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MysteRy · « **Reply #600 on:** May 06, 2013, 05:53:07 PM »

This Day in History for 6th May

Famous Weddings

1476 - Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the bold arrange marriage of their children
1950 - Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1960 - English princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) at Westminster
Abbey
1997 - "The X-files" actor David Duchovny (36) weds actress Tea Leoni (31) in the garden of the
Grace Church School
2001 - Actress-singer Billie Piper (18) weds media mogul Chris Evans (35) at the Little Church of the
West in Las Vegas
2006 - Former WWF Women's Champion Sable (38) weds IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Brock
Lesnar (28) in Medina, Minnesota
2006 - "Scooter" techno rocker lead singer H.P. Baxxter (40) weds model Simone Mustert at
Tremsbuttel Castle near Hamburg
2006 - Duchess of Cornwall's daughter Laura Parker-Bowles (28) weds former Calvin Klein model
Harry Lopes (28) at Church of Saint Cyriac in Lacock, Wiltshire
2006 - "Coronation Street" actress Julia Haworth (26) weds Jon Wormald at St. Stephen's CE Church
in Burnley, Lancashire
2006 - Race car driver "Champ Car World Series" two time winner Sebastien Bourdais (27) weds
Claire Bagot at Cathedral Saint-Julien in Le Mans, France
2007 - Evanescence singer Amy Lee (25) weds Josh Hartzler (29) in Little Rock, Arkansas
2007 - "The Fast and the Furious" actress Jordana Brewster (27) weds movie producer Andrew Form
(38) in Bahamas

MysteRy · « **Reply #601 on:** May 06, 2013, 05:54:21 PM »

This Day in History for 6th May

Famous Divorces

2006 - "Dallas" actress Victoria Principal (56) divorces plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (63) due to
irreconcilable differences after nearly 21 years of marriage

MysteRy · « **Reply #602 on:** May 06, 2013, 06:00:13 PM »

This Day in History for 6th May

Famous Birthdays

Father of Psychology Actor Orson Welles (1915) Actor George Clooney (1961)
Sigmund Freud (1856)

