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This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Weddings

1839 - Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia
1858 - Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah
           Thoresen (21) in Oslo
1989 - John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1992 - Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
2005 - "Queens Park Rangers" football striker Djibril Cisse (23) weds Jude Littler at Bodelwyddan
           Castle in Denbighshire, North Wales
2006 - "Weezer" lead vocalist Rivers Cuomo (36) weds Kyoko Ito at a secluded beach on Paradise
           Cove in Malibu
2011 - British peer and brother of Princess Diana Charles Spencer (47) weds Canadian social
           entrepreneur and former model Karen Gordon (39) at Althorp House in Northamptonshire
2011 - Reality TV Personality Toya Carter (27) weds "The Deal" TV host Mickey Wright in Atlanta
2012 - R&B singer Bobby Brown (43) weds Alicia Etheridge in Honolulu, Hawaii

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This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Divorces

2010 - Former Saved by the Bell actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (36) divorces former model Lisa Ann
           Russell (39) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
2012 - "The L Word" actress Laurel Holloman (41) divorces architect Paul Macherey (44) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Mountain Climber                                           Pop Singer & Beatle                    Actress Isabella Rossellini (1952)
George Mallory (1886)                                   Paul McCartney (1942)


1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
1318 - Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect
1511 - Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
1581 - Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized)
1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
1716 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
1740 - Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
1744 - Augustin Holler, composer
1757 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer
1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
1758 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot
1780 - Michael Henkel, composer
1794 - George Grote, British historian
1799 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1809 - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov)
1813 - Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti)
1820 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
1822 - Henry David Leslie, composer
1824 - Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
1839 - William Henry Seward Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1920
1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (d. 1922)
1850 - Richard Heuberger, composer
1854 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
1857 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
1858 - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
1860 - Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
1861 - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)
1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
1868 - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent (1910-44)
1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
1881 - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49) [or 6/28]
1884 - Edouard Daladier, premier France (1933..40)
1886 - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")
1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1887 - Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities)
1888 - Margarita Xirgu, Barcelona Spain, actress (Bloody Wedding)
1888 - S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author (Canary Murder Case)
1889 - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
1891 - Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian
1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
1892 - Edward Steuermann, composer
1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
1896 - Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)
1896 - Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
1896 - Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story)
1898 - Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England
1898 - M C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1899 - James Ralph Darling, teacher
1901 - Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher)
1901 - Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature)
1902 - Henry Wadsworth, Maysville KY, actor (Applause, Fast & Loose)
1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le diable ouch corps)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, Phila, American actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), (d. 1965)
1904 - Keye Luke, Canton China, actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, Paris France, composer (Bootleggers)
1905 - Eduard Tubin, composer
1905 - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer
1906 - Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 - Benny Payne, Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1907 - Froelich Rainey, Wisc, quiz moderator (What in the World)
1908 - Bud Collyer, NYC, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth)
1908 - Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage)
1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1910 - Avon Long, Balt Md, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1910 - Dick Foran, Flemington NJ, actor (OK Crackerby)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1910 - Ray McKinley, Fort Worth Tx, orchestra leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)
1912 - Henry Brandon, Berlin Germany, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu)
1913 - Sammy Cahn, lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain)
1913 - Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book)
1914 - Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
1915 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
1915 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1915 - Victor Legley, composer
1916 - John Young, actor/TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1917 - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1917 - Richard Boone, LA California, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1917 - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1918 - Bob Carroll, singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger)
1919 - Edward Leadbitter, politician
1919 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist
1919 - Mel Brandt, Bkln NY, actor (Faraway Hill)
1919 - Ted Leadbitter, British MP (Lab)
1920 - Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ)
1920 - Ian Carmichael, Hull England, actor (Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack)
1922 - Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1923 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master
1924 - George Mikan, NBA center (6-time all-pro)
1924 - Liesbeth den Uyl-van Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop den Uyl
1925 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer
1925 - Rex Collings, writer/publisher
1925 - Robert Arthur, Aberdeen Wash, actor (12 O'Clock High, Just For You)
1926 - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
1926 - Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
1927 - Dennis Landau, CEO (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
1927 - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher
1927 - Paul Eddington, actor (Devil Rides Out, Devil's Bride)
1927 - Simeon Pironkov, composer
1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
1928 - Maggie McNamara, NYC, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal)
1928 - Michael Blakemore, British theater director (Country Life)
1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist
1929 - Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate)
1929 - James Bishop, editor (London News Publications)
1929 - Jorgen Habermans, German sociologist (Frankfurter Schule)
1930 - Peter Phillips, CEO (AB Electronics) [or Feb 10]
1931 - Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster
1931 - Peter Batty, TV/movie producer
1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
1933 - Jean Wicki, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 - Tommy Hunt, US singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1934 - Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander (Europe)
1934 - Carl de Winter, sect-gen (Federation of British Artists)
1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
1936 - Ian Spurling, ballet designer
1936 - R Ronald Venetian, [Vene], president Suriname (1991- )
1937 - Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
1937 - John D [Jay] Rockefeller IV, (Sen-D-WV, 1985- )
1937 - Varbara Ann Teer, US actress/director (Natl Black Theatre Company)
1937 - Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
1938 - Joop M Worrell, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
1939 - Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards)
1939 - Lynn Whiting, horse trainer
1940 - Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)
1940 - Jim Albus, Staten Island NY, PGA golfer (1991 Mazda Senior Players)
1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
1941 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
1942 - Paul McCartney, Liverpool, English rocker & pop star (Beatles)
1942 - Roger Ebert, Urbana Ill, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
1942 - Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president (1994- )
1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1943 - Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House, Mind Your Language)
1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
1944 - Paul Lansky, composer
1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
1946 - Russell Ash, British author
1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
1946 - Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1947 - Bernard Giraudeau, La Rochelle France, actor (L'Annee des Meduses)
1947 - Douglas Young, composer
1947 - Linda Thorson, Toronto, actress (Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live)
1948 - Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
1949 - Jerry Hollendorfer, horse trainer
1949 - William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor
1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-present
1950 - Annelie Ehrhardt, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 - Henny Huisman, Dutch TV host (Playback Show)
1952 - Barry Champagne, Louisiana, stunt coorindator (Licence to Kill)
1952 - Carol Kane, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi)
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet)
1952 - Rickey Gazda, rocker
1953 - Jerome Smith, US guitarist (KC & the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes)
1954 - William Beard, rock drummer (Face To Face)
1956 - Brian Benben, Winchester Va, actor (Dream On, Gangster Chronicles)
1957 - Andrea Evans, actress (Young & Restless, Tina-One Life to Live)
1957 - Tom Bailey, England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Daniels Koran, saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1960 - Ralph Brown, British actor
1961 - Andres Galarraga, Caracas Venezuela, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1961 - [Genevieve] Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)
1962 - Jan[ice] Merrill, track star (US record long distance holder 1979)
1962 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1963 - Bruce Smith, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Darren "Dizzy" Reed, US musician (Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine)
1963 - Joe Walter, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1963 - Omar Londono, jockey
1964 - Thanh Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, 141 lbs US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
1965 - Kim Dickens, American actress and model
1966 - Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Doug Bodger, Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, San Jose)
1966 - Kurt Browning, Alberta, figure skater (Olympic-5-1994)
1966 - Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
1966 - Robert Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Oly-1996)
1966 - Sandy Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1967 - Pasquale Bruno, Italian American entrepreneur
1968 - John Lumkes, Chicago Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner
1969 - Fernando Valenzula, jockey
1969 - Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center (Chic Bears, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Laura Brown, LPGA golfer
1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
1969 - Christopher Largen, American author
1970 - Greg Yaitanes, American television and film director
1971 - Blair Pocock, cricketer (New Zealand opening batsman 1993)
1971 - Mara Hobel, NYC, actress (Mommie Dearest)
1971 - Nathan Morris, [Alex Vanderpool], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1972 - Otakar Vejvoda, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)
1973 - Rayna Stewart, safety/cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Tracy Noonan, Lawrence Mass, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
1974 - Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court)
1974 - Keith Poole, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress
1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
1976 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1980 - Antonio Gates, American football player
1980 - Tara Platt, American actress
1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1980 - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1982 - Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
1984 - Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
1986 - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
1992 - Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-66)
2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

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This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Deaths

Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (1936)


741 - Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies
1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 - Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies
1464 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1580 - Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies
1588 - Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (Spanish silver fleet) and folk hero (b. 1577) shot by
           cannonball at 51
1667 - Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik, dies at 39
1669 - Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies
1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1686 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43
1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer, dies at 68
1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 - Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72
1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1799 - Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58
1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1817 - Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05), dies
1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
1824 - Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55
1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1850 - Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99
1853 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies
1859 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
1866 - Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62
1876 - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1884 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentine writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1886 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Neth bishop of Roermond, dies at 90
1889 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1898 - George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies
1902 - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1909 - Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42
1911 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio
           Comancho
1916 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67
1916 - Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1921 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
1921 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
1922 - John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
1928 - Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies
1934 - Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
1935 - August Reusner, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1937 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies
1939 - French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73
1942 - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71
1942 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
1945 - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
1945 - Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action
1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1952 - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
1955 - Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
1955 - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
1958 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England), dies
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79
1962 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1964 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58
1965 - George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-67), dies at 66
1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 - Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1973 - Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55
1973 - Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
1974 - Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77
1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot
           for killing his uncle the king
1978 - Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - Curt Jurgens, actor (Disorder), dies of an acute heart attack at 66
1982 - Djuna Barnes, writer, dies
1982 - John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining
1982 - Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1987 - Bruce Marshall, writer, dies at 87
1989 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1990 - Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1991 - Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
1992 - Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1994 - Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75
1995 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85
1995 - Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1996 - Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
1996 - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2003 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2008 - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
2008 - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2010 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2010 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)
2011 - Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
2012 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
2012 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, dies from prostate cancer at 82

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This Day in History for 19th June


Historical Events

                                   
British Prime Minister Robert Peel      32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt              Comedian Jerry Lewis

                                   
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                       Pop Singer & Beatle                           Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis
                                                                      Paul McCartney

                                   
Singer Donna Summer                         Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield               Formula 1 Racing Driver
                                                                                                                                    Michael Schumacher


987 - Louis IV, crowned king of France
1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the
           battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1205 - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1286 - Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502 - Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572 - Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
1588 - Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1621 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
1631 - Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua
1669 - Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
1770 - General Church of New Jerusalem established
1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True
           Christian Religion.
1778 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near
           Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1825 - Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1835 - New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1846 - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1848 - Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
1861 - Anaheim Post Office established
1861 - Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories
1863 - Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
1864 - CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864 - Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia
1865 - Siege of Richmond, VA
1865 - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1867 - 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1868 - Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
1875 - The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1881 - Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1893 - Lizzie Bordon acquitted
1894 - 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
1897 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1910 - 1st airship in service "Germany"
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1912 - Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College
1914 - 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
1917 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German
           titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1921 - Census in Great-Britain
1921 - Turk & Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1923 - "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
1923 - Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
1926 - DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1932 - 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1933 - Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations
1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1936 - Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1936 - Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane,
           who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1937 - Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
1938 - "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1938 - Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
1938 - Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH
1938 - Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs
           Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1940 - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1940 - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1940 - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 - Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1941 - US president Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1942 - Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1943 - "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19
1943 - NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas
1944 - Two day Battle of Philippines Sea begins
1944 - 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
1944 - French troops free Elba
1944 - Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
1944 - Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1946 - 1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
1947 - 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1948 - Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948 - USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
1952 - Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
1953 - Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council
1953 - WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 - 54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol GC in NJ
1954 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1954 - Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros
1955 - 55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1955 - Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1956 - Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1959 - Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1960 - Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
1961 - "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23
1961 - Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from UK
1961 - NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs
1961 - US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders
           to believe in God
1963 - 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1963 - Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 - Greek government of Pipinolis forms
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
1964 - Bob Dylan completes UK tour
1964 - Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1965 - Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired
1965 - KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1967 - Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
1968 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1969 - State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1970 - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
1970 - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1970 - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1970 - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1971 - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance
1972 - -29] Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida
1972 - 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1973 - "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London
1973 - Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
1974 - KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
1974 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
1977 - 77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1977 - Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1977 - Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
1977 - Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
1978 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 perfs
1978 - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1978 - Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling
1979 - In NY 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
1979 - Mali's constitution goes into effect
1980 - Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
1981 - Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
1981 - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
1981 - India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1982 - The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in
           London.
1983 - "Octopussy" premieres in US
1983 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
1984 - 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
1985 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1986 - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
1987 - ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
1987 - Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)
1987 - Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1987 - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry
           Garcia
1988 - 88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass
1988 - Coup in Haiti
1988 - Namphy takes control of Haitian government
1988 - Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
1988 - 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20
           mins
1989 - Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
1990 - Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark
1991 - 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1991 - Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
1991 - NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
1992 - "Batman Returns," opens
1992 - Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 - Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
1992 - Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
1992 - NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards
1993 - Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's
1994 - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
1994 - "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
1994 - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs
1994 - 94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa
1994 - Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
1994 - Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 - Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
1995 - NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
1997 - "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
2000 - Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4-2 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par
           record score of -12
2005 - Michael Schumacher wins controversial Formula 1 United States Grand Prix where only 6 of 20
           cars complete the race amongst ridicule
2006 - Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the
           first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
2012 - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
2012 - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition
           government

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Famous Weddings

1369 - Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy marries Margaret 111 Countess of Flanders
1850 - Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1942 - Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman
1976 - King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Renate Sommerlath in Stockholm Cathedral,
           Ist Swedish reigning monarch to marry since 1797
1988 - Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie
1993 - Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe
1999 - Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at
           Windsor Castle
2006 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (24) weds actor Josh Janowicz (24) in Melbourne, Australia
2006 - "Savage Garden" pop singer Darren Hayes (34) weds animator Richard Cullen in London
2010 - Crown Princess Victoria heir apparent of HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, weds Daniel
           Westling at Stockholm Cathedral

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Famous Divorces

2009 - "Malcolm in the Middle" actress Jane Kaczmarek (53) divorces actor Bradley Whitford (49)
           after 16 years of marriage
2010 - Backup dancer Dean Sheremet (29) divorces Grammy Award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes
           (27) after nearly eight years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
King of Great Britain                                Duchess of Windsor Bessie                   Comedian Moe Howard (1897)
James I Stuart (1566)                            Wallis Warfield Simpson (1896)

                 
Singer & Judge of American Idol             Actress Zoe Saldana (1978)
Paula Abdul (1962)


1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
1566 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)
1595 - Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)
1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1608 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1613 - Christian de Placker, composer
1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1633 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
1708 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1741 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1749 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1764 - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
1766 - Edmund Weber, composer
1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1782 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1782 - John Bray, composer
1783 - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1790 - John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 - Gustav Schwab, writer
1810 - Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 - Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1814 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 - John William Glover, composer
1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1834 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
1842 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
1851 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
1854 - Alfredo Catalani, composer
1856 - Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858 - Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1861 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1861 - Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
1865 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865 - May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion)
1867 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1867 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
1868 - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
1877 - Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1878 - James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1880 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1884 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
1885 - Stevan Hristic, composer
1886 - Duchess of Windsor, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated)
1886 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1889 - Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
1890 - Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
1893 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
1896 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Bkln NY, actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges)
1898 - Paul Muller-Zurich, composer
1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1899 - George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
1900 - Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1901 - Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1902 - Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1903 - Walter Hammond, cricketer (one of the greatest of English batsman)
1903 - [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, "Iron Horse", 1st baseman for NY Yankees (d. 1941)
1903 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1904 - Balis Dvarionas, composer
1905 - George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905 - Taneli Kuusisto, composer
1905 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
1907 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1908 - Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1908 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91)
1909 - Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1909 - Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1910 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter
1912 - Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
1912 - Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring)
1912 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
1912 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1914 - Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 - Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1914 - Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1914 - Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1914 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
1916 - Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1916 - George Pravda, Prague, Austria-Hungary, actor (Thunderball, Firefox), (d. 1985)
1917 - Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
1918 - Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 - Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1919 - Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1921 - Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 - Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 - Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1922 - Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1924 - David Scott, priest
1924 - Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1924 - Wassil Bykau, writer
1925 - Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969- )
1925 - Charlie Drake, British comic (Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash)
1927 - Karel Kupka, composer
1928 - Nancy Marchand, Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant)
1928 - Raymond Powell, British MP
1928 - Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
1929 - Thelma Barlow, English actress (Mavis on Coronation Street)
1930 - Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
1930 - Jul Levi, composer
1930 - Gena Rowlands, Madison Wisconsin, American actress
1931 - "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner
1932 - Marisa Pavan, Cagliari Italy, actress (Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo)
1932 - Pier Angeli, Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge)
1933 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1934 - Hammond Furlonge, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56)
1934 - Terence Clark, British diplomat
1935 - Tommy Devito, Montclair NJ, rock vocalist (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1936 - Shirley Goodman, US R&B singers (Shirley & Lee-Feels so Good)
1936 - Marisa Galvany, American soprano
1938 - Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects)
1938 - John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1938 - Ian Smith, Australian actor
1939 - Peter Duffell, Brits lt-general/minister of Defense
1939 - Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1940 - Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)
1941 - Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude)
1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
1941 - Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day)
1942 - Jos Brink, Dutch TV host (Op Zoek)
1942 - Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1942 - Robert [Bob] W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981- )
1944 - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel)
1945 - Tim Hovey, LA California, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid)
1945 - Tobias Wolff, US writer (This Boy's Life)
1945 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
1947 - James T Walsh, (Rep-R-NY)
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1947 - Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
1948 - Nick Drake, rocker (Back to Fruit Tree)
1948 - Phylicia Rashad, Houston, Texas, American actress and singer (The Cosby Show, One Life to
           Live)
1948 - Dervin Gordon, rocker
1950 - Constance Forslund, San Diego California, actress (Shining Season)
1950 - Ann Wilson, San Diego California, American musician (Heart-What About Love)
1951 - Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress (Terror, Shock)
1951 - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
1951 - Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1952 - Robert Ainsworth, British MP
1953 - Larry Dunn, [Dunhill], US keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire)
1954 - Jim Cooper, (Rep-D-TN, 1983- )
1954 - Michael O'Brien, British MP
1954 - Kathleen Turner, Springfield, Missouri, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1956 - Doug Stone, American singer
1957 - David Gleeson, Norfolk England, US, rower (Olympics-1996)
1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
1959 - Kimberley Leston, journalist
1959 - Mark DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist (DeBarge-Who's Johnny)
1960 - Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut
1960 - Johnny Lee Gray, Jr, LA California, 800m runner (Olympics-7th-1996)
1960 - Patti Rizzo, Hollywood Fla, golfer (Mexican Amateur champion 1980)
1960 - Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer (AC/DC)
1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist
1962 - Ken Tohill, jockey
1962 - Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys California, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)
1962 - Phillip Hatchett, Russellville Ky, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Quebec)
1962 - Sid Fenech, jockey
1962 - Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
1964 - David Freedman, cricketer (NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990)
1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician
1964 - Brian Vander Ark, American musician
1965 - Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One-6th)
1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress
1965 - Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
1967 - Eric Schweig, Inuvik Canada, actor (Dead Man's Walk)
1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
1967 - Mia Sara, American actress
1968 - Jud Buechler, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
1969 - Lara Spencer, American TV personality
1969 - Thomas Breitling, American entrepreneur
1970 - Chris Gray, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 - Leonard Humphries, CFL cornerback (BC Lions)
1970 - Quincy Dushawn Watts, Detroit Mich, 400m runner
1970 - Scott Brumfield, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist
1970 - Antonis Remos, Greek singer
1972 - Andre Strode, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1972 - Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Millard Coleman, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
1972 - Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
1972 - Robin Tunney, American actress
1973 - Arne van de Berg, soccer player (Willem II)
1973 - Jahine Arnold, wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge) [or Jan 16]
1973 - Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
1975 - Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy (1996)
1975 - Anthony Parker, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1975 - Brandon Mitchell, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1975 - Hugh Dancy, English actor
1976 - Darnell Autry, running back (Chicago Bears)
1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer
1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player
1977 - Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
1978 - Garfield the Cat, animated character "Big fat hairy deal"
1978 - Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1978 - Zoe Saldana, Passaic, New Jersey, American actress (Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean: The
           Curse of the Black Pearl)
1978 - Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
1979 - Soni Meduna, Omaha Neb, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
1979 - John Ford, American software engineer
1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player
1980 - Amy Merrill, Miss Utah Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
1980 - Dante Robinson, American football player
1980 - Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
1982 - David Pollack, American football player
1982 - Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
1982 - Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
1983 - Mark Selby, British snooker player
1984 - Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party)
1984 - Paul Dano, American actor
1986 - Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1987 - Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
1991 - Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
1995 - Blake Woodruff, American actor
2008 - Maddie Aldridge, daughter of Jamie Lynn Spears

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Famous Deaths

Nobel Laureate and Novelist
William Golding (1993)


1113 - Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
1312 - Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1341 - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1542 - Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1554 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1652 - Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1747 - Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1759 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1768 - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1794 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1811 - Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1820 - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1822 - John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1837 - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1864 - George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1867 - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies
1902 - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1915 - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1921 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
1922 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
1932 - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
1936 - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
1937 - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1940 - Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
1944 - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
1944 - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
1947 - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
1949 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
1956 - Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82
1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
1965 - James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72
1966 - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
1966 - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who), dies at 55
1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1982 - John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70
1984 - Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75
1984 - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41
1986 - Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
1986 - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 - Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 - Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1989 - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1989 - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81
1991 - Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies at 90
1992 - Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96
1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1994 - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
1994 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75
1994 - Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82
1995 - Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67
1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
1995 - Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1996 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
1996 - David Schine, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63
1996 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82
1996 - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
1997 - Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008 - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2009 - Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 - Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010 - Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)
2011 - Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
2012 - Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)

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This Day in History for 20th June


Historical Events

                                   
Inventor Samuel Morse                                Murderer Lizzie Borden                     Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio

                                   
Actress Jane Wyatt                         British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher               264th Pope John Paul II

                 
Israeli Prime Minister                    NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal 
Menachem Begin                                                 OJ Simpson


451 - Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1212 - French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1402 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1530 - German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 - Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 - Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 - Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1633 - Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1656 - Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 - Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under
           Metacom
1756 - 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756 - Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British
1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol
1787 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 - Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1819 - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1825 - Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1826 - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
1837 - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for
           63 years ending in 1901
1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1855 - Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 - Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania
1863 - West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1864 - Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA
1864 - Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches
1864 - Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia
1866 - Italy declares war on Austria
1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 - 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1888 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 - Canal of Smock official opens
1895 - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1901 - Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
1909 - 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1910 - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 - NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1912 - NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
1913 - 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1913 - Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1914 - 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1915 - German offensive in Argonnes
1919 - German government of Scheideman resigns
1919 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1920 - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 - 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 - Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1930 - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1931 - Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1932 - A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
1936 - Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1940 - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1942 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 - German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 - Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 - German round up Jews in Amsterdam
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 - New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)
1943 - Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track
           & field championship in NY
1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 - Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 - Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 - US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 - US troops occupy Biak
1946 - NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1947 - Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 - "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1948 - 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 - Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
1948 - Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1949 - Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 - Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia\
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 - Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 - "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1956 - Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field
           bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1958 - NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1960 - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
1960 - Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1960 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1960 - Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
1963 - 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 - Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1964 - 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD
1965 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1966 - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
1966 - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 - Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 - 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1969 - Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France
1969 - White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
1970 - "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 - British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
1970 - Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1971 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1973 - Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
1973 - Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 - SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13
           are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1976 - 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga
1976 - Carl Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, paroled
1976 - Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 - River Country opens
1977 - Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 - 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago,
           Minnesota & Dayton
1980 - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1980 - California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
1980 - Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in
           Montreal by unanimous decision
1981 - Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1981 - Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
1981 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1982 - 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1982 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1982 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1982 - Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1983 - 83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA
1983 - NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1984 - Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime
1984 - Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1986 - Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1986 - Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1987 - Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
1988 - Haiti's general assembly dissolves
1988 - NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
1988 - Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1988 - WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio
1988 - Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against
           women & minorities
1990 - 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1990 - Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
1990 - Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 - The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1992 - Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles)
1993 - 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1993 - 93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1994 - Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
1994 - Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
1994 - OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
1995 - Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
1997 - Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1999 - 99th US Golf Open: at Pinehurst CC NJ
2012 - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
2012 - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Weddings

1987 - Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
2004 - Former Dallas Cowboys running back Eddie George (30) weds R&B group "SWV" member
          Tamara Johnson (33) at the Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Singer Lionel Richie (1949)                       Actor John Goodman (1952)                   Actress Nicole Kidman (1967)


236 BC - Scipio Africanus, Roman statesman and general of the Second Punic War (d. 183 BC)
1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1566 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden
1583 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
1585 - Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]
1634 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75)
1642 - George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
1647 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91)
1674 - Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1694 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1717 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
1723 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1723 - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
1730 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1733 - Betty Washington sister of George Washington
1737 - Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese military (d. 1786)
1743 - Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns
1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1770 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1823 - Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 - George E Street, British (?) architect
1824 - John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1833 - Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter
1852 - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]
1858 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
1860 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
1861 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1864 - Worm Pander, sculptor
1866 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer
1866 - Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
1868 - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1872 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
1875 - Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
1883 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1883 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G the Graef], actor (Driestuiversopera)
1883 - Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
1885 - Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
1887 - Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
1891 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
1892 - S M Tretjakow, writer
1894 - George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1894 - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1897 - Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23)
1897 - Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
1899 - Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1899 - Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II)
1900 - Ernest White, composer
1901 - Iri Maruki, artist
1903 - Glenna Collett Vare, RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1904 - Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
1906 - Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1907 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1908 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
1909 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1909 - Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1911 - Gail Patrick, Birmingham Ala, actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy)
1911 - Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
1914 - Friedrich Zipp, composer
1915 - Terence Young, Shanghai China, director (Dr No, Thunderball)
1915 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002)
1916 - Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916 - William Balchin, geographer
1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
1917 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
1918 - George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
1918 - Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
1919 - Bruce Gordon, London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1919 - Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1920 - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1923 - Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
1924 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1924 - Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister
1925 - Audie Murphy, Kingston, Texas, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe
           Butterfly)
1925 - Doris J Hart, St Louis Mo, tennis player (Wimbledon 1951)
1926 - Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
1927 - John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928 - David Mitchell, British MP
1928 - Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party)
1928 - Martin Landau, Bkln, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1928 - Robert Satanowski, composer
1928 - Eric Dolphy, Los Angeles California, jazz musician, (d. 1964)
1929 - Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Hayd/Mozart/Schubert)
1930 - Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
1930 - John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)
1930 - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
1930 - Paul Pender, American boxer
1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
1931 - Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1931 - James Tolkan Calumet MI, actor (Weekend War, Leap of Faith)
1931 - Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
1931 - Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor (Oxford University)
1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
1932 - Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz)
1933 - Brett Halsey, Santa Ana California, actress (Paul-Follow the Sun)
1933 - Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor
1933 - Danny Aiello, NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1933 - Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)
1933 - Jean Boiteux, France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 - Brian Barder, British high commissar (Australia)
1934 - Cornel Taranu, composer
1934 - Wendy Craig, England, actress (Joseph Andrews)
1934 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
1935 - Anthony Pilkington, CEO (Pilkington Pic)
1936 - Billy Guy, Attasca Tx, rock baritone (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936 - Bobby Nunn, rocker (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936 - Leon Hughes, rocker
1937 - Jerry Keller, rocker/actor (If Ever I See You Again)
1938 - Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer
1939 - Budge Rogers, British rugby player
1939 - R B Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in 60s)
1940 - John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
1940 - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
1941 - Stephen Frears, England, dir (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons)
1941 - Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
1942 - Brian Wilson, Inglewood California, vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1943 - Andy Etchebarren, baseball catcher (Balt Orioles)
1944 - Dave Nelson, baseball player
1944 - Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
1944 - David Roper, English actor
1945 - David S Monson, (Rep-R-UT, 1985- )
1945 - James F Buchli, New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1945 - John McCook, Ventura Cal, actor (Codename: Firefox, Bold & Beautiful)
1945 - [Morna] Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
1946 - Andre Watts, Nuremberg Germany, concert pianist (Oberon)
1946 - Duchess of Gloucester
1946 - Bob Vila, television presenter
1946 - Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor
1947 - Candy Clark, Ok, actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
1947 - David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo)
1947 - John Forbes, horse trainer
1947 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
1947 - Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
1947 - Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
1948 - Joey Molland, rocker
1948 - Nigel Morris, rocker (Isotope)
1948 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
1949 - Bob Andrews, England, rock keyboardist/vocalist
1949 - Paul Shaw, Collingwood Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1949 - Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
1951 - Peter Gordon, composer
1951 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
1951 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
1952 - Jayne Thobois, Noblesville IN, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-56th)
1952 - John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)
1952 - Larry Riley, Memphis Tn, actor (Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing)
1952 - Vikram Seth, Indian poet
1953 - Alan Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1953 - Brian J Duffy, Boston, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92)
1953 - Raul Ramirez, tennis player
1953 - Willy Rampf, German F1 technical director (BMW Sauber)
1954 - Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player (Northampton)
1954 - Allan Lamb, cricketer (Langebaanweg, Cape Prov, 79 Tests for England)
1954 - Michael Anthony, rock bassist/singer (Van Halen-Pretty Woman)
1954 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
1956 - Peter Reid, English former footballer
1957 - Butch Patrick, Inglewood California, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
1957 - Koko B. Ware, American professional wrestler
1958 - Chuck Wagner, Nashville Tn, actor (Automan)
1958 - Dickie Thon, baseball player
1958 - Ron Hornaday, American racecar driver
1958 - Kelly Johnson [Bernadette], Edmonton, London, guitarist (Girlschool), (d. 2007)
1960 - Donna Mayhew, Taylor Penn, javelin thrower
1960 - John Taylor, rocker
1960 - Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
1960 - [Nigel] John Taylor, England, rock bassist (Duran Duran-Girls on Film)
1961 - Gary Varsho, baseball player
1961 - Karin Enke, Dresden German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1963 - Kirk Baptiste, Beaumont Tx, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1963 - Matt Anger, Walnut Creek Cal, tennis star
1963 - Amir Derakh, American musician (Orgy)
1963 - Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
1964 - Najee Mustafaa, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Paul David Goydos, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1994 BC Open-7th)
1964 - Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer
1965 - Michael Landon Jr, Encino California, actor (Bonanza The Return)
1967 - Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1967 - Pat Jablonski, Toledo, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
1967 - Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
1968 - Fred McAfee, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Garry Howe, WLAF nose tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Mike McCarthy, Bkln NY, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-88, 96)
1969 - Gerald Dixon, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Malivai Washington, Glenn Cove NY, tennis star (Olympics-96)
1970 - Shay-Oren Smadja, Israel, men's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
1970 - Andrea Nahles, German politician
1970 - Bruce Woodcock, American computer games analyst
1971 - Rodney Rogers, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1971 - William Gaines, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Jeordie White, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1972 - Jo Roberts, WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Jozef Stumpel, Nitra CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Boston)
1972 - Juan Castro, Sinaloa Mexico, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1972 - Martin Keino, Nyeri Kenya, 1.5k runner
1972 - Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996)
1972 - Paul Bako, American baseball player
1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
1974 - Jami Ferrell, Munncie Indiana, playmate (Jan 1997)
1975 - Francois Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Maurice Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
1976 - Jerome Fontamillas,Filipino American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 - Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
1976 - Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player
1976 - Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
1978 - LaVar Arrington, American football player
1978 - Quinton Jackson, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 - Frank Lampard, English footballer
1978 - Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer
1978 - Bobby Seay, American baseball player
1979 - Sydne Vogel, Anchorage Alaska, figure skater (1996 NW Pac Sr champ)
1979 - Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash)
1979 - Charles Howell III, Professional Golfer
1979 - Cael Sanderson, Olympic Wrestler
1979 - Lani Billard, Canadian actress
1980 - Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby union footballer
1980 - Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist
1980 - Franco Semioli, Italian footballer
1980 - Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarrist (Mest)
1981 - Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
1983 - Darren Sproles, American football player
1983 - Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
1983 - Josh Childress, American basketball player
1985 - Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
1985 - Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
1988 - Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress
1989 - Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
1997 - Maria Lark, Russian-born American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Deaths

Engineer Jack Kilby (2005)


451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
537 - Saint Silverius, and Pope till deposed in March 537, starves to death in exile
840 - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
1585 - Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1597 - Willem Barentsz/Barents, Dutch navigator. Barents Sea named after him
1649 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1751 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1833 - Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 - Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1842 - Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1846 - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1876 - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
1883 - Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1888 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1890 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1917 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1922 - Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 - Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1933 - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1940 - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1941 - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 - Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1948 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1950 - Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1953 - Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1959 - Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1960 - Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1960 - Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57
1963 - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1964 - Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1965 - Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1972 - Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 - Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1975 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1977 - Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1978 - Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1980 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 - Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 - Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 - Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1994 - Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1995 - Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
1995 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1996 - Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 - Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 - Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 - Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1997 - Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 - Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, dies at 81
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2007 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
2010 - Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (b. 1916)
2011 - Ryan Dunn, American actor (b. 1977)
2012 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, dies at 91

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st June


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                           Director Steven Spielberg                   Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champion               Tennis Player Steffi Graf 
Mike Tyson


524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
1498 - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1529 - Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France
1547 - Great fire in Moscow
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 - The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric
           views
1661 - Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1672 - Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
1672 - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1684 - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name
           of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the
           city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her
           disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 - Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 - 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
1788 - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
1788 - Vizille France population demands local parliament
1791 - Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1792 - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
1805 - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1849 - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1858 - Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1863 - Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1868 - Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon
           County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1887 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1893 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1895 - British Roseberry government falls
1898 - Guam becomes a territory of US
1900 - Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls
           so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1903 - Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
1904 - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY
           club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
1907 - 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1907 - E W Scripps founded United Press
1913 - Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915,
           striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1916 - Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1919 - Bauer forms German government
1919 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1921 - HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
1923 - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1924 - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1930 - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
1932 - Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC)
1932 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933 - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1937 - French People's front government-Blum falls
1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1938 - Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1939 - NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral
           sclerosis
1940 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver,
           British Columbia.
1941 - 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1941 - After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1942 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
1942 - President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
1942 - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1943 - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1944 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin
1945 - US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II
1946 - 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1946 - Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1946 - Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
1948 - 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1948 - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-
           Columbia Records)
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1948 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 - WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1951 - "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of
           Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1954 - John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1956 - Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1956 - German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
1956 - Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1958 - French franc devalues
1960 - Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1963 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1964 - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 - Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get
           3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
1964 - 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared
           after release from a Mississippi jail
1965 - 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis
1966 - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1967 - Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat
           them 6-3
1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
1969 - 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
1969 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1969 - John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
1969 - Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
1970 - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
1970 - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
1970 - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 - 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
1971 - 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA
1971 - Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
1971 - Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
1975 - "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
1975 - Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley
1975 - Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1975 - West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1976 - Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
1977 - Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
1977 - Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London
1979 - Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1981 - 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa
1981 - Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf
1981 - Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
1981 - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
1982 - John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by
           reason of insanity
1983 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983 - Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1985 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in
           Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1986 - "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
1986 - "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
1986 - Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals
1986 - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986 - Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1987 - 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1987 - Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
1987 - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
1988 - 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
1988 - Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon
1988 - Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
1989 - Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
1989 - Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1989 - Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia
1990 - 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die
1990 - Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
1990 - Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990 - US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
1990 - At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a
           Yankee!"
1991 - Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
1991 - NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
1992 - 92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1992 - Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1992 - Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb
1993 - "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances
1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament
           (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
1997 - "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 perfs
1997 - 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st
1997 - Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
1998 - 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club SF
2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in
           Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 - Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996
           bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2002 - Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout
           over Mike Tyson
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2012 - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2012 - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
2012 - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to
           one

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Weddings

1930 - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell
1940 - 37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside,
           California
1942 - Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
1976 - Country singer Reba McEntire (21) weds national steer wrestling champion Charlie Battles
1986 - The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in
           Las Vegas
1991 - Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ)
1992 - Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
1992 - Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
1997 - "Bridget Jones' Diary" actor Colin Firth (36) weds Italian film producer Livia Giuggioli (27) in
            Tuscany, Italy
1998 - "Home Alone" actor Macaulay Culkin (17) weds broadway actress Rachel Miner (17) in Stone
            Church in New Preston, Connecticut
2002 - "Tuck Everlasting" actor Jonathan Jackson (20) weds "General Hospital" actress Lisa Vultaggio
           (29)
2012 - Actor Aaron Johnson (22) weds film director and artist Sam Taylor Wood (45) in Somerset