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This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Birthdays

                 
Composer                                          Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (1906)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)

                 
Actor Matthew Broderick (1962)              Comedienne Rosie O'Donnell (1962)


1466 - French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53). Died 1553
1527 - Hermann Finck, composer
1609 - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
1624 - Francois Roberday, composer
1642 - Georg Schmezer, composer
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1713 - Francis Lewis, signer (Decl of Ind)
1716 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
1763 - Jean Paul, writer
1765 - Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1835 - Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
1836 - Jesus Monasterio, composer
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Karevo, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt)
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1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1863 - Hugo Kaun, composer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1866 - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1880 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Hermann Sandby, composer
1882 - Gilbert M Anderson, [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR
1883 - Jules van Nuffel, composer
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1887 - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1893 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1901 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1901 - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Carl Jaffe, Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement)
1902 - Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues)
1902 - William Downie Forrest, journalist
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1906 - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1910 - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1912 - Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
1913 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
1914 - Paul Tortelier, composer
1917 - Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994)
1918 - Joe Carveth, NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons)
1919 - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist
1919 - Lois Collier, SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, composer [or Apr 21]
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Antony Hopkins, composer
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach California, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1923 - Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show)
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
1924 - Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
1925 - John E Grotberg, (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86)
1925 - Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1926 - Virginia Weidler, Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway)
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1928 - Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1928 - Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)
1929 - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1931 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch)
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1933 - Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
1934 - Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie), (d. 2012)
1934 - Lister Carney, Bellaire Oh, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1935 - Brian Clough, soccer manager
1935 - Hubert Fichte, writer
1936 - Marek Stachowski, composer
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1937 - Tom Flores, Fresno California, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders)
1938 - Grahame Thomas, cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's)
1938 - Wilf Corrigan, English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic)
1939 - Kathleen Widdoes, Wilmington Del, actress (Without a Trace)
1939 - Martha Hudson, Eastman Ga, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1941 - Dirk D Frimout, Belgium, cosmonaut
1941 - Malcolm Francke, cricketer (leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Qld 1984)
1943 - Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Vivian Stanshall, songwriter/comic
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1944 - Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
1944 - Henrik Colding-Jorgensen, composer
1944 - Jamary Oliveira, composer
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
1945 - Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - Vernon Guy, US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees)
1946 - Ray Dorset, rocker (Cold Blue Excursion)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights)
1949 - Eddie Money, [Mahoney], Bkln, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight)
1949 - Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)
1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
1950 - Peter Banks, rocker (Yes), (d. 2013)
1950 - Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
1951 - Helena Antonaccio, playmate (June, 1969)
1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr, US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing)
1952 - Chris O'Connell, rocker
1953 - Carl Wolfson, Wash DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
1953 - Shotgun Johnson [Robert], rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Band-Give it Up)
1954 - Mary Jane Smith, Van Nuys Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1993)
1955 - Barbel Wockel-Eckert, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80)
1955 - Jean Marie Hon, SF California, actress (Jane-Man From Atlantis)
1956 - Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway, marathoner (Olympic-4th-1984, Bost-86, 89)
1957 - Sabrina Le Beauf, New Orleans La, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show)
1958 - Brad Hall, Santa Barbara California, comedian (SNL)
1958 - Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace)
1958 - Marlies Gohr, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1959 - Sarah Jane Morris, English Singer
1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
1960 - Dale Baze, jockey
1960 - Guy Chadwick, English singer/songwriter (House of Love)
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1961 - Kassie Wesley, Ky, actress (Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live)
1961 - Slim MacDonnell, Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats)
1961 - Wei Wang, Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)
1961 - Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
1962 - Matthew Broderick, NYC, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
1962 - Mark Waid, American comic book writer
1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, PSV, Barcelona, Feyenoord)
1963 - Sharon June Howe Pederson, Glencoe Mn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 - Shawon Dunston, Brooklyn NY, infielder (SF Giants)
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1964 - Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1966 - Al Iafrate, Dearborn Mich, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
1966 - Karen Lunn, Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
1966 - Matthew Maynard, cricketer (big hitting Glamorgan & England player)
1967 - Elaina Oden, Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1967 - Troy Westwood, CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1967 - Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
1968 - Erwin Vanderbroeck, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 - Jeff Lazaro, Waltham Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Johan Garpenlov, Stockholm Swe, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1968 - Mark Sander, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1968 - Samantha Leah Dorman, Lakeland Fla, playmate (Sept, 1991)
1968 - Scott Williams, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1968 - DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
1969 - Jennifer Lyn Jackson, Cleveland Ohio, playmate (April, 1989)
1969 - Mark Allen, Australia, Australasia golfer
1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer
1971 - Hason Graham, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1972 - (Olympics-silver-1998)
1972 - Boris Mironov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-S-98, Edmonton)
1972 - Chris Ball, Costa Mesa California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Frank West, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - John Leach, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Michele Michael, Miss Maryland USA (1996)
1972 - Large Professor, hip hop artist
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1973 - Chiou Hai Ta, Miss Taiwan ROC Universe (1997)
1973 - Larry Bowie, running back (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1973 - Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
1973 - Jerry Supiran, American actor
1974 - Laura Allen, American actress
1974 - Jose Clayton, Tunisian footballer
1975 - Vitaly Potapenko, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
1978 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d.2007)
1978 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
1978 - Cristian Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
1980 - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1982 - Aaron Hill, American baseball player
1985 - Adrian Peterson, American Football player
1988 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
1990 - Mandy Capristo, German Singer (Monrose)
2004 - Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg

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This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Deaths

Gangster Al Capone (1921)


1063 - Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1538 - Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1652 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55
1654 - Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51
1656 - Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1734 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1768 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1793 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1810 - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1844 - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1857 - Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
1863 - Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1894 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1916 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
1921 - "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1934 - Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55
1934 - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1936 - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
1938 - Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
1939 - Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39
1941 - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1945 - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
1945 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1952 - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
1954 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Muriel Aked, dies at 67
1958 - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
1969 - Gerhart Fritsch, writer, dies at 44
1970 - Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
1973 - Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
1974 - Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1975 - Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64
1975 - Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1980 - Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
1982 - Harry H Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77
1985 - Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78
1986 - August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
1987 - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
1989 - Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
1991 - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1992 - John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78
1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
1994 - Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
1994 - Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89
1994 - Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
1995 - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
1995 - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
1995 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
1996 - Eric Brand, diplomat, dies at 73
1996 - Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
2007 - Drew Hayes, American writer & graphic artist (b. 1969)
2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2009 - Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2010 - Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (b. 1919)
2011 - Loleatta Holloway, American singer (b. 1946)
2011 - Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
2011 - Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
2011 - Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)

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This Day in History for 22nd March


Historical Events

                                   
US President Thomas Jefferson         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand


238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.
752 - Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1556 - Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 - French King Henri IV festival in Paris
1621 - Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth
1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1680 - Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 - Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1775 - Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew,
           Thailand.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded
1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered
1862 - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1874 - Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under
           the act
1888 - English Football League established
1894 - Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 - World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1922 - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
1928 - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1929 - 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 - KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1934 - 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
1939 - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 - Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 - SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1944 - 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 - Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
1945 - US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 - Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1947 - President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1952 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1953 - AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1956 - "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
1956 - Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
1956 - Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC
1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes
1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958 - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
1958 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1960 - AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs
1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 - Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 - Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
1964 - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1964 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1965 - D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967 - Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 - Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1969 - "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 - "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th
           national championship in 6 years
1970 - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 - Nick Mileti purchases Cleve Indians for $9 million
1972 - Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1975 - "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
1975 - "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs
1975 - Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
1975 - Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
1975 - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous
           lowering of cooling water levels.
1977 - Dutch Den Uyl government falls
1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1977 - Uyl government falls
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978 - Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV
1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two
           hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 - NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
1981 - 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1981 - Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8 )/30k (1:29:18.8 )
1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq
1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1984 - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic
           ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely
           unfounded.
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 - Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
1986 - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1986 - Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
1986 - Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1986 - Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
1986 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
1986 - Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1988 - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1988 - WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1989 - Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1989 - US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player
           accidentally slits his throat.
1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
1990 - Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1990 - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs
1991 - NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1991 - Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her
           husband
1992 - "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
1992 - England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
1992 - Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner
1992 - US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1994 - Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
1994 - South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 - Soyuz TM-21 lands
1995 - Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his
           affair with a freelance journalist
1996 - Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1996 - STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
1997 - "Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
1997 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas,
           and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired
           Hellfire missiles.
2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
2006 - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks;
           101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118
           days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2008 - The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle
           long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.
2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
2012 - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching
           against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
2012 - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in
           Gloucester, New South Wales
2012 - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount
           Kenya

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This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Weddings

1916 - British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien
           marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick
1992 - Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
2009 - "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (36) weds composer Mike Verta (36) at St.
           James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California

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This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Divorces

1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

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This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor William Shatner (1931)        Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)        Actress Reese Witherspoon (1976)


841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1609 - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer
1752 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1767 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
1771 - Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1799 - F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 - Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer
1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1813 - Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1814 - Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1819 - William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1822 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 - Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
1822 - Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 - William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1842 - Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
1842 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1846 - Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 - Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 - Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer
1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1867 - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
1868 - Hamish MacCunn, composer
1868 - Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1885 - Adriano Lualdi, composer
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1885 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1887 - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank))
1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1902 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1903 - James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
1903 - Jochen Klepper, writer
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1905 - Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, poet
1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 - James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 - Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1907 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 - Albrecht Goes, writer
1908 - Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1909 - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral
1912 - Lord Alport
1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
1912 - Karl Malden, Chicago, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
1913 - James Westerfield, Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1914 - Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 - Lord Stokes
1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1915 - Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist
1915 - George Cresswell, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ aged 35)
1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1916 - George Wyle, NYC, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 - C S Pick, publisher
1917 - Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho)
1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 - Harry Kay, vice-chancellor (Exeter U)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1920 - Fanny Waterman, concert pianist & teacher
1920 - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1921 - Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP)
1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1922 - Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 - Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1923 - Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 - Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
1924 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 - Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
1924 - Paul Fussell, Pasadena, California, historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), (d. 2012)
1925 - Colin Spedding, CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes)
1926 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1926 - Lawrence Jackson, Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
1927 - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, composer [3/12 OS]
1927 - Viscount Bolingbroke
1928 - Betty Callaway, figure skating trainer
1928 - Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971- )
1928 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1928 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian
1928 - Ed Macauley, NBAer (Boston Celtics)
1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1930 - Derek Bok, college president (Harvard)
1930 - Lynden O Pindling, PM of Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 - Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
1931 - Igor Hajek, translator/writer
1931 - Leslie Thomas, author
1931 - William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1932 - Richard Thomas, admiral
1933 - Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
1933 - Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57)
1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress
1934 - Leslie Turnberg, president (Royal College of Physicians)
1934 - Orrin G Hatch, (Sen-R-UT, 1977- )
1934 - Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1935 - M[ichael] Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1936 - Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)
1936 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 - Philip Ely, president (British Law Society)
1936 - Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
1936 - Ron Carey, American labor leader (Teamsters)
1937 - Jon Hassell, composer
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
1938 - Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
1940 - William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1940 - Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 - Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1941 - Billy Collins, American poet
1942 - Jon Arthur English, composer
1942 - Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
1943 - George Benson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American jazz/blues singer/guitarist (Greatest Love
           of All)
1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer
1943 - Keith Reif, England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1944 - Jeremy Clyde, rocker
1944 - R P Mardling, headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
1944 - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 - Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1945 - Charles "Chuck" Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 - Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1946 - Don Chaney, NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)
1946 - Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1946 - Serge, [Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 - Harry Vanda, [Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 - Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1947 - Priscilla Yates, director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1948 - Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1949 - Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1949 - D Watson, director (Brighton U)
1949 - Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 - Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1950 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (world champion 1982, 1989), (d. 2012)
1951 - Howard Reitzes, Southgate Ca, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 - Musa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1952 - Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1952 - Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
1953 - Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1955 - Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
1956 - Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1956 - Lyndsay Stephen, Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1957 - Stephanie Mills, singer/actress (Wiz)
1958 - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1958 - Laurie David, American political activist
1959 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1959 - Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1960 - Laurie Sargent, rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1962 - Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1962 - Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Tim Elliott, Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1963 - Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 - Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 - Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Emma Wray, English actress
1966 - Brad Edwards, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Brian Shaw, NBA guard (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
1966 - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 - Todd Ewen, Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 - Yahya Ayyash, militant
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 - Ramon Martinez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1969 - Darrell Russell, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Russell Maryland, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oak Raiders)
1970 - Jason Rouser, Tucson Arizona, 200m/400m runner
1970 - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Richard Castillo, jockey
1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Richmond Hill Ontario, (Oly-silver-94)
1972 - John Farquhar, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1972 - Shawn Bradley, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets, Space Jams)
1973 - Dax Griffin, KS, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach)
1973 - Joe Nedney, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Luther Elliss, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1973 - Beverley Knight, English singer
1974 - Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)
1974 - Marcus Camby, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Tuomas Gronman, NHL defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Pitts)
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1975 - Chris Bayne, safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 - Jiri Novak, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1976 - Kellie Shanygne Williams, Wash DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 - Joey Porter, American football player
1978 - Tom Poti, professional hockey player
1979 - Mariah Leanne Bergmann, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Aaron North, American musician
1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1981 - MIMS, American rapper
1985 - Mike Jenkins, American football player
1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
1990 - Eugenie, Princess of Britain
1992 - Luke Freeman, English footballer
1993 - Mick Hazen , American actor
2233 - James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)

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This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Deaths

Animator William Hanna (2001)


337 - Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in
           battle) (b. 1388)
1471 - George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1589 - Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1627 - Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81
1639 - Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1661 - Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1743 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1777 - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 - Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
1798 - Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
1824 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
1832 - J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82
1838 - Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1845 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70
1871 - Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1890 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1906 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 - Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
1923 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
1924 - R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
1929 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
1931 - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1934 - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1944 - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 - J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1946 - Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1951 - J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Mattheus Passion), dies at 79
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1953 - James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1955 - Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1956 - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1958 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1962 - Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
1964 - Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
1969 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 - Martin Bodmer, writer, dies
1974 - Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1975 - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 - Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 - Paul Verhoeven, German director dies at 73
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
1979 - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1987 - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 - Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1993 - Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
1993 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
1993 - Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 - Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1994 - Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 - Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 - Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
1994 - Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1995 - Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
1996 - Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
1996 - Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
1996 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder, dies at 90
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 - Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
2009 - Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)
2009 - Jade Goody, Reality TV Star and Entrepreneur
2010 - James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)

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This Day in History for 23rd March


Historical Events

                                   
Composer George Friedrich Handel          Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Motorcycle Daredevil Robert                   Artist & Musician Yoko Ono
Adolph Hitler

                                   
US President & Actor                             Radio shock jock Howard Stern                   NHL all-time top scorer
Ronald Reagan                                                                                                            Wayne Gretzky


1026 - Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 - Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1174 - Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow.
1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah" published
1534 - Aragonese legal code formally recognised
1568 - Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1579 - Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
1593 - English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander
1630 - French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
1657 - France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1794 - Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
1808 - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1821 - Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence.
1832 - British Parliament passes reform bill
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1836 - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for
           Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1849 - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)
1861 - London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1862 - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 - Encounter at Camden AR
1865 - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1867 - Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over Pres Johnson's veto
1868 - University of California founded (Oakland California)
1879 - War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile
           successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.
1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc)
1881 - Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
1881 - Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889 - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1889 - The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian
           India.
1896 - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan
1896 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of
           alcohol to hotels.
1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1903 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1908 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and
           Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1910 - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1915 - Zion Mule Corp forms
1917 - Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
1918 - Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
1918 - Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed
1918 - Lithuania proclaims independence
1918 - Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)
1919 - Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1919 - Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1919 - Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1920 - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1922 - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC
1922 - KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
1922 - WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1926 - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1930 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1930 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for
           independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1936 - Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1937 - LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
1938 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
1940 - All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland
1940 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward
           at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 - 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
1942 - Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1943 - German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
1944 - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
1945 - British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 - Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1946 - 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40
1948 - John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m))
1949 - Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC
1950 - "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1950 - 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win
1950 - Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
1951 - Wages in France increase 11%
1952 - Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks.
           Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1956 - 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats Iowa 83-71
1956 - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day)
1956 - Sudan becomes independent
1957 - 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs)
1957 - US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 - Explorer (8 ) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - JFK visits SF
1962 - Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days
1962 - Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach
1962 - William DeWitt buys Cin Reds for $4,625,000
1963 - 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cin 60-58 (OT)
1963 - Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin
1964 - UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
1965 - Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1965 - Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
1966 - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
1968 - 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats NC 78-55
1968 - Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational
1969 - Rally for Decency (Miami)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1972 - NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
1973 - After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1975 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic
1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
1980 - Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan
1980 - Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1981 - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1981 - Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when
           teen-age girls sought abortions
1982 - Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees
1982 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals
1983 - US president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1984 - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
1984 - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB)
1984 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
1984 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1984 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
1985 - Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins
1986 - Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
1986 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1987 - Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
1987 - US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1987 - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1989 - 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1989 - Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
1990 - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William
           Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 - 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
1991 - 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento
           beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1992 - Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
1993 - Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
1993 - NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1994 - Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail
1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
1994 - Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
1994 - Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
1994 - Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev
1994 - Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
1994 - Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million
           (renamed Jacobs Field)
1995 - "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs
1995 - Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
1996 - Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1997 - "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins
1997 - Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
1997 - Liberty Legends of Senior Golf
1997 - Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational
1997 - Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
1997 - wins Standard Register PING
1999 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling
           into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines
           are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
2004 - Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.
2005 - The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the
           reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
2005 - A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers.
2006 - The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
2007 - Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia.
2007 - Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters.
2012 - African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup

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This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Weddings

1923 - Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana,
          Cuba
1985 - Musician Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
2008 - France's former first lady Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz (50) weds Moroccan-born public relations
           executive Richard Attias (48) in Manhattan, New York

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Divorces

1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Pirate Legend William Kidd (1645)          Rocket Scientist                                      Blogger & TV Personality
                                                              Werner von Braun (1912)                                  Perez Hilton (1978)


1429 - Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
1599 - Thomas Selle, composer
1638 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist
1645 - William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)
1699 - John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany
1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1732 - Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)
1736 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1749 - Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer
1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer
1754 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
1761 - John W de Winter, Dutch vice-admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
1769 - William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
1769 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1795 - Leopold Jansa, composer
1801 - Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
1808 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)
1811 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
1811 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
1818 - Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1821 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper)
1823 - Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
1825 - Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898
1826 - Leon Minkus, composer
1831 - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
1834 - Julius Reubke, composer
1837 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer
1844 - Eugene Gigout, composer
1847 - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
1854 - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
1857 - Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
1862 - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
1863 - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh
1864 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer
1868 - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d.
          1923)
1876 - Muirhead Bone, Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
1878 - Franz Schrecker, composer
1878 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
1880 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1881 - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1881 - Roger Martin du Guard, France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)
1882 - C Montague Shaw, Adelaide Australia
1882 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1883 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria
1884 - Glauco Velasquez, composer
1887 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887 - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
1887 - Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation)
1891 - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer
1893 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
1895 - Dane Rudhyar, composer
1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus
1898 - Hazel Dawn, [LaTout], Utah, actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl)
1899 - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
1900 - Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
1900 - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
1901 - Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
1902 - Philip Ober, Fort Payne Ala, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)
1905 - Paul Grimault, animator
1905 - Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor (London)
1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce), (d. 1977)
1906 - George Posford, composer
1907 - Daniel Bovet, Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
1907 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1908 - Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1910 - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer/actress (Der Pott)
1911 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player
1911 - Charles Joseph A Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison (James Bond films)
1911 - Denis Wright, diplomat
1911 - Edward Warner, diplomat
1911 - Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1912 - Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge)
1912 - Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
1914 - Robert Gross, composer
1915 - Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar
1915 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
1917 - H C Allen, American historian
1917 - Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1917 - Kenneth Tobey, actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders) [or Feb 23]
1917 - Patricia Burke, Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden)
1919 - Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1919 - Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect
1920 - Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer
1920 - Geoffrey Bush, composer
1920 - James Brown, Desdemona Tx, actor (Lt Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin)
1920 - Jimmy Edwards, comedy actor (Barnes)
1920 - Neal Smith, (Rep-D-IA, 1959- )
1920 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1921 - Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1921 - Ian Todd, pres (Royal College of Surgeons)
1921 - Wolfgang Altendorfer, writer
1922 - Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere"
1922 - Ugo Tognazzi, Cremona Italy, actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles)
1923 - Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
1924 - Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
1925 - Cees de Ruyter, European champion billiards player
1925 - David McNee, commissioner (Metropolitan Police)
1925 - David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
1926 - Martha Wright, Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, Martha Wright Show)
1927 - Osvaldo Lacerda, composer
1928 - 11th duke of Beaufort, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1928 - Alfred Morris, British MP
1929 - Albert H Crews, astronaut
1929 - Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer
1929 - James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley)
1929 - Michael Manser, architect
1929 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
1931 - Norman F Lent, (Rep-R-NY, 1971- 93 ), (d. 2012)
1931 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Gorno-Altaysk, Russia, skier (Oly gld 1964), (d. 2013)
1932 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
1933 - Monique van Vooren, Belgium, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
1933 - Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 - Bryan Bass, headmaster (City of London School)
1934 - Mark Rydell, NYC, actor (Havana, Punchline, Long Goodbye)
1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1935 - Barry Cryer, comedian/writer (Goodies Rule-OK, All You Need is Cash)
1935 - Desmond Pitcher, CEO (Merseyside Development Corporation)
1937 - Craig Breedlove, LA, auto-racing champion (613 MPH-Spirit of America)
1937 - Heinz Martin Lonquich, composer
1937 - Robert Gallo, American physician
1938 - Christopher Glenn, NYC, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1938 - Kenneth J Gregory, warden (Goldsmiths' College)
1938 - Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
1939 - Bert Berdis, Pitts, comedian (Tim Conway Show)
1939 - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko, composer
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1940 - Brian Hastings, cricketer (NZ batsman in 70's)
1940 - Luis Gasca, rocker
1940 - Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers)
1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1943 - Gail Goodrich, NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
1943 - Peter Graves, supt minister (Westminster Central Hall)
1943 - Lee May, former Major League Baseball player
1943 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)
1944 - Michael Nyman, composer (Mesmer, Carrington)
1944 - Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
1945 - Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
1947 - Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
1948 - Michael Gleeson, otolaryngologist
1948 - R J Bennett, FBA/geographer
1948 - Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful)
1948 - David Olney, American musician
1949 - Karen English, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1949 - Ric Ocasek, Balt, rock vocalist (Cars-Double Life, Bye Bye Love)
1949 - Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
1950 - Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
1950 - P R Scott, Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green)
1950 - Anthony De Longis, American actor
1951 - Dick Mast, Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast)
1951 - Lis Howell, director of programs (GMTV)
1952 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesda MD, actress (Jill-Home Improvement)
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1953 - Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker (Rufus-I am Every Woman)
1953 - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, British MP
1953 - Louie Anderson, Minn, comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys)
1953 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
1954 - Moses Malone, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Milw Bucks, Phila '76ers)
1954 - Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
1955 - Cindy Olavarri, Pleasant Hills California, cyclist (7-Eleven team)
1955 - Petrea Burchard, American actress
1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British MP
1956 - Laura Thorne, chef (named one of 10 best American chefs)
1956 - José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission
1957 - Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1957 - Sheila Rena Ingram, Wash DC, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1957 - Teresa Ganzel, Toledo Ohio, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory)
1957 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)
1958 - Serena Grandi, [Fagioli], Bologna Itay, actress (Miranda)
1958 - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1958 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
1959 - Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal
          Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1960 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist
1960 - Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL)
1960 - Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 - Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1962 - Johan Steur, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1963 - Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1963 - Kim Williams, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th)
1964 - John Pinette, American comedian
1965 - Dante Jones, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Daren Puppa, Kirkland Lake, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
1965 - Wayne Presley, Detroit, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 - Gary Whitehead, American poet
1966 - James Saxon, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Marti Pellow, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1967 - David Ford, Edmonton Alberta, kayaker (Olympics-15-92, 96)
1967 - Sandra Reinhardt, Pitts, actress (Another World, Illegal in Blue)
1968 - Atul Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90)
1968 - Curtis Mayfield, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - David Maeva, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 - Mark Maddox, linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Mike Atherton, cricketer (Lancashire batsman & England captain)
1968 - Mitch Cullin, American novelist
1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1970 - Carl Pickens, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Turhon O'Bannon, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Alexander Selivanov, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 - Chris Lipuma, Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 - Demetrius DuBose, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 - Karen McDougal, Gary IN, playmate (Dec, 1997)
1971 - Renette Cruz, Miss Universe-Canada (1996)
1971 - Yasmeen Ghauri, Montrael Canada, model (Valentino Perfume)
1971 - Gail Porter, British television presenter
1972 - Jennifer K Chapman, Miss USA-Massachusetts (1997)
1972 - Jonas Bjorkman, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (Davis Cup 1994)
1972 - Ryan Kuwabara, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
1972 - Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
1973 - David Vaughn, NBA forward (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
1973 - Igor Nikitin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 - Jason Kidd, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Kathy Carboy, Cincinnati, Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Naoko Sawamatsu, Nishinomiya Japan, tennis star (1994 Singapore)
1973 - Ninya Perna, Miss USA-Nevada (1997)
1973 - Rob Lazeo, CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
1973 - Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver
1974 - Eric Washington, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 - Scott Galyon, linebacker (NY Giants)
1974 - Tony Alberda, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Emmen)
1975 - Rita Grande, Napoli Italy, tennis star (3rd round 1996 Aust Open)
1975 - Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)
1976 - Keri Russell, actress (Mickey Mouse Club, Lottery, Daddy Girls)
1976 - Nolan Baumgartner, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1976 - Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider
1976 - Jeremy Newberry, American football player
1976 - Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
1976 - Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing car driver
1977 - Josh Ackerman, actor (Mickey Mouse Club)
1977 - Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner
1978 - Nicholle Tom, Hinsdale IL, actress (Beethoven, Maggie-Nanny, BH 90210)
1978 - Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
1978 - Perez Hilton, American television personality and blogger
1979 - Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Misty Hyman, American swimmer
1979 - Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish International rugby player
1979 - Natalya Baranovskaya, Olympic swimmer
1980 - Russell Howard, British Comedian
1981 - Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
1981 - Erin Crocker, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1982 - José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer
1983 - Jerome Thomas, English footballer
1985 - Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
1986 - Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 - Steven Strait, American actor
1990 - Eugenie OF, Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguson
1995 - Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
1999 - Prince Beltran of Bulgaria

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This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Birthdays

Actress Elizabeth Taylor (2011)


1103 - Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1169 - Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies
1237 - Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1361 - Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310)
1369 - Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered
1548 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 - Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1559 - Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)
1596 - Henry Unton, English diplomat
1606 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1618 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1653 - Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1658 - Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79
1669 - Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54
1680 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
1747 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1754 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
1756 - Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer, dies at 57
1783 - Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67
1786 - Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in
           his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
1806 - George Frederic Pinto, composer, dies at 20
1809 - Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer, dies at 60
1816 - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, dies at 95
1818 - Nicolas Isouard, composer, dies at 42
1819 - August v Kotzebue, writer, dies
1821 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
1832 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer, dies at 41
1842 - Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1862 - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
1869 - Charles Lucas, composer, dies at 60
1880 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67
1881 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45
1906 - Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
1907 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1914 - Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
1914 - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
1918 - Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27
1919 - Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1925 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1927 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
1935 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
1937 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
1943 - Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
1943 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
1944 - O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
1946 - Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
1947 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1950 - Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1952 - Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1953 - Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
1955 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1957 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1958 - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1960 - Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 - A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies
1961 - James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
1961 - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1962 - Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
1962 - Val Paul, producer (F-Man), dies at 73
1963 - Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
1964 - Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59
1964 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1965 - Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
1966 - Johannes W Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82
1967 - Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1968 - Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49
1969 - Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
1970 - Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
1971 - Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67
1971 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
1973 - Ken Maynard, actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77
1978 - Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
1979 - Philip Bourneuf, actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
1979 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
1980 - Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
1982 - Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1983 - Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
1985 - Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85
1985 - Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), dies at 60
1985 - Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52
1985 - Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1985 - Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1991 - Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 - Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies at 65
1991 - Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
1991 - Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1992 - Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1993 - Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
1994 - Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1994 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, wife of Federico Fellini/(La Strada), dies at 74
1994 - Jim Moloney, dies of Parkinson's disease
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican pres candidate, assassinated at 44
1995 - Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter, dies at 61
1995 - Davie Cooper, soccer star, dies at 39
1995 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
1995 - Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 - Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74
1996 - Jay D. Miller, record producer, dies at 73
1996 - Peter Baer, artost/printmaker, dies at 72
1999 - Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
2001 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
2002 - Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
2002 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
2003 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006 - Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b.
          1919)
2006 - Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
2007 - Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007 - Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)
2009 - Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
2011 - Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (b. 1932)
2012 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77

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This Day in History for 24th March


Historical Events

                                   
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr         Playwright Tennessee Williams            Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

                                   
Singer Janet Jackson                               Playwright Tennessee Williams               WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


265th Pope Benedict XVI


1379 - End of Gelderse war victory
1545 - German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 - France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 - Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 - Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1731 - Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British
           soldiers
1792 - Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 - Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1837 - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote
1848 - State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1855 - Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 - University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 - British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 - Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 - 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1887 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
1894 - 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
1898 - 1st automobile sold
1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground
           "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1906 - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1907 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1910 - 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 - Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913 - Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 - 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1922 - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1923 - Greece becomes a republic.
1924 - Greece becomes a republic
1925 - KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 - The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
1930 - 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930 - Planet Pluto named
1932 - 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933 - Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 - US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1934 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
1935 - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game
           lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937 - Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
1937 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1941 - British troops defeat British Somalia
1941 - German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1941 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 - LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 - Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC
1944 - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 - 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
1945 - Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 - Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 - Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine
1945 - US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947 - John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1949 - 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
1949 - Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
1950 - Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 - British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 - Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959 - Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo
           Keita.
1960 - US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1961 - NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1962 - 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59
1962 - Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 - Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 - US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
1966 - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 - U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 - Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 - Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1973 - Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
1973 - Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1973 - Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1973 - SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 - 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 - Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
1978 - Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979 - "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 - 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes
1979 - Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1979 - 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin
           "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts
1980 - 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980 - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1981 - Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 - Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 - IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1984 - Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1985 - 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1985 - Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1985 - Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
1986 - 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
1986 - Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1986 - NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987 - WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs
1988 - Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 - Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973
1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1990 - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990 - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991 - 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 - Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
1991 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991 - In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991 - NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991 - Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992 - "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 - Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
1992 - 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11)
           launches into space
1993 - Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1994 - "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
1994 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1996 - 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
1996 - Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1996 - MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 - 69th Academy Awards - "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win
1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
1998 - Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at
           Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
1998 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time
           NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and
           margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and
           unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006 - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006 - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his
           Pontificate.
2007 - The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2010 - Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his
           resignation in April 21, 2008
2012 - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph
           Kony

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This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Weddings

1896 - Writer "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad (39) marries Englishwoman Jessie George (23)
1952 - Author of 'James Bond' novels, journalist and secret intelligence agent Ian Fleming marries
           Anne Geraldine Charteris
1984 - "Knight Rider" actor David Hasselhoff (32) weds "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland
           (28)
1996 - Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in
           South Africa

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This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Divorces

1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black