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This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US First Lady                                          Comedian Jerry Stiller (1927)                     Rapper Kanye West (1977)
Barbara Bush (1925)


1318 - Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II
1625 - Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)
1652 - William Dampier, English explorer/pirate
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)
1717 - John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
1722 - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
1724 - John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer
1740 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer
1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1753 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1756 - Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
1757 - Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
1759 - Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
1783 - Joseph Lincke, composer
1804 - Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805 - Luigi Ricci, composer
1806 - Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1812 - Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germany, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik)
1812 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1813 - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891
1814 - Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
1821 - John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1821 - Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1824 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1824 - William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1829 - John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
1831 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
1834 - George Garrett, composer
1837 - Jan Kleczynski, composer
1837 - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
1842 - John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 - Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901)
1849 - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1854 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
1856 - Natalia Janotha, composer
1858 - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
1859 - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim)
1881 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1885 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
1888 - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
1889 - Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1894 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1896 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1897 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
1900 - Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general)
1901 - Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
1902 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary)
1903 - Gerrit C Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
1903 - Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician
1903 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara)
1905 - Brian Coffey, poet
1906 - Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1906 - S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932)
1909 - Maria M van de Berg, actress (It was April 1st)
1909 - William Odling, major-general
1910 - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor [NS=June 21]
1910 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
1910 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1911 - Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
1912 - Ian Morrow, company director
1912 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1913 - Graham Watson, literary agent
1913 - Janos Jagamas, composer
1913 - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator
1914 - Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1914 - KuBa, writer
1915 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, (mayor-Maarn Neth)
1915 - Julian Ridsdale, MP
1916 - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1916 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1917 - Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)
1918 - Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1919 - Guy Overton, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 3 Tests on 1953-54 SA tour)
1920 - A J Mottram, tennis player
1920 - Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
1920 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
1921 - Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)
1921 - Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
1921 - Lord Campbell of Croy
1921 - Sheila Ryan, KS, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury)
1921 - Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- )
1921 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, (d. 2012)
1922 - Myron Healy, Petalumus California, actor (Wyatt Earp)
1923 - Alice Coleman, geographer
1923 - Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
1923 - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
1923 - Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
1924 - George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
1924 - Glidewell, Lord Justice
1924 - Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55)
1924 - Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
1924 - William Barlow, CEO (BICC)
1924 - Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
1925 - Barbara Pierce Bush, Flushing, New York, US 1st lady (1989-93)
1925 - Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked)
1925 - Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996)
1926 - Anatol Vieru, composer
1926 - Cranley Onslow, MP
1926 - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1927 - Dame Anne Warburton, President (Lucy Cavendish College-Cambridge_
1927 - David Hobman, director (Age Concern England)
1927 - Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld)
1927 - Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery)
1928 - Jiri Dvoracek, composer
1928 - Kat[ i ]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap)
1929 - Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)
1929 - Ventappa Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61)
1930 - Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malmö Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
1930 - Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1930 - Michael Codron, theatrical producer
1930 - Yannis Ioannidis, composer
1930 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
1930 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
1931 - Ivan V Lali, poet
1931 - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul
1932 - Hans Gunter Helms, composer
1932 - Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain)
1932 - Ray Illingworth, cricketer (England off-spin all-rounder & captain)
1932 - Raymond Illingworth, CEO )England committee, TCCB)
1933 - Dr Robert Stevens, Master (Pembroke College, Oxford)
1933 - Eric Parker, deputy CEO (Trafalgar House)
1933 - Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq)
1934 - Millicent Martin, Romford England, actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)
1936 - James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31)
1937 - Norma Shaw, bowler
1939 - Bernie Casey, Wyco WV, actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop)
1939 - Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
1940 - Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 - Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 - Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1942 - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 - Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander (HQ Aldershot Garrison)
1942 - Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Colin Baker, actor (Dr Who, Swallows & Amazons)
1943 - J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1943 - Vicki Stangroome, campaigner
1943 - Willie Davenport, Troy Ala, bobsledder/hurdler (Olympics-gold-68)
1943 - William Calley, American war criminal
1944 - Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1944 - Don Grady, [Agrati], actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), (d. 2012)
1944 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1944 - Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
1945 - Derek Underwood, cricketer ("Deadly" Maybe the best post-war SLA)
1945 - Donna Deitch, director (Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place)
1946 - Dudley Fishburn, MP
1946 - Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk)
1946 - Richie Robinson, cricketer (Victorian keeper, Australian batsman 1977)
1947 - Joan La Barbara, composer
1947 - Julie Driscoll, rocker/actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee)
1947 - Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1949 - Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
1949 - Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
1949 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
1950 - Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978)
1950 - Kathy Whitton Baker, Midland Tx, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles)
1951 - Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1951 - Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
1952 - Lindka Cierach, fashion designer
1952 - Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1953 - Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
1954 - Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
1955 - Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl)
1955 - James Jonathan Sylvers, rocker
1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer
1955 - Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
1957 - Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill NY, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1957 - Don Robinson, American baseball player
1958 - Keenan Ivory Wayans, NYC, comedian (In Living Color)
1958 - Stan Brock, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1960 - Linda Hanley, Laguna Beach California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-4th-96)
1960 - Mick Hucknall, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye)
1961 - Kevin Gross, Downey CA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, [Bates], keyboardist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1962 - Kristine W, American musician
1963 - John Restino, Westchester NY, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Tommy Armour)
1963 - Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine)
1963 - Susan Smith, LPGA golfer
1963 - Keti Garbi, Greek singer
1964 - Butch [Harry Lee] Reynolds Jr, Akron, Ohio, 4X400m runner
1964 - Nelli [Antoinette HC] Fiere-Cooman, Neth, runner (WR 60 m in 7.00)
1965 - Kevin Ritz, Eatonstown NJ, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1965 - Robert Platus, NYC, lip syncher (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This)
1965 - Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
1966 - Brian Williams, NFL center (NY Giants)
1966 - Doris Pearson, Essex, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1966 - Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
1967 - Kathryn Marshall, Dundee Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr)
1967 - Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1967 - Stephane Simian, France, tennis star
1967 - Willie Williams, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Dave Mlicki, Cleveland Ohio, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 - Rob Ray, Belleville, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 - Glenn Rogers Jr, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Laurel Martin, Hummelstown PA, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1969 - J.P. Manoux, American actor
1969 - Marcos Siega, American director
1969 - David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
1970 - Troy Vincent, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
1971 - Amanda Jahn, Miss USA-Missouri (1997)
1971 - Elena Brioukhovets, Odessa Ukraine, tennis star (finalist 1990 Moscow)
1971 - Jamie Morgan, Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tom Nutten, CFL/NFL centers (Hamilton Tiger Cats, Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Mark Feuerstein, American actor
1972 - David Sloan, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1972 - P[eter] J[ason] Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1972 - Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
1973 - Bryant Reeves, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 - Michael Sheldon, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
1973 - Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
1974 - Gabe Northern, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 - Bryan McCabe, St Catherines, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1975 - Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, Palos Verdes CA, tennis star (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Belvilyn Ada Tenorio, Miss Universe-Northern Marianas (1996)
1977 - Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
1977 - Kanye West, Atlanta, Georgia, American rapper and record producer
1978 - Maria Menounos, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Derek Trucks, American guitarist
1979 - Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican football player
1981 - Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
1981 - Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
1981 - Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
1981 - Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
1981 - Jess Weixler, American actress
1982 - Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
1982 - Katy Morgan-Davies, British politician
1982 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 - Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
1983 - Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
1984 - Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
1985 - Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
1986 - Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
1989 - Gary Wilson, Scottish Musician
1994 - Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Deaths

