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This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Birthdays

                     
Writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)                 Duke of Cambridge
                                                                Prince William (1982)


1002 - Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)
1577 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1596 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1640 - Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1668 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1732 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1740 - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
1750 - Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1774 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1790 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1805 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1817 - James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1818 - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
1818 - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1823 - Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1839 - Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839 - Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 - John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1839 - Machado de Assis, writer
1844 - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
1859 - Henry O Tanner, artist
1862 - Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 - Johannes Schlaf, writer
1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1865 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1873 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1876 - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
1879 - Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and
           banker (d. 1941)
1882 - Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1883 - Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement) (d. 1958)
1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1890 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
1891 - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1899 - Pavel Haas, composer
1900 - Gunnar Ek, composer
1902 - Wilhelm Maler, composer
1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1903 - Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
1903 - Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
1903 - Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
1903 - Louis Krasner, violinist
1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1905 - Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
1905 - Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
1906 - Luis Maria Millet, composer
1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
1909 - Kurt Schwaen, composer
1910 - Bela Tardos, composer
1910 - Charles Jones, composer
1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1912 - Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)
1913 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1914 - Jan Decadt, composer
1914 - William Vickrey, economist
1916 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1918 - James Bysse Joll, historian
1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1920 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1921 - Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1921 - Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw)
1921 - Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 - Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)
1921 - Jean de Broglie, French politician
1922 - Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954)
1922 - Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
1923 - John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
1924 - Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
1924 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
1925 - Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
1925 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
1926 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
1927 - Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, (Mayor-Cleve)/TV newscaster
1927 - Jackie Collum, baseball player
1928 - Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
1928 - V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1929 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (Paki bat in Test v NZ 1956, scored 8*)
1929 - John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)
1929 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
1930 - Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
1930 - Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
1930 - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 - Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
1931 - Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
1931 - Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)
1932 - Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)
1932 - Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
1932 - Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)
1932 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
1933 - Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
1934 - Wulf Kirsten, writer
1935 - Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste)
1935 - Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)
1936 - O C Smith, rocker
1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
1937 - John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965)
1938 - Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )
1938 - James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England)
1938 - Ron Ely, Hereford, Texas, American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1939 - Charles Boone, composer
1939 - Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
1940 - Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
1940 - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
1941 - Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)
1941 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
1942 - Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1942 - William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general
1942 - Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
1942 - Henry S. Taylor, American writer
1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer
1944 - Corinna Tsopel, Athens, actress (Man Called Horse)/Miss Universe (64)
1944 - Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1944 - Jon Hiseman, rocker
1944 - Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
1944 - Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)
1945 - Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
1946 - Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)
1946 - Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)
1946 - Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)
1946 - Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1946 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
1947 - Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)
1947 - Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange)
1947 - Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 - Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)
1947 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1948 - Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1948 - Ian McEwan, English writer
1948 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
1949 - Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)
1950 - Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)
1950 - Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Alberta-3rd)
1950 - Anne Carson, Canadian poet
1950 - Gérard Lanvin, French actor
1951 - Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist/singer/songwriter (East Street Band)
1952 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
1953 - Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player
1953 - Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
1953 - Michael Bowen, American actor
1953 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1954 - Anne Kirkbridge, actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)
1954 - Jeremy Coney, cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)
1954 - Robert Pastorelli, Bkln NY, actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown)
1954 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954 - Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
1954 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress
1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1955 - David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards)
1955 - Leigh J McCloskey, LA California, actor (Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp)
1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
1956 - Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)
1957 - Berke Breathed, cartoonist (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)
1957 - Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 - Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)
1959 - Kathy Mattea, country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)
1959 - Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
1961 - Kip Winger, rocker (Winger-17)
1961 - Manu Chao, Spanish musician
1961 - Sascha Konietzko, German musician
1961 - Karen Barber, ice skater
1962 - Marc Copage, LA California, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)
1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
1962 - Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Jeff Musselman, baseball player
1963 - Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1964 - Doug Savant, Burbank California, actor (Matt Fielding-Melrose Place)
1964 - Kari Kennell, Colorado, playmate (Feb, 1988)/actress (Eric's Revenge)
1964 - Sammi Davis-Voss, Kidderminster England, actress (Hope & Glory)
1964 - David Morrissey, British actor
1965 - Michael Dolan, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)
1965 - Larry Wachowski, film director
1965 - Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
1966 - David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)
1966 - Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)
1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
1966 - Mancow Muller, American radio personality
1967 - Derrick Coleman, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Michele Smith, Califon NJ, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Robert Drummond, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 - Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
1967 - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire
1967 - Jim Breuer, American comedian
1968 - Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton NZ, coxless rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Brandon Douglas, Oklahoma City, actor (Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming)
1968 - Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1968 - Henry Newby, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Alisyn Camerota, American journalist
1968 - Sonique, British DJ
1968 - Gretchen Carlson, American journalist
1969 - Chris Perez, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Donovan Osborne, Roseville CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
1970 - Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1970 - John Roethlisberger, Afton Minn, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
1970 - Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
1971 - Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
1971 - Nicole Stevenson, Melbourne Australia, backstroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1971 - Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1971 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
1972 - Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Tony Berti, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
1972 - Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
1973 - Alyson Annan, Sydney NSW Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 - Juliette Lewis, LA California, actress (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear)
1973 - Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 - Sammie Burroughs, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Rob Kelly, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
1974 - Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
1974 - Rob Kelly, American football player
1974 - Neely Jenkins, American musician
1976 - Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996)
1976 - Antonio Cochran, American football player
1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician
1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
1977 - Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1978 - Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
1978 - Jack Guzman, American actor
1978 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress
1978 - Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin football player
1979 - Chris Pratt, American actor
1980 - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
1981 - Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, London, England, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana
1984 - Franck Perera, French racing driver
1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
1985 - Anthony Morelli, American football player
1985 - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
1987 - Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
1987 - Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
1987 - Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Deaths

Humanist philosopher
Niccolo Machiavelli (1527)


