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This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Deaths

Macedonian King and
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 10th June)
1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1249 - Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
1479 - Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies
1488 - James III, King of Scots, dies in battle
1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1560 - Marie Guise, French wife of King James V of Scotland and mother and regent of Mary Queen
           of Scots, dies at 44
1666 - Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1674 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1698 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64
1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1764 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
1766 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73
1775 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1808 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
1811 - Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
1825 - Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54
1828 - Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1856 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76
1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1879 - Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39
1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
1886 - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40
1896 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1900 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
1903 - Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1906 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
1908 - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1912 - Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74
1913 - Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
1914 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
1924 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr, Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87
1924 - Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
1927 - William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies
1929 - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
1930 - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
1930 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1943 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50
1949 - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1949 - Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
1951 - Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies
1955 - Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
1955 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
1955 - Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75
1956 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
1956 - Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
1963 - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon
1965 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b.
          1883)
1966 - Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
1966 - Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
1967 - Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79
1969 - John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89
1970 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
1970 - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87
1970 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
1970 - Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55
1970 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1975 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1979 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
1979 - John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72
1981 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73
1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, secr-general (CP) Italy, dies
1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
1985 - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
1986 - Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80
1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
1988 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
1988 - Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38
1990 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86
1991 - Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
1992 - Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103
1992 - Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer
1992 - Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39
1993 - Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84
1993 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40
1994 - Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44
1994 - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77
1994 - Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90
1994 - Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90
1995 - Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58
1995 - Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
1996 - Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
1996 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], actress (Gloria), dies at 90
1996 - Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
1996 - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
1996 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
1997 - Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert (PBS), dies of Alzheimer's at 87
1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (by execution; b. 1968)
2001 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)
2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
2006 - Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
2007 - Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
2007 - Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Võ Văn Kiệt, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
2008 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2008 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)
2010 - Zenani Mandela, Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter (b. 1997)
2011 - Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968)
2012 - Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
2012 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress, dies from heart disease at 94
2012 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban Heavyweight boxer, dies from a heart attack at 60

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This Day in History for 12th June


Historical Events

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Gangster Al Capone                               Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                   Holocaust Anne Frank

                                   
Baseball Legend Connie Mack                 Anti-apartheid activist/South                     Goddess of Pop Cher
                                                           African President Nelson Mandela                  (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

                                   
Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                         Actor Harrison Ford                             264th Pope John Paul II


28 - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
1523 - Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1534 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1552 - Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1553 - King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 - - 13] First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet
           beats the Dutch
1665 - English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of
           New Amsterdam).
1667 - -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1672 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1673 - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1683 - Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1691 - Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1714 - Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty
1775 - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 - Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1812 - Napoleon invades Russia
1819 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers
           west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 - Iowa Territory forms
1839 - 1st baseball game played in America
1840 - Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1845 - George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky)
1859 - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1864 - Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1864 - Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle
1867 - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1875 - 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
1880 - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest
           City 0
1885 - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1892 - Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a
           season.
1897 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size
           of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties)
1898 - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1899 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and
           injures around 200.
1900 - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1903 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan
           School of Music.
1907 - Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
1908 - Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1909 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
1910 - PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
1913 - "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1915 - 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1916 - 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1916 - Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship
1917 - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1919 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1920 - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1920 - Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1922 - German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922 - St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 - St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1923 - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12
           m) above ground in NYC
1925 - William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1926 - 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1926 - Brazil leaves League of Nations
1928 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
1930 - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1931 - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1933 - Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft
           [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 - Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech
           on record (150,000 words)
1936 - 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1937 - 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1937 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1939 - 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila
1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in
           three-strip Technicolor.
1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1942 - Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1943 - Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1944 - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 - British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer
1944 - British 12th battalion conquers Bréville
1944 - Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 - US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1945 - US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1947 - Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 - "Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1948 - "Sleepy Hallow" closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances
1948 - "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1948 - 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA
1948 - 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
1948 - Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1950 - 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1950 - Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1952 - USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1954 - "Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 perfs
1954 - 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
1954 - Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released
1954 - Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1955 - "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1955 - Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1957 - Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1957 - Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1958 - "Make Me Laugh," TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
1959 - SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
1960 - KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 - An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
1961 - Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
1962 - 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1962 - Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1963 - "Cleopatra" premieres in NYC
1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1965 - "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
1965 - "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs
1965 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1965 - Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 - Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 - Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"
1965 - South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1965 - Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new
           celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1966 - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Israel wins 6 day war
1967 - Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 - Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 - USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1967 - Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
1968 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1970 - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1972 - John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the
           World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
1973 - Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440
1973 - Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1975 - Billy Williams's 400th career HR
1975 - Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965
1976 - "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46
1977 - "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1977 - 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
1977 - Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 - David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1978 - US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1979 - Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1979 - Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston
1979 - Sanista occupies parts of Managua
1979 - Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
1979 - Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered
           aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1980 - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 - "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres
1981 - 3rd baseball strike starts
1981 - Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
1981 - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election
1982 - 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1982 - Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
1982 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1983 - 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1983 - Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
1983 - Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia
1986 - P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1987 - Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death
1988 - 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1988 - Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
1988 - Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1988 - The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray
           Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.
1989 - "Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
1989 - Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1990 - Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Neth 1-1 in World Cup game
1990 - NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 - Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 - Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd
           place on the all-time list
1990 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a
           scoreless 9th inning
1991 - 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1991 - Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1992 - "Batman Returns" is released in USA
1993 - "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17
1994 - -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1994 - 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win
1994 - Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
1994 - Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - 3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
1996 - Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments
           about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
1997 - 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping
           force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
           the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do
           Nascimento and a hostage.
2002 - Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4-0 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
2004 - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing
           serious damage but no injuries.
2008 - Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform
           programme of the European Union.
2009 - Protests in Iran following the presidential election.
2009 - TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC
           transmission.
2012 - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is
           created
2012 - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in
          1980
2012 - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer

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This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Weddings

1971 - Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1999 - Actor and film director David Arquette (27) weds "Friends" actress Courteney Cox (34) at
           Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California
1999 - Former Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller (22) weds lawyer and ophthalmologist Chris Phillips
           (26) at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City

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This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US President                                           Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                 Musician Pete Farndon (1952)
George H. W. Bush (1924)                       Holocaust Anne Frank (1929)


1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1468 - Juan del Encina, composer
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence (d. 1574)
1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1599 - Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1771 - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
1798 - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long
           feminist (d. 1876)
1806 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!)
1821 - Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1825 - John Cook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1827 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
1829 - Johanna Spyri, Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
1842 - Rikard Nordraak, composer
1851 - Oliver Joseph Lodge, England, early radio pioneer
1857 - Achille Simonetti, composer
1861 - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
1874 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
1875 - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
1876 - Narciso Garay, composer
1877 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral (Asiatic fleet)
1878 - James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog)
1881 - Juan de Hernandez, composer
1885 - Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist
1892 - John Donald Robb, composer
1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
1893 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director (Paul Vlaanderen)
1897 - Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1897 - Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1900 - Amadeo Roldan, composer
1900 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Sonna)
1902 - Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian/(mayor-Ghent)
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1904 - Eino Roiha, composer
1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1907 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer
1908 - Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1908 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister
1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
1909 - Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1909 - Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer
1910 - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
1911 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician (New Class)
1912 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist
1912 - Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author
1912 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Chico California, actor (Judge Roy Bean)
1912 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
1913 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
1914 - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist
1914 - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)
1914 - Bill Kenny, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer (The Bill Kenny Show), (d. 2012)
1915 - David Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1915 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
1916 - Irwin Allen, NYC, director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure)
1916 - Ivan Tors, TV producer (Sea Hunt, Flipper)
1917 - Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
1919 - Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Czech, actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder)
1920 - Peter Jones, England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View)
1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
1921 - H C Artmann, writer
1921 - Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director (IMF)
1921 - James Houston, Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak)
1921 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
1922 - Leif Thybo, composer
1923 - Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)
1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush, MA, 43 VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (R, 1989-93)
1926 - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1927 - Henry Slesar, Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night)
1927 - Timir Pinegin, Moscow, Russia, sailor (Olympic gold 1960), (d. 2013)
1928 - Michael Wishart, artist
1928 - Richard Sherman, composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
1928 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
1929 - Anne Frank, Holland, Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)
1929 - Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner
1930 - Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop
1930 - Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor (KLM-Schiphol)
1930 - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener of 50s)
1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
1930 - Jim Nabors, American actor
1930 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
1932 - Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
1932 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopia, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1932 - Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
1933 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (d. 2004)
1934 - John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
1935 - Christoph Meckel, writer
1935 - Ian Craig, cricketer (prodigious Australian bat of 50's)
1936 - Bill Zeliff, (Rep-R-NH)
1937 - Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
1937 - Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist
1938 - Tom Oliver, Australian actor
1939 - Francis X McCloskey, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1983- )
1939 - GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist (information law)
1939 - Geoff Griffin, cricketer (S Afr quick, hat-trick & chuck v Eng 1960)
1941 - Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
1941 - Lucille Roybal-Allard, (Rep-D-California)
1941 - Roy Harper, Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus)
1941 - Reg[inald] Presley, [Ball], rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), (d. 2013)
1941 - Marv Albert, NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)/back biter
1941 - Roy Harper, English musician
1942 - Len Barry, [Leonard Borisoff], Philadelphia, American rocker (1-2-3-Dovells)
1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Howard Cowart, rocker
1944 - Linda Foster, Lancaster England, actress (Doris-Hank)
1944 - Maurice Jackson, US singer (Independents-Leaving You)
1945 - Alfred Antony Francis Gell, social anthropologist
1945 - James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma Center) [7/6/46]-
1945 - Terry Anderson, Sydney NSW Aust, US rapid fire pistol (Olympic-80, 96)
1946 - Harry Glasper, English writer
1947 - Ronald J Freeman II, Elizabeth NJ, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Barry Bailey, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1948 - Norbert Phillip, cricketer (WI pace bowler late 70s)
1948 - Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
1949 - Yuri Michaylovich Baturin, Russian cosmonaut (SK:Soyuz TM-28)
1949 - Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Alan Dysert, Danville Ill, actor (Sean Cudahy-All My Children)
1951 - Bun E Carlos, [Brad Carlson], rock drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1951 - Brad Delp, guitarist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1951 - Dean Unruh, Riverton Wyoming, WLAF offensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1951 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
1952 - Dale Krantz, singer (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Oliver Knussen, Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara)
1952 - Seigfried Brietzke, German DR, coxless rower (Oly-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1952 - Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1952 - Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
1953 - Grace Jones, Kingston Jamacia (she claims but actually 5/19/48)
1953 - Rebecca Holden, Austin Tx, actress (April-Knight Rider)
1953 - Rocky Burnette, Memphis, rock vocalist (Towing the Line)
1953 - Allan Weiner, American radio station owner
1954 - Tineke Schouten, Dutch TV host
1954 - Neil Oatley, English engineer
1956 - Terry Alderman, cricketer (prolific Australian medium-pacer 1981-91)
1957 - Javed Miandad, cricketer (Pakistan batsman Got a kick out of Lillee)
1957 - Jim Morris, impressionist/comedian (Ronald Reagan, George Bush)
1957 - Timothy Busfield, East Lansing Mich, actor (Elliot-30 Something)
1958 - Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro, Buenos Aires Arg, astronaut
1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
1959 - Jalal-ud-din, cricketer (Pakistani paceman, ODI hat-trick v Aust 1982)
1959 - Jenilee Harrison, Glendale California, actress (Cindy-3's Company, Dallas)
1959 - Kenneth D Herdigein, Suriname/Dutch actor (Say A)
1959 - Scott Thompson, comedian (Kids in the Hall, Larry Sanders Show)
1959 - Steve Bauer, St Catharines Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-silver-84, 96)
1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
1959 - Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham
1960 - Mark John Calcavecchia, Laurel NE, PGA golfer (1987 Honda Classic)
1961 - Rod Latham, cricketer (NZ opening batsman)
1961 - Jim Goad, American author
1962 - Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], NYC, actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club)
1962 - Michael Link, Provo Utah, actor (Earl-Julia)
1962 - Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
1962 - John Enos III, American actor
1963 - Philippa June Baker, Wanganui NZ, double scull rower (Olympics-96)
1963 - Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer
1963 - Tim DeKay, American actor
1963 - Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler
1963 - Johnny Weiss, American professional wrestler
1963 - Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver
1964 - Paula Marshall, Rockville MD, actress (Lindsay Sutton-Chicago Sons)
1964 - Peter Such, cricketer (England off-spinner 1993-)
1964 - Derek Higgins, Irish racing driver
1965 - Cathy Tyson, Liverpool England, actress (Serpant & Rainbow)
1965 - Cindy Lee Berryhill, US singer/songwriter (Baby)
1965 - Gwen Torrence, Lithonia GA, 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1965 - Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-born adult film actress
1967 - Neil Maxwell, cricketer (all-rounder for Fiji 1990, Victoria & NSW)
1967 - Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
1967 - Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and writer
1968 - Patty Armstrong, Torrance California, diver (Olympics-96)
1968 - Scott Aldred, Flint MI, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Sherry Stringield, actress (ER)
1968 - Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
1969 - Kevin Turner, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Mathieu Schneider, NYC, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders, Toronto)
1969 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)
1970 - Damon Buford, Baltimore MD, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Lee Mayberry, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor
1971 - Florencia Labat, Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star (1992 Austrian)
1971 - Iwan Tomasz, soccer player (Roda JC, Feyenoord)
1971 - Mark Henry, Silsbee TX, 238+lbs (108+kg) weightlift (Oly-14th-92, 96)
1971 - Phillip Bobo, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Ryan Klesko, Westminster CA, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1971 - Stephanie Thater, Kirkwood Mo, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Thomas Bailey, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Inger Miller, LA California, 100m runner
1972 - Nathalie Baudone, Rocurt Belgium, tennis star (3rd round 1995 US Open)
1972 - Patrick van Diemen, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, NEC)
1972 - Scott Dawes, Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Bounty Killer, Jamaican deejay
1973 - Hanna Riikka Nieminen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1973 - Jason Caffey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1973 - Rick Plum, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, MVV)
1973 - Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
1973 - Darryl White, Australian rules footballer
1974 - Kerry Kittles, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1974 - Vanessa Baker, Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Ryan Tucker, NFL center (St Louis Rams)
1975 - Scott Ferrier, Australia, high jumper/decathlete (Olympics-96)
1976 - Kristin Alicia Beall Ludecke, Eustis Fla, Miss America-Florida (1996)
1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
1977 - Andrea Schwartz, Winnipeg Manitoba, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
1978 - Shiloh Strong, actor (Maybe This Time, House of Cards)
1978 - DJ Qualls, American model and actor
1979 - Wil Horneff, Englewood NJ, actor (Ghost in the Machine, Sandlot)
1979 - Dallas Clark, American football player
1980 - Larry Foote, American football player
1980 - Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player
1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
1982 - Loïc Duval, French racing driver
1982 - Ben Blackwell, American musician
1982 - Jason David, American football player
1983 - Josh Dies, American author and musician (Showbread)
1983 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian musician (Lillix)
1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate/Television Personality
1985 - Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
1985 - Chris Young, American musician
1992 - Allie DiMeco American musician and actress (The Naked Brothers Band)
1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian football player
1992 - Ryan Malgarini, American actor
1997 - William Cuddy, Canadian actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Birthdays

NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson (1994)


816 - Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1231 - Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1490 - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
1687 - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1759 - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
1761 - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
1788 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1789 - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1850 - Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77
1853 - John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60
1858 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1878 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
1887 - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
1888 - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
1917 - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
1922 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
1928 - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies
1930 - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
1932 - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
1932 - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
1936 - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
1936 - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1942 - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
1946 - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1947 - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83
1957 - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1962 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1963 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
1966 - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1968 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1972 - Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1886)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
1986 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
1986 - Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
1988 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
1989 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1990 - Terence O'Neil, lord/PM of Ulster (1963-69), dies
1992 - Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies
1992 - Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
1994 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
1994 - Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
1994 - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78
1996 - MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector
          (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
2012 - Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 13th June


Historical Events

                                   
Military and Political Leader                    Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Simon Bolivar

                                   
First Black Supreme Court Justice            Reggae Musician Bob Marley                 Queen Elizabeth II
Thurgood Marshall

                 
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis                WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


1325 - Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London
1392 - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
1547 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1655 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 - Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 - England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 - Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 - King Louis XVI fires French government
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 - Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
1863 - Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
1866 - House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1868 - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40.
           Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner
1888 - Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 - 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1917 - Germany bombs London
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by
           Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 - Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before
           it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 - Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 - Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 - Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1935 - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 - Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1945 - Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1945 - Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 - King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 - UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 - 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 - 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 - Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 - KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1955 - Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1956 - "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 - Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
1957 - Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 - Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 - "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1959 - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1961 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
1962 - "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Norway named ombudsman
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1964 - Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 - 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 - "You Only Live Twice" premieres in US
1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 - Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1971 - NY Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1973 - Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an
           infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1976 - 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
1976 - Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 - Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
1980 - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 - 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 - Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of
           15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 - 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 - Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 - Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1988 - George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1988 - US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 - Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 - Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 - Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 - A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 - NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1993 - "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs
1993 - 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 - YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million
           of his $25 million contract
1994 - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood
           for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 - Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 - NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1996 - Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 - Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16
           years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the
           beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old
           Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.
2011 - Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
2012 - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
2012 - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against
           the Houston Astros

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This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Weddings

1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman
           Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 - English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette
1945 - "Three Smart Girls" actress Deanna Durbin (23) weds film writer, producer and actor Felix
           Jackson at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas
1999 - CNBC anchor-reporter Maria Bartiromo (31) weds son of multimillionaire financier Saul
           Steinberg, Jonathan Steinberg (34) in Long Island, New York

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This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Birthdays

                     
Comedian Tim Allen (1953)                  Twin Actress Mary Kate Olsen (1986)


40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and Governor of Britain, conquered Wales and Northern
       England
823 - Charles II, the Bald, King of France (843-77)/emperor (875-77)
1539 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator
1592 - Tobias Michael, composer
1627 - Fidel Molitor, composer
1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1701 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
1736 - Henryk Klein, composer
1752 - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
1757 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
1761 - Anton Wranitzky, composer
1763 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
1765 - Anton Eberl, composer
1773 - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian politician and musician (d. 1833)
1786 - Winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate
1790 - Jose Antonio Peez, president of Venezuela
1795 - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
1806 - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
1809 - George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1820 - WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
1821 - Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
1821 - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883
1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1823 - Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1824 - Julius Eichberg, composer
1825 - Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1827 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1829 - Antonio Zamara, composer
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light)
1854 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1863 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
1866 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
1869 - Ede Poldini, composer
1874 - Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
1875 - Max d' Ollone, composer
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1879 - George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
1879 - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar
1884 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1887 - Bruno Frank, writer
1888 - Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
1891 - Nell Craig, NJ, actress (Calling Dr Kildare, Queen of Sheba)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1893 - Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors)
1894 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13]
1894 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer
1894 - Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients)
1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1897 - Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28)
1898 - Eva J C Beck, actress (Resurrection)
1899 - Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India)
1900 - Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn)
1901 - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist (Obscure Blood)
1901 - Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier (1946-69)
1903 - Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football (Illinois Bears)
1903 - Philipp Kutev, composer
1905 - Doc Cheatham, jazz musician
1905 - Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Albert Cleage, famous African
1911 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968) [or Jan 17]
1912 - Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc)
1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1913 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1915 - J Donald Budge, US tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles)
1916 - Mary Wickes, character actress (Sister Act)
1918 - Ben Johnson, Foraker Oklahoma, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger), (d. 1996)
1918 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1919 - Leif Kayser, composer
1920 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
1920 - Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 - Mel Parnell [Melvin], New Orleans, Louisiana, Major League Baseball pitcher (Boston Red
           Socks, 1947-56), (d. 2012)
1924 - Percy Rodrigues, Montreal Quebec, actor (Brainwaves)
1925 - Hans Fellner, bookseller
1926 - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
1926 - Paul Lynde, Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched)
1927 - Knut Wiggen, composer
1928 - Jean Villain, writer
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1929 - Ralph McQuarrie, Gary, Indiana, conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), (d. 2012)
1930 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 - Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
1931 - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1933 - Bob Litty, US
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1934 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Christo [Javacheff], Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
1935 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)
1937 - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Wash DC, lawyer/(Rep-D-DC)
1938 - Carole Jo Callison, LPGA golfer
1938 - Gwynne Howell, British opera singer
1938 - Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer (UEI, Paintbox)
1939 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris, rocker/actor (Soup for 1, Greeased Lightning)
1939 - Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1940 - Bobby Freeman, SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
1941 - Robert Forester, Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
1941 - Tom Hallick, Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
1942 - James Carr, US, gospel singer (To Love Somebody)
1943 - Edward Skorek, Poland, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, Leeds England, actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula)
1944 - Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
1945 - Ronald J Grabe, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, 30, 42, 57)
1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author
1946 - Danny Klein, rocker
1947 - Daniel P A "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice
1947 - Jerrold Nadler, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 - Peter Holm, boyfriend of Joan Collins
1948 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948 - Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, Union City NJ, rock guitarist (Dr Hook)
1950 - Michael Stark, Australian actor
1950 - Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1951 - Jonathan Hogan, Chicago IL, actor (House on Carroll St)
1951 - Liz Phillips, composer
1951 - Richard Thomas, New York City, American actor (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny
           Belinda)
1951 - Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish actor (Breaking the Waves)
1952 - Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
1952 - Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
1953 - Bo Donaldson (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1953 - Tim Allen, Denver Colo, comedian (Tim-Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle)
1954 - Bo [Robert] Donaldson, rock vocalist (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1954 - Daniel Seemiller, Pitts, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1954 - Jorge Santana, rocker (Malo)
1954 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
1954 - Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician
1962 - Hannah Storm, sports journalist (CNN, NBC)
1962 - Karen Kurreck, Urbana Ill, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer)
1962 - Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
1963 - Bettina Bunge, Switz, tennis player (Virginia Slims of California 1983)
1963 - Catarina Lindqvist, Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986)
1963 - Edward Sturing, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Jeff Brehaut, Mountain View CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd)
1963 - Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998)
1963 - Randy Gilhen, Zweibrucken Ger, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1964 - Jennifer Gillom, WNBA center/forward (Phoenix Mercury/Oly-gold-1988)
1964 - Sarunas Marciulionis, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1964 - Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
1965 - Maninder Singh, cricketer (Indian leftarm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93)
1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
1965 - Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
1966 - Thyme Lewis, SF California, actor (Jonah-Days of our Lives)
1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 - Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1967 - Darren Baker, Chambersburg PA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Bruce Beaton, CFL corner (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Deniece Peterson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1968 - David Gray, British musician
1968 - Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist
1969 - Jamie Walters, actor/singer (Heights, Beverly Hills 90210, Shout)
1969 - Robert Harris, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1969 - Søren Nystrøm Rasted
1969 - Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1970 - Chris Cairns, cricketer (son of Lance, NZ all-rounder)
1970 - Lance Ringnald, Des Moines Iowa, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1970 - Shaun Young, cricketer (Tasmanian all-rounder, Young Aust 1995)
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1971 - Broderick nonuplets, Sydney Australia
1971 - David Mendenhall, actor (Over the Top, Space Raiders, Witchfire)
1971 - Lauri Marie Gapp, Miss USA-North Dakota (1997)
1972 - Sale Isaia, OL (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1973 - Ines Gorrochategui, Cordoba Arg, tennis star (1991 Futures-Brindisi)
1973 - Kano Hills, tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Sam Adams, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
1973 - Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
1974 - Elli Overton, Canada, Australian swimmer (Olympics-5th-92, 96)
1974 - Harvey Esajas, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1974 - Valeri Bure, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-S-98)
1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974 - Steve-O, American television personality
1974 - Brande Roderick, American actress
1974 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
1975 - Dave Roche, Lindsay, NHL left wing (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
1975 - Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
1976 - Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter
1976 - Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
1977 - Alexei Kariozhny, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1978 - Allison Dickey, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor
1978 - Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
1978 - Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1980 - Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 - Sarah Connor, German singer
1981 - Chris Evans, American actor
1981 - David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
1983 - Matt Allison, British racing driver
1983 - Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
1985 - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
1986 - Ashley Fuller Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1986 - Mary Kate Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress
1989 - Lisa Tucker, American singer
1990 - Aaron Johnson, British actor
1992 - Tyler Davison, was world's smallest baby at 6 inches, 11 ounces

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This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Deaths

   
Television Journalist
Tim Russert (2008)


1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1142 - Godfried II, duke of Brabant/Neth-Lotharingen, dies
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1371 - Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (Pledge Vollenhove), dies
1550 - Johann Spangenberg, composer, dies at 66
1550 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64
1612 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot, dies at 51
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at about 49
1749 - Jan F van Bloemen, [Orizonte], Flemish painter, dies at 87
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1810 - J G Seume, writer, dies at 47
1821 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55
1825 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
1839 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
1865 - Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29
1873 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer, dies at 51
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1905 - Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1905 - Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
1920 - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
1927 - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
1928 - Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record
           (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1939 - Arthur Coningham, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894), dies
1939 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1944 - Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
1946 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1952 - Max Pulver, writer, dies
1954 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer, dies at 62
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1961 - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1962 - Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1965 - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1972 - Clyde L Mcphatter, US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1973 - Alvin Derold Etler, composer, dies at 60
1973 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 82
1976 - Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona), dies
1977 - Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang 1935-45), dies at 47
1982 - Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
1982 - Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63), dies
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1984 - Marinus de Jong, Dutch composer, dies at 92
1986 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), dies at 77
1987 - Geraldine Page, actress (Blue & Gray), dies at 62
1989 - Fran Allison, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), dies at 81
1993 - Donald "Deke" K Slayton, US major/astronaut (Apollo 18), dies at 69
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1994 - Anne Aitken, student of Zen, dies at 83
1994 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer, dies at 82
1994 - James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 71
1995 - David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
1996 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator, dies at 58
2008 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
2009 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2009 - Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)
2012 - William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from
          amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95

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This Day in History for 14th June


Historical Events

                                   
Inventor Charles Babbage                    31st US President Herbert Hoover             Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                   Holocaust Anne Frank

                                   
French President                                Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley               Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
Charles de Gaulle

                 
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra               US President & Actor Ronald Reagan


1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the
           remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince
           Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London
           is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats
           royalists
1647 - English New Model-army installed
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 - 1st edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of
           Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth
           Coalition.
1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the
           Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
           entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and
           mathematical tables".
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 - 1st Henley Regatta held
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of SF
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention
1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 - Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major
           warships.
1917 - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in
           Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1928 - Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German government of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig
           isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French government of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)
1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in
          15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 106°F, hottest temperature in SF
1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the
           European Space Agency.
1963 - NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted
           game in organized baseball
1967 - Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 - Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 - Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 - Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1983 - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1987 - 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1989 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 - 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 - Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai
           Cooperation Organisation.
2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens
           Olympic Stadium
2012 - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
2012 - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10
           year old girl

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Famous Weddings

1541 - Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1936 - Singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers (24) weds Arlene Wilkins in Roswell, New Mexico
1950 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
           2nd wife Kleo Apostolides
1958 - Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1963 - "The Golden Girls" actress Betty White (41) weds "Password" game show host Allen Ludden
           (45) at the Sands Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
1977 - English model Twiggy Lawson (27) weds actor Michael Witney (45)
2008 - Country singer Sara Evans (37) weds former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker
          (35) in Franklin, Tennessee

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Famous Divorces

2012 - New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton (48) divorces Beth Shuey due to conflict of personalities
           after nearly 20 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Argentine Revolutionary                        Businessman & T.V. Personality              Tennis Player Steffi Graf (1969)
Che Guevara (1928)                                         Donald Trump (1946)


