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This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Birthdays

                 
Poet, Author and Nobel Laureate           Singer Olivia Newton-John (1948)
T. S. Eliot (1888) 


1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
1329 - Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1688 - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist
1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1759 - Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen
1767 - Wenzel Muller, composer
1774 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1820 - Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1821 - Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh)
1832 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer
1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1841 - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer
1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1867 - Maggie L Walker, black business & civic leader
1868 - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47)
1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1872 - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min (1916-18)
1873 - Amilcare Zanella, composer
1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1875 - Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
1876 - C B "Buck" Llewellyn, cricketer (S Afr lefty all-rounder 1896-1912)
1876 - Edith Abbott, dean (U of Chic Social Sciences)
1877 - Alfred Cortot, French pianist
1877 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1879 - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee)
1881 - Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
1884 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
1885 - Anna M F "Annie" Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 6/26]
1887 - Antonio Moreno, Madrid Spain, actor/director (It, Careers)
1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887 - Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 - T. S. Eliot, St Louis Missouri, poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), (d. 1965)
1888 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1891 - Alfred Plane, US sharp shooter (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
1893 - Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe)
1894 - Gladys Brockwell, Brooklyn NY, actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist)
1895 - Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 - Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1897 - Victor O Stomps, writer
1897 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher (Goethe/Brecht)
1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1898 - George Gershwin, [Jacob Gershvin], Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
1901 - Donald Cook, Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1901 - George Raft, NYC, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
1902 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc)
1903 - Gerhard Nebel, writer
1905 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1907 - Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for USSR
1907 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, European Boxing Champ (Oly-silver-1928)
1907 - Ralph Michael, London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1908 - Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker
1909 - Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002)
1909 - Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992)
1911 - Jan F Hampe, pathologist-anatomy (Fabric & Stoflongen)
1913 - Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist (Anne Frank)
1914 - Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)
1917 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976)
1918 - Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director (ANP/Reuter)
1919 - Barbara Britton, Long Beach, California, actress (Young & Willing)
1919 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
1922 - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1925 - Bobby Shantz, baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 - Marty Robbins, Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1925 - Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
1926 - Buland Al Haidary, poet
1926 - Giuseppi Chiari, composer
1926 - Imre Vincze, composer
1926 - Julie London, Santa Rosa California, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1926 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1927 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1928 - Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
1929 - Meredith C Gourdine, Newark NJ, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1952)
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1930 - Philip Bosco, Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1931 - Donald J Pease, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1931 - George Chambers, MS, rock bassist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1931 - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman)
1932 - Clifton C Williams Jr, Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 - Giuacomo Manzoni, composer
1932 - Joyce Jameson, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1932 - Richard Herd, American actor
1933 - Clari Baruch, [Clara C de Lieme], actress (Man With White Flower)
1933 - Donna Douglas, [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1934 - Dick Heckstall-Smith, rocker (Alexis Korner Band)
1934 - Raphael Samuel, historian
1935 - Bob Barber, cricketer (dashing England lefty bat in 28 Tests 1960-68)
1935 - Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
1936 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician
1937 - Joop Admiral, Dutch actor/director (You Are My Mother)
1937 - Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
1938 - Andrei Lukanov, politician
1938 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24)
1939 - Judith P Appelbaum, magazine & newspaper editor, educator
1939 - Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1941 - Joe Bauer, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Youngbloods)
1941 - Martine Beswicke, Jamacia, actress (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)
1941 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 - Ingrid Mickler-Becker, German FR, long jumper/relayer (Oly-gold-72)
1942 - Kent McCord, Los Angeles California, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1943 - Georgie Fame, [Clive Powell], rocker (Georgie Fame & Blue Flames)
1943 - Ian Chappell, Australian cricket player (batsman 1964-80)
1943 - Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
1944 - Angela Dorian, (Victoria Vetri), SF, playmate (Sep 1967, Year-1968)
1944 - Anne Robinson, English television host
1945 - Brian Ferry, England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1945 - Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
1945 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1946 - Mary Beth Hurt, [Mary Supinger], Iowa, actress (Garp, Interiors)
1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1946 - Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1947 - Dick Roth, US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1964)
1947 - Graham Faulkner, London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 - Lynn Anderson, ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
1947 - Richard Roth, US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, Cambridge England, singer (Lets Get Physical)
1948 - Vladimir Remek, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 28)
1949 - Leonide F M "Leonie" Triesschijn, Dutch actress/mime
1949 - Martin Delray, Texarkana Ar, country singer (Get Rhythm))
1949 - Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949 - Minette Walters, English novelist
1951 - Tom Quirke, journalist
1951 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1952 - James Keane, Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1952 - Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor
1953 - Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
1953 - Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician
1954 - Craig Chaquico, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
1955 - Carlene Carter, Nashville Tn, country singer (I Fell in Love)
1956 - Linda Hamilton, Salisbury Md, actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast)
1956 - Steve Butler, American racing driver
1958 - Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
1959 - Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1960 - Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, US trap (Olympics-1996)
1961 - Will Self, English author
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 - Steve Moneghetti, Australian marathoner (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1962 - Tracey Thorn, rock vocalist (Everything But The Girl)
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1963 - Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1963 - Lysette Anthony, London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 - Bobby Joe Edmonds, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1964 - Dave Martinez, Manhattan NY, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Gerrie Slagboom, Dutch soccer player: Dordrecht '90
1964 - Robin Hood, Mishawaka IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Planters Pat Bradley)
1964 - Ty Miller, Granada Hills California, actor (The Kid-Young Riders)
1964 - Nicki French, English singer
1965 - Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
1966 - Craig Heyward, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Francisco Andreu, Dearborn Mich, road cyclist (Olympics-4th-88, 96)
1966 - Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
1967 - Craig Janney, Hartford, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Martha Nix, Orange County California, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 - Scott Schorer, Burke, Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - James Caviezel, American actor
1968 - Anthony Shadid, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New York Times foreign correspondent and two
           time Pulitzer winner, (d. 2012)
1969 - Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969 - Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
1969 - Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1969 - David Ferguson, British murderer
1970 - Paul Laus, Beamsville, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 - Rachel Jacobs, Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
1970 - Trevor Ruffin, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1970 - Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
1971 - Elva Dryer, Durango Colorado, 1.5K/5K runner
1971 - Patterson Thompson, cricketer (WI Test fast bowler v New Zealand 1996)
1972 - Mark Haslam, cricketer (New Zealand slow left-armer 1992)
1972 - Shawn Stockman, [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1973 - David Richie, NFL nost tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 - Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973 - Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
1974 - Alison Davies, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Gary Hall Jr, US, 50m/100m/400m free relay (Oly-gold/2 silver-96)
1974 - Katie Kauffman, West Lawn Pa, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1974 - Martin Muursepp, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 - Boris Cepeda,German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
1975 - Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1975 - Jake Paltrow, American film director, brother of Gwyneth Paltrow
1976 - Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976 - Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
1978 - Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
1979 - Jaycie Phelps, Indianapolis Ind, gymnast (World-brz-95/Oly-gold-96)
1979 - Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) rugby league footballer
1979 - Jon Harley, English footballer
1980 - Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
1980 - Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
1981 - Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress
1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 - Serena Williams, Saginaw, Michigan, tennis player (13 grand slams)
1982 - Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
1982 - Rob Burrow, English rugby league player
1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1983 - Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
1984 - Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 - Thore Schölermann, German actor
1985 - Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1986 - Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
1987 - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1988 - Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
1989 - Emma Rigby, English actress
2000 - Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

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This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Deaths

                                   
Frontiersman Daniel Boone (1820)         Fashion Designer Levi Strauss (1902)         Actress Gloria Stuart (2010)