                     
US President & General                   Mountain Climber George Mallory (1924)
Andrew Jackson (1845)


218 - Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
632 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition)
1042 - Harthacnut/Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018) Lambeth
1115 - Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64
1376 - "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1661 - John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39
1688 - Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried
1695 - Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1711 - Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1742 - Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62
1768 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1790 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75
1794 - G A Borger, writer, dies
1795 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10
1796 - Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80
1803 - Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80
1806 - George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79
1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1814 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78
1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1865 - Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies
1870 - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
1871 - Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
1876 - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1884 - Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54
1906 - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
1908 - Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
1913 - Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1919 - Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78
1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1929 - Bliss Carman, poet, dies
1940 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer, dies at 69
1945 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1947 - Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
1948 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Aust, caught 44 stumped 21), dies
1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1953 - Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68
1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1967 - Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies
1969 - Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68
1973 - Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76
1975 - William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1979 - Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
1979 - Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1984 - Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
1987 - Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
1988 - Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies
1988 - Russell Harty, broadcaster, dies
1988 - Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer, dies
1990 - Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
1990 - Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
1991 - Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies
1991 - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1992 - Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51
1992 - Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1992 - William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
1993 - René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1994 - William Marshall, actor/director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86
1995 - Juan Carlos Ongania, pres of Argentina (1966-70), dies
1995 - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
1995 - Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76
1996 - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70
1996 - Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests), dies
1996 - Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75
1996 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88
1996 - Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79
1997 - George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2007 - Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
2007 - Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
2009 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2012 - Frank Cady, American actor, dies at 96

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th June


Historical Events

                                   
Gangster Al Capone                             French President Charles de Gaulle                     Queen Elizabeth II

                                   
Golfer Jack Nicklaus                           Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney           Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan

                                   
Tennis Player                                          Parody Singer and Comedian                 King of Pop Michael Jackson
Martina Navratilova                                    Weird Al Yankovic


68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to
         evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
641 - Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
922 - French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
1075 - Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and
           installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1525 - Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
1529 - Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
1531 - Pope Clemens VII & Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1549 - England enforces Act of Supremacy
1572 - Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland
1628 - 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is
           established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1720 - Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1732 - Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia
1752 - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1772 - 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1772 - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
1784 - John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
1789 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1790 - 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1802 - US Academy at West Point founded
1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
1822 - Charles Graham patents false teeth
1851 - SF Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their
           possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 - 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann
           Stevens
1862 - Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
1863 - Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
1864 - Battle of Big Shanty, GA
1864 - Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha)
1865 - Battle of Grand Gulf, MS
1868 - 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
1870 - Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud
1873 - Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.
1877 - 11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46
1883 - 17th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard George Kinney wins in 2:42.5
1883 - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
1887 - 21st Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hanover wins in 2:43.5
1888 - 22nd Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40.25
1890 - Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
1891 - Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
1892 - 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
1898 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
1899 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1901 - NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
1902 - 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila)
1906 - Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey,
           becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions,
           none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800
           miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1910 - Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in
           Queensland)
1914 - Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1915 - William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
1919 - General steel strike in France
1919 - Red Army captures Ufa
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1923 - 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
1923 - Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
1923 - Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown
1924 - "Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton
1928 - 60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2
1928 - Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their
           flight from California to Brisbane
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train
           station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to
           Al Capone.
1931 - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
1931 - 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
1933 - Spanish president Zamora takes power
1933 - Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1934 - 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
1934 - 38th US Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA
1934 - 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2
1934 - Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen")
1934 - Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for US Open
1934 - Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for US Open
1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese
           occupations in Northeast China.
1936 - Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA
1938 - Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
1940 - 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH
1940 - General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1940 - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
1941 - Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
1941 - Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
1942 - Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
1942 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1944 - Russian offensive in Carelia
1945 - "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA
1945 - -10] Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo
1945 - 71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr wins in 2:07
1945 - Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a
           complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1946 - 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa)
1946 - 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
1946 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand
1946 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1946 - NY Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader
1948 - WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
1951 - "Doodles Weaver Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater," last airs on NBC-TV
1953 - South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
1953 - Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless)
1954 - Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-
           Army hearings
1955 - 100°F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington
1955 - Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa, Trent Bridge
1956 - Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
1957 - Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
1958 - "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1958 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex,
           United Kingdom.
1959 - 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
1960 - ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
1960 - Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600
1961 - Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
1962 - "Bill of Hare," premieres in USA
1962 - 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8
1962 - Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC
1963 - 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1963 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1963 - Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted
1963 - Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY
1964 - Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
1965 - Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6
1966 - 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew)
           all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
1967 - Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1967 - Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1967 - Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl
1968 - 38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62)
1968 - 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61)
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 - Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms
1969 - Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
1969 - Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
1970 - Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
1970 - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
1970 - Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1971 - Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1971 - Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
1972 - 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
1972 - 1st all-nite grad parties
1972 - Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
1973 - 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24
1973 - Secretariat becomes 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning horse racing's Belmont
           Stakes
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic
1974 - Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1975 - 107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2
1975 - Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
1975 - House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time
1975 - Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
1977 - 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
1977 - George & Patti Harrison divorce
1977 - Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
1978 - Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
1978 - Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of
           excluding black men from priesthood
1979 - 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
1979 - 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60)
1979 - Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
1979 - Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time
1979 - Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome
1980 - 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
1980 - Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
1980 - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1982 - General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala
1982 - Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
1983 - 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
1983 - M Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983 - Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
1984 - "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
1984 - 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
1984 - 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61)
1984 - Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"
1984 - Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
1984 - Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
1984 - NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
1984 - Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
1984 - Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1985 - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1985 - 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1985 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
1985 - Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
1985 - USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
1986 - 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1986 - Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
1986 - Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
1986 - Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
1988 - "Bloodsport (1987)," premieres in Germany
1988 - Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 - "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," premieres in USA
1989 - Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 - Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1989 - Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
1990 - 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go & Go wins in 2:27.2
1990 - 60th French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64)
1990 - Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer
1990 - Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with baseball's switch hit HRs in 10 games
1990 - Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
1990 - Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
1990 - Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open tennis title
1991 - 61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64)
1991 - 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus
1991 - Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
1991 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 - WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0
1993 - "Amantes" (1991), premieres in France
1993 - "Body Snatchers" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "Ce que femme veut" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "Passion Fish" (1992), premieres in France
1993 - "Tout capour ca!" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993), premieres
1993 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4 games to 1
1993 - Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
1994 - "Hudsorryer Proxy," premieres in Germany
1994 - 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
1994 - Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
1995 - Brady Bunch Movie, (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Congo (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Dumb & Dumber (1994), premieres in Sweden
1995 - Killer (1994), premieres in UK
1995 - Kiss of Death (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Man of the House (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Neak Sre (1993), premieres in UK
1995 - Party Girl (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Smoke (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Wigstock The Movie (1994), premieres in USA
1996 - 66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76)
1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1996 - Sunday League cricket game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
1997 - British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
1997 - Detroit Tigers baseball team bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning
1999 - Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a
           peace treaty.
2012 - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling
           banks
2012 - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses

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This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Weddings

1936 - Novelist and journalist George Orwell (33) weds Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy (30) at St. Mary's
           Church
1991 - Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
1993 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada
2001 - "Law & Order" actress and model Angie Harmon (28) weds New York Giant NFL player Jason
           Sehorn (30) at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas
2002 - "In Your Eyes" singer Peter Gabriel (51) weds Meah Flynn at Li Capanni Hotel in Italy
2005 - "Good Morning, Miami" actor Mark Feuerstein (34) weds TV writer/producer Dana Klein at The
           Four Seasons-Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, California
2005 - "Saved By The Bell" actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor Brady Smith in Montecito,
           California
2006 - Actor Oliver Hudson (29) weds actress Erinn Bartlett (33) at One & Only Palmilla in Cabo San
           Lucas, Mexico
2007 - "Ugly Betty" actress Ana Ortiz (36) weds musician Noah Lebenzon at the Horned Dorset
           Primavera Hotel in Rincon, Puerto Rico
2008 - "Tommy Tutone" band lead singer Tommy Heath weds longtime girlfriend Lisa Scholtz in Lake
           Tahoe, California
2009 - Boxing legend Mike Tyson (43) weds Lakiha Spicer (32) at La Bella Wedding Chapel in Las
           Vegas, Nevada
2012 - Actor Matthew McConaughey (42) weds model Camilla Alves (30) in Austin, Texas

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Divorces

1977 - George & Patti Harrison divorce
2009 - Elizabeth Watson (39) divorces Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds (44) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Russian Tsar Peter the Great (1672)          Actor Michael J. Fox (1961)                    Actor Johnny Depp (1963)


Actress Natalie Portman (1981) 


1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1510 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem
1573 - Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1597 - Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 - George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor (RR locomotive)
1791 - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
1792 - Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary
1810 - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
1812 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1812 - Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
1828 - Carlo Marsili, composer
1829 - Gaetano Braga, composer
1833 - John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1836 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Joseph Vezina, composer
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1854 - Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society)
1861 - Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
1865 - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, French composer
1875 - Henry Dale, London, physiologist (Nobel-1936)
1877 - Rudolf Borchardt, writer
1879 - Dudley Digges, Irish actor
1879 - Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1884 - Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
1886 - Kusaku Yamada, composer
1888 - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
1888 - Hugo Kauder, composer
1890 - Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours)
1891 - Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
1893 - Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1896 - Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio)
1896 - Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute)
1898 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E sorryert], Italian author (Kaputt)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender)
1900 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
1901 - George Price, cartoonist
1901 - Marion Gering, actress (Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours)
1905 - Harry "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Aus quick 1 Test Bodyline series)
1905 - Walter Kraft, composer
1906 - Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja)
1908 - J F Williams-Wynne, Lord-Lieutenant (Gwynedd)
1908 - Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder)
1909 - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher
1910 - Geoffrey Musson, British General
1910 - Vbilmos Demian, composer
1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Edgar Evans, tenor
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso)
1913 - Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army
1913 - Patrick Steptoe, scientist (developed in vitro fertilization)
1914 - Barbara Mullen, Boston MA, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners)
1914 - Hermann Haller, composer
1915 - Jane Cowan, cello teacher
1915 - Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)
1915 - Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) Waukesha Wisconsin, American musician and inventor
1916 - Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head (World Bank)
1917 - Eric J. Hobsbawm, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt, Marxist historian (The Age of Revolution;
           Capital; and Empire), (d. 2012)
1918 - Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor (Ciske de Rat)
1919 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1920 - Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist
1921 - Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop)
1922 - P G Beazley, MEP
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1924 - Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964)
1924 - Peter Heatly, CEO (Commonwealth Games Federation)
1924 - Tony Britton, Birmingham England, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup)
1925 - Roy Hughes, MP
1925 - [John] Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], US, sf author (Retief's War)
1926 - Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress)
1926 - Roy Smalley, shortstop (Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees)
1927 - Franco Donatoni, composer
1927 - Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
1928 - Geraint Gruffydd, director (U of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies)
1929 - Johnny Ace [John Marshall Alexander, Jr.], Memphis, Tennessee, rhythm and blues singer (My
           Song)
1929 - June O'Dell, deputy CEO (Equal Opportunities Commission)
1929 - Keith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1929 - Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977- )
1930 - Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria)
1930 - Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)/mgr (NY Yankees)
1931 - Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1932 - Douglas Smith, CEO (Acas)
1933 - Dick Orkin, Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show)
1933 - Don Young, (Rep-R-AK, 1973- )
1933 - Patrick Symons, British vice-admiral
1934 - Donald Duck, famous fowl
1934 - Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops, Night)
1934 - Joe Santos, Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus)
1934 - Michael Mates, MP
1934 - Pal Karolyi, composer
1934 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1935 - Diana Van Der Vlis, actress (Lovespell, Girl in Black Stockings)
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Sven Conrad Stayers, cricketer (WI fast bowler 1962)
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1938 - Anne Kenny, Mudgee NSW, golfer (1968, 71 Australian Champ)
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980)
1938 - Jeremy Hardie, CEO (W H Smith Group)
1938 - Peter Sanders, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1938 - Roger Hurn, CEO (Smith's Industries)
1939 - David Hobbs (auto racer)
1939 - Derek Hunt, CEO (MFI Furniture Group)
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1940 - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")
1941 - Billy Hatton, rocker
1941 - Jon Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake), (d. 2012)
1941 - Peter Wilson, CEO (Gallaher)
1942 - Nicholas Lloyd, editor (Daily Express)
1942 - Richard Hutton, cricketer (son of Len, 5 Tests 1971)
1943 - Charles Saatchi, English magnate (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1943 - Joe [William] Haldeman, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart)
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1944 - 23 puppies, (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
1944 - Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady)
1944 - Viscount Craigavon
1944 - record litter of 23 puppies is born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
1945 - Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972)
1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
1946 - Peter Kilfoyle, British MP
1947 - John Gurda, American historian
1948 - Jim Bailey, NCAA punter (most punts in season-101, Va Milt Academy)
1948 - Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Ca, cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978)
1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1949 - Douglas Henderson, British MP
1951 - Benny Neyman, Dutch singer (I Don't Know How)
1951 - Dave Parker, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978)
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 - Pete Byrne Bath - English rocker (Naked Eyes)
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1957 - Elly van Holly, running star (3k indoor world record)
1958 - Donald Michael Santini, Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1959 - Peter Fowler, Hornsby NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.
1960 - Nancy Taylor, SF CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-54th)
1960 - Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen
           Wolf)
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1962 - Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
1963 - Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor (21 Jump Street, Ed Wood)
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Toronto, actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1964 - Wayman Tisdale, NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns)
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1965 - Gloria Reuben, actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1965 - Jeff Williams, Santa Monica California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner
1966 - Anthony Martino, CFL punter (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 - Robert Reading, Buffalo NY, 110m hurdler
1968 - Tom Rouen, NFL punter (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1969 - Keith Alex, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)
1969 - Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1970 - Harry Van Hofwegen, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1970 - Russ Romaniuk, Winnipeg, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 - D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Joey Gullion, Gallopolis OH, Nike golfer (NIKE SC Classic-18th)
1971 - Roderick Lewis, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 - Romano Sion, soccer player (Dordrecht '90/FC Groningen)
1971 - Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1972 - Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler (brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995- )
1972 - Steven Salter, CFL offensive linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Wardell Rouse, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1973 - Chris Villarrial, center/guard (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Grant Marshall, Mississauga, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 - Orlondo Steinauer, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1974 - Jana Nejedly, Prague Czech, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jon Harris, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
1975 - Andrew Symonds, cricketer (Birmingham, brilliant Qld & Gloucs batsman)
1975 - Carolyne Lepage, Montreal Quebec, 48 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1975 - Paul Agostino, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
1977 - Zephnad Wattimury, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1978 - Elizabeth Reid, Fairfax Va, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Lucia Povraznikova, Miss Slovak republic Universe (1997)
1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Michaela Conlin, American actress
1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 - Natalie Portman [Natalie Hershlag], Jerusalem, Israeli/American actress (Professional, Everyone
           Says I Love You)
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1982 - Amber Yoder, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1982 - Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman, American Actress
1991 - Abraham Joseph Groening, son of Simpson creator Matt Groening
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

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This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Deaths

                 
Novelist Charles Dickens (1870)        Writer/Nobel Laureate Miguel Asturias (1974)


62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
68 - Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1171 - Jacob Ben Meir, [Rabbenu Tam], French Tosofist, dies
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69
1382 - Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1597 - Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies
1681 - William Lilly, English astrologer, dies
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69
1717 - Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64
1820 - Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68
1825 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla, dies at 44
1832 - Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1839 - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89
1847 - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies
1863 - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
1868 - James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), dies
1870 - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58
1870 - Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1897 - Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens
1901 - Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies
1907 - Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
1908 - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46
1911 - Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
1922 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
1929 - Lewis Bennison, dies
1931 - Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
1932 - Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
1939 - Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52
1944 - 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
1946 - Rama VIII, king of Siam (1935-46), dies at 21
1947 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1953 - Ugo Betti, dramatist, dies
1957 - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
1958 - Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53
1960 - René Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1962 - Henry Kendall, actor (Shadow, Romance & Riches), dies at 65
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies
1964 - W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info, dies at 85
1967 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
1968 - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1971 - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, dies at 74
1974 - Phillip Tead, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade), dies at 80
1975 - David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48
1976 - James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88
1976 - Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet/writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
1976 - Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
1977 - Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies
1977 - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1980 - Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73
1981 - Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), dies at 63
1981 - Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice), dies
1982 - Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60
1982 - Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74
1987 - Grandon Rhodes, actor (Gentleman From Nowhere), dies
1987 - Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies
1989 - Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies
1989 - W Schnurre, writer, dies at 68
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1991 - Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88
1991 - Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88
1991 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
1992 - Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert, dies of breast cancer at 41
1992 - Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
1993 - Alexis Smith, dancer/actress (Follies), dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53
1993 - Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
1994 - Angela Lakeberg, siamese twin, dies at 11 months
1994 - Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
1994 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp, dies at 63
1995 - Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for NZ v Aust 1946), dies
1995 - Frank Chacksfield, conductor/arranger, dies at 81
1995 - Walter Landor, designer, dies at 81
1996 - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist, dies at 91
1996 - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48
1996 - Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
1997 - Reid Shelton, actor (Daddy Warbucks-Annie), dies of stroke at 71
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2004 - Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
2009 - Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver
2011 - M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)

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This Day in History for 10th June


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard           Baseball Great Babe Ruth
                                                                  Nathan Bedford Forrest

                                   
US President John F. Kennedy              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley           Baseball Player Hank Aaron

                                   
Tennis Great John McEnroe                       Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        264th Pope John Paul II


1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to
           Jerusalem.
1358 - French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1538 - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and
           the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster
1605 - Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 - Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 - Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1648 - Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1719 - Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720 - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1761 - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1772 - Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing
           100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 - Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
1794 - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1794 - France revolutionary regime begins trials
1801 - Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1818 - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1826 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes
           place.
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1846 - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1848 - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1854 - Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1857 - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1861 - Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1863 - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Nathan Bedford Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1864 - Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro VA
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
1868 - 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
1869 - 'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1871 - 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56
1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on
           Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1876 - 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
1880 - Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1882 - Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1890 - 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
1891 - 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
1892 - Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1893 - 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
1898 - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915 - Girl Scouts founded
1916 - 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
1917 - Limburgse mine workers strike
1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1922 - 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
1924 - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and
           Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1926 - Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1931 - Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1932 - 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England
1933 - 37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill
1933 - 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6
1934 - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1934 - USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1938 - Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 - Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1940 - French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 - Norway surrenders to nazis
1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
1942 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 - FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1944 - Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
1944 - Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
1944 - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are
           massacred by German troops.
1945 - US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
1946 - Italian Republic established
1946 - Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General
           Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
1949 - Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier
1950 - 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA
1950 - 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
1950 - Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
1952 - Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1952 - Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
1952 - St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
1954 - KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1955 - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1955 - KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 - 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 - 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
1957 - Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1959 - Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
1962 - A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
1962 - Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
1962 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
1963 - JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1964 - Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1966 - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
1966 - Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
1966 - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
1966 - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
1966 - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
1967 - 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif
1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
1967 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV
1968 - AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy
1968 - KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 - WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast
1971 - 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
1971 - 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon
1972 - 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
1972 - Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden
1972 - Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of
           Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1973 - 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1973 - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1974 - Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
1974 - Rumor's government in Italy resigns
1974 - Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the
           father of Rambo the next generation.
1975 - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975 - Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of
           fence is blown away, & another part is set afire
1976 - 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
1976 - 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1978 - 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
1978 - Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1979 - 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1979 - 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64)
1979 - Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
1981 - IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
1981 - Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
1981 - Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
1981 - Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1982 - "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall
1982 - Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured
1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1982 - John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA
1984 - 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1984 - 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)
1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 - US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1984 - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
1985 - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1985 - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1985 - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
1985 - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1987 - Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated
1988 - Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
1989 - "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO
1989 - 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26
1989 - 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf,
           also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
1990 - "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 perfs
1990 - "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs
1990 - 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64)
1990 - 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
1990 - Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1990 - Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
1991 - "Twin Peaks," on ABC-TV
1991 - 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
1991 - Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1991 - South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
1992 - "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances
1992 - Intelsat K launched
1993 - "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994 - Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1994 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 - Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
1995 - "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs
1995 - 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
1995 - 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)
1995 - Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
1996 - 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
1996 - Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1996 - Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
1996 - Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
1997 - Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
1997 - Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
1997 - MTV Movie Awards
1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's
           family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw
           Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
2002 - The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two
           humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2008 - The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops.
2012 - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan
           cabinet minister

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Famous Weddings

1995 - Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete
           (29) in Los Angeles
1999 - Model-actress Esther Canadas (22) weds model Mark Vanderloo (31) at the 900-year-old
           Vallombrosa Abbey in Tuscany
2000 - "Live! with Kelly and Michael" executive producer Michael Gelman (38) weds CBS's Early Show
           correspondent Laurie Hibberd (36) at a Long Island estate
2002 - 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (31) weds 1998 Olympic
           Champion figure skater Ilia Kulik (25) in San Francisco
2006 - Spanish singer Bertin Osborne (51) weds Venezuelan model Fabiola Martinez in Seville, Spain
2012 - Country music singer Wynonna Judd (48) weds "Highway 101" drummer Cactus Moser in
           Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

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Famous Divorces

2004 - Model-actress Ali Landry (30) divorces "Saved by the Bell" actor Mario Lopez (30) due to
           irreconcilable differences only 2 weeks after getting married

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Judy Garland (1922)                  Actress Elizabeth Hurley (1965)                 Actress Leelee Sobieski (1983)


1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1613 - Johann Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80)
1630 - Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter/etcher
1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart 'The old Pretender', claimed thrones of England and Scotland as
           James III/James VIII (d. 1766)
1706 - John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1735 - John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1753 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1782 - Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian
1790 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1808 - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
1819 - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
1831 - W A Remy, composer
1832 - Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1832 - Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor)
1834 - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
1835 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian
1835 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane
1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1836 - Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1838 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1840 - Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1840 - Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
1844 - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
1844 - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
1859 - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
1861 - Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
1861 - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian
1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 - Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere)
1865 - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)
1869 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
1879 - Benjamin Lambord, composer
1880 - Margit Kaffka, writer
1882 - Neville Henderson, British diplomat
1886 - Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer
1888 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1889 - Cliff Clark, actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
1890 - Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
1890 - Powell Weaver, composer
1890 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1891 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)
1893 - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
1894 - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, Wichita Kansas, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The
           Wind)
1898 - Virginia Valli, [McSweeney], Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden)
1899 - Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
1900 - Henri Bruning, Dutch literary
1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1902 - Gaston Brenta, composer
1902 - J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling)
1903 - Clyde Beatty, US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage)
1903 - Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1904 - Frederick Loewe, composer (Learner & Loewe)
1906 - Janos Viski, composer
1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 - Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
1908 - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1909 - Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
1910 - Robert Still, composer
1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 - C P "Chilla" Christ, cricketer (Qld spinner late 30's)
1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, Leominster MA, harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)
1912 - Leslie Brown, Bishop (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich)
1912 - William Gordon Harris, civil engineer
1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 - John Edmunds, composer
1913 - Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
1913 - Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, composer
1913 - Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
1913 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
1914 - Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
1915 - Oscar Comras, Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1916 - Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian (Percy-Coronation Street)
1917 - William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
1918 - Barry Morse, actor (Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War)
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
1920 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1921 - Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1922 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], Minnesota, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1922 - Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)
1923 - Robert Maxwell, [Jan Hoch], Czech, billionaire/CEO (NY Daily News)
1925 - Don Costa, actor (Impossible Years, Soul of Nigger Charlie)
1925 - Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1926 - June Haver, Rock Island, actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door)
1926 - Lionel Jeffries, actor (Fanny, Prisoner of Zenda)
1926 - Willem Oltmans, Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
1927 - Michael Walsh, major-general/director (Overseas Relations)
1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
1928 - Asher Wallfish, journalist
1928 - Maurice Sendak, NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), (d. 2012)
1929 - Harald Juhnke, Berlin Germany, actor (Guitars of Love)
1929 - James McDivitt, Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
1929 - Vasile Herman, composer
1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
1931 - Jim [Purvis] Ferree Jr, Pine Bluff NC, PGA golfer (1958 Vancouver)
1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Gardner McKay, NYC, actor (Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles)
1932 - George Burns, British TV host
1932 - J Bennett Johnston, (Sen-D-LA, 1972- )
1932 - Branko Lustig, film producer
1933 - F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
1934 - Nicolas Roussakis, composer
1934 - Paul Gibson, British high court judge
1935 - Tom Pendry, MP (Labour)
1936 - Graham Carleton Greene, literary agent
1937 - Richard Foreman, NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)
1939 - Alexandra Stewart, Montreal, actress (In Praise of Older Women)
1939 - Guy Harwood, horse trainer
1940 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer
1941 - Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
1941 - Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
1941 - Shirley Owens Alston, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Soraya Khashoogi, Leicester England, wife (Adrian Khashoogi)
1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
1942 - Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1943 - Jeff Greenfield, NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
1943 - Simon Jenkins, editor (Times)
1944 - Rick Price, rocker (Move)
1945 - Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
1945 - Ron Glass, Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller, New Odd Couple)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, England, keyboardist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1946 - Mensje F van Keulen-van der Steen, Dutch writer (Bleeker's Summer)
1947 - Ken Singleton, Mt Vernon NY, baseball player (Orioles)
1949 - Kevin Corcoran, actor (Swiss Family Robinson, Babes in Toyland)
1949 - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1951 - Burglinde Pollak, German DR, pentathlete (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 - Dan Fouts, NFL QB (San Diego Chargers)
1951 - Vicky Latta, Auckland NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1953 - John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
1955 - Andrew Stevens, Memphis Tn, actor (Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury)
1956 - Georg Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
1959 - Timothy Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (White Shadow, Master)
1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician
1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, A.C. Milan coach
1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
1961 - Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1962 - Brent Sutter, Viking, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1962 - Duane Sutter, NHL player (NY Islander)
1962 - Floris Jansen, cricketer (Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 - Vincent Perez, Swiss actor
1962 - Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan
1963 - Brad Henry, American politician (current Oklahoma governor)
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 - Pete Jordan, Elmhurst IL, Nike golfer (1992 Fresno Open-2nd)
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor
1965 - Claudio Mezzadri, Switzerland, tennis star
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, Basingstroke England, actress (Christabel)
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canada, super model/actress (Catwalk, Unzipped)
1965 - Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow-City of Angels)
1966 - Doug McKeon, NJ, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
1966 - David Platt, English footballer
1967 - Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
1968 - Kevin Donnalley, NFL guard/tackle (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Susan Haskell, actress (Marty-One Life to Live, Strictly Business)
1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian
1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
1969 - Fred Foggie, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Tony McCoy, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Kate Snow, American TV journalist
1970 - David Wilson, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Laurel Korholz, La Jolla California, rower (Olympics-4th-96)
1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 - DeWayne Dotson, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Jeff Rodgers, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Leanza Cornet, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1971 - Bobby Jindal, American politician; Louisiana Congressman, Governor
1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer
1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1972 - C J Richardson, NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - David Dunn, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Edward Reevey, St John NB, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 SC Intercol)
1972 - Pat Johnson, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
1972 - Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
1973 - Brandon Sanders, safety (NY Giants)
1973 - Carl Kidd, NFL defensive back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - David Friedman, LA California, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie)
1973 - Wade Miller, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 - Lisa Jean Costantino, Miss USA-Vermont (1997)
1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player
1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
1976 - Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1977 - Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth
1977 - Mike Rosenthal, American football player, sports radio talk show host
1978 - Shane West, American actor
1978 - Brian West, American soccer player
1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress
1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1981 - Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1982 - Tara Lipinski, Philadelphia Pa, figure skater (1997 World Champ)
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1983 - Leelee Sobieski, New York City, American actress (Deep Impact, Joan of Arc, Uprising)
1984 - Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1987 - Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player
1987 - Kelly Vitz, American actress
1991 - James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot, son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
1994 - Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th June


Famous Deaths

                     
Macedonian King and                              Musician Ray Charles (2004)
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great (323 BC)


323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, dies from either fever or excessive wine at 32, (or
           the 11th June)
1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 - Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1247 - Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1560 - Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland
1580 - Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
1584 - Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28
1588 - Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58
1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1727 - George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67
1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1800 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1834 - Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1839 - Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
1849 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63
1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1868 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
1883 - Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 - Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
1903 - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
1923 - Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1924 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1926 - Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies
1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1941 - Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
1941 - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1942 - Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
1942 - Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937), dies
1944 - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
1944 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
1946 - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1953 - Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1963 - Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74
1964 - Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1967 - Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1968 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
1969 - Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64
1971 - Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1971 - Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
1973 - William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
1974 - Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74
1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103
1980 - Denys Morkel, South African cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies
1981 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36
1985 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985 - George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45
1988 - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1989 - Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68
1991 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1992 - Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1992 - Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85
1992 - Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84
1992 - Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1973)
1993 - Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83
1993 - Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
1993 - Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)
1994 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
1994 - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
1995 - Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85
1995 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82
1995 - Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
1996 - Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75
1996 - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89
1996 - Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies
1996 - Uno Choyo, writer, dies at 98
1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues, dies aged 73
2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
2008 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
2009 - Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
2010 - Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b.
          1939)
2011 - Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th June


Historical Events

                                   
Captain/Explorer James Cook                  United States founding father                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
                                                                      Benjamin Franklin

                                   
Director Alfred Hitchcock                         American Baseball Player                      US President John F. Kennedy
                                                                            Roger Maris

                                   
Singer Olivia Newton-John                         264th Pope John Paul II                      Singer Lionel Richie


Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper


1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
631 - Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold
         and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured
         during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in
         freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
758 - Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital,
         in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over
         diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement is
         reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to
         the palace.
1231 - Harderwijk becomes a city
1345 - The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by
           political prisoners.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1572 - Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
1578 - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US
1594 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the
           Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía (i.e., elite ruling class of native
           nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1644 - Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1666 - -14] Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1676 - Battle at Öland: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II
1690 - English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1699 - England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1726 - Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier
1742 - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1774 - Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 - Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
           Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence
1788 - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1793 - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1816 - Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1838 - Iowa Territory is organized
1859 - Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1864 - -12] Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
1864 - 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1864 - Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 - Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
1864 - Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
1870 - 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1876 - Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
1878 - DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change
           in 1974)
1891 - Puerto Rican flag adopted
1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in
           Melbourne, Australia.
1895 - 1st auto race
1895 - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1898 - 1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898 - 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
1898 - Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1900 - -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1901 - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1904 - Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
1904 - German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1905 - Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1907 - Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest
           total in first-class cricket.
1911 - Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
1911 - UNIA founded by Garvey
1917 - King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under
           pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 - 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass
1919 - 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown
1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 - 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1921 - Brazil adopts women suffrage
1924 - Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 - Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1927 - 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
1927 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 - Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1934 - Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the
           United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1938 - 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1938 - Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
1938 - Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
1938 - Earthquake in Belgium
1938 - England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1940 - Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
1941 - 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1941 - Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1942 - German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942 - US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
1943 - British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
1943 - Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
1944 - 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 - 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1944 - KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
1947 - WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
1949 - 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1949 - 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2
1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
1950 - Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1951 - NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1953 - "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953 - Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1955 - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1955 - 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29
1955 - Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues)
1957 - 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
1958 - UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1959 - Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US
           Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1960 - 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1960 - House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
1961 - "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 - Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1961 - Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1962 - President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully
           escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 - Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama
1963 - Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
1963 - JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
1964 - Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 - Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1964 - Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1964 - West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1966 - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
1966 - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 - "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
1966 - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
1966 - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1966 - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
1967 - A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1967 - Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1967 - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1969 - "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1970 - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
1971 - US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 - US ends ban on China trade
1972 - 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1972 - 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1972 - KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
1974 - Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
1974 - Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
1975 - 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1975 - Greece adopts constitution
1975 - One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days
1976 - "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV
1976 - Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1976 - Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain
1976 - Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA
1977 - "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 - "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 - "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 - "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 - "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 - "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 - "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 - 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
1977 - Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977 - ELO releases "Telephone Line"
1977 - Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
1978 - "Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens
1978 - 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1978 - Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
1978 - Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
1978 - Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1979 - Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
1980 - K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
1981 - Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981 - Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1981 - Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000.
1982 - Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1982 - Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
1982 - Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1983 - "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 - "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 - "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12
1983 - "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 - "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
1983 - "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 - 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8
1983 - Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab
1983 - Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament,
           miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball
1983 - Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1984 - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
1984 - Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be
           proved that it would have been discovered legally
1985 - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 - Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
1985 - WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1986 - "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV
1986 - Amnesty International megaconcert
1987 - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive term
1988 - "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
1988 - "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 - "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14
1988 - 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
1988 - 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7
1988 - Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1988 - Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
1988 - Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
1989 - 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
1989 - 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 - Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
1990 - Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitut
1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1990 - Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for
           making false statements to Congress
1990 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey
           Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1991 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1992 - Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 - Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 - US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0
1993 - "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1993 - "Scattergories," game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 - "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
1994 - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
1994 - 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1994 - Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 - Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
1994 - Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
1995 - 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1995 - Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
1996 - Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech
           acquisition.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 - Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States
           Congress.
2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
2008 - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First
           Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their
           homes, families and cultures for a century.
2009 - A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home.
           Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her
           foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in
           the hospital.
2012 - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
2012 - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
2012 - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
2012 - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
2012 - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup

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This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Weddings

1509 - King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catherine of Aragon
2002 - Musician Paul McCartney (59) weds former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills
          (34) at Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, Ireland
2005 - "Clueless" actress Alicia Silverstone (28) weds musician Christopher Jarecki in Lake Tahoe,
           California
2011 - Recording artist Lily Allen (26) weds Sam Cooper (32) at St. James The Great church in
           Gloucestershire, England

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This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright & Poet                                        1st Woman Elected to                         Actor Hugh Laurie (1959)
Ben Jonson (1572)                               Congress Jeannette Rankin (1880)


Actor Shia LaBeouf (1986)


1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 - Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1697 - Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1719 - Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1740 - Luigi Gatti, composer
1741 - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
1776 - John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
1807 - James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1808 - Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
1816 - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1822 - Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1823 - James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1829 - Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
1840 - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
1842 - Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1847 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
1861 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1863 - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1864 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1865 - Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
1867 - Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
1874 - Richard Stohr, composer
1876 - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
1883 - Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
1886 - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1886 - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1889 - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1892 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1894 - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
1895 - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1897 - Bruno Frei, writer
1899 - George Frederick McKay, composer
1899 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 - Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1902 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1903 - Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
1904 - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 - Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
1904 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1906 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1907 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
1907 - Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1907 - Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
1910 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer (Calypso)
1911 - Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1912 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1912 - William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
1913 - John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
1913 - Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 - Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1914 - Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1914 - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
1914 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1915 - David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d.
           1999)
1917 - James Bostock, painter/engraver
1917 - Joseph B. Wirthlin, LDS apostle
1919 - Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
1920 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
1920 - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1920 - Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
1920 - Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1921 - Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
1921 - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1922 - Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
1922 - John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1922 - Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
1923 - Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
1924 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1925 - William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1925 - Richard White, Gisborne, New Zealand, rugby union player (55 games as an All Black), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 - Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
1927 - Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
1927 - John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
1927 - Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1927 - Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, Spanish Queen of Belgium
1928 - Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
1930 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930 - Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
1931 - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
1931 - Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 - Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1931 - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
1932 - Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1932 - Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1933 - Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
1934 - Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 - Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
1935 - Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
1935 - Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
1936 - George Bryan Ingham, artist
1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1937 - Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], South Bend, Indiana, American actor (Medical Center,
           Airplane II)
1937 - Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1939 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
1939 - Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
1939 - Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1939 - Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
1939 - Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1939 - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
1940 - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1942 - Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)
1943 - Henry Hill Jr., Brooklyn, New York, mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas), (d. 2012)
1944 - Alan Horworth, MP
1944 - Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
1944 - James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno California, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1946 - Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 - John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1946 - Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
1947 - Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
1947 - Henry Cisneros, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later
           Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1948 - Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1948 - Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1948 - Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
1949 - Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Legs, Fandango)
1949 - George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
1949 - Tom Pryce, British racing driver (d. 1977)
1949 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist
1950 - Graham Russell, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1950 - Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 - Lindsey de Paul, singer
1950 - Michael Swan, Palo Alto California, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1951 - Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
1951 - Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1951 - Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
1951 - Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
1951 - Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer (brother of Sidath 2 Tests for SL v NZ 1983)
1951 - Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 - Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 - Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 - Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1954 - John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
1955 - Tony Allcock, bowler
1955 - Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
1956 - Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1957 - Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1958 - Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)
1959 - Hugh Laurie [James Hugh Calum Laurie], Oxford, English actor (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-
           House)
1961 - Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 - María Barranco, Spanish actress
1962 - Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1963 - Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
1963 - Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
1963 - Bruce Kimball, American diver
1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
1964 - Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
1965 - Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Manuel Uribe Garza, morbidly obese Mexican
1966 - Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 - Tiffany Cohen, Culver City California, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1967 - Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1967 - John Doherty, pitcher
1967 - Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
1969 - Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1969 - Matt McGrath, American actor
1970 - Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 - William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Chris Rice, singer/songwriter
1971 - Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1973 - Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Robby Kiger, Encino California, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
1973 - Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
1974 - Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
1974 - Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
1974 - Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
1975 - Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
1976 - Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tai Anderson, American musician (bass player for Third Day)
1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
1977 - Ryan Dunn, American actor
1977 - Shane Meier, Canadian actor
1978 - Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks)
1978 - Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ujjwala Raut, Indian supermodel
1980 - Yhency Brazoban, Dominican born baseball player
1981 - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1982 - Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Steven Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1983 - José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Andy Lee, Irish Boxer
1985 - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
1985 - Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer
1985 - Josh Ramsay, Canada, singer-songwriter (Marianas Trench)
1986 - Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
1986 - Shia LaBeouf, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Disturbia, Transformers)
1987 - TiA, Japanese R&B singer
1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
1989 - Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri
1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress