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This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Weddings

1905 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1928 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)
1966 - English writer of blockbusters, Jackie Collins weds 2nd husband Oscar Lerman
1978 - Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
1992 - Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford
2000 - "Murphy Brown" actress Candice Bergen (54) weds New York real estate magnate Marshall
           Rose (63) at a Manhattan synagogue
2002 - "American Pie" actress Shannon Elizabeth (28) weds actor Joe Reitman (34) in Jalisco, Mexico
2002 - Actor Charlie Sheen (36) weds actress Denise Richards (31) under a rose arch dotted by over
           1000 blooms in Brentwood, California
2010 - Film actor and producer Harrison Ford (67) weds actress and Golden Globe Award winner
           Calista Flockhart (45) in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's
           unreasonable behavior

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This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Courteney Cox (1964)                       Rapper Ice Cube (1969)                     Actor Neil Patrick Harris (1973)


1221 - Frederik II, [Strijdbare], duke of Austria
1330 - Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376)
1542 - Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral (Roanoke)
1553 - Ernst, archduke of Austria/governor of the Netherlands
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1623 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch statesman (Chatham)
1624 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1636 - Johann David Mayer, composer
1638 - Samuel Apostool, Dutch vicar/theologist (The Sun)
1640 - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
1734 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer
1749 - George Joseph Vogler, composer
1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
1763 - Franz Danzi, composer
1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of Pres Andrew (1828-37) (died 1828)
1789 - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
1801 - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
1805 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
1809 - François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
1821 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1833 - Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1843 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
1864 - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer/=
1865 - L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker
1865 - Paul Gilson, composer
1867 - K Balmont, writer
1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
1878 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director/critic (Pygmalion)
1880 - Mahlon Hamilton, VA, actor (Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
1884 - Harry Langdon, Council Bluffs IA, comic/director (Strong Man)
1886 - Charles Wood, composer
1888 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
1893 - Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman
1894 - Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!)
1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1898 - Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist
1898 - Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist
1900 - Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon)
1900 - Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues)
1900 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
1901 - John Wesley Work, composer
1901 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer
1902 - David Brooks, psychologist
1902 - Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1905 - James Robertson Justice, Scotland, actor (Above Us the Waves)
1906 - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
1908 - Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
1910 - Berend Giltay, composer
1910 - David Rose, London England, orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)
1911 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1913 - Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman (Anti-Apartheid)
1914 - Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (New Yorker)
1914 - Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
1914 - Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
1916 - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor (Chic Daily News, Sunday Times)
1917 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)
1917 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader
1918 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
1919 - Alberto Sordi, Rome Italy, actor (Miser, Taxi Driver in NY)
1919 - Van Barfoot, Edinburg, Mississippi, Army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012)
1920 - Amy Clampitt, poet
1920 - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
1920 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
1922 - John Veale, composer
1922 - Mo[rris K] Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961- )
1923 - Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
1923 - Errol Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty) (d. 1977)
1924 - Mohammed Ghazali, cricketer (Pak off-spinner wicketless in 2 Tests 54)
1924 - Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1925 - Gene Baker, baseball player
1925 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
1926 - Jan Carlstedt, composer
1926 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist
1927 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
1929 - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist
1929 - Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer
1929 - Nigel Pickering, guitarist (Spanky & Our Gang)
1930 - Marcel Pronovost, professional ice hockey player
1932 - Einar K Enevoldson, US, Nasa test pilot (X-24B)
1932 - Mario M Cuomo, NYC, (Gov-D-NY, 1982-94)
1933 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
1933 - Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
1934 - Ruby Nash Cutis, Akron Oh, rocker (Ruby & The Romantics)
1935 - Belinda Lee, Devon England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus)
1935 - Fernand Schokweiler, British judge
1936 - Alexandru Hrisanide, composer
1936 - Claude Brasseur, Paris France, actor (Josepha, Pardon Mon Affair)
1936 - William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
1937 - Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's)
1937 - Ray Coleman, journalist
1937 - Rolf Riehm, composer
1937 - Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist (Ramblin' Man)
1938 - Billy Williams, baseball player (Cubs)
1939 - Ward Connerly, American political figure
1939 - Brian Jacques, British author
1940 - Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer
1941 - Harry Nilsson, Bkln NY, singer/guitarist (Midnight Cowboy)
1942 - Bruce DalCanton, baseball player
1942 - Tony Coelho, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
1942 - Xaveria Hollander, [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)
1943 - Aron Kincaid, LA California, actor (Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party)
1943 - Johnny Halliday, rocker
1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
1944 - Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-76)
1944 - Robert Keppel, American criminologist
1945 - Nicola Pagett, actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade)
1945 - Rod Argent, England, keyboardist (Zombies-She's Not There)
1945 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator
1945 - Lawrence Wilkerson, American retired military officer
1946 - Janet Lennon, vocalist (Lennon Sisters)
1946 - Judy Pace, LA California, actress (Young Lawyers)
1946 - Ken Henderson, baseball player
1946 - Roger Tolchard, cricketer (Engl keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977)
1946 - Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
1946 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
1947 - Lee Purcell, Cherry Point NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk)
1947 - Paul Patterson, composer
1948 - Champ Summers, baseball player
1949 - Simon Callow, London England, actor (Good Father)
1949 - Jim Varney, Lexington Kentucky, American actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, Hey Vern)
1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player (LA Dodgers)
1949 - Michael Lutz, bassist (Brownsville Station)
1950 - Mark Arnott, Chicago IL, actor (Return of the Secaucus 7)
1950 - Noddy Holder, rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade-Cum On Feel The Noize)
1950 - Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
1951 - Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
1951 - Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
1952 - Lorna Young, salesperson
1952 - Sandra Cassel, American actress
1953 - Rita Lee, Federic Wisc, playmate (November, 1977)
1954 - James Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places)
1954 - Terri Gibbs, Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin')
1954 - Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan hotel manager
1954 - Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
1955 - Cathy Morse, LPGA golfer
1955 - Julie Hagerty, Cincinnati OH, actress (Airplane, Princesses)
1955 - Sally E Silverstone, Walthamstow England, Co-Captain (Biosphere 2)
1955 - Tree Rollins, Winter Haven Fla, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1955 - Polly Draper, Gary, Indiana, American actress (Thirtysomething, Side Effects)
1956 - Ava Cadell, Budapest Hung, actress (Do or Die)
1956 - Lance Parrish, baseball player
1957 - Brad Gillis, rock guitarist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1957 - Brett Butler, MLB center fielder
1957 - Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire)
1957 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
1958 - Wade Boggs, Nebraska, Red Sox/Yank 3rd baseman (AL bat champ 1985-88)
1959 - Eileen Davidson, Artesia California, actress (Kristen-Days of our Life)
1960 - Denise Haigh, LPGA golfer
1961 - Kai Eckhardt, German musician (Garaj Mahal)
1961 - Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer/actress
1962 - Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
1963 - Helen Hunt, LA California, actress (Jamie-Mad About You, Twister)
1963 - Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 - Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
1964 - Courteney Cox, Birmingham, Alabama, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom
           Friends)
1964 - Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
1965 - Carrie Mitchum, LA California, actress (Donna-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 - David Bolton, Guyana, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Lando Mem Amateur)
1965 - Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
1965 - Adam Smith, American politician
1966 - Idalis DeLeon, American actress/singer
1967 - Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Demtra Hampton, Phila, model (Garda)
1968 - Tim Lester, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
1969 - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly France, tennis star (1996 Coopenhagen)
1969 - Ice Cube, rap singer/actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda)
1969 - Jesse Belanger, St-georges De Beau, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1969 - Maurice Odumbe, cricketer (Kenyan batsman & 1996 World Cup captain)
1969 - Sheldon Kennedy, Brandon, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Oliver Kahn, German footballer
1970 - Amanda Cromwell, Wash DC, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1970 - Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach California, US cyclist (Olympic-92)
1970 - Janie Quigley, Long Beach California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Zan Tabak, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Leah Remini, American actress
1970 - Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer (batsman), Test debut v Zimbabwe in 1996
1971 - Stuart Howell, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jake Busey, American actor
1971 - Bif Naked, Canadian musician
1972 - Andrew Pettitte, Baton Rouge LA, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 - DeWayne Patterson, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jean Francois Labbe, Sherbrooke, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 - Justin C G Leonard, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-3rd)
1972 - Lianne Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Ramiro Mendoza, Los Santos Panama, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 - Sandy Mccarthy, Toronto, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1972 - Tony Clark, Newton KS, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1972 - Hank Von Helvete, Turbonegro Frontman
1973 - Dean McAmmond, Grand Cache, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1973 - Matt Stevens, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser MD)
1973 - Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Pia Miranda, Australian actress
1973 - Greg Vaughan, American actor
1974 - Any Lynn Ciccolella, Monument Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1996)
1974 - Scott Tunkin, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe (1997)
1975 - Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
1975 - Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer
1976 - Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
1977 - Nina Liu, Australian actress
1977 - Michael Doleac, American basketball player
1978 - RoRo, [Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
1978 - Zach Day, American baseball player
1979 - Alita Dawson, Miss Connecticut Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Julia Schultz, San Diego CA, playmate (Feb, 1998)
1979 - Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
1979 - Charles Zwolsman Jr., Dutch racing driver
1980 - Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
1980 - Christopher Castile, American actor
1980 - Almudena Cid, Spanish gymnast
1980 - Cara Zavaleta, American model
1981 - Cristin Duren, Miss Florida Teen USA (Miss Photogenic-1997)
1981 - William Dean Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
1981 - Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
1982 - Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
1982 - Haley Scarnato, American singer
1983 - Derek Anderson, American football player
1983 - Julia Fischer, German violinist
1983 - Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
1984 - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
1985 - Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
1988 - Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
1996 - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly/Seine France, tennis pro (US open final-93)

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This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Birthdays

Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1996)


923 - Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
948 - Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies
991 - Theophanu, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II and regent of Otto III, dies (b. 960)
1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 - Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25
1337 - Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies
1341 - Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London
1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 - Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle
1389 - Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle
1397 - Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1467 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70
1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1557 - Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies
1580 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70
1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1666 - Pieter de Bitter, Dutch admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies
1677 - Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1702 - Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies
1703 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58
1708 - Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62
1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1760 - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69
1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77
1814 - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84
1828 - Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91
1831 - Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78
1839 - Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41
1844 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66
1845 - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 53
1856 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
1858 - Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63
1865 - Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1865 - Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61
1869 - Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60
1875 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889 - Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
1895 - Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies
1907 - William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies
1914 - A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886), dies
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1917 - Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar),
           (d. 2012)
1920 - Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
1923 - Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
1934 - Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1942 - Vera Figner, writer, dies
1943 - Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies
1952 - Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70
1958 - Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
1961 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84
1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1967 - Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at 69
1968 - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
1968 - Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 - Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83
1979 - Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
1982 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56
1982 - Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82
1984 - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78
1985 - Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
1985 - Percy Fender, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 380 runs 29 wkts), dies
1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1986 - K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 - J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies
1987 - Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 71
1989 - Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63
1989 - Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54
1989 - Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1992 - Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
1992 - Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
1993 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76
1993 - Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
1993 - Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1994 - David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70
1995 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78
1996 - Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85
1996 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
1996 - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77
1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
2000 - Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2002 - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005 - Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
2006 - Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
2007 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
2007 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
2008 - Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
2011 - Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)

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This Day in History for 16th June


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                     US President Abraham Lincoln                     Novelist & Poet James Joyce

                                   
Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe                     264th Pope John Paul II                     Russian President Boris Yeltsin


632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1338 - German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
1487 - Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1624 - Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
1673 - Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
1745 - English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River
1746 - Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army
1755 - British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians
1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 - In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
1779 - Vice-admiral Hardy sails out of Isle of Wight against Spanish Armada
1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1794 - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1815 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
1815 - Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1822 - Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1823 - King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
1836 - London Working Men's Association forms
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1861 - Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
1864 - Battle of Lynchburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia
1864 - Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Va
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and
           Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1873 - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 - Salvation Army forms in London
1881 - Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1896 - Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would
           not be dissolved until a year later.
1898 - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1899 - Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1903 - Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by
           leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1904 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will
           cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin
           damaging a barn.
1913 - South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1915 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1916 - Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1917 - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1917 - 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1924 - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1927 - 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa
1929 - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1930 - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1931 - Austrian government of Ender falls
1932 - Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1932 - Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1932 - Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex
1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1936 - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936 - Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1938 - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1938 - St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1940 - Communist government installed in Lithuania
1940 - General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
1944 - King George VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
1944 - US bombs Kyushu Japan
1945 - 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
1945 - Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs
1946 - 46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 - Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
1951 - 51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1951 - 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1952 - Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St
           Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1954 - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1954 - Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron
1956 - 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
1956 - 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
1957 - French offensive in Algeria
1957 - White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6
1958 - "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
1958 - Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1960 - "Psycho," opens in NY
1960 - Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
1961 - Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1962 - 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1964 - Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1964 - Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1966 - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1966 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1967 - 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY
1968 - Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
1969 - Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 - Race riots in Miami Florida
1971 - Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1971 - Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls,
           Labrador.
1973 - Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
1974 - 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open
1975 - Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1975 - Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 - Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 - Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1977 - Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development
           Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1978 - Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1978 - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 - "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
1980 - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 - Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
1983 - European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1983 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1983 - USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 - Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
1986 - 1 day general strike in South Africa
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting
           4 black youths who tried to rob him
1988 - Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1988 - In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to
           complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 - "Ghostbusters II" premieres
1989 - Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
1989 - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole
           (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
1990 - "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1991 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs
1991 - -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 - 91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 - Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 - Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 - With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
1992 - Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
1992 - Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
1992 - Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 - Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
1992 - Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)
1992 - Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1993 - Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's
1994 - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
1995 - "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
1995 - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
1996 - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996 - 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
1996 - 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
1997 - The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which
           calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon,
           except the disputed Sheba Farms.
2012 - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
2012 - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
2012 - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
2012 - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India

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This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Weddings

1855 - Salvation Army founder William Booth marries Catherine Mumford
1956 - British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar)
           Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London.
1996 - Soap opera actress-singer Kassie Wesley (35) weds James De Paiva (39) in Morganfield,
           Kentucky
2005 - "American Idol" singer Bo Bice (29) weds Caroline Fisher at New Hope Presbyterian Church in
           Alabama
2007 - "Two and a Half Men" actor Jon Cryer (41) weds entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner (40) at
           the Chapel at Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2007 - Rock singer Rod Stewart (62) weds model Penny Lancaster (36) in a cloistered medieval
           abbey at La Cervara
2012 - Supermodel Agyness Deyn (29) weds "Avatar" actor Giovanni Ribisi (36) in Los Angeles
2012 - "Superbad" actress Aviva Farber (27) weds actor Ken Baumann (22) in Malibu, California
2012 - "Think Like a Man" and "Jumping the Broom" actress Meagan Good (30) weds Columbia
           Pictures VP DeVon Franklin (33) in Malibu, California

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This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Divorces

2006 - Lady Victoria White (43) divorces legendary Hollywood film producer Robert Evans (76) due to
           irreconcilable differences only 10 months after getting married

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This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Apache Leader Geronimo (1829)               Rapper Tupac Shakur (1971)                Singer Diana DeGarmo (1987)


1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1332 - Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent
1591 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
1606 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1633 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1633 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
1637 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d.
           1670)
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1752 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1754 - Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800)
1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1792 - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1834 - Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1910)
1837 - Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1838 - Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1843 - David Popper, composer
1843 - Jan Malat, composer
1853 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 - Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
1861 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1863 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1874 - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
1879 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
1888 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1890 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Lupino Lane, London England, actress (Love Parade)
1894 - Norman Kerry, Rochester NY, actor (Phantom of the Opera)
1895 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1896 - William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1896 - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1900 - Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
1901 - Arthur Pierson, Oslo Norway, actor/director (Hat Check Girl)
1901 - Conrad Beck, composer
1902 - Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983)
1902 - Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1903 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
1903 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
1904 - Gerard Holt, Dutch architect
1906 - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
1907 - Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man)
1907 - John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
1909 - Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 - Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1912 - Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
1912 - John Peel, MP
1914 - Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1914 - Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
1915 - Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 - Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1915 - John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
1916 - Francis Lopez, composer
1916 - Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
1917 - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari; d. 1989)
1917 - Irving Penn, American photographer
1919 - Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 - John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
1920 - Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1921 - Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 - Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 - Henryk Czyz, composer
1923 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
1924 - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 - Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
1925 - Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 - Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 - Thomas W "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's & 60's)
1928 - Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 - Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1929 - James Kirtland Randall, composer
1929 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 - David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian/American cinematographer
1931 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 - Ivo Petric, composer
1931 - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1932 - David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 - Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 - Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 - Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 - Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 - Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 - Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 - Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
1934 - Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
1934 - Bill Cobbs [Wilbert], Cleveland, Ohio, American actor (Night at the Museum, The Color of
           Money)
1935 - Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
1935 - James Bolam, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, English actor ( When the Boat Comes In, The   
           Beiderbecke Trilogy)
1936 - August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 - Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 - August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 - Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
1937 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 - Mickie Finn, Hugo Oklahoma, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1940 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
1941 - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1941 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
1941 - Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
1942 - Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 - John Rostill, rocker
1943 - Joan Van Ark, New York City, New York, American actress and director (Valene-Dallas, Knots
           Landing)
1944 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1945 - Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
1946 - Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 - Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 - Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1946 - Jodi Rell, American politician, governor of Connecticut
1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
1948 - Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
1949 - Kale Browne, San Rafael California, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 - Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1949 - Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
1950 - James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 - Jesse Dizon, Oceanside California, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 - John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 - Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 - Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1951 - Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1952 - Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1952 - Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1953 - Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 - Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, Carbonville Illinois, actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 - Simon Bailey, priest
1957 - Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1958 - Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
1958 - Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
1959 - Warrior, American professional wrestler
1961 - Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1962 - Wally Joyner, American baseball player
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1962 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1963 - Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984- )
1963 - Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
1963 - Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
1965 - J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 - Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
1966 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 - John Franklin, American actor
1968 - Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 - Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 - Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
1970 - Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Phil A Mickelson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1991 Northern Telecom)
1970 - Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
1970 - Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1971 - Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Christopher Gomez, LA California, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)
1971 - Chris Gomez, American baseball player
1972 - Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor
1972 - Simon Khan, English golfer
1972 - Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
1973 - Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
1973 - Eddie Cibrian [Edward Carl], Burbank, California, American actor (Sunset Beach, Third Watch)
1974 - Paul Lee, British sculptural artist
1975 - Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 - Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 - Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1977 - Kerry Wood, American baseball player
1977 - Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
1978 - Daniel Brühl, German actor
1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1978 - Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
1978 - Lyndsey Marshal, British film/stage/television actress
1980 - Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
1980 - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1980 - Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
1980 - Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Miguel Villalta, Peruvian Footballer
1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1981 - Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
1982 - May Andersen, Danish supermodel
1982 - Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
1982 - Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
1982 - Chris Wingert, American soccer player
1983 - Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 - Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
1984 - Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
1986 - Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
1986 - Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
1986 - Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer
1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1988 - Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
1988 - Leeland Dayton Mooring, American musician (Leeland)
1993 - Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy

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This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Deaths

Rocket Scientist Werner von Braun (1977)


956 - Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
1246 - Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64
1361 - John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61
1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1492 - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1575 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1620 - Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b.
           1599)
1644 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer
           (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1793 - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1812 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1815 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1880 - James Southerton, cricketer (appeared in England's 1st 2 Tests), dies
1881 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1892 - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
1901 - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b.
           1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1932 - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
1936 - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1941 - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1946 - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b.
           1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45
1961 - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1963 - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1969 - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78
1969 - John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1979 - Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b.
           1946)
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1992 - Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (3073 runs in Tests), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1994 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
1994 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
1995 - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
1996 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
1996 - Mel Allen, American sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
1997 - Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor
           (b. 1921)
2010 - Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)

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This Day in History for 17th June


Historical Events

                                   
Inventor Charles Goodyear                     Heavyweight Champion Boxer           Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
                                                                      Rocky Marciano

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champion             NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
Mike Tyson                                             OJ Simpson


653 - St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
656 - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
676 - Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1091 - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
1119 - Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
1291 - Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed
1397 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to
           retreat from Wallachia.
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael
           An Gof.
1535 - English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579 - Anti-English uprising in Ireland
1579 - Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"
1580 - Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
1583 - Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
1609 - Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then
           spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1665 - Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1700 - Mass orders priest to leave the colony
1734 - French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
1745 - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
1773 - Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
1789 - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
1815 - Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
1824 - Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman
           Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the
           Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result
1850 - Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1855 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
1856 - Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1861 - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
1863 - Battle at Middleburg Virginia
1863 - Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
1863 - Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1863 - Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
1864 - -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1864 - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
1864 - General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
1864 - Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
1876 - 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
1876 - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird
           Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1880 - John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
1882 - Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
1894 - 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
1895 - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
1897 - William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
1898 - US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1898 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1901 - The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1911 - Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
1915 - League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
1916 - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1916 - US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
1917 - British king George V takes the name Windsor
1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
1920 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
1928 - Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger
           in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1930 - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
1930 - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1932 - Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1932 - Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as
           the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 - Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
1938 - Japan declares war on China
1939 - Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in
           Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 - General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
1940 - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1940 - USSR occupies Estonia
1940 - World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1943 - Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1944 - -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
1944 - Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
1944 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark
1944 - Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
1944 - Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London
1945 - Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1946 - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
1947 - Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1947 - Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1948 - Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
1950 - 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1950 - Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
1951 - "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
1952 - 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
1953 - Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
1953 - Riots in East Germany for reunification
1953 - Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
           scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1954 - CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1954 - Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1956 - Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1957 - "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2
1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1958 - Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1958 - The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver,
           Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1959 - Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
1960 - Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
1961 - "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1961 - 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
1962 - 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA
1962 - Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
1962 - Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
1962 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1963 - British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1963 - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1965 - 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
1965 - 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
1965 - Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
1966 - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
1967 - "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1967 - 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
1967 - Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed
1967 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1967 - Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics)
1968 - Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
1968 - KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
1969 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
1970 - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1970 - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1972 - "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
1972 - 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1972 - Chile president Allende forms new government
1972 - Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
1972 - Five White House plumbers apprehended after second burglary of Democratic Natl HQ,
           Watergate
1973 - 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
1973 - 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
1975 - Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
1976 - ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
1976 - Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
1978 - "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
1978 - Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1979 - "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
1979 - 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 - Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
1982 - Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1984 - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
1986 - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1988 - Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 - Soyuz TM-5 launches
1988 - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1989 - US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 perfs
1990 - "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1990 - 90th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il
1990 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 - Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
1991 - Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
1991 - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
1992 - Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1992 - Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
1992 - Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
1993 - Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
1994 - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994 - OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for
           1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
1995 - "Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
1997 - NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul &
           Columbus, Ohio in 2000
2008 - First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
2012 - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
2012 - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
2012 - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open

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Famous Weddings

1977 - Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United
           Nations in New York City
1997 - Pop rock band singer Kevin Jonas (24) weds Danielle Deleasa (25) at Oheka Castle
1997 - Actress and philanthropist Grace Hightower (57) weds actor Robert De Niro (68) at their
           Marbletown home
2000 - Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson (28) weds Kristin Willits (29) at Lee County's
           Cathedral Domain in Kentucky
2006 - Model Bianca Balti (22) weds Italian photographer assistant Christian Lucidi
2012 - "Revenge" actress Ashley Madekwe (30) weds "Secret Diary Of A Call Girl" actor Iddo Goldberg
           (36) in London, England

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Famous Divorces

1988 - Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips

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Famous Birthdays

                 
Musician Barry Manilow (1943)               Tennis Player Venus Williams (1980)


1239 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) subdued Wales, expelled Jews from England
1603 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1604 - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
1682 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1693 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
1704 - John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
1714 - Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor)
1718 - George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
1725 - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1742 - William Hooper, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence)
1750 - Michel Woldemar, composer
1756 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
1808 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1810 - F Freiligrath, writer
1811 - Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian (d. 1879)
1817 - Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1818 - Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust)
1818 - Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
1823 - John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1828 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
1830 - Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1913
1832 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium)
1837 - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
1838 - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (Vande Mataram)
1839 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931)
1845 - Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker
1855 - Fritz Steinbach, composer
1858 - Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
1861 - Sidney James Jones, composer
1861 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
1861 - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general and soldier (d. 1940)
1863 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
1867 - John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
1867 - Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1870 - George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties)
1871 - James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
1871 - Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
1874 - Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1875 - Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
1878 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1880 - Carl Van Fight, US author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven)
1880 - Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln)
1880 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
1881 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
1882 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 05/06]
1882 - Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
1883 - Alexandre Cellier, composer
1884 - Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
1888 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
1888 - Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
1895 - Slavko Osterc, composer
1898 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1898 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1900 - Hermann Reuter, composer
1900 - Martin Bormann, propoganda minister (Hitler)
1902 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
1902 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
1903 - Michail Swetlow, writer
1903 - Ruth Wakefield, inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
1904 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
1904 - Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places)
1906 - Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1907 - Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1908 - Frank Sully, St Louis MO, actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief)
1908 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
1908 - John Verrall, composer
1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1909 - Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
1910 - Herbert Owen Reed, composer
1910 - Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
1910 - Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
1911 - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian author (Vokopach Stalingrada)
1912 - Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)
1913 - Felix Hartlaub, writer
1914 - John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
1915 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
1915 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1916 - Einar Englund, composer
1916 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
1918 - Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1992)
1919 - Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
1919 - Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
1919 - Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
1919 - Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], Dutch literary
1920 - Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
1920 - Francois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), (d. 2013)
1920 - Patrick Duffy, MP
1920 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
1922 - Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
1922 - Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, composer (Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes)
1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
1924 - Gotthold Gloger, writer
1924 - Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party)
1925 - Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle)
1926 - Alan Walters, political economist
1926 - Manuel Enriquez, composer
1927 - Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
1927 - Lucio Fulci, director
1927 - Martin Böttcher, German conductor
1929 - Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
1929 - Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer
1930 - James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1930 - Romuald Twardowski, composer
1931 - John Baldessari, American artist
1932 - Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner (Oly-bronze-1956)
1932 - John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974- )
1933 - Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor
1933 - Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d.
           2006)
1933 - Anthony Bevilacqua, Brooklyn, New York, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Philadelphia), (d. 2012)
1936 - Ken Loach, British film director
1937 - Peter Lupus, actor (Mission Impossible)
1938 - Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
1939 - Dickey Do, [Gerry Granahan], rocker (Dickey Doo & The Dont's)
1939 - Donald Anderson, MP (Labour)
1939 - Hanna Johansen, writer
1940 - Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1940 - Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
1940 - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Christopher Brown, composer
1943 - Newt[on] L Gingrich, (Rep-R-G, 1979- /Speaker of House 1995-97)
1943 - Barry Manilow, New York City, American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
1943 - Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
1944 - Bill Rafferty, comedian (Real People, Laugh-in '77)
1944 - Chris Spedding, rocker
1944 - Chucho Castillo, Nuevo Valle de Moreno, Mexico, bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), (d.
           2013)
1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
1945 - Ken Livingstone, MP (Labour)
1945 - Tony Roche, tennis coach
1945 - Frank Ashmore, American actor
1945 - Tommy Franks, American General
1945 - Ken Livingstone, English politician
1946 - Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983- )
1946 - Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1947 - Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)
1947 - George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
1947 - Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)
1948 - David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
1949 - Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
1950 - Cathy Sherk, LPGA golfer
1951 - Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
1952 - Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 - Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers)
1955 - Gail Jones, Australian author
1956 - Nicholas Cook, cricketer
1956 - Nick Cook, cricketer (England lefty slow bowler in 15 Tests 1983-89)
1957 - Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love)
1957 - Martin Dillon, American opera singer (d. 2005)
1957 - Jon Gries, American actor
1957 - Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
1958 - Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful)
1958 - Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
1958 - Bobby Farrelly, American film director
1958 - Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician
1958 - Derek Lee Ragin, American countertenor
1960 - Mitzi Edge, Albany GA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic)
1960 - Thomas Haden Church, American actor
1962 - Ed Brady, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 - Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)
1963 - Kevin Glover, NFL center (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Diane Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
1964 - Erin Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
1964 - Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
1964 - Steve Rhodes, cricketer (England wicket-keeper 1994-95)
1964 - Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver
1965 - Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)
1965 - Danny McManus, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 - Dermontti Dawson, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 - Gianluca Pozzi, Bari Italy, tennis star (1991 Brisbane)
1965 - Kami Cotler, Long Beach California, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons)
1965 - Mike Magnante, Glendale CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1965 - Ray Seals, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 - Clare Look-Jaeger, Milwaukee Wisconsin, high jumper
1966 - Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Keith Sims, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Pearl Sinn, LPGA golfer
1967 - Robyn Meagher, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1967 - Terry Davis, NBA forward/center (Dallas Mavericks, Wash Wizards)
1967 - Eric Stefani, American musician
1969 - Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-Silver-98)
1969 - Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1969 - Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998)
1969 - Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
1970 - Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Jason Hanson, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Popeye Jones, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Ron "Popeye" Jones, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1970 - Stephane Fiset, Montreal, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1970 - Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian
1970 - Michael Showalter, American comedian
1971 - Tripp Schwenk, US, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Mildred Fox, Irish politician
1971 - Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
1972 - Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 - James McKnight, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Sebastian White, musician and artist
1973 - Louis Leterrier, French film director
1973 - Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
1973 - Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican Business Consultant
1974 - Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
1975 - Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
1975 - Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1976 - Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker & cyclo-crosser
1977 - Andrea Deak, Miss Universe-Hungary (1996)
1977 - Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
1977 - Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1977 - Roger Manganelli, American bassist (Less Than Jake)
1977 - Mark Tauscher, American football player
1977 - Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor
1978 - Jenny Keim, Cin Ohio, diver (Olympics-9th-96)
1978 - Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
1978 - Isabelle Delobel, French European ice dancer
1979 - Cawey Schau, Seattle Wash, canoist (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 - Nick Rimando, American soccer player
1980 - Andee Pickens, New Orleans La, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
1980 - Venus Williams, Lynwood California, tennis star
1980 - Kimeru, Japanese singer
1981 - Kyle Boller, American football quarterback
1981 - Amrita Rao, Bollywood actress
1981 - Shane Watson, Australian cricket all-rounder
1982 - Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
1983 - Connie Fisher, English stage actress
1983 - Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
1984 - John Gallagher Jr. American stage actor
1985 - Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
1985 - Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
1988 - Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player

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This Day in History for 17th June


Famous Deaths

 
Victim of Police Violence
Rodney King (2012)


656 - Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
676 - Adeodatus/Deusdedit II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies
855 - Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies
1091 - Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies
1119 - Boudouin VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1501 - Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies
1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1672 - Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67
1678 - Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer and architect dies at 69
1694 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
1696 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 66
1719 - Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47
1734 - Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740 - Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
1775 - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
1797 - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
1813 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1815 - Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
1821 - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
1858 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian
           rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1862 - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
1863 - Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1885 - Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1906 - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
1906 - William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
1910 - Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
1918 - Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
1928 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies
1936 - Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
1938 - H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12, dies
1938 - Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
1939 - Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
1939 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1941 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
1942 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
1950 - Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
1951 - Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77
1952 - Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89
1952 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1953 - Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1956 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1957 - D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
1959 - Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68
1960 - Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70
1961 - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
1963 - Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
1963 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1965 - Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies
1968 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1970 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies
1971 - C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Phila), dies
1973 - Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
1974 - Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
1974 - Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
1978 - Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
1979 - Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
1981 - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1981 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
1981 - Yitzhak Zuckerman [Itzhak Zuckerman], Jewish resistance hero in World War II and one of
           the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 65
1983 - Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88
1983 - Peter Mennin(i), US composer (Moby Dick), dies at 60
1984 - Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
1984 - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
1985 - Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain, dies at 67
1986 - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
1986 - Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
1987 - Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51
1989 - John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38
1989 - Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
1990 - Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
1990 - Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
1992 - Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
1992 - Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
1993 - Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46
1993 - French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
1994 - Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
1995 - Claire Sterling, journalist, dies at 75
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
2000 - Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931)
2001 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2002 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
2002 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2004 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2005 - Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
2005 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2006 - Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
2007 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
2008 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008 - Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division.
           (b. 1923)
2009 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
2010 - K. S. Rajah, Singaporean jurist (b. 1930)
2012 - Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th June


Historical Events

                                   
English Philosopher and                           Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

                 
British war time Prime Minister              Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Winston Churchill


618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of
         China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known
           meeting of this Irish legislature.
1316 - Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1529 - Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon
1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 - States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was
           £383
1629 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1639 - Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war
1643 - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to
           reach the island.
1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 - Spain gets new Constitution
1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1879 - W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1894 - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 - 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 - Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1900 - Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-
           Maru ship
1909 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1915 - 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1924 - Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 - Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
1927 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 - Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1938 - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this
           was their finest hour"
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists,
           homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 - Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 - U-767 sinks
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in
           Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1947 - Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 - Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 - UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 - "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 - Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1953 - USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 - Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat
           Detroit 23-3
1954 - Pierre Mendès-France forms French government
1955 - "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by
           having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him
           perfectly sane.
1960 - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
1960 - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 - Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 - Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 - KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 - African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1967 - 67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 - Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 - 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 - West Germany wins soccer world championship
1972 - US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's
           exemption from antitrust laws
1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 - Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government
1975 - Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
1975 - Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
1975 - NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 - A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1976 - St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
1976 - Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, &
           Vida Blue to Yankees
1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 - Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub
1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a
           modified Boeing 747
1978 - 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1979 - Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 - Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons
1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1980 - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 - Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman
           on high court)
1981 - Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
1981 - Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1982 - ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 - "Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs
1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 - 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1985 - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1986 - De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 - Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 - Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 - Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1987 - Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 - Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 - "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
1989 - 89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY
1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 - 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0
1990 - 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1991 - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991 - Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 - SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 - Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 - Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft
1993 - Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games
1993 - Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England
1994 - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 - Gay Games open in NYC
1994 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 - 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2000 - 100th US Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif
2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and
           the government of India.
2003 - Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted
           to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on 
           to start their own publishing businesses
2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
2012 - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq