~ On This Day in History ~

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This Day in History for 29th April


Historical Events

                                   
Classical music prodigy Mozart                Naturalist Charles Darwin            26th US President Theodore Roosevelt


43rd US President George W. Bush 


1091 - Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
1429 - Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English
1522 - Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands
1540 - Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended
1550 - Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1623 - 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1628 - Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1636 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
1644 - Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
1661 - Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
1670 - Pope Clemens X elected
1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1701 - Drenthe Neth adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
1706 - Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria
1707 - English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union; form Great Britain
1715 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
1781 - French fleet occupies Tobago during American War of Independence
1781 - French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1784 - Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1793 - Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
1813 - Rubber is patented
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1845 - Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1852 - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1853 - Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
1856 - Peace between England & Russia
1857 - US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF)
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during US Civil War
1863 - Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 - -30] Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas
1864 - The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
1882 - The "Elektromote" - forerunner of the trolleybus - is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in
           Berlin.
1886 - 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1888 - Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha
1892 - Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
1894 - Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest
           unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1901 - 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
1901 - Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1903 - Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1905 - 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
1905 - Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1912 - 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
1912 - Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel," premieres in Berlin
1913 - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1916 - Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1918 - Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
1922 - 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)
1925 - Netherlands returns to gold standard
1926 - France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I
1927 - Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
1930 - 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 - North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1931 - Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1934 - Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1936 - 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1939 - Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
1940 - Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
1940 - Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premieres in NYC
1942 - Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 - Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
1943 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis
1943 - Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premieres in London
1943 - US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 - Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 - 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 - Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 - US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 - Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies
1946 - 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1948 - Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours
1953 - Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
1953 - The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los
           Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1955 - G Gronchi elected president of Italy
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1956 - WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1961 - ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
1962 - 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 - KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1965 - Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1965 - Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1967 - Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
1968 - "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1969 - "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs
1970 - 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1971 - Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
1971 - Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1974 - President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 - Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
1975 - Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon
           prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an 
           end.
1976 - Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
1977 - British Aerospace forms
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
1980 - Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
1981 - Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
1981 - Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 - 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell
1982 - Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1984 - "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
1985 - 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 - Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues
1985 - Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 - 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library
1986 - Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
1987 - Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
1987 - Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
1988 - Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses
1989 - 2nd government of Lubbers falls
1990 - "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
1990 - Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
1990 - STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1991 - "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1991 - Croatia declares independence
1991 - Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
1991 - Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
1992 - "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
1992 - 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992 - Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
1992 - Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
1992 - Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
1992 - Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
1994 - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1994 - Israel & PLO sign economic accord
1995 - Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
1995 - KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
1995 - Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario
1996 - "Rent," opens at Nederlander Theater NYC
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM
1997 - "Candide," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances
1997 - KC Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 HRs
1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production,
           stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
1998 - 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
1999 - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year
           after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded
           hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2005 - New Zealand's first civil union takes place.
2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2012 - International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes
           into effect

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This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Weddings

1945 - Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1964 - Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
1988 - "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 - Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
1989 - Rock band Bon Jovi lead singer Jon Bon Jovi (27) weds Dorothea Hurley (26) at Graceland
           Chapel in Las Vegas
2004 - "Gentlemen's Agreement" Oscar Best Supporting Actress Celeste Holm (85) weds opera
           singer Frank Basile (41) in Manhattan
2006 - "The O.C." actress Amanda Righetti (23) weds film director and writer Jordan Alan in Oahu,
           Hawaii
2006 - Ranchera singer Lupillo Rivera weds Mayeli in Garden Grove, California
2011 - Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

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This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld (1955)               Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (1958)                Actress Uma Thurman (1970)


534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1584 - Melchior Teschner, composer
1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
1660 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
1665 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 - John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)
1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
1758 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820).
1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1771 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1783 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
1784 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1806 - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
1808 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
1815 - Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1818 - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
1830 - Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1854 - Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
1855 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
1855 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1857 - Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
1857 - Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1860 - Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
1862 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1871 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
1872 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1873 - Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 - Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 - Thomas Beecham, England, composer (found London Philharmonic)
1882 - Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing)
1885 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1885 - Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
1893 - Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
1893 - Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1896 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
1896 - Walter Mehring, writer
1899 - Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take "A" Train)
1899 - Karl Yngve Skold, composer
1899 - Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
1901 - George Osborne Sayles, historian
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
1902 - Theodore Chanler, composer
1903 - Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
1904 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1904 - Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1907 - Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
1907 - Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
1908 - Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers)
1908 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
1909 - Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader
1909 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch)
1910 - John Beavan, newspaper editor
1912 - Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor
1912 - Richard Carlson, MN, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi)
1912 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1913 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
1913 - Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
1914 - Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
1915 - Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress
1918 - Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
1919 - Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve), (d. 2012)
1920 - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
1920 - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1921 - Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun)
1922 - George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
1922 - Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
1922 - Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
1922 - Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
1922 - Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1923 - Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
1923 - Maxine Audley, London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
1924 - Al Balding, Toronto Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Quebec Open-1952)
1924 - Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1925 - Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
1925 - Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
1925 - Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1926 - Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
1927 - Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
1927 - Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948)
1928 - Big Jay McNeely, rocker
1928 - Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
1929 - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
1929 - Vaclav Kucera, composer
1929 - W Kempowski, writer
1929 - [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
1929 - Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1930 - Alf Valentine, cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)
1930 - Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 - Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1931 - Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Glasgow Scotland, vocalist
1931 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1932 - King Hu, film director
1932 - Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
1933 - Darijan Bozic, composer
1933 - Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
1933 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
1933 - Rod Marvin McKuen, Oakland California, singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville)
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1934 - Pedro Pires, premier (Cape Verde, 1975-91)
1934 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
1934 - Otis Rush, American musician
1935 - Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
1935 - Otto M Zykan, composer
1936 - April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
1936 - Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
1936 - Lane Smith, Memphis TN, actor (Perry White-Lois & Clark)
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1938 - Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1940 - Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian between Grout & Marsh)
1941 - Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player (1966-73)
1942 - Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
1942 - Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1943 - Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 - Benedikte, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1944 - Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals)
1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
1945 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
1945 - Hugh Hopper, rocker (Soft Machine)
1945 - Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If)
1945 - [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain't No Mt High)
1946 - Franc Roddam, director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia)
1947 - Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - John Laurence Miller, SF CA, golfer (US Open 1973, British Open 1976)
1947 - Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1948 - Reb Brown, Los Angeles CA, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break)
1948 - Bruce Cutler, American attorney
1949 - Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
1949 - Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972)
1949 - Francis Rossi, England, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
1950 - Phillip Noyce, Australian film director
1950 - Debbie Stabenow, American politician
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
1952 - Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
1952 - Nora Dunn, Chic Ill, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl)
1952 - David Icke, English writer
1952 - Bob McClure, American baseball player
1953 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27)
1954 - Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York)
1954 - Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
1954 - Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder
1955 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor (Jerry-Seinfeld)
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1955 - Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
1956 - Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
1956 - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1957 - Richie C Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
1957 - Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
1958 - Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
1958 - Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You sorrya)
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City California, actress (Married to the Mob)
1958 - Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1958 - Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster
1960 - Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
1960 - Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy)
1960 - William Lee Glasson Jr, Fresno CA, PGA golfer (1985 Kemper Open)
1960 - Phil King, English bassist
1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
1960 - Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1961 - Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyū
1962 - Bruce Driver, Toronto, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1962 - Dieter Hegen, Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1962 - Robert Druppers, runner (world record 1 km indoor)
1963 - Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1965 - Reggie Miller, NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - John VanderWal, Grand Rapids MI, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer (England slow lefty & slower fieldsman)
1967 - Curtis Joseph, Keswick Ont, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers)
1967 - Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg, Kirkland Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 - Mary McCagg, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 - Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle)
1967 - Master P, American rapper
1968 - Browning Nagle, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Carnie Wilson, LA California, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Arthur Marshall, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1969 - Paul Adelstein, American actor
1970 - Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nev, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)
1970 - Arnaud Briand, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1970 - Derrick Frazier, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - J R Phillips, West Covina CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Leuea Tagoai, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Mark McMillian, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles, KC Chiefs)
1970 - Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)
1970 - William Martin III, Charleston SC, finn yachter (Olympics-23rd-1996)
1970 - China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1971 - Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville NC, pitcher (NY Yanks, Sea Mariners)
1972 - Gwendolyn Wentland, Flint Michigan, high jumper
1972 - Dustin McDaniel, American politician
1973 - David Belle, French physical educator
1974 - Alana Blahoski, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1974 - Anggun, Indonesian singer
1974 - Pascal Cygan, French footballer
1974 - Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
1974 - Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1975 - John Macready, LA California, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1975 - Béres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ
1975 - Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - God Shammgod, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1976 - Nayla Micherif, Miss Brazil Universe (1997)
1976 - Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1977 - Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
1977 - Rocío Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite
1978 - Mike Bryan, Oxnard California, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles)
1978 - Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Ryan Sharp, Scottish racing driver
1979 - Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer
1979 - Jo O'Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 - Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1980 - Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 - Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
1981 - Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006)
1981 - George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Alex Vincent, American actor
1982 - Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1983 - Jay Cutler, American football player
1983 - Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1983 - Sam Jones III, American Actor
1983 - David Lee, American basketball player
1984 - Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
1984 - Taylor Cole, American actress
1984 - Firass Dirani, Lebanese-Australian actor
1986 - Renee Alway, American Model
1987 - Alicia Morton, American actress
1988 - Younha, Korean pop singer
1993 - Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle
2003 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2007)
2003 - Maud Behn, Princess of Norway
2007 - Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain

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This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Deaths

Director Alfred Hitchcock (1980)


852 - Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
926 - Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1499 - John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1535 - John Houghton, English, executed
1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1699 - Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1712 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1813 - Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
1841 - A Bertrand, writer, dies
1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1864 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
1871 - John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1903 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1905 - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921 - Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1928 - Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 - Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
1936 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1943 - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1943 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
1943 - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
1951 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1951 - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1953 - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1954 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1956 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
1957 - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
1961 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1964 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
1966 - Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1967 - Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1967 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1972 - Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
1975 - Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 - Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 - William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 - Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
1979 - Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1986 - Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1988 - Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
1991 - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1992 - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1993 - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1993 - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1994 - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1994 - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
1994 - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 - David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
1996 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 - Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1997 - Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1997 - Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
1998 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 - William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2007 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
2012 - Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister, dies at 69
2012 - Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83

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This Day in History for 30th April


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                   Novelist Charles Dickens                          Dictator Fidel Castro
George Washington

                 
Pop Singer & Beatle                                  264th Pope John Paul II
Paul McCartney


311 - Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire
313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin
          their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1064 - German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1315 - Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1349 - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1396 - Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23,
           1503.
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1492 - Spain announces it will expels all Jews
1506 - Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
1527 - England & France sign treaty of Westminster
1562 - 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida
1563 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1598 - 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1616 - English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
1650 - French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
1661 - Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
1671 - Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1695 - William Congreve's "Love for Love," premieres in London
1722 - Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1725 - Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1748 - Ceasefire at Aken ends
1763 - London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
1772 - John Clais patents 1st scale
1774 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1789 - George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1790 - Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1794 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General
           Union.
1798 - Dept of Navy forms
1803 - US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1804 - Hague's Theater opens
1808 - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 - (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1838 - Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
1852 - Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St Petersburg
1857 - San Jose State University forms
1859 - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical All the Year
           Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26
1859 - Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires
1860 - Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1861 - President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1862 - Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
1863 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1864 - Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
1864 - New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1865 - -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
1869 - Hawaiian YMCA organized
1871 - The Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches in Arizona Territory, perpetrated by white & Mexican
           adventurers; 144 die
1885 - Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1887 - 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat
           Giants 19-10
1888 - Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1889 - 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1889 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
1898 - Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
1900 - 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1900 - USA annexes Hawaii
1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the
           Cannonball Express.
1902 - Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande," premieres in Paris
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan),
           they beat Wash Senators, 6-2
1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut
1905 - 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
1907 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1910 - Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
1911 - Portugal approves woman suffrage
1916 - Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds
1918 - Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
1919 - Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
1921 - American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1921 - Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
1922 - Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1925 - Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50
           million for charity.
1927 - Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
1928 - Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
1929 - Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
1934 - Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution
1935 - World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1937 - The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the
           right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 - Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
1938 - The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North
           End.
1939 - NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
1939 - Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
1940 - Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
1941 - Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
1942 - 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
1943 - Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
1943 - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1943 - Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London
1944 - NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1944 - NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
1945 - "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
1945 - Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
1945 - Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 - Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 - Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
1945 - US troops attack the Elbe
1946 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0
1947 - Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1948 - "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
1948 - Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
1952 - Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1953 - Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1954 - Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa
1955 - Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1955 - Imperial Bank of India nationalized
1955 - Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
1955 - West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
1958 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1961 - 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1961 - Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1961 - SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1962 - Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
1967 - Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1967 - NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game
1967 - Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers
1968 - 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game
1969 - Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
1969 - WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1970 - US troops invade Cambodia
1971 - 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games
1972 - "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
1973 - Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
1973 - Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1974 - Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 - Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
1976 - Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 - Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
1976 - Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1977 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs
1977 - Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ
1977 - Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
1978 - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs
1978 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
1979 - Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
1980 - "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
1980 - Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London
1980 - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
1980 - Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
1980 - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
1981 - "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1981 - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
1982 - Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador
1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
1982 - Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead
1984 - 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
1984 - Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
1985 - Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 - Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1986 - Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1986 - Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
1987 - Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
1987 - NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
1988 - Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season
1988 - Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Penns
1988 - NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
1988 - NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)
1988 - NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec
1988 - World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
1989 - Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1989 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 - Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
1989 - US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
1990 - Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1990 - US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1991 - In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless
1992 - 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV
1993 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
1993 - Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
1995 - "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs
1995 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1995 - "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs
1995 - After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close
1995 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1996 - "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
1996 - Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
1997 - "London Assurance," opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
1997 - 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1997 - Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
1997 - Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1997 - Pres Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1997 - Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
1997 - Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total
           members to 10.
2001 - The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for
           another five years.
2004 - U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi
           prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 - Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to
           be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2009 - Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 - Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured.
2009 - The United Kingdom formally ends combat operations in Iraq.
2012 - The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the
           tallest building in New York
2012 - Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate
2012 - Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River,India, killing 103 people
2012 - Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in
           the English Premier League's history

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This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Weddings

1290 - Joan of Acre (18), daughter of Edward I marries (1) Gilbert de Clare, Duke of Hertford at
           Westminster Abbey.
1937 - General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
1961 - Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
1988 - Actor Tom Hanks (31) weds actress Rita Wilson (31)
1994 - Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
2007 - "Timbiriche" pop singer Paulina Rubio (35) weds Spanish public relations executive Nicolas
           "Colate" Vallejo Najera in Cancun, Quintana Roo
2008 - Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey (41) weds actor and rapper Nick Cannon (31) at Bahamian
           estate on the island of Windermere
2011 - Actor Lorenzo Lamas (53) weds model Shawna Craig at Casa Dorada Resort in Cabo, San
           Lucas

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This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Country Singer                                         Prime Minister of Canada                       Actress Kirsten Dunst (1982)
Willie Nelson (1933)                                    Stephen Harper (1959)


1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1309 - Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70)
1553 - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1602 - William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1664 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
1717 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1743 - Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician
1767 - Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance
1770 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
1790 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist
1792 - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
1797 - Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra
1803 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
1805 - William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1812 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe
1823 - George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)
1830 - Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 - Alfred Gaul, composer
1846 - Rosalie Amstein, writer
1853 - Alfred v Berger, writer
1857 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
1858 - Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
1864 - Frans Netscher, Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model)
1864 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
1865 - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
1869 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
1870 - Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
1874 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
1876 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
1877 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
1882 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible)
1883 - David John de Lloyd, composer
1884 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
1885 - Luigi Russolo, composer
1886 - Frank Merrik, composer
1888 - John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
1889 - Acario Cotapos, composer
1889 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
1891 - Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik)
1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
1895 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1896 - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
1897 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1899 - Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
1899 - Lucie Mannheim, Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps)
1901 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1902 - Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer
1902 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer
1903 - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve)
1908 - Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
1908 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
1909 - Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
1909 - F. E. McWilliam,Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
1910 - Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
1911 - Hans Studer, composer
1911 - John-Baptist J Walgrave, [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist
1911 - Luise Rinser, writer
1912 - Eve Arden, Mill Valley California, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
1912 - Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, soldier/politician
1913 - Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general (ITA)
1913 - Edith Fowke, folklorist
1914 - Sid Weiss, bassist
1916 - Claude Shannon, information theorist
1916 - Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian producer
1916 - Robert Shaw, Red Bluff California, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale)
1917 - Bea Wain, US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
1918 - W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940)
1919 - Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer
1920 - Duncan Hamilton, driver
1920 - Leen 't Hart, Dutch organist/composer
1922 - Anton Murray, cricketer (South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55)
1923 - Alan Wharton, cricketer (Engld batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 & 13)
1923 - George Byatt, playwright
1923 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Sheldon Harnick, Chicago, lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)
1925 - Corinne Calvet, Paris France, actress (Phantom of Hollywood)
1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress (Last Picture Show, Phyllis)
1926 - Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising)
1926 - Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day)
1927 - Johnny Horton, Los Angeles Ca, rocker
1927 - Lars Hall, Sweden, Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
1928 - Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000)
1929 - Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible)
1930 - Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
1931 - William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969- )
1932 - Anton Larrauri, composer
1933 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
1934 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d.1995)
1936 - Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra)
1938 - Gary Collins, Venice California, actor (6th Sense, Home Show), (d. 2012)
1938 - Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star)
1938 - Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982)
1939 - Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Dutch Princess Margriet
1940 - Burt Young, NYC, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
1941 - Johnny Farina, rocker (Santo & Johnny)
1941 - Wilfried Jentzsh, composer
1943 - Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes)
1943 - Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977- )
1943 - Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
1944 - Jill Clayburgh, NYC, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
1944 - Richard Shoff, rocker (Sandpipers)
1945 - Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood)
1945 - Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory)
1945 - Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr (51L-Challenger disaster)
1945 - Mike Beacon, rocker (Ox)
1945 - Mimi Farina, rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1946 - Donald Schollander, Charlotte NC, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64)
1946 - Karl XVI Gustav F H, King of Sweden (1973- )
1946 - Bill Plympton, American animator
1947 - Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1947 - Leslie Grantham, English actor
1947 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
1947 - Tom Køhlert, Brondby IF coach
1948 - Perry King, Alliance OH, actor (Andy Warhol's "Bad")
1948 - Wayne Kramer, guitarist (MC5, Dangerous Madness)
1949 - Phil Garner, baseball manager
1951 - Panuta Rosani, Poland, discus (Olympic 1976) drug disqualified
1952 - Tom Pesek, PC programmer (creator of HAL 9000 program)
1952 - Jacques Audiard, French film director
1953 - Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1954 - Gunther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968)
1954 - Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
1955 - Dimitra Papandreau, Greece, wife of Greek PM Andreas Papandreau
1955 - Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
1956 - Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
1957 - Duane G Carey, St Paul Minn, major USAF/astronaut
1957 - Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky
1958 - Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter
1959 - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Goede Tijden Selechte Tijden)
1959 - Lauren Howe, LPGA golfer
1959 - Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
1959 - W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist
1960 - Kerry Healey, American politician
1960 - David Miscavige, American cult leader
1961 - Isiah Thomas, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP)
1963 - Steve Smith, Glasgow Scotland, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 - Ian Healy, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian since 1988)
1964 - Jeff Reboulet, Dayton OH, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
1965 - Adrian Pasdar, Pittsfield Mass, actor (C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun)
1965 - Daniela Costian, Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96)
1966 - Aundray Bruce, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - David Meggett, NFL running back (NY Giants, NE Patriots)
1966 - Jeff Brown, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Steven Mackintosh, British actor
1968 - Babette Van Veen, Neth, actress (Linda-GTST, Blueberry Hill)
1968 - Paulo Jr, Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions)
1968 - Richard Pilon, Saskatoon, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1968 - Roger Mar, Seattle Wash, rapid fire pistol (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Sandra Beikoff, Mackay QLD, golfer (1990 Sunshine Coast Open)
1969 - Dexter Rogers, St Petersburg Fla, volleyball opposite hitter (Oly-96)
1969 - Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1969 - Warren Defever, American musician, composer
1970 - Brad Layton, Seymour Ind, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Debbie D, Phila Pa, actress (Attack of Vampire Mermaid)
1970 - Ken Stanton, American Radio Personality
1971 - B J Tyler, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Matt Martin, Hamden, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs, Oly-US-94)
1971 - Randy Bierman, WLAF tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Ryan Hawblitzel, West Palm Beach Fla, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - Ty Hallock, fullback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - John Boyne, Irish novelist
1971 - Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld)
1972 - Kendricke Bullard, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1972 - Mario Schaden, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer
1974 - Cedric Jones, defensive end (NY Giants)
1974 - Chris Darkins, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 - Beverley Peele, model [or Apr 7]
1975 - Johnny Galecki, Bree Belgium, actor (American Dreamer, David-Roseanne)
1975 - Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
1975 - Mike Chat, American actor
1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
1977 - Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
1977 - Pell James, American actress
1979 - Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
1981 - John O'Shea, Irish footballer
1981 - Emma Pierson, British actress
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, American actress (Interview with the Vampire,
           Spider-Man)
1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper
1982 - Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
1982 - Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
1983 - Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
1983 - Troy Williamson, American football player
1983 - Yamini, Tamil Singer
1984 - Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager
1985 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
1986 - Dianna Agron, Savannah, Georgia, American Actress (Quinn Fabray-Glee)
1987 - Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
1987 - Rohit Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1988 - Molloko, SD Zoo, 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Deaths

                                   
Impressionist painter                                Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Ballet choreographer
Edouard Manet (1883)                                    Adolph Hitler (1945)                        George Balanchine (1983)


65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
313 - Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies
535 - Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
1030 - Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
1131 - Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
1196 - Boudouin II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
1214 - Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies
1328 - ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies
1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1630 - Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44
1632 - Jean de Tilly, fieldmarshal, dies
1632 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65
1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
1655 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
1660 - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
1696 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
1708 - Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
1712 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar, dies at 78
1736 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
1743 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies
1758 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
1784 - Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
1785 - Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
1792 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
1792 - John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73
1793 - Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88
1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1800 - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
1828 - Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed
1829 - George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC
1841 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1847 - Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies
1848 - Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
1855 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor, dies at 68
1859 - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1883 - Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter dies at 61
1887 - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
1895 - Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78
1896 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68
1900 - John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
1912 - František Kmoch, Czech composer, dies at 63
1919 - Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies
1922 - David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
1931 - Sammy Woods, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies
1933 - Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
1934 - William Henry Welch, dies at 75
1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
1942 - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
1942 - J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54
1943 - Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
1945 - Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945 - Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
1952 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies
1956 - Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
1957 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
1959 - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74
1965 - Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56
1966 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1970 - Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82
1970 - Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
1970 - Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71
1971 - Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
1972 - Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38
1972 - Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered
1973 - Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at 75
1973 - Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
1976 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51
1977 - Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73
1980 - Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies
1980 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1982 - Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies
1982 - Herman Tholen, Dutch cabaret performer (Juveniles), dies
1982 - Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67
1982 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
1983 - George Balanchine, Russian/US ballet composer/choreographer, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob
           disease at 79
1983 - Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70
1984 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies
1987 - Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
1988 - James McCracken, US tenor, dies at 61
1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 60
1989 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
1991 - George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
1991 - Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies at 39
1992 - Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 - David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34
1993 - Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
1993 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1994 - David Langton, dies of a heart at 81
1994 - Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
1994 - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46
1994 - Richard McClure Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
1994 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1995 - Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59
1995 - Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival king, dies at 34
1996 - David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 - David Opatoshu, actor (Torn Curtian, Raid on Entebbe), dies at 78
1996 - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71
1996 - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner, dies at 78
1996 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, pres of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
1998 - Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
2002 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
2003 - Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2005 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)
2006 - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
2006 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
2007 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
2007 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007 - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2007 - Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2008 - John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
2010 - Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956)
2011 - Dorjee Khandu, Indian, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 1st May


Historical Events

                                   
King of Hawaii Kamehameha I                Classical music prodigy Mozart                Baseball Great Babe Ruth

                                   
First Director of the FBI                               Actor Orson Welles                                Dictator Fidel Castro
J Edgar Hoover

                                   
Singer & Cultural Icon                                   Singer Elton John                               Rocker Mick Fleetwood
Elvis Presley

                 
264th Pope John Paul II                       43rd US President George W. Bush


305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
1006 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1048 - Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of
           England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1394 - Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badger
1523 - Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1528 - Pánfilo the Narváez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1544 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 - Council of Trente resumes
1598 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1625 - Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1703 - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1704 - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1711 - Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1715 - Prussia declares war on Sweden
1725 - Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
1751 - 1st American cricket match is played
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
           adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1756 - France & Austria sign alliance
1757 - Austria & France divide Prussia
1759 - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1776 - Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1777 - RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1778 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1781 - Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1785 - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1822 - John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1834 - Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1840 - 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
1844 - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1846 - Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1848 - The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg,
           Pennsylvania.
1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
1851 - Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
1852 - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1853 - Argentina adopts it's constitution
1854 - Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1857 - William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
1861 - Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1862 - Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 - Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1863 - Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1864 - -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1864 - Atlanta campaign, GA begins
1864 - Wilderness campaign
1866 - American Equal Rights Association forms
1867 - Howard University chartered
1867 - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1869 - Folies Bergere opens in Paris
1873 - 1st US postal card issued
1873 - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Exposition in Vienna
1875 - 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
1875 - Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
1883 - "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 - Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 - Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
1883 - NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 - Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1885 - Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth
1886 - US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1889 - 2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark
           protests in Chicago in 1886
1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1891 - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati
           Redlegs 3
1892 - US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
1893 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1898 - George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish
           fleet at Manila
1900 - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1900 - Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1901 - Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901 - Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1906 - Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
1907 - Belgium government of De Trooz forms
1907 - Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
1908 - World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
1909 - Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1912 - Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 - Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1913 - Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC
1914 - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1915 - British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 - German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1919 - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing
           5,000 people in 104 small villages
1920 - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 - Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1921 - Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1922 - Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
1924 - Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
1925 - A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1925 - Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1926 - British coal-miners go on strike
1926 - Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1926 - Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1927 - 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 - Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 - Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1928 - 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 - Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 - Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 - Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 - Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1929 - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 - Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 - Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1930 - Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1931 - Empire State Building opens in NYC
1931 - Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 - Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1932 - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1934 - Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 - Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1934 - Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1935 - Boulder Dam completed
1935 - Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 - FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 - FDR signs act of neutrality
1939 - Batman comics hit street
1939 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1940 - 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940 - The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 - "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY
1941 - General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 - German assault on Tobruk
1942 - Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1943 - 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 - 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 - Food rationing begins in US
1943 - German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 - German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 - Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1944 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1944 - Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1945 - 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 - Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 - Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 - General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 - Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945 - Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 - Soviet army reach Rostock
1946 - Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 - Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1946 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned
           to Greece by Italy.
1947 - Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
1947 - Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 - Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 - Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1948 - 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
1948 - North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting
           through a door marked "for Negroes"
1949 - A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
1950 - Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 - WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
1951 - Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 - Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
1951 - Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1952 - Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 - Mr Potato Head, introduced
1952 - TWA introduces tourist class
1954 - 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1954 - Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 - HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 - WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1955 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1955 - Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1956 - A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous
           system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 - Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 - Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 - US give Poland credit of $95 million
1957 - Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1958 - Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 - Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
1959 - Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 - West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1960 - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1961 - Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1962 - 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
1962 - Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 - JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1963 - 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1963 - Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
1964 - 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1965 - 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1965 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1965 - USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1965 - Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1966 - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1966 - Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 - US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1967 - Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 - Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas
1967 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1968 - "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs
1968 - Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1969 - 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1969 - Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
1969 - Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1969 - Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
1971 - 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
1971 - Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1971 - Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1972 - "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
1972 - North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 - Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1973 - SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
1975 - Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers
           hold 2-0 lead
1976 - 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1976 - Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
1977 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1977 - Empress Lilly dedicated
1977 - 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 - 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 - MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 - Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 - Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 - Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1980 - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
1980 - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1980 - Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1981 - Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 - Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 - 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1982 - 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
1982 - Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 - "My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1983 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
1983 - Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1985 - "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 - US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 - William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in NYC
1986 - Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 - Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1987 - 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
1987 - Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1988 - "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs
1988 - IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 - 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
1989 - Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 - US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons
           for not hiring or promoting
1990 - "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1991 - "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
1991 - A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
1991 - Angola's civil war ends
1991 - Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
1991 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 - Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
1991 - Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1991 - Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen
           by 5,000 in NYC
1992 - Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
1992 - LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1992 - NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
1992 - Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 - 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 - Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1994 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1994 - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
1994 - -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 - Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1994 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 - Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1995 - "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1995 - Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
1995 - Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
1996 - "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 - Gerald Williams is 1st NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1997 - Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1997 - Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality.
2000 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion",
           hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm
           towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S.
           President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on
           board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.
2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and
           Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government
           agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 - The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's
           response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
2008 - The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into
           force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2010 - Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
2011 - Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2012 - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
2012 - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the
           Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion

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Famous Weddings

1576 - Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become
           the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1884 - "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee,
           Wisconsin
1929 - American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton
1967 - King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley (32) weds actress Priscilla Beaulieu (21) at Aladdin Hotel in
           Las Vegas, Nevada
1991 - Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1996 - Actress and talk show host Kelly Ripa (26) weds film actor Mark Consuelos (25) in Las Vegas
1998 - "Reality Bites" actor Ethan Hawke (27) weds "Pulp Fiction" actress Uma Thurman (28)
1999 - "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone
           Star State in Texas
1999 - "As Good As It Gets" actor Greg Kinnear (35) weds British model Helen Labdon (29)
2009 - Olympic swimmer gold medalist Amanda Beard (27) weds photographer Sacha Brown (34) in
           Wakatobia, Indonesia
2010 - Actor-producer Seth Green (36) weds actress Clare Grant (30) at George Lucas's Skywalker
           Ranch in Nacasio, California

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Famous Divorces

1978 - Actress and model Bianca Jagger files for divorce from Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger after 7
           years of marriage on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall

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Famous Birthdays

                 
1st Duke of Wellington &                         Actress Jodhi May (1975)
British Prime Minister
Arthur Wellesley (1769)


1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1238 - Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)
1545 - Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist
1567 - Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter
1577 - Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1592 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
1594 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
1672 - Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
1735 - John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp
1738 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) (d. 1819)
1759 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
1764 - Gottfried Rieger, composer
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30)
1771 - George Guest, composer
1775 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
1800 - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1807 - John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
1819 - William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1825 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
1829 - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice
1830 - Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
1835 - Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)
1839 - Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
1850 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
1851 - Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891)
1852 - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
1858 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
1859 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
1859 - Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat
1872 - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
1880 - Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
1884 - Felipe Boero, composer
1884 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
1887 - Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)
1892 - Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1895 - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
1896 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
1896 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1896 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
1898 - Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)
1900 - Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1901 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
1905 - Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)
1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85)
1905 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982)
1906 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983)
1907 - Jan Pauw, CEO (Aruban Theater Group)
1907 - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
1908 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone)
1909 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice
1909 - George Melachrino, composer
1909 - Janis Ritsos, writer
1909 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
1910 - Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
1912 - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano
1912 - Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
1912 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998)
1913 - Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1913 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1915 - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
1916 - Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
1916 - Jane Jacobs, Scranton, Pa, urbanologist
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
1917 - John Beradino, LA California, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
1917 - Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author (Amsterdam Affair)
1917 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1918 - Jack Paar, Canton Ohio, American television host of the Jack Paar Show (d. 2004)
1918 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1919 - Alwyn Farquharson, Scottish clan-captain/large landowner
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
1921 - 12th Lord Middleton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1921 - Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee)
1923 - Joseph Heller, Bkln NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 - Earl George, composer
1924 - Enrico Josif, composer
1924 - Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st US black woman cabinet member
1924 - Terry Southern, writer
1925 - Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
1925 - Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder Colo, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)
1926 - Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician
1927 - Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1927 - Israr Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in 4 Tests 1952-59)
1927 - Lord Bathurst, English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire
1927 - Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor)
1927 - William Mitchell Byers, musician
1928 - Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/pres (l'ASIFA)
1928 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002)
1929 - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1929 - Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler (great WI)
1930 - Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker
1930 - Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
1930 - Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles
1934 - Alette Beaujon, Curacaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere)
1934 - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
1935 - Ann Robinson, American actress
1937 - Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
1937 - Una Stubbs, English actress
1939 - Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
1939 - Max Robinson, Richmond Virginia, American broadcast journalistr (ABC Evening News) (d.
          1988)
1939 - Ray Aranha, Miami FL, actor (Nick-Married People)
1940 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
1941 - Barbara Barendrecht, [BHM Wurfbain], actress (Dirty Picture)
1941 - Juraj Hatrick, composer
1942 - Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
1943 - Joy Harmon, St Louis Mo, actress (Cool Hand Luke)
1944 - Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
1946 - Bruce Robinson, actor (Story of Adele H)
1946 - Jerry Weiss, NYC, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1946 - Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service)
1946 - Nick Fortune, [Nicholas Fortuna], rock bassist (Buckinghams Chicago)
1946 - Tony Ashton, rocker
1946 - Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director
1947 - Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
1947 - Ghulam Abbas, cricketer (scored 12 & 0 in only Test for Pakistan 1967)
1947 - Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
1948 - James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1949 - Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy)
1949 - Margo Miller, SF California, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
1949 - Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
1950 - Marina Stepanova, Russian hurdler (world record 1986)
1950 - Dann Florek, American actor
1950 - Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer
1951 - Gordon Greenidge, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1974-91)
1951 - Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef
1953 - Elquemedo Willett, cricketer (WI lefty spinner early 70's)
1953 - Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
1953 - Mindy Moore, LPGA golfer
1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer
1954 - Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1954 - Ray Parker Jr, Detroit Mich, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters)
1954 - Taslim Arif, cricketer (Pakistani keeper/batsman, 210 v Aust 1980)
1954 - Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author
1955 - Julien Wiener, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 1979-80)
1955 - Nick Feldman, English musician
1956 - Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren Coolidge-St Elsewhere)
1957 - Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire)
1957 - Paul D Ronney, LA California, ScD/astronaut (STS 83 alt)
1957 - Rick Darling, cricketer (accident-prone/dashing Aussie opener 1978-79)
1957 - Steve Farris, rock guitarist (Mr Mister)
1957 - Ko Otani, Japanese composer
1959 - Eddie Johnson, NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers)
1959 - Paul Smith, rock saxophonist (Haircut 100)
1960 - Albert McDonald, Dartmouth NS, US canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 - Charlie O'Brien, Tulsa OK, catcher (Brewers, Mets, Braves, Blue Jays)
1961 - Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby-Affirmed)
1961 - Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People's Court
1962 - Gary Clark, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Paula Weishoff, Hollywood CA, volleyballer (Oly-Sil-84, br-92, 96)
1962 - Reggie Pleasant, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1963 - Robert Seguso, Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1964 - Carlos Aalbers, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1964 - Ruth Picardie, journalist
1964 - Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon
1965 - Jon Warren, Akron Ohio, 1.5k runner
1966 - Armando Reynoso, San Luis Potosi Mexico, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Charlie Schlatter, NYC, actor (18 Again, Heartbreak Hotel)
1966 - Johnny Colt, Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes)
1966 - Mark Coogan, Manhaset NY, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Olaf Thon, German football player
1967 - Bill Schultz, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Den Broncos, Scot Claymores)
1967 - Marvcus Patton, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Scott Coffey, HI, actor (Satisfaction, Shout)
1967 - Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989)
1967 - Yael Arad, Israel, Women's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - Anton Scheutjens, soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 - Lisa Campbell, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1968 - Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1968 - Denise Masino, American Female Bodybuilder
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
1968 - Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1969 - Billy Owens, NBA forward/guard (Sacramento Kings)
1969 - Bryan Marchment, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Carrie Stevens, Buffalo NY, playmate (June 1997)
1969 - Wes Anderson, American director and writer
1970 - Alex Van Pelt, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Allen DeGraffenreid, WLAF wide receiver (Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Alundis Brice, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Damon Diletti, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1971 - Ethan Albright, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Jamie Marie Swenson, Miss USA-South Dakota (1997)
1971 - Renee Poetschka, Australian 200m/400m (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 - Stuart Appleby, Cohuna Australia, Nike golfer (1994 Victorian PGA)
1971 - Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
1972 - Bobby Chouinard, Manilla Phillipines, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1973 - Curtis Martin, NFL running back (NE Patriots)
1973 - Frank Beede, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Oliver Neuville, German footballer
1974 - Keri Phebus, Laguna Beach California, tennis star
1974 - Matthew Hatchette, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 - Vladimir Zavyalov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1975 - Austin Croshere, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1975 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
1975 - Jodhi May, London, British actress (A World Apart, The Other Boleyn Girl)
1975 - Alexei Smertin, Russian footballer
1976 - Darius McCrary, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
1977 - Anna Louise Wilson, Dunedin NZ, 100m breast stroke (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer
1978 - Sachie Hara, Japanese actress
1979 - Jennifer Botterill, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1979 - Kimberly Grigsby, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1979 - Ben Easter, American actor
1980 - Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver
1980 - Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
1981 - Aliaksandr Hleb, Belarusian footballer
1981 - Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian Footballer
1981 - Wes Welker, American football player
1982 - Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
1983 - The Human Tornado (Craig Williams), American professional wrestler
1984 - Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS)
1984 - Farah Fath, American actress
1985 - Drew Sidora, American actress
1986 - Cristian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
1986 - Adam Casey, Australian footballer
1987 - Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
1987 - Matt Di Angelo, English Actor
1988 - Graeme Owens, English footballer
1991 - Creagen Dow, American actor
1997 - Ariel Gade, American actress

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Famous Deaths

408 - Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)
1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)
1171 - Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
1240 - Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1277 - Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies
1308 - Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered
1447 - Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
1456 - Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
1471 - Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91
1539 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
1555 - Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
1572 - Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
1679 - Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
1700 - John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
1703 - Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
1831 - Antonius van Alphen, apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82
1863 - Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29
1870 - Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay
1872 - Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
1873 - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
1874 - Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39
1886 - Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens)
1886 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56
1892 - Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
1896 - Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65
1898 - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
1902 - John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1903 - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies
1903 - Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80
1904 - AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
1913 - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
1917 - Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
1921 - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43
1924 - August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
1926 - Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1932 - Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
1934 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35
1935 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
1937 - Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75
1941 - John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71
1943 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
1945 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
1945 - Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1946 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
1946 - Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42
1947 - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed
1948 - Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
1952 - William Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1954 - Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
1957 - Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
1959 - Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
1963 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b.
           1879)
1965 - Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1968 - Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
1968 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895)
1969 - Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56
1969 - George Parker, cricketer (2 Tests for S Afr 1924), dies
1970 - Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897)
1971 - Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75
1971 - Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66
1972 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82
1976 - Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
1976 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
1978 - Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
1979 - Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin, cricketer (2 Tests for WI), dies
1981 - Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
1981 - Peter Huchel, writer, dies at 78
1982 - Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
1983 - V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies
1984 - Gordon Jenkins, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
1985 - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor, dies at 68
1986 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
1986 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
1988 - Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer
1988 - Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies
1989 - David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
1989 - Douglass Watson, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68
1989 - Marion Mack, actress (General), dies
1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
1990 - Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62
1991 - Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies
1992 - Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
1993 - Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, pres (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
1996 - Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74
1996 - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
1997 - Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
2006 - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
2006 - Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
2008 - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
2008 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
2009 - Danny Gans, Canadian-born Las Vegas entertainer (b. 1956)
2010 - Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz composer/arranger and valve trombonist (b. 1935)
2011 - Ted Lowe, English snooker commentator (b. 1920)
2012 - Charles "skip" Pitts, American soul and blues guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 65

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This Day in History for 2nd May


Historical Events

                                   
Playwright George Bernard Shaw                Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald                    Playwright Arthur Miller

                                   
Playwright Tennessee Williams               Country Singer Kenny Rogers                   264th Pope John Paul II


Businessman & T.V. Personality
Donald Trump


1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1230 - William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1335 - Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1345 - "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders & weavers
1497 - John Cabot departs to North-America
1526 - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
1536 - King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest
1595 - King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth
1598 - France & Spain signs Peace of Vervins
1668 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle/1st peace of Aken: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in
           The Netherlands
1670 - King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
1672 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1703 - Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1749 - Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè," premieres in Mantua
1776 - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1780 - William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1808 - Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
1824 - Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan
           River Colony in Australia.
1833 - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1845 - Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
1847 - Sabbath famine
1853 - Franconi's Hippodrome opens (NYC)
1863 - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
1863 - Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1865 - Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1878 - US stops minting 20 cent coin
1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1885 - Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium
1887 - G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
1887 - Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1889 - Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
1890 - Territory of Oklahoma created
1900 - George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell," premieres in London
1903 - 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
1904 - 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08.50
1905 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1906 - 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8
1907 - Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
1908 - 1908 "Take me out to the Ball Game registered for copyright.
1909 - Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
1911 - French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco
1915 - Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
1916 - US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1916 - 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave
           renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
1917 - Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run
           in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1919 - 1st US air passenger service starts
1920 - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1921 - Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1922 - WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas
1923 - Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
1924 - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
1925 - Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
1926 - US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1927 - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
1927 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1928 - KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
1930 - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently
           installed lights
1932 - Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
1933 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1934 - Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1936 - "Peter & Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1936 - 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6
1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
1938 - Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
1938 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1939 - Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
1941 - FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1941 - Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
1941 - Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 - Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
1942 - 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1943 - German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
1944 - WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
1945 - Allies occupy Wismar
1945 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1945 - German Army in Italy surrenders
1945 - Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1945 - Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1946 - The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
1947 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," premieres in NYC
1949 - Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 - Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
1949 - Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1950 - Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
1950 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
1950 - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
1952 - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1952 - 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1952 - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to
           Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1953 - 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02
1953 - Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 - Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1954 - Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
1955 - India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
1955 - Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1955 - WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1956 - US Methodist church disallows race separation
1958 - Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast,
           games into NYC
1959 - 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
1960 - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1960 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
1960 - "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark
1960 - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1962 - Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I
1962 - OAS strikes in Algeria
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
1964 - 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00
1964 - Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of
           the Eight-thousanders.
1965 - "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
1965 - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1965 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1966 - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
1967 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1968 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony
1968 - 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1968 - Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1968 - Israeli television begins transmitting
1969 - British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY
1970 - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1970 - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1970 - KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
1972 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1975 - Apple records closes down
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1977 - "King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1978 - NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
1979 - "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
1979 - -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around
           Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1979 - 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell
1980 - Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 - Pope John Paul II begins African tour
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
1981 - Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1982 - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror,
           killing more than 350 men
1983 - 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif
1984 - "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 perfs
1984 - Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)
1984 - Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
1986 - Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
1987 - 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
1988 - Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park
1988 - David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," premieres in NYC
1988 - Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
1988 - Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump
1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 perfs
1990 - South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1991 - Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
1992 - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
1992 - 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03
1992 - Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic
1993 - "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 445 perfs
1993 - "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1993 - "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1993 - "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 - Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic
1993 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994 - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1994 - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.
1995 - "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
1995 - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
1995 - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
1997 - Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating
1997 - Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
1997 - Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1997 - Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
1998 - 124th Kentucky Derby
1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the
           European Union's monetary policy.
1999 - Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President
           of Panama.
2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats
           monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both
           Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to
           the United States military.
2002 - Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
2004 - Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
2008 - Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of
           people homeless.
2011 - Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's
           most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 - The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30
           people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2012 - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
2012 - Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals

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This Day in History for 2nd May


Famous Weddings

1652 - Daughter of the Prince of Orange, Albertine Agnes marries William Frederick Prince of Nassau-
           Dietz
1816 - Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the
           Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta
1922 - Dancer Isadora Duncan (44) weds Sergei Esenin (26)
1946 - "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (28) weds producer and actor William Dozier (38)
1998 - Actor-comedian Jim Belushi (43) weds Jennifer Sloan (30) at their home garden in Brentwood,
           Los Angeles
2009 - Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (32) weds film and stage actor Peter Sarsgaard (38) in a small
           chapel in Brindisi, Italy