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MysteRy · « **Reply #300 on:** March 01, 2013, 10:27:53 AM »

This Day in History for 1st March

Famous Weddings

1434 - Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut formally marries Frank van Borssele 2 years after first
secretly marrying him
1968 - Singer-songwriter and actress June Carter (38) weds singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (36) at
a church in Franklin, Kentucky
1987 - "The Last Picture Show" actress Cybill Shepherd (37) weds Dr. Bruce Oppenheim (38) in San
Fernando Valley
2003 - "The Silence of the Lambs" actor Anthony Hopkins (65) weds actress-producer Stella
Arroyave (47) in Malibu, California

MysteRy · « **Reply #301 on:** March 01, 2013, 10:29:13 AM »

This Day in History for 1st March

Famous Divorces

1989 - Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5
years of marriage
2002 - "12 Angry Men" actor Edward James Olmos (55) divorces "Sopranos" actress Lorraine Bracco
(47) after 8 years of marriage
2005 - Former Full House actor John Stamos (41) divorces X-Men actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
(31) after 5 years of marriage

MysteRy · « **Reply #302 on:** March 01, 2013, 10:39:21 AM »

This Day in History for 1st March

Famous Birthdays

Composer Frederic Chopin (1810) Nobel Prize Winning Chemist
Archer John Porter Martin (1910)

Actor Jensen Ackles (1978) Pop Singer Justin Bieber (1994)

40 - Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
772 - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
1432 - Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), probable date of birth
1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1494 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1547 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
1597 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1610 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1610 - John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
1657 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
1683 - Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1732 - William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States. (d. 1810)
1734 - Pieter Valck[ x ], South Netherland sculptor
1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1780 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1788 - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1807 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1898)
1810 - Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1811 - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1812 - Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
1817 - Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
1820 - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
1822 - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - John Thomas, composer
1828 - James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1831 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1835 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1837 - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
1838 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
1841 - Romualdo Marenco, composer
1842 - Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
1852 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
1856 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1858 - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
1860 - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
1863 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1865 - Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1874 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1880 - Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1880 - Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1883 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1885 - Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1888 - Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
1889 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
1890 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1893 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
1895 - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1896 - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
1899 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
1900 - Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1900 - Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1900 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1904 - Paul Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
1905 - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1905 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
1907 - Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1909 - Richard de Guide, composer
1909 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
1909 - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1910 - David Niven, London UK, actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther)
1910 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1911 - Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
1912 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
1913 - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photogrpaher/collector
1914 - Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1914 - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 - Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
1918 - Roger Delgado, London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June)
1918 - Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
1920 - Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
1920 - Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1920 - Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
1920 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1921 - Jack Clayton, film director
1921 - Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
1921 - Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, (NY)
1922 - William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)
1922 - Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
1923 - Bonita Granville, actress/producer (Perry Mason)
1923 - Duncan White, Ceylon, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1948)
1923 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
1924 - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
1925 - Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres
1926 - Cesare Danova, Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
1926 - Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner (1960-89)
1926 - Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1927 - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1927 - Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court, (d. 2012)
1928 - Seymour Papert, South African mathematician
1928 - Jacques Rivette, French film director
1929 - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
1930 - C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
1930 - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1930 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
1930 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
1932 - Jacques Leduc, composer
1933 - Istvan Lang, composer
1933 - Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1933 - Myrlie Evers, politician/commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1934 - Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1935 - Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
1935 - Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West)
1936 - Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
1936 - Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
1936 - Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
1936 - Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
1937 - Jed Allan, Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
1938 - Michael J[oseph] Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
1939 - Leo Brouwer, composer
1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 - David Broome, Show Jumper (world champ-1970)
1940 - Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
1940 - Robert Grossman, American illustrator
1941 - Michael L Lampton, Williamsport Pa, astronaut
1942 - Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 - Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 - Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Oly-silver-1972)
1943 - Franz Hohler, writer
1943 - Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1943 - Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943 - Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
1943 - Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
1943 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
1943 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1943 - José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer
1944 - Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1944 - John B Breaux, (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
1944 - John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 - Lana Wood, [Svetlana Gurdin], Santa Rosa California, (Diamonds are Forever)
1946 - Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 - Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
1947 - Alan Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
1948 - Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 - Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1950 - Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
1951 - Barbara DeAngelis, talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show)
1952 - Alice Ritzman, Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester Intl-5th)
1952 - David Allen Barr, Kelowna BC, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
1952 - Steven Barnes, American writer
1952 - Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer
1952 - Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1953 - Bandula Warnapura, cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain)
1953 - Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1954 - Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, actress (Daisey Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 - Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1956 - Balwinder Singh Sandhu, cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup)
1956 - Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1956 - Timothy Daly, Sufferin NY, actor (Joe-Wings, Diner, Made in Heaven)
1957 - Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1958 - Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1958 - Wayne B Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
1958 - Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
1958 - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
1960 - Alicia Dibos, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1961 - Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1961 - Mike Rozier, NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
1962 - Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1962 - Mark Gardner, LA California, pitcher (SF Giants)
1963 - Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1963 - Barb[ara] Marois, Auburn Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1963 - Magnus Svensson, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1963 - Maurice Benard, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital)
1963 - Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 - Ron Francis, Sault Ste Marie, NHL center (Pitts Penguins, Team Canada)
1963 - Tony Castillo, Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1963 - Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
1963 - Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer
1964 - Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1964 - Paul Le Guen, French football manager
1964 - Clinton Gregory, Martinsville, Virginia, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter
(Play, Ruby, Play)
1965 - Les Miller, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
1965 - Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
1966 - John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
1966 - Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Aron Winter, Surnamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio)
1967 - Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete
1967 - George Eads, American actor
1968 - Salil Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989)
1968 - Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka v India at 17)
1969 - Azam Khan, cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996)
1969 - Doug Creek, Winchester VA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 - Vincenzo Esposito, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1969 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
1970 - Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Ray Crittenden, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Stuart Thompson, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Allen Johnson, Wash DC, long jumper/110m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Andre Karnebeek, soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 - Austin Robbins, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, NO Saints)
1971 - Shepherd Clark, Atlanta Ga, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champ)
1971 - Tim Prinsen, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Tyler Hamilton, Marblehead Mass, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Zahoor Elahi, cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1972 - Omar Daal, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1972 - Profail Grier, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Chris Webber, NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 - Igor Murin, Trencin CZE, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1973 - Jack Davenport, English actor
1973 - Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ
1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1974 - Stephen Davis, running back (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Maria Jose Suarez, Miss Universe-Spain (1996)
1976 - Maringo Vlijter, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1976 - Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dave Malkoff, American TV News Reporter
1977 - Rod White, Sharon Pa, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1977 - Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
1977 - Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and supermodel
1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives)
1978 - Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
1978 - Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress
1980 - Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1980 - Shahid Afridi, cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)
1980 - Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
1980 - Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
1981 - Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel
1981 - Adam LaVorgna, American actor
1981 - Will Power, Australian racing driver
1981 - Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
1983 - Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
1983 - Chris Hackett, English footballer
1983 - Blake Hawksworth, Canadian baseball player
1984 - Naima Mora, American model
1984 - Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Andreas Ottl, German footballer
1985 - Jeremy Jacob "J" Leman, Champaign Illinois, American Football Player
1986 - Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
1987 - Sammie Bush, Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
1988 - Katija Pevec, American actress
1989 - Sonya Kitchell, American singer
1989 - Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
1990 - Nikolas Tsattalios, Australian soccer player
1990 - Harry Eden, English actor
1994 - Justin Bieber, London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)

MysteRy · « **Reply #303 on:** March 01, 2013, 10:42:03 AM »

This Day in History for 1st March

Famous Deaths

Actor Jackie Coogan (1984)

589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)
1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India dies at Table Bay, Africa at about 59
1535 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1619 - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1633 - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1693 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1771 - Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1773 - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1817 - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1826 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1859 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1870 - Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1899 - Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1921 - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1924 - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1933 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1938 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938 - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1944 - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1953 - Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1968 - G v d Vring, writer, dies
1968 - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 - Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 - John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 - Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 - Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1990 - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 - Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 - Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
1993 - Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1993 - Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1994 - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
1994 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
1994 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1996 - Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85
2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2005 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2010 - Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
2012 - Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger and publisher, dies at 43

MysteRy · « **Reply #304 on:** March 02, 2013, 11:23:39 AM »

This Day in History for 2nd March

Historical Events

King of England King Charles Outlaw Jesse James Baseball Great Babe Ruth

US President John F. Kennedy Actress/Singer Bette Midler Pop Star Madonna

Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

871 - Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1121 - Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1458 - Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 - Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1629 - English king Charles I leaces house of commons
1675 - Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
1776 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1789 - Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1799 - Congress standardizes US weights & measures
1807 - Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned
society, was held in Edinburgh.
1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
1817 - 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 - US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 - Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1825 - 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
1829 - New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
1831 - John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
1836 - Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1842 - The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden
by Tom Olliver.
1853 - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter
1855 - Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858 - Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1861 - Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
1861 - US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah ter
1863 - Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR
1865 - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1865 - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1865 - Gen Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
1865 - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1866 - 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
1867 - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress
1867 - US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 - US Congress created the Department of Education
1867 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
1867 - US Congress creates the Department of Education
1868 - University of Illinois opens
1874 - Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular
vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
1887 - American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the
Suez Canal during war and peace.
1889 - Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
1890 - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
1893 - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
1896 - George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg
1898 - Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
1899 - Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US)
1901 - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1901 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a
condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
1902 - Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets
1903 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
1904 - "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
1904 - Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan
1907 - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 - Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
1909 - Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
1915 - British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
1915 - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1917 - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
1918 - NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades
him to Phila A's
1919 - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1920 - Karel Capék's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
1922 - WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1922 - WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
1923 - Time magazine debuts
1925 - Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
1925 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1925 - Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
1925 - SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1929 - Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
1929 - Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1930 - 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
1933 - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
1933 - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1934 - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1936 - Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
1937 - Mexico nationalizes oil
1938 - Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA California)
1938 - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939 - Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
1939 - Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1940 - 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1940 - Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1942 - 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fontaine win
1942 - Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
1943 - 1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration camp
1943 - Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win
1944 - 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
1944 - Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 - King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1946 - Dutch troops land on East Bali
1946 - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
1946 - Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
1949 - 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
1949 - Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at
Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
1951 - 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
1952 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
1955 - King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
1955 - William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC
1956 - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
1958 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
1958 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1958 - Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
1961 - "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game
1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
1964 - Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd
1965 - "Sound Of Music" opens
1965 - Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
1966 - 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 - 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1968 - Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
1968 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1968 - USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
1968 - USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
1968 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1969 - 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
1969 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
1969 - Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season
1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 - Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1970 - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
1972 - Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep
1972 - Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1973 - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
1974 - 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
1974 - Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1974 - Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1976 - "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
1976 - Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants
1976 - Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC
1976 - Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
1977 - 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
1977 - Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
1977 - Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson
1977 - Libya amends constitution
1978 - 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
1978 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1980 - 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts
1980 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1980 - Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1981 - Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
1981 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC
1982 - 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
1982 - Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
1983 - Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1984 - John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1985 - US approves screening test for AIDS
1986 - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1986 - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
1988 - 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley
1988 - Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1989 - 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
1989 - Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1989 - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial
1989 - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
1989 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
1990 - Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1990 - Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec)
1991 - "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 perfs
1991 - "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
1991 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1991 - Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
1991 - NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
1991 - UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 - Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
1993 - Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
1993 - Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
1994 - Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
1994 - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is
broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
1995 - "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC
1995 - British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
1995 - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
1995 - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8 ), launches
1996 - Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
1996 - Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind v SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose
1997 - Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters
1997 - Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open
1997 - Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean
under a thick crust of ice.
2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would
not extradite him on torture charges
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing
500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung
Cheng University.
2004 - Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived
flag.
2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over
500.
2008 - Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal
end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.
2012 - Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky
2012 - The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the
Syrian army
2012 - New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union
members

MysteRy · « **Reply #305 on:** March 02, 2013, 11:33:08 AM »

This Day in History for 2nd March

Famous Divorces

1993 - Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins

MysteRy · « **Reply #306 on:** March 02, 2013, 11:44:27 AM »

This Day in History for 2nd March

Famous Birthdays

Children's Author Dr Seuss (1904) General Secretary of the Lead Vocalist of Coldplay Communist Party of the Soviet Chris Martin (1977)
Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)

1316 - Robert II, the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90)
1409 - John II, French duke of Alencon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc
1459 - Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23)
1481 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight
1545 - Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat/scholar
1555 - Ludovico Spontoni, composer
1578 - George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644)
1705 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
1755 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer
1759 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
1760 - Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
1769 - DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
1770 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal (d. 1826)
1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
1793 - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44)
1800 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
1810 - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903)
1813 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer
1815 - Antonio Buzzolla, composer
1816 - Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
1817 - Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
1820 - Multatuli, writer
1824 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1824 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian theorist [NS]
1824 - Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1828 - Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879
1829 - Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist
1836 - Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913)
1838 - David Duffle Wood, composer
1842 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
1843 - Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911)
1844 - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician
1849 - Robert Means Thompson, U.S. Naval Officer (d. 1930)
1860 - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
1862 - John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays)
1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
1875 - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
1876 - Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58)
1878 - Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
1878 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
1882 - Wallis Clark, Essex England, actress (Postal Inspector)
1884 - Leon Jongen, composer
1886 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
1893 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer
1894 - Renaat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor
1895 - Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads)
1899 - Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame
1900 - Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
1901 - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber-merchant
1902 - Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)
1902 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
1904 - Dr Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], children's author (Horton Hears a Who!)
1905 - Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
1908 - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
1908 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
1908 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
1909 - Hanoch Jacoby, composer
1909 - Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
1909 - Mel Ott, American baseball player, 1st NLer to hit 500 home runs, hall of famer (NY Giants) (d. 1958)
1910 - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
1911 - William Hansen, WA, actor (Homebodies)
1912 - Arthur Beaumont C Langton, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler of 1930's)
1913 - Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas)
1913 - Marjorie Weaver, Crossville Tennessee, actress (Young Mr Lincoln)
1913 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (NL MVP 1942)
1913 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
1915 - Lona Andre, actress (Case of Baby Sitter)
1916 - Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1916 - Bernard George Stevens, composer
1917 - Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I Love Lucy)
1917 - Jim Konstanty, baseball player (NL MVP 1950)
1917 - John Gardner, composer
1917 - David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
1918 - Peter O'Sullevan, Ireland, horse racing commentator
1919 - Eddie Lawrence, comedian
1919 - Jennifer Jones, [Phyllis Isley], Oklahoma, actress (Farewell to Arms)
1919 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer
1920 - Enrique Franco, composer
1921 - Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson, composer
1922 - Eric Feldbush, composer
1922 - Mario Zafred, composer
1923 - "Doc" Watson, bluegrass musician, (d. 2012)
1923 - Don Taylor, cricketer (NZ 3 Tests, Auck stands w/Sutcliffe in Wisden)
1923 - Robert H Michel, (Rep-R-IL, 1957- )
1923 - Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic
1924 - Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
1926 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
1927 - Siegfried Kohler, composer
1927 - Witold Szalonec, composer
1927 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
1928 - Philip K Dick, writer
1928 - Father John Romanides, Greek priest and professor (d. 2001)
1929 - Donald Gosling, English parkeerplaatsenmagnaat/multi-millionaire
1930 - Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1930 - John Cullum, Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure)
1930 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
1931 - Duane E Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
1931 - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
1934 - Bernard Rands, Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack)
1934 - Howard "Hopalong" Cassady, NFLer
1935 - Al Waxman, Toronto Canada, actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms)
1936 - Henny Boskamp, [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)
1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
1938 - Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire
1938 - Donald Schwall, baseball player (1961 AL rookie of year)
1938 - Simon Estes, Centerville Iowa, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos)
1938 - Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
1939 - Barbara Luna, NYC, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage)
1939 - Gerard van Tongeren, Dutch singer (Buffoons)
1940 - Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (S Afr Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)
1940 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer (d. 2005)
1941 - David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
1942 - John Irving, NH, short-story writer (World According to Garp)
1942 - Lou Reed, New York City, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Velvet Underground)
1942 - Luc Plamondon, French Canadian lyricist
1942 - Kwang Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.
1943 - Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan], London, English rocker (Drifters, Vipers)
1943 - Gordon Black, English industrialist
1943 - Rosa DeLauro, (Rep-D-Connecticut)
1943 - Stephen Dickman, composer
1943 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
1943 - Peter Straub, American author
1944 - Katherine Crawford, actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man)
1944 - Leif Segerstam, composer
1944 - Pam Barnett, LPGA golfer
1944 - Uschi Glas, German actress
1945 - Gordon Thompson, Ottawa Canada, actor (Adam Carrington-Dynasty)
1945 - Joy Garrett, actress (Jo-Days of Our Lives)
1946 - Brian J Donnelly, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1947 - Harry Redknapp, English football manager
1948 - Larry Carlton, rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss)
1948 - Rory Gallagher, Donegal, Irish rock guitarist and songwriter (See Here)
1948 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
1949 - Gates McFadden, actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation)
1949 - Alain Chamfort, French singer
1950 - Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun)
1950 - Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
1950 - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
1950 - Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
1951 - Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
1952 - Laraine Newman, LA California, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live)
1952 - Mark Evanier, American writer
1953 - William Simmons, sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1954 - Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF)
1955 - Dale Bosworth, TV host (America's Most Wanted)
1955 - Dale Bozzio, Boston, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown)
1955 - Jay Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1955 - Shoko Asahara, [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader
1955 - Steve Small, cricketer (stalwart NSW opening batsman)
1955 - Ken Salazar, American politician
1956 - John Cowsill, Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 - Mark Evans, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC)
1958 - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
1958 - Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star
1958 - Peter Arnold, American architect
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Larry Stewart, Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1959 - Laura Hurlbut, LPGA golfer
1960 - Hector Calma, Filipino basketball player
1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
1962 - Al Del Greco, NFL kicker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 - Philip Jonas, Johannesburg SA, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Payless-2nd)
1962 - Terry Steinbach, New Ulm MN, catcher (Oakland A's)
1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
1962 - Michael Salinger, American poet
1962 - Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1963 - Suzette Charles, NJ, replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America (1983)
1963 - Tuff Hedeman, American bull rider
1963 - Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter
1965 - Ron Gant, Victoria Texas, American baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Lembit Öpik, British politician
1966 - Judith Wiesner, Hallein Austria, tennis star (1994 Schenectady)
1966 - Stevie Rachelle, rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1967 - Allan Boyko, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Bruce Boyko, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Leo Gomez, Canovanas Puerto Rico, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - Penny "Stamper" Davis, Carlisle England, Canadian 470 yachter (Oly-96)
1968 - Daniel Craig, English actor
1970 - Kevin Miniefield, NFL defensive back (Chic Bears)
1970 - Steve Holman, Indianapolis Indiana, miler
1971 - Amber Smith, Tampa Fl, actress (Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces)
1971 - Donna Perry, Glendale CA, playmate (Nov, 1994)
1971 - James Hammerstrand, LaMesa California, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-96)
1971 - Ray Hall, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Ruffin Hamilton, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Dave Gorman, English documentary comedian
1971 - Elizabeth Lackey, American actress
1972 - Richard Ruccolo, American actor
1973 - John Elmore, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Paul Popowich, actor (Tommy Tricker & Stamp Traveler)
1973 - Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
1973 - Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
1974 - Martine Dessureault, Montreal Quebec, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1974 - Monika Niederstätter, Italian athlete
1975 - Arleen McDonald, Miss USA-Mississippi (1997)
1976 - Lars Bruggemann, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Glenn Rubenstein, American writer and journalist
1977 - Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
1977 - Heather McComb, American actress
1977 - Andrew Strauss, English cricket player
1977 - Jay Gibbons, American baseball player
1978 - Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
1979 - Damien Duff, Irish footballer
1979 - Amanda Ireton, Cast member of MTV's A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
1980 - Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
1980 - Lance Cade, American professional wrestler
1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
1982 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
1982 - Corey Webster, American football player
1982 - Kevin Kurányi, German footballer
1983 - Glen Perkins, American baseball player
1984 - Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
1985 - Robert Iler, American actor
1985 - Reggie Bush, American football player
1985 - Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
1988 - Keith Jack, British singer and actor
1988 - Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
1988 - Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress

MysteRy · « **Reply #307 on:** March 02, 2013, 11:51:07 AM »

This Day in History for 2nd March

Famous Deaths

Co-founder of the Writer D. H. Lawrence (1930) Archaeologist and Discoverer of
Methodist Movement Tutankhamun Howard Carter (1939)
John Wesley (1791)

855 - Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
986 - Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44
1122 - Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 - Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
1333 - Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies
1383 - Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies
1572 - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
1619 - Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44
1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
1755 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
1758 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1772 - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73
1787 - Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73
1791 - John Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism dies at 87 (b. 1703)
1793 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
1797 - Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
1800 - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
1822 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
1829 - Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
1835 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
1840 - Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81
1855 - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
1862 - Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
1865 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
1867 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
1868 - Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81
1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
1882 - Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70
1887 - August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47
1887 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
1895 - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1916 - Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
1919 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
1921 - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
1930 - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
1937 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73
1938 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
1939 - Howard Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65
1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79
1945 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
1946 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
1946 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
1950 - M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
1953 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
1956 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
1957 - Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1959 - Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1960 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (b. 1874)
1962 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
1967 - Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
1970 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)
1971 - Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
1972 - Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1973 - Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41
1974 - Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
1975 - Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65
1975 - Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
1979 - Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
1979 - Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75
1979 - Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1979 - Christy Ring Irish hurler (b. 1920)
1981 - Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30
1982 - Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53
1984 - Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
1985 - John B Kelly Jr, chairman US Olympic Committee, dies at 57
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's
1986 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
1986 - Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
1987 - Randolph Scott, actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89
1991 - Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1991 - Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
1991 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62
1993 - Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
1993 - Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
1994 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80
1994 - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
1995 - Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
1996 - Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61
1999 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
1999 - David Ackles, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2001 - John Diamond, British journalist (b. 1953)
2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (b. 1931)
2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
2004 - Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (b. 1928)
2004 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (b. 1980)
2005 - Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2005 - Martin Denny, American musician (b. 1911)
2006 - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
2006 - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2007 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
2007 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2007 - Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
2008 - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
2009 - João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
2009 - Chris Finnegan, British Olympic Boxing Gold Medallist (b. 1944)
2010 - Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
2012 - Van Barfoot, American army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 92
2012 - Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61
2012 - James Wilson, American criminologist, dies at 80

MysteRy · « **Reply #308 on:** March 03, 2013, 11:16:47 AM »

This Day in History for 3rd March

Historical Events

US President & General US President Abraham Lincoln Composer Georges Bizet
Andrew Jackson

Author Helen Keller Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

Boxing Champ George Foreman Actor Bruce Willis Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

78 - Origin of Saka Era (India)
468 - St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
493 - Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England
1409 - Austrian civil war ends
1431 - Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 - The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1634 - 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1638 - Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1776 - US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 - Congress establishes US Mint
1794 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
1794 - Richard Allen founded AME Church
1801 - 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 - 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1803 - Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
1805 - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 - US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 - Office of surgeon general of the US army forms
1815 - US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1817 - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1835 - Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana
1837 - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1837 - US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1838 - Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1842 - 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1843 - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-
magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1845 - 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1845 - Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1845 - Florida becomes 27th state
1847 - Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 - Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1849 - Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
1849 - Territory of Minnesota organizes
1849 - US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1853 - Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1853 - US Assay Office in NYC authorized
1855 - Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1855 - Congress authorizes registered mail
1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 - Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs [OS=Feb 19].
1862 - Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War)
1863 - 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
1863 - Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 - Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1863 - Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
1863 - Idaho Territory forms
1865 - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help
destitute free blacks
1865 - Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1869 - University of South Carolina opens to all races
1871 - Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871 - Congress establishes the civil service system
1873 - Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1873 - US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any
"obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 - 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
1875 - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
1875 - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1878 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1879 - US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1882 - NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1883 - Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1885 - 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)
1885 - US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1887 - American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891 - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1891 - Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
1891 - The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect
until the next season.
1892 - 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
1893 - Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
1893 - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture
1894 - 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
1894 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1899 - Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 - George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 - US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903 - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a
political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1905 - US Forest Service forms
1906 - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1909 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his
businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
1911 - 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1915 - Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
1917 - Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1917 - Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1918 - Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin
1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign
1919 - 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
1919 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1920 - Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1921 - Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1922 - Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
1922 - WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1923 - Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]
1923 - US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague
1924 - German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924 - Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin
1926 - International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1931 - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1933 - German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
1933 - Mount Rushmore dedicated
1933 - NYC premiere of "King Kong"
1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1935 - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1936 - Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
1937 - Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1938 - American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
1940 - Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
1941 - Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits Goering in Berlin
1942 - 1st combat flight for Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 - Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
1943 - F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC
1943 - US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1944 - 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
1945 - Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter
1945 - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 - Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
1945 - US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 - US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1946 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1951 - Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
1952 - Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1953 - Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 - Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to
shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1955 - Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
1956 - Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
1956 - Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
1956 - Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1956 - Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to
entice Giants to stay in NY
1957 - Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1957 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB)
1957 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
1957 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1957 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
1958 - KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 - Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1959 - 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1959 - Brit government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1960 - 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
1961 - King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
1962 - British Antarctic Territory forms
1963 - Senegal adopts constitution
1965 - Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1966 - James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC
1966 - Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee
1966 - Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1966 - Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 - WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use
of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1968 - "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
1968 - Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts
1969 - Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 - South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1972 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at
Stone Mountain Georgia
1973 - "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
1973 - White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1974 - "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 - George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1975 - "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
1975 - Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1976 - Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1976 - 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
1977 - Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
1977 - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1977 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1978 - 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - The USS Nautilus is stricken.
1981 - Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals
1981 - NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1982 - Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1984 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
1984 - Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
1985 - "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 - Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1987 - Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1989 - Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
1990 - Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
1991 - "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
1991 - 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
1991 - Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
1991 - Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1991 - LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 - Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 - Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
1991 - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 - United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1992 - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992 - Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders
1992 - Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1992 - Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden
of rape (dropped in April)
1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established.
1993 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
1994 - "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
1994 - "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
1994 - IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
1995 - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
1996 - 26th Easter Seal Telethon
1996 - Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown
Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
1998 - Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the
United Nations.
2004 - Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that
formed InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005 - Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables
during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the
deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any
stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2
minutes.
2009 - The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi
Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
2009 - The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne,
Germany, collapses.
2012 - Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
2012 - Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured

MysteRy · « **Reply #309 on:** March 03, 2013, 11:20:57 AM »

This Day in History for 3rd March

Famous Weddings

2004 - University of Miami star defensive tackle & probable NFL draft pick Vince Wilfork (22) weds
Bianca Farinas at Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
2006 - "Gata Salvaje" telenovela actress Carolina Tejera (29) weds Costa Rican businessman Don
Stockwell at the Hotel Marriott in San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 - Model and actress Elizabeth Hurley (41) weds Indian textile heir Arun Nayar (42) at Sudeley
Castle in Gloucestershire, England
2007 - Countess of Frederiksborg Alexandra Christina (42) weds Martin Jorgensen at Oster Egende
Church in Fakse City

MysteRy · « **Reply #310 on:** March 03, 2013, 11:23:02 AM »

This Day in History for 3rd March

Famous Divorces

1995 - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce

MysteRy · « **Reply #311 on:** March 03, 2013, 11:57:05 AM »

This Day in History for 3rd March

Famous Birthdays

Inventor Alexander Singer Ronan Keating (1977) Actress Jessica Biel (1982)
Graham Bell (1847)

1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
1500 - Reginald Pole, English Cardinal/"heretic"
1520 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
1583 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher
1589 - Gisbertus Voetius, [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist
1606 - Edmund Waller, England, poet (Penshust)
1652 - Thomas Otway, England, playwright/poet (Venice Preserved)
1678 - Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1705 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
1747 - Kasamir Pulaski, US general (Revolutionary War)
1756 - William Godwin, philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams)
1778 - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)
1793 - Ch Sealsfield, writer
1793 - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
1800 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
1805 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
1809 - Sophia Hawthorne, writer
1811 - Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
1814 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer
1820 - Eduard Douwes Dekker, [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar)
1823 - Guyla Andressy Sr, premier of Hungary (1867-71)
1831 - George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
1838 - George William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)
1839 - Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
1841 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers)
1846 - Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone)
1848 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (d. 1880)
1849 - Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer
1851 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
1857 - Alfred Bruneau, composer
1860 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
1863 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
1865 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
1866 - Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
1867 - Gustav Strube, composer
1868 - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
1869 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1871 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
1872 - Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
1873 - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
1880 - Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic
1880 - Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
1882 - Floris H L Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
1883 - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
1886 - James Friskin, composer
1886 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1886 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
1889 - Fritz Behrend, composer
1890 - Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
1891 - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
1892 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper)
1892 - Rui Coelho, composer
1893 - Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
1893 - Bill Nestell, CA, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
1895 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
1895 - Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
1895 - Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
1895 - Ragnar Frisch, Oslo, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969)
1895 - Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless)
1897 - Jose Moreno Gans, composer
1899 - Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
1899 - Juri Olescha, writer
1900 - Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
1902 - Ruby Dandridge, Memphis Tenn, actress (Father of the Bride)
1903 - Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
1903 - Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
1906 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
1906 - Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
1906 - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
1907 - Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
1907 - Canada Lee, NYC, actor (Lost Boundaries)
1907 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter
1908 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
1909 - Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
1909 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator
1910 - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
1911 - Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
1911 - Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], KS, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8 )
1911 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
1912 - Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1913 - Margaret AR Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger
1913 - Roger Caillois, French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes)
1914 - Martin Ritt, actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
1915 - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
1917 - Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
1917 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
1918 - Arnold Newman, photographer (Faces USA)
1918 - Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
1918 - Frank Wigglesworth, composer
1918 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
1920 - James Doohan, Vancouver BC, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek)
1920 - Julius Boros, golfer (PGA Champ 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
1921 - Diana Barrymore, NYC, actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife)
1921 - Junior Parker, Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
1922 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
1922 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1923 - Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1924 - Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
1925 - Enzo Stuarti, Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1925 - Richard Vernon, England, actor (Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night)
1926 - James Ingram Merrill, US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
1926 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)
1927 - Charles O Whitley, (Rep-D-NC, 1977- )
1927 - Frank Singleton, librarian
1927 - John McLaughlin, commentator (McLaughlin Report)
1927 - [Herman] Junior Parker, rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark)
1927 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1928 - Dave Dudley, singer (Six Days on the Road)
1928 - Don Gibson, singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me)
1928 - Gudrun Pausewang, Eastern Bohemia, German writer
1929 - Nicos Mamangakis, composer
1930 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
1930 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
1931 - Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1931 - Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
1932 - Mara Corday, Santa Monica CA, playmate (Oct, 1958)
1933 - Lee Radziwell Ross, NYC, princess (Jackie O's sister)
1933 - Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
1933 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
1934 - Gia Scala, Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
1935 - Zhelyu Zhelev, Veselinovo, Shumen Province, Bulgarian President (1990-97)
1936 - Jim Clark, Formula 1 racer (1963 champ)
1937 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
1938 - Douglas Leedy, composer
1938 - Lew De Witt, singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 - Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1939 - Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
1939 - M L Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
1940 - Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
1940 - Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman
1942 - Mike Pender, Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1942 - Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
1943 - Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
1944 - Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
1945 - Farooq Hamid, cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan v Australia 1964)
1945 - Hattie Winston, Greenville Miss, actress (Nurse, Electric Company)
1946 - James C Adamson, Warsaw NY, Lt Col USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43)
1947 - Dave Mount, rocker
1947 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
1947 - Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
1948 - Byron MacGregor, newscaster
1948 - Reed Hundt, FCC chairman
1949 - Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
1949 - James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
1949 - Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
1949 - Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
1950 - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1950 - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
1950 - Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
1951 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1951 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
1952 - Robyn Hitchcock, rocker (Moss Elixir)
1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
1953 - Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, Russia, cosmonaut
1953 - Dave Amato, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
1953 - Zico, Brazilian footballer
1954 - Keith Carlton Fergus, Temple TX, PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th)
1954 - Chris Hughes, London, English record producer and rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1956 - Jim Barton, Lincoln Neb, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1956 - John F Reid, cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's)
1956 - Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
1958 - Bob Bradley, Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1958 - Miranda Richardson, Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game)
1958 - Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
1959 - Romeo Zondervan, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1960 - Neal Heaton, American baseball player
1960 - Colin Wells, English cricketer
1961 - Mary Page Keller, actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)
1961 - Perry McCarthy, English racing driver
1961 - Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian
1962 - Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, E St Louis IL, heptathele (Olympic-gold-88, 92)
1962 - Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
1963 - Elizabeth Chavez, Santa Monica Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-91)
1963 - Jacqueline Sheen, Dallas Texas, playmate (July, 1990)
1963 - Kelly Miller, Detroit, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1963 - Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter
1964 - Arturo Huerta, Mexico, Canadian walker (Olympics-96)
1964 - Atif Rauf, cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman v New Zealand 1994)
1964 - Laura Martinez-Herring, Sinaloa Mexico, Miss USA (1985)/(Gen Hospital)
1964 - Lisa Ann Poggi, Grand Rapids Mich, actress (Jolie-Loving)
1964 - Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
1964 - Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
1965 - A J Sager, Columbus Ohio, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1966 - Claus Boekweg, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
1966 - Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer (world record)
1966 - Ellen Minzner, Lawrence Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Gary Parker, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1966 - Hope Marie Carlton, Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985)
1966 - Noelle Daghe, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st)
1966 - Tone-Loc, [Anthony Terrell Smith], LA California, rocker (Let's Do It)
1966 - Wendy Fletcher, Boston Mass, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993)
1966 - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
1967 - Alexander Volkov, Russia, tennis star
1967 - Calvin Williams, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Elizabeth Cheshire, Burbank California, actress (Jill-Sunshine)
1968 - Brian Leetch, Corpus Christi TX, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NY Rangers)
1968 - Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, Warsaw NY, alpine skier (Oly-gold/silver-92)
1968 - Scott Radinsky, Simi Valley CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 - Ronald Humphrey, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Simon Whitlock, Australian Darts Player
1970 - Donovan Bergstrom, US 3K steeplechase runner
1970 - Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman)
1970 - Kristine Radford, Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Scott Keswick, Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96)
1970 - Shawn Marie Brogan, Miss USA-Iowa (1997)
1971 - Terryl Ulmer, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author
1972 - Christian Oliver, actor (Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the Bell)
1972 - Martin Prochazka, Slany CZ, NHL forward (Toronto, Czech Oly-Gold-98)
1972 - Darren Anderton, English footballer
1973 - Cory Raymer, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1973 - James Dexter, tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Jim Mills, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Tisha Venturini, Modesto California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 - Victoria Nika Zdrok, Kiev Ukraine, playmate (Oct, 1994)
1973 - Winslow Oliver, running back (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Romāns Vainšteins, Latvian cyclist
1973 - Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer
1974 - Jared Rushton, actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids)
1974 - David Faustino, Los Angeles CA, actor (I Had 3 Wives, Bud-Married With Children)
1974 - Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian TV Presenter and Actress
1975 - Albert Fields, Gary Indiana, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 - Danica McKellar, actress (Winnie Cooper-Wonder Years) [or Jan 3]
1976 - Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bas Zuiderent, cricketer (Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
1977 - Ronan Keating, Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1978 - Carol Aquino, Miss Guatemala Universe (1997)
1978 - Douglas Osmond, Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Matt Diaz, American baseball player
1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
1979 - Patrick Renna, American actor
1979 - Alex Zane, English comedian
1980 - Mason Unck, American football player
1981 - Dusty Dvoracek, American football player
1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
1982 - Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Jessica Biel, Ely Minnesota, American actress (Mary Camden in 7th Heaven)
1984 - Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
1985 - Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer
1989 - Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.

MysteRy · « **Reply #312 on:** March 03, 2013, 01:43:11 PM »

This Day in History for 3rd March

Famous Deaths

561 - Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies
1191 - Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
1239 - Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
1459 - Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies
1554 - Johann Friedrich, the Generous, Elector of Saxony (1532-47) and Head of the Protestant
Confederation of Germany (the Schmalkaldic League), dies at 50
1580 - Jacob Hillebrand, Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies
1635 - Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies
1703 - Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
1707 - Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1717 - Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
1744 - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
1766 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73
1768 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at 81
1792 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
1800 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64
1822 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81
1824 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1848 - Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
1850 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
1858 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
1864 - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
1889 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
1894 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
1899 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
1902 - Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1920 - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
1921 - Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
1926 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58
1927 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
1927 - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
1928 - Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1932 - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58
1935 - Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
1938 - Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
1941 - Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
1941 - Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
1942 - Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
1943 - George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1945 - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
1945 - Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1948 - Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51
1953 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
1956 - Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
1959 - Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 - Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
1961 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
1965 - Carlo Gatti, composer, dies at 88
1966 - Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
1966 - William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
1967 - Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1974 - Frank Wilcox, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66
1976 - Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92
1977 - Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
1982 - Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45
1983 - Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1983 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
1985 - Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1987 - Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
1988 - Lois Wilson, actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
1988 - Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1990 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1990 - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
1991 - Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1991 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1992 - Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82
1992 - Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
1993 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 - Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1993 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
1994 - Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1994 - Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies
1994 - Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
1995 - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
1995 - Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
1995 - Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
1995 - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
1995 - Shiv Verma, soldier, dies at 85
1996 - David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82
1996 - John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95
1996 - Leo Malet, writer, dies at 86
1996 - Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist, dies at 76
1996 - Lyle Talbot, [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76
1996 - Marguerite Duras, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91
1997 - Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies
1998 - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2000 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
2001 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
2002 - Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
2003 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
2003 - Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
2003 - Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
2004 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
2005 - Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2006 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
2006 - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 - Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian catoonist, creater of La Linea.
2010 - Keith Alexander, British football manager (b. 1956)
2010 - Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
2011 - May Cutler, Canadian politician and publisher (b. 1923)
2012 - Dave Charnley, British lightweight boxer, dies at 72
2012 - Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer, dies at 82
2012 - Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist, dies from prostate cancer at 64
2012 - Alex Webster, American football coach, dies at 80
2012 - Leonardo Cimino, American actor, dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 94

MysteRy · « **Reply #313 on:** March 04, 2013, 11:25:13 AM »

This Day in History for 4th March

Historical Events

English Philosopher and US President Thomas Jefferson US President & General
Founder of Pennsylvania Andrew Jackson
William Penn

US President Ulysses S. Grant 25th US President William McKinley US President Woodrow Wilson

31st US President Herbert Hoover Queen Elizabeth II Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball

Rocker/Beatle John Lennon Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Boxing Champ George Foreman

51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of
the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of
Innocent III.
1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl
Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of
Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV
recognized as king of England
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 - Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1611 - George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury
1621 - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 - English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating
the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1789 - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt
to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1791 - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
1798 - Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 - 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some
of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only
significant convict uprising.
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the
United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1826 - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
1830 - V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city.
1841 - Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 - James K Polk inaugrated at 11th president
1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first
constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1849 - US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David
Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1853 - William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1861 - Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 - Pres Lincoln opens government Printing Office
1863 - Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
1863 - Territory of Idaho established
1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
1865 - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1876 - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 - Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow
1880 - NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1881 - Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1881 - South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1890 - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is
opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
1893 - Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
1893 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US president (2nd term)
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1895 - Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up
to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
1901 - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1901 - Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1905 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
1908 - Collingwood Ohio, US primary school catches fire (180 killed)
1909 - President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 - Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1913 - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 - NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1917 - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1918 - Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 - Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1925 - Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 - De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 - "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 - Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
1930 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in
twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1931 - Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 - West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 - Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1933 - Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
1933 - Noordwijk soccer team forms
1933 - FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing
to fear but fear itself"
1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1934 - Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 - NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 - Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War
II.
1943 - Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
1944 - Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the
British Army as a driver.
1947 - WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 - Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
1949 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 - JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney
transplant.
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 - French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1962 - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 - David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 - North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1967 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1967 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
1967 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 - Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 - French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 - NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 - "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 - Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1972 - Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
1972 - Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 - David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 - John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 - SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
1977 - Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 - Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 - "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
1979 - 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1980 - 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1982 - 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1986 - Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
1989 - Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1990 - 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 - Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 - Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1993 - "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
1993 - Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1994 - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 - 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
1995 - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
1997 - Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
1998 - Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States
rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties
are the same sex.
2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television
Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use
embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 - Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are
killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter
reconnaissance mission.
2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing
the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the
future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
2007 - Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of
electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting
is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar
Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first
sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 - Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
2012 - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
2012 - Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado

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This Day in History for 4th March

Famous Weddings

1540 - Protestant Count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1989 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
2000 - "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38)

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