1974 - Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 - Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 - Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction
           members while waiting at a red light.
1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 - Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1978 - US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's
           owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1979 - Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1979 - Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 - Belgium Eyskens government forms
1981 - Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1982 - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 - Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 - Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 - STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 - WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day
           event
1984 - Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 - 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 - 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 - NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1986 - Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1987 - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
1987 - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks
          on "Nightline"
1988 - Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1988 - Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1989 - NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran
           against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1990 - BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1990 - Farm Aid IV concert
1990 - John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
1990 - Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1991 - "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 - "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs
1991 - 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1991 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1991 - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1991 - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 - Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1993 - Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
1994 - "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 - 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 - NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1995 - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 - 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1996 - Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pak, Singapore
1996 - Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1999 - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade
           dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2005 - The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an
           impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering
           killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2012 - Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
2012 - 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier

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This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Weddings

2003 - Academy Award "Gladiator" actor Russell Crowe (39) weds singer Danielle Spencer (32) at his
           560-acre cattle farm in Nana Glen, New South Wales, Australia
2007 - "Scrubs" actor John C. McGinley (47) weds yoga instructor Nichole Kessler at their home in
           Malibu

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This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Musician Ravi Shankar (1920)                     Actor Jackie Chan (1954)                     Actor Russell Crowe (1964)


1506 - Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
1534 - Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
1613 - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School) (d. 1675)
1622 - Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
1629 - Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
1648 - Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d.
           1721)
1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1694 - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1699 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
1727 - Henri Hardouin, composer
1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
1745 - Georg Druschetzky, composer
1748 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1756 - Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
1768 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1770 - William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
1772 - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
1775 - Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1780 - William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
1786 - William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
1801 - Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1803 - Flora Tristan, writer
1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
1805 - Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
1819 - Hubert Leonard, composer
1822 - Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
1841 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus
1841 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
1847 - J P Jacobsen, writer
1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
1851 - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
1858 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1859 - Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1869 - David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
1870 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist
1870 - Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
1872 - William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American
           rights activist
1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
1878 - C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
1878 - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
1882 - Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, cricketer (belated Australian rep 1928-33)
1882 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
1884 - Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
1884 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
1893 - Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1894 - Gerald Brenan, English writer
1895 - Eduardo Toldra, composer
1895 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
1896 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1897 - Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer [OS]
1897 - Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
1897 - Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
1900 - Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1905 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1908 - Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
1912 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman
1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
1914 - Sydney Thompson, rock climber
1915 - Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
1915 - Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 - R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat), (d. 2012)
1918 - C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
1918 - Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1918 - Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
1918 - Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
1919 - Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orchestra leader (Let's Dance)
1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (6x Olympic gold, 1936-1960), (d. 2012)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012)
1920 - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
1922 - Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1924 - Ikuma Dan, composer
1924 - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
1926 - Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
1928 - Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
1928 - James Garner, Norman Oklahoma, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
1928 - James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
1930 - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
1931 - Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
1931 - Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
1933 - Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
1934 - Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
1934 - Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of
           Temple of Fine Arts
1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
1935 - Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
1935 - Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
1935 - Yvonne Fedderson, co-founder (Childhelp USA)
1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
1937 - Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
1938 - Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
1938 - Jerry Brown, ex-California governor
1938 - Yvonne Lime, Glendale California, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
1938 - [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal, 1974-..)
1939 - David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
1939 - Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
1940 - Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
1940 - Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
1942 - Edda Barends, actress (Arthur & Eva)
1942 - Jeetendra, Indian actor
1943 - Dennis Amiss, cricketer (prolific English batsman)
1943 - Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig)
1943 - Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, California, actress/singer (Virginian)
1943 - Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
1946 - Barbara Benary, composer
1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
1947 - Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 - Charles 'skip' Pitts, Washington D.C., soul and blues guitarist (Shaft), (d. 2012)
1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
1949 - John Oates, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
1951 - Janis Ian, NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
1951 - John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1952 - Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1952 - Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
1953 - Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
1954 - Donna White, LPGA golfer
1954 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
1954 - Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
1955 - Andrea Fisher, artist
1956 - Gail Lee Hirata, LPGA golfer
1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
1958 - Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
1958 - Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1960 - Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
1962 - Andy Hampsten, Columbus Ohio, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy California, lugist
1962 - Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night)
1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
1964 - Helen Wadsworth, S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
1964 - Joe Durant, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
1964 - Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind,
           Gladiator)
1965 - Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star
1965 - Kaushik Amalean, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
1966 - Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
1967 - Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
1968 - Bill Bellamy, actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
1968 - Don[ald] Smith, North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
1969 - Clark Sheehan, Denver Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jeremy Lincoln, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Ricky Bones, Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, NY Yanks)
1969 - Ricky Watters, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Alexander Karpovtsev, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 - Kevin Smith, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
1971 - Cara Kendra Bernosky, Miss USA-Pennsylvania (1997)
1971 - Mark Thompson, Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - Stephen Brimacombe, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 - Victor Kraatz, Berlin Ger, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
1972 - Greg Clark, tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Joanne Brown, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olym-bronze-96)
1972 - Lovett Purnell, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 - Malcolm Huckaby, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1972 - Shana Williams, Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
1974 - Anita Maxwell, WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 - Beverly Peele, super model (Elle)
1975 - Ronde Barber, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Tiki Barber, running back (NY Giants)
1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
1976 - Erich Goldmann, Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
1978 - Siobhan Drake-Brockman, Bunbury Aust, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie)
1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
1986 - Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
1987 - Alexa Demara, American model and actress
1989 - Franco Di Santo, Argentine Footballer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Deaths