223 - Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
524 - Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28
1205 - Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies at 64
1421 - Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57
1529 - John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1573 - Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 - Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies
1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1876 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
1884 - Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies
1887 - Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1900 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
1908 - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
1913 - Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37
1914 - Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1925 - Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60
1934 - [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)
1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
1940 - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1940 - W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
1945 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
1946 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 - Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
1957 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
1964 - Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964 - James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964 - Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist, murder at 21
1965 - Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94
1968 - Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1969 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 34
1970 - Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68
1972 - Seth Bingham, composer, dies at 90
1973 - Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49
1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 - Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1981 - Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1983 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (Tijl), dies at 87
1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor
           (b. 1914)
1988 - Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, US football coach
1989 - Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60), dies at 56
1989 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host, dies at 70
1992 - Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies
1992 - Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38
1993 - Frank Moro, entertainer, dies
1993 - Jerry Strivelli, actor (Out for Justice, Lock Up), dies at 61
1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1994 - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31
1995 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster, dies at 71
1995 - Tristan Jones, sailor, dies at 71
1997 - Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
2011 - Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd June


Historical Events

                                   
Astronomer & Physicist                   32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt        Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder
Galileo Galilei   

                                   
Tennis Great John McEnroe                    Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey                    Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II


217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid
              kingdom.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King
              Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
816 - Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
1377 - Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1476 - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
1497 - Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
1533 - Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
1596 - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen
           again
1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it
           was wrong)
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
1740 - King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1772 - Slavery outlawed in England
1774 - English parliament accepts Quebec Act
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1799 - England & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic
1807 - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia
1814 - 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire
1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1832 - John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1847 - Doughnut created
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1849 - Stephen C Massett opens concert at San Francisco courthouse using only piano in Calif
1851 - Fire destroys part of SF
1864 - Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid)
1864 - Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia
1865 - 1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace
1868 - Arkansas re-enters US
1870 - 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1870 - Congress creates Department of Justice
1873 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
1874 - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1875 - Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
1889 - Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1893 - British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
1906 - Hakon VII crowned king of Norway
1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 - King George V of England crowned
1915 - BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1918 - 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63)
1918 - Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
1921 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1922 - Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1925 - Spain & France fight Morocco
1926 - Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
1929 - Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
1930 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
1931 - RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1932 - NL, finally approves players wearing numbers
1933 - German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1936 - Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)
1937 - Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
1939 - Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940 - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
1941 - Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1941 - Finland invades Karelia
1941 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states
1941 - Germany, Italy & Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1941 - Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1942 - Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1942 - Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
1943 - WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1944 - British 14th army frees Imphal Assam
1944 - FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1944 - Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
1944 - Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
1946 - Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket
1946 - Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
1947 - 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1947 - Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)
1949 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 - Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
1954 - Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1955 - Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
1955 - US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
1958 - Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1959 - "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
1959 - "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
1959 - Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
1959 - Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
1959 - Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
1959 - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1961 - Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo
1961 - Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why,
           Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1962 - 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1962 - French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
1963 - "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips"
1965 - Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's
1966 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
1968 - "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
1969 - Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1970 - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1970 - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1970 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1972 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
1973 - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
1973 - George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"
1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land
1975 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 - "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
1976 - SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
1977 - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1977 - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released
1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
1978 - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill
1978 - Pluto's satelite Charon, is discovered
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit
1979 - Pro Football Researchers Association forms (Canton Ohio)
1980 - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1981 - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
1981 - Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
1981 - John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon
1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1982 - Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place
1982 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana take Prince William home from hospital
1982 - Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
1983 - "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France
1983 - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle
1983 - NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1984 - Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
1984 - Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins
1984 - Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1984 - Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO
1985 - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
1985 - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
1986 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1986 - Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
1986 - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1987 - Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
1990 - Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
1990 - Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox
1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1990 - Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
1991 - "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 perfs
1991 - Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft
1991 - Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines
1992 - 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg IDed as Czar Nicholas II & wife
1992 - Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
1993 - Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving
1994 - 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1994 - Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
1994 - Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
1994 - US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950)
1996 - 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6
1996 - Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
1996 - Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut
1997 - Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic
1997 - Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International
1997 - World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24
2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
2009 - 2009 Washington Metro subway crash: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA,
           killing 9 and injuring over 80.
2012 - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106

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This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Weddings

1894 - Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
1985 - "Dallas" actress Victoria Principal (35) weds plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (43) in Dallas
1996 - "Full House" actress Candace Cameron (20) weds Montreal Canadiens hockey player Valeri
           Bure (22) at the Church of the Valle in Van Nuys, California
2003 - Actor Adam Sandler (36) weds actress-model Jackie Titone (28) at Dick Clark's oceanfront in
           Malibu, California
2005 - "21 Jump Street" actress Holly Robinson Peete (40) weds former pro quarterback Rodney
           Peete (39) in an outdoor ceremony held at the Wynn Las Vegas resort
2008 - Record producer Timbaland (37) weds Monique Idlett (33) in Aruba
2011 - British actor best known as British secret agent "James Bond" Daniel Craig (43) weds film and
           theatre actress Rachel Weisz (41) at a private ceremony in New York

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This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Meryl Streep (1949)                    Author Dan Brown (1964)                    Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub (1971)


1478 - Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia (Philips I)
1611 - Pablo Bruna, composer
1613 - Lambert Pietkin, composer
1674 - Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo
1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer
1701 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish architect (Christiansborg Castle)
1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
1738 - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1741 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
1742 - Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer
1757 - George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver I
1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS]
1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare)
1814 - James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 [or Jul 28 1833]
1824 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
1830 - Theodor Leschetizky, composer
1837 - Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
1840 - Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker)
1845 - Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
1855 - Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player)
1856 - Henry Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn)
1859 - Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music)
1861 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
1869 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39)
1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1876 - Gwen (Gwendolen) John, Haverfordwest, Wales, Welsh painter
1879 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
1883 - Jose Rolon, composer
1884 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 - Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse)
1887 - Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog
1888 - Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
1891 - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (White Enemy)
1891 - Harry Seymour, NY, actor (Boy Meets Girl, Tenderfoot)
1892 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1893 - Osvald Chlubna, composer
1896 - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea)
1897 - Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher (Process of Civilization)
1897 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1899 - Dorothy Devore, Fort Worth TX, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil)
1899 - Michal Kalecki, Polish economist
1900 - Jennie Tourel, St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47)
1901 - Jack Whiting, Phila Pa, actor/singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1901 - Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor (Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession)
1902 - Arnold J d'Ailly, dir (Nederlandsche Bank)/mayor (Amsterdam, 1946-56)
1902 - David Burns, actor (Music Man, Hello Dolly!)
1902 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
1903 - Carl Hubbell, pitcher (NY Giants)-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA
1905 - Walter Leigh, composer
1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife
1906 - Billy Wilder, Vienna, dir (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17)
1906 - Richard Fanshawe, England, equestion 3 day event (Olympic-bronze-1936)
1907 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator/author (Gift from the Sea)
1907 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
1908 - George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher
1909 - Katherine Dunham, dancer/choreographer (Casbah, Stormy Weather)
1909 - Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], US director (80 days)
1910 - Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice)
1911 - Guus Jansen, jazz pianist (Net als Toen)
1911 - Marie Philipsen-Braun, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1928)
1912 - Vit Nejedly, composer
1912 - Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1913 - Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Poland, lawyer (Solidarity)
1914 - Lilo Hardel, writer
1916 - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
1918 - Richard Eastham, Opelousas LA, actor (Not With My Wife) [or Jan 22]
1920 - Chandrasekhar Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52)
1920 - Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator
1920 - Paul Frees, Chicago Ill, animation voice (Bullwinkle)
1921 - Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983- )
1921 - Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street, Showboat)
1921 - Joseph Papp, Bkln, stage producer/director (Pirates of Penzance)
1922 - Bill Blass, Ft Wayne Ind, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1923 - Jimmy Cameron, cricketer (brother of John WI batsman 1948-49)
1926 - Ruth Zechlin, composer
1927 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
1928 - Ralph Waite, White Plains, New York, American actor and director (Cool Hand Luke, The
           Waltons)
1931 - Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician (VVD)
1931 - Hennadiy Udovenko, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, politician and diplomat (UN General Assembly
           President, 1997-8), (d. 2013)
1932 - Michael Horvit, composer
1932 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 - Prunella Scales, English actress
1933 - Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of SF/(Sen-D-Ca)
1933 - Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
1933 - Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
1934 - Arthur Miller, legal reporter
1935 - V V Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests)
1936 - Kris Kristofferson, Brownsville TX, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium)
1936 - Verne Allison, singer (Dells-Open Up My Heart)
1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
1938 - Andrew Brown, film Producer
1939 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL
1940 - Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up)
1940 - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
1941 - Ed Bradley, Phila, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1941 - Michael Lerner, Brooklyn NY, actor (8 Men Out, Harlem Nights)
1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - Margreet M H Kamp, Dutch MP (VVD)
1942 - Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
1943 - Jimmy Castor, NYC, rocker/sax (Troglodyte, Jimmy Castor Bunch)
1943 - Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist, producer and arranger
1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austria, actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa)
1944 - Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
1944 - Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1944 - Steve Weber, guitarist, (Rounders-Holy "Boobs" Modal)
1945 - Howard Kaylan, rocker (Flo & Eddie/Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1946 - Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Police Academy) [or Jan 22]
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 - David L Lander, Bkln NY, actor (Squiggy-Laverne & Shirley)
1947 - Don Henley, drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)
1947 - Murray Webb, cricketer (NZ fast bowler in 3 Tests, 4 wkts at 117 75)
1947 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed)
1947 - Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
1947 - Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles
1948 - "Pistol" Pete Maravich, NBA star (Atlanta Hawks)
1948 - Nolan Clarke, cricketer (Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart)
1948 - Sue Roberts, LPGA golfer
1948 - Todd Rundgren, Upper Darby PA, singer/guitarist (Hello it's Me)
1949 - Alan Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1949 - Gary Moffet, Montreal, rock guitarist (April Wine)
1949 - Larry Junstrom, rock bassist (.38 Special)
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks)
1949 - Meryl Streep, New Jersey, American actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
1950 - Murphy Cross, Harve de Grace Md, actor (Phyl & Mikhy, Perfect)
1952 - Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer (Girls Just want to have Fun, Time after Time)
1953 - Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
1954 - Amparo Munoz, Malgra Spain, Miss Universe (1974)
1954 - Bobby Valentino, rocker (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 - Charles T Canady, (Rep-R-Florida)
1954 - Chris Lemmon, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Richard-Duet) [or Jan 22]
1954 - Freddie Prinze, NYC, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man)
1955 - LeAnn Cassaday, LPGA golfer
1956 - Derek Forbes, rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1956 - Green [Gartside], rock vocalist (Scritti Politti-Flesh & Blood)
1956 - Tim Russ, Wash DC, actor (Tuvoc-Star Trek Voyager)
1956 - Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
1957 - Garry Beers, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1957 - John Ryder, rock bassist (Face To Face)
1957 - Nick Santagata, jockey
1958 - Bruce Campbell, Birmingham, Michigan, American actor/producer/director (Army of Darkness,
           Evil Dead II)
1959 - Wayne Federman, American comedian
1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
1960 - Colleen Devine, San Gabriel Cal, actress (Irreconcilable Differences)
1960 - Tracy Pollan, NYC, actress (Family Ties)/aka Mrs Michael J Fox
1960 - Erin Brockovich-Ellis
1961 - Bobby Gillespie, rocker (Primal Scream)
1961 - Jimmy Somerville, Glasgow Soctland, rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards)
1961 - Stephen Batchelor
1962 - Clyde "Glide" Drexler, NBA Guard (Houston Rockets, Port Trailblazers)
1962 - Ruby Turner, rocker (No Where to Run)
1963 - Anne-Marie Ruddock, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
1963 - Randy Couture, Everett Wash, 198 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olymp-96)
1963 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1964 - Amy Brenneman, New London Ct, actress (Janice-NYPD Blue)
1964 - Greg Anderson, NBA forward/center (San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks)
1964 - Kevin Sargeant, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
1964 - Mark Royals, NFL punter (New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions)
1964 - Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist (Jesus Jones-Devil you Know)
1964 - Nico Jalink, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, NAC)
1964 - Tommy Cunningham, rocker (Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was)
1964 - Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, American author of thriller fiction (The Da Vinci Code)
1965 - Ľubomír Moravčík, Slovakian footballer
1965 - Uwe Boll, German film director
1966 - Camille Benjamin, Cleveland Ohio, tennis star
1966 - Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire
1966 - Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler (South African)
1966 - Paul Randolph, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Al Carlay, Manila Philippines, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1967 - Eric Green, NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Mark van Hintum, soccer player (Willem II)
1968 - Darrell Armstrong, NBA guard (Orlando Magic)
1968 - Paula Irvine, Hollywood California, actress (Lily Blake-Santa Barbara)
1969 - Derek Russell, NFL wide receiver (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Anne "Annie" Summertime Kakela, US rower (Olympics-4th-96)
1970 - David Frisch, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)
1970 - Rastko Cvetkovic, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
1971 - Brant Brown, Porterville CA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1971 - Laryssa Biesenthal, Walkertown Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, Trenton, Michigan, American actress (Chloe O'Brian-24)
1971 - Kurt Warner, American football player
1973 - Benjamin Fairbrother, CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Cory Alexander, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1973 - Lacy Goranson, Evanston Ind, actress (Becky-Roseanne)
1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality
1974 - Mark Wetges, Walnut Creek California, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1974 - Nicole Juvan, Essex Junction Vermont, Miss America-Vermont (1997)
1974 - Donald Faison, American actor
1974 - Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1975 - Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer
1975 - Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
1976 - Gordon Moakes, English musician (Bloc Party)
1978 - Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
1979 - Joey Cheek, American speed skater
1979 - Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer
1979 - Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
1981 - Lisa Moro, Victoria Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors
1982 - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1982 - Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
1984 - Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer
1984 - Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
1985 - Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 - Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Ramin Ott, American Samoan football player
1988 - Kieran Lee, English football player

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This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Deaths

Actress Judy Garland (1969)


1276 - Innocent V, [Pierre the Tarantaise], Pope (1276), dies at about 36
1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 - John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65
1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
1634 - Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
1735 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, dies at 71
1741 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer, dies at 38
1745 - Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41
1754 - Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91
1777 - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
1803 - Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies
1843 - Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1874 - Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
1885 - Mahdi, [Muhammad Ahmed], Sudanese music reviewer, dies
1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1897 - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
1898 - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66
1903 - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1906 - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34
1909 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65
1910 - Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
1922 - Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1926 - Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56
1928 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46
1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1930 - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
1932 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
1933 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
1938 - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1940 - M A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies
1945 - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1945 - Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1950 - Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65
1954 - Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
1955 - Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
1955 - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
1964 - Havank, [HF van der Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60
1965 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor/co-founder (UNA), dies at 72
1965 - David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63
1966 - Roger Blunt, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 330 runs, 12 wickets), dies
1967 - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79
1969 - Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), dies at 47 of an overdose
1973 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77
1974 - Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere
           Ubu) (b. 1952)
1979 - Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
1979 - Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
1981 - Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies
1982 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75
1984 - Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75
1987 - Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance), dies at 88
1988 - Bramwell Fletcher, actor (Mummy, Raffles, Svengali), dies at 84
1988 - Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), dies of ALS at 71
1988 - Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies
1989 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer, dies at 74
1989 - Lee Calhoun, hurdler (Olympics-gold-56, 60), dies at 66
1989 - Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
1991 - Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
1991 - Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56
1992 - Chuck Mitchell, actor (Penitentiary), dies
1992 - Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein), dies
1992 - M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83
1993 - Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of heart attack at 93
1993 - M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52
1993 - Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81
1994 - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
1995 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91
1996 - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul, dies at 65
1996 - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (228 wkts 61 Tests for Australia), dies at 74
1996 - Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81
1996 - Tertius Metcalf, businessman, dies at 63
1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
1997 - Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 - Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
2004 - Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
2006 - Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
2007 - Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet(b. 1964)
2007 - Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
2007 - Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, German artist, worked collaboratively with Hilla Becher his wife, dies
           aged 75
2008 - George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
2008 - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)
2011 - Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
2012 - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Canadian Hall of Fame NHL player, dies at 85

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This Day in History for 23rd June


Historical Events

                                   
Empress of Russia                                 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass                 Singer-Rocket Scientist
Catherine the Great                                                                                                Werner von Braun

                                   
Novelist Thomas Mann                            Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                 Animator Walter Elias Disney
                                                                Ernie Banks

                                   
Rocker Alice Cooper                                 Comedian David Letterman                    Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan


930 - World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
1298 - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king
1305 - French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
1532 - Henry VIII & Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V
1565 - Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
1585 - Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
1658 - Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon
1661 - Marriage contract for Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal
1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty
           "not sworn to, nor broken"
1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave
           Nova Scotia, Canada.
1724 - Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1757 - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in
           Germany.
1760 - Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia
1775 - 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1776 - Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey
           (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
1784 - 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1810 - John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1821 - Dutch troops conquer Palembang
1848 - Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1854 - Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use
1860 - Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1863 - Tullahoma campaign, TN
1865 - At Ft Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1888 - Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president
1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of
           Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1902 - Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce
1909 - Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1915 - Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1915 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)
1917 - 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
1917 - Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out &
           retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1918 - Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0
1919 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) incorporates
1919 - Nitti government forms in Italy
1922 - 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St George
1924 - 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
1925 - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1925 - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
1926 - 8th government of Briand van France forms
1926 - Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's
1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1927 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
1930 - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
1931 - Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1932 - Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with
           one team (Cleveland)
1933 - Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC
1935 - Anthony Eden offers Benito Mussolini, Somalian harbor
1938 - Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1938 - Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1938 - NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
1939 - Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1939 - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey
1940 - Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
1940 - RAF bombs Schiphol
1941 - Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it
           mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 - Dutch artsens protest against nazis
1943 - RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde
1944 - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1944 - Russian offensive in central front sector
1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
1945 - 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
1945 - Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
1947 - Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa
1947 - Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1949 - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1949 - Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
1950 - Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
1950 - Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
1950 - Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck,
           Section 4
1951 - British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 - Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1952 - US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
1954 - 122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994)
1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1956 - "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1958 - Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958 - Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock
1958 - Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and
           allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960 - "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the US
1961 - Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
1961 - Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1961 - Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
1962 - "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St James NYC after 205 perfs
1962 - Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government
1962 - Larry Doby, retires from Cleve Indians to play in Japan
1963 - 63rd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1963 - NY Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1963 - Pres Kennedy tours West-Europe
1964 - Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam
1967 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1967 - LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ
1967 - US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires
           stadium.
1969 - French government of Couve de Murville resigns
1969 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 - Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
1970 - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
1970 - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
1970 - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1971 - Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0
1971 - WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972 - Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1972 - Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the
           British Pound.
1973 - "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
1973 - "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances
1973 - Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
1974 - 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1975 - 75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL
1975 - Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1976 - CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
1977 - 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1979 - Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
1979 - Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
1979 - West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1980 - "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime
1980 - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
1980 - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
1981 - "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
1981 - 33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
1981 - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 - French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1981 - NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1981 - Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket
           beats Rochester 3-2
1982 - "Cleavage" opens & closes at Playhouse Theater NYC
1982 - -117°F; All time low at South Pole
1982 - Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1982 - Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
1982 - Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight
1983 - Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
1983 - US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1985 - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1986 - Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
1986 - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
1988 - Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1988 - Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1989 - Movie "Batman" premieres
1990 - A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty
1990 - Moldavia declares independence
1990 - Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home
1990 - TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year
1990 - Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1991 - "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
1991 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
1991 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1991 - Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1992 - "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh
1992 - Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time
1992 - Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election
1993 - Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff
1993 - Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis
1993 - UN authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
1994 - Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls
           him safe, runing Witt's perfect game
1996 - "Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 perfs
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 - Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
1997 - Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews,
           Scotland's oldest university
2005 - San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his third), San
           Antonio
2012 - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
2012 - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
2012 - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees

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This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Weddings

1930 - Businessman Nelson Rockefeller (21) weds Mary Todhunter Clark
1967 - John Entwistle of rock group Who weds Alison Wise
1996 - Five-time Olympic speedskater gold medalist Bonnie Blair (32) weds four-time Olympian Dave
           Cruikshank (27) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 - "Amadeus" actor Tom Hulce (42) weds Italian artist Cecilia Ermini
2012 - "NCIS: Los Angeles" actor Eric Christian Olsen (35) weds Sarah Wright near Jackson Hole,
           Wyoming

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This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Divorces

1993 - Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff

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This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
King of Great Britain                                Country Singer                                       Actress Selma Blair (1972)
Edward VIII (1894)                                   June Carter Cash (1929)


47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
1160 - Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder (Trinitarians)
1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 - Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1540 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
1612 - Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet
1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
1703 - Maria Leszczyńska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
1749 - Konrad Back, composer
1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
1763 - Josephine Martiniques, empress of France (1804-14)
1774 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1799 - John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1801 - Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1810 - Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina
1818 - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances (1879-81)
1822 - Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1824 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
1837 - Ernest Guiraud, composer
1838 - Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1852 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer
1855 - Maude Valerie White, composer
1858 - William Ernst Johnson, Cambridge England, mathematician
1859 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses)
1875 - Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
1876 - Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
1877 - Blair Fairchild, composer
1877 - Hermann Stephani, composer
1879 - William Ewart Berry, 1st viscount Camrose/English nobleman
1884 - Werner Krauss, Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Joyless Street)
1884 - Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1887 - Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag)
1887 - John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir)
1888 - Lee Moran, Chicago IL, actor (Circus Clown)
1888 - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa. Russian poet (d. 1966)
1892 - Able Kiviat, US, runner (Olympic-gold-1912)
1892 - Edmund Cobb, Albuquerque NM, western actor (Comanche Territory)
1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist
1893 - Donald McBride, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Irma)
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, Hoboken, New Jersey, American entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report)
1894 - Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
1897 - Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival)
1899 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer
1901 - Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador
1901 - Paul Verhoeven, Unna Germany, director
1902 - Howard T Engstrom, Boston, computer designer (Univac)
1902 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
1903 - Anthony Veiller, NYC, writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge)
1903 - Hans C Branner, Danish writer (Toys, Horse Rider)
1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
1904 - Carleton Coon, prof of anthropology (What in the World)
1904 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (South African leg spinner 1929-32)
1904 - Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist
1905 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen, writer
1907 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
1908 - Paulus Akkerman, [Paul fen Nijenborn], Frisian writer (Each om Each)
1910 - Jean Anouilh, France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival)
1910 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
1911 - David Ogilvy, advertising whiz (Ogilvy & Mathers)
1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)
1912 - Maurice Dallimore, England, actor (Collector, Lad: A Dog)
1913 - Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa)
1913 - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal)
1913 - William P Rogers, Norfolk NY, US secretary of state (1969-73)
1915 - Dennis Price, Twyford England, actor (Adventurers, Millionairess)
1916 - Irene Worth, [Hattie Abrams], Nebraska, actress (Nicolas & Alexandra)
1916 - Len Hutton, cricketer (England opener, 364 v Australia The Oval 1938)
1917 - Sid Watters Jr, horse trainer
1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
1920 - Paul Des Marais, composer
1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1922 - Francis Thorne, Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
1922 - Leonard Dorfman, horse trainer
1922 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1925 - Amada Galvez Santos Ocampo, composer
1925 - Art Modell, owner (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores), (d. 2012)
1925 - Richard Barber, cricketer (scored 12 & 5 in only Test NZ v WI 1956)
1925 - Miriam Karlin, English actress
1926 - Lars Johan Werle, composer
1927 - Bob Fosse, Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
1929 - Dave King, Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - Henri Pousseur, Malmö dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
1929 - June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1930 - Donn Fulton Eisele, Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1931 - Urs Jaeggi, writer
1932 - Bob Blair, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 19 Tests in 50s)
1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis MO, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw)
1935 - Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
1936 - Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director (Baantjer)
1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
1937 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
1940 - Alexander Irvine, Lord Chanceller of UK (1997- )
1940 - Diana Trask, Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1940 - Mike Shrimpton, cricketer (occasional NZ Test batsman 1963-74)
1940 - Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open)
1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Beatles)
1940 - Wilma Rudolph, St Bethlehem Tenn, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1960)
1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
1941 - Roger McDonald, Australian author
1941 - Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense
           Attorney
1943 - James Levine, musical conductor (Tosca)/dir (Metropolitan Opera)
1943 - Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer, Turing Award laureate
1944 - Rosetta Hightower, US singer (Don't Hang Up)
1945 - K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal (Westminster College Oxford)
1945 - Paul Goddard, Georgia, rock bassist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1945 - John Garang, Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005)
1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer.
1946 - Russ Thacker, Wash DC, producer (Golden Seal)
1946 - Ted Shackelford, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Gary-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
1947 - Bryan Brown, Sydney, actor (F/X, Gorillas in the Mist, Kim, Tai-Pan)
1948 - Clarence Thomas, Savannah Ga, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- )
1948 - Myles Goodwyn, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1948 - Nigel Osborne, composer
1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
1949 - Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster
1950 - Sally Geeson, Sussex England, actress (Bless This House)
1950 - Douglas C. Lord, Canadian businessman
1951 - Michèle Mouton, French race car driver
1953 - Filbert Bayi, Karatu Tanzania, 3k steeplechase (Olympic-silver-1980)
1953 - Roberta Leighton, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Ginger-Days of Our Lives)
1955 - Debbie Boostrom, Peoria ILL, playmate (Aug, 1981)
1955 - Pierre Corbeil, Canadian politician
1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1955 - Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer
1955 - Jordan, British actress and model
1955 - Jean Tigana, French footballer
1956 - Tony Hill, American football player
1957 - David Houghton, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 266 v Sri Lanka 1994)
1957 - Frances McDormand, actress, (Fargo, Academy Award)
1957 - Lee John, [John L Mcgregor], English singer/actor (Body Talk)
1959 - Danny Sharp, Hamilton Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Quinte Festival)
1960 - Donald Harrison, American musician
1960 - Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1961 - LaSalle Thompson, NBA forward/center (Phila 76ers)
1961 - Mark Drillich, Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff)
1961 - Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
1962 - Paul LaGreca, Bronx NY, actor (Big Trouble)
1962 - Richard Coles, rock keyboardist (Communards)
1962 - Kari Takko, Uusikaupunki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1962 - Kevin Yagher, TV/film special effects technician
1962 - Chuck Billy, American vocalist (Testament)
1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
1963 - Steve Shelley, American musician (CruciSorrys and Sonic Youth)
1964 - Joey Allen, Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 - Trent Bushey, Haverhill Mass, actor (David Rampal-All My Children)
1964 - Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
1965 - Dawn Whiteham, New London Ct, bodybuilder (Penthouse Nov 1995)
1965 - John "Chip" McKibben II, Balboa Island California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 - Leith Wastle, Benalla VIC, Australasia golfer
1965 - Peter O'Malley, Bathurst NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
1966 - Barbara Jordan, US softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1966 - Chantal Daucourt, Bienne Switz, mountain cyclist (world-bronze-95)
1966 - Vladislav Neiman, Israel, Men's flyweight boxer (Oly-1996)
1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
1966 - Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
1967 - Derrick Walker, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Laurie Wood, Orange California, playmate (March, 1989)
1967 - Helen Geake, British archaeologist
1968 - Kent Steffes, Ann Arbor Mich, beach volleyballer (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Ronnie West, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1969 - Elbert Ellis, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers)
1969 - Martin Klebba, American actor
1970 - A C Earl, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Kerri Ann Buchberger, Russell Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mike Bartrum, tight end (New England Patriots)
1970 - Rich Manning, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Robert Brooks, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Roger Knarren, soccer player (MVV)
1970 - Yann Tiersen, French musician
1971 - Felix Potvin, Anjou, NHL goalie (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1971 - Joe Rumolo, CFL defensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Cory Schlesinger, NHL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Larry Whigham, NFL safety (NE Patriots)
1972 - Roell Preston, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Selma Blair, Southfield, Michigan, American actress (Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde)
1972 - Ron Corning, American television anchor
1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1973 - Mark Larsen, jockey
1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
1974 - Dontonio Wingfield, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Lisa Bamford, Raleigh NC, Miss America-NC (1996)
1974 - Maria Carolina Christina, Princess of Netherlands
1974 - Mark Hendrickson, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1974 - Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
1975 - Alexander Serikow, Landshut GER, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1975 - Jane Jamieson, Australian heptathlete (Olympics-96)
1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
1976 - Paola Suarez, Pergamino Arg, tennis star (1995 Futures-Buenos Aires)
1976 - Wade Barrett, American soccer player
1976 - Joe Becker, American musician
1976 - Patrick Monahan, British comedian
1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 - Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
1976 - Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1977 - Hayden Foxe, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
1978 - Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
1978 - Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1978 - Matt Light, American football player
1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 - Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
1983 - Jason Berrent, American performer
1983 - Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Duffy, Welsh Singer
1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
1988 - Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
1990 - Samuel Lee, FIFA 08 World Champion
1992 - Bridget Sloan, American gymnast
1996 - Charlie Jones, British actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Deaths

Roman Emperor Vespasian (79)


79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor, dies at 69
758 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74
1018 - Henry I of Austria
1075 - Theoduinus, Beiers prince-bishop of Liege, dies
1137 - Adalbert I, archbishop of Mainz (1111-1137), dies
1139 - Andries van Kuik, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1444 - Marcus, [Manuel] Eugenicus, Byzantine bishop of Efeze/theologist, dies
1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
1707 - John Mill, English theologian
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1771 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38
1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
1801 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer, dies at 58
1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
1817 - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer, dies at 63
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1833 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
1836 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (b. 1773)
1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1866 - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53
1878 - George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81
1888 - Emil Naumann, composer, dies at 60
1891 - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
1891 - George Parr, cricketer (Nottinghamshire & All-England), dies
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1895 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
1901 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
1916 - Victor Chapman, US legionaire/WW I pilot, killed
1919 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies
1924 - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1928 - Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84
1945 - Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1951 - Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
1956 - Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier, composer, dies at 81
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1957 - Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
1958 - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
1959 - Jean Gallon, composer, dies at 80
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1961 - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (Rubens' Daughter), dies at 70
1965 - Mary Boland, actress (Boy Trouble, New Moon), dies at 83
1969 - Stanley Andrews, actor (Old Ranger-Death Valley Days), dies at 78
1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1971 - George Blagoi, entertainer, dies
1971 - Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76
1972 - Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
1973 - Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
1975 - William Hansen, actor (Homebodies), dies at 64
1980 - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
1980 - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela), dies at 79
1982 - Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1986 - Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
1988 - Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1988 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 73
1988 - M Gregor-Dellin, writer, dies
1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
1991 - Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1991 - Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies
1992 - Lou Ramos, entertainer, dies
1992 - Renie Irene Brouillet Conley, US, costume designer (Cleopatra), dies
1994 - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
1994 - Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
1994 - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50
1995 - Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure
1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1996 - Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
1996 - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72
1996 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge, dies at 98
1996 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer, dies at 69
1996 - William Walsh, academic, dies at 80
1997 - "Wino" Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, suffering from burns, dies at 63
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
2006 - Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 - Harriet, Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830)
2007 - Rod Beck, American Major League Baseball relief pitcher, dies at 38
2009 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
2011 - Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
2011 - Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer, dies from an apparent heart attack at 48

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This Day in History for 24th June


Historical Events

                                   
Co-founder of the Methodist           Artist/Cubist Co-founder Pablo Picasso        Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
Movement John Wesley
Edward VIII (1894) 

 
The Pianoman Billy Joel


451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
843 - Vikings destroy Nantes
972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys
1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to
           experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from
           exhaustion.
1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 - Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1472 - Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1522 - Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France
1522 - Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1529 - Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 - Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 - Hessische troops occupy Munster
1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves to leave the court
1572 - 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden
1619 - Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 - French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1690 - King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 - Kingston Jamaica founded
1717 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
1748 - The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol.
           The school later moved to Bath.
1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 - 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1794 - Bowdoin College is founded.
1795 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1806 - English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 - Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1846 - Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern
           Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce
1859 - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1863 - Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada,
           at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1881 - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 - NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 - British government of Salisbury forms
1885 - Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 - Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1901 - Jewish National Fund starts
1902 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1903 - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-
           lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1909 - 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 - 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 - 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1914 - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1920 - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 - AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1923 - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1924 - 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 - 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1928 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person
           crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1930 - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 - Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 - Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1940 - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 - Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 - Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1942 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 - Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 - Schermerhorn government forms
1945 - The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
1946 - 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 - Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 - 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1947 - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1947 - Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1948 - Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 - A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 - French government-Bidault resigns
1950 - NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 - Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 - "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1956 - 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 - WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in
           Roth v. United States.
1960 - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 - Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1961 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 - Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1964 - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
1967 - Zaire adopts constitution
1968 - 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 - Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 - Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 - Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1973 - Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1973 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 - Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
1975 - Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 - Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 - Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 - Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
1987 - CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 - Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 - Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 - Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 - Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 - NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute
1992 - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 - Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 - Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in
           one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1994 - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1994 - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1995 - Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1997 - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 - USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
1997 - Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run
1997 - Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 - In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2007 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its
           first 48 hours.
2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest
           match in tennis history.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Weddings

1885 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister daughter Ellen Louise
           Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia
1924 - American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1983 - "NBC Sports" sportscaster Bob Costas (31) weds Carole Randall Krumenacher
2000 - "Dixie Chicks" lead vocalist Natalie Maines (25) weds "Profit" actor Adrian Pasdar (35) at The
           Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 - "Real Madrid" football striker Michael Owen (25) weds Louise Bonsall at Carden Park Hotel in
           Chester, England
2006 - "The Desperate Housewives" actress Marcia Cross (44) weds stockbroker Tom Mahoney (48)
           at Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Parish in Pasadena, California
2006 - "Numb3rs" actress Diane Farr (36) weds marketing executive Seung Yong Chung (35) at
           Rainbow Tarns, California
2010 - Actress and model Megan Fox (24) weds Beverly Hills 90210 actor Brian Austin Green (36) at
           the Four Seasons Hualalai near Kona, Hawaii

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Divorces

1994 - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman

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This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer & Satirist                                   Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Rocker Mick Fleetwood (1947)
Ambrose Bierce (1842)                              Jack Dempsey (1895)


1244 - Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)
1322 - Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)
1343 - Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
1386 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
1485 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
1499 - Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)
1519 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
1533 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth
1535 - Joan of Spain, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573)
1542 - St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic, saint, priest and poet (d. 1591)
1546 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit (A Letter Disclosure)
1561 - Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension minister of Leiden
1572 - Jan Campanus, composer
1590 - Samuel Ampzing, poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge)
1619 - Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens, governor-general (Neth East Indies)
1663 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
1669 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname/Algeria)
1687 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
1694 - Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss publicist (d. 1748)
1704 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
1746 - Jean Baptiste Rochefort, composer
1747 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer
1762 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer
1771 - E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1774 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
1777 - John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
1797 - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1803 - George James Webb, composer
1804 - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist
1804 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1808 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer
1811 - John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889
1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)
1820 - Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1822 - Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1825 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
1826 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
1832 - Edward Harland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
1838 - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)
1839 - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co
1840 - Louis Brassin, composer
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets
           & Dust)
1847 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
1848 - Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)
1850 - Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member
1852 - Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)
1860 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1873 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
1877 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren)
1879 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer
1882 - Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
1882 - Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
1886 - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
1888 - Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Juliana Hall, Sonsbeek Pavillion)
1891 - Irving Pichel, Pitts PA, actor/director (Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist)
1893 - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
1897 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1899 - Bruce Marshall, writer
1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith!)
1900 - Memphis Minnie, rocker
1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1901 - Harry Partch, Oakland California, composer (Oedipus)
1903 - Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
1904 - Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], Linton, Indiana, American actor and singer (Anything Goes, Robin
           Hood)
1904 - Kurt Kusenberg, German writer (Wein Auf Lebenszeit)
1906 - Pierre Fournier, Paris France, violon cellist (Paris Conservatoire)
1906 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
1907 - Jose de Lima Siquiera, composer
1907 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
1908 - Hugo Distler, composer
1908 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
1908 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
1909 - Milton Katims, NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC)
1909 - William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb)
1910 - Denis Dowling, baritone
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing driver
1911 - Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
1912 - Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator & cake connoisseur)
1912 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1912 - Selwyn Powell, art editor
1913 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
1913 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer
1914 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
1915 - Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar
1915 - Fred Hoyle, cosmologist (proposed steady-state universe theory)
1916 - John Ciardi, poet/critic (translated Dante)
1919 - Al Molinaro, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Murray-Odd Couple, Al-Happy Days)
1920 - Bernhard Krol, composer
1920 - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot
1921 - Billy Casper, golfer
1922 - Aadje [Alida WM] Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik(?)
1922 - Rietje [Maria SC] Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik(?)
1922 - Roy Elihu Travis, NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus)
1922 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1923 - Jack Carter, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
1923 - Margaret Olley, Lismore Australia, painter
1924 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka (1989-93)
1924 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008)
1924 - Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991)
1925 - Len Jagger, English businessman/multi-millionaire
1927 - Joseph Pierce Jr, horse trainer
1930 - Herbert C Klien, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1930 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70)
1931 - Leslie Cochran, Miami, Florida, peace activist and police critic, (d. 2012)
1932 - David McTaggart, co-founder (Greenpeace)
1934 - Bob Holthus, horse trainer
1935 - Pete Hamill, Brooklyn, NY, journalist (NY Post)
1935 - Terry Riley, Colfax California, composer (Spectra)
1938 - Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1938 - Lowell Cross, composer
1938 - Lawrence Block, American writer
1938 - Don Mincher, Huntsville, Alabama, Major League Baseball first baseman, (d. 2012)
1939 - Henry Lawrence Garett III, Miami Fla, Sect of Navy (1989-92)
1940 - Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer (Taxi, Little Buddha, Dick Tracy)
1941 - Graham McKenzie, cricketer (prolific Australian pace bowler 1961-71)
1941 - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
1942 - Gerhart Roth, writer
1942 - Michele Lee, LA California, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug)
1942 - Arthur Brown, England, rocker (Fire) [or May 24]
1943 - Georg Stanford Brown, Havana Cuba, actor (Terry Webster-Rookies)
1944 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic)
1944 - Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group)
1945 - Betty Stove, Netherlands, tennis player (US Doubles 1972)
1945 - Colin Blunstone, England, rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1945 - George E Pataki, Peekskill NY, (Gov-R-NY, 1995- )
1946 - Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast (STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1946 - Robert Reich, US Sec of Labor (Clinton)
1946 - David Collenette, Canadian politician
1947 - Walter Willison, Monterrey Park California, actor (McDuff the Talking Dog)
1947 - Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)
1947 - Marianne Delgorge, singer/actress (Ice Cream Soda)
1947 - Peter Weller, Stevens Point WI, actor (Robocop, Of Unknown Origin)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Morges, Switzerland, progressive rock keyboard player (Yes, The Moody Blues)
1949 - John Illsley, Leicester England, rock bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 - Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1950 - Leon J P M Frissen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1950 - Mercedes R Lackey, US, sci-fi author (Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn)
1950 - Nancy Allen, NYC, actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill)
1951 - Ivar Formo, Norway, 50K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - Raelene Boyle, Australia, sprinter (Oly-Silver-72)
1951 - David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor
1952 - Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
1953 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
1955 - Loren Lloyd Roberts, San Luis Obispo CA, PGA golfer (Nestle-1994, 95)
1955 - Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Guru of Siddha Yoga
1955 - Betsy Randle, American actress
1956 - Joe Penny, English actor
1957 - Astro, [Terrence Wilson], England, rock vocalist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 - Victor M Gerena, NYC, security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted)
1959 - Andy McClusky, rocker (Orchestal Manoeveres in the Dark-Electricity)
1959 - Rob Delahaye, soccer player (MVV)
1960 - Juli Inkster, Santa Cruz CA, LPGA golfer (Dinah Shore-1984, 89)
1960 - Nate Carr, Erie Pa, freestyle wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1960 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger"
1960 - Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
1960 - Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
1961 - Bernie Nicholls, Haliburton, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 - Curt Smith, Bath England, rock bassist/vocalist (Tears For Fears)
1961 - Jim Laver Carter, Spring Lake NC, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch)
1961 - Natalya Shaposhnikova, USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Duval Love, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
1963 - Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player
1963 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
1964 - David Daniel, jockey
1964 - Gary Suter, Madison WI, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1965 - Danielle Spencer, Bronx, actress (Dee Thomas-What's Happening)
1965 - Patrick Jeffrey, Morristown NJ, diver (Olympics-5th-96)
1965 - Shane Churla, Fernie, NHL right wing (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
1965 - Uwe Krupp, Cologne, Germany, NHL defenceman (Colo Avalanche, Germany 98)
1966 - John Randle, Chicoutimi Que, golfer (1992 Canadian Tour Fall-3rd)
1966 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 - Bill Huard, Welland, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 - Crystal Carson, Spaulding NE, actress (Cartel, Julia-General Hospital)
1967 - Jeff Cease, Nashville, guitarist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1967 - Olaf Hampel, WLAF offensive linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire)
1967 - Sherry Stringfield, Colo Springs Colo, actress (Laura-NYPD Blue, ER)
1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein)
1967 - Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
1969 - Melissa Gurney, California, tennis player (Virginia Slims of SD, 1986)
1969 - Sean Maye, 400m/800m runner
1969 - Todd Lewis, Flint Michigan, 10k runner
1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970 - Carlos Yancy, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, singer (Someday Love)
1971 - LaMonte Coleman, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Christopher Showerman, American actor
1972 - Jose Simon, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Mitch Berger, punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Shawn King, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
1972 - Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower
1973 - Jere Lehtinen, Espoo Fin, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars, Oly-bronze-98)
1973 - Michael Cheever, corner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973 - Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
1974 - Adam Treu, guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Carrie Zarse, Chicago Il, diver (Olympics-96)
1975 - Carla Gallo, American actress
1975 - Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Tyce Routson, Bellevue Wash, diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Louisa Leaman, English author
1977 - Cliff Bayer, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
1977 - Cas Jansen, Dutch actor
1978 - Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
1978 - Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
1978 - Ariel Pink, American musician
1978 - Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
1978 - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1978 - Luis García, Spanish footballer
1979 - Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
1979 - Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born model
1979 - Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer
1980 - Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
1980 - Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
1980 - Minka Kelly, American actress
1982 - Brian Fitzgerald, American writer
1982 - Kevin Nolan, English footballer
1982 - Mark Penney, Canadian film director
1982 - Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter
1983 - John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor
1984 - J.J. Redick, American basketball player
1985 - Kyle Searles, American actor
1985 - Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol
1986 - Kaitlin Cullum, LA California, actress (Libby Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1986 - Stuart Broad, English cricketer
1986 - Phil Hughes, American baseball player
1986 - Solange Knowles, American singer
1987 - Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
1987 - Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
1990 - Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
1993 - Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity