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This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Divorces

2012 - "Twilight" actor Peter Facinelli (38) divorces "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Jennie Garth (39) due
            to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US President Grover Cleveland (1837)         British Prime Minister                          Singer, Rapper, & Actress
Grover Cleveland (1837)                           Neville Chamberlain (1869)                             Queen Latifah (1970)


1380 - Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint
1395 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d.
           1533)
1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
1556 - Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant
1578 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1590 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
1603 - Simon Bradstreet, Massachusetts Bay colonist (d. 1693)
1609 - Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1644 - Gottfried Wegner, composer
1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
1679 - Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
1685 - Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
1734 - Joseph Schmitt, composer
1756 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
1765 - David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
1781 - Gustave Vogt, composer
1782 - John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)
1813 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer
1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d.
          1908)
1829 - William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1830 - Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
1837 - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
1838 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
1838 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1839 - Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
1843 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1848 - Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
1848 - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
1858 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
1864 - Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
1866 - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
1866 - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
1867 - Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
1869 - [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
1872 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
1872 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1877 - Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
1881 - Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
1881 - Paul Le Flem, composer
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
1884 - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
1886 - Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)
1886 - Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist
1886 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1888 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor
1889 - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
1890 - Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
1892 - Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)
1893 - Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
1897 - Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)
1898 - Otto Jochum, composer
1898 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
1899 - Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
1901 - Piotr Perkowski, composer
1901 - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
1904 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
1905 - John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
1905 - Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
1905 - Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
1906 - Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1907 - Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
1908 - Louis Gaste, songwriter
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
1910 - Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
1911 - Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1913 - Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 - Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author
1913 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
1914 - Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
1914 - James Pack, naval officer museum curator
1915 - Richard Thomas Condon, author
1916 - Louis Toebosch, composer
1918 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1918 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
1918 - Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Bodaybo, Irkutsk, Soviet Union, fighter pilot, (d. 2013)
1919 - Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1919 - Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1919 - Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
1920 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician
1923 - Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur
1924 - Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
1925 - Peter Graves [Aurness], Minneapolis Mn, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1926 - Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1927 - George Plimpton, NYC, sports writer (Paper Lion)
1927 - John Harold Kander, composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1928 - Fidel V Ramos, pres (Phillipines)
1928 - William R Boggs, Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg
1928 - Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea
1928 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist
1929 - Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
1929 - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
1929 - John Macurdy, American bass
1930 - Maurice Peress, NYC, conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80)
1930 - Pat Halcox, British musician, (d. 2013)
1931 - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1932 - F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94)
1932 - John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
1933 - Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1934 - Pavle Despalj, composer
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
1936 - Hans Peter Bleuel, writer
1936 - Robert Lee Smith, US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
1936 - Tony Nash, England, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1964)
1937 - Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1937 - Robin Wright, race horse trainer
1937 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist
1938 - Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1938 - Charley Pride, Sledge Miss, country singer (Sweet Country)
1938 - Shashi Kapoor, Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939 - Travis Pritchett, rocker (Travis & Bob)
1939 - Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1939 - Kenny Lynch, British entertainer
1940 - Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer
1941 - Wilson Pickett, Prattville Alabama, R&B singer (Funky Broadway)
1941 - Wolfgang Bauer, writer
1941 - John W. Derr, American politician
1942 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991)
1943 - Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1943 - Toula Grivas, Greek actress
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician, (d. 2012)
1945 - Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 - Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1945 - Eric Woolfson, Charing Cross, Glasgow,lyricist/producer ( The Alan Parsons Project), (d.
           2009)
1946 - Michael Reagan, talk show host, Ronald's son
1946 - Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
1946 - Michel Leclère, French racing driver
1947 - Barry Wilson, Engld, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 - David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
1947 - Steven H Schiff, (Rep-R-New Mexico)
1947 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1947 - Heather Ryan, American model and former Playmate of the Month
1948 - Eknath Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1948 - Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1949 - Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player (2X world-champ)
1949 - Starr Danias, NYC, ballerina (Turning Point)
1949 - Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
1949 - Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
1950 - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
1950 - James Conlon, NYC, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
1950 - John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
1950 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
1951 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1953 - Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1953 - Jamie West-Oram, rocker (Fixx)
1953 - Margaret L Augustine, Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1953 - Nicholas Wisdom, cricketer (son of comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
1954 - James F Reilly II, Mt Home AFB Idaho, PhD/astronaut (STS 89, sk:100)
1955 - Graham Porter, cricketer (1 day intl for Australia 1979)
1955 - Francis G. Slay, Mayor of St. Louis, Mo.
1956 - "The Model" Rick Martel, [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1956 - Ingamar Stenmark, Sweden, slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1956 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957 - Melvin Gentry, vocalits/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
1958 - Andreas Wenzel, Liechtenstein, skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1959 - Irene Cara, Bronx NYC, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)
1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
1960 - Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Sept-iles, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1960 - Patricia Farinelli, LA California, playmate (December, 1981)
1960 - Richard Biggs, Columbus Ohio, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives)
1960 - James MacPherson, Scottish actor
1961 - Kevan James, cricketer (all-rounder 4 wkts/4 balls & ton v India 1996)
1961 - Mark Van Thillo, Wilrijk Belgium, co-capt (Biosphere 2)
1961 - Todd Nelson, Dalles Ore, tennis star
1962 - Trevor Franklin, cricketer (opened for NZ mid-80's)
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
1962 - Mike Rowe, American television personality
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
1963 - Vanessa L Williams, Millwood NY, 1st black Miss America (1983)/singer
1963 - Vanessa Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
1964 - Bonnie Blair, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Oly-5 gold/brz-88, 92, 94)
1964 - Christina Ferguson, Phoenix Az, playmate (Apr, 1983)
1964 - Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
1964 - Paul Elliott, English footballer
1965 - Geronimo Berroa, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1965 - Jeff Labarr, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1965 - Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
1965 - Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
1966 - Jerry Cantrell, US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1966 - Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
1967 - Andre Rison, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, KC Chiefs)
1967 - Derrick Graham, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush)
1967 - Ken Edenfield, American basenall player
1968 - Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1968 - Pat Terrell, NFL strong safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1968 - Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1968 - Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince
1968 - Paul Marsden, British politician
1969 - Michael Dumas, NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Shaun Udal, cricketer (Hants off-spinner, England to Aust 1994-95)
1969 - Sheila Taormina, 4X200m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
1970 - Michael Rapaport, actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1970 - Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)
1970 - Sarah Thorsett, Winona Minn, 1.5k runner
1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Aust))
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1972 - Nathan Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter
1973 - Marlon Kerner, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Rob Johnson, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Max Barry, Australian author
1973 - Luci Christian, American voice actress
1974 - Petra Kamstra, Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 - Tina Krizan, Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 - Torrian Gray, safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 - Claude N'Goran, Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1975 - Kimmo Timonen, hockey defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1975 - Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1975 - Brian Griese, American football player
1975 - Rodleen Getsic, American musician, civil servant
1976 - Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player
1976 - Tomokazu Ohka, Japanese baseball player
1976 - Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
1976 - Michael Spillane, American wrestler, better known as Mike Quackenbush
1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress
1977 - Danny Murphy, English footballer
1977 - Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
1977 - Devin Lima, American singer
1977 - Willy Sagnol, French footballer
1977 - Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player
1977 - Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Dionne Bainbridge, Brisbane QLD Aust, NZ 200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer
1978 - Khalilah Adams, American actress
1978 - Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
1979 - Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
1979 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
1979 - Brandon Lee, American adult actor
1979 - Danneel Harris, American actress
1979 - Anthony Maher, American soccer player
1980 - Sebastien Frey, French footballer
1980 - Sophia Myles, English actress
1981 - Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
1981 - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
1981 - Kasib Powell, American basketball player
1982 - Timo Glock German Formula 1 driver
1982 - Pedro Mantorras, Angolan footballer
1982 - Chad Cordero, American baseball player
1983 - Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
1983 - Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American Idol Contestant
1985 - Vince Lia, Australian Footballer
1985 - Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
1986 - Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
1986 - Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
1986 - Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
1987 - Mauro Zárate, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
1996 - Madeline Carroll, American actress

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This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Deaths

                 
Russian Tsar                                          Actress Natasha Richardson (2009)
Ivan the Terrible (1584)   


235 - Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered
978 - Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15
1227 - Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of The KnightsTemplar dies burned at the stake
1493 - John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82
1582 - Jean Jaurequi, Basque attacker of William of Orange, killed by William's guards
1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
1584 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53
1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 - John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
1690 - Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
1696 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator
1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29]
1746 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
1768 - Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies
1781 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1799 - John Randall, composer, dies at 82
1816 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
1817 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
1823 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69
1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
1845 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], American pioneer agronomist dies in Allen County
           Indiana
1870 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
1875 - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
1876 - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
1886 - Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91
1889 - William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1899 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
1899 - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
1900 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
1913 - George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1917 - William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
1918 - Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
1924 - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79
1928 - Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32
1933 - Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
1936 - Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58
1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
1938 - Cyril Rootham, composer, dies at 62
1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
1944 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79
1945 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
1954 - Walter Mead, cricketer (one Test for England 1899), dies
1956 - Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85
1956 - Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59
1962 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1963 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
1964 - Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69
1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
1965 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45
1967 - Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
1968 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43
1971 - George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies
1973 - Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82
1974 - David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87
1975 - Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
1976 - James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1976 - Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69
1976 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
1977 - Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
1977 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
1978 - Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84
1978 - Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
1980 - Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
1980 - Herman Griffith, cricketer (13 Tests for WI, 44 wickets), dies
1982 - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60
1983 - Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies
1983 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
1984 - Charlie Lau, White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50
1984 - Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
1985 - Jack Miller, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89
1986 - Bernard Malamud, US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71
1987 - Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
1989 - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
1989 - William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
1990 - Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
1991 - Jack McCoy, Radio/TV personality, dies at 72
1991 - Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
1992 - Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
1995 - Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
1995 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
1996 - Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84
1996 - Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist, dies at 85
1997 - Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92
1999 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)
2002 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
2003 - Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
2006 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
2006 - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
2007 - Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, Film Director (b. 1954)
2008 - Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981)
2009 - Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
2010 - Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
2012 - George Tupou V, King of Tonga, dies at 63