Newscaster Mike Wallace (2012)


30 - Jesus Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies
924 - Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)
1444 - John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27
1524 - Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist working in Spain (b. 1541)
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)
1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
1767 - Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
1768 - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1778 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)
1783 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1803 - [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies
1810 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
1833 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
1842 - Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
1862 - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
1868 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 - Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
1871 - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus adm (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43
1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1875 - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
1877 - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
1880 - Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
1881 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65
1884 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1891 - Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
1917 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1932 - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1933 - Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
1934 - William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1950 - Walter Huston, dies at 66
1955 - Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
1958 - Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
1958 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
1961 - Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
1961 - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
1967 - Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
1968 - Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
1970 - Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies
1971 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
1972 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 - Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
1972 - Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
1973 - Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
1976 - Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76
1977 - Siegfried Buback, German FR procureur-genl, murdered attorney-general
1978 - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
1979 - Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78
1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1982 - Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1982 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1983 - Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
1984 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
1984 - Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
1987 - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
1988 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
1989 - Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
1992 - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
1992 - Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
1992 - Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39
1993 - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
1993 - Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
1993 - S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect), dies
1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
1994 - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
1994 - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59
1994 - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994 - Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1995 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68
1996 - Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59
1997 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1998 - Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer
2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
2003 - David Greene, British television director (b. 1921)
2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
2005 - Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2005 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2007 - Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2009 - Dave Arneson, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
2012 - Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality, dies at 93

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th April


Historical Events

                                   
Classical music prodigy Mozart                  British Prime Minister                           Naturalist Charles Darwin
                                                                   William Gladstone

                                   
32nd US President                                    Baseball Player Hank Aaron                           Actor Clint Eastwood
Franklin Roosevelt

                 
Baseball Player                                      265th Pope Benedict XVI
Darryl Strawberry 


217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect,
          Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
1149 - Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor
1271 - In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 - Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 - Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
1730 - 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1767 - Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
1781 - Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 - House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1802 - French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1808 - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding
           of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope 
           Pius VII.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1838 - Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
1848 - 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 - US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
1862 - John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1864 - Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor
1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1876 - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of
           Commons.
1893 - The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 - Gr Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
1908 - Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1912 - Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1916 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1916 - In Corona, California, racecar driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five
           spectators.
1920 - LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
1929 - Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and
           Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1931 - "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1931 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres
1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1935 - 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
1935 - Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC
1935 - Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1939 - ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
1943 - Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 - Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1943 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices,
           prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars
           rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 - Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1948 - Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF
1950 - "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
1952 - Pres Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN
1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs
1956 - 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289
1956 - 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
1956 - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 - Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 - "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1961 - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 - Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1963 - 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft & G Peck win
1963 - Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 - AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1966 - Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
1966 - OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1968 - 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of M L King
1968 - Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of M L King assassination
1968 - Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 - WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - 1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats NY Mets 10-9
1969 - Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games
1970 - "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
1970 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1971 - 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1972 - Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
1973 - Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus take place.
1974 - Discovery Island opens
1974 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1975 - 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 - Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3)
1977 - Israel premier Rabin resigns
1979 - "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
1979 - 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1979 - 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
1980 - Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded
           playoff goals in 1 period
1981 - Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1982 - Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1982 - Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title
1984 - 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1984 - 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
1985 - "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs
1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1985 - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
1989 - 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn
1990 - "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1990 - "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1990 - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1990 - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1991 - "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
1991 - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
1991 - Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1991 - Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
1991 - Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
1992 - "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs
1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
1993 - Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
1994 - Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
1994 - Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1995 - BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
1995 - Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
1997 - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
1999 - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian         
           National Congress.
2000 - Nineteen Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana,
           Arizona.
2004 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government
           and two rebel groups.
2004 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission.
2006 - Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario,
           Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2008 - The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines completes, in Bahrain.
2012 - Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
2012 - Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Weddings

1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter
           the Great's niece
1989 - Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
2006 - "All of Us" TV actress LisaRaye McCoy (38) weds Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos
           Michael Misick (40) in an $1.5 million beachside wedding in Caribbean
2006 - Former Miss USA and "Eve" actress Ali Landry (32) weds film director Alejandro Gomez
           Monteverde (28) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2006 - Two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish gypsy singer Rosario Flores (42) weds
           "Kingdom of Heaven" first assistant director Pedro Lazaga on a small village Canos de Meca in
           Cadiz, Spain
2006 - Spanish model and actress Ines Sastre (32) weds Alexandro Corrias at Brompton Oratory in
           South Kensington, London
2012 - American actress and television host Ricki Lake (42) weds jewerly designer Christian Evans in
           a secret ceremony at Southern California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US First Lady Betty Ford (1918)                    Bank Robber                                  Actress Robin Wright Penn (1966)
                                                              Robert Alan Litchfield (1948)


1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1460 - Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1533 - Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
1582 - Phienas Fletcher, poet
1605 - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter
1605 - Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
1631 - Cornelis de Heem, painter
1641 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
1642 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral
1655 - Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo)
1695 - Johann C Gunther, writer
1697 - Pierre Prowo, composer
1708 - Georg Zarth, composer
1726 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)
1731 - William Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence)
1732 - David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
1741 - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
1756 - Joseph Gehot, composer
1775 - Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1776 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
1783 - John Claudius, London England, horticulturist
1798 - Dionysios Solomos, poet
1816 - Frederick William Burton, painter
1818 - Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906)
1826 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
1827 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
1828 - George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
1832 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1842 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
1843 - Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
1850 - William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins)
1859 - Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology)
1865 - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
1869 - Harvey Cushing, US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
1871 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
1874 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
1875 - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34)
1878 - Rudolf Nelson, composer
1880 - Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY)
1881 - Fernand Lamy, composer
1883 - R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972)
1885 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer
1886 - Margaret A Barnes, writer
1887 - Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
1888 - Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
1889 - Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
1892 - Mary Pickford, [Gladys Smith], actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)
1892 - Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
1893 - Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
1893 - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
1895 - Bert I Gordon, NY
1895 - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
1896 - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
1896 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1897 - Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1898 - Achiel H Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1898 - Cecil [Maurice] Bowra, British classics expert (Greek experience)
1902 - Arthur Wellard, cricketer (big hitting Somerset & England batsman)
1902 - Josef Krips, Vienna Austria, conductor (London Symph 1954-63)
1903 - Ilka Chase, NYC, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien)
1904 - John Antill, composer
1904 - John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)
1905 - George Baxter, Paris France, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged)
1905 - Hans Scherfig, Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm)
1905 - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side)
1905 - Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1906 - Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
1906 - Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
1907 - Maurice Stacey, chemist
1908 - Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1909 - George Dixon, trumpet/sax
1909 - Olavi Pesonen, composer
1909 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1910 - George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1910 - Wendell Bill, cricketer (NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
1911 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian
1911 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist
1911 - Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912 - Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater/actress (Olympic-gold-1928,32,36)
1912 - Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
1913 - H Ernst, bishop (Breda Neth)
1914 - John Cameron, cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour)
1914 - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1918 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
1918 - Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
1919 - [Douglas] Ian Smith, premier of Rhodesia (1964-..)
1920 - Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
1920 - Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1921 - Alfie Bass, London England, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served)
1921 - Betty Bloomer Ford, 1st lady (1975-76)/namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1921 - Jan Novak, composer
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, LA California, actress/singer (Gus, Ziegfeld Follies)
1921 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
1923 - Edward Mulhare, Cork Ireland, actor (Daniel Gregg-Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1923 - Franco Corelli, Anconia Italy, tenor (Don Jose-Carmen)
1923 - George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1924 - Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
1924 - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Shecky Greene, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (Love Machine, Combat)
1926 - Henry N. Cobb, American architect
1926 - Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
1928 - Eric Porter, London England, actor (Antony & Cleopatra, 39 Steps)
1928 - John Gavin, LA California, actor (Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale)
1928 - Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, CEO (NVSH)
1928 - Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
1928 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
1928 - Fred Ebb, Manhattan NY, American composer, (d. 2004)
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgium, singer/actor (Pain in the A__)
1929 - Renzo de Felice, historian
1929 - WIlliam K Everson, film historian
1929 - Walter Berry, Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
1930 - Dorothy Tutin, London, actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell)
1930 - John Bartholomew Tucker, Pa, TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)
1930 - John Reardon, NYC, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus)
1930 - Julien Van Remoortere, [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist)
1930 - Mary Moore, principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
1930 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
1932 - John Gavin, LA California, actor (Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows)
1933 - Jaroslav Smolka, composer
1934 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
1935 - Albert G Bustamante, (Rep-D-TX, 1985- )
1935 - Donald Thompsett, cricket umpire
1935 - Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, epidemiologist (Living legacy award-1984)
1936 - Klaus Lowitsch, Berlin, actor (Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun)
1937 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader
1937 - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times)
1938 - Barton Keith McLean, composer
1938 - Lory Patrick, Beckley WV, actress (Trina-Tales of Welles Fargo)
1938 - Mohammad Farooq, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 7 Tests 1960-65)
1940 - John Havlicek, Martin's Ferry Ohio, NBA hall-of-famer (Boston Celtics)
1941 - Peggy Lennon, LA California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 - Douglas Trumbull, director (Silent Running, Brainstorm)
1942 - Eduard Visser, Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita)
1942 - Roger Chapman, Leicester, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1943 - Carol Lavell, Fairfax Vt, equestrian dressage (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1943 - J P Kavanaugh, racehorse trainer
1943 - Michael Bennett, aids victim/choreographer (Chorus Line)
1943 - Robby Weaver, actor (Stone)
1943 - Tony Banks, English politician (Lab)
1943 - William Garth Morrison, Chief scout
1944 - Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian
1944 - Christoph Hein, writer
1944 - Hywel Bennett, South Wales, actor (Family Way, Shelley)
1944 - Santiago Jimenez Jr, US accordionist (El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin)
1944 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
1945 - Ian White, MEP
1945 - Derrick Walker, British racing team owner
1946 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)
1946 - Stuart Pankin, Phila, comedian (Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs)
1946 - Tim Thomerson, American actor
1947 - Cindy Pickett, Norman Oklahoma, actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere)
1947 - Hsiao-hsien Hou, dir (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster)
1947 - Steve Howe, London, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
1947 - Thomas D Delay, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1947 - Tom DeLay, American politician
1947 - Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
1948 - Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Rick-Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 - Robert Alan Litchfield, Mass, bank robber (FBI most wanted in the 1980s)
1948 - Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate
1949 - Jim Lampley, Hendersonville NC, newscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1950 - Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
1952 - Adam Woods, rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
1954 - Gary Carter, catcher (Mont Expos, NY Mets)
1954 - John Schneider, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Bo-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 - G.V. Loganathan, American professor (d. 2007)
1955 - John Campbell, harness racer (3-time winner of Hambletonian)
1955 - Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman
1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
1955 - David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician
1956 - Christine Boisson, French actress
1956 - Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer
1957 - Fred Smerlas, American football player
1959 - Franklyn Stephenson, cricketer (great all-rounder)
1959 - Martin Weston, cricketer
1960 - John Schneider, American actor
1961 - Richard Hatch, American reality television personality
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, [Jeff Isabelle], Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns & Roses)
1963 - Alec Stewart, cricketer (son of Micky/opening bat Occasional WK)
1963 - Erica Terwillegar, Nelsonville NJ, lugist
1963 - Julian Lennon, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)
1963 - Terry Porter, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1963 - Seth Tobias, American financial commentator (d. 2007)
1964 - Biz Markie, rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
1964 - Valinda Hilleary, Littleton Co, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1993)
1964 - Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster
1964 - John McGinlay, Scottish footballer
1966 - Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Tx, actress (Santa Barbara, Princess Bride)
1966 - Mazinho, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality
1967 - Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer (WI like his namesake)
1967 - Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor
1968 - Don Davey, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Patricia Arquette, NYC, actress (Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
1968 - Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100 m hurdles)
1969 - Steve Jackson, NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Derek D Brown, Wash DC, team handball right wing (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Gerald Vaughn, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Harold Bishop, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Edward Fryatt, Rochdale England, Nike golfer (1994 NCAA West Regional)
1971 - Marc Peers, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Damon Watts, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Isaac Davis, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Katrina Powell, Canberra Australia, field hockey striker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
1973 - Alex Gonzalez, Miami FL, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Joel Davis, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue, Auckland NZ, 50m/100m swimmer (Oly-96)
1973 - Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
1974 - Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
1974 - Chino XL, American rapper
1974 - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nigerian American writer
1974 - Chris Kyle, Odessa, Texas, Navy SEAL sniper (160 kills), (d. 2013)
1975 - Anouk, Dutch singer
1976 - Jim Farnum, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1977 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008)
1977 - Mark Spencer, American computer programmer
1978 - Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer
1978 - Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
1979 - Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player
1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
1980 - Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1980 - Katee Sackhoff, American actress
1981 - Rebecca Wilson, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Brian Burres, American baseball player
1981 - Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
1983 - Allu Arjun, Indian film actor
1983 - Adrian Bellani, American actor
1984 - Taran Noah Smith, SF California, actor (Mark Taylor-Home Improvement)
1984 - Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model
1984 - Kirsten Storms, American actress
1986 - Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
1986 - Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1986 - Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
1987 - Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
1989 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
1992 - Shelby Young, American actress
1993 - Trent Sullivan, Australian Actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Deaths

                                   
Ford Motor Company Founder                Artist/Cubist Co-founder                   Actress Robin Wright Penn (1966)
Henry Ford (1947)                                   Pablo Picasso (1973) 


217 - Caracalla, [Marcus Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
956 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
1143 - John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident
1364 - John II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44
1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1492 - Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico", ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27
1537 - Willem Aerts, Flemish architect, dies
1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1587 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1629 - Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar, dies at 50
1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1725 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
1735 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676)
1736 - Pedro Vaz Rego, composer, dies at 63
1759 - Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76
1778 - Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
1794 - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
1844 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72
1848 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1851 - John Parry, composer, dies at 75
1853 - Jan W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73
1857 - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76
1861 - Elisha G Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
1863 - Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70
1865 - John Park, composer, dies at 61
1870 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1871 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer, dies at 68
1889 - Henry Jupp, cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for Engl in 1877), dies
1890 - Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76
1894 - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
1897 - George Garrett, composer, dies at 62
1897 - Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician, dies
1902 - Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1906 - Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1950)
1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35
1921 - Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1931 - Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies
1935 - Edwin Cannan, economist, dies
1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1937 - Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84
1937 - William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1938 - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies
1942 - Alfred Mombert, writer, dies
1942 - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1943 - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1943 - Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1947 - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83
1948 - Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
1950 - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63
1950 - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London
1957 - Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies
1958 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
1959 - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies
1963 - Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wkts in 1 Test for S A), dies
1965 - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70
1965 - Jack Durston, cricketer (one Test for England, 4-102 & 1-34), dies
1965 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78
1966 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1969 - Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48
1970 - Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies
1973 - Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91
1974 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
1976 - Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35
1977 - Frank Milan, actor (Witness), dies at 71
1978 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
1981 - Norman Taurog, dies
1981 - Omar Bradley, last US 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in NY at 88
1984 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1987 - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
1990 - Doreen Sloane, dies
1990 - Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56
1990 - Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18
1991 - Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1992 - Nelson Olmstead, dies at 78
1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1993 - Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78
1993 - H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies
1993 - Marian Anderson, US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96
1994 - Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
1994 - Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91
1994 - Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
1994 - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1995 - Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick), dies
1996 - Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner, dies at 80
1996 - Ben Johnson, cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77
1996 - Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67
1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
1997 - Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49
2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2004 - Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
2005 - Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2005 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
2007 - Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
2008 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
2008 - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2008 - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
2010 - Malcolm McLaren, British music manager and musician (b. 1946)
2010 - Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
2010 - Jack Agnew, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2012 - Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, dies at 83

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th April


Historical Events

                                   
Confederate General                                  Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Actress Mae West
Robert E Lee

                                   
Actress Sophia Loren                           Clergyman and civil rights activist          MacDonalds Entreprenuer Ray Kroc
                                                                     Martin Luther King Jr,

                                   
Actress Jane Fonda                                      NHL all-time top scorer                          Consort of George VI &
                                                                       Wayne Gretzky                                mother of Queen Elizabeth II
                                                                                                                         Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother


193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire,
         supporting the Monophysite christological position.
715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 - Edward V (12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England (never crowned).
           Disappears, presumed murdered same year.
1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 - Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 - French troops occupy Mons
1724 - 1st Easter [NS=April 16]
1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
1829 - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1838 - National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London
1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
1865 - General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to
           US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1866 - Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1894 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1906 - 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
1912 - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1913 - Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
1914 - "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London
1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1914 - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1917 - Battle of Arras begins
1917 - Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence
1923 - Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin
1925 - Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena
1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1928 - Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1931 - Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
1932 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games
1935 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
1939 - Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
1940 - German cruiser Blucher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan
1944 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
1945 - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 - NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1946 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 - Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1949 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards
           Britain damages
1950 - 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
1950 - 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia
1952 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a
           period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1953 - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1954 - WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Wash DC
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1959 - Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
1959 - Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1959 - 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th
           straight title
1960 - 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1960 - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1962 - 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1962 - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren & Max Schell win
1962 - JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1965 - Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1965 - 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st
           indoor homerun
1966 - Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
1967 - "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1967 - 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
1967 - Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1968 - German DR adopts constitution
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta
1968 - Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1968 - Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1969 - 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1969 - Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
1971 - Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1972 - "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
1972 - 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1972 - Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI
1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 - 37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283
1973 - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1973 - Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1974 - Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen
           such stupid baseball playing in my life"
1976 - US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1977 - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1978 - 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
1978 - Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
1978 - David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
1978 - Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points
           in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter)
1979 - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
1980 - Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1980 - Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
1980 - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1981 - LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1981 - US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1982 - LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
1983 - 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1983 - Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
1984 - 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall & S Maclaine win
1985 - White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
1986 - "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1987 - For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes
           Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1988 - Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
1989 - 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
1989 - Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1989 - Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev
1989 - Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
1989 - Wash DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1990 - "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
1990 - NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
1990 - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
1991 - Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
1992 - "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
1992 - Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
1992 - John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
1992 - Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
1992 - Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
1992 - US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
1992 - William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
1994 - BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1995 - "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
1995 - 59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
1997 - Cleve Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
1997 - Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
1997 - NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl"
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated.
2000 - 64th Golf Masters Championship:
2002 - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
2003 - Baghdad falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting
2011 - A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the
           Netherlands.
2012 - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the
           Opera

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This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Weddings

1966 - Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
1994 - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles
2010 - Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos (30) weds Julie Lesicki at St. Augstine Catholic
           Church in Philadelphia

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This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Divorces

2012 - Salsa artist Marc Anthony (42) divorces pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez (43) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Turkic Conqueror                                     Actress Cynthia Nixon (1966)                Actress Kristen Stewart (1990)
Tamerlane (1336)


1336 - Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
1597 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
1611 - Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
1627 - Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
1634 - Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
1649 - James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
1716 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1717 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer
1751 - Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1]
1754 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1754 - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
1757 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1773 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824
1785 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1798 - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
1812 - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1821 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
1826 - Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1835 - Leopold II, King of Belgians (1865-1909)
1847 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1847 - Francis William Davenport, composer
1848 - F A MacKinnon, cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon)
1848 - Helena Lange, German feminist
1850 - Herman Zumpe, composer
1851 - C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)
1854 - Seaborn M Denson, composer
1855 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
1861 - Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
1865 - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
1865 - Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
1871 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1872 - Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
1874 - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1879 - Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
1882 - Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (d. 1946)
1883 - Renzo Bossi, composer
1884 - Franco Vittadini, composer
1888 - Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1888 - Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
1891 - John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
1894 - Ernest Kanitz, composer
1895 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
1895 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1898 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
1898 - Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
1898 - Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer
1900 - Allen Jenkins, Staten Island, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit)
1901 - Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Frantisek Suchy, composer [or April 21, 1891]
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Nov 9]
1903 - Ward Bond, Denver Colo, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains)
1903 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguist
1904 - Lyle Latell, IA, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon)
1904 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
1905 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)
1906 - Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29
1906 - Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour)
1906 - Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
1908 - Fred Lohse, composer
1908 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art)
1909 - Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
1909 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
1909 - Robert Helpmann, Mt Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)
1909 - Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer
1910 - Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
1910 - Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1911 - Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)
1911 - Lord Deramore, architect
1912 - Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)
1914 - Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., Quebec politician (d. 1968)
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, writer
1917 - Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
1917 - Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1918 - Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
1919 - John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
1920 - Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
1920 - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1920 - David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
1920 - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
1921 - Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
1921 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
1922 - Carl Amery, writer
1922 - Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
1922 - Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
1923 - Bruno Kiefer, composer
1923 - Dann Cahn, Hollywood, California,film editor (I Love Lucy, Beverly Hillbillies), (d. 2012)
1924 - Harald Heilmann, composer
1925 - Michael Richardson, vice CEO (N M Rotschild)
1925 - Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office)
1926 - Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
1926 - Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)
1926 - Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy)
1926 - Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
1926 - Michael Ogden, QC
1928 - Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
1928 - Floyd D Spence, (Rep-R-SC, 1971- )
1928 - Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
1929 - Harvey Lichtenstein, pres (Bkln Academy of Music)
1930 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
1930 - Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
1931 - Bill Gilbert, Wash DC, sports author (They Also Served, Big E)
1931 - Martin Rogers, director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)
1931 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1932 - Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
1932 - Jim Fowler, Albany Ga, naturalist (Wild Kingdom)
1932 - Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies)
1932 - Peter Moores, director (Littlewoods)
1932 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut
1932 - Jim Fowler, American zoologist
1932 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
1932 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor
1933 - Jacques Molicard, translator/navigator
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
1933 - Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
1934 - Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
1935 - Aulis Sallinen, composer
1935 - Avery Schreiber, Chicago Ill, comedian (My Mother the Car)
1936 - Jerzy Maksymiuk, composer
1936 - Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
1937 - Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
1937 - Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster
1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
1939 - Michael Learned, Wash DC, actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
1940 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 - Hannah Gordon, actress (Oh Alfie)
1941 - Kaye Adams, American country singer
1941 - Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Brandon De Wilde, Bkln NY, actor (Jamie, Wild in the Sky)
1942 - Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1942 - Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
1943 - Terry Knight, rock vocalist (Gloria, Terry Knight & the Pack)
1945 - Gus Hardin, [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa Oklahoma, country singer
1946 - Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper (1967-81)
1946 - Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-Cat Crept In)
1946 - Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 - Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress
1949 - Chico Ryan, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
1949 - Steve Gadd, jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz)
1950 - Ehtesham-ud-din, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 5 Tests 1980-82)
1950 - Kenneth D Cockrell, Austin Texas, Astronaut (STS 56, 69, 80)
1950 - Nathan Cook, Phila Pa, actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
1952 - Magnar Am, composer
1953 - Hal Ketchum, Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night)
1954 - Dennis Quaid, Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
1955 - Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist
1955 - Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
1956 - Miguel Ángel Russo, Argentine footballer
1957 - Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
1957 - Severiano Ballesteros, Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)
1957 - Brian Alexander, British broadcaster
1957 - Martin Margiela, Belgian fashion designer
1958 - Tony Sibson, boxer
1959 - Dave Innis, Bartlesville Oklahoma, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 - Kirk McCaskill, Kapuskasing Ont, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1961 - Mark Kelly, Dublin Ireland, keyboardist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1962 - Freddie Joe Nunn, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1962 - Jeff Turner, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1963 - Joe Scarborough, American television personality
1964 - Shane Robinson, Adelaide SA, Australasia golfer
1964 - Rob Awalt, American football player
1964 - Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
1965 - Hal Morris, Fort Rucker Alabama, infielder (Cin Reds)
1965 - Helen Alfredsson, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1993 Dinah Shore)
1965 - Paolo Cane, Itaty, tennis star
1965 - Paulina Porizkova, Prostejov Czech, model (Playboy-Aug 87)
1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive
1965 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1965 - Mark Pellegrino, American actor
1966 - Cynthia Nixon, NYC, actress (Addams Family Values, Pelican Brief)
1966 - Oliver Barnett, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 - Graeme Lloyd, Australia, pitcher (NY Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers)
1967 - Alex Kahn, American artist
1968 - Janne Ojanen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1969 - Amy Feng, Tianjin China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Karl Krikken, cricketer (Derbyshire 1989-, wicketkeeper)
1969 - Timothy Young, Phila, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 - Chuck Bradley, CFL/WLAF tackle (BC Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Neal Caloia, Torrance California, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington)
1970 - Mike Barz, American meteorologist and TV anchor
1971 - Anthony Redmon, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Austin Peck, Hawaii, actor (Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives)
1971 - Derwin Gray, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - James Hundon, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 - Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (Oly-1988)
1971 - Peter Canavan, Gaelic footballer
1971 - Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian race car driver
1972 - Brian DeMarco, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Craig Jones, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jeff Wilkins, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Jeffrey van As, soccer player (MVV)
1972 - Karen Clark, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1973 - Spenny Rice, Canadian Entertainer
1974 - Ben Bordelon, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Kevin Mathis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Sharon Pelletier, Madawaska Maine, Miss America-Maine (1996)
1974 - Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
1975 - Robbie Fowler, English footballer
1975 - David Gordon Green, American filmmaker
1977 - Gerard Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1978 - Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
1978 - Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby)
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
1979 - Keith Nobbs, American actor
1980 - Kristin Lee, Bethesda Md, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1980 - Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
1980 - Yoanna House, American model
1980 - Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
1981 - Eric Harris, Columbine High School shooter (d. 1999)
1981 - Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer
1981 - Milan Bartovič, Slovak ice hockey player
1981 - Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player
1982 - Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
1982 - Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
1984 - Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1984 - Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
1985 - Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer News
1986 - Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
1986 - Leighton Meester, American actress
1987 - Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
1987 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
1990 - Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad
1990 - Kristen Stewart, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
1998 - Elle Fanning, American Actress

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This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Deaths

Princess of Orange
Maria Louise van
Hessen-Kassel (1765) 


93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
715 - Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1024 - Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) (b.1442)
1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473), son of Richard III King of England
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
1553 - Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
1557 - Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
1626 - Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65
1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
1681 - Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1747 - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
1754 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
1761 - William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
1765 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77
1793 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
1804 - Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies
1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic dies at 58
1807 - John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
1821 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
1850 - William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
1851 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
1852 - John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1862 - George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
1865 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1872 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1879 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1886 - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1893 - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
1904 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1909 - Charles Conder, artist, dies
1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1916 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
1917 - Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1923 - Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
1931 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55
1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1939 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89
1940 - Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies
1944 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
1945 - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1945 - Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1945 - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
1947 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
1951 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies
1951 - Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
1954 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89
1961 - Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1962 - Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
1966 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 - Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1978 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b.1883)
1979 - Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71
1980 - Kathleen Burke, dies
1982 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1982 - Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
1984 - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
1986 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64
1988 - Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis
1988 - Dave Prater, rocker (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash at 50
1991 - Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1992 - Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1992 - Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
1993 - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
1994 - Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
1994 - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994 - Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
1994 - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
1995 - James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92
1996 - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81
1996 - Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81
1996 - Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
1997 - Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
1998 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
2001 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
2006 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
2009 - Nick Adenhart, MLB pitcher (b. 1986)
2010 - Zoltán Varga, Hungarian Footballer (b. 1945)
2010 - Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian modern pentathlon olimpic champion (1952, Helsinki) (b. 1932)
2011 - Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
2012 - Mark Lenzi, American Olympic Diver, dies from hypertension at 43