1023 - Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, dies
1345 - Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1371 - Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies
1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1614 - Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies
1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71
1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1657 - Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48
1716 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1788 - Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1808 - Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1866 - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1871 - Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78
1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904 - Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54
1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1917 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies
1935 - Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
1936 - Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75
1937 - Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43
1940 - Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
1944 - Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64
1944 - Julien Cahn, cricketer (private cricket promoter during 30's), dies
1945 - Béla V J Bartok, Hungarian pianist/composer dies at 64
1945 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78
1947 - Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61
1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 - George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1953 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1956 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78
1958 - Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64
1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59), assassinated at 60
1960 - William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies
1961 - Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81
1961 - Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1964 - Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1964 - Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82
1965 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (did next to nothling in Aust), dies
1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1966 - Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
1971 - Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68
1972 - Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin & the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 - Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81
1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68
1979 - John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
1979 - Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53
1982 - Alec Hurwood, cricketer (Australian off-spinner v WI 1930-31), dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer, dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87
1984 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1986 - Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1991 - Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
1992 - Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85
1993 - James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
1994 - Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77
1994 - Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87
1994 - Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
1996 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
1996 - George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 - Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 - Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2004 - Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
2005 - Helen Cresswell, British author
2006 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2007 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)
2007 - Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
2008 - Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)
2010 - Gloria Stuart, American actress dies from respiratory failure at 100
2011 - Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)
2012 - Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28

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This Day in History for 27th September


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Outlaw Jesse James                        Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                     Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco             Diplomat and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                  Ralph Bunche

                                   
TV Personality, Comedian                      Ex-soldier, drifter Lee                               Singer Elton John
and Composer   Steve Allen                      Harvey Oswald 


US President George H. W. Bush


70 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
1066 - William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England
1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000
1312 - Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg
1331 - The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1509 - Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest
           papacy in history.
1605 - The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the
           Battle of Kircholm.
1694 - Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 Brit ships sink & 3,000 die
1777 - English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 - Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1794 - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)
1830 - Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed
1833 - Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
1834 - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
1852 - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY
1854 - Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board
1855 - George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in NYC
1863 - Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1864 - Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) American Civil War, Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1864 - Centralia Massacre (Missouri): 24 unarmed Union soldiers captured and executed by "Bloody
           Bill" Anderson/Frank
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1877 - John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1881 - Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
1892 - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1894 - Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1900 - Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC
1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 - 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of
           a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 - The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit,
           Michigan.
1909 - 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
1910 - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1912 - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
1914 - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit
1916 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1916 - Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees
1916 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1917 - Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC
1917 - EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth
1919 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
1919 - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
1919 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season)
1921 - Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
1923 - Italian troops leave occupied Korfu
1923 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1924 - Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1
1928 - US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1928 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1930 - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
1930 - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis
           Browns
1931 - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley
           (.3481)
1931 - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's
1935 - Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
1936 - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 - Franco troops conquer Toledo
1936 - Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
1937 - 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 - British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland
1938 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1939 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 - Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
1940 - Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
1941 - 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1942 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general
1942 - St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season
1943 - Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples
1943 - Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
1944 - Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
1946 - King George II of Greece returns from exile
1947 - "Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances
1948 - "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 - Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY.
1951 - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
1953 - Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal
1953 - KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins
1953 - KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game
1953 - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1953 - WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
1954 - School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools
1954 - Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres
1957 - Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1959 - Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1960 - Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
1961 - Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
1961 - Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
1962 - Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen
1962 - US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
1963 - At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1964 - Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1964 - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
1967 - Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Hair" opens in London
1968 - Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
1968 - France refuses UK entry into common market
1970 - Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1972 - 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition)
1973 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season
1973 - Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
1974 - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
1975 - Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
1977 - Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
1979 - Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in
           London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1981 - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..," closes at John Golden NY after 588 perf
1982 - Cards clinching NL East title
1982 - Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again"
1982 - Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
1982 - John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
1983 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
1983 - Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs
1985 - 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
1985 - Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
1986 - Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
1987 - 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio)
1987 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1987 - NFL players' strike
1987 - Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings
1988 - Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
1988 - Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
1989 - Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1990 - Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
1990 - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
1990 - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
1990 - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
1990 - Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV
1991 - President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 - 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice
           conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
1992 - ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals
1992 - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
1992 - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163
1992 - Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
1992 - Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
1993 - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges
1993 - The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1996 - Balt Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President
           Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 - The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling
           thousands of gallons of oil.
1998 - Core States Betsy King Golf Classic
1998 - Google is launched.
2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 - Actress Halle Berry announces her separation from second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet
2003 - Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2005 - Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New
           York Mets
2008 - CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while
           flying on Shenzhou 7.
2012 - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the
           Senkoku Islands
2012 - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
2012 - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed

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This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Weddings

1945 - Actor Richard Cromwell (35) weds actress Angela Lansbury (19) in Independence, California
1947 - Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)
1997 - Grammy Award winning singer-rapper Coolio (34) weds Los Angeles DJ Josefa Salinas (37) in
           Las Vegas
1997 - "The Cosby Show" actress Erika Alexander (28) weds screenwriter Tony Puryear (40) on
           outdoor ceremony in Malibu
1998 - "The Mummy" actor Brendan Fraser (30) weds actress Afton Smith (32) at Hotel Bel-Air in
           Los Angeles, California
2008 - Actress and singer Scarlett Johansson (23) weds film actor Ryan Reynolds (31) at Clayoquot
           Wilderness Retreat in Tofino, British Columbia
2008 - "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" actress Kaitlin Olson (33) weds actor Rob McElhenney (31)
           at the Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California
2009 - Businesswoman and TV personality Khloe Kardashian (28) weds NBA basketball forward
           Lamar Odom (32) in Beverly Hills, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US Revolutionary                                     Political Cartoonist                              Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (1972)
Samuel Adams (1722)                              Thomas Nast (1840)