973 - Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
1397 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)
1501 - Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
1581 - Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
1606 - Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
1638 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)
1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
1759 - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1785 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
1786 - Ludwig Borne, writer
1790 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer
1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer
1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
1801 - George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1802 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
1806 - Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
1809 - William Walker, composer
1812 - Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
1813 - Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1814 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
1825 - Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1829 - Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
1830 - Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet
1838 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
1843 - Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
1849 - Wyatt Eaton, artist
1856 - Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian neurologist and father of psychology,
(d. 1939)
1858 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
1859 - Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
1859 - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
1861 - Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
1861 - Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1868 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
1868 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
1869 - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist
1870 - Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose California, founded Bank of America
1870 - John McCutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
1871 - August Reusner, composer
1871 - Ch Morgenstern, writer
1871 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)
1875 - William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff (1949)
1879 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
1879 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist (d. 1952)
1880 - Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951)
1883 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
1888 - Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
1889 - Arthur Morison, typographer
1890 - Claire Whitney, NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
1894 - Filip Lazar, composer
1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
1895 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)
1895 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)
1897 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube)
1898 - Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime
1899 - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)
1902 - Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
1902 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
1903 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
1904 - Catherine Lacey, London England, actress (Sorcerors)
1904 - Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
1904 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980)
1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
1905 - Norman De Tar, composer
1905 - [Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
1906 - Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
1906 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)
1907 - Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
1908 - Necil Kazim Akses, composer
1909 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (d. 2004)
1910 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist
1912 - Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
1912 - Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
1912 - Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
1913 - Carmen Cavallaro, NYC, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe)
1913 - Gyula David, composer
1913 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
1913 - Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1913 - Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
1913 - Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1915 - George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
1915 - John Arnold, British high court judge
1915 - May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curacao, sculptor
1915 - Orson Welles [George], Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), (d. 1985)
1915 - Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President)
1916 - Adriana Caselotti, animation voice (Show White)
1917 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001)
1918 - Godfrey Ridout, composer
1918 - Sydney Chatton, England
1919 - Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey
1920 - John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
1921 - Erich Freid, writer
1921 - Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
1921 - Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
1922 - Alan Ross, editor (London Magazine)
1922 - Carlos J Moorhead, (Rep-R-CA, 1973- )
1922 - John Ernest, constructionist artist
1922 - Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
1922 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
1923 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist
1923 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor
1924 - Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
1924 - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)
1925 - Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
1926 - John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen
1926 - Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway), (d. 2012)
1926 - [Martin] Ross Hunter, Cleveland OH, actor (Ever Since Paris)
1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
1927 - Ettore Manni, Rome Italy, actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell)
1927 - Michael Frederick, cricketer (one Test WI v Engld 1954, scored 0 & 30)
1928 - Robert Poujade, French politician
1929 - John Polk Allen, Carnegie Oklahoma, CEO (Biosphere 2)
1929 - John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
1929 - Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
1931 - Marvin Leath, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
1931 - Willie Mays, Westfield Alabama, baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets), "Say Hey Kid" (660
HRs, MVP 1954)
1932 - Gunther Hauk, composer
1932 - John Bond, cricket umpire
1932 - Viscount Coke, English large landowner/art collector
1933 - Lord Pender
1934 - Richard C Shelby, (Rep-D-AL (1979-86)/Sen-D-AL, 1987- )
1936 - Joanna Dunham, actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood)
1936 - Sylvia Robinson, rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
1936 - Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades)
1937 - Rubin Carter, American boxer
1938 - Eleanor Platt, QC
1938 - Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician
1938 - Larry Gogan, Irish radio personality
1939 - Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance
1939 - Herbie Cox, rocker (Cleftones)
1939 - Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - Henry Habibe, Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)
1940 - Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77)
1941 - Fred J Eckert, (Rep-D-NY, 1985-87)
1941 - Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
1942 - Colin Earl, rocker
1942 - Rin Kaiho, professional Go player
1943 - Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1944 - Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991)
1944 - Masanori Murakami, First Japanese baseball player in major leagues
1945 - Bob Seger, Dearborn Mich, folk singer (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
1945 - Richard Eyers, LA California, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
1945 - Victoria Bond, composer
1946 - Jim Ramstad, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
1946 - Susan Brown, actress (Gail Baldwin-General Hospital)
1947 - Andy Roberts, cricketer (NZ batsman 1976)
1947 - Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right)
1947 - Dennis Cowan, London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1947 - Richard "Dick" Fosbury, Portland Ore, high jumper (Oly-gold-68)
1947 - Sandra Fisher, painter
1947 - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
1947 - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1948 - Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
1949 - David Cornell Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
1950 - Robbie McIntosh, drummer (Avg White Band-Show your Hand)
1951 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
1952 - Chiaki Naito-Mukai, Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, sk:95)
1952 - Christian Clavier, French actor
1952 - Michael O'Hare, American actor
1953 - Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
1953 - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister (Labour, 1997-2007 )
1953 - Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician
1953 - Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer/manager
1954 - Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut
1954 - Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician
1955 - Donald A Thomas, Cleve Ohio, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 94)
1955 - John Hutton, MP
1955 - Tom Bergeron, American game show host
1958 - Lolita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1959 - Charles Hendry, Cuckfield Sussex, British Conservative Party politician
1959 - Eric D Fingerhut, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1959 - Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
1959 - Scott Hood, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Montana Open-2nd)
1960 - Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
1960 - Julianne Phillips, Lake Oswego Oregon, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
1960 - Larry Steinbachek, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1960 - John Flansburgh, American musician
1960 - Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
1961 - Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-Cowboys)
1961 - George Clooney, Lexington Kentucky, actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER, Batman)
1961 - Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel)
1962 - Neil Foster, cricketer (England right-fast medium)
1962 - Adam Yellin, American record producer
1963 - Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina (American Ballet Theater)
1964 - Dana Hill [Goetz], Van Nuys California, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
1964 - Kim Oden, Ala, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
1964 - Mike Grob, Billings Montana, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-3rd)
1964 - Mike McGruder, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Bob Bassen, Calgary, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1965 - Ken Harvey, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1965 - Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
1965 - Paul Frase, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 - Tim Simpson, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
1965 - Zahid Sadiq, cricketer
1967 - Patrick F Manning Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympic-92)
1968 - Andy Kelly, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1968 - Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
1968 - Lætitia Sadier, French singer (Stereolab)
1969 - Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
1969 - Pascall Davis, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
1970 - Emerson Martin, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, Packers)
1970 - Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
1971 - Rob Holmberg, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Chris Shiflett, Guitarist for Foo Fighters
1972 - Dean Larsson, BC Canada, Nike golfer (1994 Monterrey Open-46th)
1972 - Martin Brodeur, Montreal, NHL goalie (NJ Devils, Team Canada)
1973 - Clay Williams, OL (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Joe Spiteri, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Wendy Ward, San Antonio Texas, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)
1976 - Lindsay Page, Madison Wis, figure skater (1997 E Great Lakes Sr-3rd)
1977 - Gabriela Aguilar, Miss Costa Rica Universe (1997)
1977 - Shannon Shakespeare, Mission BC, 100m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Trent Steed, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
1978 - Fredrick Federley, Swedish politician
1978 - John Abraham, American football player
1978 - Alexander Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder
1979 - Nikki Hayes, Irish radio personality
1980 - Brooke Bennett, 800m freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1980 - Kasumi Takahashi, Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Oly-96)
1980 - Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Scott Colton, American professional wrestler
1980 - Mario Stojić, Croatian basketball player
1980 - Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM)
1980 - Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
1981 - Matthew Leone, bassist of Madina Lake
1981 - Nathan Leone, lead singer of Madina Lake
1981 - Edyta Sliwinska,Polish professional dancer
1981 - Mark O'Connell, American drummer (Taking Back Sunday)
1983 - Adrianne Palicki, American actress
1985 - Chris Paul, All-Star NBA Point Guard
1986 - Cindy Daniel, Quebec singer
1986 - Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor
1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
1989 - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American actor

MysteRy · « **Reply #603 on:** May 06, 2013, 06:08:09 PM »

This Day in History for 6th May

Famous Deaths

Naturalist Naturalist/Pacifist Educator Maria Montessori (1952)
Alexander von Humboldt (1859) Henry David Thoreau (1862)

CIA Director Singer/Actress (1992)
William Casey (1987) Marlene Dietrich

523 - Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen
680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)
988 - Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland
1085 - King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies
1124 - Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
1475 - Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64
1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
1527 - Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
1540 - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
1638 - Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies
1642 - Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
1666 - Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79
1678 - Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44
1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
1727 - Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
1739 - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1776 - James Kent, composer, dies at 76
1794 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59
1814 - George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64
1836 - Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78
1840 - Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)
1841 - John Thomson, composer, dies at 35
1852 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
1856 - William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
1859 - Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, dies at 89
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
1864 - Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28
1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1882 - Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1882 - Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1890 - Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71
1892 - Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54
1904 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67
1910 - Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
1916 - Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1916 - Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50
1919 - Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
1924 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
1936 - Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
1948 - 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
1949 - A L Ochse, cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for S Afr 1927-29), dies
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
1950 - Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
1952 - Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
1960 - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
1961 - Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
1963 - Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
1964 - Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1971 - Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
1972 - Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947)
1973 - Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
1976 - Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
1978 - Ethelda Bleibtrey, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
1978 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
1982 - Sam Baker, dies
1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 - William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
1989 - Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
1990 - Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
1991 - Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
1991 - Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
1991 - Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
1992 - Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
1992 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
1993 - Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
1993 - Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in NY at 77
1994 - Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
1994 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
1994 - Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
1994 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
1994 - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
1995 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
1995 - Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
1995 - Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
1996 - Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
1996 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
1996 - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
1996 - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
1996 - Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)
2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2007 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
2007 - Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
2009 - Kevin Grubb, former NASCAR driver (b. 1978)
2010 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, dies at 83

MysteRy · « **Reply #604 on:** May 07, 2013, 02:55:21 PM »

This Day in History for 7th May

Historical Events

First US President English Philosopher and Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
George Washington Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

Comedian Martin Lawrence

558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the
dome rebuilt.
1274 - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 - Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
1579 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1624 - Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 - Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 - Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1663 - Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
1697 - Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th
century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace).
1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1718 - The city of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville .
1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 - French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession
1765 - Adm Nelsons flagship HMS Victory launched
1771 - Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1789 - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1792 - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1824 - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic
1832 - Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1836 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the
government of Spain.
1840 - Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
1847 - American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1848 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 - Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 - Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 - Much of Enschede Neth destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 - Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 - US marines attack Panama
1875 - German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1877 - Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
1885 - John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 - Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 - Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the
Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the
former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1902 - Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1909 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1910 - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The
award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day
1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1917 - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1921 - 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
1922 - Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
1922 - NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1923 - Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1925 - Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 - Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1927 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek
Delphic ideal.
1928 - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1930 - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
1932 - 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
1934 - Neth Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 - Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 - 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 - Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941 - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 - Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 - US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1943 - US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1944 - German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 - Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 - British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
1945 - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 - Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 - Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
1945 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 - SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 - William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20
employees.
1947 - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 - Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
1948 - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
1949 - 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2
1951 - Intl Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by
Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1953 - "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
1953 - Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
1954 - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 - US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 - 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
1955 - USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
1955 - West Europe Union established
1956 - Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 - NY Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
1956 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
1957 - Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
1957 - Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
1958 - Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1959 - "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy
Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
1960 - "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
1960 - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
1960 - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
1960 - Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
1960 - LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
1960 - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
1960 - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 - "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 perfs
1961 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1962 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
1963 - SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1965 - WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
1966 - Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1966 - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1969 - 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
1969 - Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1972 - 26th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1
1972 - Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
1973 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1975 - Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1975 - Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 - "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
1977 - 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
1979 - 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1979 - Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1980 - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
1980 - Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in NYC
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 perfs
1982 - Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
1982 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 - Oakland Raiders to move to LA
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2
1983 - August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 - Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2
1984 - $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 - Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic
1986 - Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
1986 - Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1987 - 105°F in Sacramento, CA
1987 - Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 - 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1989 - Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 - Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 - 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 - Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1992 - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 - 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
1994 - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
1994 - Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
1995 - "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1995 - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1995 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1995 - Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
1996 - Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1997 - Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
1997 - Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8 )
1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest
industrial merger in history.
1999 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20
wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
1999 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern
Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott
Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-
sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25
million USD.
2002 - A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 - NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
2012 - Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
2012 - Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth

MysteRy · « **Reply #605 on:** May 07, 2013, 02:58:03 PM »

This Day in History for 7th May

Famous Weddings

1914 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House
1958 - "The Mark of Zorro" actor Tyrone Power (44) weds Debbie Ann Minardos
1994 - Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 - Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 - Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol
(30) in Westwood, California
2005 - "Growing Pains" actress Alan Thicke (58) weds model Tanya Callau at The One and Only
Palmilla Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2005 - Country music singer Billy Dean (43) weds Stephanie Paisley at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
in Nashville, Tennessee
2005 - Lawyer Bobby Shriver (51) weds artist Malissa Feruzzi (41) in Los Angeles
2006 - Actress Tori Spelling (32) weds actor Dean McDermott (39) at Wakaya Club in Wakaya Island,
Fiji
2011 - "The Amazing Race" winners Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney marry at the Hard Rock
Hotel, San Diego
2012 - Former "Dexter" actress Julie Benz (40) weds marketing executive Rich Orosco (39) at the
historic John Sowden house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles

MysteRy · « **Reply #606 on:** May 07, 2013, 04:46:46 PM »

This Day in History for 7th May

Famous Birthdays

Composer Actress/First Lady (1919) Television Journalist
Tchaikovsky (1840) Eva Peron-Duarte Tim Russert (1950)

1328 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)
1530 - Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots
1574 - Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
1700 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist
1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
1748 - Olympe de Gouges, playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
1763 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813)
1767 - Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1820)
1769 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
1774 - William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
1787 - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1795 - Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
1803 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
1812 - Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
1826 - Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
1827 - Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1832 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1833 - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), (d. 1893)
[NS]
1845 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, timber merchant/art collector
1847 - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
1866 - Cornelis J K van Aalst, president (Dutch Trading Company)
1867 - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
1873 - Clarence Dickinson, composer
1882 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend)
1883 - Gino Roncaglia, composer
1883 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
1885 - George "Gabby" Hayes, Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
1887 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1890 - Billy House, Minn, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
1892 - Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
1897 - Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898 - Vera Chapman, writer
1900 - Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
1900 - Ralph Truman, London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
1901 - Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
1901 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer
1902 - Sal Gliatto, baseball player
1903 - Basil Nield, judge/politician
1907 - Jef van Durme, composer
1908 - Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908 - Wouter Paap, composer
1909 - Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
1911 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
1912 - Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist
1914 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996)
1916 - Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986)
1917 - David Tomlinson, Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
1917 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
1918 - Argeliers Leon, composer
1919 - Eva Peron-Duarte [Evita], Argentina, 1st lady/actress, (d. 1952)
1921 - Gale Robbins, Chic, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1922 - Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
1922 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
1922 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
1923 - Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
1923 - Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973- )
1924 - Albert Band, American film director (d. 2002)
1926 - Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
1927 - Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
1927 - Jim Lowe, American singer
1928 - John Ingle, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), (d. 2012)
1928 - Marvin Mitchelson, attorney
1929 - Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
1929 - Sally L Smith, educator/founder (Lab School of Wash)
1929 - Babe Parilli, American football player
1930 - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut
1930 - Horst Bienek, German poet
1930 - Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978)
1931 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
1931 - Nel J Ginjaar-Maas, Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1931 - Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1932 - Hans Boskamp, [Johan HG Hoelscher], actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
1932 - Pete Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico
1933 - Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
1934 - Ben Smith, Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1934 - Donald Russell Holler, composer
1934 - Heinz Marti, composer
1934 - Willard Scott, weatherman (Today)
1935 - Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
1935 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
1936 - Cornelius Cardew, composer
1937 - Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
1938 - Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin, vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
1939 - Johnny Maestro, NY rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1939 - Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
1939 - Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1939 - Volker Braun, writer
1939 - Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Armando Krieger, composer
1940 - John Irvin, actor (Moment in Time)
1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
1940 - Jim Connors, American Radio personality (d. 1987)
1941 - Grahame Bilby, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1966)
1943 - Christopher Taylor White, rocker
1943 - Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
1943 - Rick West, [Richard Westwood], rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
1943 - Peter Carey, Australian author
1944 - Alison Margaret Bauld, composer
1944 - John Heard, actor (Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big)
1944 - Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
1944 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (d. 2006)
1944 - Richard O'Sullivan, British actor
1945 - Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World)
1945 - Wim A Mateman, Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Christy Moore, Irish folk artist
1946 - Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, Palo Alto CA, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead)
1946 - Richard L Brodsky, US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )
1946 - Brian Turner, English celebrity chef
1948 - Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
1949 - Marilyn Cole, Portsmouth England, playmate of the year (Jan, 1972)
1949 - Stuart Marshall, director (Desire)
1950 - Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
1950 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, American boxer and actor
1950 - Tim Russert, Buffalo NY, American television journalist and host of NBC's Meet the Press, (d.
2008)
1951 - David Whitton, campaigner
1951 - Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
1952 - Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
1952 - Derek Taylor, rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
1953 - Pat McInally, American National Football League player
1953 - Ian McKay, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1954 - Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
1954 - Amy Heckerling, American director
1955 - Peter Reckell, Elkhart, actor (Days of our Lifes)
1955 - Kevin Reed, American theologian
1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 - Anne Dudley, British composer
1956 - Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and television host
1957 - Shauna McDonald Brown, TV producer
1957 - [Christopher St John] "Sinjin" Smith, LA CA, volleyballer (Oly-96)
1957 - Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (d. 2004)
1959 - Michael E Knight, Princeton NJ, actor (Date with Angel, All My Child)
1959 - Robin L Freeman, St Charles MO, PGA golfer (1993 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1959 - Tamara E Jernigan, Chattoonaga, PhD/astro (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
1959 - Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress (d. 1985)
1960 - Arnon Ohad, co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
1960 - Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director
1960 - Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist
1961 - Linda Somers, Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96)
1961 - Phil Campbell, British musician (Motörhead)
1962 - Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel (Chips Something Special)
1963 - Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage & Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1964 - Leslie O'Neal, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers, St Louis Rams)
1964 - Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
1964 - Ronnie Harmon, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Oilers)
1964 - Doug Benson, American comedian
1965 - Reuben Davis, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1966 - Anderson Cummins, cricketer (in Packer's Valley Barbados & WI quickie)
1967 - Joe Rice, legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
1968 - Joe King, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
1969 - Melanie Valerio, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
1969 - Rick Porras, American co-producer
1970 - Edwin Zoetebier, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Mark Smith, Pasadena CA, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1970 - Sebastien Britten, Brossard Que, figure skater (1995 Canadian Champ)
1971 - Cameron McFadzean, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Dave Karpa, Regina, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Jose Munoz, WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Rondell Jones, NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 - Horgh, (Reidar Horghagen) Norwegian drummer (Immortal/Hypocrisy)
1972 - Chris Hayes, safety (NY Jets)
1972 - John Holecek, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Vince Stewart, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Frank Trigg, American Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1973 - Dameian Jeffries, NFL defensive end (NO Saints)
1973 - Kristian Lundin, record producer
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
1974 - Scott Whittaker, center/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Breckin Meyer, American actor
1974 - Ian Pearce, English footballer
1975 - Jason Tunks, London Ontario, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Zee, American hip hop artist
1976 - Nicholas Butcher, LA Ca, field hockey midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1977 - Marko Milic, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1977 - Patrick Johnson, American broadcaster
1978 - Stian Arnesen (Nagash/Lex Icon), Norwegian Black Metal musician
1978 - Brian Clevinger, American author
1978 - Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1979 - Katie Douglas, American basketball player
1980 - Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
1980 - Kate Lawler, English reality television personality and disc jockey
1982 - Akos Buzsaky, Hungarian Football player
1984 - Alex Smith, American football player
1984 - Drew Stanton, American football player
1984 - James Loney, American baseball player
1985 - Drew Neitzel, American college basketball player
1986 - Mark Furze, Australian actor
1986 - Matt Helders, English musician, drummer for Arctic Monkeys
1987 - Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
1987 - Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)
1988 - Natalie Mejia, member of the American R&B/Pop group Girlicious
1992 - Gavin Hetherington, British actor

MysteRy · « **Reply #607 on:** May 07, 2013, 04:48:46 PM »

This Day in History for 7th May

Famous Deaths

Gangster Al Capone (1929)

685 - Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
973 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
1092 - Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
1166 - Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
1205 - Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
1523 - Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50
1671 - Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68
1671 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
1673 - Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
1736 - John Weldon, composer, dies at 60
1792 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
1793 - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
1793 - Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71
1800 - Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
1800 - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
1814 - Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79
1818 - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70
1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1836 - Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1863 - Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1871 - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
1876 - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1876 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
1884 - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1887 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1896 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
1900 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
1904 - Peter Hille, writer, dies
1914 - Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87
1915 - Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
1915 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
1915 - Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
1922 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
1928 - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
1929 - Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1932 - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies
1934 - Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67
1940 - George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
1941 - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
1942 - Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
1946 - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
1946 - Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for Engld 1907-08), dies
1951 - Warner Baxter, dies at 62
1953 - Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1958 - Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1962 - Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77
1967 - Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
1968 - Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
1970 - Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1977 - Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79
1982 - Alfred Adam, dies at 72
1983 - Peter Edel, writer, dies
1985 - Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 - Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949
1987 - Colin Blakely, dies at 56
1988 - Harris Glenn Divine, dies of natural causes at 42
1990 - Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
1993 - Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1994 - Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
1994 - Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
1995 - Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
1995 - Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84
1995 - Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73
1995 - Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84
1996 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76
1996 - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
2002 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
2002 - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
2005 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
2007 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
2007 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
2007 - Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)
2009 - David Mellor, English cutlery designer (b. 1930)
2011 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
2011 - Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter
2011 - Big George, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (b. 1957)

MysteRy · « **Reply #608 on:** May 08, 2013, 03:00:43 PM »

This Day in History for 8th May

Historical Events

Naturalist Charles Darwin French National Heroine Joan of Arc Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

US President John F. Kennedy Heavyweight Boxing Champ Hall of Fame MLB shortstop
Muhammad Ali Ernie Banks

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Mike Tyson Lennox Lewis

535 - John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
615 - St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
685 - St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1360 - Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
1429 - French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orleans
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
1521 - Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1624 - Hung king Bethlen Gabor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1639 - William Coddington founds Newport RI
1660 - English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
1721 - Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
1741 - France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
1784 - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
1792 - British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
1792 - US establishes military draft
1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.
1823 - "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle
1834 - Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1840 - Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1842 - Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1846 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
1847 - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 - Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
1863 - Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
1864 - Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton
1864 - Battle of Spotslyvania Court House begins
1871 - English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1877 - 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1878 - 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
1879 - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1882 - David Belasco's "La Belle Russe," premieres in NYC
1885 - Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
1886 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1896 - Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
1897 - 22nd Preakness: T Thorpe aboard Paul Kauvar wins in 1:51¼
1898 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1900 - 250 grave robbers shot to death
1900 - John McGraw & Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals
1901 - In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Phila 12-4
1902 - Mt Pelee erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1906 - Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs
1907 - Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
1907 - Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
1909 - Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
1914 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
1915 - 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
1916 - German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1919 - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
1919 - Appingedam soccer team forms
1919 - Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The
Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
1920 - 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
1921 - Sweden abolished capital punishment
1923 - Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* v Somerset at Bath
1924 - Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231," premieres
1924 - Memel territories given to Lithuania
1924 - Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1925 - 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59
1925 - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1926 - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
1926 - A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1926 - Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
1929 - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1929 - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
1931 - Operette "Land of Smiles," premieres in London
1933 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
1935 - Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
1936 - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted
when he returned to track
1937 - 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
1938 - Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks," premieres in Washington, DC
1941 - German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 - Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1942 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1942 - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief
Fund
1943 - 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
1943 - Adm Cunningham of Brit fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 - 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1945 - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
1945 - Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
1945 - Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
1945 - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
1946 - Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
1946 - The Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that
preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
1947 - A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the
Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1948 - Bradman scores 146 Aust v Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours
1949 - West German constitution approved
1950 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1951 - Dacron men's suits introduced
1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1952 - "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1952 - "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
1952 - Mad Magazine debuts
1953 - WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
1956 - John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger," premieres in London
1958 - Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
1958 - VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1959 - 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200
drown just yards from shore
1960 - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
1961 - 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas
1961 - Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1962 - "Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 perfs
1962 - 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
1962 - London trolley buses go out of service
1963 - "Dr No" premieres in US
1963 - JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1965 - 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 - Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
1966 - Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
1967 - Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1967 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and
Davao Oriental.
1968 - Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
1968 - Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1969 - Cambodia recognizes German DR
1969 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
1970 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1970 - NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
1971 - "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 - Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
1973 - Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus
technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager
1973 - Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1974 - 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1974 - Canada government of Trudeau falls
1974 - FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
1976 - "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 7 perfs
1976 - The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at
Six Flags Magic Mountain
1977 - David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
1977 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1978 - ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
1978 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1979 - Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
1980 - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
1980 - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1981 - Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
1982 - Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles
1984 - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
1984 - USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
1985 - 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
1987 - The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern
Ireland.
1988 - "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances
1988 - Francois Mitterrand elected president of France
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1988 - Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
1988 - Amateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to
a restraining order brought by Devils
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & remake of "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1990 - Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
1990 - Reindependence Day of Estonia
1991 - CIA director William H Webster resigns
1993 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
1993 - Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train &
2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 perfs
1994 - 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1994 - Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game
1994 - Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
1994 - Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica
1994 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1994 - Pres Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1994 - Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st AL game beating Tigers 10-3
1996 - S Afr's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
1997 - Tea Leoni & David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
1999 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E
Day.
2007 - A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the
Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy
First Minister.
2010 - The last piece of Yankee Stadium falls in the Bronx, New York, marking the end of the two
year demolition process.
2010 - Barrow AFC won the English FA Trophy at Wembley, this makes them the only team in the
world to win it at both the Old & New Wembley stadiums.

MysteRy · « **Reply #609 on:** May 08, 2013, 04:49:26 PM »

This Day in History for 8th May

Famous Weddings

1967 - "Bye Bye Birdie" actress Ann-Margret (26) weds actor and screenwriter Roger Smith (34)
1978 - Singer Donny Osmond (20) weds Debra Glenn (19) at Salt Lake Temple in Utah
1981 - Author John Grisham (26) weds Renee Jones
1999 - "ER" actor Goran Visnjic (34) weds Croatian artist Ivana Vrdoljak
2009 - Westlife singer Kian Egan (29) weds actress Jodi Albert (25) in Barbados

MysteRy · « **Reply #610 on:** May 08, 2013, 04:56:27 PM »

This Day in History for 8th May

Famous Birthdays

33rd US President Jaws Novelist King of Latin Pop
Harry Truman (1884) Peter Benchley (1940) Enrique Iglesias (1975)

1326 - Joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360)
1460 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
1492 - Andreas Alciatus, [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer
1521 - Peter Canisius, [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
1527 - Johann Walter, composer
1587 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)
1592 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
1622 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)
1629 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)
1632 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)
1641 - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
1653 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
1668 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
1670 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)
1673 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
1703 - Gottlob Harrer, composer
1735 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811)
1737 - Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
1738 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)
1742 - Johann Baptist Krumpholtz, composer
1745 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
1750 - Elias Mann, composer
1753 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence
1763 - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman
1778 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
1786 - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1786 - Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859)
1803 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
1806 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
1810 - James Cooper, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
1815 - Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer
1821 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885)
1824 - William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
1825 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898)
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901)
1828 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898)
1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1833 - Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1836 - Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1839 - Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer
1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1842 - Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
1844 - Hermann Gradener, composer
1846 - Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
1850 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)
1853 - Charles Lee Williams, composer
1853 - Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932)
1857 - Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
1858 - John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
1859 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925)
1873 - Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)
1882 - Philips C Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat
1884 - Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972)
1886 - Jef van Hoof, composer
1891 - Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1893 - Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
1893 - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
1893 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
1895 - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1895 - Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
1895 - Jose Gomez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
1895 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
1899 - Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
1899 - [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
1901 - Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 - Andre Michel Lwoff, physiologist
1902 - Milford "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ bat early 1930's, All Black half)
1903 - Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday)
1903 - Joseph Desire Fernandel, Marseilles France, comedian (Grand Chef)
1904 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, bBC news announcer/commentator
1904 - John Snagge, commentator (BBC)
1905 - Inglis Gundry, composer
1905 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
1906 - David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Rome Italy, director (Open City)
1908 - Arturo De Cordova, [Rodriguez], Merida Mexico, actor (Medal for Benny)
1910 - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
1910 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
1911 - Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
1911 - Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister
1912 - George Woodcock, author
1912 - Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
1913 - Sidney James, [Cohen], Johannesburg, actor (Carry On)
1914 - Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman (Comm House of Lords)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1915 - John Archer, Osceola Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
1916 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer
1916 - João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist
1916 - Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)
1919 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer
1920 - Maurice Cranston, political scientist
1920 - Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal
1920 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
1921 - Graham Leonard, bishop of London
1921 - Saul Bass, designer
1922 - Brian Kellett, CEO (Port of London Authority)
1924 - Tristan Jones, sailor
1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- )
1925 - Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
1926 - David Attenborough, producer/TV host/scientist
1926 - Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
1926 - Erico Menczer, Fiume Italy, cinematographer (Chosen, Miranda)
1926 - Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
1926 - Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
1927 - Ian Denholm, CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
1927 - Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
1928 - Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
1928 - William Jay Sydeman, composer
1929 - V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
1929 - Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician
1930 - Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
1930 - Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
1930 - Heather Harper, soprano
1931 - Charles M Wilson, composer
1932 - Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican writer (d. 2007)
1932 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
1932 - Sonny Liston, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1970)
1933 - Alistair Service, writer/publisher
1934 - Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
1934 - Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)
1935 - Jack Charlton, soccer manager (Rep of Ireland)
1935 - Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity)
1935 - Viscount Falkland, British peer (Lib-Dem)
1936 - James Darren, actor (Time Tunnel)
1936 - Neville Purvis, British vice admiral (Chief of Fleet Support)
1937 - Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Labia Majora)
1937 - Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-AZ, 1977- )
1937 - Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
1937 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
1937 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian politician
1937 - Mike Cuellar, baseball player
1938 - Javed Burki, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 25 Tests 1960-69)
1938 - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran
1938 - Jean Giraud, Val-de-Marne, France, comic artist (Alien, Tron), (d. 2012)
1939 - Otis Paul Drayton, Glen Cove NY, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
1940 - James Blyth, CEO (Boots)
1940 - Peter Benchley, NYC, novelist (Jaws, The Deep), (d. 2006)
1940 - Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
1940 - Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician
1940 - Toni Tennille, American singer
1941 - James A Traficant Jr, (Rep-D-OH, 1985- )
1941 - Jim Mitchum, Bridgeport CT, actor (Blackout, Invincible 6)
1941 - John Fred, rocker
1941 - Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
1942 - Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew) [or Nov 8]
1942 - Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1942 - Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
1942 - Robin Hobbs, cricketer (England leg-spinner 1967-71)
1942 - Ruth Holland, journalist
1942 - Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer
1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
1944 - Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
1945 - Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist (Holland's secret service)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer)
1946 - André Boulerice, Quebec politician
1947 - Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
1947 - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1947 - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
1948 - John Reid, MP
1948 - Maurizio Nichetti, actor (Icicle Thief, Volcano)
1948 - Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer (Degrassi)
1951 - Chris Frantz, Ky, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 - Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)
1951 - Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1952 - Beth Henley, Jackson Miss, actress/playwright (Miss Firecracker)
1952 - Charles J Camarda, NYC, PhD/astronaut
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Amsterdam The Netherlands, Dutch drummer (Van Halen)
1954 - David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
1954 - Pat Meyers, LPGA golfer
1955 - Stephen Furst, Norfolk Va, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
1956 - Jeff Madrigali, Walnut Creek California, soling yachter (Olymp-bronze-96)
1957 - Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 - Jeff Wincott, Toronto Canada, actor (Night Heat)
1957 - Bill Cowher, American football coach
1958 - Lovie Smith, American football coach
1959 - Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er)
1960 - Franco Baresi, Italian footballer
1960 - Eric Brittingham, American bassist
1961 - Riaz Poonawalla, cricketer (Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy)
1961 - David Winning, Canadian film director
1961 - Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler
1962 - Terry Baker, CFL kicker (Montreal Alouettes)
1963 - Clemens Lothaller, Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)
1963 - Izabela Kloc, Polish politician
1963 - Terry Christian, British radio presenter
1963 - Robin Jarvis, British writer
1964 - Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto California, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
1964 - Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1964 - Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1964 - Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8]
1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
1966 - Eddie Brown, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Claudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Marta Sánchez, Spanish singer
1968 - Franklin Langham, Augusta GA, Nike golfer (1993 Permian Basin Open)
1968 - John Johnson, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1968 - Omar Camporese, Italy, tennis star
1968 - Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician
1969 - Brad Culpepper, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Duane Forde, CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Swift Burch, CFL defensive end (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Akebono Taro, sumo wrestler
1970 - Christine Stark, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marco Heering, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 - Michael Bevan, cricketer (dashing NSW & Australian lefty bat)
1971 - Carlos Brooks, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1971 - Stephen Ingram, NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Chris Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Tennessee/Houston Oilers)
1972 - Keelin Curnuck, Miss New York USA (1996)/Ms Venus Swimwear (1994)
1973 - Wolf Wigo, Abington Penn, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese artist
1974 - Calvin Branch, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Colin Daynes, Windsor Ontario, 68 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympic-96)
1974 - Korey Stringer, NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 - Jon Tickle, English entertainer
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Madrid, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop (Bailamos, Hero)
1975 - Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 - Gastón Mazzacane, Argentine racing driver
1976 - Oleg Tverdovsky, Donetsk Ukr, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter
1976 - Ian "H" Watkins, pop singer (Steps)
1977 - Jennifer Walcott, American Playboy Playmate
1978 - Cindy Parlow, Memphis Tenn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1978 - Sandra Kleinova, Prague Czech, tennis star (1995 Futures-Turku-FIN)
1978 - Lúcio, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer
1978 - Matthew Davis, American actor
1978 - Josie Maran, American model
1979 - Jayna Cronin Geneva NY, dance skater (& Dreger-1997 Natl-13th)
1980 - Michelle McManus, Scottish singer
1980 - Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer
1981 - Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
1981 - Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist
1981 - Yasuko Tajima, Japanese swimmer
1981 - John Maine, American baseball player
1982 - Adrian Gonzalez, American baseball player
1983 - Matt Willis, British singer
1984 - Nadine Chandrawinata, 2006 Miss Universe Pageant (Indonesia)
1985 - Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress
1986 - Marvell Wynne, American soccer player
1987 - Felix Jones, American football player

MysteRy · « **Reply #611 on:** May 08, 2013, 04:58:26 PM »

This Day in History for 8th May

Famous Deaths

King of Hawaii Kamehameha I (1819)

535 - John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies
685 - Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)
1278 - Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)
1319 - Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
1538 - Edward Fox, English bishop
1577 - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
1672 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
1684 - Henri Dumont, composer, dies
1725 - John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
1766 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
1773 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies (b. 1728)
1781 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
1785 - Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
1794 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1809 - Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
1818 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
1819 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819)
1829 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
1837 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
1844 - Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
1846 - Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1853 - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67
1864 - James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
1873 - John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 - Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
1885 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
1887 - Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
1891 - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1894 - Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
1903 - Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
1904 - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
1909 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
1915 - Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
1924 - Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1930 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
1932 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1936 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
1941 - Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
1943 - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1945 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
1948 - Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
1948 - U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)
1950 - Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
1950 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
1952 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
1957 - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
1958 - Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
1959 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 - Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
1961 - James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1965 - H T W Hardinge, cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for Engld), dies
1967 - Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
1967 - Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
1967 - Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
1969 - Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892)
1973 - Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
1974 - Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train
1975 - Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
1976 - Alan Baxter, dies at 67
1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
1979 - Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76
1981 - Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies at 70
1981 - Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 v Eng), dies
1982 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
1982 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
1984 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
1985 - Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69
1985 - Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87
1987 - Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
1987 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
1988 - Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
1990 - Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
1991 - Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84
1991 - Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79
1991 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1992 - Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
1992 - Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
1992 - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
1992 - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies
1992 - Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
1993 - Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
1993 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
1994 - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
1994 - George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
1994 - Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
1994 - Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1995 - Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
1995 - Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80
1995 - Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83
1995 - Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
1996 - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80
1996 - Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69
1996 - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95
1996 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
1997 - Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German Pres of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
1998 - Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)
1999 - Dirk Bogarde, London England, actor (b. 1921) (Death in Venice, Servant)
1999 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
1999 - Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
2000 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
2000 - Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)
2000 - Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)
2005 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981)
2006 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)
2008 - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
2008 - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
2009 - Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2009 - Bud Shrake, American writer (b. 1931)
2011 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948)
2012 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American Attorney General, dies at 90
2012 - Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83

MysteRy · « **Reply #612 on:** May 09, 2013, 11:41:54 AM »

This Day in History for 9th May

Historical Events

Naturalist Charles Darwin First Secretary of the Country Singer Willie Nelson
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev

Author and creator of The Huffington Post
Arianna Huffington

1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition
under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as
relatively reliable detail.
1012 BC - Solar Eclipse seen at Ugarit, 6:09-6:39 PM.
328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
1336 - Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
1450 - 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1460 - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
1519 - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government
1573 - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king
1588 - Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris
1671 - Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1689 - English King Willem III declares war on France
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at
Tyburn.
1738 - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies
1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1766 - John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1785 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788 - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius
1837 - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
1846 - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
1862 - Battle of Farmington, MS
1862 - Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1864 - -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA
1864 - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1868 - Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 - Victoria Embankment, in London opens
1874 - The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes.
1877 - Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of
Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1882 - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1889 - 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50
1896 - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1899 - Lawn mower patented
1901 - Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1901 - Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
1908 - Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
1911 - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1914 - 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4
1914 - Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1914 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
1915 - German & French fight Battle of Artois
1916 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
1926 - Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
1927 - 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
1927 - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1929 - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates
1929 - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1930 - 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
1931 - 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
1932 - 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8
1932 - Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1932 - WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
1933 - Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1934 - Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!
1936 - 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1937 - Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
1939 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1941 - English Army breaks German spy codes
1942 - 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
1943 - 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
1943 - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1944 - 1st eye bank opens in New York
1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944 - Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945 - Jersey liberated from nazis
1945 - Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945 - New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
1945 - Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square
1945 - World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.
1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.
1946 - 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
1946 - 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
1949 - Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
1950 - French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950 - Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
1951 - Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
1955 - German Federal Republic joins NATO
1956 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
1958 - Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
1959 - Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
1960 - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1960 - US send U-2 over USSR
1961 - Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota Twins
1961 - FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
1961 - Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
1962 - Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone
1962 - Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt
1964 - Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
1965 - Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1965 - Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966 - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
1967 - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1969 - BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
1970 - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1971 - 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton
1971 - Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
1971 - Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1971 - Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open
1973 - For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1975 - Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
1976 - "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1976 - Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament
1977 - Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977 - Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
1977 - Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs
1978 - Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1978 - Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1978 - Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC
1978 - PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
1980 - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1981 - Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
1982 - "9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances
1982 - Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 - 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson
1984 - Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
1984 - White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
1987 - 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987 - Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
1988 - A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow
1988 - Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1988 - Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
1988 - The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
1989 - "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989 - Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press
1989 - NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
1989 - NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
1989 - VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"
instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1990 - NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1990 - Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II
1991 - Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1991 - Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992 - America Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992 - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
1992 - Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1992 - Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
1993 - "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1993 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1993 - Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1993 - Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC
1993 - Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994 - "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1994 - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY
1995 - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
1995 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1997 - San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones
2001 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster.
The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel
at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match
between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the
Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several
different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and
injuring at least 130.
2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage
during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
2005 - Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
2006 - George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.
2012 - Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to
be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
2012 - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
2012 - United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage

MysteRy · « **Reply #613 on:** May 09, 2013, 11:43:20 AM »

This Day in History for 9th May

Famous Weddings

1987 - Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
2000 - Puerto Rican actress and former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres (25) weds singer-songwriter
Marc Anthony (31) in Las Vegas, Nevada
2004 - "Underworld" director Len Wiseman (31) weds actress Kate Beckinsale (30) at the Hotel Bel-
Air in Los Angeles, California
2005 - Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (36) weds country-music heartthrob singer Kenny
Chesney (37) on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands
2009 - "The O.C." actress Autumn Reeser (28) weds writer-director Jesse Warren (31) under a 200-
year old oak tree at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, California

MysteRy · « **Reply #614 on:** May 09, 2013, 11:44:28 AM »

This Day in History for 9th May

Famous Divorces

2008 - "The View" former co-host Star Jones (46) divorces investment banker Al Reynolds (39) after
three-and-a-half years of marriage

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