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This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Divorces

2009 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (27) divorces actor Josh Janowicz (27) after three years of
           marriage
2012 - NBC musical drama series "Smash" actress Debra Messing (43) divorces actor and producer
           Daniel Zelman (44) by their mutual decision after 10 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor Spalding Gray (1941)                        Author Ken Follett (1949)                     Actor & Former Rapper
                                                                                                                              Mark Wahlberg (1971)


1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1554 - Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
1664 - Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
1665 - Nicolas Bernier, composer
1686 - Cristoph Raupach, composer
1695 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1723 - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
1736 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1759 - Theodor Zwetler, composer
1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
1771 - Ernst Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland/King of Hanover (1837-51)
1771 - Willem F, count of Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1798 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
1813 - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
1819 - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
1823 - George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
1825 - Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
1826 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
1827 - Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
1863 - Arthur Somervell, composer
1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1874 - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1877 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
1878 - Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)
1878 - [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
1879 - Adolf Wiklund, composer
1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist
1884 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1885 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940)
1887 - Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1888 - Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
1892 - Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
1895 - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
1898 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding)
1900 - Barbara Gooden, novelist
1900 - Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) [or Jan 5]
1901 - Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar
1902 - Hugo Huppert, writer
1905 - Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas)
1905 - John Abbott, London, actor (Smogasboard)
1906 - Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
1906 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
1906 - Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
1907 - Rolf Bongs, writer
1907 - Rudolf Peieris, physicist
1908 - Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court)
1909 - Alfred Uhl, composer
1911 - Arthur Vick, vice chancelor (Queens University, Belfast)
1911 - Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO (ASH)
1912 - Eric Hollies, cricketer (England leggie, bowled Bradman)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)
1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
1913 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1914 - Beatrice de Cardi, archaeoligist
1914 - Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark)
1914 - Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1915 - Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf)
1915 - Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1916 - Eddie Joost, baseball player
1916 - Jack Sutherland, journalist
1916 - Syd Barnes, cricketer (Australian batsmen of 30's/40's)
1917 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter
1918 - Branimir Sakac, composer
1919 - Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
1919 - Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator
1920 - Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation)
1920 - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1920 - Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
1921 - Lancelot Pierre, cricketer (1 Test WI v England 1948, 0-28)
1923 - Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac)
1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
1924 - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/orientalist
1925 - Bill Hayes, Harvey Ill, actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)
1925 - Dorothy Claire, LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
1925 - William L Dickinson, (Rep-R-AL, 1965- )
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1928 - Otto V Walter, writer
1928 - Robert Lansing, SD California, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan)
1928 - Tony Richardson, England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
1930 - Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
1930 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor
1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1931 - Jacques Demy, France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
1931 - John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
1932 - A R Dawson, rugby player
1932 - Christy Brown, Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days)
1934 - Bill D Moyers, Hugo Oklahoma, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal)
1934 - F Curtis Michel, LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut
1934 - Gwen Swire, British social worker
1934 - Katherine Helmond, actress (Soap, Coach)
1935 - Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer (Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion)
1936 - Barry Wilson, deputy chief (British Defense Staff)
1936 - M A "Kelly" Seymour, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 7 Tests 1963-70)
1936 - Connie Hines, American actress
1937 - Stanley Lunetta, composer
1938 - Karin Balzer, German DR, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1938 - Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g)
1939 - Joe Clark, [Charles Joseph], (P-C) 16th Canadian PM (1979-80)
1939 - Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye)
1940 - H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (South African batting all-rounder 1961-67)
1940 - Moira Anderson, Scotland, singer (Loch Lomond)
1941 - Duane Duke Sims, baseball player
1941 - Floyd Butler, rocker
1941 - Jeffrey Rooker, MP (Labour)
1941 - Martha Argerich, Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949)
1941 - Spalding Gray, RI, actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting)
1941 - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
1942 - Charles Dodge, composer
1942 - Nelson "Bo" Burton Jr, bowler/sportscaster (Pro Bowlers Tour)
1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, pres of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979- )
1943 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1943 - Bill Hopkins, composer
1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 - Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 - Tommie Smith, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jan 5]
1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 - Ambar Roy, cricketer (nephew of Pankaj Batted in 4 Tests 1969-70)
1945 - Don Reid, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
1945 - John Carlos, track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salute
1945 - Klaus Wyborny, actor (Klammer auf Klammer Zu)
1945 - John Carlos, American athlete
1946 - Fred Stone, rock guitarist (Sly & Family Stone-Stand)
1946 - Fuzzy Fuscaldo, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1946 - Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange)
1946 - Michael Monarch, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1946 - Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress (Afredo, Key)
1947 - David Hare, playwright (Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale)
1947 - Eric Molobi, South Africa, activist (ANC)
1947 - Laurie Anderson, performance artist (O Superman, Excellent Birds)
1947 - Tom Evans, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Badfinger)
1948 - Frank Estersmith, Australia, rocker (Air Supply)
1949 - Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions)
1950 - Adrian Cosma, Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Ronnie Dyson, US, singer (Hair, All over your face)
1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1952 - Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
1953 - Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
1954 - Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1954 - Michael "Nicko" McBain, Eng hard rock drummer (Iron Maiden-Powerslave)
1954 - Phil Neale, cricketer
1954 - Nancy Stafford, [Nancy Elizabeth], Wilton Manors Florida, Miss Florida (1977)/American
           actress (Joan-St Elsewhere)
1954 - Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 - Kenny G, saxophonist (Duotones)
1956 - Richard A Searfoss, Mount Clemons Mich, Astronaut (STS 58, 76, sk 90)
1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 - Jim Woodward, Wilmington DE, Nike golfer (1994 Miss Gulf Coast-50th)
1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1959 - Michael Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1960 - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
1960 - Margo Lanagan, Australian author
1961 - Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star
1961 - Teri Nunn, California, rock vocalist (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away)
1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1962 - Astrid, Belgian princess/daughter of Albert II
1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian
1964 - Laura Charameda, Marshall Mich, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1964 - Mags, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1964 - Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
1965 - Bob Probert, Windsor, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1965 - Edward Hartman, Skalica CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia)
1965 - Karen Sillas, Bkln NY, actress (Prime Suspect)
1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1966 - Bill Spiers, Orangeburg SC, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 - Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
1967 - Joe Deloach, US, 200m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 - Matt Bullard, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks)
1967 - Ray Lankford, Modesto California, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 - Ed Smith, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Keith Powe, WLAF/CFL defensive lineback (Win Blue Bombers, Claymores)
1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 - Izabella Scorupco, Bialystok Poland, actress (Golden Eye)
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Shawinigan, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Todd Burger, guard (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, Boston, Massachusetts, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and
           actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed)
1971 - Pedro Garau, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Vaughn Parker, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1973 - Brady Smith, defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Clay Williams, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Sean Moran, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 - Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
1974 - Chad Allen Lazzari, Cerritos Ca, actor (David-Our House, St Elsewhere)
1974 - Chassity Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actress
1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 - Zydrunas Ilgauskas, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
1976 - Ross Noble, British comedian
1977 - Chantal Lefebvre, Ville LaSalle Que, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
1977 - Christian Martucci, American musician
1977 - Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
1977 - Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
1978 - Korina Nikolaou, Miss Cyprus Universe (1997)
1978 - Misha Ivetich, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 - Jason White, American NASCAR driver
1980 - Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1983 - Bill Bray, American baseball player
1983 - Marques Colston, American football player
1984 - Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
1985 - Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
1987 - Lara Bingle, Australian model
1987 - Charlie Clements, English actor
1992 - Emily Seebohm, Australian Swimmer
1995 - Troye Mellet, Australian Actor And Singer
2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

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This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Deaths

                                   
Novelist Stephen Crane (1900)           US President Abraham Lincoln (1902)                 US President & Actor
                                                                                                                                    Ronald Reagan (2004)


535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
754 - Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
754 - Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
1017 - Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1288 - Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1443 - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 - Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded
1568 - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1568 - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41
1667 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 - Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1785 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1826 - Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1852 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1861 - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
1864 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39
1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1868 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
1880 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52
1885 - Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
1894 - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1900 - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1908 - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1923 - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
1927 - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
1930 - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
1932 - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
1939 - Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies
1939 - Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1944 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
1953 - Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65
1953 - William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76
1966 - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
1967 - Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
1970 - "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 - Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
1973 - Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 - Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1977 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74
1978 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71
1979 - Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
1980 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
1981 - Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
1984 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1990 - J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies
1990 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1992 - Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies at 83
1992 - Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
1993 - Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59
1994 - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn A Bogue], cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
1994 - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
1995 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
1996 - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
1996 - Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
1997 - J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California,
           and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
2009 - Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
2009 - Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2012 - Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
2012 - Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81

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This Day in History for 6th June


Historical Events

                                   
Clothing Designer                                    Father of Psychology                       French President Charles de Gaulle
Levi Strauss                                                   Sigmund Freud 

                                   
US Attorney General                                 Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                   Tennis Great John McEnroe
Robert Francis Kennedy

                 
Chinese Communist Party Leader        US President George H. W. Bush
Deng Xiaoping 


1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 - Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
1536 - Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1660 - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 - New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 - France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the
           Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Mount Tambora)
1831 - 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1832 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.
1844 - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1850 - Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans
1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland
           Day).
1861 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized
           volunteers
1862 - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1875 - Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans
           capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over
           the territories south of the Abay River.
1885 - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 - Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris)
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1896 - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 - George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1906 - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans
           (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the
           20th century.
1913 - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1920 - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 - Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the
           Cuban Stars 4-0
1921 - The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1924 - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1926 - Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
1931 - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 - Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 - Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate
           of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 - 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 - 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 - NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 - NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1944 - Alaska Airlines commences operations.
1945 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1946 - 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1947 - Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute
1949 - "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1949 - WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
1958 - Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 - Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 - South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 - Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with
           Peter Best on drums
1963 - Gasunie established
1964 - 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 - Beatles arrive in netherlands
1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though
           they never resume.
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 - Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
1966 - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1968 - WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Senator Robert Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.
1969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his
           stake in a bar
1970 - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 - "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 - Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 - WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 - Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
1972 - David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
1972 - Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 - Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 - US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1974 - 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1975 - British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 - Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 - 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 - "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 - Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 - Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 - Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 - 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 - Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1979 - Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 - Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 - Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1981 - 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 - 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge
           crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another
           300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 - 36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 - 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 - Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1983 - 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983 - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 - Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 - Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 - Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1983 - Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1984 - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985 - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1985 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 - Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
1986 - Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently
           paralyzing herself
1987 - 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 - 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 - NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 - 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988 - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 - George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
1988 - Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 - Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 - 2nd International Rock Awards
1990 - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1990 - Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
1991 - Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1991 - Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
1992 - 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1992 - 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
1992 - Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
1992 - WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1993 - 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1993 - 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
1993 - 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1993 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 - Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia
1993 - Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1994 - 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
1994 - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 - Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 - CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 - Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 - Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 - 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1998 - 130th Belmont
1998 - 68th French Womens Tennis:
1999 - In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299
           by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
1999 - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the
           largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In
           the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally
           jailed.
2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter
           explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is
           estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic
           bomb.
2004 - Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in
           a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
2012 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2012 - The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun

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Famous Weddings

1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1942 - "The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (36) weds John Hertz Jr. in New York City
1956 - Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping
           magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47)
1960 - Singer-actress Eartha Kitt (33) weds Bill McDonald
1976 - Pittsburgh Steelers quaterback Terry Bradshaw (27) weds ice skater Jo Jo Starbuck (25) at
           Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles
1992 - "The Montel Williams Show" talk show host Montel Williams (35) weds burlesque dancer Grace
           Morley
2002 - Former "Survivor" contestant and talk show host Elisabeth Filarski (25) weds former Boston
           College quarterback Tim Hasselbeck (24) at St. Mary
2004 - "Trick Pony" lead singer Heidi Newfield (33) weds NFL agent Bill Johnson in Destin, Florida
2007 - Spice Girl singer Melanie Brown (32) weds producer Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 - "Survivor: Gabon" castaway Matty Whitmore weds Jamie Mass at Malibou Lake Mountain Club
           in Malibu

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Famous Divorces

2010 - Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford (40) divorces German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch (34) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Antarctic Explorer                                   Novelist Thomas Mann (1875)                     Actor Daniel Logan (1987)
Robert Scott (1868) 


1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
1576 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1676 - Georg Reidel, composer
1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chinese
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1772 - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1799 - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer
1807 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer
1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
1819 - William Howard Glover, composer
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1840 - John Stainer, composer
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d.1910)
1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1844 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
1867 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1878 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1890 - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer
1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer
1892 - Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer
1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
1896 - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
1900 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1902 - Avraham Daus, composer
1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1902 - Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 - Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane)
1905 - John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
1906 - Stefan Andres, writer
1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1913 - Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor
1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer
1923 - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
1924 - Serge Nigg, composer
1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer
1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
1931 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
1932 - David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1934 - Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1934 - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- )
1934 - Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
1935 - Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back/wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
1935 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
1935 - Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
1936 - Levi Stubbs, rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1938 - Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
1939 - Gary "US" Bonds, [Anderson], Fla, singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
1939 - Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
1939 - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement)
1940 - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
1940 - Phillip Rhodes, composer
1940 - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1940 - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
1941 - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, (d. 2012)
1942 - Howie Kane, rocker
1942 - Larry "The Mole" Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1943 - Asif Iqbal, cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80)
1943 - Ken Hatfield, former N.C.A.A. Football Head Coach
1944 - Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1944 - Peter Albin, SF California, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
1944 - David Penhaligon, British politician
1944 - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1945 - David Dukes, SF, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War)
1945 - David E Bonior, (Rep-D-MI, 1977- )
1946 - Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
1946 - Lasse Hallstrom, director (Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA)
1947 - Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Terry Williams, rocker (First Edition)
1947 - Robert Englund, Glendale, California, American actor (Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm
           Street)
1947 - David Blunkett, English politician
1947 - Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
1948 - Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
1949 - Edgar Warren Williams, composer
1949 - Holly Near, American folksinger
1950 - Chantal Akerman, actor/director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)
1951 - Dwight Twilley, Tulsa Oklahoma, country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
1951 - Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1952 - Yukihiro Yakahashi, rocker (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1952 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1953 - Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
1953 - Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)
1954 - Cynthia Rylant, American author
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Flint Mich, actress (King of Comedy, Nancy-Roseanne)
1956 - Andy Pycroft, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1956 - Bjorn Borg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
1956 - Jay C Buckey, NYC, physician/astronaut (STS 58 alt, sk: 90)
1956 - Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
1957 - Mike Gatting, cricketer (England batsman 1977-95 & captain)
1958 - Elaine Crosby, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1989 Mazda Japan Classic)
1959 - Amanda Pays, London England, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
1959 - Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1959 - Jimmy Jam, American record producer
1959 - Colin Quinn, American comedian
1959 - David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
1960 - Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
1960 - Steve Vai, Carle Place, New York, American guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band,
           Whitesnake)
1961 - Bill Bates, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
1961 - Nir Brand, Israeli composer
1961 - Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
1963 - Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Vladimir Ruzicka, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1963 - Jason Isaacs, English actor
1964 - Dee C Lee, [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
1964 - Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1964 - Konnan, Mexican professional wrestler
1965 - David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1965 - Sally McDermid, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1965 - Wendy Wiebe, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
1966 - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1966 - Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
1967 - Max Casella, actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
1967 - Michael Timpson, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Wasim Haider, cricketer (member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad)
1967 - Paul Giamatti, American actor
1968 - Brian Wright, Stillwater Oklahoma, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 NM Open-2nd)
1968 - Craig Roberts, Everett WA, Canadian 68 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1968 - Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1968 - François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
1968 - Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
1969 - Brian Greenfield, WLAF punter (London Monarchs)
1969 - Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
1969 - Mike Croel, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1969 - Sunil Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996)
1970 - Randy Jordan, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
1970 - Sarah Dessen, American author
1970 - Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 - Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
1971 - Mike Craig, St Mary's, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1972 - Dulip Liyanage, cricketer (Sri Lanka righty fast-medium Test bowler)
1972 - Erin Woodley, Mississauga Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympic-silver-96)
1972 - Frankie King, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1972 - Gary Downs, running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Jeff Williams, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Marko Kiprusoff, Turku FIN, NHL defenseman (Team Finland, Montreal)
1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil)
1973 - Ashfaq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan pace bowler 1993-)
1973 - Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Olindo Mare, kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Kat Swift, American politician (Green Party)
1974 - Brooke Wilkins, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Patrick Hape, tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Danny Strong, American actor
1974 - Sonya Walger, British actress
1975 - Niklas Sundstrom, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1975 - Staci Keanan, [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
1975 - Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
1975 - Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
1976 - Lukas Hass, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)
1976 - Melanie Sibetang, Miss Northern Marianas Universe (1997)
1976 - aKido, Canadian musician
1976 - Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder
1977 - David Connolly, Irish footballer
1977 - Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 - Carl Barât, English musician (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things)
1978 - Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1978 - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1979 - Summer Newman, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Matt Belisle, American baseball player
1980 - Martin Devaney, English footballer
1981 - Johnny Pacar, American film actor
1983 - Gemma Bissix, British actress
1984 - Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballplayer
1984 - Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 - Drew Galloway, Scottish professional wrestler
1987 - Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
1987 - Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
1987 - Daniel Logan, Auckland, New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the
           Clones)

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Famous Deaths

                                   
Author and Nobel Laureate              Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1961)                   Actor Jack Haley (1979)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1946) 


Actress Anne Bancroft (2005)


840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June)
1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60
1710 - Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85
1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63
1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
1968 - Robert Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83
1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85
1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44
1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
1996 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57
1996 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88
1996 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70
1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress, dies from uterine cancer at 73
2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
2010 - Marvin Isley, American Musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953)

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This Day in History for 7th June


Historical Events

                                   
Frontiersman Daniel Boone               Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Mountain Climber George Mallory

                                   
Ballet choreographer                                US Admiral Chester Nimitz            Mountain Country Singer Johnny Cash
George Balanchine

                                   
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                      264th Pope John Paul II                      Pop Star Madonna


King of Pop Michael Jackson


555 - Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1340 - Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1413 - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate
           of Aquileia.
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain & Portugal divide America
1527 - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies
1546 - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1557 - England declares war on France
1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation
1628 - English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1654 - Louis XIV crowned King of France
1672 - Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1692 - Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1694 - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1776 - Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress
1780 - Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die
1788 - Masses stone French government army at Grenoble
1798 - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in
           Lower Canada.
1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1860 - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
1862 - Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular)
1862 - Gen B Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display
           over New Orleans Mint
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 - Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1866 - Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around
           Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1873 - 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape),
           that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1881 - 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1892 - John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
1892 - Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1896 - G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
1898 - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1900 - Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1905 - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
1906 - Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1906 - Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1909 - Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
1909 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1912 - St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1916 - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1924 - 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1924 - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1926 - Swedish government of Ekman forms
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1932 - Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as
           the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2
1933 - George Balanchine/Kurt Weills "7 Deadly Sins," premiers in Paris
1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1938 - 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1939 - 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth
1939 - Cleve Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4
           to NY Yankees
1940 - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
1941 - 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Fort Worth
1941 - 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1942 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942 - Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1944 - Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1944 - Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
1946 - Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948 - KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1952 - "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 perfs
1952 - 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4
1952 - 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)
1953 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1953 - Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants
1953 - WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 - "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1955 - India premier Nehru visit USSR
1956 - Singapore government of Marshall resigns
1957 - Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1958 - 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
1958 - Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1959 - KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1963 - 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"
1964 - Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam
1965 - Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 - Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1965 - Supreme Court rules 1879 Ct law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional
1965 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively
           legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1966 - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
1967 - 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem
1967 - NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's
           Cathedral, New York.
1969 - "Johnny Cash Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1969 - 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts & Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
1969 - Tommy James & Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
1969 - Wash Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1970 - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
1970 - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1971 - Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1972 - "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1972 - German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
1972 - Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
1972 - Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
1973 - Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1974 - Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
1975 - "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1
1975 - Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup
1975 - Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets
1975 - Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, v WI Cricket World Cup
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1976 - NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres
1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1977 - White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
1978 - 32nd NBA Championship: Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
1978 - Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1979 - 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
1979 - Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1979 - Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
1979 - Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1980 - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs
1980 - "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
1980 - 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
1980 - 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62)
1980 - Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
1980 - Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
1981 - 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus & 42nd Street win
1981 - 51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61)
1981 - Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
1981 - Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic
1982 - 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
1982 - Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena
1982 - LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1982 - NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1982 - Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
1983 - Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out
1986 - 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
1986 - 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63)
1986 - Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
1986 - Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
1987 - 41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win
1987 - 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76)
1987 - Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
1987 - Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1988 - Aluminum contaminates Cornish England's water supply
1989 - 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
1989 - Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
1989 - For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1989 - Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
1989 - Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
1989 - 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof
           during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
1990 - Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
1990 - South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency
1991 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
1992 - "Small Family Business" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1992 - 62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61)
1992 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1992 - EUVE Launch
1993 - 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Vince Gill
1993 - Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 - Crickets Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball v Aust, Old Trafford
1993 - Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol
1994 - A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base
1995 - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
1996 - Julia & Noah wed on "All My Children"
1997 - 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
1997 - 67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62)
1997 - Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep the Phila Flyers
1998 - 68th French Mens Tennis:
1998 - James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John
           William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
2012 - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays
           were first performed, were found under a pub in London
2012 - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of
           international bailout speculation
2012 - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people

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This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Weddings

421 - Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II
1601 - Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid
1925 - Three Stooges leader Moe Howard (28) weds Helen Schonberger
1937 - Three Stooges member Curly Howard (33) weds Elaine Ackerman
1975 - Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (21) weds Cheryl Alley (21) at Magnolia Park
           United Methodist Church in Burbank, California
1986 - Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble
1991 - Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
2003 - "Sidewalks of New York" actor-director Edward Burns (34) weds Calvin Klein model Christy
           Turlington (32) at St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church in San Francisco, California
2003 - "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (31) weds actress Harmoni Everett (28) at The La Quinta
           Resort and Club in Palm Springs, California

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This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Birthdays

                 
Singer Tom Jones (1940)                 Tennis Player Anna Kournikova (1981)


1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
1619 - Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian
1730 - Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
1736 - Karl Frieberth, composer
1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
1778 - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
1811 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
1812 - Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1825 - Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1833 - Alexander Ritter, composer
1837 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67)
1843 - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1845 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist
1846 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
1848 - Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter
1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1865 - Guido Gasperini, composer
1867 - Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1873 - Landon Ronald, composer
1874 - Theodor Streicher, composer
1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1879 - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule)
1879 - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1884 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
1885 - Percy Brier, composer
1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1887 - William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1891 - Athos Palma, composer
1891 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician (SDAP/AJC/PvdA)
1896 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1896 - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
1897 - George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45)
1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters)
1900 - Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros)
1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
1909 - Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included)
1909 - Peter W Rodino, (Rep-D-NJ, 1949- )/chaired Watergate council
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, (d. 2007)
1911 - Franz Reizenstein, composer
1911 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/arranger/songwriter
1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1913 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950)
1917 - Dean Martin, Steubenville Ohio, American singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
1918 - Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister (health & environment)
1920 - Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party)
1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
1922 - Hubert Du Plessis, composer
1922 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
1923 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
1924 - Dolores Gray, Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
1925 - Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning)
1925 - Pieternella "Nel" van Arem, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1926 - Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show)
1927 - Martin Carter, poet/critic
1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1928 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian
1928 - Charles Louis Strouse, composer
1928 - Dave Bowen, footballer
1928 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy
1928 - James Ivory, producer/director (Howard's End, Remains of the Day)
1928 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder
1929 - John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984)
1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1930 - Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction)
1931 - Henry Weinberg, composer
1931 - Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8 )
1931 - Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)
1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
1933 - Henk E Koning, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
1933 - Herb Score, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1934 - Philippe Entremont, Rheims France, concert pianist
1934 - Samuel Lipman, music critic
1935 - Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner), (d. 2012)
1935 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer
1937 - Bert sugar, Washington D.C., sports writer (Sting like a Bee), (d. 2012)
1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
1938 - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent
1940 - Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Pontypridd, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat)
1941 - Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959)
1943 - Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1943 - Mel Levine, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)
1944 - Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
1944 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
1946 - Jenny Jones, [Janina Stronski], Canada, comedienne (Jenny Jones Show)
1946 - Terry Gale, Wyalkatchem WA, Australasia golfer
1947 - Thurman Munson, baseball catcher/captain (NY Yankees)
1949 - Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1950 - Gary Graham, Long Beach, California, American actor (Alien Nation, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1951 - Anne Twomey, Boston Ma, actress (Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker)
1952 - Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables)
1953 - Johnny Clegg, rocker
1953 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
1954 - Lui Passaglia, Vancouver BC, CFL place kicker (BC Lions)
1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
1955 - Joey Scarbury, Ontario California, singer (Greatest American Hero)
1955 - William Koch, US skier (World Cup 1982)
1955 - William Forsythe, American actor
1956 - Robert Dover, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1957 - Neal Radford, cricketer (Zambia Engld pace bowler in 3 Tests 1986-88)
1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
1957 - Ruth Anderson, Welsh rug hooker famous for her folk rugs
1958 - Christopher Marcantel, Smithtown NY, actor (Chip-Nurse, Loving)
1958 - Francesca Thyssen, lugano Switz, baroness
1958 - O+> (Prince), [Rogers Nelson], Minn, rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
1958 - Phillipe Boccara, Le Mans France, US sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
1958 - Prince, American musician
1960 - Bill Prady, American television producer
1961 - Dave Catching, American musician
1962 - Janice Lawrence Braxton, WNBA center (Cleve Rockers, Olym-gold-1984)
1962 - Paddy McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1962 - Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1962 - Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1963 - Steven David Rintoul, Bowral Australia, PGA golfer (1994 Buick-2nd)
1963 - Roberto Alagna, French tenor
1964 - Caroline Anne Hare, Lower hutt NZ, 5k/10k (Olympics-96)
1964 - Graeme Labrooy, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler in 9 Tests 1986-91)
1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress
1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
1965 - Damien Hirst, English artist
1966 - Dan Payne, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1966 - Heathcliff Slocumb, Jamaica NY, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Stephane Richer, Ripon, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1967 - Sarah Malin, Greenwich Ct, actress (Stephane Prescott-Another World)
1967 - Terance Mathis, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Adam Walker, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Melissa Coombes, San Gabriel CA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 - Lachlan Elmer, Australian field hockey halfback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1969 - Mark Sohn, Arlington Heights Ill, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Gorky Russia, NHL right wing (Mont Canadiens, Edmonton)
1970 - Chad Fann, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals, SF 49ers)
1970 - Mike Modano, Livonia MI, NHL forward (Team USA, Dallas Stars)
1970 - Cafu, Brazilian football player
1971 - Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Alex X. Mooney, American politician
1972 - Jeff Burris, NFL cornerback/punt returner (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 - Napoleon Kaufman, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Robert Barr, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
1974 - Jason Caswell, Winnipeg Manitoba, Skeet shooter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, India, tennis pro
1974 - Bear Grylls, British survivor
1975 - Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1976 - Cassidy Rae, Clarmont Fla, actress (Sarah-Models Inc, Clarissa)
1976 - David Diaz, Chicago Ill, light welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Necro, Jewish American rapper
1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football player
1977 - Joe Horgan, baseball player
1977 - Odalis Pérez, baseball player
1978 - Adrienne Frantz, Mt Clemens Mich, (Tiffany Thorne-Sunset Beach)
1978 - Bill Hader, American comedian
1978 - Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T)
1979 - Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
1981 - Tyler Johnson, baseball player
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1981 - Stephen Bywater, British goalkeeper
1981 - Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 - Larisa Oleynik, American actress
1981 - Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
1982 - Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
1983 - Mark Lowe, American baseball player
1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
1988 - Milan Lucic, Canadian Hockey player (Boston Bruins)
1988 - Michael Cera, Brampton, Ontario, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad)
1989 - Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89
1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Deaths

                 
Short Story Writer                                    Author Henry Miller (1980)
Dorothy Parker (1967)


555 - Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
1329 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29), dies at 53
1337 - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1492 - Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
1549 - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 - Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1571 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
1572 - August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42
1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1624 - Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74
1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1654 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1667 - Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
1672 - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
1778 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1784 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
1800 - Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 - Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1862 - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1863 - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1876 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1877 - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1893 - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1906 - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1926 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
1927 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1928 - Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1929 - J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
1932 - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
1935 - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1938 - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1940 - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
1945 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90
1951 - Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals,
           hanged
1954 - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1956 - Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
1957 - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1958 - Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies
1961 - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
1964 - Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies
1965 - Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42
1965 - Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59
1965 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
1966 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
1967 - Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
1967 - Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60
1969 - Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53
1970 - Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1973 - Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
1976 - Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
1980 - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1980 - Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88
1983 - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1983 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
1984 - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
1987 - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
1988 - Joe Partridge, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1989 - Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1990 - Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack
1991 - Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 - Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1993 - Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81
1994 - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994 - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 - Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1996 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70
1996 - Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88
1996 - [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2008 - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 - Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
2009 - Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
2010 - Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2010 - Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
2010 - Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 - Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer and composer. (b. 1923)
2011 - Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2012 - Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86
2012 - Bob Welch, American musician, commits suicide by gunshot at 66

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th June


Historical Events

                                   
4th US President James Madison               Baseball Great Babe Ruth                     Baseball Player Hank Aaron

                 
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco              Tennis Player Steffi Graf


65 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
68 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in
           York on Henry IV's orders.
1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres
1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sorrys)
1872 - Congress endorses penny post card
1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5
1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1911 - Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake
           him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor
           Fruytier
1931 - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs
1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA
1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1939 - British king George VI visits US
1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1944 - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57
1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank
           Thomas)
1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8 )
1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances
1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1963 - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 - A's draft Rick Monday #1
1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the
           first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured,
           and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1968 - Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National
           Cemetery.
1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV
1969 - 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James
1969 - Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
1969 - General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar
1969 - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1971 - North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
1972 - Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)
1973 - Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1976 - Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1
1978 - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 - Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1979 - Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
1980 - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
1980 - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
1980 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
1981 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981 - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1982 - 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1982 - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1982 - Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 - "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres
1983 - Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1983 - Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
1985 - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1985 - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to
           switch hit HRs in same game
1986 - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
1986 - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
1986 - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1986 - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1987 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 - Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered
           vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these
           things from its territory.
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he
           would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of
           season broa
1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV
1990 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 - "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1991 - 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
1991 - 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)
1991 - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 - Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)
1991 - Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title
1992 - 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Garth Brooks
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
1992 - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1993 - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96
1996 - 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
1996 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
1996 - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997 - 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)
1997 - BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
1997 - Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel
1997 - Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30
           years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha
           Bulker.
2008 - The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man
           killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2012 - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Weddings

1961 - English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
1996 - Lyricist and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager (52) weds former chairman of Warner Bros.
           Robert Daly (60) in Bel Air, California
2002 - Teen rock star Taylor Hanson (19) weds Natalie Bryant (18) at Callaway Gardens in Pine
           Mountain, Georgia
2003 - "The Sopranos" actor Dominic Chianese (72) weds United Nations conference planner Jane
           Pittson (56) in Manhattan
2007 - "Desperate Housewives" actor Dougray Scott (41) weds actress Claire Forlani (35) at the
           Council Common Hall in Pievebobigliana, Italy

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This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Divorces

2004 - "TLC" singer Tionne Watkins (34) divorces rapper Mack 10 (32) due to adultery after nearly 4
           years of marriage