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This Day in History for 12th May


Famous Deaths

Poet Nelly Sachs (1970)


912 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
1003 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 - Pope Sylvester/Silvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies
1012 - Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1634 - George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1737 - Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1811 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1825 - Elias Mann, American composer, dies at 75
1825 - Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75
1843 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
1845 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1852 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1861 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
1864 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
1864 - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1896 - Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
1897 - Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
1907 - J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
1908 - Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1921 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
1924 - Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 - Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51
1925 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1930 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1931 - Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1931 - Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead
1935 - Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1943 - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
1944 - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
1948 - Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55
1951 - Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
1956 - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
1956 - Louis Calhern, dies at 61
1956 - Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1960 - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1963 - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1965 - Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78
1971 - J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1973 - Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1981 - Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies
1982 - Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
1984 - Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure
1985 - Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85
1986 - Lee Bonnell, dies
1987 - Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 - Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1989 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1992 - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1994 - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
1994 - David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
1994 - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
1994 - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wkts), dies
1995 - Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95
1995 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
1995 - Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32
1996 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
1996 - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35
1999 - Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2007 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
2008 - Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
2009 - Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

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This Day in History for 13th May


Historical Events

                                   
Classical music prodigy Mozart               British war time Prime Minister                   French President
                                                                           Winston Churchill                         Georges Pompidou

                                   
Radio shock jock Howard Stern                  264th Pope John Paul II                       King of Pop Michael Jackson


NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


535 - St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
609 - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church
641 - Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon
1106 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 - Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside
1588 - King Henri III flees Paris
1607 - English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1624 - Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 - Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1652 - Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1767 - Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1777 - University library at Vienna opens
1779 - War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 - Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
1820 - Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed
1830 - Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1835 - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 - Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales,
           Australia.
1864 - -16] Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca Georgia
1865 - S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th
           Indiana is last man killed
1874 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
1876 - Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1877 - Caesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides," premieres
1882 - Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
1887 - 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25
1888 - DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
1888 - Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
1890 - 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1890 - Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1891 - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
1905 - James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1906 - Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1909 - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 - The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
1911 - 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
1911 - NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1913 - 1st four engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 - 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916 - 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1916 - Native American Day is 1st observed
1917 - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1917 - Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
1918 - 1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents)
1922 - 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6
1922 - 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1926 - German government of Luther falls
1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 - VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
1930 - Only known fatality due to hail
1931 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
1933 - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1934 - Great dustbowl storm
1936 - Quiroga government takes office in Spain
1939 - 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
1939 - SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1940 - British bomb factory at Breda
1940 - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1940 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940 - German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1941 - Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 - Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 - Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1942 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1942 - Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
1943 - German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 - German occupiers confiscate all radios
1944 - 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1945 - US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 - Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
1946 - US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 - Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 - Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 - 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1950 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1950 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1952 - Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
1952 - Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1953 - NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple
1954 - "Pajama Game" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
1954 - Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 - Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1954 - The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
1956 - Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 - Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
1958 - Pierre Pflimlin forms French government
1958 - Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela
1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1959 - Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
1960 - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 - Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1960 - WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1965 - Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1965 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations
           with Israel
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1966 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of
           the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1967 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
1967 - Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 - 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou
1969 - Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1970 - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 - 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
1972 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1973 - "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
1973 - Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in Calif
1973 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1975 - "Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
1975 - Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
1975 - Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
1976 - 9th & final ABA championship: NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2
1977 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY
1978 - "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1978 - "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
1978 - Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 - Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in NYC
1979 - "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
1979 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1979 - Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 - Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
1981 - Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St
           Peter's Square, Vatican City
1982 - Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 - Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1982 - Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
1982 - Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 - Terri Lea Utley, 20, (Arkansas), crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 - Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1984 - "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1984 - Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
1985 - Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
1985 - Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 - Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11
1987 - Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 - Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
1989 - Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1990 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1991 - "Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1991 - South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1991 - Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco
1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
1992 - Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 - Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1992 - Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1992 - Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1992 - Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of
           China.
1993 - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 - Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 - CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 - KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
1993 - Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1994 - Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field
1995 - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 - New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY),
           replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
1996 - OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 - Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games
1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese   
           descendants are looted and women raped.
1998 - India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11.
           The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950,
           and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2001 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2007 - Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2012 - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
2012 - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces
           28,000 people
2012 - Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time

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This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Weddings

1922 - "Latin Lover" silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha
           Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico
1932 - Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
2003 - Former NBA star Dennis Rodman (42) weds Michelle Moyer on a small civil ceremony in
           Newport Beach, California
2006 - Actress Sara Bakker weds Sloan Alexander at the United Church on the Green in New Haven,
           Connecticut
2006 - British football star player Gary O'Neil (22) weds Donna Guerin in Highclere Castle, Hampshire

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This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Singer-Songwriter                                      Basketball Player D                            Actor Robert Pattinson (1986)
Stevie Wonder (1950)                                 Dennis Rodman (1961)   


1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 - Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
1314 - Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint
1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1592 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist
1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
1655 - Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)
1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1707 - Carl von Linné, Swedish scientist (d. 1778)
1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
1717 - Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I)
1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1730 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, British PM (1765-66, 1782) and
           Whig
1735 - Horace Coignet, composer
1742 - Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1746 - Oliver Brownson, composer
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1756 - Wojciech Zywny, composer
1761 - Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
1776 - Charles Ots, composer
1776 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1792 - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795 - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1828 - Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
1831 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
1840 - L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1843 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
1847 - Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)
1854 - Paul Klengel, composer
1856 - Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1856 - Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1857 - Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
1859 - Eugust Enna, composer
1866 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1867 - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1868 - Paolo Gallico, composer
1874 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
1876 - Raoul Laparra, composer
1881 - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
1882 - Georges Braque, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, French cubist painter and sculptor (Bike)
1883 - Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
1886 - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1891 - Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1896 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1898 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
1900 - Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer)
1903 - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
1903 - Paul Page, Birmingham AL, actor (Girl From Havana, Moth)
1904 - Alfred Earle Birney, poet
1904 - Tim Wall, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia 1928-34)
1906 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer
1907 - Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
1907 - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
1907 - Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
1908 - Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
1911 - Maxine Sullivan, [Marietta Williams], US singer/actress (Going Places)
1911 - Robert Middleman, Cin Oh, actor (Barney-Monroes)
1911 - Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
1912 - Helen Craig, San Antonio TX, actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
1912 - Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 - Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
1913 - William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
1915 - John Habakkuk, principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
1917 - Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
1917 - Wilhelmus C Wijen, [Broeder Pius], social worker (Curacao)
1918 - John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
1918 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d.1984)
1920 - Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/pres (1994- )
1920 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1921 - Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
1922 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
1924 - Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US
1924 - Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
1926 - Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
1926 - Wallace Breem, British author
1927 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1927 - Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
1927 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
1928 - Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1930 - Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
1930 - Vernon Shaw, former president of Dominica
1931 - Eileen Diss, theatrical designer (August, Secret Places, Betrayal)
1931 - Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
1931 - Sydney Lipworth, CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
1931 - William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
1933 - Alden Ashforth, composer
1933 - Sid Morrison, (Rep-R-WA, 1981- )
1933 - Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1934 - Adolf Muschg, writer
1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 - Nigel Butterley, composer
1935 - Yizhak Sadai, composer
1935 - Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1936 - Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)
1936 - Rafael Campos, Santiago Dominican Republic, actor (Tonka)
1937 - John Cope, MP/Paymaster General
1937 - Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
1937 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
1937 - Zohra Lampert, NYC, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
1938 - Buck Taylor, Hollywood California, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
1938 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
1938 - Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
1939 - Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
1939 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1939 - Terry Dill, Forth Worth TX, PGA golfer (1992 Bank One Senior Classic)
1939 - William W Cobey Jr, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-87)
1939 - Hildrun Claus, German athlete
1940 - Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
1940 - Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
1941 - Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1942 - Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, USSR, cosmo (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13)
1943 - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
1944 - Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer
1944 - Carolyn Franklin, US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel)
1944 - Clive Radley, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1978)
1944 - Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author
1945 - Magic Dick, [Richard Salwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
1946 - Danny Klein, NYC, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
1947 - David Hughes, cricketer
1947 - Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1947 - Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
1947 - Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1949 - Franklin Ajaye, BKln NY, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1949 - John Glover, conductor
1949 - Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1949 - Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Raggedy Rawney)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My
           Love)
1951 - Paul Thompson, rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1951 - Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
1951 - Jim Douglas, American politician, governor of Vermont
1952 - John R Kasich, (Rep-R-OH, 1983- )
1952 - Manfred Langer, Austrian/Dutch disco builder
1952 - Sew Shivnarine, cricketer (3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain)
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1956 - Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1957 - Claudie Andre-Deshays, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)
1957 - Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1957 - Andrea Klump, German terrorist
1958 - Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress (Castaway)
1959 - Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
1960 - Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn, actor (Pastorale)
1960 - Shannon Vessup-Millen, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991)
1961 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1962 - Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
1962 - Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster
1962 - Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
1963 - Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1963 - Wally Masur, England, tennis star
1964 - Sam Randolph, Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1964 - Sara Gomer, England, tennis star
1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 - Tom Verica, American actor
1965 - Chris Washburn, NBAer
1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 - Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 - Lari White, American country music singer
1966 - Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 - Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d.
           2001)
1968 - Annette DeLuca, North Bergen NJ, LPGA golfer
1968 - James Harris, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist
1968 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 - PMD, American rapper
1969 - Lyle Mouton, Lafayette Louisiana, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
1970 - Doug Evans, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Giuseppe Busillo, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Mark Beaufait, Royal Oak Mich, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Mitch Lyons, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - Selwyn Jones, NFL defensive back (Seahawks, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Hamish Pepper, Auckland NZ, laser single handed yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Michael Sirotka, Chicago IL, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1971 - Rob Fredrickson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Tom Nalen, NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Darryl Sydor, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Josh Heinrich, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
1973 - Brooke Jennifer Gambrell, Boise Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1996)
1973 - Michelle Mouser, Miss USA-Ohio (1997)
1974 - Albert Connell, wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1974 - Lisa Jacob, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)
1975 - Chris Crawford, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
1977 - Diane Halber, Torrance California, fig skater (1996 Natl Collegiate champ)
1977 - Sara DeCosta, ice hockey goalie (USA, Oly-98)
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 - Robby Hammock, baseball player
1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1978 - Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
1978 - Barry Zito, American baseball player
1978 - Steve Mildenhall, English football player
1978 - Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1980 - Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model
1981 - Jimmy Yang, American wrestler
1981 - Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
1982 - Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
1983 - Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1983 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 - Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
1984 - Caitlin Murphy, Australian actress and Model
1985 - Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Giuliana Marino, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005
1986 - Robert Pattinson, London, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)
1986 - Scott Sutter, Swiss footballer
1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor
1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Deaths

Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate
Fridtjof Nansen (1930)


384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+
1162 - Géza II of Hungary
1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 - John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 - Robert II the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90), dies
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1732 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1776 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1787 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 - Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1812 - Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1839 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1864 - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1873 - Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1882 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 - Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1892 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
1896 - Nora Perry, writer, dies
1901 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1904 - Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
1914 - R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies
1916 - Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
1921 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 - Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68
1930 - Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
1931 - Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
1933 - Paul Ernst, writer, dies at 67
1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1942 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1951 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
1956 - Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1962 - Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60
1962 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
1962 - H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1966 - Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1967 - Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
1971 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1975 - Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69
1978 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 7 wickets), dies
1979 - Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
1981 - Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
1982 - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
1985 - Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
1985 - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1990 - Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
1992 - Gisela Elsner, writer, dies at 55
1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1993 - Borolas, [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
1993 - Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
1993 - Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71
1994 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
1994 - Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
1994 - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1995 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
1996 - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2002 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2002 - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2005 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
2008 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 - Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
2009 - Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem
2009 - Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
2011 - Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 - Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2012 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 14th May


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                             Naturalist Charles Darwin                      26th US President
                                                                                                                               Theodore Roosevelt

                                   
Author Virginia Woolf                            33rd US President Harry Truman                 Jewish Victim & Diarist
                                                                                                                                       of the Holocaust
                                                                                                                                            Anne Frank


11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima


649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 - Battle at Lewes during the 2nd Barons War: Simon van Leicester beats English King Henry III
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1607 - 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1643 - Louis XIV (4) becomes King of France
1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1702 - England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape
           Finisterre.
1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 - Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
1796 - 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1800 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar
1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
1832 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
1842 - Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication
1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
1853 - Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near
           Barcelona, Spain.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, MS takes place.
1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces
           withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1874 - 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats Uni of McGill (Montreal) 3-0
1878 - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25
1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50
1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
1892 - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
1897 - Great-Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1905 - 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belgium 4-0
1906 - Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
1913 - French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
1914 - Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
1920 - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be
           renewed at end of 1920 season
1921 - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1927 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated
           under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
1928 - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an
          unarmed trade union demonstration.
1932 - "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
1935 - Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
1935 - LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
1935 - Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what
           proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their
           next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
1938 - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of
           five.
1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England
1940 - Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese
           submarine.
1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 - British troops occupy Kohima
1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1946 - Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
1948 - Israel declares independence from under British administration
1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
1948 - US grants Israel de facto recognition
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1948 - WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1950 - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1951 - "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
1951 - Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC
1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
           Hungary, Poland & Romania
1957 - "New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
1957 - Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC
1960 - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1960 - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam NY
1961 - Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix
1962 - Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed
1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
1966 - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
1968 - Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
1968 - Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
1969 - Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
1970 - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
1973 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
1973 - Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1977 - English football international Bobby Moore retires
1977 - KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
1977 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1978 - "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
1980 - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1980 - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks
           win 16-3
1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1982 - Guinea adopts constitution
1983 - "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1983 - Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1988 - "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St
           Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
1988 - Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton,
           Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The
           crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1989 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 - 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
1989 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
1989 - Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1991 - 42 die in a train collision is Japan
1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1991 - World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
1991 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths,
           one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1992 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
1995 - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
1995 - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
1995 - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama,
           Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner
1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative
           Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-
           hyun.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on
           the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy,
           is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the
           largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2012 - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
2012 - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye

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This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Weddings

1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1994 - Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds television producer Darnay Hoffman (46)
           at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City
1996 - Actor Antonio Banderas (35) weds actress Melanie Griffith (38) at the Westminster register
           office in London
1999 - "Sunset Beach" actor Clive Robertson (33) weds actress Libby Purvis (30) at sunset on
           Necker Island
2004 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (35), eldest son of Margrethe II of Denmark and heir
           apprent, marries Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (32), at Copenhagen Cathedral
2005 - The Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Jason Priestley (35) weds British makeup artist Naomi Lowde at
           the One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas
2011 - Country singer Blake Shelton (34) weds singer Miranda Lambert (27) at Don Strange Ranch in
           Boerne, Texas

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This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Director George Lucas (1944)                   Actress Cate Blanchett (1969)                Facebook Founder
                                                                                                                             Mark Zuckerberg (1984)


1316 - Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78). Dies 1378
1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]
1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1707 - Antonio Teixeira, composer
1710 - Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70)
1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1752 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1752 - Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
1771 - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
1781 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
1798 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian
1805 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1816 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1817 - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1830 - George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1836 - James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1846 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
1846 - Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18)
1864 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1867 - Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19)
1870 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1872 - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
1878 - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 - Ed Walsh, American baseball pitcher, lowest lifetime ERA (1.82)
1881 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1883 - Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
1883 - Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1888 - Miles Mander, Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
1890 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1891 - Egon Kornauth, composer
1892 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1892 - Felix Petyrek, composer
1893 - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1895 - Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
1895 - Renato Lunelli, composer
1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1898 - Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1899 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1900 - Billie Dove, [Lilian Bohny], NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
1900 - Leo Smit, composer
1900 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
1900 - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
1901 - Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
1903 - Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
1905 - Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1906 - Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94)
1906 - James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
1907 - Dick Bentley, entertainer
1907 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
1907 - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
1907 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
1909 - Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
1911 - Hans Vogt, composer
1911 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/MP
1912 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator
1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1916 - Marco Zanuso, Italian architect
1917 - Herta Ryder, literary agent
1917 - Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
1917 - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
1918 - Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper (England 3 times early 50's)
1919 - Heloise Bowles, columnist Heloise's mother (Hints from Heloise)
1919 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem party minister (CRM 1965-66)
1919 - Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
1919 - John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1921 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
1922 - Agha Hasan Abedi, banker
1922 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 - Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar)
1923 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1924 - Joly Braga Santos, composer
1925 - Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 - Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
1925 - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
1926 - Cestmir Gregor, composer
1926 - Eric Morecambe, London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
1927 - Shirley Spork, LPGA golfer
1927 - Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1928 - Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
1929 - Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
1929 - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1929 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
1930 - Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
1930 - Phillipo Seed, social work academic
1931 - Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr, composer
1932 - Robert Bechtle, American painter
1933 - John Mortimore, cricketer (England off-spinner 1959-64)
1933 - Lajos Kovacs, Hungary, actor (Wings of Desire)
1933 - Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
1933 - Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 - Frederik von Pallandt, singer
1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
1937 - Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
1937 - Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer/actor (Floris)
1937 - Peter Frederic Williams, composer
1939 - M N Fathulin, cosmonaut
1940 - Chay Blyth, English sailor (Alone in Order to the World)
1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
1940 - 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1941 - Nasim-ul-Ghani, cricketer (Pakistani left-handed all-rounder 1958-73)
1942 - Byron L Dorgan, (Rep-D-ND, 1981- )
1942 - Gerald Mark Shapiro, composer
1942 - Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1942 - Tony Perez, baseball player
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1942 - Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
1943 - Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1943 - Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, guitarist
1943 - Elizabeth Ray, Marshall NC, congressman Wayne Hays' lover
1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
1944 - Francesca Annis, London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune)
1944 - Gene Cornish, Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
1944 - Troy Shondell, rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1945 - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
1946 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer
1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1946 - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
1947 - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1947 - Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1947 - Karin Struck, writer
1947 - Tamara Dobson, Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)
1948 - Bob Woolmer, cricketer (England batsman mid-70's)
1948 - Dave LaRoche, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1948 - Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
1949 - Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1950 - Mark Blum, Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio)
1951 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1951 - Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Burning Down the
           House)
1952 - Donald R McMonagle, Flint Mich, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66)
1952 - M J Smith, LPGA golfer
1952 - Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1953 - Bill Meek, Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-8th-1996)
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1954 - Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 - Peter Kirsten, cricketer (South African middle-order batsman)
1955 - [Jose] Dennis Martinez, Nicaragua, pitcher (Orioles, Expos, Indians)
1956 - Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
1956 - Steve Hogarth, Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1957 - William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)
1957 - Leon White, American professional wrestler
1958 - Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
1959 - Connie Brighton, Wichita Falls TX, playmate (Sept, 1982)
1959 - Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco)
1960 - Carlyle Best, cricketer (WI batsman late 80's)
1960 - Frank Nobilo, Auckland NZ, Australasia golfer
1960 - Anne Clark, English singer
1960 - Steve Williams, American wrestler
1961 - Tim Roth, London England, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1961 - Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1961 - Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1962 - Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman)
1963 - Pat Borders, Columbus OH, catcher (California Angels)
1964 - James M Kelly, Burlington Iowa, Capt USAF/astronaut
1964 - Nancy Sorel, actress (Generations, Black Foix)
1964 - Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
1965 - Curt Harnett, Toronto Ontario, sprint cyclist (Olympics-bronze-92/96)
1965 - Dave Widell, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1965 - Joey Cora, Caguas Puerto Rico, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Kelvin Martin, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1966 - Fab Morvan, France, Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli)
1966 - Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
1966 - Leroy Blugh, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Pooh Richardson, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 - Natasha Elaine Kaiser-Brown, Des Moines Iowa, 400m runner
1967 - Shaun Creighton, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1967 - Tony Siragusa, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Balt Ravens)
1967 - Valeria Marini, Rome Italy, sports commentator (Italian Soccer)
1968 - Hiroshi Matsuura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1969 - David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
1969 - Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the
           Rings)
1970 - Natasha Ryan, LA California, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
1970 - Sylvester Stanley, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Raphael Wiggins, Oakland California, rapper (Lifelines)
1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director
1972 - Chad Cascadden, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Gabriel Mann, American actor
1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
1973 - John Davis, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Shanice, [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
1973 - Voshon Lenard, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1973 - Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
1973 - Julian White, English rugby union footballer
1974 - Ken Belanger, Sault-ste-marie Ca, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1974 - Keram Malichi-Sanchez, actor (No Contest, Catwalk, Boulevard)
1974 - Jennifer Allan, American model
1975 - Carmen Klomp, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
1975 - Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
1976 - Terrance Cauthen, Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
1976 - Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
1976 - Martine McCutcheon, British actress
1977 - Anca Barna, Cluj Romania, tennis star (semifinals 1995 ITF Poland)
1977 - Cesarina Mejia, Miss Dominican Republic Universe (1997)
1977 - Jayna Hefford, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
1977 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
1978 - Heather Brink, Lincoln Neb, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1978 - André Macanga, Angolan footballer
1978 - Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Eddie House, American basketball player
1978 - Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
1979 - Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
1980 - Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
1980 - Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
1980 - Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
1982 - BeardyMan, English beatboxer
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, Santa Monica California, actress (Emily Bowen-Gen Hospital)
1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1984 - Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
1984 - Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 - Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New York, American internet entrepreneur and founder of
           Facebook
1985 - Sally Martin, American actress
1986 - Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
1987 - Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

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This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Deaths

                 
Founder of Heinz                                  Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (1998)
Henry John Heinz (1919)


347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
649 - Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
964 - John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56
1643 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1726 - John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1726 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1742 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64
1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
1801 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66
1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1820 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
1832 - John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
1833 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
1847 - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1863 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46
1864 - William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies
1870 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1877 - John Roberts, composer, dies at 54
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led
           the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
1893 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
1904 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63
1912 - Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74
1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 - Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
1936 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
1938 - Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81
1940 - Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
1940 - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
          1856)
1947 - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
1953 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1955 - Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1965 - Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
1966 - Georgia BD Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright, dies at 88
1966 - Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64
1968 - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
1969 - Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at 75
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 - Billie Burke, comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84
1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted at 33
1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1979 - Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57
1980 - Hugh Griffith, actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at 67
1980 - Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79
1982 - Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1983 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/pres of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80
1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1984 - Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
1987 - Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 68
1988 - Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
1990 - Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78
1991 - Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies
1991 - Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies
1991 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
1991 - John Edward Craven, dies
1991 - Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies
1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43
1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
1993 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies
1995 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1996 - Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82
1996 - Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer, dies at 48
1996 - Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer, 1st Sri Lankan Test player to die
1996 - Vera Chapman, writer, dies at 98
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician, dies of cancer at 62
1997 - Laurie Lee, writer, dies at 42
1997 - Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, descendant of Dracula, dies at 76
1997 - Thelma Carpenter, singer, dies at 76
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
2010 - Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)

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This Day in History for 15th May


Historical Events

                                   
Astronomer Johannes Kepler                  Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr           Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio

                                   
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin        Heavyweight Champion Boxer                      Pop Singer & Beatle
                                                                     Rocky MarcianoSmith Jr                           Paul McCartney


