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This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US President                                           Composer Danny Elfman (1953)             Musician Noel Gallagher (1967)
John F. Kennedy (1917)


1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 - Anne ML of Orleans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)
1630 - Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
1673 - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council
1675 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 - Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist
1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1730 - William Jackson, composer
1731 - Orazio Mei, composer
1736 - Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
1741 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1791 - Pietro Romani, composer
1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1810 - Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1810 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer
1810 - Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1823 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1824 - Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
1825 - David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
1827 - Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1837 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
1837 - Luca Fumagalli, composer
1839 - Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test)
1840 - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)
1841 - Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, (d. 1971)
1843 - Emile Pessard, composer
1846 - Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education
1851 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
1852 - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1864 - A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer
1874 - G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], London, English writer (Man Who Made Gold)
1880 - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
1881 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 - William Beatton Moonie, composer
1885 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
1890 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1892 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal)
1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
1896 - George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
1897 - Ignace Lilien, composer
1903 - Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
1904 - Robert Knox, bacteriologist
1905 - Fela Sowande, composer
1905 - Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor/director (That Joyous Eve)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, Holt England, actor (Return of Jedi, Chimera)
1906 - Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1906 - Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1906 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1907 - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic
1907 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1909 - Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
1910 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1911 - James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
1911 - Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
1912 - John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque)
1912 - Lucie Aubrac [Bernard], Paris, history teacher and French resistance member, (d. 2007)
1913 - Douglas Black, physician
1913 - Iris Adrian, LA California, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 - David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
1915 - Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
1915 - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1916 - Carl M Story, fiddler
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
1918 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 - Isabel Dean, Engl, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom)
1920 - Robin Haydon, British diplomat
1921 - Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
1921 - George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
1921 - James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
1922 - John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
1923 - Earl of Morley, Lord Lt (Devon)
1923 - Richard Worsley, quarter master General
1925 - Kenneth Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1926 - Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
1926 - Iannis Xenakis, composer/architect/engineer
1927 - Carl Toms, stage designer (1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two)
1927 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer
1927 - Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
1928 - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
1929 - Anthony Grant, British MP
1929 - Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
1929 - Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1930 - Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
1930 - Eddy Choong, Penang, Malaysia, Chinese badminton player , (d. 2013)
1931 - Carl Toms, stage designer
1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1935 - Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
1935 - Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP)
1935 - Martin Garrod, Commandant General (Royal Marines)
1936 - Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
1937 - Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, rocker (Can)
1937 - Peter Kolman, composer
1937 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1938 - Francis Thomas (Fay) Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 - Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
1939 - Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
1939 - Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage)
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1941 - Douglas Scott, mountaineer
1941 - Roy Crewsdon, Manchester, rocker (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 - Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
1942 - Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1943 - Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
1943 - E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976- )
1943 - Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
1943 - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1944 - Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
1944 - Quentin Davies, MP (C)
1945 - Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
1945 - Martin Pipe, horse trainer
1945 - Gary Brooker, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1947 - Mark Nelson, Brooklyn NY, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1947 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1948 - Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
1948 - Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1948 - Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
1948 - Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
1949 - Francis Rossi, London, guitarist (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
1949 - Brian Kidd, English footballer
1950 - Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
1950 - Talat Ali, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in ten Tests 1972-80)
1951 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
1952 - Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne)
1953 - Danny Elfman, LA California, composer (Simspon Show Theme)
1953 - Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981)
1953 - Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan (1981)
1955 - Mike Porcaro, rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1956 - LaToya Jackson, singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy
1956 - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
1956 - La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
1956 - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
1958 - Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) [or 5/5]
1958 - Ivar Sisniega, Mexico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
1958 - Sam Clancy, WLAF defensive assistant coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1958 - Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
1959 - Mel Gaynor, Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1959 - Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
1959 - Tamayo Otsuki, actress (Mrs Yamagami-Davis Rules)
1960 - Adrian Paul, London England, actor (Dance to Win, Highlander)
1961 - David Palmer, heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
1961 - Todd Boonstra, Minneapolis Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1962 - Eric Davis, LA CA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1962 - Gerry Norquist, Portland OR, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-5th)
1962 - John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 - Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
1963 - Tracey E Bregman, Munich Germany, actress (Lauren-Bold & Beautiful, Days of Our Life)
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1963 - Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Charlie Hayes, Hattisburg MS, 3rd baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees)
1965 - Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
1965 - Jammo Myllys, Savonlinna FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1966 - Floyd Turner, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1967 - Bill Risley, Chicago IL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 - Karina Orum, Denmark, golfer (Scandinavian champion 1989)
1967 - Mike Keane, Winnipeg, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Ray Bernard, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Noel Gallagher, Manchester, English pop musician (Oasis)
1968 - Brian Roche, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Duane Young, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Toby Borland, Quitman LA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1969 - Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star (1992 Belgian Open)
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 - Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 - Bill Curley, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, Minn Timberwolves)
1972 - David Hendrix, NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Kenny McEntyre, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1972 - Kevin McDougal, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1972 - Stanislas Renoult, French singer
1973 - Emma Johnson, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Etdrick Bohannon, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1973 - Jason Dawe, North York, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 - Malcolm Allen, Wauchope NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county California, playmate (Oct, 1992)
1973 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1973 - Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1974 - Barbara Mulej, Kranj Slovenia, tennis star (1992 Futures Germ)
1974 - Kenny Bynum, running back (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Robyn Petroskey, Minneapolis Minn, figure skater (1996 Midwest champ)
1974 - Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1975 - Alexander Zhurik, hockey defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1975 - Bianca Langham, Australian field hockey fullback/halfback (Olympic-96)
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, "Scary Spice", Leeds, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1975 - Shoshanna Lonstein, NYC, girlfriend (Jerry Seinfeld)
1975 - Anthony Wall, English golfer
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 - Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 - Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 - Brent Roberts, Leesville La, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
1977 - Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978 - Adam Rickitt,British/New Zealand actor
1979 - Luann Roberts, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1979 - Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 - John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1981 - Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 - Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 - Richard Jackson, Redlands California, actor (Ryan Meyers-Saved by the Bell)
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1986 - Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1987 - Alessandra Toreson, American actress
1989 - Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
1990 - Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 - Kristen Alderson, American actress

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This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Deaths

English Dramatist
 William Schwenck Gilbert (1911)


1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1379 - King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1405 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1453 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
1500 - Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1544 - Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1593 - John Penry, English congressionalist, executed
1629 - Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74
1660 - Gyorgy Rákóczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle
1660 - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44
1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1680 - Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73
1691 - Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61
1750 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70
1788 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 - Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
1815 - Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64
1816 - Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
1829 - Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84
1833 - William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1862 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1869 - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73
1877 - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1883 - Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73
1883 - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies
1885 - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63
1892 - Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74
1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1899 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1905 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
1911 - William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1922 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
1924 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
1933 - Frank Sugg, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for England 1888), dies
1934 - Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65
1935 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 - John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at , dies at 60
1943 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 - May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82
1951 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66
1951 - Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
1951 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91
1951 - Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85
1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1955 - Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
1956 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65
1956 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73
1957 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
1958 - Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76
1961 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
1970 - John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
1971 - Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83
1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 - Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 - Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1979 - Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86
1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43
1983 - Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1985 - 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
1985 - Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
1987 - Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40
1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1991 - Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
1992 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
1992 - Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies
1992 - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43
1992 - Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44
1993 - Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75
1993 - Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
1994 - Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94
1994 - Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81
1994 - Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92
1994 - Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78
1994 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61
1995 - Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), dies at 97
1996 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77
1996 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45
1996 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
1997 - George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life), dies at 77
1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
1997 - John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84
1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
2002 - Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
2003 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
2004 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
2004 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
2006 - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
2006 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2007 - Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
2007 - Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler of
           natural causes (b. 1938)
2008 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008 - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
2009 - Karine Ruby, French snowboarder and Olympic champion (b. 1978)
2010 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (b. 1936)
2011 - Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
2011 - Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
2011 - Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
2012 - Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician, dies from complications following surgery at 89

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This Day in History for 30th May


Historical Events

                                   
French National Heroine                           US President & General                         Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Joan of Arc                                                Andrew Jackson

                                   
Baseball Manager                                         Author Henry Miller                           Motorcycle Daredevil Robert
Tom Lasorda

                 
New York Yankees Owner                         Comedian David Letterman
George Steinbrenner


1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 - Jerome of Prague, burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an
           English-dominated tribunal.
1434 - Battle at Lipany
1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 - French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1539 - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 - Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 - Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1631 - France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1642 - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1646 - Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of
           bigamy.
1808 - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning
           French borders to their 1792 extent.
1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 - John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 - Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona &
           Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854 - Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
1858 - Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 - Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1864 - Cavalry fight at Battle of Bethesda Church/Totopotomoy Creek Virginia during US Civil War
1866 - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both
           Confederate & Union graves
1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 - 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1879 - Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1883 - Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 - Brassier invented
1890 - 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1895 - W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 - 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 - Memorial Day 1st observed in US
1903 - 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 - 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 - 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 - National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 - New country of Albania, forms
1913 - John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 - as managers who have won 1,000 games
1914 - The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her
           maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1921 - Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 - Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 - Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1922 - Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for
           both teams that day
1923 - Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 - British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1925 - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 - 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1937 - Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
1937 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's
           consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1938 - Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 - 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 - English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 - German capture Kreta
1942 - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 - Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 - Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 - French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 - US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 - Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 - Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 - United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1948 - Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes.
           Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1949 - East Germans constitution approved
1949 - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 - WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 - Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 - Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres
1953 - 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 - 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62)
1953 - 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1954 - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 - Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres
1955 - KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
1955 - Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 - Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 - Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 - Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 - "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 - "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1959 - Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 - Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 - Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 - World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1959 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
1961 - Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 - Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
1961 - Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo,Dominican
           Republic.
1962 - 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1964 - "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs
1964 - Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 - Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1964 - Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts,
           7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 - France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 - Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 - Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 - US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 - Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 - King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 - Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 - Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 - Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 - University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 - Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 - Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 - People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 - 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 - Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1971 - US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 - Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 - 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1973 - Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 - European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 - Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 - 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 - Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 - Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
1979 - Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 - Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 - Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1980 - 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 - Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 - Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 - Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 - "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 - Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 - LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 perf
1982 - Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 - Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 - Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his
           public criticism of umpires
1984 - Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 - Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 - NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 - Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 - Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 - Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 - 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 - Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
1991 - 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 - Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 - Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held
           accountable
1992 - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 - NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 - NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 - UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 - Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 - 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 - John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1996 - Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman
           Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 - Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1998 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
2012 - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following
           the Houla massacre
2012 - Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship

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Famous Weddings

1536 - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his 3rd wife
1992 - Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1998 - Nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van
           Vollenhoven (30) weds to commoner Marilene van den Broek (28) in Apeldoorn
1999 - "The Goodbye Girl" actor Richard Dreyfuss (51) weds accountant Janelle Lacey in Los Angeles
2008 - Film actor Charlie Sheen (42) weds socialite Brooke Mueller (30) at a private estate in Los
           Angeles, California

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Famous Birthdays

                   
Key Figure of Medieval Rus                     Guitarist Tom Morello (1964) 
Alexander Nevsky (1220)


1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1220 - Alexander Nevsky, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince
           of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63)
1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1524 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1623 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1757 - Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1800 - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1812 - John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1829 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 - Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1845 - Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73)
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847 - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 - Andries Andre, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1859 - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 - Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1871 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1878 - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1879 - Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)
1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1887 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1888 - James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1892 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1894 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
1896 - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
1902 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], Fla, actor (Miracle in Harlem)
1903 - Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
1903 - Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 - Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1908 - Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig)
1909 - Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1909 - George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1911 - Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
1912 - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 - Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1915 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 - Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 - Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1923 - Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 - Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1925 - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 - Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1926 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 - Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 - Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 - John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1928 - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
1929 - Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1934 - Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, (d. 2012)
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 - Keir Dullea, Cleveland OH, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
1936 - Roy Harford, cricketer (brother of Noel NZ wicketkeeper v India 1968)
1936 - Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
1937 - Arthur C Jacobs, poet
1937 - Harry Statham, American basketball coach
1938 - Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch MP (PvdA)/theologist
1939 - Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
1940 - David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
1942 - Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 - Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 - Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1944 - Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1945 - Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
1945 - Norman Eshley, English actor
1946 - Candy Lightner, political activist/founder (MADD)
1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, LPGA golfer
1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1949 - Bob Willis, cricketer (superb England fast bowler 1971-84)
1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, Tx, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise)
1951 - Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1952 - Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1953 - Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 - Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1955 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler
1956 - Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
1957 - Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
1957 - Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1957 - Michael Clayton, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1958 - Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92)
1958 - Ted McGinley, Newport Beach California, actor (Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty)
1958 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-
           New York)
1959 - Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
1960 - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1961 - Ella Arolovich, Leningrad USSR, model
1961 - Ralph Carter, NYC, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
1961 - Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1962 - Jan Gunnarsson, Sweden, tennis star
1962 - John Alt, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
1963 - Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1963 - Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
1964 - Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1964 - Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1965 - Tammy Parks, Rockville Centre NY, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1965 - Tyronne Stowe, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 - Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1967 - Rechelle Hawkes, Albany W Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Amy Fuller, Westlake California, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1968 - Jerry Springer, White Plains NY, Canadian Tour golfer
1968 - Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1968 - Kelley Armstrong, Novelist
1970 - Audrey Wooding, LPGA golfer
1970 - Sam Rogers, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1971 - Drahomir Kadlec, Pribham CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Rep)
1971 - Jiri Slegr, Jihlava Cze, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Oly-G-98)
1971 - Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1972 - Allen Aldridge, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Anthony Cook, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tenn Oilers)
1972 - Jeff Jones, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Manny Ramirez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1972 - Renita Farrell, Townsville Qld Aust, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1972 - Terry Wilburn, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1973 - Christine Pavone, Miss USA-Connecticut (1997)
1973 - Je'Rod Cherry, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Jennifer Darst, Dallas Texas, pairs skater (& Arthur Reid)
1973 - Steve Charbonneau, CFL defensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
1974 - David Wilkie, Ellensburg, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1976 - Omri Hairi Katz, LA California, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
1976 - Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer
1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
1978 - Krassmira Todorava, Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997)
1978 - Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 - Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer
1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor
1981 - Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Jordan Palmer, American football player
1986 - Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney
1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer
1990 - Dean Collins, American actor

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Famous Deaths

                                   
Poet Alexander Pope (1744)                          The Gray Ghost John                         Novelist & Poet Boris
                                                                   Singleton Mosby (1916)                         Pasternak (1960)


727 - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 - Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech radical Christian teacher burned at the stake for heresy by church
           Council of Constance
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 - Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 - William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1916 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82
1918 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1919 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1940 - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1944 - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 - George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 - Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1981 - Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1983 - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 - Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
1995 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
1995 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
1996 - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 - John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1996 - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
1996 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
2009 - Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
2010 - Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2011 - Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
2012 - Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
2012 - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player, dies from complications from blood
           cancer at 78

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Historical Events

                                   
Statesman/Philosopher                            Baseball Great Babe Ruth                      British war time Prime Minister
Francis Bacon                                                                                                               Winston Churchill

                                   
French President                                 Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                  Comedian Jerry Seinfeld
Charles de Gaulle   


1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
70 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan
           lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1417 - Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1495 - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-
           French Saint League
1531 - "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1564 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine
           fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1634 - US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1659 - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
1665 - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1669 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1696 - John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1727 - France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1744 - French troops conquer Kortrijk
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 - US copyright law enacted
1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking
           the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1821 - Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in
           Baltimore
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1849 - Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye"
1853 - Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
1859 - Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1861 - Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 - Mint at New Orleans closes
1862 - Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
1864 - Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1868 - Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud,
           Paris
1870 - Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1870 - E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1875 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1878 - German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed
1878 - US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1879 - Madison Square Garden opens
1880 - League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), forms in Newport RI
1883 - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
1891 - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1893 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1899 - -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1899 - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
1900 - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900 - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1902 - Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1905 - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1906 - Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1908 - Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1910 - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched.
1912 - US marines land on Cuba
1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1913 - Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)
1914 - Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
1915 - An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1917 - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
1923 - China & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 - Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1927 - Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)
1927 - Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1928 - 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1928 - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1929 - Atlantic City Convention Center opens
1930 - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
1930 - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 - Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1935 - Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1937 - 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
1937 - Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
1937 - German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1938 - Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
1940 - Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he
           is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany
1941 - -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 - British troops vacate Kreta
1941 - German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1941 - A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
1942 - 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1943 - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1943 - Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
1944 - Allied breakthrough in Italy
1947 - 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
1947 - Communists grab power in Hungary
1947 - Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 - Italian government of Gasperi forms
1948 - Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
1949 - 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA
1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4 foot square platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until
           Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)
1950 - Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1950 - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
1951 - Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
1953 - Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
1953 - WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1955 - Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 - Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1956 - Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1958 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
1961 - Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
1961 - Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
1961 - JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961 - Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
1961 - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1962 - "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1964 - Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 - SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
1965 - Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
1967 - Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg
1969 - "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs
1969 - "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1969 - Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
1970 - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
1970 - KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
1971 - WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
1973 - Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
1974 - Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
1975 - Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
1976 - Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
1977 - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 - Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1979 - "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
1979 - Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979 - Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1980 - "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
1980 - Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1981 - Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 perf
1983 - 37th NBA Championship: Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games
1984 - 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record
1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
1985 - Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 - New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1985 - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
1985 - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania,
           New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1987 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1987 - Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
1987 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3
1989 - "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
1989 - 1st International Rock Awards
1989 - 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
1989 - Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
1990 - 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 - Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 - 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
1992 - 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1992 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 - President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1994 - Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
1996 - Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric
           Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1997 - "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 perf
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
2002 - The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern
           Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA
           Finals appearance.
2008 - Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72
           seconds.
2010 - Shayetet 13 soldiers tried to stop the flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza
           Strip. During the boarding on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent confrontation had started.
           It caused the death of 9 activists who were on board, and several more injured activists.
           Moreover, several israeli soldiers were injured.
2012 - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency

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Famous Weddings

1919 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1991 - Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
2002 - "NYPD Blue" actress Sharon Lawrence (30) weds doctor Thomas Apostle at Saint Sophia
           Cathedral in Los Angeles
2008 - "Law & Order" actress Alana De La Garza (31) weds writer Michael Roberts in Orlando, Orange
          County, Florida

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor Clint Eastwood (1930)                          Model & Actress                                 Actor Colin Farrell (1976)
                                                                 Brooke Shields (1965)


1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 - Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
1472 - Erardus van der Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1557 - Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Czar of Russia (1584-98)
1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1656 - Marin Marias, composer
1664 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal
1674 - Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer
1701 - Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
1744 - Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath
1753 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader
1773 - Ludwig Tieck, writer
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1802 - Cesare Pugni, composer
1804 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
1810 - Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
1817 - Edouard Deldevez, composer
1817 - Georg Herwegh, writer
1818 - John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
1819 - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1835 - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1837 - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
1837 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1837 - William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
1852 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1857 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
1860 - Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter (The Miner)
1861 - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907)
1863 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
1864 - Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch)
1866 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
1872 - Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
1872 - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
1875 - Italo Montemezzi, composer
1879 - Mark Hambourg, composer
1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 - Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31]
1888 - Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone)
1889 - Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
1892 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader
1892 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) [NS]
1892 - Louis Fourestier, composer
1892 - Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968)
1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
1894 - Fred Allen, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show)
1897 - Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
1898 - Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter
1898 - Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
1899 - Leonid Leonow, writer
1900 - Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef)
1901 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1902 - Billy Mayerl, composer
1902 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
1902 - Ralph Walter Wood, composer
1905 - Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher
1905 - Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
1907 - Valston Hancock, British air marshal
1908 - Don Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1909 - Jan Lewando, British director (Marks & Spencer)
1909 - Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1910 - Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist
1911 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1912 - Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1912 - Dave O'Brien, Big Springs TX, actor (Kiss Me Kate, 1st Aid)
1912 - Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
1912 - Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
1912 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1913 - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
1914 - Akira Ifukube, composer
1916 - Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
1916 - John Vivyan, actor (Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life)
1916 - Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie)
1919 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1919 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician
1920 - Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
1921 - Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
1921 - Andrew Grima, British jeweller
1921 - Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
1921 - Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer
1922 - Denholm Elliott, London, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat)
1922 - Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
1923 - Clint Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949- )
1923 - Wolfgang Lesser, composer
1924 - Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956)
1926 - Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster U)
1926 - Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper (India in late 40's/early 50's)
1926 - Viscount Ingleby
1927 - Isabel Stoate, British diplomat
1927 - James Eberle, Brit admiral/director (Royal Institute of Intl Affairs)
1927 - Michael Sandberg, British CEO (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp)
1927 - Red Holloway [James], Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012)
1928 - Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
1928 - Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad)
1929 - Aladar Zoltan, composer
1929 - Elaine Stewart, Montclair NJ, actress (Take the High Ground)
1929 - Neil Shaw, British CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1930 - Clint Eastwood, SF California, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California)
1930 - William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation (London University)
1931 - John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1931 - Justice Turner
1931 - Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
1931 - Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
1932 - Elizabeth Southey, British CEO (Natl Fed of Women's Institutes)
1932 - George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral
1932 - Ronald Hampel, British CEO (ICI)
1932 - Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1934 - Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 - Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1934 - Karl-Erik Welin, composer
1935 - Bruce Bolton, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1959)
1935 - Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1937 - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - John Prescott, British MP
1938 - Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
1939 - Charles Drain, singer
1939 - Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
1940 - Augie Mayer, rocker (Sir Douglas Quintet)
1940 - Elfi Mikesch, cinematographer (Erotique, Out of America, Malina)
1940 - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
1941 - Gil [Walter] Morgan, Haddock GA, PGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1941 - Johnny Paycheck, Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
1941 - June Clark, British Professor of Nursing (Middlesex U)
1941 - Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
1941 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
1942 - John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor (Open U)
1943 - Earl of Macclesfield
1943 - Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
1943 - Sharon Gless, LA California, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
1944 - Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 - Linda Davies, British Judge
1945 - Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
1946 - Debbie Moore, founder/CEO (Pineapple Dance Studios)
1946 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum)
1946 - Steve Bucknor, cricketer (West Indian Test umpire, FIFA referee)
1946 - Ted Baehr, American media critic
1947 - William H Campbell Jr, rocker
1948 - Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
1948 - John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1948 - Lynda Bellingham, actress (Sweeney, Scarlet Tunic)
1949 - Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
1949 - Tom Berenger, Chicago IL, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
1949 - Nancy Shade, American soprano
1950 - Edward Barker, cartoonist
1950 - Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
1952 - Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1953 - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor
1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1954 - Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
1955 - Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer
1955 - Laura Baugh, Gainesville FL, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown Classic-9th)
1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1956 - Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1956 - Yoshiko Sakakibara, Chiba Japan, actress (Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter)
1956 - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1957 - Jim Craig, North Easton Mass, hockey goalie (oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Stephen Jones, British milliner
1958 - Angel Franco, Asuncion Paraguay, golfer (1993 Nike Dominion)
1958 - Gary George Hallberg, Berwyn IL, PGA golfer (1983 Andy Williams)
1958 - Kyle Secor, Tacoma Wash, actor (Tim Bayliss-Homicide)
1958 - Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots)
1960 - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
1960 - Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1960 - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
1961 - Harry Enfield, comedian (Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live)
1961 - Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
1962 - Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
1962 - Henry Williams, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1962 - Joe Orsulak, Glen Ridge NJ, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1962 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
1963 - Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1963 - Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
1963 - Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 - DMC, rocker
1964 - Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 - Annette Renee Peters, [nee Hand], Reno Nevada, 1500/3000 runner
1965 - Brooke Shields, NYC, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan)
1966 - Jessica Monroe, Palo Alto California, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Roshan Mahanama, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening batsman)
1966 - Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
1967 - Kenny Lofton, E Chicago Indiana, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police)
1967 - Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1968 - Duane Causwell, NBA center (Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings)
1969 - Juliet Haslam, Adelaide SA Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 - Cory Mantyka, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1971 - Brad Elberg, CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Lenny McGill, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Murray Hocking, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sarah O'Hare, model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
1971 - Troy Malave, Cumana Venezuela, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1972 - Bryan Walker, safety (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Eileen Richetelli, Milford Conn, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 - Karl Geary, Irish actor
1972 - Dave Roberts, American baseball player
1973 - Dominique van Roost, Verviers Belg, tennis star (1995 Futures-GBR)
1973 - Marty Janzen, Miami FL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Tyrone Williams, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Bindi Mansfield, Mooerbank NSW Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jim Carey, Dorchester MA, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1974 - Steve Martin, defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Chad Campbell, American golfer
1974 - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Colin Farrell, Dublin, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report)
1976 - Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1977 - Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete
1977 - Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
1977 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1977 - Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player
1977 - Debbie King, English TV presenter
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
1977 - Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
1977 - Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Joel Ross, British disc jockey
1977 - June Sarpong, British television presenter
1980 - Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1982 - Jonathan Tucker, American actor
1983 - Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
1983 - Reggie Yates, English television presenter
1983 - David Hernandez, American singer
1984 - Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1984 - Jason Smith, Australian actor
1985 - Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
1986 - Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
1986 - Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1986 - Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
1988 - Hope Partlow, American Singer
1990 - Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 31st May


Famous Deaths

                 
Physician                                                 Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Elizabeth Blackwell (1910)                              Jack Dempsey (1982)


455 - Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
1091 - Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies
1198 - Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies
1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
1410 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)
1504 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
1551 - Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies
1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
1567 - Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies
1567 - Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
1594 - Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75
1620 - Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59
1665 - Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67
1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
1696 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75
1740 - Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33
1809 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 77
1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57
1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1849 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69
1854 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34
1862 - Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34
1900 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75
1900 - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
1906 - Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56
1906 - King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
1906 - Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
1908 - C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
1916 - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1928 - Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
1928 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60
1931 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
1947 - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
1947 - Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
1948 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80
1952 - Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
1955 - "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
1955 - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95
1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78
1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1962 - Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67
1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
1963 - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63
1967 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929)
1971 - Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14 Tests after age 46), dies
1971 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at 78
1972 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1973 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89
1974 - Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70
1976 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
1976 - Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57
1977 - William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1979 - Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies
1982 - Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86
1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1987 - Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies
1989 - C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies
1989 - Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
1989 - Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at 53 of cancer
1991 - Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
1991 - H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
1992 - Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52
1993 - John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent), dies at 69
1993 - Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog
1994 - Doug Freeman, cricketer (2 Tests of leg-spin for NZ 1933), dies
1994 - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85
1994 - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86
1995 - Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants), dies at 59
1996 - Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
1996 - Elsbeary Hobbs, singer, dies at 59
1996 - Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies
1996 - Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76
1996 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68
1996 - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75
1997 - Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76
1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
1998 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912)
2000 - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2001 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2006 - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
2006 - Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)
2009 - Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster died. (b. 1912)
2009 - George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
2009 - Danny La Rue, British entertainer (b. 1927)
2010 - Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculpter (b. 1911)
2010 - Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
2010 - William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
2010 - Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist (b. 1947)
2010 - Benjamin Lees, American composer (b. 1924)
2010 - Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (b. 1942)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 1st June


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                            Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball

                                   
French President                                       Musician Ravi Shankar                   Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney
Charles de Gaulle

                   
Parody Singer and Comedian                 Comedienne/Actor Roseanne
Weird Al Yankovic   


4000 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central
               Ukraine (hypothesis only)
193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
794 - Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 - Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by
           the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
1283 - Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria
           and Styria.
1459 - Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor
           is the distiller
1526 - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England
1562 - Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 - Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of
           Troubles/Council of Blood
1608 - Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 - France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 - Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 - Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 - The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1746 - French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 - Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed
1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 - Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1794 - Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France
           (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain
           gains tactical win.
1796 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 - Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he
           walked a mile round trip from his home
1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1834 - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 - 6th national black convention (Phila)
1836 - Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1843 - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1857 - Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
1861 - British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 - Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 - 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 - Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 - -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 - Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 - General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona
           and New Mexico.
1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1872 - 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
1877 - Society of American Artists forms
1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 - Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1880 - US census at 50,155,783
1881 - Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1886 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail
           gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 - US census at 62,622,250
1893 - Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1898 - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 - Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 - British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1902 - Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 - -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 - John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 - Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1915 - 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
1916 - German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 - Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 - White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil
           lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1919 - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1921 - Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1923 - NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)
1926 - Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
1930 - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 - Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 - Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1935 - Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1936 - "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 - Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 - Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 - Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 - Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1939 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 - 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 - Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 - 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 - Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 - Germany occupies Kreta
1941 - NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1943 - Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 - Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 - Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 - WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 - 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 - Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1946 - Ion Antonescu is executed.
1947 - OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 - Photosensitive glass developed
1948 - Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 - British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 - KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 - Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered
1950 - WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 - International Cheese treaty signed
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1953 - KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 - Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 - Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
1959 - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players
           outside predetermined geographical area
1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1962 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 - Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 - "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 - A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 - coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1967 - Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 - 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
1970 - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 - Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 - West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 - George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 - Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 - Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1974 - "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK
1974 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency
           Medicine.
1975 - "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 - 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1975 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 - Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 - Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 - Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
1977 - British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 - Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 - Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 - 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 - Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 - Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 - Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 - Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 - KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 - Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 - Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 - 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 - 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 - Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 - "Morton Downey Jr Show," debuts in TV syndication
1988 - Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 - 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 - "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 - Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
1990 - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 - America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 - E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 - Snowfall in Colorado
1992 - Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 - Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 - Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 - Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 - Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 - MTV Movie Awards
1996 - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 - 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 - 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 - 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 - Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 - LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.
2001 - Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2005 - The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas.
           The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 - Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term
           for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County,
           Michigan.
2007 - Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
2008 - A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such
           as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit
           on the studio tour.
2009 - Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from
           Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States
           bankruptcy in history.
2012 - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals

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Famous Weddings

1896 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend
           (41)in Covent Garden, London.
1933 - Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard
1997 - Grammy Award-winning singer Kenny Rogers (59) weds Wanda Miller (31) at his ranch in
           Athens, Georgia
2005 - "The White Stripes" guitarist, pianist and lead vocalist Jack White (29) weds British model
           Karen Elson (26) in Manaus, Brazil
2005 - "The Amazing Race 7" executive assistant Alex Ali and Lynn Warren in Ottawa, Canada
2006 - Korean "My Sassy Girl" actor-singer Cha Tae-Hyun (30) weds pop lyricist Choi Suk-eun at the
           Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul City
2007 - Legendary crooner Tony Bennett (80) weds his longtime girlfriend Susan Crow (47) in New
           York City

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This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Divorces

1989 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1991 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Marilyn Monroe (1926)              Super Model Heidi Klum (1973)                   Singer-Songwriter
                                                                                                                             Alanis Morissette (1974)


1076 - Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
1549 - Allesandre Spontone, composer
1563 - Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)
1611 - Felician Schwab, composer
1633 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
1653 - Georg Muffat, composer
1675 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
1679 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1755 - Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
1757 - Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (Piano method)
1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d.
           1844)
1763 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
1765 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
1765 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
1769 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1771 - Ferdinando Paer, composer
1776 - John George Schetky, composer
1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1790 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1800 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
1801 - Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
1803 - Mikhail I Glinka, Russian composer [OS=May 20]
1804 - Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
1806 - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
1815 - Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1825 - John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander)
1826 - Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1826 - Hermann Zopff, composer
1831 - John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1833 - John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 - Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
1844 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
1848 - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1858 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1862 - Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
1878 - John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
1882 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1886 - Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887 - Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
1890 - Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Wizard of Oz), (d. 1949)
1892 - Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
1892 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1898 - Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1898 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1898 - Lieb Glantz, composer
1898 - Molly Picon, NYC, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 - Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
1901 - John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
1901 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
1901 - Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
1903 - Percy William Whitlock, composer
1903 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
1905 - Dinora de Carvalho, composer
1905 - Robert Newton, England, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days)
1907 - Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
1908 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1909 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch)
1909 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
1911 - Gertrude Michael, AL, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana)
1913 - Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 - John Randolph, NYC, actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie)
1917 - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
1919 - Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
1921 - Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
1922 - Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1922 - Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband)
1922 - Joan Copeland, [Miller], NYC, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
1922 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1924 - Paula Hinton, dancer
1924 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
1925 - Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
1925 - Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
1926 - Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), (d. 2012)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)
1928 - Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
1928 - Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1929 - Yehudi Wyner, composer
1930 - Edward Woodward, Croydon England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
1930 - Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1930 - Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1930 - John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
1932 - Francis Cameron, cricketer (NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65)
1932 - Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan)
1933 - Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
1933 - Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
1933 - Ian Sinclair, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00)
1934 - Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
1934 - Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934 - Sylvia Syms, London, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine)
1934 - Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
1935 - James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
1935 - John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
1935 - Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister (Joy of Living)
1935 - Reverend Ike, American televangelist
1936 - Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro)
1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
1937 - Colleen McCullough, Wellington, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession)
1937 - Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1937 - Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
1939 - Cleavon Little, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
1940 - Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
1941 - Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
1942 - Tom Mankiewicz, LA California, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1943 - Ely van Tongeren, Dutch guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
1943 - Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
1944 - Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
1945 - Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
1946 - Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1946 - Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis)
1947 - Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
1947 - Ron Dennis, CBE, F1 team principal (McLaren)
1948 - Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
1948 - Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
1949 - Mike Levine, rock keyboardist/bassist (Triumph)
1950 - Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic (VVD)
1950 - Charlene [D'Angelo], singer (I've Never Been To Me)
1950 - Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
1950 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, TM-16)
1953 - Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1955 - Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
1955 - Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1955 - Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1956 - Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
1956 - Robin Mattson, LA California, actress (Janet Green-All My Children)
1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
1958 - Cathy Hearn, Wash DC, slalom kayak (Olympics-7th-96)
1958 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1959 - Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!)
1959 - Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
1960 - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
1961 - Johnny Ray Huston, Mt Vernon IL, PGA golfer (1990 Honda Classic)
1961 - Mark Rodenhauser, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1961 - Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)
1962 - Jesse Johnson, rocker (Time)
1962 - Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Mike Joyce, rock drummer (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
1964 - Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident)
1964 - Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
1965 - Dan Quinn, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1965 - India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1966 - Greg Schiano, American football coach
1967 - Carlos van Wanrooy, soccer player (NEC)
1967 - Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles)
1967 - Vernon Turner, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
1968 - Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)
1968 - Jeff Hackett, London, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1968 - Jerry Crafts, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Larry Centers, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Ari Sulander, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1969 - Erin Hartwell, Phila, time trial cyclist (Olymp-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1970 - Joshua Compston, art impressario
1970 - Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1970 - R. Madhavan, Indian actor
1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
1971 - Roldán González, Cuban singer
1972 - Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Jon Witman, fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Leta Lindley, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1995 State Farm Rail-3rd)
1972 - Nicholas Porzig, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Scott Greene, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Daniel Casey, English actor
1973 - Jeffrey Schiebler, New Westminster BC, 10k/steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ray Carey, US, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1973 - Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
1973 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 - Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel
1974 - Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)
1974 - Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
1975 - Michal Grosek, Gottwaldov Cze, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1975 - James Storm, American professional wrestler
1976 - Camille Martens, Vancouver BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1977 - Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 - Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1977 - Richard Williams, British racing driver
1978 - Karen Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1979 - Santana Moss, American football player
1980 - Oliver James, British actor
1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1981 - Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
1983 - Jake Silbermann, American actor
1984 - Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
1985 - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 - Nick Young, American basketball player
1986 - Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
1987 - Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1992 - Felix Drake, English child actor

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This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Deaths

                 
US President                                           Author Helen Keller (1968)
James Buchanan (1868)


195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
193 - Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61
1191 - Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
1340 - Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
1434 - Władysław II Jagiełło , King of Lithuania and later also Poland, dies (b.1351)
1568 - Duke of Alva and authority of Council of Troubles behead 18 nobles in Brussels for treason
           and heresy
1568 - Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1571 - John Story, English Catholic
1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1676 - Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1676 - Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1713 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1729 - Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1763 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1810 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, dies at 53
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 - Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal
           body. (b. 1781)
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
1861 - John Q Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war
1864 - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white
           terrorists in SC
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 - Christo Botew, writer, dies
1909 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
1910 - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
1918 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
1918 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
1922 - Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5), dies
1926 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1935 - Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
1941 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1942 - Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
1942 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
1948 - Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1951 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
1952 - John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1955 - F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 - Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
1960 - Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler. (b. 1896)
1964 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1968 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
1973 - Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1973 - Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57
1973 - Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies at 25
1976 - Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 - Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
1979 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
1980 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1981 - Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
1981 - Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1983 - Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1985 - Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 - Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 - Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1990 - Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 - David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50
1992 - Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
1992 - Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
1992 - Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies at 69
1994 - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70
1994 - Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80
1995 - Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
1995 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996 - Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1996 - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1996 - Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
1997 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
2010 - Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)