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This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Weddings

1840 - Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck
1908 - Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
1936 - "first Irish movie star" actress Maureen O'Sullivan (25) weds film director John Farrow (32)
1953 - Senator John F. Kennedy (36) weds Jacqueline Bouvier (24) in Newport, Rhode Island
2006 - NBA basketball star Tracy McGrady (27) weds CleRenda Harris at the sandy beach in Los
           Cabos, Mexico
2009 - Platinum-selling rock band "3 Doors Down" lead singer Brad Arnold weds horseback rider
           Jennifer Sanderford in Escatawpa, Mississippi

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This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Physicist/Chemist                                   Singer Barry White (1944)                        Actress and Singer
Irene Joliot-Curie (1897)                                                                                         Jennifer Hudson (1981)


1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
1494 - King Francis I of France (1515-47), (d. 1547)
1559 - Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect
1575 - Henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer (Hudson River)
1605 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
1655 - Sebastien de Brossard, composer
1688 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
1690 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1720 - Frederick Philipse III, NYC, land owner (Bronx, Westchester & Putnam)
1725 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
1740 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
1761 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer
1768 - Bemnjamin Carr, composer
1788 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ)
1801 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher
1803 - Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer
1806 - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863
1811 - James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
1812 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
1829 - Anselm Feuerbach, German painter
1829 - Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
1830 - William Sprague, governor of Rhode Island (1859-63)
1852 - Hubert H Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (L, 1908-16), (d. 1928)
1855 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
1856 - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer
1857 - George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter
1858 - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor
1871 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania
1873 - Sul-To-Wan, [Nellie Conley], US actress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1875 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
1876 - Flor Alpaerts, Flemish composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel, Pallieter)
1877 - Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Jane Eyre)
1879 - Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter
1879 - H de Bie, Dutch lawyer (children's law)
1880 - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
1881 - Daniel Jones, England phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary)
1887 - George Georgescu, composer
1888 - Maurice Chevalier, Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi)
1890 - Guido Guerrini, composer
1891 - Adolph Weiss, composer
1891 - Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
1892 - Alfred A Knopf, US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal)
1894 - Billy Gilbert, Louisville KY, actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday)
1895 - Alice Lake, Brooklyn NY, silent screen actress (Glamour, Wicked)
1896 - Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Il Libro Dell'Alpe)
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, Paris, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (d. 1956)
1898 - Ben Shahn, painter (1964 Arts & Letters)
1898 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
1899 - Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter
1900 - Eric Harding Thiman, composer
1901 - Ben Blue, Montreal, Quebec, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra
           Show)
1901 - Ernst Pepping, German composer
1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil (1955-60)
1904 - Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer
1905 - Boris Arapov, composer
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [OS]
1906 - Ruvim Pergament, composer
1907 - Joe Lederer, Austrian actress/writer (Drei Tage Liebe)
1907 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
1909 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (AL MVP 1943)
1909 - Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and
           politician (d.1986)
1913 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter
1913 - Jesse Owens, track star, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics with 4 gold
1913 - Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur
1914 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
1915 - Billy Daniels, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Billy Daniels Show)
1915 - Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1917 - Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist
1917 - Seamas NacNeill, piper
1917 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
1920 - Irene Dailey, NYC, actress (Liz-Another World, Grissom Gang)
1920 - Jan W Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet/historian (Blossoming Stone)
1921 - Frank McGee, Monroe La, news anchor (NBC Evening News)
1921 - Stanislaw Lem, Lwów, Poland, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible)
1922 - Jackson Mac Low, composer
1922 - Viscount Allendale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1922 - Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
1924 - Howard Curtis Nielson, (Rep-R-UT, 1983- )
1924 - Jean Le Poulain, Marseille, France, actor (Divine)
1925 - Dickie Moore, Los Angeles California, actor (Expert, Oliver Twist, Little Men)
1925 - Stan Lopata, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1927 - Gianna Maria Canale, Reggio Calabria Italy, actress (Go For Broke)
1927 - Ina Muller-van Ast, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1929 - Harvey Lester Schmidt, composer
1930 - Larry Austin, composer
1931 - George Jones, Saratoga Tx, singer (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me), (d. 2013)
1931 - Ian Holm, Ilford Essex England, actor (Himmler-Holocaust)
1931 - Kristin Hunter, [Eggleston], US author (God Bless the Child)
1933 - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman
1933 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
1934 - Gunther Gebel-Williams, lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus)
1934 - Glenn Davis, American athlete
1934 - Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher
1935 - Allan B Swift, (Rep-D-Washington, 1979- )
1935 - Richard H Hunt, Chicago, sculptor (Pyramidal Construction)
1937 - Daniela Rocca, Sicily, actress (Battle of Austerlitz, Empty Canvas)
1937 - Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician
1937 - George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
1938 - Tatiana Troyanos, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Octavian-Der Rosenleavalier)
1939 - Henry A Waxman, (Rep-D-California, 1975-86)
1939 - Phillip Ramey, composer
1940 - Linda Gray, Santa Monica California, actress (Sue Ellen Ewing-Dallas)
1940 - Mickey Lolich, pitcher (Detroit Tiger, won 25 in 1971)
1940 - Roger K Crouch, Jamestown Tenn, astronauts (STS 83, 94)
1940 - Stephen J Solarz, (Rep-D-NY, 1975-93)
1940 - Susan Sennett, Santa Monica California, actress (Big Bad Mama)
1940 - Patrick Mower, English actor
1941 - Hans-Karsten Raecke, composer
1942 - Tomés Marco, Basque/Spanish composer
1943 - Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, NY, singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
1943 - Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
1944 - Barry White, Galveston Tx, singer (Love's Theme), (d. 2003)
1944 - Leonard Peltier, American activist
1945 - John Mauceri, NYC, conductor (Wash DC Opera)
1945 - Maria Aitken, actress (Fish Called Wanda)
1945 - Vern M Lindblad, Seattle WA, Turkologist
1948 - Max Walker, Australian cricket player
1948 - Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor
1949 - Irina Rodnina, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1949 - Tony Stevens, rocker
1950 - Cynthia Meyers, playmate (Dec 1968)/actress (Beyond Valley of Dolls)
1950 - Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
1951 - Berty Ahern, Drumcondra, Dublin, PM of Ireland (1997-2008)
1951 - Joe Pantoliano, Jersey City NJ, actor (Finelli Boys, Fugitive)
1951 - Gerald Stano, American serial killer
1952 - Gerry Beckley, rock vocalist/guitarist (America-Daisy Jane)
1952 - Neil Peart, Canada, musician and drummer (Rush-A Farewell to Kings)
1953 - John Williams, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 - Nancy "Nan" Goldin, Washington D.C., Photographer
1954 - Russell G. Alexander, creator of Today In History v1.2
1954 - Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist
1955 - Peter Scolari, New Rochelle New York, American actor (Newhart, Bosom Buddies)
1955 - Nina Blackwood, Mass, actress/VJ (MTV, Solid Gold, Vice Squad)
1956 - Brian Robertson, Glasgow Scotland, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1956 - Charles Henry Beck, Fayetteville NC, PGA golfer (1990 Buick Open 1992)
1956 - Barry Andrews, British musician
1956 - Sam Brownback, American politician
1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1957 - Hawk, [Michael Hegstrand], wrestler (ECW/WCW/WWF/AWA, Legion of Doom)
1957 - Rachel Ward, Cornwell Manor England, actress (Thorn Birds)
1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
1958 - Gregg Edelman, Chicago IL, actor (Green Card)
1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, PR, boxer (world champ at 17y176d)
1959 - Cindy Rarick, Glenwood MN, LPGA golfer (1991 Northgate Computer)
1960 - Lynn Connelly, Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1988 USX Golf Classic-6th)
1961 - Mylene Farmer, Montreal Canada, french singer (Cendres de Lune)
1961 - Kathem Al Saher, Iraqi singer
1962 - Amy Yasbeck, Blue Ash, Ohio, American actress (Casey Davenport-Wings, Mask)
1962 - Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer
1964 - Dieter Hecking, German footballer
1965 - Silke Horner, German DR, swimmer (world record 100m-breast stroke)
1965 - Vernon Maxwell, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1965 - Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host
1965 - John Norwood Fisher, American musician
1966 - Darren E Burrows, Kansas, actor (Ed Chigliak-Northern Exposure)
1966 - Ben Folds, American musician
1967 - Pat Listach, Natchitoches LA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1968 - [Reid Laurence] Larry LaLonde, Richmond, California, American guitarist (Primus-Frizzle Fry)
1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
1969 - Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
1969 - James Frey, American writer
1969 - Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
1969 - André Heinz, American environmentalist; son of Teresa Heinz
1970 - Rebecca Joyce, Australia, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Nathan Larson, American guitarist and composer (Shudder To Think, Hot One)
1971 - Terry Dehere, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1972 - Amy Locane, NJ, actress (Sandy Harling-Melrose Place)
1972 - Cady Cantrell, Lanett AL, playmate (Apr, 1992)
1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
1973 - Martin Lapointe, Canadian hockey player
1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
1974 - Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1974 - Jennifer Nettles, American country singer, part of Sugarland
1975 - Tom Carroll, actor (J T Adams-Swan's Crossing)
1976 - Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
1976 - Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane), American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1977 - James Louis McCartney, son of Paul & Linda McCartney
1977 - Idan Raichel, Israeli musician
1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977 - Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host
1977 - Jeff Irwin, American musician
1977 - David Thompson, English footballer
1978 - Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
1978 - Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
1978 - Michael Paget, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
1980 - Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Gus G., Greek guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil)
1980 - Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
1980 - Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player
1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
1981 - Jered Guzman, Garden Grove California, pairs skater (& Natalie Vlandis)
1981 - Jennifer Hudson, Chicago, Illinois, American actress and singer (Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson)
1982 - Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
1983 - Carly Smithson, Irish singer
1983 - Daniel Muir, football player
1985 - Jack Wilkinson, English footballer
1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
1986 - Yang Mi, Chinese actress
1988 - Aaron Sidwell, English actor

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This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Deaths

Country Singer Johnny Cash (2003)


352 - Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
1012 - Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies
1015 - Lambert I with the Beard, Count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65
1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1213 - Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle
1362 - Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies
1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
1500 - Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57
1591 - Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1604 - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29
1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed
1647 - Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
1660 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82
1661 - Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53
1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
1674 - Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80
1683 - Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40
1691 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), dies at 44
1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1732 - Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58
1733 - Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64
1739 - Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor/composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65
1764 - Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80
1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
1789 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79
1806 - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58
1807 - Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71
1812 - Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle
1815 - Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
1824 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62
1836 - Grabbe, writer, dies at 34
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1871 - Karl Collan, Finnish composer, dies at 43
1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
1877 - Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64
1878 - Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
1879 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
1913 - Major R B Stewart, cricketer (scored 4 & 9 in S Afr's 1st Test), dies
1917 - Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies
1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48
1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
1927 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
1934 - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1936 - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
1947 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89
1953 - Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
1955 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86
1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
1963 - Ben Sealey, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1933), dies
1963 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
1971 - Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63
1972 - William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77
1973 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77
1973 - Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1977 - Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977 - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody
1978 - Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69
1979 - Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies
1980 - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1982 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89
1986 - Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
1986 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92
1987 - John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies
1988 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78
1988 - Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1989 - Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37
1990 - Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
1991 - Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93
1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60
1992 - Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75
1992 - Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87
1993 - Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95
1993 - Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
1993 - Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82
1993 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
1994 - Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
1994 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1994 - Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
1994 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85
1995 - Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
1995 - Jeremy Brett, [Peter Huggins], English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 61
1995 - John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
1995 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 - Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87
1996 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59
1996 - James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66
1996 - Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36
1996 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
1997 - Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79
1997 - Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74
1997 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2008 - Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
2008 - David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
2009 - Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
2010 - Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 - Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 - Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)

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This Day in History for 13th September


Historical Events

                                   
Pope Leo X                                                Aviator Igor Sikorsky                           Tennis Player John McEnroe


Tennis Player Pete Sampras


509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad
         Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 - Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III
1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the
           Bishop of Nantes.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal
           Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1515 - -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X
1549 - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
1553 - English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested
1556 - Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1574 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1579 - Breda forms Union of Utrecht
1625 - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1631 - Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates
1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1743 - Britain, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1751 - Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance
1759 - British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)
1775 - Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main
1787 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
1789 - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1791 - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
1800 - Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)
1808 - Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von
           Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1849 - 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1858 - Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1867 - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1869 - Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1881 - Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
1882 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1883 - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against
           Philadelphia
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
1898 - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the
           highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during
           the Philippine-American War.
1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe
1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto
          Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
1909 - Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
1910 - Regina Rugby Club forms
1918 - Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1919 - Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
1922 - 136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
1923 - With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1924 - 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
1925 - 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1925 - Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
1927 - Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
1927 - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1928 - KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
1930 - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
1930 - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
1931 - Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
1931 - Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1932 - NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
1934 - Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1936 - Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
1938 - Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - First (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, one of the first viable American
           helicopters, flown by Igor Sikorsky
1940 - Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
1940 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
1943 - German counter attack at Salerno
1943 - Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres
1943 - The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1944 - 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
1944 - Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1946 - Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
1947 - WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of
           Congress
1949 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
1951 - St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston
           Braves 2-0
1952 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1953 - Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's
1954 - Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
1954 - WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
1956 - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1958 - Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 - Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1959 - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
1959 - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
1959 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 - USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
1960 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1961 - "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
1961 - Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
1963 - Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1964 - 78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)
1964 - 84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)
1964 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
1964 - WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Beatles release "Yesterday"
1965 - Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
1965 - Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
1965 - Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
1966 - Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1968 - Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1969 - Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
1969 - Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance
1970 - 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1970 - 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
1970 - 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
1970 - IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1970 - Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
1971 - 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
1971 - Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 - WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - World Hockey Association forms
1972 - 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
1973 - ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1973 - Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 - Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1974 - -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
1974 - 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
1974 - Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils
           win 7-3 in 17
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US
1976 - 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1977 - 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
1977 - 2nd Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 - General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1978 - 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1978 - NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
1979 - China PR performs nuclear test
1979 - South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)
1980 - 1st United Negro College Fund
1981 - 101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 - 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins
1981 - April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
1981 - Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 - Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1983 - Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 - Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
1983 - US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1984 - STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1985 - 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1985 - John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1986 - Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
1986 - Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
1987 - Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1987 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 - Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1988 - 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 - 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
1988 - Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 - Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
1990 - Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990 - Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
1990 - Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
1991 - 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1991 - Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams
1991 - Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto)
1991 - Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins
           the gold with 39.848 pts
1992 - 112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
1992 - NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
1992 - Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1992 - Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open
1993 - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
1993 - Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
1993 - Queens NY begins required recycling
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by
           Norway.
1994 - George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
1996 - Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham
1997 - Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1
1997 - Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1998 - 112th US Womens Tennis
1998 - 118th US Mens Tennis
1998 - SAFECO Golf Classic
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before
           committing suicide.
2008 - Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy
           damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
2012 - 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
2012 - 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
2012 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
2012 - Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya

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This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Weddings

1963 - Singer Barbra Striesand & actor Elliot Gould marry
1998 - "Spice Girls" pop singer Melanie Brown (23) weds Jimmy Gulzar in Little Marlow,
           Buckinghamshire
2000 - Wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (35) weds WWE Diva Debra Marshall (40) at the Little
           White Chapel in Las Vegas
2008 - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" comedian actress Susie Essman (53) weds real-estate broker Jim
           Harder (51) at the Friars Club in Manhattan

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This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Novelist Daniel Defoe (1660)                     Chocolate Tycoon                                      US WW1 Commander
                                                              Milton S. Hershey (1857)                             John J. Pershing (1860)


Author Roald Dahl (1916)


1087 - John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1157 - Alexander Neckum/de Sancto Albano, English theologist/encyclopedist
1475 - Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
1502 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1520 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier
1551 - Pandolfo Zallamella, composer
1594 - Francesco Manelli, composer
1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
1660 - Daniel Defoe, London, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe)
1673 - Hercule Brehy, composer
1676 - Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1682 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer
1688 - Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer
1694 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1739 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer
1739 - Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS
1751 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1806 - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862
1806 - Moritz Ganz, composer
1813 - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1814 - Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura=
1817 - John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72)
1818 - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1836 - John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1927
1841 - Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
1842 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
1846 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
1847 - Charles Dupee Blake, composer
1851 - Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
1857 - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey
          Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945)
1857 - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
1858 - Catherinus Elling, composer
1860 - John J. Pershing (Blackjack), Laclede, Missouri, US commander (WW I), (d. 1948)
1862 - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
1863 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1866 - Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)
1871 - Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
1874 - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet). Died 1951.
1874 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg)
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
1882 - Henri Potiron, composer
1882 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
1886 - Alain LeRoy Locke, African American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem
           Renaissance”
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1893 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1894 - Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman
1894 - John B[oynton] Priestly, author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes
1894 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895 - Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family)
1896 - Morris Kirksey, US, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920)
1897 - Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer
1899 - Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer
1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1901 - Philip Dorn, Scheveningen Netherlands, actor (I Remember Mama)
1902 - Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author
1902 - Leland Hayward, US producer (Spirit of St Louis)
1903 - Claudette Colbert, [Lily Chauchoin], Paris, actress (Texas Lady)
1904 - Gladys George, Patten Maine, actress (Roaring Twenties)
1907 - Victor Reinganum, artist
1908 - Ray Burns Green, composer
1909 - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1911 - Bill Monroe, Rosine Ky, country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky)
1912 - Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1913 - Roy Engle, Mo, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian)
1914 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
1915 - Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot
1916 - Roald Dahl, Llandaff, Cardiff, author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables), (d. 1990).
1916 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
1917 - Jon Thorarinsson, composer
1917 - Robert Eugene Ward, Cleveland Ohio, composer (Pantaloon)
1918 - Ray Charles, Chicago, orchestra leader (Perry Como)
1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
1920 - Carole Mathews, Montgomery Ill, actress (Wilma-Californians)
1922 - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1922 - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1923 - Reninca, [Renée Lauwers], Flemish author (Seed in the Wind)
1923 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966)
1924 - Norman Alden, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Pilaski-Hennesey, Al-Fay), (d. 2012)
1924 - Scott Brady, Brooklyn New York, American actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar)
1924 - Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
1925 - Gabriel Charpentier, composer
1925 - Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1926 - Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/GM (Rangers, Blues, Whalers)
1928 - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1930 - James McLane, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 - Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire (St Ives)
1931 - Barbara Bain, Chic, actress (Cinnamon-Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Australia, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1952) [or Feb 13]
1932 - Bengt Hallberg, composer
1933 - Arif Melikov, composer
1933 - Eileen Fulton, Asheville NC, actress (Our Private World)
1936 - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
1937 - Fred Silverman, broadcasting exec (ABC/NBC/CBS)
1937 - Don Bluth, American animator
1938 - Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist (Miss Manners)
1939 - Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary
1939 - Richard Kiel, Detroit Mich, actor (So Fine, Jaws-Moonraker, Skidoo)
1940 - Joyce Schouten, Dutch singer (Fouryo's)
1940 - Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1941 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1943 - Ray Elliott, rock pianist/saxophonist (Them)
1944 - Peter Cetera, Chicago, lead singer (Chicago-25 or 6 to 4, Old Days)
1944 - [Winifred] Jacqueline Bisset, England, actress (Class, Deep, Secrets)
1945 - Alain Louvier, composer
1945 - Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
1945 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)
1948 - Clyde Kusatsu, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Ali-Bring 'em Back Alive)
1948 - Nell Carter, Birmingham Ala, actress (Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo)
1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
1951 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood Sweat & Tears - Joy to the World)
1951 - Jean Smart, American actress
1952 - Johanna Klier-Schaller, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - Karen Wyman, Bronx NY, singer (Long & Winding Road)
1952 - Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1952 - Raymond O'Connor, American actor
1952 - Don Was, American singer
1953 - Taryn Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Maria)
1954 - Ted Mueller, rock drummer (Axe)
1955 - Joe Morris, American musician
1956 - [Joan] Joni Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1957 - Mark Charles Wiebe, Seaside OR, PGA golfer (1985 Anheuser-Busch)
1957 - John G. Trueschler, American politician
1958 - Ann Dusenberry, Tucson Az, actress (Jaws 2, Lies, Basic Training)
1959 - Jean Smart, Seattle Wash, actress (Charlene-Designing Women)
1960 - Greg Baldwin, American voiceover actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1961 - Dave Mustaine, American musician (ex-Metallica, Megadeth)
1961 - KK Null, Japanese musician
1961 - Peter Roskam, Republican Congressman from Illinois
1962 - Brian Andrew Fowler, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Grady Neal Lancaster, Smithfield NC, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson)
1962 - Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author
1963 - Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician
1964 - Peter Remie, soccer player (NAC)
1965 - Zak Starkey, London, English rock drummer, son of Beatle Ringo
1965 - Annie Duke, American poker player
1965 - Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
1966 - Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, St Louis)
1966 - Maria Furtwängler, German physician
1966 - Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
1967 - Michael Johnson, Dallas Tx, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-96)
1967 - Tim 'Ripper' Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)
1968 - Bernie Williams, San Juan Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1968 - Brad Johnson, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Chris Morris, CFL tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Denny Neagle, Prince Georges Cnty, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 - Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model
1969 - Igor Kravchuk, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1969 - Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
1970 - Marc Latupeirissa, soccer player (Willem II)
1970 - Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
1970 - Louise Lombard, British actress
1970 - Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia, tennis star (1991, 1994, 1998 Wimbledon finalist; 2001 wildcard
           Wimbledon winner)
1971 - Nancy Anne Roberts, Miss Vermont USA (1996)
1971 - Richie Anderson, NFL running back (NY Jets)
1971 - Stella Nina McCartney, fashion designer and daughter of Paul & Linda McCartney
1971 - Ted Drury, Boston Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer
1973 - Brian Evans, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1973 - Philip Dulebohn, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr - 3rd)
1973 - Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1973 - Marcelinho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Christine Arron, French runner
1973 - Kelly Chen, Chinese singer
1974 - Travis Knight, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1974 - Keith Murray, American rapper
1975 - Patricia Spehar, Miss France Universe (1997)
1975 - Sean McClain, Dayton Ohio, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1975 - Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
1975 - Akihiro Asai, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
1976 - Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer
1976 - José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer
1977 - Ivan De Battista, Maltese Actor, singer and composer
1977 - Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 - Megan Henning, American actress
1978 - Darren Kenton, English footballer
1979 - Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)
1979 - Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
1980 - Ben Savage, actor (Little Monsters, Wild Palms)
1980 - Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
1980 - Han Chae Young, South Korean actress
1980 - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
1980 - Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1980 - Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)
1981 - Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
1981 - Antonio Lopez Spanish footballer
1981 - Angel Williams, Canadian wrestler
1982 - Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
1982 - Rickie Weeks, American baseball player
1982 - Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
1983 - Sean Brosnan II, American actor and son of actor Pierce Brosnan
1983 - James Bourne, English musician
1984 - Nabil Abou-Harb, Arab-American filmmaker
1985 - Keyunta Dawson, National Football League player
1986 - Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Sean Williams, American basketball player
1987 - Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
1988 - Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

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This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Deaths

                                   
British Army Officer                          Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate             Rapper Tupac Shakur (1996)
James Wolfe (1759)                                    August Krogh (1949)


81 - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42
867 - Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies
1321 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 - Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1650 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1803 - John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1859 - Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71
1872 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
1881 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, US Union general, dies at 57
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1906 - Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913 - Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 - Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
1924 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69
1928 - Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66
1932 - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
1932 - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1938 - Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1948 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, dies at 75
1950 - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73
1959 - Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56
1960 - Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1967 - Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38
1969 - Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1971 - Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air crash at 63 [or Sept 13]
1971 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1973 - Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1936-39/umpire), dies
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95
1981 - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1982 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
1985 - Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90
1987 - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
1989 - Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
1991 - Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies
1991 - Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1992 - Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54
1994 - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58
1994 - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies
1995 - Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
1995 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
1995 - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
1996 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68
1996 - Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies
1996 - Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87
1996 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85
1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress, dies of cardiac arrest following a short illness at 85
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b.
          1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2011 - DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
2011 - Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)

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This Day in History for 14th September


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Heavyweight Boxing Champion         Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                        Jack Dempsey                                          Winston Churchill

                                   
38th US President                           First Secretary of the Communist Party               Animator Walt Disney
Gerald Ford                                                of the Soviet Union
                                                                  Nikita Khrushchev

                                   
1st American-born Saint                           Actress/Singer Bette Midler                  265th Pope Benedict XVI
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton


81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi.
891 - Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1163 - Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
1180 - Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1515 - Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1607 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1629 - Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry
1662 - Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
1682 - Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded.
1716 - 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor)
1741 - George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1752 - Britain (and American colonies) adopt Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1759 - Austrian troops occupy Dresden
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1814 - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1829 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1834 - Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
1847 - US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1848 - Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1852 - 18th US Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
1854 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1862 - Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 - Battle of Munfordsville KY
1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
1862 - Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War
1868 - Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1872 - Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1876 - Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1882 - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 - "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a
           record 7H6M
1894 - Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality in the US (NY)
1903 - NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1905 - Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1905 - Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
1905 - RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man
1913 - 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1913 - Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
1914 - German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn
1914 - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1916 - Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 - Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1917 - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed
1919 - British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil
1923 - Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1923 - Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1924 - Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1926 - Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1929 - 49th US Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
1929 - A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
1930 - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1932 - Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1933 - 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1933 - Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1936 - Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1939 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939 - First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney
1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1940 - German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 - Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 - Yanks clinch pennant #14
1944 - 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1944 - Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
1944 - Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1944 - US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1947 - 61st US Women's Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1947 - 67th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1950 - Western allies rearm West Germany
1951 - Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1954 - Benjamin Britten's opera 'Turn of the Screw' premieres in Venice
1954 - Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
1954 - Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1954 - USSR performs nuclear test
1955 - Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1956 - 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
1957 - UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1958 - WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel
1958 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war
           rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 - WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1960 - Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1960 - KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) forms
1961 - Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a
           boy
1964 - WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1965 - "F-Troop" premieres
1965 - 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
1967 - Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1967 - Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx
1968 - Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1968 - Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
1968 - USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1969 - Male voters of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1971 - Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings
1972 - "Waltons" TV program premieres
1972 - Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
1972 - West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
1973 - Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 - Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 - Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1975 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI
1975 - Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
1975 - Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen
1977 - Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
1978 - Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970
1978 - Portugal government of Da Costa falls
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center,
           Ks
1980 - "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1980 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1980 - Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1981 - Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1982 - 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1982 - Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1982 - Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1983 - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for
           shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984 - 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
1985 - Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1986 - Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
1986 - Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
1986 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 - Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1987 - 'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
1987 - 107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
1987 - Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
1987 - Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 - Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
1991 - Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - 386 yards & scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
1992 - 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
1994 - All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1995 - Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1996 - As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season
1996 - Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire
1996 - NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
1996 - Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1997 - 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1997 - Bank One Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
1997 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic
1997 - Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266
1998 - Week of Fed Cup
1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion
           merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the
           September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil 
           ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 - In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the Euro.
2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
2007 - Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church
           as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
2012 - 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia

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This Day in History for 14th September


Famous Weddings

1830 - Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1835 - American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian)
           Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1892 - AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1954 - Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry
1956 - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress
           Vivien Merchant (27)
1970 - Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
1984 - Figure skater Marina Klimova (18) weds her partner Sergei Ponomarenko (23)
1984 - Stage and screen actor Gene Wilder (51) weds "Saturday Night Live" actress-comedian Gilda
           Radner (38) in France
1996 - Actress Liz Keifer (33) weds Robert Convertino (41) at Rihga Royal Hotel in New York City
2002 - No Doubt lead vocalist Gwen Stefani (42) weds lead singer and rhythm guitarist "Bush" Gavin
           Rossdale (46) at St. Paul's Church in London, England
2006 - Former B*Witched member Lindsay Armaou weds former "911" member Lee Brennan at St.
           Mary's Parish Church in County Wicklow, Ireland
2007 - "Fantastic Four" actor Ioan Gruffudd (33) weds actress Alice Evans (36) in a small ceremony
           at the One and Only Palmilla Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico
2008 - Former Star Trek actor (71) weds his partner of two decades Brad Altman (54) in a Buddhist
           ceremony

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Naturalist                                               Actor Sam Neill (1947)                            Singer Amy Winehouse (1983)
Alexander von Humboldt (1769)


1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1486 - Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer
1531 - Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer
1543 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary
1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1644 - Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent
1656 - Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
1713 - Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1722 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
1737 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer
1742 - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1748 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer
1760 - M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer
1761 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
1768 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer ( Kosmos), (d. 1859)
1771 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
1792 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
1817 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
1819 - Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1835 - J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 1940)
1835 - Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 - YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 5/30/1940)
1836 - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27)
1837 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 - John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1840 - George Elbridge Whiting, composer
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
1860 - Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount of Chelwood, UK, helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
1869 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1879 - Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1880 - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
1880 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1882 - Harald Fryklof, composer
1883 - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes)
1885 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1886 - Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1898 - Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1899 - Hal Wallis, movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)
1900 - Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer
1902 - Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
1904 - Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa)
1904 - Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment)
1904 - Richard Mohaupt, Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica)
1907 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1907 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS)
1908 - Bernie Green, NYC, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show)
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1910 - Jack Hawkins, London UK, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1910 - Gaston Deferre, French politician
1910 - Lehman Engel, Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
1910 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1914 - Kay Medford, NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)
1914 - Michael Spisak, composer
1914 - Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor/director (Divorce Italian Style)
1914 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1914 - Clayton Moore, Chicago Illinois, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
1915 - Douglas Kennedy, NY, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1916 - Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)
1918 - Jack Somack, Chicago Illinois, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show)
1918 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
1919 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer
1920 - Bud Palmer, Hollywood California, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1921 - Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster (CBS/ABC)
1922 - Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor (Story of a Love Story)
1924 - Jerry Coleman, 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1924 - John Michael Grimes, set Designer
1924 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
1925 - M L de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70)
1925 - Ruth Mompati, S Afr sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1926 - Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer
1926 - Richard Elsasser, composer
1927 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
1928 - Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
1928 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, London, United Kingdom, husband of English princess Alexandra
1928 - John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber
1929 - John Gutfreund, American investment banker and former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc (King
           of Wall Street)
1929 - Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1929 - Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929 - Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
1930 - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
1932 - Harry Sinden, NHL player/coach (Team Canada)
1932 - Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1932 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
1933 - Harve Presnell, Modesto California, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 - Hans Faverey, Dutch poet
1934 - Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)
1934 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher
1935 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
1936 - Stan Williams, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1936 - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer
1936 - Nicol Williamson, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scottish actor (Excalibur, Spawn)
1936 - Walter Koenig, Chicago Ill, actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
           or Medicine
1936 - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
1937 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect
1939 - DeWitt T Weaver Jr, Danville KY, PGA golfer (1972 Southern Open)
1939 - Piet R Stoffelen, Dutch ambassador/MP (PvdA)
1940 - Larry Brown, NBA player/NBA coach (NY Knicks)
1940 - Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer (Atman)
1941 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
1942 - Kuldar Sink, composer
1942 - Oliver Eugene Lake, composer
1942 - Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
1944 - Joey Heatherton, Rockville Center NY, dancer/actress (Bluebeard)
1945 - Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
1946 - Jim Angle, American television reporter
1947 - Joan Thirkettle, journalist
1947 - Jon "Bowser" Bauman, Queens NY, singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 - Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano)
1947 - Wolfgang Schwartz, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist
1949 - Steve Gaines, Seneca Mo, rock vocalist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 - Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
1949 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
1950 - Paul Kossoff, London England, rock guitarist (Free)
1950 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950 - Michael Nifong, American attorney
1951 - Eugene H Trinh, Saigon Vietnam, PhD/astronaut (STS 50)
1952 - Margit Schumann, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
1953 - Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
1954 - Barry Cowsill, Newport RI, rock bassist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 - Joe Penny, London, actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake & the Fatman)
1956 - Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
1956 - Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
1956 - Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
1957 - Jerry Don Gleaton, baseball player
1957 - Tim Wallach, Huntington Park, California, American MLB player (Montreal Expos 1980-1992)
1958 - John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka OK, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1959 - Mary Crosby, Los Angeles California, actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates)
1959 - Morten Harket, Konigsberg Norway, rocker (Aha-Take on Me)
1960 - Anthony Addabbo, actor (Jason-Generations)
1960 - Melissa Leo, American actress
1960 - Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
1961 - Antonia De Sancha, London England, lover of Brit MP David Mellor
1963 - Antonia Real, Spain, 400m freestyle (Olympic-1976)
1963 - Jaromir Dragan, Liptovsky CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia 1998)
1964 - Faith Ford, Louisiana, actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown)
1964 - Kurt Gouveia, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 - Troy Neel, baseball player
1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
1966 - Mike Cooley, American guitarist
1967 - John Smit, soccer player (NAC)
1968 - Dan Cortese, actor/TV host (Jess Hanson-Melrose Place)
1968 - Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St Cloud Minn, tennis star
1968 - Pete Chilcutt, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Satoshi Kojima, wrestler (NJPW)
1970 - Ben Garant, American actor
1970 - Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
1970 - Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
1971 - Jonathan "Adam" Holland, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress (Father of the Bride)
1971 - Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
1971 - Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
1972 - David Bell, Cincinnati Ohio, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 - Donnell Bennett, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Terrell Fletcher, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
1973 - Linvoy Primus, English footballer
1973 - Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1976 - Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
1976 - Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
1978 - Carmen Kass, Estonian model
1978 - Danielle Peck, country music singer
1978 - Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
1979 - Jesse Marunde, American Strongman/Athlete (d. 2007)
1981 - Miyavi, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
1983 - Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
1983 - Amy Winehouse, Southgate, London, singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab), (d. 2011)
1984 - Adam Lamberg, American actor
1984 - Melissa McGhee, American singer
1985 - Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
1985 - Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
1985 - Delmon Young, American baseball player
1986 - Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986 - A.J. Trauth, American actor
1986 - Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
1988 - Kirsten Haglund, American Beauty Queen
1989 - Jesse James, American actor

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This Day in History for 14th September


Famous Deaths

                                   
1st Duke of Wellington &                       25th US President                                  Actress Grace Kelly (1982)
British Prime Minister                             William McKinley (1901)
Arthur Wellesley (185 2)


258 - Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58
407 - Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies
585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 - Stephen V, [VI], Italian Pope (885-91), dies
1146 - Imad ad-Din Zengi, gov of Basra, murdered
1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 - Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56
1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523 - Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Bieyens], only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64
1538 - Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg & Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies
1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
1637 - Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies
1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1645 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65
1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies
1646 - Thomas H Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies
1693 - Aert Jansz van Nes, [Young boer Jaep], lt-admiral, dies at 67
1712 - Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies
1743 - Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59
1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
1750 - Carl T Pachelbel, US organist/composer
1759 - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1763 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40
1788 - John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
1788 - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56
1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1819 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies
1836 - Aaron Burr, 3rd VP, dies
1836 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60
1844 - Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78
1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1852 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83
1852 - James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62
1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1861 - Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83
1862 - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
1862 - Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1872 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
1886 - Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84
1887 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
1895 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
1898 - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1899 - Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted at 58
1902 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
1905 - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die
1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1916 - Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies
1926 - Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel
1932 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53
1936 - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
1937 - Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87)
1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1942 - E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1955 - F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
1959 - Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45
1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1962 - Marcel Delannoy, composer, dies at 64
1964 - Mary Howe, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Jack Hearne, cricketer (806 runs in 24 Tests for England), dies
1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
1966 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
1967 - Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
1969 - James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48
1970 - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
1971 - Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before & after WW2), dies
1972 - Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1974 - Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66
1974 - Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1974 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70
1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1975 - Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1979 - Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1981 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 - Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb
1982 - Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52
1982 - John C Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1984 - Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident
1988 - Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1989 - Edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies
1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1990 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies
1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
1991 - Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 - David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1992 - S A Banerjee, cricketer (1 Test for India 1948, no runs, 5 wkts), dies
1992 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1994 - David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
1995 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75
1995 - Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996 - Clive Beadon, airman, dies at 77
1996 - Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
1999 - Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2003 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
2008 - Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)
2008 - Domagoj Kapeć, Croatian hockeyplayer (b. 1989)
2009 - Keith Floyd, British TV chef (b. 1943)
2009 - Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
2009 - Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (b. 1982)
2009 - Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
2009 - Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
2012 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89

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This Day in History for 15th September


Historical Events

                                   
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                 Soldier, author, journalist, politician                   First Secretary of the
Adolf Hitler                                                Winston Churchill                         Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                    Nikita Khrushchev

                                   
36th US President                                   Singer and Actor Bing Crosby                Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Lyndon B. Johnson                                                                                                     Muhammad Ali

                 
264th Pope John Paul II                          Talk show host Oprah Winfrey


608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York
1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1590 - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara.
1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1619 - Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8]
1621 - Swedish troops occupy Riga
1644 - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1656 - England & France sign peace treaty
1683 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
1707 - Rákóczi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1733 - King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1762 - Battle of Signal Hill.
1774 - Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1787 - -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1789 - US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1795 - Cape Colony surrenders to Britain
1812 - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1820 - Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth
           Century).
1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
1830 - 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1830 - 1st person to be run over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy
           Railroad.
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1846 - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1853 - 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1857 - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1870 - Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1873 - Last German troops leave France
1879 - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1882 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1899 - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1910 - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1912 - Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1913 - 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914 - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1916 - Debut of tanks in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the
           Somme)
1917 - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1918 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
1923 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
1926 - Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini
1928 - 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 - Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 - Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1930 - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1931 - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi
           Germany
1937 - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 - Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 - PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group
1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1942 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 - Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 - Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1944 - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS
           Richmond.
1946 - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1947 - First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring
           1,750..
1948 - "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1948 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
1949 - "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
1949 - WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 - East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 - For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
1950 - Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 - UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1950 - US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1951 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8 )
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1952 - Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 - European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 - UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1953 - Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1953 - KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins
1957 - "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
1957 - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957 - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1958 - 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
1958 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
1960 - France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
1961 - 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1962 - "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1962 - Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
1962 - KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
1963 - Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn
1963 - Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
1964 - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1965 - "Lost in Space" premieres
1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 - Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1966 - Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at
           Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control
           legislation.
1967 - KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 - Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968 - NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
1968 - WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8 )
1969 - Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game
1970 - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
1970 - Rotterdam dock strikes end
1971 - 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
1972 - WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
1972 - An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-
           Bulltofta Airport.
1973 - Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973 - Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1973 - Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles
1974 - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 - Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
1975 - The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-
           Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1976 - Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC
1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1977 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances
1977 - Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous
           condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
1977 - Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs
1977 - Rock Music Award
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2½ games
1979 - Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1981 - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism
1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the
           Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
1981 - Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1982 - 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 - Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 - Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
1983 - Israel premier Begin resigns
1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
1984 - Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1985 - Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
1985 - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
1985 - Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
1986 - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1988 - Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
1988 - Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1988 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
1989 - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win
1990 - Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
1990 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1990 - Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
1991 - "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 - 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
1991 - SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds
1991 - US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1992 - Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
1993 - Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1994 - "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
1994 - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
1994 - Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1995 - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
1996 - 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16½-15½ at Robert Jones Va
1996 - Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 - Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34
1997 - Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1997 - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
1998 - With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior,
           the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2000 - Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
2004 - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of
           operations by the NHL head office.
2012 - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s

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This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Weddings

1949 - Figure skater and actress Sonja Henie (36) weds Winthrop Gardner Jr
1957 - Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in
           Winchester, England
1991 - NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
2012 - "The Black Keys" drummer Patrick Carney (32) weds Emily Ward in Nashville, Tennessee
2012 - Singer Annie Lennox (57) weds Harvard-educated gynecologist Mitch Besser (57) on a private
           boat on the Thames River in London

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Italian Explorer Marco Polo (1254)          Novelist Agatha Christie (1890)              Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback
                                                                                                                                 Dan Marino (1961)


973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1254 - Marco Polo, Venice, Italian explorer (Il Milione), (d. 1324)
1505 - Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)
1533 - Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1572 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1586 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1685 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1690 - Ignazio Prota, composer
1736 - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
1744 - Georg Ritschel, composer
1760 - Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1764 - Friedrich Heine, composer
1764 - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
1808 - Louis Clapisson, composer
1811 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
1811 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
1816 - Edward Wolff, composer
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 - Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1834 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
1837 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
1843 - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
1851 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
1851 - Josif Marinkovic, composer
1852 - Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1858 - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
1858 - Jeno Hubay, composer
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 - Horatio William Parker, composer
1865 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie)
1865 - Nicolaus Adriani, linguist (Middle-Celebes languages)
1868 - Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
1876 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876 - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1876 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1884 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1887 - Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet
1887 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 - Robert Benchley, Worcester MA, humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
1890 - Agatha Christie, Torquay, Devon, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express), (d. 1976)
1890 - Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo)
1890 - Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion)
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1895 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1895 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1896 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
1898 - John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
1899 - Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)
1900 - Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1902 - Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
1903 - Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 - Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 - Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
1906 - Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 - Penny Singleton, Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 - Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze
1907 - Jack Bailey, Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1908 - Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1909 - Carlos Estrada, composer
1909 - Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1909 - Phil Arnold, NJ, actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees)
1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
1910 - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
1910 - Richard Baerlein, racing writer
1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
1911 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1912 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1913 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
1913 - Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1913 - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1913 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
1914 - Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
1914 - Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1915 - Helmut Schoen, football coach
1915 - John Conte, Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1915 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1917 - Richard Arnell, composer
1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist (world record 45,798 km)
1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 - Jan Frank Fischer, composer
1921 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, Los Angeles, California, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman)
1922 - Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord
           of the Rings) (d.2012)
1923 - Anton Heiller, composer
1924 - Bobby Short, Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1924 - Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967)
1925 - Forrest Compton, Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
1925 - Carlo Rambaldi, Vigarano Mainarda, Italy, Special effects artist (Alien, E.T.), (d. 2012)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1926 - Edward Derwinski, Chicago, Illinois, American congressman for Chicago 1959-83, first
           Secretary of Veteran Affairs 1989-1992
1927 - Norm Crosby, Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
1927 - David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
1928 - Rod Robbie, Poole, England, Canadian architect and planner (Roger's Centre/ Sky Dome,
           Toronto), (d. 2012)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1933 - Henry Darrow, NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1934 - Fred Nile, Australian politician
1935 - Jacques d'Ancona, journalist/TV host (Sound-Mix Show)
1936 - Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1937 - Cynthia Anzolut, Harrisburg PA, LPGA golfer
1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
1938 - Rafael H Osuna, tennis champ (US Open - 1963)
1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter
1940 - Frank Linzy, baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen, UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father Murphy)
1940 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad, US, sci-fi author (Child of Fortune)
1941 - Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 30)
1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
1941 - Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1941 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1942 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, US, sci-fi author (Hotel Transylvania)
1942 - Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1942 - Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1944 - Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
1945 - Jessye Norman, US, opera singer (Carmen)
1945 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 - Ron Shelton, American film director
1946 - Fighting Mack, [Edwin Alberto], Antillian welterweight boxer
1946 - Oliver Stone, NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive)
1946 - Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
1948 - Suzyn Waldman, American Sportscaster
1949 - Joe Barton, Waco, Texas, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives since 1985)
1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1952 - Kelly Keagy, rock vocalist (Night Ranger)
1953 - Bruce Heuchan, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Alberta-7th)
1953 - Jerry Page, golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
1953 - Pat Barrett, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1954 - 7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1954 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1955 - Mac Sweeney, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1955 - Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
1955 - Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
1956 - Jaki Graham, British personality
1956 - Ned Rothenberg, composer
1956 - Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss America (76)/(Eye on Hollywood)
1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1957 - Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell)
1958 - Lesley Player, Redhill England, Sarah Fergusson's father's lover
1958 - Wendie Jo Sperber, Hollywood, California, American actress (Wanna Hold Your Hand, Bossom
           Buddies)
1958 - Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1960 - Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
1960 - Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
1961 - Dan Marino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Aubrey Matthews, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1962 - Earnest Byner, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1962 - Patricia "Patty" Shea, Belmont NY, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dina Lohan, American actress and reality television star, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1964 - Andrew Landenberger, Australian tornado yachter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1964 - Robert Farley, Ndola Zambia, Australasia golfer
1964 - Ryoko Kikuchi, Zama City, Kanagawa, Japanese cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11) and reporter
1964 - Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarist for horror punk band The Misfits
1965 - Rob Whitlock, Newcastle NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Sherman Douglas, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1967 - Dexter Carter, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1967 - Jerry Dixon, heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 - Danny Nucci, actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
1968 - Michael Puschacher, hockey goalie (Team Austria 1998)
1968 - Rich Robertson, Nacogdoches TX, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - KG, rocker (Naughty by Nature)
1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer
1969 - Jeffrey Schwarz, American film director/producer
1970 - Danny Ellis, Orlando Fla, golfer (All-American-1990, 92, 93)
1971 - Chad Bratzke, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 - Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina (1997)
1971 - Josh Charles, actor (Crossing the Bridge, Cooperstown)
1971 - Myron Bell, NFL safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995)
1971 - Will Shields, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 - Amanda Lynn Granrud, Great Falls Montana, Miss America-Montana (1996)
1972 - Jimmy Carr, English comedian
1972 - Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain
1973 - Julie Cox, English actress
1974 - Jamie Stevens, German singer
1975 - Tom Dolan, US, 400m freestyle/200m/400m medley swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1975 - Tsutsumi Otomo, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 - Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 - Sophie Dahl, English model
1977 - Leander Jordan, National Football League offensive lineman
1977 - Marisa Ramirez, American actress
1977 - Jason Terry, American basketball player
1977 - Tom Hardy, British actor
1978 - Amanda Rochelle Penix, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 - Dave Annable, American actor
1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress
1979 - Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan soccer player
1979 - Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - David Diehl, American football player
1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1980 - Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1983 - Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 - Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession
1986 - Heidi Montag, American reality television star
1987 - Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player
1988 - Chelsea Staub, American actress
1989 - Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Deaths

                                 
Novelist Thomas Wolfe (1938)                Guitarist Johnny Ramone (2004)


9 - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
668 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria
921 - Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies
928 - Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
1231 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies
1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1525 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1598 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
1654 - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59
1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1842 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b.
           1792)
1859 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
1883 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium physicist (Blue Moon), dies
1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1927 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1929 - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 37
1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 - Joe Travers, cricketer (Australian SLA, in only Test innings), dies
1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1964 - Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1981 - Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1983 - Prince Far I, reggae deejay, producer and Rastafarian
1984 - Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies
1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 - Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1990 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
1990 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
1991 - Allan Sobek, dancer, dies
1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1993 - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1993 - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
1996 - Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76
1996 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88
1996 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
1996 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70
2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
2004 - Johnny Ramone, American lead guitarist of the punk rock band The Ramones
2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)
2008 - Richard Wright, English singer/songwriter (Pink Floyd), dies of cancer at 65
2010 - Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)
2011 - Frances Bay, Canadian actress (b. 1919)