Comedian/Actor Robin Williams


756 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1213 - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 - Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the
           torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta
           Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1525 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
1536 - Anna Boleyn & George Boleyn Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest
1572 - Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes
1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1610 - Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII ( 8 ) as French king
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 - Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified
1665 - Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during
           one of the first attempted flights.
1796 - France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1796 - French troops occupy Milan
1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1800 - Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
1817 - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the
           Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia,
           Pennsylvania.
1829 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
1849 - Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
1851 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned
1856 - 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1862 - -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV
1862 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 - Department of Agriculture created
1862 - Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
1862 - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia
1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
1868 - Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
1882 - May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1883 - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1885 - Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
1891 - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
1891 - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1891 - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
1891 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
1894 - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1902 - Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded
1905 - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
1906 - NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
1911 - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1911 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
1912 - 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1914 - Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 - A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1916 - Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1918 - 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1918 - 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
1918 - 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1918 - 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
1918 - Greeks troops lands at Smyrna
1918 - Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
1919 - Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
1920 - Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
1923 - Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
1926 - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
1926 - British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in "Plane Crazy"
1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
1930 - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1931 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai
           Tsuyoshi is killed.
1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1934 - Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
1935 - Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
1936 - Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h
1937 - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1938 - Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940 - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940 - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 - 1st British turbojet flies
1941 - British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1941 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid Jewish music
1942 - Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1942 - Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1944 - 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
1944 - Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1944 - Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
1945 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 - 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
1948 - 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
1948 - Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record
1948 - Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1951 - AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political
           asylum.
1952 - Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
1952 - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago
1953 - Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1954 - KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1955 - KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1957 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III
1959 - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact
           the original contest
1960 - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1960 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1961 - "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
1961 - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
1962 - US marines arrive in Laos
1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1964 - Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1965 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 - Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
1966 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1967 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1967 - Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 - "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 - 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
1968 - A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 - Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe
          Garagiola is substitute host
1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1970 - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
1970 - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1970 - South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
1971 - 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
1971 - Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
1972 - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1972 - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
1972 - George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972 - Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to
           Japanese control.
1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed
1974 - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1974 - Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.
1975 - 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 - Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1976 - 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
1976 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1976 - Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91
1976 - Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1980 - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1980 - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1980 - Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
1981 - "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
1981 - 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
1981 - George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 - Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
1981 - SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1981 - Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
1982 - 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1985 - Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1986 - Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
1987 - 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
1987 - Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
1988 - "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances
1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1988 - 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
1988 - Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1988 - Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
1989 - "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1989 - Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 - Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1989 - US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1989 - Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by
           right-to-lifers
1990 - "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs
1990 - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
1990 - Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
1990 - Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
1991 - Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
1991 - Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1991 - Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 - Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game
1991 - Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
1992 - Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
1992 - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1992 - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
1993 - 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 - Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
1994 - 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1997 - ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 - STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
2008 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex
           marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the
           world solo.
2012 - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
2012 - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are
           scheduled

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This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Weddings

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
1948 - Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse (26) weds singer Tony Martin (34)
1993 - Actress Jane Seymour weds actor James Kesch
1996 - Auto racing champ-turned-TV commentator Danny Sullivan (46) weds former Manhattan
           financial planner Brenda Bosveld (33) in Monte Carlo, Monaco
2009 - Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft (32) weds Chicago's public relations executive Joe
           Waterman (35) at the Private Dining Rooms of Spiaggia in Chicago, Illinois
2010 - Actress and model Danneel Harris (33) weds actor Jensen Ackles (34) at the Rosewood
           Crescent Court Hotel in Dallas, Texas
2011 - Actress Tamera Mowry (32) weds Fox News Correspondent Adam Housley (39) at Villagio Inn
          & Spa in Napa, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Birthdays

                 
American Football Player                           Daughter of Princess
Emmitt Smith (1969)                                 Anne Zara Phillips (1981)


1565 - Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1608 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of
           Massachusetts (d. 1820)
1754 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1759 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1773 - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1791 - Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
1795 - Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
1802 - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1807 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1808 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1808 - Michael William Balfe, composer
1810 - Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
1813 - Stephen Heller, composer
1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1819 - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1830 - Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor (The Time)
1841 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1845 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1855 - Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1860 - Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
1865 - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]
1878 - Francisco Pujol, composer
1880 - Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1883 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1888 - Jean Wahl, French philosopher
1889 - Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1891 - Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US Native American actor (Pony Soldier)
1891 - David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist (spot tests)
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
1892 - Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1893 - Michel Gusikoff, composer
1893 - Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
1895 - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1895 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
1898 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, [Bathiat], Courbevoie France, actress (Maxime)
1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1901 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1902 - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
1903 - Anny Ondra, Czechoslovakia, actress (Blackmail, Manxman)
1903 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1904 - Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
1904 - Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1907 - Josef Alexander, composer
1907 - Phillip Piratin, communist
1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 - Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 - James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
1909 - Rodolfo Cornejo, composer
1910 - Constance Cummings, Wash, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65) [or Apr 20]
1911 - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Galitzianer Cowboy)
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann)
1911 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
1912 - Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer
1912 - Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1912 - Arthur Victor Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
1914 - Jack Pepys, immunologist
1914 - Pierre Froidebise, composer
1914 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
1915 - Maurice B Latey, commentator (BBC World Service)
1915 - Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1916 - Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
1917 - Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist
1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
1919 - Charles Palmer, cricketer (one Test 1955, later MCC president)
1920 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist/sec-gen (CPI) [or May 25]
1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 - Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1923 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary water polo player (Olympics, 1948-60)
1924 - Don Kenyon, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1951-55)
1924 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist
1924 - Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
1924 - Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
1925 - Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
1925 - Emmanuel Ghent, composer
1925 - Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
1926 - Clermont Pepin, composer
1926 - Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
1929 - Jack Flavell, cricketer (England pace bowler in 4 Tests 1961-64)
1930 - Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
1931 - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton, Be My Guest)
1931 - F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
1931 - Ken Venturi, American golfer
1932 - John Glen, Thames England, actor (Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire)
1934 - David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick
1935 - Ted Dexter, cricketer (in Milan Superb England batsman of 60's)
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress (Cinderfella)
1936 - Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1936 - Jean Balissat, composer
1936 - Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
1936 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1938 - Lenny Welch, Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
1938 - Mireille Darc, French actress
1939 - Brian Hartley, mathematician
1939 - Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
1940 - Beth Stone, LPGA golfer
1940 - Mireille Darc, Toulon France, actor (Week End, Hurried Man)
1940 - Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
1941 - Cyril Cooray, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test umpire on intl panel)
1941 - K T Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80's Ladies)
1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1941 - Richard Edward Wilson, composer
1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Indianapolis, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)
1942 - Doug Lowe, 35th Premier of Tasmania
1943 - Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family)
1944 - Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 - Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1944 - Tich, rocker
1944 - Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
1946 - Chazz Palminteri, Bronx NY, actor (Jade, Diabolique, Bronx Tale)
1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)
1949 - Eric J Beekes, actor/singer (Hunk)
1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
1949 - Wendy Pritchard, Australian women's field hockey team manager (Oly-96)
1950 - Nicholas Hammond, American actor
1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1952 - Rick Waits, baseball pitcher (Rangers, Indians, Twins)
1953 - George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1954 - Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg Canada, golfer (West Coast Open-1982, 83)
1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1955 - Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
1956 - Alice Miller, Marysville CA, LPGA golfer (1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1956 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
1957 - Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
1958 - Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1959 - Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
1960 - Rob Bowman, American film director
1961 - Anne Kelly, LPGA golfer
1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1961 - Melle Mel, American musician
1963 - George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter
1963 - Grant Herslov, LA California, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
1964 - Pamela Dukes, Bronx NY, discus thrower
1964 - Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
1965 - Dan Stryzinski, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Glen Hnatiuk, Selkirk Manitoba, Nike golfer (1992 Mississippi Gulf)
1965 - Jeff Rochlin, Bkln NY, actor (Cutting Class, Splitz, Taps)
1965 - Raí, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Paul Ysebaert, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - John Smoltz, Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1967 - Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners, Indians)
1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1968 - James "Jim" Neil, Buffalo NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Leroy Hoard, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1969 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1969 - Holly McPeak, Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
1970 - Artie Smith, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Cory Philpot, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1970 - Desmond Howard, NFL receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders)
1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 - Keith Tower, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1970 - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
1970 - Rod Smith, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1970 - Tony Brown, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1970 - Rod Smith, American football player
1971 - Scott Shipley, Bremerton Wash, slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1972 - David Charvet, actor (Melrose Place)
1972 - Patrick Pothuizen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 - Tirrell Greene, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Troy Drake, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Suzannah Bianco, San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-alt-96)
1973 - Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 - A J Hinch, Wavely IA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Addilson dos Santos, soccer player (Sparta)
1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1974 - Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
1975 - Ray Lewis, American football linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1976 - Eric DuBose, Bradenton Fl, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1976 - Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
1976 - Ryan Leaf, American football player
1978 - Amy Chow, San Jose California, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)
1978 - David Krumholtz, NYC, actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)
1978 - Krissy Taylor, model
1978 - Edu, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
1978 - Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
1980 - Rocky Marquette, American actor
1981 - Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne
1981 - Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer
1981 - Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1982 - Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - Alex Breckenridge, American actress
1982 - Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1984 - Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
1985 - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
1986 - Adam Moffat, Scottish football player
1986 - Kyle Loza,Freestyle Motocross Rider
1987 - Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
1987 - Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
1990 - Joe Mattock, English football player
1995 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Deaths

                 
Poet Emily Dickinson (1886)        Country Singer June Carter Cash (2003)


392 - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
884 - Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174), dies at 56
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1482 - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1621 - Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
1622 - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1685 - Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1761 - Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56
1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1785 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
1801 - Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1821 - John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
1822 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64
1823 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1824 - Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
1832 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73
1833 - Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1842 - Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1845 - Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
1855 - Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
1872 - Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
1873 - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55
1889 - Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
1892 - Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1895 - Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
1899 - Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
1924 - Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
1926 - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
1932 - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1933 - Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
1940 - Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
1945 - Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1952 - Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
1952 - Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
1958 - Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
1959 - Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56
1964 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
1964 - Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
1965 - Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
1967 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1967 - Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74
1971 - Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1972 - Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47
1973 - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1978 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 - Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
1985 - Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
1986 - Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1987 - John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
1987 - Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies
1988 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies
1989 - John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 - Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1991 - Freddie Paris, dies
1991 - Reno Brown, dies
1991 - Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1992 - Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
1992 - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 - Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
1994 - Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
1994 - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
1994 - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
1995 - Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
1995 - Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
1995 - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
1995 - Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
1996 - George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2005 - Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
2009 - Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (b. 1923)
2009 - Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2010 - Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (b. 1950)
2010 - Besian Idrizaj, Footballer (b. 1987)
2012 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, dies from a haemorrhage at 83

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th May


Historical Events

                                   
Astronomer Johannes Kepler                  US President Abraham Lincoln           French National Heroine Joan of Arc

                                   
Heavyweight Champion Boxer            Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand                  Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby
Rocky Marciano

                                   
Pop Singer & Beatle                          Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan             Parody Singer and Comedian
Paul McCartney                                                                                                                 Weird Al Yankovic


955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1547 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 - 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 - Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 - Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 - Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a
           group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North
           Carolina.
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 - Lombardije Republic forms
1803 - Peace of Amiens ends
1804 - Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 - Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
1815 - The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath
           in the upper Blue Mountains.
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1822 - Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1860 - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 - Twiggs Surrender, San Antonio, Texas during US Civil war
1861 - Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 - Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1874 - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1877 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1879 - Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
1879 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 - World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 - 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00
1884 - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
1888 - CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1901 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
1902 - 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against
           Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1903 - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 - Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1914 - Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1916 - 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government
           an imprisonable offense.
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1921 - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
1924 - 108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon
1925 - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 - NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1930 - 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
1931 - 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
1932 - Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 - 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
1938 - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1938 - 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1938 - In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
1939 - 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 - Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 - 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 - Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941 - Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941 - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1943 - -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1943 - German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1944 - Milt police attack gypsies
1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1948 - Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 - Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
1948 - Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948 - George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1951 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International
           Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1952 - "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1953 - Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1954 - WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
1955 - King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1955 - Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
1955 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1956 - Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1956 - Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval
1957 - Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1957 - Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1959 - WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu,
           California.
1961 - 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
1963 - "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
1964 - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 - "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs
1965 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 - Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1965 - WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1965 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966 - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1966 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1967 - Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 - Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1969 - Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1969 - Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
1969 - US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1969 - Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
1970 - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1970 - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1971 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 - Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1972 - "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs
1972 - Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
1973 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1973 - AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
1974 - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1976 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games
1976 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1977 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
1979 - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1980 - 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1980 - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
1980 - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick
           Wakeman in Yes
1981 - "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1981 - 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1981 - Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1982 - "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs
1982 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1982 - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
1982 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
1983 - Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1983 - Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1984 - Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 - Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets
           but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1986 - "Top Gun," premieres
1986 - Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1986 - Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
1986 - South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1986 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists,
           convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1987 - "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
1987 - 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 - Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1987 - "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an
           unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1988 - Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1988 - US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
1989 - Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift
           when they formally met in Beijing
1990 - Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 - Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
1991 - Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
1992 - "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1992 - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs
1993 - Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 - Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
1993 - Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1993 - Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1994 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 - Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on
           Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 - Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 - Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA
1997 - Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
1997 - Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 - St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 - 124th Preakness
2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the
           Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and
           early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2006 - A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.
2007 - Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader
           to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election   
           on the 3rd May.
2011 - Space shuttle Endeavour launches for its final commission in space

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This Day in History for 16th May


Famous Weddings

1770 - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1836 - US writer Edgar Allan Poe (26) marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm
1880 - British writer Mary Anne Evans, pen name George Eliot, aged 60 marries John Cross, 20 years
           her junior
1981 - Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
1987 - Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
2006 - "Korn" bassist Fieldy (36) weds Deena Beber at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana
           Point, California
2009 - Actress Jennifer Freeman (23) weds NBA guard Earl Watson (29) in Beverly Hills, California
2010 - British comedian David Walliams (38) weds supermodel Lara Stone (26) at Claridge's Hotel in
           London