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This Day in History for 19th March


Historical Events

                                   
Playwright Tennessee Williams                    Actor Sean Connery                   Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan


1227 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1452 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1563 - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
1682 - Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is
           murdered by his own men.
1702 - James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 - Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1799 - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
1803 - Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina," premieres in Weimar
1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
1859 - Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on
           her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over
           $1,000,000. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later
           by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
1864 - Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1865 - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 - Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1877 - Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1885 - Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask
1892 - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town)
1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1897 - Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1906 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
1907 - 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
1914 - Stanley Cup: Tor Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Vict Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1918 - S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations'
           covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia):
           two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
1925 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 - Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 - Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1940 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940 - French government of Daladier, falls
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 - Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1943 - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central
           Railyard.
1944 - Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London
1945 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree to destroy all German factories
1945 - British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1946 - Fr Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas depts
1946 - Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR
1947 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1948 - Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
1950 - 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 - City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published
1953 - Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," premieres in NYC
1953 - 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st
           time televised)
1954 - 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, NYC
1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM
1954 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1954 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 - Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings v England
1955 - 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats La Salle 77-63
1956 - Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 - Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
1958 - Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan
1959 - "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 - "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 - 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
1962 - "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1962 - Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
1964 - Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger"
1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 - Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 gulden
1965 - Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most
           powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater
           archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
1966 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
1967 - Fr Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 - Howard University students seize administration building
1969 - British invade Anguilla
1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
1969 - The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.
1970 - W German chancellor & E German premier meet
1971 - Phila 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 - "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 perfs
1972 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1972 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972 - LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
1973 - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 - Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1975 - "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
1978 - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1978 - Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 - House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 - -21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
1981 - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1981 - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
1982 - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1982 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the
           U.K..
1984 - "Kate & Allie," premieres
1984 - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of NY
1984 - KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 - Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1984 - STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1985 - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 - Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1987 - Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 - Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 - Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 - 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
1989 - Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 - Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1989 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1990 - 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 - KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 - St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1991 - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin
           Luther King Day
1992 - "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
1993 - Ice Pairs Championship at Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1994 - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Neth
1994 - Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
1994 - Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 - NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 - Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520
1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 - Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 - NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 - Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 - Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
1997 - Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 - "Ah Wilderness!," opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
2001 - The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated
           the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500
           Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support
           and in defiance of world opinion
2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland.
          24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years
           of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's
           presidential election on March 20.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly
           observed on this day.
2012 - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain

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Famous Weddings

1924 - American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts
           less than 9 months.
2009 - Talk show host David Letterman (61) weds longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko (48) at a civil
           ceremony in Choteau, Montana

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Famous Divorces

1976 - Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Geographer, Explorer & Translator        OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp (1848)            Actor Bruce Willis (1955)
Richard Francis Burton (1821)


1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1503 - Benedetto Varchi, Ital humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina)
1589 - William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)
1593 - Georges de la Tour, French painter
1601 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1604 - Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1610 - Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
1629 - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
1673 - Pedro Vaz Rego, composer
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1715 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1728 - Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter
1734 - Thomas McKean, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence) [or Apr 19]
1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
1740 - Johann Georg Roser, composer
1740 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1742 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1742 - Tupac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
1745 - Nicolas Sejan, composer
1749 - Princess Louisa Anne of Wales (d. 1768)
1752 - Jose Mauricio, composer
1767 - Leonhard von Call, composer
1777 - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat
1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1809 - Fredrik Pacius, composer
1813 - David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa)
1816 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
1817 - Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1819 - David Henry Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 - Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1821 - Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1821 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1823 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Surinam (1873-82)
1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria d. 1914
1824 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
1827 - Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 - Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1844 - Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist
1845 - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician
1847 - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
1848 - Wyatt Earp, Monmouth Ill, sheriff (OK Corral)
1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
1851 - Roque Saenz Pena, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
1860 - William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman
1861 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
1871 - Schofield Haigh, cricketer ("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11")
1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1873 - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1874 - Arthur Hoyt, Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
1879 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1882 - Gaston Lachaise, US sculptor (Standing Woman)
1883 - Josef Matthais Hauer, composer
1883 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
1888 - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1888 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
1889 - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)
1891 - Earl Warren, Ca, (Gov-R-Ca)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
1892 - Robert Denzler, composer
1892 - Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 - Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1897 - L O'Flaherty, writer
1900 - Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
1900 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1901 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
1901 - Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
1903 - Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1903 - James Bullock, colliery manager
1904 - John J Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
1904 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer
1905 - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
1906 - Normand Lockwood, composer
1907 - Cor Treslem, [Cornelis L Melsert], actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
1907 - Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy, composer
1907 - Kent Smith, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
1907 - Marc Vaubourgoin, composer
1907 - Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
1909 - Louis Hayward, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1910 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
          (d. 1991)
1911 - Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman
1912 - Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
1912 - Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 - William Chatterton, cricketer (48 in only Test for England 1892)
1914 - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
1914 - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
1914 - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
1915 - Norman Yardley, English cricket captain (late 40's)
1915 - Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
1916 - Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18]
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Dino Lipatti, composer
1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
1919 - Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber (Dutch Liberal Party)
1920 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1923 - Janine Dacosta, French pianist
1923 - Tige Andrews, Bkln, actor (Capt Adam Greer-Mod Squad)
1923 - Henry Morgentaler, Canadian gynecologist
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, Ogden Utah, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council
1927 - Richie Ashburn, baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
1928 - Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58)
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, Astoria NY, actor (#6-Prisoner, Secret Agent)
1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
1929 - Herman van San, composer
1929 - Michael Ryan, actor (John Randolph-Another World)
1929 - Robert Muczynski, composer
1930 - Bill Henderson, Chic Ill, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
1932 - Gay Robert Brewer, Middletwon OH, PGA golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1933 - Renée Taylor, American actress
1934 - Borge Andersen, Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68)
1935 - Burt Metcalfe, Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir (Father of the Bride)
1935 - Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ, actress (Coming of Age, TW3)
1935 - Renee Taylor, NYC, actress (Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny)
1936 - Amancio D'Silva, musician
1936 - Ursula Andress, Berne Switzerland, actress (She, Sensuous Nurse)
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, musician (You Always Hurt the One You Love)
1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany
1939 - Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959)
1939 - Joe Kapp, NFL QB (Minnesota Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1941 - Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire (Union International)
1942 - David Minge, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1942 - Jeff Neighbour, US bassist (Joy of Cooking)
1942 - Robin Luke, rocker (Susie Darlin')
1942 - Ross Valory, rocker (Journey)
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
1944 - Joseph Celli, composer
1944 - Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
1944 - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1945 - Lisa Nicole Baker, Detroit TX, playmate of the year (Nov 1966)
1945 - Stefanos Kiriakidis, Greek actor
1946 - Bigas Luna, director/writer (Anguish)
1946 - Mohammad Ilyas, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in ten Tests 1964-69)
1946 - Paul Atkinson, rock guitarist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1946 - Ruth Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So Exicted)
1947 - Earlie Fires, jockey (Hialeah Park)
1947 - Glenn Close, Greenwich Ct, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
1947 - John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1947 - Vince Martino, Schenectady NY, WLAF offensive asst (Barcelona Dragons)
1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1948 - Vintcent Van der Bijl, Natal cricket bowler (superb 2m of 70's & 80's)
1949 - Denny Albee, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1949 - Denny Albee, Oklahoma City OK (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1952 - Derek Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rock drummer (Bay City Rollers)
1952 - Warren Lees, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1952 - Harvey Weinstein, American film producer
1953 - Billy Sheehan, rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1953 - Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, Athens Ga, rock guitarist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1954 - Charles Pinnell, horse trainer
1954 - Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai
1955 - Bruce Willis, Penna Grove NJ, actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard)
1956 - Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1956 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician and economist.
1957 - Blake Passey, horse trainer
1959 - Shelley Burch, Tucson Az, actress (One Life to Live, Identity Crisis)
1959 - Terry Hall, rocker (Colourfield-Animal Liberation)
1961 - Jos Lansink, Dutch-Belgian equestrian
1962 - Ivan Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)
1962 - Jim Korderas, American professional wrestling referee
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1964 - Jake Weber, British actor
1966 - Paul Devenport, New Zealand, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
1966 - Andy Sinton, English footballer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1968 - Liam Jewell, Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1968 - Tyrone Hill, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Mots'eoa Senyane, Lesotho diplomat
1969 - Arjan Vermeulen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1969 - Michael Bergin, model (Coca Cola)/actor
1969 - Scott Alexander Brownlee, Hamilton NZ, rowing coxless 4 men (Oly-96)
1969 - Gary Jules, American singer and songwriter
1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
1970 - Errol Refos, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - Janne Laukenen, Lahti FIN, NHL defenseman (Finland Oly-B-98, Senators)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Sean Fleming, CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Cory Fleming, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Dalton James, actor (My Father the Hero, Mark-Beverly Hills 90201)
1971 - Kirk Botkin, NFL tight end (NO Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Louie Debrusk, Cambridge, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Marty Moore, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1971 - Taase Faumui, NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Whitney Hedgepeth, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-2 silver-96)
1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel
1971 - Sébastien Godefroid, Belgian sailor
1972 - Maria Maunder, St John's New Foundland, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - John Michels, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actress
1974 - Jennifer Lynn Drayton, Saginaw Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1997)
1974 - John Coppinger, El Paso TX, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model
1975 - Antonio Daniels, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Rachel Blanchard, Toronto, actress (Cher Horowitz-Clueless)
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1976 - Zach Lind - American drummer (Jimmy Eat World)
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian
1979 - Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean baseball player
1979 - Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
1979 - Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer
1980 - Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator
1981 - Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model
1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
1982 - Che' Vonne Burton, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Brad Jones, Australian footballer
1982 - Matt Littler, British actor
1982 - Jonathan Fanene, American football player
1983 - Ana Rezende, Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
1983 - Matt Sydal, American professional wrestler
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
1987 - Michal Švec, Czech footballer
1992 - Henry & Angus Bernsen, twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
1993 - Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress
2007 - Prince Abdullah bin Ali, Prince of Jordan

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Famous Deaths

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
1556 - Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1635 - Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1638 - Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1644 - Chongzhen, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43
1702 - Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, dies at 59
1782 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1797 - Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
1811 - Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65
1816 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
1845 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56
1850 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87
1862 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 - Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57
1869 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64
1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1876 - Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
1884 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
1893 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
1897 - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1900 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
1905 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
1907 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 - John Thomas, composer, dies at 87
1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1918 - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1934 - Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
1936 - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
1937 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1940 - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1946 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
1947 - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1954 - Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 - Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
1969 - Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 - Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 - Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51
1974 - Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1974 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 - John A DeMott, dies at 63
1976 - George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87
1976 - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1979 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
1979 - Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 - Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
1984 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
1987 - Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
1987 - Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
1987 - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987 - Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1991 - John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 - Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
1991 - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1992 - Cesare Danova, actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas), dies at 66
1993 - Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 - Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1994 - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1994 - Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
1995 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65
1996 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 - Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
1999 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2003 - Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
2008 - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
2008 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2009 - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
2011 - Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (b. 1920)
2012 - William Charette, American navy hospital corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient,dies at 79

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This Day in History for 20th March


Historical Events

                                   
Outlaw Jesse James                               Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck              Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                    Mike Tyson

                 
King of Pop Michael Jackson                   Prime Minister of Canada
                                                                         Stephen Harper


141 - 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1525 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1569 - Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé
1598 - French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty
1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 - France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism
1697 - Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock
           Throne.
1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1800 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1814 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1833 - US & Siam sign commercial treaty
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1863 - Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals
1865 - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
1865 - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000
1883 - Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
1885 - John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden operetta
1886 - 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Mass
1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1888 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.
1890 - General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded
1890 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1896 - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
1896 - Uprising in Matabeleland
1897 - 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
1897 - 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1897 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1906 - George B Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London
1911 - National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)
1911 - Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1914 - 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
1916 - Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium
1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months)
1920 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1920 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1922 - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
1922 - WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
1923 - Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1924 - Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
1924 - Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vanc Millionaires (PCHA) in 2
1930 - Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
1931 - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
1932 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1933 - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed
1934 - Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
1934 - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany
1934 - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn
           Dodgers
1935 - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
1937 - Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
1939 - 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
1940 - Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1941 - Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
1942 - Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
1942 - Major German assault on Malta
1943 - British offensive against Mareth-line
1943 - German U-384 bombed & sinks
1944 - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1945 - US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar
1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1947 - 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1948 - 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
1948 - 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd
           live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
1951 - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main
           island of Honshū is founded.
1952 - 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1952 - Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1952 - US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
1953 - Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole
1954 - "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 - 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
1954 - 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1955 - KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
1956 - E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
1956 - Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes
1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test
1956 - Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1957 - Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1958 - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1958 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1958 - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1962 - Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
1964 - ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
1965 - 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
1965 - Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
1966 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1967 - Supremes release "The Happening"
1967 - WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1968 - Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
1969 - Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
1969 - US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1971 - Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
1972 - 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
1972 - S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1973 - Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death
1976 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
1976 - Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1977 - Communists/socialists win French municipal elections
1977 - Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1977 - Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1978 - Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 - Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
1980 - The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
1980 - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1981 - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
1981 - Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
1982 - 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is v Barbados
1982 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks
1982 - Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
1983 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1984 - Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
1984 - Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1985 - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1986 - 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
1986 - Jacques Chirac forms French government
1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
1987 - NASA launches Palapa B2P
1987 - Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
1987 - Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
1987 - Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36)
1988 - David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in NYC
1988 - Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open
1988 - Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's
           Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1989 - Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1989 - Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
1990 - LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1990 - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1991 - Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney
1991 - Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
1991 - Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure
           to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
1991 - US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
1992 - Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1992 - Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1993 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
1993 - IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1994 - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs
1994 - "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 - "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1994 - 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
1994 - Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X
1994 - El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 - Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 - Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna
1994 - Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
1995 - Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 - Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1995 - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four
           single in more than 30 years
1996 - "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1996 - Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
1996 - UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
1997 - "Play On!," opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 - Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
1997 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1999 - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad,
           California.
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after
           a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
2004 - Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada,
           becoming the party's first leader.
2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One
           person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana
           crop.
2006 - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel
           movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
2012 - 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
2012 - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200
           million dollar write down

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This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Weddings

1848 - King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
1963 - Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
1969 - Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 - Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1993 - Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1999 - "Smallville" actress Annette O' Toole (46) weds "Laverne and Shirley" actor Michael McKean
           (51) at The Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California

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This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Divorces

2009 - "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (37) divorces actress Harmoni Everett (34) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor & Comedian Carl Reiner (1922)         Director Spike Lee (1957)                     Actor David Thewlis (1963)


43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
1634 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)
1644 - Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)
1680 - Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1728 - Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist
1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1739 - Eligio Celestino, composer
1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
1750 - Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
1774 - John Braham, composer
1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
1804 - Neal Dow, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1811 - George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)
1811 - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome
1812 - George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1813 - Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
1820 - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania
1823 - John Echols, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
1825 - William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1826 - Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
1829 - Charles Albert White, composer
1830 - Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
1833 - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
1834 - Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)
1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1846 - Auguste Bender, writer
1853 - George Godfrey, Chelsea Mass, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
1863 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer
1868 - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
1870 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician (East Africa)
1872 - Bernhard Seklas, composer
1872 - Karin Michaelis, writer
1873 - Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
1876 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1879 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
1882 - René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)
1883 - Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
1883 - Karl Hasse, composer
1885 - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1885 - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist
1888 - S V Vegesack, writer
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony)
1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
1896 - Hal Walker, Ottumwa Ia, director (I Married Joan)
1902 - Edgar Buchanan, Humansville Mo, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1902 - Kathryn Forbes, short story writer (mama's bank account)
1903 - Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961)
1904 - B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)
1905 - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
1906 - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1906 - Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
1908 - Frank Stanton, Muskegon Mich, broadcasting executive (CBS)
1908 - Michael Redgrave, Bristol England, actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes)
1908 - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (Czardasvorstin)
1911 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled)
1911 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1913 - Judith Evelyn, Seneca SD, actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window)
1914 - Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
1914 - William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)
1915 - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
1916 - Pierre Messmer, PM (France)
1917 - Dolf Verspoor, literary/interpreter (M Nijhoff Prize 1958)
1917 - Peter Caddy, founder (Findhorn Community)
1917 - Vera Lynn, singer (Anniversary Waltz)
1918 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Soldiers)
1918 - Jack Barry, Lindenhurst NY, game show emcee (Joker's Wild)
1918 - Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
1918 - Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer
1920 - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician
1920 - Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1921 - Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general (UNESCO)
1921 - Primoz Ramovs, composer
1922 - Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)                                       
1922 - Carl Reiner, Bronx, comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 - Doug Barnard Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
1922 - Jack Kruschen, Winnipeg Canada, actor (Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)
1922 - Larry Elgart, New Haven Ct, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orch)
1922 - Ray Goulding, Lowell Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray)
1923 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006)
1924 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
1924 - Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)
1925 - James Pickles, judge
1925 - John D Erlichman, Politician (Nixon aide, Watergate)
1926 - Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1927 - John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1928 - Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)
1928 - Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer
1928 - Fred Rogers, Latrobe PA, children TV host (Mr Rogers' Neighborhood)
1928 - Jerome Cousins Biffle, Denver Co, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
1930 - Michel Magne, composer
1931 - Antonio Tauriello, composer
1931 - David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
1931 - Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
1931 - John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
1932 - Tod Dockstader, composer
1933 - David James Moore, educationalist
1933 - Jacquez Guyonnet, composer
1933 - George Altman, American baseball player
1933 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1934 - Eric Hebborn, artist/faker
1934 - Marion Conti, arch bishop (Aberdeen England)
1934 - Willie Brown, American politician
1934 - David Malouf, Australian author
1935 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist
1936 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
1937 - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor
1937 - Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90m ski jump (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Jerry Reed, Atlanta GA, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1937 - Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1937 - Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge
1938 - Frans J van der Heijden, Dutch journal/Dutch MP (CDA)
1938 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist
1939 - Brian Mulroney, (P-C) 18th PM of Canada (1984-93)
1939 - Earl of Seafield, [Ginger], English large landowner
1940 - Mickey Preger, horse trainer
1940 - Gianpiero Moretti, Milan, Italy, steering wheel designer (Momo), (d. 2012)
1941 - Carlos Lopez, jockey
1941 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player
1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
1943 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
1945 - Larry Combest, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1945 - Pat Riley, Schenectady NY, NBA coach (Lakers, Knicks, Heat)
1945 - Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect (State of Environment)
1945 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
1945 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
1946 - Ranger Doug, [Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)
1947 - Carl Palmer, drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
1947 - John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist
1948 - Bobby Orr, Parry Sound, Ontario, HOF NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins)
1948 - John de Lancie, actor (Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives)
1948 - Pamela Sargent, US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)
1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist
1950 - William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
1951 - Guy Perry, rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951 - John Wetton, rocker (Asia)
1951 - Madan Lal, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's)
1951 - Tanya Boyd, Detroit Mich, actress (Celeste-Days of our Life)
1951 - Curt Smith, American author and media host
1952 - Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
1952 - Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver
1954 - Charlie Simmer, Ontario, NHL left winger (LA Kings)
1954 - Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1954 - Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
1956 - Phillip Oppenhein, British MP
1957 - Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee], Atlanta, Florida, American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1957 - Theresa Russell, [Paup], SD California, actress (Black Widow, Razor's Edge)
1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
1957 - David Foster, Australian woodchopper
1958 - Holly Hunter, Conyers Georgia, American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano)
1958 - Rickey Jackson, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
1959 - Dale Reid, Ladybank Scotland, LPGA golfer (European Solheim Cup team)
1959 - Richard Drummie, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor
1959 - Sting, American professional wrestler
1961 - John Clark Gable, LA California, actor (Bad Jim)
1961 - Kathy Guadagnino, Albany NY, LPGA golfer (1985 US Women's Open)
1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, [Jim Mcdonnell], rock drummer (Stray Cats)
1961 - Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1962 - Stephen Sommers, American film director
1963 - Paul Annacone, Southampton NY, tennis star
1963 - Paul Mirkovich, rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 - Ramon Andersson, Middle Swan Australia, canoeist (Olympics-br-92, 96)
1963 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007)
1963 - Manabu Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and broadcaster
1963 - David Thewlis, Blackpool, Lancashire, English actor (Remus Lupin-Harry Potter series)
1964 - Ruth Davidon, Balt MD, rower (Olympics-6th-96)
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1965 - Chris Hoiles, Bowling Green OH, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 - Danielle Woodward, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1966 - Blas Minor, Merced CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Giulio Caravatta, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
1966 - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer
1967 - Bryan Genesse, actor, (Rocco-Bold & Beautiful, Grady-Street Justice)
1967 - Dana Rinehart Dalton, Orlando Florida, Miss Florida-America (1991)
1967 - Mookie Blaylock, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1967 - Randy Gullatt, horse trainer
1968 - Eric Viscaal, Dutch soccer star (PSV/AA Gent)
1968 - Jurgen Rumrich, Miesbach GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1968 - Sheree Megan Higgins, Matamata NZ, golfer (1991 Bridgestone)
1969 - Caroline Brunet, Quebec City Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 - Konstantine Starikovitch, Podolsk Russia, 238lbs US weightlift (Oly-96)
1969 - Paul Atkinson, jockey
1969 - Sharon Manning, WNBA center/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Thang Thanh Nguyen, Soc Trang Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer
1970 - Kristin Klein, Santa Monica California, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-96)
1970 - Ralph Dawkins, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1970 - Ron George, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Todd Burger, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1971 - Janis Kelly, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Manny Alexander, Dominican Republic, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1971 - Touré, American writer
1972 - Ajah Wilson-Ogechukwu, soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1973 - Jane March, Edgeware England, actress (Lover)
1973 - Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996)
1973 - Norman Tome, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Christopher Heinz, American businessman; son of Teresa Heinz
1973 - Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor
1973 - Cedric Yarbrough, American actor
1974 - P J Bogart, NYC, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
1975 - Brian Buetsch, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes Sr champ)
1976 - Arno Knapen, Dutch soccer player (Holten, FC Twente)
1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
1979 - Molly Jenson, American musician
1979 - Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress
1979 - Freema Agyeman, British actress
1979 - Bianca Lawson, American actress
1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
1980 - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer
1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
1982 - José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1984 - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
1984 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
1984 - Winta, Norwegian musician
1984 - Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player
1984 - Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor
1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
1984 - Marcus Vick, American football player
1986 - Dean Geyer, Australian singer/actor
1987 - Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
1987 - Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
1987 - Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
1987 - Jô, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Rollo Weeks, English actor
1989 - Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Deaths

687 - St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).
842 - Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies
1191 - Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)
1351 - Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1393 - Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
1415 - Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45
1501 - Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1531 - Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded
1549 - Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded
1568 - Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77
1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
1617 - Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
1619 - Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies
1646 - Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
1703 - Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
1751 - Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies
1757 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1767 - Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87
1780 - Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
1804 - Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
1812 - Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
1848 - Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
1866 - Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23
1871 - Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56
1873 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52
1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63
1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1892 - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41
1894 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1899 - Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to be executed in an electric chair.
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1910 - Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89
1911 - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75
1913 - Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75
1913 - Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies
1916 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1920 - Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
1925 - George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77
1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1933 - Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
1934 - A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen (& regent), dies at 76
1936 - Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for S Afr 1891-92), dies
1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
1941 - D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
1942 - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41
1944 - Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
1947 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
1950 - Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
1951 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74
1951 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60
1953 - Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1962 - Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies
1962 - C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
1963 - Karl Otten, writer, dies at 73
1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
1964 - Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84
1967 - A J F Moody, 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
1968 - Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
1969 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
1972 - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1972 - Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71
1972 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50
1974 - Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
1974 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black US advocate in Virg, dies at 83
1976 - Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
1982 - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at 52
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
1987 - Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1988 - Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1990 - Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
1990 - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
1991 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
1992 - Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
1992 - Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82
1992 - Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1993 - Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 - Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
1995 - Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
1995 - Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
1995 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1996 - Alan Ridout, composer, dies at 61
1996 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
1997 - Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67
1997 - Grace Hefner, mother of Hugh Hefner (Playboy), dies at 101
1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
2004 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1917)
2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
2007 - Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2007 - Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
2008 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
2008 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
2008 - Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Mel Brown, American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
2010 - Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (b. 1920)
2010 - Stewart Udall, American politician, environmentalist (b. 1920)
2010 - Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
2011 - Johnny Pearson, British Composer (b. 1925)
2012 - Jim Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, dies from cancer at 45
2012 - Mel Parnell [Melvin], American Major League Baseball pitcher, dies from cancer at 89

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st March


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck               US President Thomas Jefferson

                 
33rd US President Harry Truman           Playwright Tennessee Williams

                 
264th Pope John Paul II                        Radio shock jock Howard Stern


630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 - Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1610 - King James I addresses English House of Commons
1681 - 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 - Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1788 - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State
1791 - Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1835 - Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1844 - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
1863 - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1871 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince)
1885 - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1888 - Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London
1890 - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1899 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1907 - US invades Honduras
1909 - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1913 - -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1914 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1916 - JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1917 - 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1918 - -28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive
1921 - Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 - KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1923 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 - 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1924 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1927 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1931 - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1933 - Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1934 - Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next
           guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
1935 - Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1937 - Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1939 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 - British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1944 - Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 - 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 - Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1946 - Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1947 - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have
           allegiance to the United States
1947 - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1948 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1949 - WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1952 - "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs
1952 - -22] Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths
1952 - 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock
           & roll concert ever
1953 - NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 - KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 - Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 - 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win
1957 - Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in NYC
1958 - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1959 - 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
1960 - Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1961 - Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
1961 - Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
1962 - A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1962 - Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Neth for birth control
1962 - Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
1962 - Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1963 - David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
1964 - 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83
1964 - Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 - UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1965 - US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1966 - Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1968 - "Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise
1968 - Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
1968 - Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1970 - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes
           that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1971 - Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
1971 - Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 - Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
1971 - WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
1973 - Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 - Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1978 - Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1979 - Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1980 - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
1982 - "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
1982 - Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
1982 - Movie "Annie" premieres
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1983 - Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1984 - Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
1984 - NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1984 - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1984 - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 - Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1985 - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
1986 - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 - Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
1987 - PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
1988 - 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1989 - 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs
1990 - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
1990 - "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
1990 - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
1991 - 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1991 - Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
1991 - Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
1991 - UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1992 - 2nd WLAF season begins
1992 - Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi
1993 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1993 - Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
1993 - South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1994 - 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
1994 - Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History
1994 - Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1994 - Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
1995 - NJ officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
1995 - NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
1996 - "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 perfs
1997 - Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Rus)
1997 - Wrestlemania XIII
1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air
           balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with
           murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from
           Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
2004 - In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition
          Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a
           new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
2012 - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
2012 - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the
           Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Weddings

1874 - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of
           pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
2009 - Star of Die Hard film Bruce Willis (52) weds model and actress Emma Heming (29) in Turks
           and Caicos Islands
2009 - British songbird who soared to the top of the charts with her hit "Unwritten" Natasha
            Bedingfield (27) weds California businessman Matthew Robinson at Church Estate Vineyard's
            in Malibu, California