1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1389 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence and patron of the arts (d. 1464)
1600 - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, baptised
1601 - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43)
1627 - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704)
1637 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer
1643 - Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
1657 - Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
1677 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer
1696 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologist/bishop/religious order founder
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 - Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politican (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1729 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800)
1772 - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
1776 - Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney)
1783 - Agustin I de Iturbide, Valladolid Michoacán, General and 1st Emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
1786 - Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer
1792 - George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)
1803 - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1865
1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1809 - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
1817 - Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
1821 - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil)
1824 - William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1830 - William Babcock Hazen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1835 - John Murray Corse, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893 [or 4/27]
1838 - Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)
1840 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 - Thomas Nast, Landau Germany, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1842 - Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
1843 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1858 - Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar)
1862 - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19)
1864 - Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author
1864 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
1866 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage)
1866 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
1867 - Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner (Cavandish Hotel-England)
1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1879 - Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author (Heroic Suite)
1879 - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1881 - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer
1881 - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, Dutch revue-artist/singer/actress
1881 - William J Clothier, 1st pres of tennis hall of fame/(US Open-1906)
1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1887 - Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje)
1892 - John Mylong, Austria, actor (Robot Monsters)
1893 - Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian (Hooft & Tacitus)
1894 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
1895 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1896 - George Bender, Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh)
1896 - Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman (d. 1985)
1898 - Vincent (Miller) Youmans, US composer/songwriter (Tea for Two)
1902 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president (1946-52)
1905 - Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1905 - Vjekoslav Kaleb, Yugoslavia, writer (Splendor of the Fabric)
1906 - William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
1907 - Bernard Miles, British actor (In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 - Shiv Verma, soldier
1909 - Jean Berger, composer
1910 - Donald Lindsay, headmaster (Malvern College)
1910 - Eve March, CA, actress (Curse of the Cat People)
1910 - Giles William Playfair, writer
1911 - Peter Muir Doig, politician
1912 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1912 - Tauno Marttinen, composer
1912 - Mary Grierson, Bangor, Wales, botanical artist, (d. 2012)
1913 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
1916 - Samuel S Stratton, (Rep-D-NY, 1959- )
1916 - Frank Handlen, American artist
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1917 - William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
1918 - Jame McCallion, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)
1918 - Lord Shepherd
1918 - Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82)
1919 - Charles H Percy, (Sen-R-Ill)
1919 - Earl of Clanwilliam
1919 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player, (d. 2012)
1920 - J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1920 - William Conrad, Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
1920 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
1921 - D E Nineham, theologian
1922 - Arthur Penn, Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor (McHale's Navy)
1922 - James Wilson, composer
1923 - Mary McCarty, Winfield Ks, actress/singer (Starch-Trapper John MD)
1924 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer
1924 - Bernard Waber, American author, (d. 2013)
1924 - Fred Singer, American scientist
1924 - Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards)
           (d. 2012)
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (Daily Mail, Evening News)
1925 - Robert Edwards, Batley, Yorkshire, physiologist (IVF pioneer, Nobel 2010), (d. 2013)
1926 - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1927 - Boris Porena, composer
1927 - Eli van der Merwe Louw, S Afr minister of Transport/Manpower
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana)
1927 - Red Robert Chudnick Rodney, jazz trumpeter
1927 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1928 - Earring George Mayweather, blues Harmonica Player
1928 - G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records
1928 - Margaret Rule, consultant (Mary Rose Trust)
1929 - Sada Thompson, Des Moines Ia, actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness)
1930 - Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
1930 - Roger Birch, Chief Constable (Sussex)
1931 - Gerald Warner, deputy secretary (Cabinet Office)
1931 - Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
1932 - Mario Bertoncini, composer
1932 - Michael Colvin, MP
1932 - Peter Holmes, CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Company
1932 - Roger C Carmel, actor (Harry Mudd-Star Trek, In-Laws)
1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1932 - Yash Chopra, Indian director, (d. 2012)
1932 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
1933 - Kathleen Nolan, St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
1933 - Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
1933 - Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
1934 - Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter (Wash Post, Entertainment Tonight)
1934 - Claude Jarman Jr, Nashville Tn, actor (Rio Grande, Inside Straight)
1934 - DAER Peake, CEO (Kleinwort Benson Group)
1934 - Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay)
1934 - Greg Morris, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mission Impossible, Vega$)
1934 - Wilford Brimley, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon)
1935 - Jerome Shipp, US, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 - Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author
1936 - Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1936 - Don Cornelius, American television host (Soul Train), (d. 2012)
1938 - Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London
1939 - Jim Ross Lightfoot, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1985- )
1939 - Kathy Whitworth, Monahans Tx, golfer (7 time LPGA Player of Year)
1939 - Nicholas Haslam, interior designer
1939 - Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
1940 - Josephine Barstow, opera singer
1940 - Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
1941 - Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star
1941 - Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
1941 - Peter Bonetti, English footballer
1942 - Baroness Blackstone
1942 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
1942 - Alvin Stardust, English singer
1943 - Anna Gael, [Gyarmarthy], Budapest Hungary, Lady Weymouth
1943 - Bob Curiano, rock bassist (Mink Deville)
1943 - Randy Bachman, Winnipeg, rocker (Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On)
1943 - Steve Boone, NC, rock vocalist/bassist (Lovin' Spoonful)
1943 - Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
1944 - IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral
1945 - Misha Dichter, Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1945 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
1945 - Kay Ryan, American poet
1946 - Peter H Kostmayer, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-81, 83- )
1946 - Ronald Fox, senior partner (Fox Williams)
1946 - Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor (d. 1999)
1946 - T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
1947 - Denis Lawson, actor (Return of Jedi, Born Kicking, Chain)
1947 - Jacques Wallage, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Education
1947 - Liz Torres, Bronx NY, actress (Mahalia Sanchez-John Larroquette Show)
1947 - Meat Loaf, [Marvin Lee Aday], Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)
1948 - A Martinez, Glendale, California, American actor (L.A. Law, Santa Barbara)
1948 - Barbara Dickson, singer
1948 - Michael Houlihan, director (Horniman Museum & Gardens)
1948 - Michele Dotrice, English actor
1948 - Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
1948 - John K. Reed, American coral biologist
1949 - Mike Schmidt, 3rd baseman & HR hitter (Phillies)
1949 - Robb Weller, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Home Show)
1949 - Graham Richardson, Australian politician
1949 - Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer
1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japan, actor (Lt A J Shimamura-Nash Bridges)
1951 - Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
1951 - Paul Craig, British law professor
1951 - Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
1952 - Del Russel, Pasadena California, actor (Richard-Arnie)
1952 - Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40)
1952 - Didier Dubois, French mathematician
1952 - André Viger, French Canadian marathoner
1953 - Benjamin Gene Brown, SF California, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Diane Abbott, MP
1953 - Greg Ham, Australia, rock saxophonist/flutist (Men At Work)
1953 - Heather Watts, Los Angeles California, ballerina (Dancing on My Grave)
1953 - Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaica, reggae bassist (Sly & Robbie-DJ Riot)
1953 - Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
1953 - Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
1954 - Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
1957 - Bill Athey, cricketer (England batsman in 23 Tests 1980-88)
1957 - Richard Vagg, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, Los Angeles California, American actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away)
1959 - Beth Heiden, Madison Wisc, 3000m speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1960 - Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman (Emmy Award)
1960 - Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
1961 - Christopher J Perry, Edenton NC, PGA golfer (1987 Kemper Open-2nd)
1961 - Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
1961 - Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
1962 - Dennis Paulson, San Gabriel CA, PGA golfer (1994 Freeport-McMoRan-4th)
1962 - Gavin Larsen, cricketer (NZ medium-pace all-rounder)
1963 - Caren Metschuck, German DR, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 - Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1965 - Steve Kerr, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1965 - Ricky Fuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Alexis Stewart, American radio personality
1965 - Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
1966 - Stephanie D Wilson, Boston Mass, astronaut
1966 - Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer (Jovanotti)
1967 - Jason Dungjen, Detroit Mich, pairs skater (& Kyoko Ina)
1967 - Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian international soccer player
1968 - Mark Bradtke, Adelaide SA Aus, basketball center (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1968 - Rob Moore, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Scott Conover, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Laura Wilson, Utica NY, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Lester Holmes, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Robert Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Dwayne Davis, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Mark Caldero, Oklahoma City, vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1970 - Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
1971 - Alonzo Spellman, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 - Erik Smit, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Patrick Muldoon, CA, actor (Austin-Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place)
1971 - Ron Florine, NFL/WLAF tackle (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
1972 - Clara Hughes, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-2 bronze-96)
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, Los Angeles California, actress (Pallbearer, Emma, Hard Eight)
1972 - Laurie Shepard, Cordele, GA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 - Malachy Loye, cricketer (Northamptonshire & England "A" batsman)
1972 - Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
1972 - Craig L. Rice, American Politician
1973 - Larry McSeed, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Tina Nicholson, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 - Chris Demakes, American singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1974 - Edward Thomas, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 - Lina Gaviria, Miss Universe-Colombia (1996)
1975 - Ed Gray, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1975 - Tajama Abraham, WNBA center (Sacramento Monarchs)
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1976 - Dean Butterworth, English musician
1976 - Matt Harding, American video game developer
1976 - Jason Phillips, American baseball player
1977 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
1978 - Brad Arnold, American singer (3 Doors Down)
1978 - Jon Rauch, American baseball player
1979 - Jon Garland, American baseball player
1979 - Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
1979 - Christian Jones, Australian racing driver
1979 - Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league footballer
1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
1981 - Sophie Crumb, American comics artist
1981 - Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
1982 - Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
1982 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
1983 - Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
1983 - Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
1983 - Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
1984 - Paul Bevan, Australian rules footballer
1984 - John Lannan, American baseball player
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
1986 - Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
1989 - Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
1990 - Kylee Lin, American beauty pageant winner
1991 - Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
1992 - Jake Burbage, American actor
1996 - Iman bint Al Abdullah II, princess of Jordan
1996 - Daeg Faerch, Danish-born Canadian actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Deaths

                       
Silent Screen Actress                              American Political Columnist &
 Clara Bow (1965)                                         Presidential Speechwriter
                                                                          William Safire (2009)


1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1259 - Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies
1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
1404 - William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1566 - Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
1590 - Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies
1612 - Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1617 - Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
1641 - Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1660 - St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies
1674 - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
1700 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85
1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1784 - Boniface Stoecki, composer, dies at 38
1808 - Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79
1821 - Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
1831 - Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1844 - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1868 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
1915 - Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
1916 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
1919 - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
1919 - Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67
1935 - Alan Gray, composer, dies at 79
1940 - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1942 - Douglas Munro, only US Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
1943 - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer, dies at 65
1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/US evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53
1944 - Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82
1948 - Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64
1953 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
1955 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
1956 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (Dies natalis), dies at 55 of disseminated shingles, complicated
           by encephalitis
1956 - Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias, American Hall of Fame athlete, dies of colon cancer at 45
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78
1961 - Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1962 - Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1965 - Clara Bow, US actress, dies at 60
1965 - Harry Reser, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1967 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch, dies at 80
1969 - Violet Farebrother, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81
1972 - Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm & Hurricane), commits suicide
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 - Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1979 - Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81
1979 - Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
1981 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77
1981 - Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1982 - Saad Sayd, [Abu Walid], Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, singer/actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1984 - John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
1985 - Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
1986 - Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
1988 - William V Shannon, US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1991 - Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
1991 - Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
1991 - Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52
1992 - Ray Gill, actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42
1992 - Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
1993 - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
1993 - James H Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96
1994 - Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
1994 - Ruth Niehaus, dies
1995 - Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
1995 - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71
1996 - Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55
1996 - Najibullah, Pres of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
1998 - Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2008 - Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
2009 - Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2009 - William Safire, American Columnist, dies at 79
2010 - George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927)
2010 - Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
2011 - Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country singer (b. 1933)
2012 - R. B. Greaves, American singer, dies from prostate cancer at 68
2012 - Eddie Bert, American bebop jazz trombonist, dies at 90

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This Day in History for 28th September


Historical Events

                                   
Roman Military and Political Leader                French Emperor                           Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Pompey the Great                                       Napoleon Bonaparte

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                             32nd US President                                 Comedian Jerry Lewis
Adolf Hitler                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Singer & Cultural Icon                          Godfather of Soul James Brown                Singer Marvin Gaye
Elvis Presley


Actress Mary Tyler Moore


48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235 - Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down
351 - Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor Magnentius
365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself
         Roman emperor.
935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 - Members of Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by
         Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex
1106 - Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert
1322 - Battle of Muhldorf
1362 - Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V
1394 - Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon chosen (anti)pope Benedictus XIII
1448 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1528 - Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1538 - Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1621 - Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks
1652 - English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1687 - Venetians take Athens from the Turks
1701 - Divorce legalized in Maryland, USA
1704 - Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher
1708 - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
1760 - Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin
1767 - Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress,
           succeeding John Jay.
1781 - 9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1787 - Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1815 - Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples
1829 - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1850 - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1858 - Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed
1864 - -30) Battle of Fort Harrison VA (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights)
1867 - Toronto becomes capital of Ontario
1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1868 - Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1879 - Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route
1887 - Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter
           as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent
           iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa)
1894 - Simon Marks & Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester
1899 - Transvaal mobilizes
1901 - Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed
1904 - Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC
1906 - US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 - "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1912 - SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
1914 - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1915 - Battle of Kut-el-Amara: Brits defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
1919 - Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1920 - 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1920 - Dirk Fock appointed as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1921 - 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY
1922 - Benito Mussolini marches on Rome
1923 - Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
1923 - Radio Times 1st published
1923 - Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
1924 - 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1924 - French government names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria
1924 - Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico
1926 - Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
1928 - 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers)
1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1928 - NY Yanks clinch pennant #6
1928 - Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler
1928 - US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek
1928 - Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow
1928 - UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1929 - 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta)
1930 - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1931 - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)
1932 - 1932 Baseball World Series opens with the Chicago Cubs vs. NY Yankees (6-12)
1933 - Greer Garson wed Edward Snelson
1936 - Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)
1936 - Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game
1937 - FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1937 - Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore
1938 - Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye," premieres in NYC
1938 - Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1939 - Estonia accepts Soviet military bases
1939 - Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio
1939 - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR,
           last Polish troops surrender
1940 - Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
1940 - Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
1940 - Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom
           Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
1941 - Phillies lose club record 111th game
1941 - Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
1942 - NY Americans NHL team folded
1944 - 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1944 - Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1944 - Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder)
1945 - "Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand
1945 - Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders
1945 - Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"
1946 - Greek king George II back in Athens
1948 - WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1949 - "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
1950 - Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN
1951 - Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18
1951 - Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton
1951 - Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
1953 - "Bob & Ray Show," TV Variety; last air on NBC
1953 - "Juvenile Jury," TV Childrens, last airs on NBC, moved to CBS
1953 - "Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS
1953 - Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954
1953 - KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
1955 - WITN TV channel 7 in Washington, NC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Johnny Carson Show," TV Variety; last airs on CBS-TV
1956 - RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
1957 - "Dollar A Second," last airs on NBC-TV
1957 - "Gisele MacKenzie Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1957 - "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1
1957 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels
1958 - France adopts constitution
1958 - Guinea votes for independence from France
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's
1959 - "Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin
1959 - Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
1960 - "Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1
1960 - "Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV
1960 - "Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater
1960 - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
1961 - "Doctor Kildare," debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
1961 - Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
1961 - USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1961 - Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
1962 - "Brighter Day," last airs on CBS-TV daytime
1962 - "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 - "Jan Murray Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - "Tonight Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - "Verdict Is Yours," last airs on CBS-TV
1962 - Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched
1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1963 - "King Leonardo," cartoon last airs on NBC-TV
1963 - "Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15
1963 - "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1
1963 - "New Phil Silvers Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "Nick Teen & Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95
1963 - "Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2
1963 - "Shari Lewis Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1963 - "Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62
1963 - "Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
1963 - Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio
1964 - 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2)
1964 - Suriname governor A Currie resigns
1965 - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 - Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines)
1965 - Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed
1967 - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 - "Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 perfs
1968 - Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr
1968 - Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
1968 - Beatles "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 - Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes
1968 - Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co"
1968 - Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr
1969 - Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1969 - Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing!
1969 - SPD wins West German Parliament elections
1970 - "Words & Music," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
1970 - Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
1971 - Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in US Embassy in
1971 - NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1971 - Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile & flies to Rome
1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 - David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie Hall
1972 - Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1972 - Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series.
1973 - Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train
1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973
           coup d'état in Chile.
1974 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47
1974 - "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75
1974 - "Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52
1974 - "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31
1974 - "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1
1974 - "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36
1974 - 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1974 - John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1974 - Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople
1975 - 5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14
1975 - 6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27
1975 - Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
1975 - Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-
           0
1975 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in
           London.
1976 - A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion
1976 - Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act
1976 - Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1978 - Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
1978 - Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shavers in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - "Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1980 - Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
1980 - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing
1980 - Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers
           in Salt Lake City
1982 - 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505
1983 - STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
1984 - Cleve Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
1985 - "Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4
1985 - "Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25
1985 - "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
1985 - "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 - Race riot in London area of Brixton
1986 - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1986 - Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
1986 - Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-
           yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
1987 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV
1987 - Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid"
1988 - Bronx Museum for Arts opens
1988 - Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1990 - Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1991 - "Commish," debuts on ABC-TV
1991 - "Good Time" by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85
1991 - "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5
1991 - "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
1991 - NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
1991 - UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
1992 - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
1992 - "Dog City," cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
1992 - Oakland A's win AL West title
1992 - Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
1993 - Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1993 - Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
1993 - Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live"
1994 - "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS
1994 - "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!)
1994 - "Ed Wood" premieres
1994 - 909 people died when an Estonian ferry capsized & sank in Baltic sea
1994 - Ferry boat Estonia capsize & sinks in East Sea, 909 killed
1995 - "Batman Forever" released Czech Republic
1995 - Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win
1995 - Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS
1995 - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle
1995 - Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank
1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
1996 - 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka
1996 - Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear
1996 - NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
1996 - Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700
1996 - Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
1996 - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others:
           Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
1997 - 32nd Ryder Cup: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup at Sotogrande Spain
1997 - Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting
1997 - St Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)
1997 - Wendy Ward wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Classic
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
2009 - The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually
           assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du
           28 Septembre.
2012 - Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
2012 - Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a
           male escort

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This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Weddings

1922 - Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon
1933 - Sally Eilers weds Harry Joe Brown
1936 - "Marx Brothers" comedian Harpo Marx (47) weds "Million Dollar Legs" actress Susan Fleming
           (28)
1997 - Actor Chad Lowe (29) weds actress Hilary Swank (23)
2008 - American tennis player Mardy Fish (26) weds "Deal or No Deal" model Stacey Gardner at the
           Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, California

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This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Divorces

1937 - Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Philosopher Confucius (551 BC)              Chemist and Nobel Laureate                       Singer Hilary Duff (1987)
                                                                     Henri Moissan (1852)


551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (founder of Confucianism), (d. 479 BC)
58 BC - Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29)
1330 - Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?)
1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Italian monk (Golden Donkey)
1565 - Alessandro Tassoni, Modena Italy, political writer (Rape of Bucket)
1596 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor
1605 - Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
1612 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1679 - Mihael Omerza, composer
1681 - Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer
1698 - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer
1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician (Chiswick)
1705 - Johann Peter Kellner, composer
1735 - August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier
1746 - Sir William Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist (d. 1794)
1748 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer
1761 - Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician
1780 - Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
1785 - David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
1789 - Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)
1793 - Denis-Auguste Affre, Franc, archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-
           Philippe
1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1807 - Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist
1811 - Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician
1813 - Anton Wallerstein, composer
1819 - Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist
1820 - Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher
1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1823 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
1824 - Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, England, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1828 - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
1833 - James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 - Frances E C Willard, NY, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
1840 - Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-Col (Confederate Army)
1840 - Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss)
1844 - Michael Hertz, composer
1844 - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
1849 - Dudley Allen Sargent, US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1851 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Judah)
1852 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall
1852 - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1907)
1854 - Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist (Peripatus)
1855 - Thomas F Tout, London, historian (Manchester school of historiography)
1856 - Edward Herbert Thompson, Mass, archaeologist (Mayan civilization)
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1861 - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur)
1861 - Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
1863 - Charles, Lisbon Portugal, king (1889-1908)
1864 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch)
1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
1871 - Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime
           Minister of Italy (1943-44)
1872 - Lena Ashwell, England, actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway)
1872 - Tom Terriss, London England, director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru)
1873 - Julian Lowell Coolidge, Mass, mathematician (Study-Segre school)
1873 - Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer
1877 - Stanner E V Taylor, St Louis MO, director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona)
1879 - Benjamin Christensen, Viborg Denmark, actor (Barnet, Mockery)
1880 - Ralph Edward Flanders, Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1881 - Henry Geehl, composer
1881 - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Mexican Hayride, Before I Hang)
1882 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher
1882 - Jack Fournier, 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 - Wilbur 'Lefty' Good, pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 - Avery Brundage, Detroit Mich, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72)
1888 - Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond)
1889 - Carlos I King of Portugal, Lisbon (1889-1908)
1889 - D P "Dad" Carter, baritone (Chuck Wagon Gang)
1889 - Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, Dutch violinist/actor (Hippie)
1889 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1892 - Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer
1892 - Elmer Rice, NYC, playwright/director/novelist (Pulitzer-Street Scene)
1892 - Ruth Stonehouse
1893 - Marie V Felix, prince of Luxemburg/Bourbon-Parma
1895 - Charles Petrie, Liverpool, historian
1895 - Dave Franklin, NYC, composer (Hop-a-long Cassidy)
1895 - Lawton Whitey Witt, outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
1895 - Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Mass, US architect (UN, Lincoln Center)
1897 - Muchtar Auesow, writer
1898 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
1901 - Friedrichs, mathematician
1901 - Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress/comedienne (Pygmalion)
1901 - William Samuel Paley, Chicago Ill, pres/CEO of CBS (1928-90)
1901 - Ed Sullivan, New York NY, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1904 - Hendrik J Hofstra, Dutch minister of Finance (PvdA)
1905 - Max Schmeling, Klein Luckow, Province of Pomerania, German world heavyweight boxing
           champ (1930-32)
1905 - William Northam, Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 - Glen "Turk" Edwards, NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1948)
1907 - Ida Turay, Budapest, actress (Deryne, Ida Regenye)
1907 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1908 - Marin Goleminov, composer
1909 - Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1909 - Stephen Spender, poet [or Feb 28]
1909 - Wiesje Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Doodzonde)
1910 - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president (1961-65)
1910 - Fran Lee, NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 - Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr, tennis (US Open 1931, 32)/golfer
1913 - Alice Marble, Beckworth California, tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 - Edith Mary Ellis Peters Pargeter, author
1913 - Vivian Fine, Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1913 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator
1914 - Harold Taylor, Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1914 - Jim Boyd, country/western performer
1914 - Lord Abinger [James Richard Scarlett], Datchet, Berkshire, English Conservative peer,
           campaigned for reform of the ancient law on treasure trove
1915 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage
1916 - Lord Cockfield, Horsham, United Kingdom, British politician (European Commissioner)
1916 - Peter Finch, London, actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 - Michael [George] Somes, England, dancer (Royal Ballet)
1917 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakia, opera composer/conductor
1919 - Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director (Persona, Devil's Eye)
1919 - Tom Harmon, Rensselaer Indiana, sportscaster/NFL tailback (Heisman)
1921 - Ilhan Usmanbas, composer
1922 - Joe Silver, Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1922 - Phyllis Friend, chief nursing officer (DHSS)
1923 - Duke of Buccleuch, British large landowner/art collector
1923 - Fred Robbins, Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest)
1923 - William Windom, NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), (d. 2012)
1924 - Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Arnold Stang, Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 - Frank Latimore, [Kline], Darien Ct, actor (Patton, Breakin Up)
1925 - Seymour Cray, inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 - Jerry Clower, Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1927 - Thomas J J Altizer, Mass, US Radical theologian (God is Dead)
1928 - Naphtali Kupferberg, singer (Fugs)
1929 - Marilyn Clark, Spokane WA, actress (House of Party Beach)
1929 - Nigel Althaus, British government broker
1929 - Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of USSR (1985-1991)
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
1930 - Robin Buchanan, CEO (NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth)
1930 - Tommy Collins, [Leonard Sipes], country singer (Don't Growl)
1930 - Ugo Gregoretti, Rome Italy, actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty)
1931 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist
1932 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina)
1932 - Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
1933 - Madeleine M Kunin, Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1934 - Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
1935 - Bruce Crampton, Sydney Australia, PGA golfer (1961 Milwaukee Open)
1935 - Heather Sears, London England, actress (Room at the Top)
1935 - Koko Taylor, [Cora Walton], US vocalist (Queen of the Blues)
1936 - Robert Hogan, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1936 - Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
1936 - Sherwood L Boehlert, (Rep-R-NY, 1983- )
1937 - Colin Berry, professor (morbid anatomist)
1937 - Edward Applebaum, composer
1937 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1938 - Ben E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], New York City, American soul singer (Stand by Me)
1938 - Charlie Thomas, singer (Drifters) [or Apr 7, 1937]
1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1939 - Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
1940 - Alekander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29/31, T-6)
1940 - Aleksandr Y Kalery, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - George Greenstein, author (Secret of a Jewish Baker)
1941 - Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1941 - Lady Braye
1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
1942 - Grant "Mudcat" Jackson, pitcher (1972 NY Yankees, Phillies)
1942 - Marshall Bell, American actor
1942 - Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
1942 - Tim Maia, Brazilian Singer (d. 1998)
1943 - Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 - J T Walsh, actor (Col Frank Bach-Dark Skies)
1943 - Joel Higgins, Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1943 - Lou Piniella, outfielder/manager (NY Yankees, Seattle Mariners)
1943 - Mike Kreidler, (Rep-D-Washington)
1943 - Nick St Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist (Steppenwolf)
1943 - Susanne Jagd, Denmark, actress (Between the Sheets, Tinderbox)
1943 - Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1944 - Matthew Cowles, soap actor (Eban Japes-Loving, Billy-All My Children)
1945 - Conny Van Dyke, Nassawadox Va, actress (Framed, Hell's Angels '69)
1945 - Marielle Goitschel, Ste Maxime France, alpine skier (Olympic-gold-64)
1946 - Fiona Lewis, Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 - Helen Shapiro, Bethnal Green London, rock vocalist (Culture Club)
1946 - Herbert Jefferson Jr, Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 - Majid Khan, cricketer (great Pakistani batsman 1964-82)
1946 - Peter Egan, actor (Bean, Chariots of Fire)
1946 - Jeffrey Jones, Buffalo, New York, American actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1947 - Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer
1947 - Harold Dow, Hackensack NJ, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours)
1947 - Peter Hope-Evans, British singer/harmonicaist (Family)
1947 - Bob Carr, Australian politician
1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
1948 - Marielle Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968) [or 1945]
1950 - John Sayles, Schenetady NY, actor (Brother from Another Planet)
1950 - Paul Burgess, British drummer (10cc-Not Alone)
1950 - Laurie Lewis, American musician
1951 - Christian Marlowe, Los Angeles California, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 - Dave Rajsich, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1951 - Silvia Dionisio, Rome Italy, actress (Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei)
1951 - Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
1952 - Anthony Davis, footballer
1952 - Sylvia Kristel, Neth, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls), (d. 2012)
1953 - Jim Diamond, Scotish singer/songwriter (I Should Have Known Better)
1954 - George Lynch, rock guitarist (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
1954 - Steve Largent, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1955 - Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
1957 - Alannah Currie, Auckland NZ, rock xylophone/vocalist (Thompson Twins)
1957 - Marc Duret, actor (Dobermann, Hatred, Big Blue)
1958 - Angella Issajenko, Jamaica, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 - Lory Del Santo, Verona Italy, Miss Italy (1980)
1958 - Med Lucart, rock musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1959 - Angela Groothuizen, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1959 - Billy Montana, Country/Western performer (No Yesterday, Angelia)
1959 - Todd Worrell, Arcadia CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1959 - Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
1959 - Steve Hytner, American actor
1960 - Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Infiniti)
1960 - Gus Logie, cricketer (WI batsman 1983-91, great fielder)
1960 - Jennifer Rush, singer/songwriter (Destiny, Ring of Ice)
1960 - Tom Byrum, Onida SD, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Panama City Beach-4th)
1961 - Anne White, Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1961 - Ed Vosberg, Tucson AZ, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Michael-James Wixted, Santa Monica California, actor (Smith Family)
1961 - Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria, 100 m hurdler (world record)
1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1962 - Anne-Marie Fox, LA CA, playmate (Feb, 1982)
1962 - Irving Fryar, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Laurie Rinker-Graham, Stuart FL, LPGA golfer (1986 LPGA Corning)
1962 - Luis Enrique, spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1962 - S C Grant, British Lt-General
1962 - Thomas Mork, Denmark, actor (Krystalbarnet, Bryggeren)
1963 - Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr, NBA guard (Spurs, Charlotte Hornets)
1963 - Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, NJ, comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs)
1964 - Susan Walters, Georgia, actress (Lorna-Loving, Mary Beth-Dear John)
1964 - Paul Jewell, English football manager
1965 - Joel Rane, author (Step on Up)
1965 - Ginger Fish, American drummer (Marilyn Manson)
1966 - Erno Das, lighting tech/gaffer (Spiegels, Lovely Liza)
1966 - Kevin Baker, Montreal, Canadian Tour golfer (Manitoba Amateur-1988)
1966 - Scott Adams, NFL offensive linesman (Chic Bears)
1966 - Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
1967 - Darion Conner, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Jake Reed, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Jason Dungjen, Detroit Mich, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1967 - Oswald Drawdy, Hampton SC, Canadian Tour golfer (1987 SC Amateur)
1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
1968 - Bess Singh, [Lennart Bes], Dutch pop drummer (Burma Shop-Hippies)
1968 - Jerry Evans, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos)
1968 - Jock Climie, CFL slot back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Vanessa Vadim, Paris, daughter of Jane Fonda/actress (Last Party)
1969 - Jack O'Keffe, Waterbury CT, Australasia golfer
1969 - L Janusz Hooker, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Mark Everett, American fugitive
1969 - Ben Greenman, American author
1969 - Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
1970 - Kimiko Date, Kyoto Japan, tennis star (1996 Japan Open)
1970 - Mira Sorvino, Tenafly NJ, actress (Quiz Show, Norma Jean & Marilyn)
1970 - Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
1971 - Chad May, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - David Weightman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Janet Evans, swimmer (Olympics)
1971 - Marcus Spears, NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Chic Bears, Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Matthew Elliott, cricketer (Australian Test opening batsman v WI 1996)
1971 - Alan Wright, English footballer
1971 - Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1972 - Cathy Caverzasio, Switzerland, tennis star
1972 - Dena Querubin, Waterford NJ, Miss America-NJ (1996)
1972 - Greg Ivy, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1973 - Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
1973 - Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
1974 - Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
1974 - John Light, English actor
1975 - Karan Ashley Jackson, Odessa Tx, actress (Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers)
1975 - Mandy Barnett, country singer (Maybe, Rainy Days)
1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
1977 - Young Jeezy, American Rapper
1977 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
1978 - Marzena Godecki, actress (Ocean Girl)
1978 - Nestaea Sealy, Miss Bahamas Universe (1997)
1978 - Bushido, German rapper
1979 - Anndi Lynn McAfee, actress (Ice Cream Man, Conagher)
1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
1981 - Vincent Kartheiser, actor (Hairy Bird, Alaska, Untamed Heart)
1981 - José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
1981 - Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
1981 - Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1982 - Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
1982 - Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
1982 - Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Ranbir Kapoor, Indian Actor
1982 - Nolwenn Leroy, French Singer
1982 - Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 - Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Stefan Moore, English footballer
1984 - Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer
1984 - Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1986 - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
1987 - Hilary Duff, Houston Texas, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire)
1988 - Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
1988 - Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
1989 - Mark Randall, English footballer
1991 - Saffron LeBon, London, daughter of Simon & Yasmon
1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
1996 - Celeste & Johnny Edison, Assyria & Pele's twins, boy & girl

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Deaths

                                   
Roman Military and Political Leader           Moby Dick Author                          Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (1895)
Pompey the Great (48 BC)                        Herman Melville (1891)


Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1953)


48 BC - Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman general and politician, dies at 59
235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
929 - Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered
935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
1104 - Pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies
1197 - Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies
1296 - Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies
1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria
1509 - Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker)
1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
1618 - Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
1649 - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79
1652 - John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42
1657 - Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75
1667 - Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71
1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
1694 - Mouton, mathematician, dies
1702 - Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61
1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)
1757 - Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60
1759 - Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67
1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b.
           1717)
1789 - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90
1819 - Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68
1833 - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
1852 - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60
1859 - Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies
1868 - Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40
1869 - Libri, mathematician, dies
1873 - Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37
1875 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS]
1879 - Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered
1884 - Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies
1891 - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
1895 - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72
1899 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies
1902 - Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62
1903 - Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67
1907 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81
1911 - Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies
1914 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)
1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1922 - Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65
1928 - Con Conrad, dies
1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
1939 - Felicjan Szopski, composer, dies at 74
1942 - Evelyn Thatcher, dies
1943 - Charles Vintcent, cricketer (played in South Africa's 1st 3 tests), dies
1943 - Fritzi Brunette, dies
1946 - Jean Van de Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter, dies
1947 - Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58
1947 - William B Davidson, dies
1948 - EJ Ratcliffe, dies
1948 - Gregg Toland, cinematographer, dies at 44
1952 - Paul Hastings Allen, composer, dies at 68
1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
1954 - Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
1954 - Morten Korch, dies
1955 - Arthur Donaldson, dies
1957 - Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
1957 - Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer, dies at 67
1959 - Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies
1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
1961 - Michael Shepley, actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54
1964 - George Dyson, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75
1964 - Nacio Herb Brown, dies
1965 - Eddie Gribbon, actor (Keystone Kops), dies after long illness
1966 - Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
1966 - Lucky Millinder, bandleader/singer, dies
1968 - Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64
1970 - Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
1970 - John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74
1972 - Maurice Thiriet, composer, dies at 66
1973 - Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71
1973 - Norma Crane, actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies of cancer at 44
1973 - Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
1974 - Raymond Largay, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), dies at 88
1975 - Agnes Windeck, dies
1975 - Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77
1978 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], Pope (1978), dies after 33 days as pope
1978 - Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died
1979 - Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26
1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
1982 - Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday
1982 - Mabel Albertson, actress (Gazebo, Bewitched), dies of Alzheimer at 81
1986 - Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies
1986 - Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77
1987 - Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason
1988 - Ethel Grandin, silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94
1988 - Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83
1989 - Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72
1991 - Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65
1992 - Leech, mathematician, dies
1993 - Alfonso Balcazar, dies
1993 - Gustavo Brillembourg, Venez/US advocate, dies in an accident at 35
1993 - Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83
1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1993 - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1994 - Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr No, Nijinski), dies at 78
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48
1994 - Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96
1994 - Warwick Hutton, artist, dies at 55
1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
1995 - Eddy Grove, dies
1995 - Lynette Roberts, poet, dies at 86
1995 - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77
1996 - Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64
2000 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 - Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)
2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive
           (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
2003 - George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2004 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 - Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)
2008 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (400 metres)
2009 - Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
2009 - Guillermo Endara, former President of Panama (b. 1936)
2010 - Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th September


Historical Events

                                   
Roman Military and Political Leader         Oil Industrialist                                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Pompey the Great                                    John D. Rockefeller     

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                         Education Pioneer Booker                          Actress Judy Garland
Adolf Hitler                                              T. Washington

                                   
Singer Buddy Holly                                 Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                 US President John F. Kennedy

                                   
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis                 Singer Maureen McGovern                    264th Pope John Paul II

                                   
Director Steven Spielberg                       Singer Whitney Houston                          US First Lady Barbara Bush

                 
NFL Running Back and                       Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette
Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian
              Empire.
480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under
              Xerxes I.
61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of
            the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
235 - St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1521 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX
1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for
           treason.
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1650 - 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1678 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
1785 - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1815 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of
           Independence.
1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1864 - Battle of Battle of Chaffin's Farm & New Market Heights VA
1872 - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their
           players
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1890 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo
           Grounds in NYC
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1908 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6
           stolen bases in 1 inning
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1912 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913 - Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 - Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1915 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1921 - Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
1922 - Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 - 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY
1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1924 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 - Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
1925 - French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 - Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 - Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 - "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1935 - 5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US)
1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 - Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 - 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
1940 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 - "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac),
           launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1941 - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1942 - 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 - Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 - 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1943 - German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 - Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug
1944 - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1945 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1946 - 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 - Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1946 - NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY
1947 - Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1947 - Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828)
1948 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema
1948 - WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins
1948 - WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - "Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli
1950 - "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1950 - Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel
1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
1951 - S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1952 - "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV
1952 - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
1953 - "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 - 1st dept store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago Ill
1953 - Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 - US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1954 - "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol
1954 - "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC
1954 - "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 - Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
1954 - KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia
1955 - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC
1956 - "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
1956 - "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
1957 - "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV
1957 - "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1957 - 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 - NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1957 - Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1958 - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
1958 - "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8
1958 - "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
1959 - Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
1959 - Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1960 - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1960 - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
1960 - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1960 - "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
1961 - "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1961 - Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester
1961 - Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1962 - "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7
1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3
1962 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs
1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 - "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48
1962 - Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
1962 - Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader
1962 - JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
1962 - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 - Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit
1963 - Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 - Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1963 - Stan Musial Day in St Louis
1964 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1965 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 - St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1965 - WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in
           one game & 6 times in one season
1966 - Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana
1966 - Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 - -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
1967 - Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
1967 - Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1967 - Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater
1968 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown
1968 - Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 - "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969 - "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 - Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
1969 - Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
1969 - Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1970 - "NET Festival," last aired
1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 - Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1971 - Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 - Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1973 - "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33
1973 - "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 - Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1974 - 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
1974 - 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1975 - "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV
1975 - Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American
           weathercaster.
1976 - "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976 - Boy George expelled from school
1976 - SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1976 - Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1976 - Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in
           the chest
1977 - "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1
1977 - Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship
1977 - James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 - Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1978 - "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1978 - "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
1979 - "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
1979 - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
1979 - "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
1979 - "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
1979 - "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
1979 - "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
1979 - "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
1979 - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
1979 - "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
1979 - "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
1979 - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
1979 - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival
1979 - LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1980 - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 - Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
1983 - 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 - Airport of Beirut reopens
1983 - Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
1983 - Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1984 - "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
1984 - "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
1984 - "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
1984 - "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66
1984 - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1
1984 - "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
1984 - "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
1984 - "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
1984 - "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic
1985 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV
1985 - "Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1985 - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1985 - Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
1985 - Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
1986 - "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
1986 - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1986 - Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
1987 - "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
1987 - 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
1988 - 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - Union Station reopens in Wash DC
1989 - Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1990 - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
1990 - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1990 - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
1990 - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1990 - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-
           fiction book
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 - "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 - 29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US)
1991 - Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
1992 - Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)
1992 - Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1993 - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
1993 - 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins
1994 - 1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 - House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
1994 - Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
1995 - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1995 - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1995 - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
1996 - "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 - 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
1996 - Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas)
1996 - Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
1996 - Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34
1996 - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
1996 - Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
1996 - SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
1996 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic
1996 - US wins Federation Cup over Spain
1997 - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the
           first of two needed to win the prize.
2005 - Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in
           the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages
           were introduced.
2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder
           hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones
           Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
2009 - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami .

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Weddings

1930 - Singer and actor Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
1934 - Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
1949 - George Lascelles marries Maria Stein
1990 - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
2001 - Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (32) weds dancer/choreographer Cris Judd (32) in Calabasas,
           California
2006 - Prince Louis of Luxembourg (20) weds Tessy Antony (26) at a parish church in Gilsdorf,
           Luxembourg
2007 - Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Kildow (23) weds former Olympic skier Thomas Vonn (31) at
           the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah
2009 - American Idol's first runner-up Justin Guarini (30) weds Reina Capodici (27) in Doylestown,
           Pennsylvania
2012 - Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway (29) weds actor-turned-jewelry designer
           Adam Shulman (31) in Big Sur, California
2012 - "Fall Out Boy" lead singer Patrick Stump (28) weds longtime girlfriend Elisa Yao in Chicago
2012 - "Kings of Leon" bassist Jared Followill (25) weds model Martha Patterson (21) in Charlotte,
           Tennessee
2012 - "The Lovely Bones" actor Stanley Tucci (52) formally weds British literary agent Felicity Blunt
           at Middle Temple Hall in London

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Divorces

2011 - "House M.D." actress Olivia Wilde (26) divorces Italian prince Tao Ruspoli (35) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Birthdays

                   
Author                                                     Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis (1935)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547)


106 BC - Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman political and military leader ( 1st Triumvirate and Consul), (d. 48 BC)
1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1402 - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1518 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Roomen, mathematician
1571 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1583 - Johan VIII, the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen/field marshall
1620 - John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized
1654 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1714 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1761-75)
1718 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)
1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1727 - Henry Harington, composer
1746 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1794 - William Michael Rooke, composer
1803 - Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem)
1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1810 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist
1812 - Gopel, mathematician
1815 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1829 - Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1829 - Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1830 - John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
1831 - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d.
           1902)
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
1849 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1854 - Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 - Michele Esposito, composer
1857 - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1858 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1863 - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863 - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro)
1867 - Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1879 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
1884 - Boris Asafiev, composer
1887 - Billy Bevan, Orange Australia, actor (White Sin)
1891 - Gerda Bjorne, Varmland Sweden, actress (Familjen Bjork, Hemsoborna)
1893 - Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1893 - Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1895 - Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer
1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
1899 - Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter
1899 - Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva
1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1903 - Karl August Andersen, composer
1903 - Ted Decorsia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1904 - Dorothy Emmet, philosopher
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1905 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1907 - Gene Autry, Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner (California Angels)
1907 - Michael Shepley, Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 - Richard Harkness, Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week, NBC)
1908 - Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips)
1908 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1909 - Andrew Herron, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1910 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Action in Arabia)
1911 - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher
1912 - Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert)
1912 - Viscount Lambert
1913 - Silvio Piola, soccer star
1913 - Stanley E Kramer, NYC, producer/director (Inherit the Wind)
1915 - Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)
1915 - Brenda Marshall, Philippines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1915 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1916 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1916 - Minao Shibata, composer
1916 - Trevor Howard, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1918 - Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol)
1918 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1919 - Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 - Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor (Boris Godunov, Step, Otello)
1920 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1921 - Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director (Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist)
1922 - Lizabeth Scott, Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 - Ellen Malcolm, painter
1923 - O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1924 - David Atkinson, British air marshal
1925 - Steve Forrest, Huntsville, Texas, American actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT), (d. 2013)
1925 - John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal
1925 - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx)
1925 - Trevor Hughes, water engineer
1926 - Phyllis Taylor, educationist
1927 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 - Paul McCloskey, (Sen-R-California)
1928 - Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet
1928 - Lord Avebury [Eric Reginald Lubbock], English politician (Liberal MP for Orpington 1962-70)
1929 - Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant (Mid Glamorgan)
1930 - Colin Dexter, author
1930 - Morag Timbury, director (Central Public Health Laboratory)
1930 - Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London)
1930 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
1930 - Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1930 - Billy Strange [William], Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation),
           (d. 2012)
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Malmö Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita)/Miss Sweden (1950)
1931 - E S Orr Ewing, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown
1931 - Eddie Barth, Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1931 - James Watson Cronin, nuclear physicist
1931 - Joseph M McDade, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania, 1963- )
1932 - Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International
1932 - Jeremy Isaacs, general director (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
1932 - Mary Moon, Headmistress (Manchester High School for Girls)
1932 - Peter Stormonth Darling, CEO (Mercury Asset Management Group)
1932 - Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1932 - Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist (pop art)
1932 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1933 - Samora Machel, president Mozambique (1975-86)
1934 - Lance Gibbs, cricketer (prolific West Indian off-spinner, 309 wickets)
1934 - Lindsay Kline, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler Hat-trick 1957)
1934 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
1935 - David Hannay, diplomat
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin')
1936 - Michael Partridge, British civil servant
1936 - Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses)
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1937 - Alice Mahon, British MP
1937 - R B Heywood, director (British Antarctic Survey)
1938 - Henry Keswick, British businessman (CEO-Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd)
1938 - Mike McCormick, MLB Pitcher (SF Giants, Cy Young 1967)
1938 - Wim Kok, NVV/FNV-chairman/Dutch soc-dem party-premier (1994- )
1939 - Eberhard Koellner, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31 backup)
1939 - Larry Linville, Ojai California, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart)
1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
1939 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1940 - Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist
1940 - John Dawes, rugby coach
1940 - Mike Eischeid, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 - Colin Niven, Headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1941 - David Steele, cricketer (England batsman, courageous v Lillee 1975)
1941 - Don Nix, US saxophonist (Last Night)
1941 - Kermit Zarley, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1970 Canadian Open)
1942 - Donna Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 - Ian McShane, Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 - Madeline Kahn, Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety)
1942 - Rajinder Goel, cricketer (slow lefty who didn't play for India)
1942 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright
1942 - William Nelson, (Rep-D-Fla, 1979- )/astronaut (STS 61C)
1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
1943 - Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)
1943 - Manuel Fernandez, rocker
1943 - Peter Rigby, CEO (Specialist Computer Holdings)
1943 - Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1944 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees)
1944 - Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor (Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn)
1945 - Kyriacos Sfetsas, composer
1945 - Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76)
1945 - Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records
1945 - Tatiana Tauer, harpist
1946 - Alasdair Fraser, QC/director (Public Prosecutions for N Ireland)
1946 - Nick Taylor, singer/guitarist (Bloodrock)
1946 - Patricia Hodge, actress (Heat of the Day, Shell Seekers, Sunset)
1947 - Altie Taylor, soccer star
1947 - Jon Snow, British TV journalist (Channel 4)
1947 - Lyndon Harrison, MEP
1947 - R J Evans, FBA, historian
1947 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show)
1948 - John M McHugh, (Rep-R-NY)
1948 - Mark Farner, Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion)
1948 - Mike Pinear, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1948 - Viktor Krovopouskov, USSR, sabres/fencer (Olympic gold, individual and team, 1976, 1980)
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1949 - Steve Busby, footballer
1949 - Tony Hoty, Cleve OH, actor (Ransom, Paper)
1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
1951 - David Murray, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper)
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1952 - Monika Zehrt, German DR, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - R A Hodges, archaeologist
1952 - Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
1953 - Drake Hogestyn, Ft Wayne Indiana, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director/writer (Leola, Night Zoo)
1953 - Warren Cromartie, baseball player
1954 - Cindy Morgan, [Cichorski], Chicago Ill, actress (Tron)
1954 - Stephen Platt, editor (New Statesman & Society)
1955 - Ken Weatherwax, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
1955 - Mark Mitchell, actor (Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero)
1955 - Vicki Fergon, Palo Alto CA, LPGA golfer (1979 Lady Stroh's)
1955 - Benoît Ferreux, French actor
1956 - James Donald Halsell Jr, Monroe La, astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94)
1956 - Sebastian Coe, Hammersmith, London, British 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1956 - Suzzy Roche, rocker (Roches)
1957 - Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane)
1957 - Chris Broad, cricketer (prolific England opening batsman 1984-89)
1957 - Craig Lefferts, MLB Pitcher
1957 - Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 - Tim Flannery, DJ/MLB player (SD Padres)
1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1959 - Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2)
1960 - John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard (Chicago Bulls)
1960 - Rob Deer, MLB Outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1960 - Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1961 - Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
1963 - Les Claypool, US funk metal singer/bassist (Primus-sorry on This)
1964 - Brad Lohaus, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
1964 - John Tucker, Windsor, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Julie Peterson, Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1965 - Fora van Leijenhorst, Curacaos/Neth dancer (Josephine)
1965 - Trent Yawney, Hudson Bay, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Hersey Hawkins, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1966 - Jason Gould, son of Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould
1966 - Jill Whelan, Oakland Cal, actress (Vicki-Love Boat, Young & Restless)
1966 - Ken Norton Jr, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1966 - Rudy Poeschek, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - Dave Silvestri, St Louis MO, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1968 - Luke Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Matt Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Mika Hakkinen, racing driver
1968 - Patrick Burns, American television presenter
1968 - Samir Soni, Indian film actor
1969 - Erika Eleniak, Glendale Ca, playmate (Jul, 1989)/actress (Baywatch)
1969 - Kelly Robbins, Mt Pleasant MI, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA
1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1969 - Angelo Barretto, Filipino racecar driver
1970 - Chris Mims, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Danny de Supervise, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Derrick Oden, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Emily Lloyd, London England, actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country)
1970 - Joseph Hudson, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Luke Bodensteiner, Iowa City Iowa, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (Dark Horse, SFW)/Robert's daughter
1970 - Nicolas Pereira, Salto Uruguay, tennis pro
1970 - Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer (European Amat champ 1994)
1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 - Adrion Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Derrick Davis, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Donald Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Jay Kearney, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Ray Buchanan, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1971 - Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1972 - Butler By'not'e, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Jorgen Jonsson, hockey forward (Team Sweden 1998)
1972 - Trent Zenkewicz, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1972 - Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
1973 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
1973 - Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1974 - Danielle DuClos, actress (Midnight Run, Zits)
1974 - Brian Ash, American film producer
1975 - Heather Pease, Monterey California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Won Bin, South Korean actor
1977 - Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1977 - Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1978 - Mandy Groff, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, Phila, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1979 - Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
1979 - Shelley Duncan, American Baseball Player
1980 - Sarah Sucher, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
1980 - Zachary Levi, American actor
1980 - Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 - Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player
1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
1986 - Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Emily Evelyn Chase, daughter of Jayni & Chevy
1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1988 - Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
2008 - Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family