~ On This Day in History ~

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This Day in History for 16th August


Historical Events

                                   
US President                                            Baseball Great Babe Ruth                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
James Buchanan                                                                                                    Adolf Hitler

                                   
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                     Pop Star Madonna                              Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                                                                                             South African President   
                                                                                                                             Nelson Mandela


Wikileaks founder Julian Assange


1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper
           money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying 
           stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a
           bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their
           intention was not to tear up the money.
1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France
1570 - King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1625 - Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1691 - Yorktown Va founded
1717 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1748 - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1797 - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1812 - Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
1819 - Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
1864 - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864 - Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence
           after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian
           Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1882 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce
           Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906 - -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907 - Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female
           students.
1914 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1918 - US troops overthrows Archangelsk
1920 - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only
           major league fatality
1922 - AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
1924 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1936 - 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene,
           near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 - Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1943 - 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943 - Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 - 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
1944 - Chartres freed
1944 - Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1946 - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1947 - Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 - Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1950 - West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
1953 - KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 - Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1954 - 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1955 - Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 - Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956 - Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 - USSR introduces installment buying
1960 - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960 - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1961 - 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 - Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 - St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1965 - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967 - WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1970 - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
1972 - 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1972 - Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972 - Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 - Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1975 - "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1975 - Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1976 - 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
1976 - St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1980 - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 - Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980 - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1981 - Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1984 - Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984 - LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984 - Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1984 - NASA launches Ampte
1986 - Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1986 - "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986 - Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
1987 - Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
1987 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987 - Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 - Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988 - IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 - Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 - Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1989 - Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a
           halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1990 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1991 - Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
1991 - Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
1992 - 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
1992 - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
1992 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue
           University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994 - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1997 - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1998 - 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA
1998 - Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at
           a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter
           and will resign from Congress.
2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008
           summer olympics.
2011 - Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
2012 - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
2012 - 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
2012 - South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people

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This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Weddings

1290 - Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1477 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of
           Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium
1846 - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe Pélissier
           in Paris
1983 - Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1985 - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
2008 - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (54) weds actress Portia de
           Rossi (39) in Beverly Hills, California
2011 - Fashion designer Michael Kors (51) weds Lance LePere in Southampton, New York

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This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Israeli Prime Minister                             Aviator Charles Lindbergh (1932)                       Writer/Director
Menachem Begin (1913)                                                                                               James Cameron (1954)
 

Pop Star Madonna (1958)


1355 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1397 - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany
1401 - Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436)
1550 - Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar
1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
1573 - Anna of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1598)
1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
1622 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
1645 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1666 - Henriette Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
1682 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
1761 - Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
1769 - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
1776 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1795 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1815 - John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
1816 - Joseph Robinson, composer
1817 - Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
1820 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
1828 - Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1831 - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
1836 - John Farmer, composer
1837 - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
1842 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1846 - Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
1858 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
1860 - Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
1860 - Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)
1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
1864 - Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)
1867 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)
1868 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1868 - Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate and (d. 1955)
1871 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
1874 - Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)
1876 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1877 - Karl L Hoschna, composer
1879 - Ethel Barrymore, classic film & stage actress (Pinky, Moonrise)
1882 - Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
1884 - Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
1884 - Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
1885 - Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
1887 - Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony)
1888 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
1892 - Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
1894 - George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
1895 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer
1895 - Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1895 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
1895 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1896 - (or the 17th) Tina Modotti, Udine Italy, Italian artist and activist
1897 - Robert Ringling, circus master
1897 - Vicente Ascone, composer
1899 - Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1902 - Georgette Heyer, England, novelist (Friday's Child)
1902 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1904 - Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
1906 - Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89)
1907 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer
1907 - Mae Clarke, [Klotz], Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge)
1908 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
1909 - Paul Smith Callaway, composer
1910 - Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)[or 1907]
1912 - Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1912 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
1913 - Menachem Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978), (d. 1992)
1914 - Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1915 - Al Hibbler, singer (Unchained Melody)
1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1917 - Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1920 - Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
1922 - Louis E Lomax, author
1923 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1923 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
1925 - Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
1925 - Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1928 - Ann Blyth, Mt Kisko NY, actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
1928 - Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
1929 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
1929 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1930 - Frank Gifford, California, NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster
1930 - Marion A Trabert, tennis champ (US Open-1953)
1930 - Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1930 - Tony Trabert, tennis pro (1955 Wimbledon)
1932 - Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova)
1932 - Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1933 - Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher (Perscombinatie)
1933 - Reiner Kunze, writer
1933 - Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
1934 - Ed van Thijn, (Jewish) Dutch foreign min/mayor (Amsterdam, 1983-94)
1934 - John Standing, London England, actor (Edward-Lime Street)
1934 - Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], US singer/actress (Love Letters)
1934 - Sam Trimble, cricketer (Queensland bat, 12th man for Aust, no Test)
1934 - Pierre Richard, French actor
1935 - Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress (Machine Calls it Murder)
1935 - Julie Newmar, Hollywood California, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll)
1935 - Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1936 - Anita Gillette, Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck)
1936 - Gary Clarke, Los Angeles California, actor (Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne)
1937 - David Behrman, composer
1937 - Lorraine Gary, NYC, actress (Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 4)
1937 - Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, US, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)
1937 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
1938 - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 - Carol Shelley, London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple)
1939 - Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
1939 - Wim Meijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1939 - Sir Trevor Mcdonald, Trinidadian-born British television newsreader
1940 - Bruce Beresford, Austral director (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies)
1942 - John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker (People's Daily)
1944 - Dick Zimmer, (Rep-R-New Jersey)
1944 - Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistan left-arm quick, 1 Test)
1945 - Bob Balaban, Chicago IL, actor/director (2010, Girlfriends)
1945 - Gary Loizzo, Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1945 - Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer (Easybeats)
1945 - Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy), (d. 2013)
1945 - Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States)
1945 - Suzanne Farrell, Cincinnati, ballerina (Don Quioxote)
1946 - Lesley Ann Warren, NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible)
1946 - Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
1946 - Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (d. 1996)
1947 - Carol Moseley-Braun, (Sen-D Illinois)
1947 - John Howard, (US), speed record (152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT)
1948 - Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
1948 - Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player
1948 - Pierre Reid, Canadian politician and teacher
1949 - Bill Spooner, rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
1949 - Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1950 - Hasely Crawford, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - Jeff[rey R] Thomson, cricketer (great Aussie fast bowler 1972-85)
1950 - Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor
1950 - Stockwell Day, Canadian politician
1951 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
1952 - Gianna Rolandi, NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1952 - Mahes Goonatillake, cricketer (Sri Lankan keeper in their 1st 5 Tests)
1952 - Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard)
1953 - Catlin O'Heaney, Whitefish Bay Wisc, actress (Snow White-Charmings)
1953 - James Taylor, SC, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1953 - Nick Leyva, baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91)
1954 - James Cameron, Kapuskasing Ontario, writer/director (True Lies, Titanic)
1956 - Colleen Walker, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda Champions)
1956 - Dominic Erban, French rugby international player
1956 - Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist
1957 - Tim Farriss, Australian pop guitarist (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
1957 - Laura Innes, Pontiac, Michigan, American actress and director (ER, The Event)
1958 - Angela Bassett, NYC, actress (What's Love Got to Do With It)
1958 - Jonathan Prince, Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice, Pray TV)
1958 - Jose Luis, Clerc Argentina, tennis star
1958 - Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, Norfolk VA, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 68, 81/84)
1958 - Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City Michigan, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
1959 - Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist
1960 - Timothy Hutton, Malibu California, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
1961 - Christian Okoye, American football player
1962 - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1963 - Scott Dunlap, Pittsburgh PA, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 S Afr Masters)
1964 - Jimmy Arias, Buffalo NY, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1964 - Nigel Redman, English rugby international player
1965 - Brian McDonough, Long Beach California, points cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1965 - Eric van der Luer, soccer player (Roda JC)
1965 - Todd McNair, NFL running back/kick returner (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Xavier Hernandez, Port Arthur TX, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1966 - Ed Olczyk, Chicago, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 - Rosey Edeh, London England, Canadian 400m hurdler (Olympics-4-92, 96)
1966 - Terry Shumpert, Paducah KY, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Bret Barberie, Long Beach CA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Matt Vanderbeek, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality
1967 - Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess
1968 - Donovan Leitch Jr, actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol)
1968 - Eric Jonassen, offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Becky Delos Santos, Boston Mass, playmate (April, 1994)
1969 - Ben Coates, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Carl Henkel, Torrance California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Andy Milder, American voice actor
1970 - Adrian Hardy, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Dena Head, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1970 - Eric Swann, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Lester Smith, CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 - Quinton McCracken, Wilmington NC, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1970 - Wilco Hellinga, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1970 - Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
1970 - Killah Priest, American rapper
1970 - Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
1970 - Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
1971 - Nigel Williams, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 - Troy Alexander, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Willie Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Stefan Klos, German footballer
1972 - Eddie Goines, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Michael Reed, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Michael Thornberry, Virginia Beach Va, team handball circle (Oly-1996)
1972 - Zach Wiegert, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972 - Emily Robison, American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
1972 - Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian
1973 - Damian Jackson, American baseball player
1974 - Bryan Chiu, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 - Krizstina Egerszegi, Hungarian backstroke swimmer (100/200m WR)
1974 - Roger Cedeno, Valencia Edo Venezuela, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Ryan Longwell, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Felicia Zimmermann, Rochester NY, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1975 - Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 - George Stults, American actor
1976 - Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1976 - Dave Ockun, American concert producer
1977 - Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor
1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player
1978 - Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver
1979 - Monder Rizki, Belgian athlete
1979 - Michael Stahlman, American rower and coach
1980 - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
1980 - Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1981 - Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1982 - Cam Gigandet, American actor
1982 - Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983 - Colin Griffiths, English TV presenter and DJ
1983 - Colt Brennan, NFL Quarterback, Washington Redskins
1983 - Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
1985 - Agnes Bruckner, American actress
1986 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
1987 - Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
1988 - Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1988 - Kevin Schmidt, American actor
1991 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991 - Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress

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This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Deaths

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth (1948)                   Actor Bela Lugosi (1956)                    Singer & Cultural Icon
                                                                                                                              Elvis Presley (1977)


1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 - Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1508 - Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer
1532 - John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1603 - Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62
1661 - Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53
1675 - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1705 - Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50
1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
1738 - Joe Miller, English comic, dies
1748 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1799 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
1807 - Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72
1831 - Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1854 - Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1855 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
1864 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31
1870 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
1886 - Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50
1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1894 - Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 - Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies
1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
1910 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
1911 - Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
1920 - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1921 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
1929 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
1938 - Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1939 - Ron Oxenham, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia, 14 wickets), dies
1940 - Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
1940 - Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
1944 - Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
1945 - Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29
1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1946 - Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
1948 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1949 - Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
1951 - Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63
1952 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1956 - Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1958 - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85
1959 - Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1959 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1960 - Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935), dies
1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
1964 - Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68
1965 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58
1968 - Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71
1969 - Russ Bender, actor/writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59
1971 - Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78
1972 - John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39
1973 - Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54
1974 - Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
1976 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83
1977 - Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42. Official cause of death is cardiac
           arrhythmia
1978 - Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at 90
1979 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1983 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87
1986 - John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
1986 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1988 - Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
1989 - Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58
1990 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 - Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
1991 - Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
1991 - Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1992 - Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1993 - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
1993 - Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
1993 - Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56
1994 - Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
1994 - Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
1994 - Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
1994 - John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
1995 - John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1995 - John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62
1995 - Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36
1996 - Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
1996 - Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72
1997 - Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer, dies at 82
1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
1999 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
2002 - Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
2002 - John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
2004 - Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
2004 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 - Joe Ranft, American animator (b. 1960)
2005 - Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2005 - Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
2005 - William Corlett, English children's writer(b. 1938)
2005 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2006 - Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
2006 - Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
2006 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bahaedin Adab, Iranian MP (b. 1945)
2007 - The Missing Link, professional wrestler (b. 1939)
2008 - Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners & Solo Artist (b. 1934)
2008 - Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
2008 - Elena Leuṣtean, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist (b. 1935)
2010 - Bobby Thomson, American baseball player
2012 - William Windom, American actor, dies from heart failure at 88

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This Day in History for 17th August


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                        32nd US President                                  US General George S. Patton
                                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                   US President                                       Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                George H. W. Bush                                         Mike Tyson


682 - St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1180 - Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson, Emperor
           Antoku, to the throne
1544 - Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
1563 - King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1579 - Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
1585 - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs
           earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
1648 - -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1717 - France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement
1743 - Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1795 - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
1796 - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1808 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1827 - Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1834 - Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1836 - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
1846 - US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1862 - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1863 - Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1866 - Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1876 - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1879 - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1892 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1894 - Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1896 - George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
1897 - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1904 - Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0
1905 - Dutch government of De Master begins
1907 - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1908 - B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in NYC
1908 - Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl.
1914 - French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins
1914 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1915 - German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for
           murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1916 - Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1917 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1918 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1920 - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
1924 - French-German trade agreement signed
1926 - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1933 - Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1933 - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1938 - Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
1940 - Greece mobilizes
1940 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1941 - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1942 - 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
1942 - 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
1942 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
1942 - Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
1943 - 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943 - US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1944 - 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
1944 - Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
1944 - German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
1944 - Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944 - US 12 Army corp occupies Orleans
1944 - US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun
1944 - Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
1945 - Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1946 - Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1947 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1948 - Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
1950 - Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950 - Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
1951 - 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1951 - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1952 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8   
           billion damage
1956 - Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one
           hits her while she is on the stretcher
1958 - Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1958 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 - USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
1960 - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1962 - Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962 - E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into
           western sector
1963 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
1963 - Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1964 - Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 - Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
1968 - Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1969 - -18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss & Louisiana
1969 - 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1970 - Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
1972 - Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1973 - Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1973 - Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1975 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 - Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1977 - Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m
           (14:38.8 )
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1979 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1980 - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most
           publicised trial in Australian history
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1982 - South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany.
1983 - -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1984 - Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1985 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985 - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986 - Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986 - Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1986 - Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike
           Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
1987 - Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1988 - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 - NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a
           plane crash.
1989 - 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½
1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1990 - "Exorcist 3" premieres
1990 - Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
1990 - Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1991 - Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
1992 - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
1994 - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994 - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1997 - 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
1997 - First of America Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Macy's Tap-o-mania
1997 - Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an
           "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day
           he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring
          44,000.
2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze
           Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan,
           starts.
2012 - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
2012 - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow

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This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Weddings

1498 - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander IV, 1st man to resign the cardinalate marries Charlotte
           d'Albret of Navarre

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This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Divorces

2008 - "Genesis" drummer and vocalist Phil Collins (57) divorces Swiss-born Orianne Cevey (35) after
           six years of marriage

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This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Frontiersman/Soldier                               Actress Mae West (1893)                          Poet Ted Hughes (1930)
Davy Crockett (1786)


Actor Robert De Niro (1943)


1473 - Richard, Duke of York (d. 1483?)
1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1586 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1607 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat's Last Theorem) [or
           1608]
1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1686 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
1720 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)
1753 - Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1775 - Philippe Libon, composer
1779 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer
1786 - Davy Crockett, Greene County, Tennessee, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo), (d.
           1836)
1786 - Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
1794 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
1811 - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)
1817 - Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71)
1819 - James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1828 - George William Warren, composer
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1834 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
1839 - Hubert Platt Main, composer
1839 - Thijs [Matthijs] Maris, Dutch painter/etcher
1840 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
1841 - Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
1844 - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
1851 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1856 - Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master)
1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 - Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1866 - Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950)
1870 - Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1876 - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
1876 - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
1878 - Reg Duff, cricketer (Australian bat, century on debut 1902)
1880 - Leo Ascher, composer
1880 - Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great South African batsman-keeper-captain)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Goldfish], movie producer (MGM)
1885 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
1885 - Kurt Hiller, writer
1887 - Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
1888 - Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner)
1890 - Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 - Mae West, New York, actress (She Dine him Wrong), (d. 1980)
1894 - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden)
1894 - Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor
1896 - Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter/poet (Laws of the Americas)
1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1898 - Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
1900 - Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1903 - Abram Chasins, composer
1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1904 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1905 - John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
1906 - Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
1906 - Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal (1968-74)
1907 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
1908 - Kurt Hessenberg, composer
1909 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1910 - Eric Aaltonen, composer
1910 - J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
1910 - R Peyrefitte, writer
1911 - Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
1911 - Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist (God's Murderer)
1912 - Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop
1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
1913 - Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
1913 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
1916 - John de Young, resistance fighter
1917 - P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)
1917 - Safa Khulusi, writer
1918 - Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
1920 - Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire)
1921 - Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
1921 - Maureen O'Hara [Fitzsimmons], Ranelagh, County Dublin, Irish actress and singer (Miracle on
           34th St, The Quiet Man)
1922 - Paul Wiens, writer
1922 - Ralph Roberts, Salisbury NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
1922 - Roy Tattersall, cricketer (brilliant England off-spinner early 50's)
1923 - Anton Kersjes, violinist/conductor (Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch)
1923 - Larry Rivers, [Grossberg], NYC, painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
1923 - Chaleo Yoovidhya, Phichit, Thailand, co-creator of Red Bull, (d. 2012)
1924 - Evan S Connell, US writer
1924 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian
1924 - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk)
1924 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
1924 - Evan Connell, Kansas City, Missouri, author (The Patriot), (d. 2013)
1925 - John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin)
1925 - John Howard Purnell, scientist
1926 - Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1926 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
1926 - George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1927 - Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds)
1927 - Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
1928 - Jean R Adams, entomologist
1928 - Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
1928 - Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
1930 - James Gulliver, businessman
1930 - Ted Hughes, Mytholmroyd Yorkshire, British Poet Laureate (1984-1998)
1931 - Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Fran, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1956) [or 1/1/21]
1932 - Chet Allen, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
1932 - Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
1933 - Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg], El Monte, California, American actor (Route 66,
           Shenandoah)
1933 - Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive
1933 - Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
1934 - Maureen Connally, champion tennis player (Wimbledon)
1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1936 - Ivan Parik, composer
1936 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1938 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939 - Luther Allison, Mayflower Ark, rock guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
1939 - Anthony Valentine, British actor
1940 - David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1940 - Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
1941 - Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
1941 - Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985- )
1943 - Edward Cowie, composer
1943 - Koos Postema, editor-in-chief (Vrije Volk)/Dutch TV host
1943 - Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver)
1943 - Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
1944 - Lawrence Joseph Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire
1945 - Katri Helena, Finnish singer
1946 - Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist (Gruppo Sportivo)
1947 - Gary Talley, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Box Tops)
1948 - Bo Rucker, Tampa FL, actor (Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up)
1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1949 - Sib Hashian, Boston Mass, rock drummer (Boston)
1949 - Norm Coleman, American politician
1951 - Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1951 - Robert Joy, Montreal Quebec, actor (Big Shots, Suicide Club)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ (US Open-1977)
1952 - Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Ala, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49, 61, 73)
1952 - Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ (1981, '83, '87)
1952 - Thomas J Hennen, Albany GA, astronaut (STS 44)
1952 - Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber)
1953 - Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen)
1953 - Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut (STS 78)
1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
1954 - Eric Johnson, American guitarist
1955 - Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist (XTC)
1955 - Janet Quist Austin TX, playmate (Dec, 1978)
1955 - Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor (Thing Called Love)
1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 - Gail Berman, American film executive
1956 - Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
1960 - Bruce Penhall, Balboa CA, actor (Savage Beach)
1960 - Sean Penn, Santa Monica California, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1960 - Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
1961 - Jamie Macoun, Newmarket, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1962 - Gilby Clarke, US pop guitarist (Guns n' Roses-Civil War)
1962 - Buddy Landel, American professional wrestler
1963 - Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
1963 - S. Shankar, Indian film director.
1964 - Pete McCutcheon, Boston Mass, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Quebec Open)
1964 - Colin James, Canadian musician
1965 - Dottie Mochrie Pepper, Saratoga Springs NY, golfer (1992 Dinah Shore)
1965 - Fred Grim, soccer player (Cambuur L, Ajax)
1965 - Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
1965 - Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft)
1965 - Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
1966 - Cedric Figaro, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1966 - Zefross Moss, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, NE Patriots)
1966 - Maysa Leak, American Jazz Singer
1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 - Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - James Jenkins, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Kenny Davidson, NFL defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1967 - Nelson Emerson, Hamilton, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk)
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Vince Marrow, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Helen McCrory, English actress
1969 - Christian Laettner, NBA forward/center (Atlanta Hawks, Oly-gold-92)
1969 - Donald E Wahlberg Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1969 - Ed Cunningham, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Maria Strandlund, Akersberga Sweden, tennis star (1987 Futures NOR)
1970 - Bernard Wilson, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Brad Bretz, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Jim Courier, Sanford Florida, tennis champ (1990, 91 French)
1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 - Shaun Rehn, Australian Rules footballer
1972 - Ernie Conwell, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1973 - A J Wood, Pittsburgh, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Kerry Mock, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Paul Wiggins, offensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1974 - Tony Hajjar, Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1974 - Nicola Kraus, American novelist
1975 - İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer
1975 - Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
1976 - Scott Halberstadt, American actor
1977 - Jake Patellis, actor (Paul Bowman-Good Life)
1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
1977 - Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
1978 - Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1979 - Marcus Patric, British actor
1980 - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 - Shannon Lucio, American actress
1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1981 - Kristin Holt, American television personality
1982 - Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982 - Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
1983 - Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 - Garrett Wolfe, American professional footbal player
1984 - Dee Brown, American basketball player
1985 - Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
1986 - Bryton McClure, Lakewood California, actor (Richie-Family Matters)
1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1988 - Brady Corbet, American actor
1988 - Erika Toda, Japanese actress
1990 - Colin Bates, American actor
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
1996 - Ella Cruz, Filipina actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Deaths

                 
King of Prussia                                           Revolutionary Leader
Frederik the Great (1786)                          Jose de San Martin (1850)   


754 - Karloman, abbot of Monte Cassino, dies at 39
1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1464 - Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded
1510 - Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded
1536 - Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies
1553 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
1635 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Grimmelshausen, writer, dies
1681 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1730 - Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61
1731 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57
1768 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1777 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, dies
1786 - Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74
1792 - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
1804 - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Jose de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero and general, dies at 72
1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1865 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
1865 - Mosby Munroe Parsons, US Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1878 - Richard Upjohn, US architect, died
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810)
1887 - Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
1888 - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
1889 - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
1893 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident
1898 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
1901 - Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
1914 - James Grierson, British general
1915 - Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
1920 - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 - Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1924 - Tom Kendall, cricketer (14 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1927 - Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
1936 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
1944 - John Trumble, cricketer (brother of Hugh 7 Tests 1885-86), dies
1945 - Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Pater Bleijs, [Louis], resistance fighter, dies in car accident
1948 - Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60
1949 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
1953 - Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
1954 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
1958 - Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87
1961 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1963 - Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
1966 - Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test South Africa v England 1927-28), dies
1966 - Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83
1969 - Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies
1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
1971 - Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1972 - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76
1972 - Wampilow, writer, dies
1973 - Conrad Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74
1973 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1974 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer, dies at 89
1974 - Edgar Dearing, actor (Free & Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81
1975 - Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
1975 - Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48
1976 - Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63
1976 - William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 67
1981 - Robert Russell Bennett, US composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87
1982 - Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
1982 - Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1983 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86
1984 - Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks
1987 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
1987 - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
1987 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1988 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1988 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in plane crash at 64
1988 - Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies
1990 - Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
1991 - Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63
1991 - Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
1991 - Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76
1992 - Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered
1992 - Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
1992 - Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72
1993 - Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1994 - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
1994 - Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91
1995 - David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
1995 - Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92
1995 - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90
1995 - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76
1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
1996 - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80
1998 - Wladyslaw Komar, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1940)
1998 - Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 - Franco Sensi, Italian oil tycoon and president of A.S. Roma
2010 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and eighth President of the Italian Republic (b. 1928)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th August


Historical Events

                                   
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                             32nd US President                 Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
                                                                      Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Cuban President Fidel Castro                    Baseball Player Hank Aaron                  Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix


Comedian Jerry Lewis


293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia 
              Rustica.
410 - King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1289 - Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem"
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day 
           Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1564 - Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1587 - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1591 - Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone in the colony had
           disappeared [or Aug 17, 1590]
1605 - Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
1674 - Jean Racine's "Iphigénie," premieres in Versailles
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
1700 - Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1735 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1759 - -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1769 - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1795 - Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 - 1st US marine expedition
1840 - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator
           Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1858 - Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
1862 - General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
1862 - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1864 - 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1870 - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1873 - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California (14,494')
1886 - Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1891 - Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1896 - Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which
           President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 - Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)
1914 - -20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
1914 - French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
1914 - Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1915 - Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1917 - Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals
           homeless.
1919 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1920 - 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 - 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified
1923 - 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1924 - France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1924 - France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr
1925 - Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
1925 - Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
1926 - England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1930 - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1931 - Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1932 - Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1932 - Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
1934 - Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six
1934 - Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng
1936 - 106.5°F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1937 - 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1940 - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 - German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1941 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1942 - Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1943 - Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1944 - Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 - US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
1945 - Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized
           baseball are called off
1946 - Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1947 - Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1949 - Hungary adopts constitution
1949 - Ralph Flanagan & his orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart"
1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right
           elements.
1951 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
1954 - James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
1955 - -19] Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 - 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 - Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1956 - Cin Reds (8 ) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1957 - Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")
1957 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 - Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 - Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 - Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1958 - Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 - Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Richardson, Texas
1960 - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 - Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 - James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1964 - Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
1964 - Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 - USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1965 - Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1967 - Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 - Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 - WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1969 - Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act
1972 - Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession
1973 - Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 - Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
1976 - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the
           death of two US soldiers.
1977 - 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 - Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1978 - Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
1979 - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1981 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1981 - Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London 
           insurance policy for $1 million
1982 - 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 - NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 - Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1982 - Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA
           Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
1983 - Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 - Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out &
           Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil
           burned after lightning sparked a fire
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 - Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 - John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 - WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1987 - Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 - Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours
           faster than 1st man to do it
1987 - Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female
           world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 - Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1989 - Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 - Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1991 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1991 - Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
1991 - Pan Am games closes in Havana
1992 - "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
1993 - Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1994 - 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1995 - Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
1996 - Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
2000 - A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo,
           under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2008 - President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.
2011 - The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
2012 - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
2012 - NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Weddings

1572 - King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois
1782 - Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his
           junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London.
1918 - Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25)
1979 - Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1984 - Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes (22) weds Des Moines department store heiress Julie
           Anne Friedman (25) at London registrar's office
2000 - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (57) weds former congressional aide Calista Bisek (34)
           in Alexandria, Virginia
2005 - Model and former Playboy Playmate Kylie Bax (30) weds photographer Spiros Poros in Delos,
           Greece
2011 - American Idol's first-ever blind finalist Scott MacIntyre (26) weds Christina Teich in Scottsdale,
           Arizona
2012 - "Melrose Place" actor Grant Show (50) weds "The Campaign" actress and former ballet dancer
           Katherine LaNasa (45) at The Oak Grove at Ribbit Tree & Plant Nursery in Topanga, California
2012 - Former "Martin and Everybody Hates Chris" actress Tichina Arnold (43) weds Rico Hines in
           Honolulu, Hawaii

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Soldier/Public Administrator                 Indian Politician and Diplomat               Actress Shelley Winters (1920)
 Meriwether Lewis (1774)                        Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900)

                 
Baseball Player                                        Actor Robert Redford (1936)
Roberto Clemente (1934)


472 - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 - Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet
1579 - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange
1587 - 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)
1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1606 - Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
1611 - Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650)
1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
1685 - Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
1692 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1745 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
1754 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1769 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, solider and public administrator (Lewis & Clark
           Expedition), (d. 1809)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1792 - John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
1803 - Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d.
           1881)
1805 - Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
1807 - Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
1813 - Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1884
1818 - William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
1823 - Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1834 - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store)
1849 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1856 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
1856 - Jan Karol Gali, composer
1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870 - Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954)
1871 - Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)
1873 - Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
1873 - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1875 - Johan E Elias, historian (Amsterdam)
1878 - Fritz Brun, composer
1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1881 - Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
1882 - Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor
1882 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1883 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel)
1885 - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
1887 - Nico J Polak, Dutch economist
1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893 - Ernest MacMillan, composer
1893 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1896 - Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900 - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1900 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1900 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Allahabad Oudh, Indian diplomat and politician
1902 - Julius Kalas, composer
1902 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1903 - Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 - Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
1904 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
1904 - [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer (Max Factor)
1905 - Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
1906 - Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 - Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1907 - Howard Swanson, composer
1907 - Otto Mortensen, composer
1908 - Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
1908 - Bill Merritt, cricketer (early NZ Test leg-spinner, also Northants)
1908 - Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France (1952, 52-56)
1908 - Milan Ristic, composer
1909 - Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 - Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor
1910 - Herman Berlinski, composer
1915 - Max Lanier, baseball player
1916 - Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
1916 - Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1917 - Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1918 - Elsa Morante, writer
1919 - Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
1920 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player
1920 - [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper (1950's)
1920 - Shelley Winters, St Louis Missouri, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon
           Adventure), (d. 2006)
1921 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
1922 - Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister
1923 - Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)
1923 - Sadu Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner late 1940's/early 1950's)
1923 - Jenni Irani, Indian cricketer (d. 1982)
1924 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]
1925 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
1925 - Tonny Til, rocker
1925 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1927 - Rosalynn Smith Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's lust
1928 - Marge Schott, CEO (Cincinnati Reds)
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)
1930 - Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man)
1930 - Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1930 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
1931 - Henricus AFMO "Hans" van Mierlo, Dutch minister of Defense (D66)
1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1931 - Dick White, English footballer
1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 - Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
1933 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
1934 - Rafer Lewis Johnson, Hillsboro Tx, decathlete (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author (Helter-Skelter)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935 - Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
1935 - Lajos Papp, composer
1935 - Rafer Johnson, Hillsboro Texas, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
1935 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936 - Robert Redford, Santa Monica California, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great
           Gatsby)
1937 - William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist (TW3)
1938 - Joe Frank, American radio personality
1939 - Joe Azcue, baseball player
1939 - Johnny Preston singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1939 - Molly Bee, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Pinky Lee Show)
1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1939 - Robert Horton, British businessman
1940 - Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1940 - Joan Joyce, Waterbury CT, LPGA golfer (1984 S&H Golf Classic-6th)
1941 - Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
1941 - Matt Snell, NFL running back (NY Jets, Super Bowl III)
1943 - Martin Mull, Chicago Illinois, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
1943 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rock vocalist (Patti LaBelle & Bluebirds)
1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1944 - Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
1945 - Barbara Harris, US singer (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1945 - Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1948 - Carol O'Neal, playmate (July, 1972)
1948 - Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1948 - Joseph Marcell, British actor
1949 - Nigel Griggs, rocker (Split Enz)
1950 - Candice Earley, Ft Hood TX, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
1950 - Dennis Elliot, London, rock drummer (Foreigner)
1950 - Lynn Adams, Kingsville TX, LPGA golfer
1951 - Greg Pruitt, NFL running back (LA Raiders, Super Bowl XVIII)
1952 - Elayne Boosler, Brooklyn NY, comedienne (Broadway Baby, Party of One)
1952 - Nicholas John, dramaturge
1952 - Patrick Swayze, Houston Texas, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
1952 - Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
1953 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Rome Italy, PhD/astronaut (STS 75)
1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956 - Sandeep Patil, cricketer (Indian batsman Great 174 v Adelaide 1981)
1956 - John Debney, American composer
1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1957 - Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1957 - Dennis Leary, actor/comic (MTV)
1957 - Ron Strykert, Australia, rock guitarist (Men At Work-Who Can it Be)
1958 - Madeleine Stowe, Los Angeles California, actress (Tropical Snow, Bad Girls)
1959 - Tom Prichard, American wrestler
1960 - Sonny Skinner, Porstmouth VA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open)
1961 - John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
1961 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
1962 - Sandra Marie Miller Farmer-Patrick, Kingston Jamaica, 400m hurdler
1962 - Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
1963 - Luiz Mattar, Brazil, tennis star
1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1964 - Craig Bierko, American actor
1964 - Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1965 - Jim Florentine, American comedian
1966 - Cees Lock of hair, soccer player (NEC)
1966 - Steve Avery, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1966 - Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1967 - Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - John Jurkovic, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer (Showgirls)
1967 - Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1967 - Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
1967 - Dan Peters, American musician
1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1968 - Brian Mitchell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Carolyn Crudgington, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 - Greta Lind, Goshen NY, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
1968 - Griffin Drew, Hazelhurst Georgia, actress (Dinosaur Island)
1968 - John Coyle, West Bloomfield Mich, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Justin Strzelczyk, NFL guard/offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1969 - Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
1969 - Isaac Austin, NBA center (Miami Heat)
1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 - Everlast, American musician
1969 - Edward Norton, American actor
1970 - Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
1970 - Richie Cunningham, kicker (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Robert Higginson, Philadelphia PA, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 - Greg Dean Schmitz, American online film journalist
1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society)
1971 - Jonathan David Winter, Wellington NZ, 100m backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kevin Bouie, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Ariz Cardinals)
1971 - Mindy Czuleger, Inglewood Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Myrtle Bch-17th-1994)
1971 - Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1971 - Jacob Vargas, American actor
1972 - Derrick Harris, running back (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Loraine Lambert, Ipswich Queensland, golfer (NZ champ 1991, 92)
1972 - Nate Jones, Chicago Ill, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Ray Jacobs, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1972 - Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
1973 - Alex Pijper, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1973 - Clarence Benford, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Luke Fickell, defensive tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Sekou Soumah, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, cricketer (WI left-handed batsman 1994-)
1976 - Daphnee Lynn Duplaix, Manhattan NY, playmate (July 1997)
1976 - Tom Malchow, US, 200m butterfly/free (Olympics-silver-96)
1976 - Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
1980 - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1980 - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
1980 - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980 - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1980 - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
1981 - César Delgado, Argentine footballer
1981 - Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1983 - Michael Montgomery, American football player
1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
1984 - Robert Huth, German footballer
1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
1992 - Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
1994 - Jessie Flower, American actress
1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Deaths

Choreographer Frederick Ashton (1988)


353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
1236 - Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies
1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 - Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies
1318 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)
1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503 - Alexander VI, [Rodrigo de Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies
1559 - Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83
1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1652 - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40
1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1745-65) dies at 56
1803 - James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67
1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1811 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1840 - Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73
1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 - H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51
1853 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1863 - Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39
1870 - Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle
1894 - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
1896 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
1901 - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
1907 - John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1916 - Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1934 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61
1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1943 - Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1944 - Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies
1949 - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
1950 - Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1952 - Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
1952 - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1957 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
1961 - Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
1961 - Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78
1962 - Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68
1966 - Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80
1966 - Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75
1968 - Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
1969 - Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48
1969 - Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68
1969 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81
1980 - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
1981 - Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88
1982 - Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1988 - Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42
1988 - Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
1989 - Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies
1989 - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered
1990 - B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
1990 - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1991 - Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
1992 - Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
1992 - John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
1992 - Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
1993 - Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47
1994 - Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
1994 - John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84
1994 - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56
1994 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79
1995 - James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66
1995 - Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer, dies at 39
1996 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103
1996 - Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi, dies at 66
1996 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St Paul's, dies at 68
1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek), dies of a heart attack at 49
2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2004 - Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2009 - Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)
2009 - Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (b. 1931)
2010 - Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)
2010 - Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943)
2010 - Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar
2012 - Scott McKenzie, American singer, dies at 73

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th August


Historical Events

                                   
Roman Emperor                                     Photographer and Inventor                      36th US President
Augustus Caesar                                     Louis-Jacques Daguerre                           Lyndon B. Johnson

                                   
38th US President                                     US President & Actor                     General Secretary of the Communist
Gerald R. Ford                                          Ronald Reagan                                        Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                     Mikhail Gorbachev


Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson


43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1458 - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1477 - Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1493 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in
           France
1587 - Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
1591 - French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
1627 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1691 - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
1702 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]
1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy,
           which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1791 - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1796 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1812 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1816 - Java again in Dutch hands
1821 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
1839 - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
1861 - Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1888 - 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman
           in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1897 - 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
1905 - Russian Tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1909 - Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1912 - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
1913 - Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
1914 - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
1914 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1915 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1915 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins
1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's
           arrest for violating Blue laws
1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK
1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1922 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to
           the Soviet state.
1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1932 - 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1933 - 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1934 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1939 - 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an
           umbrella to get a rainout
1942 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
1942 - Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
1942 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1943 - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1943 - US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1944 - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1944 - Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 - Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance
1944 - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 - US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
1947 - J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1950 - ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 - Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
1953 - England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1955 - 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1955 - US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats
           Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1957 - NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
1957 - US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1959 - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
1961 - US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
1962 - Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1963 - NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1964 - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1965 - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1966 - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1969 - Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open
1975 - Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1976 - Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1979 - "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1979 - Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
1979 - Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
1979 - Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after
           a record 175 days in space
1980 - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1980 - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
1981 - 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1982 - Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 - Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1983 - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
1983 - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1984 - 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres
1984 - Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
1985 - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1986 - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
1987 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault
           rifle and then commits suicide.
1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 - Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
1988 - NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1990 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1990 - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
1991 - -20] Hurricane Bob hits US
1991 - Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 - Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
1992 - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
1992 - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
1993 - 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
1993 - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
1993 - George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
1993 - Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
1993 - Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
1995 - After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
1995 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 - Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
1997 - NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal
           Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny,
           killing 118 soldiers.
2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio
           Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005
           begins.
2005 - A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as
           creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In
           Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
2009 - A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 - Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams
           crossing the border to Kuwait.
2012 - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan

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This Day in History for 19th August


Famous Weddings

1935 - French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris
1973 - Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1993 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
2006 - Brazilian model Luciana Morad (36) weds Brazilian TV producer Marcelo de Carvalho at Ponta
           das Canas near the coast of Sao Paulo