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This Day in History for 27th June


Famous Deaths

Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1844)


444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1296 - Floris V, count of Holland & Zeeland, dies
1458 - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies
1543 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1638 - Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies
1641 - Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74
1654 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1679 - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1757 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59
1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1814 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61
1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1829 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1832 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
1844 - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill
1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
1848 - Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
1848 - Zschokke, writer, dies
1859 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69
1862 - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
1863 - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38
1864 - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26
1876 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1889 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
1889 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50
1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies
1917 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
1934 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56
1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1948 - George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92
1950 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48
1958 - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78
1960 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961 - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58
1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1964 - Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62
1966 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1968 - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies
1969 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1973 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
1982 - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49
1983 - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race
1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
1986 - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1986 - Joe Maphis, American country music guitarist dies aged 65
1988 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
1989 - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies
1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
1991 - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992 - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84
1992 - Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
1992 - Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24
1993 - Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1994 - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
1995 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70
1995 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59
1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61
1996 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87
1996 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85
1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegas
           hotel room aged 57
2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 - William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 - Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
2009 - Gale Storm, TV Personality (b. 1922)
2009 - Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
2011 - Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
2012 - Don Grady [Agrati], American actor, dies from cancer at 68

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This Day in History for 28th June


Historical Events

                                   
Archduke of Austria                                     First Secretary of the                          Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Franz Ferdinand                                     Communist Party of the Soviet                          Muhammad Ali
                                                                  Union Nikita Khrushchev


Actor Eddie Murphy


767 - St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1119 - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders
1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the
           Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England
1485 - Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth
1519 - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1524 - Duke van Bourbon occupies Province
1575 - Spanish troops conquer Buren
1583 - Duke French van Valois returns to France
1593 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg
1629 - Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited
1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1675 - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
1748 - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
1762 - Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1776 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1778 - Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1807 - British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1832 - Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London
1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1846 - Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 - 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
1861 - Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1862 - Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA
1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1869 - Amsterdam typographer strike
1874 - Freedmen's Bank closes
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1887 - Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
1892 - Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
1894 - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
1897 - Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
1902 - Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1902 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1904 - International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
1904 - The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1907 - Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
1909 - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
1911 - Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
1914 - Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by
           young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45 , the casus belli of World War I.
1917 - Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
1917 - Raggedy Ann doll invented
1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1919 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees
1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1923 - Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
1923 - Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London
1924 - Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
1924 - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1928 - Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1928 - Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1930 - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars
           take on KC Monarchs
1934 - Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
1935 - Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
1935 - FDR ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938 - Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's
1939 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
1939 - Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
1940 - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1941 - German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941 - German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1942 - Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
1942 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
1945 - Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
1946 - Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy
1946 - Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins
1947 - "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
1948 - US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins
1950 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs
1950 - North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
1951 - "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV
1953 - 8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1954 - 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1956 - Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
1957 - Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
1957 - Frick overrules & names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron to team
1958 - Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
1958 - Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
1959 - Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants
           6-0)
1960 - 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
1961 - Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
1962 - Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1963 - Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru
1963 - Khrushchev visits East-Berlin
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open
1964 - Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
1965 - Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement
1966 - Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem
1968 - Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
1969 - John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's
1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1970 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1971 - Fillmore East closes
1971 - Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds
1971 - Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
1973 - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
1973 - Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma
           Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected
1974 - Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)
1974 - Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
1975 - David Bowie releases "Fame"
1975 - Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1976 - 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
1976 - Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
1977 - Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
1978 - UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
1978 - Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse
           discrimination when application was rejected
1979 - OPEC raises oil prices 24%
1980 - NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
1981 - "Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
1981 - 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
1981 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1982 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana name their baby "William"
1983 - Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3
1983 - NASA launches Galaxy-A
1985 - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
1986 - Irish population condemns divorce
1986 - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
1987 - "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
1987 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1987 - Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1988 - Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
1990 - 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards
1990 - Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 11th time
1992 - "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 18 performances
1992 - 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock Calif
1992 - Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
1992 - Italian government of Amato forms
1992 - LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down
1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1992 - US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1993 - Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm
1993 - Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
1993 - NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Neth
1993 - Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs
           by a catcher
1994 - NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
1995 - NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie
           Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
1996 - "Nutty Professor," starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA
1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 - "Master Class," closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
1997 - "Steel Peer," closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1997 - TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
2000 - Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional
           Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by
           General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5
           for 5 against the Colorado Rockies.
2012 - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people

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This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Weddings

1919 - Harry Truman (33rd US president) marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1992 - US President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch
2000 - Business magnate Ron Perelman (69) weds actress Ellen Barkin (46) in a traditional Jewish
           ceremony at an upper East Side synagogue
2003 - Colombian American actor John Leguizamo (42) weds estate planner Justine Maurer (35) on a
           Catholic-Jewish ceremony in New York
2008 - "Saturday Night Live" actor-comedian Chris Kattan (37) weds model Sunshine Tutt (31) at
           Chateau Du Sureau in Yosemite, California
2008 - Golfing legend Greg Norman (53) weds former tennis star Chris Evert (53) in Paradise Island,
           Bahamas

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This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Divorces

2010 - Academy award winning actress Sandra Bullock (45) divorces "Monster Garage" host Jesse
          James (40) due to conflict of personalities after nearly 5 years of marriage
2012 - "Spy Kids" actress Alexa Vega (23) divorces film producer Sean Covel (36) due to
           irreconcilable differences after less than two years of marriage

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This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Co-founder of the Methodist              Actor & Director Mel Brooks (1926)             Actress Kathy Bates (1948)
Movement John Wesley (1703)


1367 - Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia
1476 - Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59)
1490 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal
1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
1550 - John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1586 - Paul Siefert, composer
1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 - John Wesley, Epworth, Lincolnshire, English Christian theologian and co-founder of the
           Methodist movement
1712 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1734 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
1787 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1806 - Napoleon Coste, composer
1808 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
1812 - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
1816 - Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
1824 - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
1824 - William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1825 - Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
1847 - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
1852 - Hans Huber, composer
1853 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
1865 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934)
1867 - William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
1874 - Oley Speaks, composer
1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1879 - Sigurd von Koch, composer
1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1885 - Berthold Viertel, writer
1885 - Giuseppe Mule, composer
1886 - Joe Cox, cricketer (South African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England)
1887 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1888 - George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
1889 - Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 - Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 - Carl Spaatz, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1892 - Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1893 - Luciano Gallet, composer
1893 - Nils Bjorkander, composer
1894 - Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1895 - Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
1897 - Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist
1900 - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham)
1902 - John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1902 - Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1902 - Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1903 - Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1904 - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
1906 - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
1906 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1907 - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque)
1908 - James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1909 - Arnold Shaw, composer
1909 - Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy)
1909 - French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1912 - Audrey Langford, singing teacher
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
1913 - George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
1917 - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1918 - Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 - P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1922 - Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1922 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1924 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1926 - Mel Brooks, New York City, American actor and director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1926 - Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
1926 - Robert Ledley, Flushing, Queens, New York, physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, (d.
           2012)
1927 - Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1927 - Frank Rowland, Newport Beach, California, Nobel laureate in chemistry, (d. 2012)
1928 - Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1928 - Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's)
1928 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor
1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection
           Commission 2000-2003
1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1929 - Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1932 - Pat Morita, Berkeley CA, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
1933 - Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 - Carl M Levin, (Sen-D Michigan, 1979- )
1934 - Roy Gilchrist, cricketer (volatile WI fast bowler of late 50s)
1935 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Bill Orton, (Rep-R-UT, 1983- )
1936 - Gisela Kraft, writer
1936 - Major R Owens, (Rep-D-NY)
1936 - Peter Hall, folklorist/musician
1937 - Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 - Leon E Panetta, (Rep-D-CA, 1977- )
1938 - John Byner, American comedian
1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 - Robert Hughes, Sydney, Australia, art critic, (d. 2012)
1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 - Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 - "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (South African Communist Party)
1942 - Jim Kolbe, (Rep-R-AZ, 1985- )
1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Bobby Harrison, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1943 - Ed Pastor, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Dave Knights, London, rock bassist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1945 - Jane Harmon, (Rep-D-California)
1946 - Bruce Davison, Phila, actor (Capt Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk)
1946 - Gilda Radner, Detroit Mich, actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon)
1946 - John "Mike" Lounge, Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35)
1946 - Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War)
1946 - Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer
1946 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 - Mark Helprin, US writer
1947 - Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card
1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1948 - Kathy Bates, Memphis TN, academy award winning actress (Misery)
1949 - Don Baylor, Tx, baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP)
1949 - Edward Totah, art dealer
1950 - Ken Arthur, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian runner (200m world record), (d. 2013)
1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller)
1954 - Ava Barber, Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1955 - Mitch Addock, Macon MS, Nike golfer (1992 BC Open-11th)
1955 - Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1955 - Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 - Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 - Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 - Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 - Oran "Juice" Jones, rocker (Curiosity, Here I Go Again)
1958 - Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 - John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 - Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders)
1961 - Jeff Malone, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Miami Heat)
1962 - Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romania, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Allen Pitts, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1963 - Andy Cousin, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories)
1964 - Bryan Barker, NFL punter (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 - Stephanie Maynor, Chester England, golfer (1995 PING Welch's-13th)
1964 - Susan Mascarin, Detroit Mich, tennis star
1965 - Michele Timms, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury, Olympics-1988, 96)
1966 - Andrew Lang, NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 - John Cusack, Chicago, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Tx, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
1966 - Mike Bellamy, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 - Anthony Smith, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Matt Karchner, Berwick PA, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1967 - Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1968 - Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 - Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 - Danielle Brisebois, Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2)
1969 - Tichina Arnold, Queens, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children)
1969 - Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, cricketer (prodigious Pakistani leggie 1990-)
1970 - [Jack] Stephen Burton, Indianapolis, actor (Chris-Out of this World)
1970 - Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 - Aileen Quinn, actress (Annie)
1971 - Bobby Hurley, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1971 - Gary Downs, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1971 - Greg Evans, NFL/WLAF safety (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Greg Keagle, Corning NY, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Jeff Cothran, NFL fullback (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 - Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1972 - Arie van de Padt, Dutch soccer player (Tonegido, Sparta)
1972 - Eric Johnson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Jerry Colquitt, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Kelly Wiltshire, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Marvin Jones, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Ryan Fujita, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 - Alberto Berastegui, Spain, tennis star
1973 - Brian Maisonneuve, Detroit Mich, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Ingrid Seynhaeve, Brussels Belgium, model (Look of the Year 1991)
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 - Atilla Buday, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Josh[ua] Crosby, Manchester Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Karim Abdul-Jabaar, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 - Chad Green, Dunkirk NY, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 - Lindsay Lee, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX)
1977 - Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 - Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1979 - Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
1981 - Michael Crafter, Australian musician
1983 - Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 - Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1988 - Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Deaths

                 
4th US President                                        Archduke of Austria
James Madison (1836)                               Franz Ferdinand (1914)


548 - Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies
573 - Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife
767 - Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67), dies
1061 - Floris I, count of Holland, dies
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 71
1617 - Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
1714 - Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56
1714 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1742 - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52
1748 - Marretje Arends, [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1748 - Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1776 - Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1788 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32
1798 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44
1802 - Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60
1806 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64
1813 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prus min of War (1807-10), dies in battle
1830 - David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85
1846 - Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77
1855 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86
1857 - Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53
1872 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
1876 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70
1890 - Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1909 - Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
1910 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, assassinated in Sarajevo aged 50
1914 - Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
1915 - Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1937 - Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
1940 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
1946 - Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
1947 - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
1950 - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26
1957 - Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88
1958 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
1958 - George Gunn, cricketer (15 Tests for England), dies at 50
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59
1963 - Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77
1964 - King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1965 - [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78
1971 - Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, actor (Sgt Vince Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1975 - Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 50
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1976 - Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1979 - Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84
1980 - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
1980 - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
1980 - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 - Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian one-legged marathoner, dies of cancer at 22
1982 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies
1982 - Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70
1985 - James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1988 - Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), dies
1989 - Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90
1990 - Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
1991 - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
1992 - Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55
1993 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
1994 - Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan), dies at 90
1994 - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44
1995 - Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83
1996 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic, dies at 83
1996 - Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68
1996 - Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49
1996 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82
1996 - Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b.1987)
2009 - Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)
2009 - Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
2009 - A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
2010 - Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
2010 - Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th June


Historical Events

                                   
Playwright William Shakespeare                US Calvary Commander                     Boxing Champ George Foreman
                                                                 George Armstrong Custer


43rd US President George W. Bush


512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
1377 - French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
1428 - Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
1529 - Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 - English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan
           Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1682 - Sofia names herself regent of Russia
1694 - Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1755 - 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
1762 - Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
1767 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 - Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to
           settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1800 - Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
1850 - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church
           of Greece.
1854 - Netherlands allows corporal punishment
1857 - Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858 - Great fire in London harbor
1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 - Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station Va
1863 - Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
1863 - George A Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
1863 - Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1867 - Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled
           "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected
           Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 - France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1881 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 - 100°F (SF, CA)
1891 - National Forest Service organized
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian
           government.
1897 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1903 - British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
1904 - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
1906 - 12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
1911 - Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1921 - 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the
           free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 - Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1929 - 31.1°C (88°F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
1929 - Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
1931 - 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1931 - Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
1932 - USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1933 - Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 - Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1939 - 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1939 - Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
1940 - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1940 - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons,
           leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1941 - DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
1943 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
1943 - US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1943 - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion
           of Europe
1944 - German counter attack at Caen
1944 - Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
1944 - Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1944 - Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
1944 - US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
1945 - 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1946 - "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs
1946 - "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs
1946 - Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1946 - British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
1947 - 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
1947 - Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1950 - US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1950 - West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin & Valentine
1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1952 - 7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1953 - XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
1955 - Argentine state of siege ends
1956 - Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
1956 - Federal interstate highway system act signed
1956 - PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
1957 - 12th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1957 - Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1958 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
1959 - Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
1960 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 - KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1961 - Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1961 - Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season
1962 - 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 - Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
1963 - "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
1963 - Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
1963 - SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
1964 - 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 - USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
1966 - KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
1966 - US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1967 - Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1968 - "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1969 - 24th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1969 - On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for
           consecutive games played (896)
1970 - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1971 - Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense
1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual
1972 - USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1974 - Milt coup in Ethiopia
1975 - 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
1975 - 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1977 - Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1977 - Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
1978 - VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1979 - "Moonraker" premieres in US
1979 - San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
1980 - "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 - Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1981 - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1983 - Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1983 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 - Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
1984 - Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski
1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 - STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
1986 - Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
1986 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1986 - Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1987 - Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
1987 - Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats
           Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1988 - Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
1989 - Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
1989 - Susan Lucci loses daytime emmy for 10th straight year
1990 - Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
1990 - NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak
1990 - A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st
           time no-hitters in both leagues
1991 - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 perfs
1991 - 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
1991 - Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in
           2nd round at Wimbledon
1992 - "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1992 - 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif
1992 - A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season
1992 - NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers
1994 - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 - US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1995 - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
1996 - Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
1996 - Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
1997 - "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
1997 - "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1997 - 18th US Seniors Golf Open: Graham Marsh
1997 - Greg Norman wins PGA St Jude Classic
1997 - Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
1997 - Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
1997 - Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss
2000 - Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit,
           after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's
           single 'My Name Is'
2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while
           President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean
           sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to
           try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2008 - Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
2012 - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
2012 - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
2012 - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in
           Tokyo

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Famous Weddings

1822 - Nephew of Napoleon, biologist and ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte marries cousin
           Zenaide Bonaparte
1854 - English Novelist and author of "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte marries curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
1956 - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at
           White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
1956 - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at
           White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
2002 - Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (43) weds Shelby Roos (29) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly
           Hills
2003 - Actress Emma Thompson (44) weds actor Greg Wise (37) in Loch Eck, Scotland
2005 - American actress Jennifer Garner (33) weds actor and film director Ben Affleck (32) at the
           Parrot Cay resort on Turks and Caicos Islands
2005 - American actress Jennifer Garner (33) weds actor and film director Ben Affleck (32) at the
           Parrot Cay resort on Turks and Caicos Islands
2005 - "Access Hollywood" host Nancy O'Dell (39) weds business executive Keith Zubchevich (36) at
           the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, California

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This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Katie Holmes (33) divorces American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (50) allegedly
           due to disagreement about their religious beliefs and the raising of their daughter Suri, after 5
           years of marriage

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This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Film Producer Robert Evans (1930)           Pop Singer Little Eva (1943)                 Comedian Richard Lewis (1947)


1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 - Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1738 - Constantin Reindl, composer
1783 - August Alexander Klengel, composer
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1805 - Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1824 - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
1831 - William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1842 - Josef Labor, composer
1849 - Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1850 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer
1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1863 - James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1864 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer
1864 - Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now
           disputed (120 y 237 d)
1865 - William E Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1870 - Joseph Carl Breil, composer
1874 - Georg Gohler, composer
1876 - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff ("July 20th plot")
1881 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1885 - Andre Gailhard, composer
1885 - Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
1886 - George Frederick Boyle, composer
1886 - James Van Der Zee, Lenox Ma, African American photographer
1886 - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician (Artus Quellin)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French premier
1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 - Aare Merikanto, composer
1893 - Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter
1896 - Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)
1897 - Ottmar Gerster, composer
1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Frieda Inescort, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 - Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor
1901 - Nelson Eddy, Providence RI, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1902 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, Innsbruck, director (Reaching for the Stars)
1902 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital)
1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1907 - Joan Davis, St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1907 - Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)
1908 - Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe)
1908 - Rene Gerber, composer
1909 - Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 - Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Most Happy Fella)
1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, New York City, New York, American composer (The Devil and Daniel
           Webster, Taxi Driver)
1911 - Bernhard, Germany, Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands)
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1912 - John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971)
1912 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango)
1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1916 - David Donaldson, painter
1916 - Ruth Warwick, St Joseph, Missouri, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My
           Children)
1918 - Jack Harkness, rose grower
1919 - Slim Pickens, Kingsburg California, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1919 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue)
1923 - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 - Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1925 - Cara Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1925 - Hale Smith, composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 - Ian Bannen, Airdrie Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
1929 - Michio Mamaia, composer
1929 - Peter George, Akron Ohio, weightlifter (Oly-gold/2 silver-48, 52)
1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1930 - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 - Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1934 - Henning Kronstam, dancer
1936 - David Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1936 - Leonard Lee, US vocalist (Shirley & Lee-Let the Good Times Roll)
1938 - Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1938 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1939 - Alan Connolly, cricketer (Australian pace bowler through 60s)
1939 - Ron Headley, cricketer (son of George, 2 Tests WI v England 1973)
1940 - Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
1940 - Viacheslav Artyomov, composer
1941 - Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
1941 - John Boccabella, American baseball player
1942 - Bas J van der Vlies, Dutch MP (SGP)
1942 - Larry Snyder, jockey
1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 - Roger Ruskin Spear, London England, saxophonist (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)
1943 - Little Eva (Eva Boyd), Belhaven, North Carolina, American pop singer (Locomotion)
1944 - Collin Peterson, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1944 - Gary Busey, Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
1944 - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 - Johnnie Richardson, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 - Jeff Moss, cricketer (one Test Australia v Pakistan 1979)
1947 - Richard Lewis, NYC, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love)
1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet)
1948 - Charles McCorquodale, art historian
1948 - Fred Grandy, Sioux City IA, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986- )/actor (Love Boat)
1948 - Ian Paice, British hard rock drummer(White Snake, Deep Purple)
1948 - Loncoln Gordon, rocker
1949 - Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1949 - Ann Veneman, American politician
1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator
1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 - Billy Hinsche, rocker
1953 - Don Dokken, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again)
1953 - Rosa Mota, Port marathoner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1953 - Colin Hay, Kilwinning, Scotland, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men At Work)
1954 - Rick Honeycutt, Chattanooga TN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1955 - Charles J Precourt, Waltham Mass, astronaut (STS 55, 71, 84, sk:91)
1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso, Cuba, actress (Moscow on the Hudson)
1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 - Leslie Browne, NYC, ballerina (Turning Point)
1958 - Richard Mettee, horse trainer
1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1959 - Edward F Humenik, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1994 Kmart Greater-2nd)
1959 - Kim Hiett, jockey
1959 - Larry Parham, 4th victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (1st to die)
1960 - Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 - Sharon Lawrence [Sharon Elizabeth], Charlotte, North Carolina, American actress (NYPD Blue,
           Fired Up)
1961 - Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1962 - Amanda Donohoe, London, actress (CJ Lamb-LA Law)
1962 - George Zamka, American astronaut
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil)
1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1964 - Pepper Johnson, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Cleveland Browns)
1964 - Stedman Pearson, Essex, rock vocalist (Five Star-Silk & Steel)
1964 - Wendy Kilbourne, actress (Devon-Midnight Caller) [1964 Approx]
1965 - Barry D, [Iain Bakker], English pop musician (Jesus Jones)
1965 - Paul Jarvis, cricketer (England pace bowler 1988-93)
1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
1967 - John Wehner, Pittsburgh PA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 - Melora Hardin, Houston Tx, actress (Family Tree, Best Times)
1967 - Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1968 - Theoren Fleury, Oxbow Sask, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames, Canada)
1969 - Erik Tammer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Simon Brown, cricketer (Durham pace bowler, England 1996)
1969 - Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1969 - Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1970 - Troy Drayton, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1971 - Dennis Gerritsen, soccer player (NAC)
1971 - Mike Sillinger, Regina, NHL right wing (Vanc Canucks, Anaheim Ducks)
1971 - Wendee Espinosa, Stockton California, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1972 - Fabrice L'Henry, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1972 - Samantha Smith, Houlton Mo, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street)
1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1973 - George Hincapie, Queens NY, road cyclist (Olympics-76th-92, 96)
1974 - Ted Giannous, San Diego, actor (KGB Chicken)
1975 - Mathew Gates, Baldock Engld, dance skater (& Chalom-1995 Nat Jr champ)
1976 - Sandhya Chib, Miss Universe-India (1996)
1976 - Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
1977 - Sharon Cripps, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1977 - Tania Joy Gibson, Lake Barrington Ill, Miss America-Illinois (1997)
1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-born American poet
1977 - Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1984 - Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1985 - Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 - Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 - Adam G. Sevani, American actor
1993 - Angela & Amy Lakeberg, US Siamese twin (separated on Aug 20th)
1993 - George Sampson, English dancer

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This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Deaths

Actress Lana Turner (1995)


1021 - Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies
1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1293 - Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies
1306 - Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1458 - Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1620 - John Aerts, Flemish sculptor
1696 - Michel Lambert, composer, dies
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1779 - Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51
1784 - Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55
1790 - Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies
1798 - Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies
1818 - Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
1840 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65
1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1860 - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82
1880 - George W Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1903 - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1923 - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
1923 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66
1923 - J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46
1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
1941 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
1949 - Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests), dies
1953 - Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70
1955 - Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73
1956 - Johan[nes F] Bakker Jr, actor, dies at 62
1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1959 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51
1964 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer, dies at 63
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1965 - Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64
1966 - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
1966 - Isabel Dawn, writer, dies
1966 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34
1967 - O M Graf, writer, dies at 72
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1968 - Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1969 - Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies
1969 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29
1969 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67
1970 - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77
1970 - Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), dies at 64
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
1971 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38
1971 - Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35
1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 - Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone), dies at 79
1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1976 - Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies
1977 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70
1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 49
1979 - Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies
1979 - Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1982 - Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1982 - Henry King, director, dies at 86
1986 - Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies
1986 - John P East, (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
1986 - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47
1990 - Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
1992 - Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
1994 - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
1995 - Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75
1995 - Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84
1996 - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85
1996 - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54
1996 - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78
1997 - William Hickey, American actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 69
1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2008 - Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
2009 - Joe Bowman (marksman), American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker &
           master showman (b. 1925)

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This Day in History for 30th June


Historical Events

                                   
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Author Margaret Mitchell               Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin


NFL Running Back and Convicted
Criminal OJ Simpson


296 - St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of
         the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
833 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned
949 - Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht "foreestrecht"
1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1371 - Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 - Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1528 - Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
1548 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de
           Montgomery.
1596 - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1598 - King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1643 - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 - French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1651 - The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 - Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
1690 - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1700 - Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1722 - Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 - Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1758 - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1815 - US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1860 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes
           place.
1861 - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 - Battle at Nelson's Farm/Glendale/Frayser's Farm, Virginia: Confederate assault attack. 6th day
           of 7 days battles US Civil War
1862 - Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
1863 - Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
1863 - Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 - Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 - London Tower Bridge opens
1896 - W S Hadaway patents electric stove
1899 - Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
1900 - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 - Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1906 - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 - Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 - Giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in
           Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 - Russia absorbs Finland
1911 - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1911 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 - NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1916 - 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 - General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1923 - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1924 - England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's
1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 - Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with
           international standards
1929 - 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
1933 - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 - Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 - "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 - French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 - NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 - "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1936 - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1938 - Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1940 - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1941 - 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 - Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1942 - 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 - US bombs Celebes & Timor
1943 - Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1944 - Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1944 - Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to
           American forces.
1945 - 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
1948 - Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 - Last British armies leave Israel
1948 - Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1949 - Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1950 - US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1951 - NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 - "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1952 - Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1953 - 1st Corvette manufactured
1954 - Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1954 - Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby
           Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor
1955 - "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
1956 - "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances
1956 - Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 - United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1958 - "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
1958 - Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
1959 - During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 - US stops sugar import from Cuba
1960 - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
1961 - Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ
1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - 17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom
1962 - French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1962 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 - Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 - Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1963 - Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and
           military officers near Palermo.
1964 - Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1964 - Last UN troops leave Congo
1965 - NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1966 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
1966 - Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA
1966 - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
1966 - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1967 - Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
1967 - Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils
1968 - E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 - Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 - Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1970 - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1970 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1971 - Biesheuvel government forms
1971 - Dutch Biesheuvel government begins [or May 6]
1971 - Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th
           amendment
1972 - 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1972 - Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1972 - One leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1973 - "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety; debut on ABC
1973 - Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 - 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing
           24 (Port Chester NY)
1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1975 - Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
1975 - University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1976 - John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 - Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss
1977 - US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 - Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 - Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1978 - Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
1979 - "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1979 - Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1980 - West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1981 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs
1982 - Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 - Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
1982 - NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades,
           Meadowlanders & Americans
1984 - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1984 - Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 - Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games
           lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1985 - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1985 - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1985 - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1986 - Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 - Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
1987 - Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump
1987 - The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1988 - "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1988 - Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla
1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
1989 - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 - NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1989 - Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1990 - East & West Germany merge their economies
1991 - 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1992 - 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)
1992 - Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 - Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of
           Kesteven.
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
1993 - Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
1994 - Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
1994 - Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
1994 - Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 - US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
1995 - Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
1996 - "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs
1996 - "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs
1996 - "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
1996 - Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1998 - Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down
2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
2009 - Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1
           survivor
2012 - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
2012 - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio,
           Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt

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This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Weddings

1975 - Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1978 - English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1992 - Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
2008 - Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John (59) weds natural-health businessman John Easterling (56)
           in Florida's Jupiter Island
2012 - Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City
2012 - Mick Jagger's daughter Jade Jagger (41) weds longtime boyfriend Adrian Fillary at the Aynhoe
           Park Hotel in Oxfordshire, England
2012 - Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (32) weds longtime girlfriend Kijfa Frink at the
           Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach, Florida
2012 - "The Doctors" co-host Travis Stork (40) weds pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Brown in Colorado

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This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Divorces

2006 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces 98 Degrees boy
           band singer Nick Lachey (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
2010 - "Scream 4" actress Neve Campbell (37) divorces actor John Light (36) due to irreconcilable 
           differences after 3 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Formula One Racing Driver                 Swimmer Michael Phelps (1985)
 Mike Tyson (1966)                                   Ralf Schumacher (1975)


1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1468 - Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1503 - Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
1641 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1669 - Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1722 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 - Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 - Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1789 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1791 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet
1807 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1810 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1818 - Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 - Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1846 - Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 - Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1856 - Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 - Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]
1860 - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1868 - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 - Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1884 - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1890 - Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1891 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 - Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 - Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 - Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 - Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 - Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 - George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 - Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1899 - Madge Bellamy [Margaret Derden Philpott], Hillsboro, Texas, American actress (White Zombie,
           The Iron Horse)
1904 - Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 - Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape)
1906 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 - Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 - Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 - Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 - Monica Maurice, industrialist
1908 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1909 - Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)
1911 - Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
1912 - Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1912 - Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 - Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 - [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1912 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1913 - Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1913 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 - Natko Devcic, composer
1914 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1915 - Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 - Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1917 - Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1918 - Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1919 - Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1919 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1920 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 - Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 - Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 - Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 - Will Gay Bottje, composer
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 - James Goldman, Chicago, Illinois, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They
           Might Be Giants)
1927 - Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
1928 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1930 - Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 - June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 - Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1931 - James Loughran, British conductor
1931 - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1931 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1932 - Martin Mailman, composer
1933 - Mike J K Smith, cricketer (England captain mid-60s)
1933 - Lea Massari, Italian actress
1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1936 - Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor (Caffe Lena)
1936 - Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 - Pauls Dambis, composer
1936 - Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
1938 - Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
1938 - Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1938 - William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1938 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1939 - Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1940 - Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
1941 - John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 - Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 - Micki Grant, composer
1941 - Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 - Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)
1942 - Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1943 - Florence Ballard, Detroit Mich, rocker (Supremes)
1944 - Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist (Little River Band)
1944 - Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1944 - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1946 - Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 - Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
1947 - Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
1949 - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1949 - Eric Goetz, NYC, US shipbuilder (America's Cup 1995)
1949 - Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1950 - Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1950 - Pablo Castillo, jockey
1951 - Andre Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love Orange)
1951 - Andy Scott, rocker
1951 - Stanley Clarke, Phila, rock bassist (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 - Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67)
1952 - Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1952 - David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1953 - Hal Lindes, Monterey CA, rocker (Dire Straits)
1954 - Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 - Ken Olin, Chicago, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street)
1954 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1955 - Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1956 - Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
1956 - David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang)
1956 - Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1957 - Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank-5th)
1957 - Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
1959 - Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
1959 - Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter (Olympics-24-92, 96)
1959 - Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
1960 - Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1960 - Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
1961 - Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player (Goodwill-gold-94)
1962 - Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
1962 - Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia, astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
1962 - Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1963 - Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice)
1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1965 - Mitch Richmond, Fort Lauderdale Fl, NBA guard (Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
1965 - Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1965 - Gary Pallister, English footballer
1966 - "Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1966 - Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1967 - Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995)
1967 - Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record 1992)
1967 - Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress
1968 - Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF Giants)
1968 - Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 - Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 - Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1969 - Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1969 - Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA, 470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer (Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup)
1970 - Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
1970 - Mark Grudzielanek, Milwaukee Wisc, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1971 - Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 - Monica Potter, American actress
1972 - Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1996)
1972 - Garret Anderson, Los angeles CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1972 - Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
1972 - James Martin, English celebrity chef
1973 - Chan Ho Park, Kong Ju City Korea, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1974 - Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1997)
1974 - Melanie Lambert American ice skater
1975 - Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
1976 - Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-olympics-96)
1977 - Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place (1996)
1978 - Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1978 - Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1979 - Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1979 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 - Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 - Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1981 - Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 - Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1981 - Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1981 - Ben Utecht, American football Player
1982 - Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 - Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 - Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1982 - Lizzy Caplan, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Mean Girls, Marlena Diamond-
           Cloverfield)
1983 - Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 - Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 - Patrick Wolf, British musician
1983 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1984 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 - Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1985 - Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 - Michael Phelps, Baltimore, Maryland, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals)
1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 - Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1986 - Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1991 - Kaho, Japanese actress