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This Day in History for 19th May


Famous Deaths

British Prime Minister
William Gladstone (1898)


804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
988 - Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 - Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1536 - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1647 - Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
1653 - Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen of Neth East Indies, dies at 48
1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
1786 - John Stanley, composer, dies at 74
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65
1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
1800 - French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
1801 - Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1845 - Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
1872 - Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74
1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1890 - Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24
1895 - Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1901 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81
1903 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
           at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1922 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
1924 - Billy Zulch, cricketer (S Afr batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies
1928 - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59
1928 - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
1935 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer, dies at 74
1935 - Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
1942 - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1953 - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
1954 - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
1954 - Charles Edward Ives, US composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79
1958 - Bruno Sturmer, composer, dies at 65
1958 - Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
1958 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
1961 - Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
1965 - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
1966 - Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies
1969 - Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies
1971 - Bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer, dies at 76
1971 - Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
1978 - George Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930), dies
1983 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80
1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
1987 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
1988 - Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90
1989 - Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies
1989 - E Galgoczi, writer, dies
1989 - Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS at 64
1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1991 - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
1991 - Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74
1993 - Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
1993 - Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81
1993 - S W Sohoni, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1994 - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer, dies at 82
1994 - Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
1996 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89
1997 - Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12
1998 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1999 - James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
1999 - Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
2004 - Tony Randall, actor (Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) dies aged 84
2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
2007 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
2009 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
2009 - Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 - Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and former Taoiseach (b. 1926)
2012 - Robert Boozer, American basketball player, dies at 75

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This Day in History for 20th May


Historical Events

                                   
Playwright William Shakespeare            Clothing Designer Levi Strauss                   Inventor Thomas Edison

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                          Actress Mary Tyler Moore                        Singer Elton John


Basketball Superstar
Michael Jordan


325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor
1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince
           Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1310 - Shoes were made for both right & left feet
1347 - Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
1495 - French King Charles VIII leaves Naples
1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India
1501 - Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
1521 - Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball
1524 - Duke of Albany leaves Scotland
1570 - Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"
1571 - Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1591 - Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius
1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher
           Thomas Thorpe.
1631 - Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly,
           most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1639 - Dorchester Mass, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1690 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
1704 - Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
1734 - 1st Jockey Club forms in SC
1774 - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
1775 - Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
1784 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1825 - Charles X becomes King of France
1830 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830 - D Hyde patents fountain pen
1835 - Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
1840 - York Minster was badly damaged by fire
1845 - 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in
           England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
1861 - Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 - North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
1861 - US marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist
           evidence
1862 - Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
1864 - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured
1864 - Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured
1867 - Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women's suffrage
1867 - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
1868 - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1870 - Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets
1875 - Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty
1879 - 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37
1882 - Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance
1882 - Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago
1882 - St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1891 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1892 - George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1892 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria forms
1895 - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
1896 - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one
           and the injury of many others.
1900 - 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
1902 - Cuba gains independence from Spain
1902 - US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
1910 - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
1911 - Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex
1913 - 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4
1915 - Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
1916 - Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
1916 - Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
1917 - Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1918 - 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)
1919 - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
1920 - Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
1922 - "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90
1922 - Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain
           Landis, return to the NY lineup & go hitless
1923 - Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
1926 - Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
1926 - Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
1926 - Railway Labor Act became law
1926 - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1927 - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris
1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
1930 - 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
1930 - University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
1932 - Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
1939 - "3 Little Fishies," by Kay Kyser hits #1
1939 - 1st regular transatlantic airmail (Pan Am: NY to Marsseille France)
1940 - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940 - Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
1940 - Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
1941 - Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
1941 - Former Dutch PM Colijn says Neth Indies not ready for independence
1941 - Germany invades Crete
1941 - White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
1942 - US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1943 - French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
1944 - US Communist Party dissolves
1945 - Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1946 - Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding
           record of 273 consecutive errorless chances
1948 - 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948 - Cleve Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)
1950 - 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
1954 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
1955 - Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
1956 - Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
1956 - Jordan government of Samir resigns
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 - Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
1959 - Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
1959 - Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
1959 - Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
1960 - Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
1961 - 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
1961 - Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 - White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
1962 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1963 - Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
1964 - Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team
1965 - Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965 - Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough
1967 - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 - 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2
1967 - BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
1969 - US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
1970 - 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
1970 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1970 - Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
1971 - Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
1972 - "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances
1972 - "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances
1972 - 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets, 4 games to 2
1972 - 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6
1972 - Cameroon adopts its constitution
1972 - Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
1973 - "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St James Theater NYC after 613 perfs
1973 - 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore
1973 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1974 - Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4
1978 - 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
1978 - US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
1979 - "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 864 perfs
1979 - 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 - 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
1980 - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
1980 - Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
1980 - In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism
1981 - Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam
1983 - Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title
1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs
1984 - "On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances
1984 - Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1984 - Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory
1985 - 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
1985 - Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
1985 - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
1985 - Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML
           games since Opening Day without a rain-out
1985 - Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
1985 - Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
1986 - Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
1986 - Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
1987 - Gutenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee
1987 - Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"
1988 - Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's & John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade
1988 - Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
1989 - 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
1989 - China declares martial law in Beijing
1989 - Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1989 - Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
1990 - "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
1990 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space
1991 - Chic Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
1991 - Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
1991 - Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1992 - FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
1992 - India launches its 1st satellite independently
1992 - Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
1993 - 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 - 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
1993 - Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1994 - Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
1994 - Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994 - Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
1995 - 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
1995 - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1995 - Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of HRs in 5 consecutive games
1997 - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 - Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
1997 - White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
2002 - The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of
           Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former
           colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2012 - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
2012 - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy

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This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Weddings

1995 - "Eagles" singer Don Henley (47) weds model Sharon Summerall (33) in Malibu
1995 - "Broadcast News" actress Holly Hunter (37) weds cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (35)
2000 - "Benny and Joon" actress Mary Stuart Masterson (33) weds film director Damon Santostefano
2000 - "Stone Temple Pilots" front man Scott Weiland (32) weds model Mary Forsberg (25)
2006 - "Dog the Bounty Hunter" TV personality Duane Dog Chapman (53) weds Beth Smith at the
           Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii
2006 - Comedian-actress Mo'Nique (38) weds actor Sidney Hicks in an idyllic island ceremony
2006 - Race car driver Jacques Villeneuve (35) weds Johanna Martinez at a civil ceremony in
           Switzerland
2011 - Actor Doug Hutchison (51) weds country singer Courtney Stodden (16) in Las Vegas, Nevada

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This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Rocker Joe Cocker (1944)                             Goddess of Pop Cher                       Broadcaster Louis Theroux (1970)
                                                                (Cherilyn Sarkisian) (1946)


1315 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
1364 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
1470 - Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
1537 - Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
1547 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
1554 - Paulo Bellasio, composer
1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist
1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1660 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1663 - William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
1706 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1737 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
1750 - Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
1754 - Hans Gram, composer
1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
1764 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
1768 - Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
1769 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 - William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806 - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
1812 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
1818 - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
1822 - Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
1822 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister)
1828 - James William Reilly, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1830 - Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry
1830 - Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family)
1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1841 - Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
1844 - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
1850 - Eaton Faning, composer
1851 - Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
1851 - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1856 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter
1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1874 - Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
1876 - John Owen Jones, composer
1881 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)
1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
1883 - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
1889 - Felix Arndt, composer
1889 - Margery Allingham, detective story writer
1889 - William Lawther, union leader
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
1894 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1895 - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
1897 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
1899 - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
1899 - John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
1899 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1901 - Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
1901 - Otto Waldis, Austria, actor (Port of Hell, Unknown World)
1902 - Hans Sahl, writer
1903 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1904 - Russell Hardie, Buffalo NY, actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky)
1905 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing)
1905 - Harry Campion, statistician/founder (Brit Central Statistical Office)
1906 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 - Jimmy Stewart [James], PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life), (d. 1997)
1909 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist
1909 - John Arkell, director of administration (BBC)
1911 - Annie M G Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke)
1911 - Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
1911 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
1912 - Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1913 - Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
1913 - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
1913 - William Hewlett, cofounder (Hewlett-Packard Co)
1914 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
1914 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
1915 - Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
1916 - Cornelie Coposu, politician
1916 - John McIntyre, theologian
1916 - Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
1917 - Enyss Djemil, composer
1917 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian
1917 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
1917 - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1919 - George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
1920 - Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
1920 - John Cruickshank, banker
1920 - William Simpson, British trade union leader
1921 - John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
1921 - John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
1921 - W Borchert, writer
1921 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough Univ of Technology)
1923 - Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
1923 - Hugh Beach, British General
1923 - Samuel Selvon, author
1924 - Betty Driver, actress (Coronation St, Pardon the Expression)
1924 - Peter Shore, MP (Labour)
1925 - D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
1925 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1926 - David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1926 - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter
1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
1926 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1927 - David Frederick Barlow, composer
1927 - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
1927 - [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
1928 - David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)
1928 - David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1928 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
1929 - Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
1930 - James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
1930 - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
1931 - Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
1931 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1933 - Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
1936 - Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
1937 - Dave Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1967 Memphis)
1937 - Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
1937 - Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer (Guinness)/large landowner
1937 - Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In)
1938 - Alan Smithers, British professor
1938 - Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist
1940 - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
1940 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
1940 - Stan Mikita, NHL center (led NHL in scoring 4 times)
1941 - Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990- )
1941 - John Strasberg, American actor
1942 - Lynn Davies, long jumper
1942 - Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1942 - Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant (Hong Kong)
1942 - Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
1943 - Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)
1943 - Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1943 - Tison Street, composer
1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 - Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
1944 - Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
1944 - David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, 53, 69)
1944 - Joe Cocker, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)
1944 - Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
1945 - Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
1945 - Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
1945 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1945 - Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
1945 - Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
1946 - Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
1946 - Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], El Centro, California, American singer and actress (I Got You Babe,
           Jack Lalane, Mask)
1946 - Craig Patrick, NHL coach
1947 - Iain Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1948 - Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV, Grace Under Fire)
1948 - John Amiel, director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow)
1948 - John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
1948 - Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981- )
1949 - Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977- )
1950 - Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
1951 - Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
1951 - Thomas D Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79)
1951 - William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
1952 - Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1953 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1954 - Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut
1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1954 - David Paterson, American politician
1954 - Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1954 - Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
1955 - Nigel Griffiths, MP (Labour)
1955 - Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1956 - Andrew Hilditch, cricketer (Australian opening bat 1979-85)
1956 - Tomas Smid, Czech, tennis star
1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
1956 - Dean Butler, American actor
1956 - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
1958 - Mike Engleman, Sonoma California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1958 - Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, LA, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
1959 - Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
1959 - Peter Greene, Bkln NY, producer (After Midnight)
1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1960 - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1960 - Tony Goldwyn, LA California, actor (Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red)
1960 - John Billingsley, American actor
1961 - Clive Allen, WLAF kicker (London Monarchs)
1961 - Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1961 - Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
1961 - Sally Quinlan, LPGA golfer
1961 - Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olymp-bronze-96)
1962 - Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
1962 - Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress
1963 - Brian Nash, Glendale California, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1963 - David Wells, Torrance CA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees)
1963 - Dipak Chudasama, cricketer (Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
1964 - Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana
1964 - Jeff Schwarz, US baseball pitcher (California Angels, Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 - Paul W Richards, Scranton PA, astronaut
1964 - Todd Peat, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1965 - Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor)
1965 - Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
1965 - Joe Cioe, Cranston RI, Canadian Tour golfer (NH Open-1992, 93)
1965 - Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima WA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays)
1965 - Ted Allen, American television host
1966 - Lawyer Tillman, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 - Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer (1988 US Women's Open)
1966 - Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
1966 - Paolo Seganti, actor (Damian-As the World Turns)
1966 - Dan Abrams, American TV reporter
1966 - Gina Ravera, American actress
1967 - Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart Ger, tennis star (1989 Futures Israel)
1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director
1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
1968 - Damon Mays, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Phil Hansen, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer
1969 - Alberto Mancini, Argentina, tennis star
1969 - Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
1969 - Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler
1970 - Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1970 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 - Terrell Brandon, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks)
1970 - Louis Theroux, Singapore, English television broadcaster (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends,
           When Louis Met....)
1971 - Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward (Team Sweden, Oly-98)
1971 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv Swe, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1971 - Sandy Schreur, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1971 - Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
1971 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 - Michael Cox, Hannibal Missouri, 1.5k runner
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1974 - Brandon Jessie, tight end (NY Giants)
1975 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player
1976 - Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Angela Goethals, actress (VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel)
1977 - Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
1977 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
1977 - Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards
1977 - Miriam Parrish, American television actress
1979 - Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
1981 - Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1981 - Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1981 - Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver
1982 - Petr Čech, Czech footballer
1982 - Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
1984 - Kenny Vasoli, American singer
1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1986 - LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)
1988 - Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
1993 - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
2010 - Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Deaths

685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
1277 - John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Portuguese Pope (1276-77), dies. (b. 1215)
1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 - Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
1449 - Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
1471 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies
1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
1509 - Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45
1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1597 - Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle
1622 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
1648 - Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
1650 - Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44
1669 - Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1751 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38
1782 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68
1782 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82
1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1795 - Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
1825 - Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
1834 - Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies
1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
1841 - Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
1847 - Mary Lamb, writer, dies
1864 - John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1875 - Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
1876 - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
1876 - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
1880 - Eugene LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at 76
1883 - William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
1896 - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76
1900 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1910 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
1911 - E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1919 - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies
1923 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
1926 - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892), dies
1935 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
1939 - Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
1940 - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
1940 - Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 - Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
1959 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60
1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1968 - Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
1968 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
1969 - Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64
1969 - Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69
1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1972 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78
1972 - Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 - Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
1975 - Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor
           Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
1980 - Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies
1984 - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
1985 - George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
1986 - Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
1986 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83
1989 - Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70
1989 - Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42
1989 - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
1991 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1993 - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
1994 - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
1994 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
1994 - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
1996 - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
1996 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37
1996 - Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies
1996 - John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76
1996 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70
1996 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1997 - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 - Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924)
2009 - Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)
2011 - Randy Savage, American Pro-Wrestler (b. 1952)
2012 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60
2012 - Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st May


Historical Events

                                   
Key Figure of Medieval                              Humanitarian Clara Barton                  Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Rus Alexander Nevsky

                                   
Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                   Baseball Player Hank Aaron                       Painter Michelangelo

                 
Singer Elton John                                   Parody Singer and Comedian
                                                                       Weird Al Yankovic


143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 - Battle at Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be
         international recognition of Croatian state.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
1260 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the
           Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song
           in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of
           the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.
1420 - Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1471 - King Edward IV enters London
1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
1526 - -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would
           later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of
           Alexander Nevsky.
1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and
           Indian War.
1793 - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1809 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1840 - NZ became a British colony
1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1856 - Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 - GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into
           exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1871 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
1879 - Battle of Iquiquw
1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru)
           battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1892 - Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 - Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland
1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's
           severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious
           scandals.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 - Reynaud forms French government
1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a
           gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York
           avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French government of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - French government of Mollet resigns
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the
           bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3
           victory over NY Mets
1969 - Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old
           student.
1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.
1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1980 - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
1981 - Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times,
           the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against
           humanity.
2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa
           Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in
           1983.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State
           Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a
           majority of 55%.
2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming
           the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She is the last surviving clipper.
2012 - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania

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This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Weddings

1553 - English queen for 9 days, Lady Jane Grey (16 or 17) marries Lord Guildford Dudley
1825 - Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1988 - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1994 - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1998 - Supermodel Cindy Crawford (32) weds restaurateur Rande Gerber (36) on Paradise Island in
           the Bahamas
1999 - NFL legend Deion Sanders (31) weds model Pilar Biggers in Paradise Island, Bahamas
2005 - "Second Time Around" actor Boris Kodjoe (32) weds "Soul Food" actress Nicole Ari Parker
           (34) in Gundelfingen, Germany
2011 - TV actress Sara Rue (33) weds Kevin Price (35) at Bel Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades,
           California

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This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Birthdays

                 
English Social Reformer                   Actor Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) (1952)
Elizabeth Fry (1780)


1471 - Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 - Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744)
1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 - Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
1821 - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 - Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 - Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 - George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1834 - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
1843 - Louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 - Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1853 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1855 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 - Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
1860 - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1864 - Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1865 - C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 - John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1872 - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
1873 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
1878 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
1882 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1885 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
1887 - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1893 - Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
1893 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 - Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1898 - Karel Haba, composer
1899 - Ilse Lagner, writer
1899 - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1901 - Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
1902 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1902 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
1903 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
1903 - Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1904 - Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1906 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
1909 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker
1909 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1912 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1912 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1916 - Joseph Janni, producer
1916 - Leonard Manasseh, architect
1916 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 - Heather Swift, local councillor
1917 - Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1917 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1918 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919 - Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 - Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
1920 - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1923 - Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
1923 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1924 - Peggy Cass, Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)
1924 - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1924 - Jack Twyman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
1926 - Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
1926 - Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1927 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1927 - Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
1929 - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1929 - Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955)
1929 - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
1930 - David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1930 - Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
1930 - Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
1931 - Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
1931 - George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
1932 - G Wohmann, writer
1932 - John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
1932 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
1933 - Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1934 - Phillip King, British sculptor
1934 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1936 - Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
1936 - Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
1938 - David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
1938 - Urs Widmer, writer
1939 - Heinz Holliger, composer
1940 - Tony Sheridan, Norwich, Norfolk,singer-songwriter and guitarist, (d. 2013)
1941 - Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
1942 - David Hunt, Wales sec of state
1942 - Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 - Janet Dailey, US, author
1944 - Manual Pina, fashion designer
1944 - Marcie Blane, rocker
1944 - Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
1944 - Mike Degett, horse trainer
1945 - Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1946 - David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
1946 - Ronald Bear, actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
1947 - Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker
1947 - Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
1947 - Richard Hatch, Santa Monica California, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1947 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
1948 - Carol Potter, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
1949 - Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
1949 - Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1951 - Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
1952 - Mr. T, [Lawrence Tureaud], Chicago, American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1952 - Mr. T, American actor
1954 - Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1954 - Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 - Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79)
1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1955 - Paul Barber, British field hockey player
1957 - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 - Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1957 - Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
1957 - Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1958 - Monte Lynch, cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player)
1958 - Jefery Levy, American television director
1958 - Sabine Bischoff, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, fencer (Oly Gld 1984), (d. 2013)
1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 - Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
1960 - Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
1960 - Mohanlal, Indian actor
1961 - Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1963 - Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
1963 - Richard Appel, American writer
1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1964 - Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
1964 - Tom Harding, Kalamazoo Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
1964 - Tommy Albelin, Stockholm Swe, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Danny Bailey, English footballer
1964 - Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 - Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
1966 - Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress (Red Lips 2)
1967 - Cindy Haley, Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
1967 - Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
1967 - Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ont Amateur-92)
1967 - Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
1968 - Matthias Ungemach, German rower
1969 - Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1969 - Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1970 - Dorsey Levens, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
1970 - Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
1970 - Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
1971 - Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
1971 - Jeff Stavroff, Columbus OH, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4)
1972 - Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)
1972 - Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], New York City, New York, rapper (Life After
           Death), (d. 1997)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1973 - Noel Fielding, British comedian
1974 - Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1977 - Ricky Williams, American football player
1978 - Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Briana Banks, German-American pornographic actress
1978 - Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
1979 - Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
1979 - Gaspard Augé, French musician
1979 - Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
1979 - James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
1979 - Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter
1980 - Chris Raab, American actor
1981 - Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1981 - Belladonna, American pornographic actress
1981 - Max, German singer
1981 - Josh Hamilton, Major League Baseball player
1984 - Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen
1984 - Brandon Fields, National Football League punter
1985 - Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
1985 - Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
1985 - Kano, British rapper
1985 - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer
1987 - Ashlie Brillault, American actress
1988 - Jonathan Howson, English footballer
1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1994 - Tom Daley, English diver

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This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Deaths

Social Worker and Nobel
Laureate Jane Addams (1935)


987 - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1481 - Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
1524 - Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
1542 - Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1607 - John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
1650 - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
1686 - (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1690 - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
1725 - Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
1742 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
1771 - Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1786 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
1810 - Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
1812 - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
1815 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
1817 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
1844 - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1879 - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1885 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
1894 - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
1897 - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1919 - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
1926 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
1926 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
1929 - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1933 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1935 - Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
1935 - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
1952 - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
1954 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
1957 - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1966 - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
1968 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
1970 - Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
1973 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
1973 - George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77
1980 - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
1981 - Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
1981 - Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 - Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1983 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
1983 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
1984 - Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
1984 - Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies at 93
1985 - Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
1987 - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
1988 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
1990 - Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
1990 - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
1990 - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 - Bobby Dale, dies at 92
1991 - Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
1992 - Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1992 - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1992 - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
1992 - Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1993 - John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
1994 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
1994 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
1995 - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
1995 - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
1995 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
1996 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
1996 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
1996 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
1996 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
1996 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
2000 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
2003 - Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
2005 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
2006 - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)

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This Day in History for 22nd May


Historical Events

                                   
Macedonian King and                             US President Abraham Lincoln             Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great

                                   
British war time Prime Minister                 American Baseball Player                        Actress Mary Tyler Moore
Winston Churchill                                               Roger Maris

                 
Comedian David Letterman                   42nd US President Bill Clinton


334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the
          Granicus
760 - 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1176 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo
1200 - Peace of Goulet
1370 - Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium
1377 - Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John
           Wycliffe.
1455 - Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St Albans)
1455 - Richard of York takes St Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI
1526 - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of
           Cognac
1570 - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published
1594 - Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen
1629 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck
1659 - France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty
1712 - Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary
1746 - Russia & Austria sign treaty of cooperation
1761 - 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
1762 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1784 - Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
1803 - 1st public library opens (Connecticut)
1807 - Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted)
1807 - Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
1819 - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
1826 - The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1836 - Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf
1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1842 - Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a
           large gaping hole in the ground.
1843 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
1849 - Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device
1856 - Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
1858 - Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms
1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
1863 - War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1864 - Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
1868 - Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
1872 - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1877 - 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38
1883 - Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
1884 - 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
1885 - 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49
1888 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
1891 - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
1892 - Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube
1893 - Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
1897 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
1900 - Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
1900 - Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
1902 - 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6
1903 - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1905 - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1906 - 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45
1906 - Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
1907 - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx v Somerset
1909 - 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
1911 - Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
1915 - Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
1915 - Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St.
           Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
1916 - French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun
1923 - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
1924 - In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
1926 - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
1926 - Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1927 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
1927 - Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
1928 - US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
1930 - Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
1930 - Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay
1933 - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
1936 - Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the
           Republic of Ireland.
1938 - Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
1939 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
1940 - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to
           save the city
1941 - British troops attack Baghdad
1942 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
1942 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United
           Steelworkers, is formed.
1943 - 1st jet fighter is tested
1943 - RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
1943 - Stalin disbands Komintern
1945 - 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
1945 - NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide
1946 - Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
1947 - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
1947 - 1st US ballistic missile fired
1950 - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
1950 - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
1950 - Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
1953 - President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
1953 - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
1954 - 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4
1954 - KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
1955 - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
1956 - "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 HRs in 6th inning in 11-0 win
1957 - South Africa government approves race separation in universities
1959 - Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
1960 - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that
           strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
1961 - "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
1961 - "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42
1961 - 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens
1962 - 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1962 - Neth telephone net becomes completely automated
1962 - Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
1962 - Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1963 - A C Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London
1963 - Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
1963 - Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
1964 - LBJ presents "Great Society"
1965 - "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66
1965 - Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1966 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS)
1967 - Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
1967 - Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
1968 - Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single
1969 - Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
1970 - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
1972 - Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1972 - Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion
1972 - US president Nixon begins visit Moscow
1973 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1973 - President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
1974 - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
1974 - Soccer team Veendam forms
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1
1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-179
1976 - St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
1977 - Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)
1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1977 - Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
1979 - Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau
1979 - Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG v E Afr & Singapore v Arg)
1981 - Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament
1983 - Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
1985 - Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
1985 - Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
1985 - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
1986 - Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
1987 - 30 killed in a Texas tornado
1988 - 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner
1988 - Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary
1990 - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
1990 - Final episode of "Newhart" airs
1990 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
1990 - North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
1991 - Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome
1991 - NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994
1991 - Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
1992 - California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
1992 - India launches its Agni rocket
1992 - Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 - Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo
1995 - Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised
1996 - "Tartuffe: Born Again," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 perfs
1996 - Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time
1997 - Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general
           discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be
           compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill
           Clinton.
2002 - In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
2002 - American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan
           member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th
           Street Baptist Church.
2003 - In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58
           years.
2004 - The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width
           record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident.
2006 - Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of
           voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
2011 - An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single
           deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
2012 - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
2012 - Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol

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This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Weddings

1980 - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
2004 - Felipe, Prince of Asturias, of the Spanish Royal Family weds Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano at The
           Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, Spain
2005 - "Alias" actor Kevin Weisman (34) weds Jodi Tanowitz at Menlo Circus Club in Atherton,
           California
2010 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Alanis Morissette (38) weds rapper Mario Treadway (32) in
           Los Angeles
2010 - "Numb3rs" star David Krumholtz (32) weds actress Vanessa Britting (29) at The Plaza Hotel
           in New York City
2011 - R&B singer Keyshia Cole (28) weds NBA Cleveland Cavaliers Daniel Gibson (25) in Cleveland,
           Ohio

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This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Divorces

2001 - Actress and former fitness guru Jane Fonda (63) divorces CNN founder Ted Turner (62) due to
           irretrievably broken marriage 10 years after getting married

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This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer Richard Wagner (1813)             Author of Sherlock Holmes                       Super Model & Actress
                                                                Arthur Conan Doyle (1859)                        Naomi Campbell (1970)


1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1671 - Abraham Patras, governor-general of East-Indies (1735-37)
1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1722 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer
1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1759 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
1770 - Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1780 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
1783 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
1804 - John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1808 - G de Nerval, writer
1813 - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
1820 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
1821 - Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1823 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1823 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
1826 - George Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt)
1841 - Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
1844 - Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1850 - Johann Schrammel, composer
1852 - Emile Sauret, composer
1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
1862 - August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor
1865 - Enrique Morera, composer
1874 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
1874 - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
1879 - Eastwood Lane, composer
1879 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer
1879 - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
1884 - Alceo Toni, composer
1885 - Julio Fonseca, composer
1885 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1891 - J R Becher, writer
1891 - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of California)
1891 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
1892 - Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor (From Office Stool to High C)
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
1897 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon)
1898 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven)
1900 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
1901 - Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1902 - Al Simmons, Milwaukee, American baseball outfielder (A's), lifetime batting avg of .334 (d.
          1956)
1903 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 - Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje)
1904 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
1906 - Harry Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie)
1907 - Laurence Olivier, England, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
1908 - Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
1910 - Johnny Olson, TV announcer (Price is Right)
1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (game theory)
1912 - Hendrik Koekoek, Dutch MP (Farmers Party)
1913 - Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress (Commensaal)
1913 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, CA, actor (Docks of NY)
1914 - Vance Packard, Granville Summit Pa, author (Hidden Persuaders)
1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1916 - Gordon Binkerd, composer
1917 - Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - Nathan Davis, American actor
1917 - Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
1918 - David Land, impressario
1919 - Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79)
1920 - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic
1920 - Thomas Gold, astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe)
1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1922 - Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
1922 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, Armenia, French singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum)
1924 - Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer
1924 - Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actress (Hawaii Five-O)
1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (movement objects)
1925 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - Eric Petrie, cricketer (NZ wicketkeeper of the late 1950's)
1927 - Michael Constantine, Penn, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
1927 - Phil Tucker, American director
1928 - Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
1928 - T Boone Pickens, CEO (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co)
1929 - Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer
1930 - Dieuwke Y W de Graaff-Nauta, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior
1930 - Kenny Ball, rocker, (d. 2013)
1930 - Harvey Milk, Woodmere, NY, politicians and gay activist, (d. 1978)
1933 - John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
1934 - Peter Nero, NYC, conductor/pianist (A Sunday in NY)
1934 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
1935 - Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
1936 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1938 - Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
1938 - Richard Benjamin, NYC, director/actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
1938 - Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
1940 - Bernard Shaw, news correspondant (CBS, CNN)
1940 - Erapalli Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners)
1940 - Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
1941 - Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack)
1941 - Sebastian Forbes, composer
1941 - Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
1941 - Martha Langbein, German athlete
1942 - Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
1942 - Calvin Simon, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove)
1942 - Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
1942 - Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads (Radio Freedom)
1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
1943 - Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
1943 - Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
1946 - George Best, footballer/soccer player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland)
1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
1948 - Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
1950 - Bernie Taupin, lyricist (writes with Elton John)
1950 - Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
1952 - Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
1952 - R W Eaks, Colorado Springs CO, Nike golfer (1990 Quicksilver Open)
1953 - John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 - Doris Barnett, German politician
1953 - Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
1954 - Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
1955 - Iva Davies, rock guitarist/vocalist (Icehouse)
1955 - Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1955 - Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
1956 - Douglas Heyes Jr, LA California, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
1956 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
1957 - Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1957 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
1959 - Ed Fry, actor (Larry-As the World Turns, Adam Cory-Another World)
1959 - Morrissey, British rock vocalist (Everyday is Like Sunday)
1959 - [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
1959 - Steven Morrissey, English singer
1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
1961 - Dana Williams, Dayton Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1962 - Andrew Donald Magee, Paris France, PGA golfer (1988 Pensacola Open)
1962 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1964 - David Lidberg, jockey
1964 - Ashley Renee, American fetish model
1966 - Donald Royal, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic)
1966 - Jose Mesa, Azua Dom Rep, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1966 - Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1967 - Brooke Smith, American actress
1967 - John Vanderslice, American musician
1968 - Alan Levine, Park Ridge IL, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1968 - Brent Geiberger, Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1994 Queen Mary-2nd)
1968 - Carmie Vairo, Vancouver BC, softball infielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Mike Harbold, Oakland California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1968 - Randy Brown, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
1969 - Tim Wiley, Lexington Mass, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Vaughn Eshelman, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Clyde Johnson, cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Eric Wunderlich, US, 200m breaststroke (Olympics-7th-96)
1970 - Marcus Dowdell, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Naomi Campbell, London England, model/actress (Cool as Ice, Unzipped)
1970 - Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
1971 - Corey Croom, NFL running back (NE Patriots)
1971 - Troy Barnhart, Hanford CA, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1971 - Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint/actress (Tightrope)
1972 - Mike Hollis, NFL kicker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Rich Owens, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
1972 - Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
1973 - Aaron Graham, corner (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Daniel Tiatto, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Julian Tavarez, Santiago Dom Rep, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1973 - Leslie Ratliffe, WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
1974 - Greg Jones, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1974 - Sean Gunn, American actor
1974 - A. J. Langer, American actress
1975 - Cole Hauser, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Randy-High Incident)[or Mar 22]
1975 - Jaane Niinimaa, Raahe FIN, NHL defenseman (Finland Oly-br-98, Flyers)
1975 - Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet
1975 - Salvador Ballesta, Spanish Footballer.
1976 - Christian Vande Velde, Chicago Ill, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1977 - Vinnie Potestivo, American TV Producer
1977 - Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 - Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
1977 - Dre Bly, American Football Player
1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1978 - Katie Price, British model
1979 - Nadia Khan, TV Presenter
1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
1980 - Rhett Fisher, actor/musician
1980 - Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
1980 - Chad Tracy, American baseball player
1981 - Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
1981 - Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
1982 - John Bobek, American actor
1983 - John Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer
1984 - Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
1985 - Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 - Caridee English, American Model
1985 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Novak Đoković, Serbian tennis player

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This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Deaths

Author Victor Hugo (1885)


337 - Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37) dies at 47
748 - Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
987 - Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20
1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1501 - Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66
1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
1688 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70
1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
1781 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45
1801 - Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 58
1819 - John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84
1825 - Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80
1851 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 - Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49
1868 - Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
1878 - Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
1880 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80
1885 - Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83
1898 - Edward Bellamy, writer, dies at 48
1910 - Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
1921 - Marie E Wilton, writer, dies
1925 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Brit field marshall (WWI), dies at 72
1928 - William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
1932 - Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
1939 - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1945 - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
1948 - Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
1949 - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1949 - Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
1953 - Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53
1965 - Bobby Watson, comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77
1965 - Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 - Tom Goddard, cricketer (22 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1930-39), dies
1967 - James Langston Hughes, American poet laureate, dies at 65
1970 - Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80
1975 - Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90
1975 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1977 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
1977 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80
1978 - Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83
1984 - John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery
1986 - Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63
1987 - Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65
1988 - Dennis Day, tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), dies at 71
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
1989 - Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
1990 - Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies at 71 of heart failure
1991 - Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51
1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1993 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
1994 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68
1994 - Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belgium comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
1995 - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
1996 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66
1996 - Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70
1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1908)
1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of
           Greece (b. 1914)
2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
2012 - Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd May


Historical Events

                                   
Pirate Legend William Kidd                     Military and Political Leader                       Outlaw Jesse James
                                                                        Simon Bolivar

                                   
Animator Walter Elias Disney                     Novelist Thomas Mann                       Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio


264th Pope John Paul II


1059 - Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 - King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 - Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the British
1493 - King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1536 - Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 - German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 - Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 - Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1611 - Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War. Four Catholic Lords Regents
           thrown out of window
1644 - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 - Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 - King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 - King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is
           hanged in London.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua
1774 - Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 - SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of
           Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1844 - Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1853 - Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 - 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 - Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 - Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
1862 - Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 - Battle of Dallas, GA
1864 - Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 - -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)
1865 - Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1867 - Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 - 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms
1873 - Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
1876 - 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1878 - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1882 - 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1883 - 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
1883 - Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
1884 - 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
1887 - 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1894 - William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1898 - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1900 - Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1901 - 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1901 - Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
1901 - Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 - US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 - 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1903 - 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1907 - The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 - Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
1911 - NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
1915 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I
1916 - Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 - Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 - King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1920 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 - "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 - "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 - 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
1926 - Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 - Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1934 - The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300
           troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1935 - 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1939 - British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 - British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 - Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 - Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1940 - 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
1943 - -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 - British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 - Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 - Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1944 - Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
1945 - British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 - German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1947 - PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1951 - Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London
1953 - 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1953 - WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
1958 - Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1958 - Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1958 - Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
1959 - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
1960 - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1960 - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
1960 - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 - Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 - OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 - Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 - NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1964 - Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 - Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1965 - Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 - Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 - AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
1968 - Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 - BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 - Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 - Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1970 - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
1970 - SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1970 - A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to
           its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
1971 - Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1976 - Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
1977 - Benin adopts its constitution
1977 - Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John
           Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 - Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth,
           children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1978 - AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
1978 - General strike in Peru
1979 - "Kids Are All Right" premieres
1979 - 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
1979 - Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 - West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 - Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
1982 - BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 - Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1982 - Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 - Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to
           Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 - Tottenham Hotspur win 13th UEFA Cup at London against Anderlecht
1984 - Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
1986 - US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 - Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 - 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 - Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 - Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1989 - Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
1990 - A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1990 - Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1990 - NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
1991 - Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 - Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
1991 - San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 - US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 - NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
1992 - Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1993 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 - 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 - Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 - 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1996 - Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
1997 - "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 - Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting
           yes.
2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 - The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its
           introduction in 1999.
2004 - Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring
           three others.
2008 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca
           (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.