1479 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529 - Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)
1657 - Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 - Jan Francisci, composer
1730 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]
1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1760 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1796 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1805 - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1812 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
1819 - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1821 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1835 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 - Frederik Rung, composer
1855 - Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 - Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1865 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1870 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1871 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1874 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 - Michael Zadora, composer
1883 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1890 - May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1893 - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
1894 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish
           Upon a Star)
1895 - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1895 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
1899 - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
1900 - June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 - Benno Ammann, composer
1906 - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 - Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 - René Char, French poet/painter
1907 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1908 - John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 - Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
1912 - E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer)
1914 - Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
1914 - Winifred Milius Lubell, New York, American illustrator and writer (The Outer Lands) (d. 2012)
1916 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 - Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1916 - Dorothy McGuire, Omaha, Nebraska, American actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1917 - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1918 - Carter Harman, composer
1918 - Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1919 - Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], New York City, New York, American actor (The Atomic City, Bat
           Masterson)
1920 - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1922 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1922 - Kevin Roche, Irish architect
1923 - Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 - Solouchin, writer
1925 - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 - David Bache, designer
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1926 - Hermann Kant, writer
1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Rosario, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician (Cuban
           Revolution)
1929 - Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 - Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1932 - Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1935 - Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1936 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
1937 - Jørgen Leth, Danish film director
1939 - Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1939 - John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
1940 - Ben Davidson, LA California, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R), (d. 2012)
1940 - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 - Jack Bannon, LA California, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 - John Mizelle, composer
1941 - John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 - F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 - Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 - W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )
1943 - Harold Wheeler, American composer
1943 - John Miles, British racing driver
1944 - Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
1944 - Joe Grifasi, American actor
1945 - Rod Argent, rocker (She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent)
1946 - Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1946 - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1947 - Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 - Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled)
1949 - Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 - Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1949 - Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 - Harry Turtledove, American author
1950 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1950 - Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 - Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 - Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1952 - Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
1952 - Leon Wieseltier, American writer.
1953 - David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1953 - Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
1954 - Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1955 - Kim Lankford, Montebello California, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
1955 - Larry Burrows, fictional character (Mr Destiny)
1955 - Vince Evans, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1955 - Michael D. Duvall, California State Assemblyman
1956 - Frederick Funk, Takoma Park MD, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston Open)
1956 - King Diamond [Kim Petersen], Copenhagen, Denmark, heavy metal musician (Merciful Fate,
           King Diamond)
1956 - Sam Irvin, American director and producer
1958 - Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1958 - Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 - Eric Heiden, Madison, Wisconsin, US speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980)
1960 - Tonie Campbell, LA California, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club)
1961 - Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 - Sam Perkins, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962 - Scott Radecic, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 - James Patrick, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1963 - Laurel Kean, Portland ME, LPGA golfer (1994 JAL Big Apple-17th)
1964 - Jamie Dukes, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1964 - Randall Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, boxer (Olympics-96)
1964 - Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer
1966 - Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
1966 - Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1966 - Traylor Howard, Orlando Fla, actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
1967 - Ante Mise, Yugoslav soccer player (Hajduk Split/Vitesse)
1967 - Dedrick Dodge, NFL safety (SF 49ers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92)
1967 - Kelly Nash, American radio personality
1968 - Brian Wiggins, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Eric Murdock, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat)
1968 - Tony Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch)
1968 - Faizon Love, American actor
1969 - Eric Desjardins, Rauyn Quebec, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Canada)
1969 - Eugene Chung, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1969 - Kyle Hebert, American voice actor
1969 - MC Ren, American rapper
1969 - Michael Gerber, American parody author
1970 - Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
1970 - Todd Manning, fictional character (One Life to Live)
1970 - Willie Beamon, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1971 - Bruce Bowen, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 - Fred Baxter, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1971 - Ramon Vega, former Swiss footballer
1972 - Jeff Kysar, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Rick Brunson, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1972 - Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist (KDE)
1972 - Shaun Keaveny, British radio DJ
1973 - Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993)
1973 - Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 - Sam Shade, NFL strong safety (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Sami Kapanen, Vantaa Fin, NHL left wing (Whalers, Carolina, Oly-B-98)
1973 - Stepfret Williams, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
1974 - Rod Payne, corner (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress
1974 - Phillip Rhys, British actor
1975 - A J Mleczko, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1975 - Ryuji Miki, Japanese racing driver
1975 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
1975 - Bob Nanna, American musician (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City on Film)
1976 - Rita Carvalho, Miss Universe-Portugal (1996)
1976 - Alan Carr, British Stand-up comedian, Television presenter
1976 - Massimo Oddo, Italian football player
1977 - Massimiliano Neri, Italian Supermodel
1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
1978 - Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
1978 - Steve Bégin, French-Canadian hockey player
1978 - Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast
1981 - Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
1981 - Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
1982 - Jamie Green, British racing driver
1983 - John Stocco, American football player
1983 - Louis Garrel, French actor
1984 - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (ex-Sugababes)
1984 - Lorenzo Booker, American football player
1985 - Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
1985 - Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
1987 - Andrew Cogliano, Professional Hockey Player
1988 - Kevin Michael McHale, American singer
1989 - Lucy Hale, American actress
1989 - Courtney Halverson, American actress
1992 - Daryl Sabara, American actor
1992 - Evan Sabara, American actor
2160 - Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen Scotland, fictional eng (Star Trek)

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Famous Deaths

                                   
US Defector General                                  Washington D.C. Architect                                 Author/Poet
Benedict Arnold (1801)                            Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1825)                  Salvatore Quasimodo (1968)


Writer Jorge Luis Borges (1986)


1144 - Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69
1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1349 - Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44
1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 - Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)
1544 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 - Carpentras, French composer
1594 - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61
1662 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1709 - Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65
1727 - Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70
1744 - Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83
1750 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47
1752 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57
1752 - Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88
1789 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61
1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
1801 - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, dies at 70
1828 - Karl August, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, dies (b. 1757)
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1864 - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt
1873 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1885 - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curacao, dies at 58
1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1891 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
1907 - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
1907 - Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies
1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1911 - Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70
1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1926 - Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist (b. 1844)
1927 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
1927 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1933 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85
1936 - G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies at 62
1938 - William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76
1941 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74
1944 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
1944 - Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1948 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79
1948 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
1951 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1960 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67
1960 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57
1962 - Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
1962 - Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65
1964 - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor/director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81
1965 - Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1968 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51
1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66
1974 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81
1975 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
1977 - Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69
1977 - Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66
1977 - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1978 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74
1982 - Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
1982 - Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86
1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
1987 - Les Favell, cricketer (757 runs for Australia), dies
1989 - Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman), dies
1990 - Erna Berger, German soprano (b. 1900)
1991 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1993 - Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93
1994 - Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78
1994 - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70
1994 - Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52
1994 - Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81
1994 - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38
1994 - Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
1994 - Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1995 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69
1995 - Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
1995 - Gordon Greig, journalist, dies at 63
1995 - Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60
1995 - Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1996 - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
1996 - Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73
1997 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (Starman, The Dark), dies of cancer at 70
1997 - Tesslynn O'Cull, American child abuse victim (b. 1995)
1999 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
2000 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2002 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2003 - Dale Whittington, American racing driver (b. 1959)
2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2004 - Eamonn McGirr, Irish-born singer and entertainer
2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2005 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
2006 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
2006 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (b. 1905)
2007 - Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2007 - Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2007 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman (b. 1918)
2008 - Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
2008 - Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)
2009 - Bob Bogle, founding member of The Ventures
2009 - Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th June


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                   King of England King Charles I                   Soldier and Former Slave
George Washington                                                                                                       Henry Ossian Flipper

                                   
First Director of the FBI                             Rocker/Beatle John Lennon                  Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
J Edgar Hoover


Artist & Musician Yoko Ono


763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian
              history.
923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by
         the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1094 - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
1215 - King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell
           from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes'
           luck.
1246 - Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs
1567 - Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
1567 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1626 - King Charles I disbands English parliament
1643 - Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
1664 - NJ established
1741 - Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
1752 - Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment
1762 - Austria uses 1st paper currency
1775 - George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros
1804 - 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1834 - Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1836 - Arkansas becomes 25th state
1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1846 - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
1851 - Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1857 - SF Water Works organized
1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute"
           between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
1860 - 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1861 - Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
1862 - Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
1863 - 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities
1864 - -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 - Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 - Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1864 - Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1864 - Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery
1866 - Prussia attacks Austria
1867 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1869 - Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1869 - Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
1871 - Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1876 - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1876 - Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military
           Academy
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of
           a horse's hooves leave the ground
1887 - Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
1887 - NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
1887 - Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo
1888 - Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
1894 - Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1896 - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured,
           with 13,000 houses destroyed
1897 - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1898 - US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
1898 - US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo Cuba
1901 - 7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA
1902 - Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
1902 - Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of
           Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1904 - Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
1907 - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1908 - World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
1909 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the
           Imperial Cricket Conference.
1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1912 - 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
1913 - The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes.
1915 - US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1916 - Boys Scouts of America forms
1918 - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
1918 - 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6
1919 - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 - De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1921 - Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 - Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
1924 - 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
1924 - J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1925 - Phila A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland
           17-15
1926 - 7th French government of Briand falls
1928 - Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time
1929 - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1931 - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
1931 - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
1934 - Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1938 - 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer
           hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1940 - 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
1940 - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
1940 - France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
1940 - Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
1943 - Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
1944 - US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1945 - ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
1945 - Dutch political party ANJV forms
1947 - 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)
1947 - 47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO
1948 - 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's
1948 - Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway
1948 - WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 - WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1950 - Dutch police seize condoms
1951 - 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
1951 - Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1953 - Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak
1953 - Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits
1953 - NYC Transit Authority forms
1953 - WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized
1954 - UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
1955 - Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever
1955 - The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an
           attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1956 - John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group
           Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 - "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf
1957 - 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
1957 - 57th US Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1957 - 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
1957 - Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1960 - Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1960 - Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
1961 - Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500,
           Washington will lose their next 10 games
1962 - Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
1962 - South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
1962 - WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
1963 - "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs
1963 - "Sukiyaki" hits #1
1963 - Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)
1963 - Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 - SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
1964 - Last French troops leave Algeria
1965 - Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan
           ties catcher record of 19 putouts
1965 - South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1967 - Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1968 - "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs
1968 - "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances
1968 - "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances
1968 - 15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern
           Ireland)
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral
1968 - Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4
1969 - "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
1969 - 69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1969 - Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1970 - 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
1971 - Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
1972 - Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1972 - West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1973 - "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart
1975 - 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64)
1975 - Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic
1976 - Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman,
           Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
1976 - Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to
           get through flooded streets to the stadium
1977 - NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
1977 - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
1977 - Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1978 - Belgian government resigns
1978 - Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
1978 - Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1979 - 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
1980 - "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
1980 - 80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1980 - Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1980 - Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1982 - Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 - Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey
1983 - Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1984 - "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1984 - Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
1984 - Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem
1985 - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
1985 - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 - Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985 - Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid
           on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
1986 - 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1986 - Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
1987 - Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1987 - Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-213
1988 - Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1989 - Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
1990 - "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres
1991 - Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed
1991 - Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines
1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc
           Québécois.
1992 - 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
1992 - Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13
1992 - Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
1992 - Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
1992 - Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to
           spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee
1994 - Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
1994 - NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
1994 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs
1995 - Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants
1995 - Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day
1996 - IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
1997 - "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1997 - 97th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md
1997 - British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose
1997 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic
1997 - Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions
2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-
           third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
2012 - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
2012 - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches