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This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Entrepreneur and Engineer                         Architect/ City Planner                       Actress Elisabeth Shue (1963)
George Westinghouse (1846)                        Le Corbusier (1887)


1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China)
1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1618 - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1706 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749- )
1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 - Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1777 - William Russell, composer
1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1806 - Andreas Randel, composer
1808 - Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63)
1816 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 - Joseph Rummel, composer
1819 - Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1827 - Cark Reidel, composer
1831 - J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1846 - George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US
           currency), (d. 1914)
1847 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
1849 - Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1860 - Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
1860 - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
1862 - Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
1866 - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1873 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
1880 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 - Lloyd Spooner, US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 - George Brown, cricketer (legendary England batsman/keeper of 20's)
1887 - Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, architect/city
           planner/artist (Urbanisme), (d. 1965)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1887 - MartinLuis Guzman, Mexico, novelist (Eagle & the Serpent)
1888 - Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung (Chinese Communist Party)
1888 - Max Butting, composer
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
1895 - Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1896 - Otto Siegl, composer
1897 - Jerome Cowan, NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1902 - Mihovil Logar, composer
1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 - Horst Lange, writer
1905 - Helen Wills Moody, Centerville, California, American tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-
           1938)
1906 - Janet Gaynor, Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
1906 - Louis Borell, Amsterdam Neth, actor (Over the Moon, Queer Cargo)
1908 - Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], Fort Wayne, Indiana, American actress (My Man Godfrey,
           In Name Only)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1912 - Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator
1913 - Meret Oppenheim, writer
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1915 - Edgardo Martin, composer
1915 - Harry van Doorn, [Henri W], CRM minister/Dutch politician (KVP/PPR)
1915 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
1916 - Tommy Lawton, footballer
1918 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 - Joe Frazier, American baseball player
1925 - Shana Alexander, NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
1926 - Alan Copeland, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 - Alice Bauer, LPGA golfer
1927 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1929 - Les Favell, cricketer (stoic Australian batsman late 50's)
1930 - Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
1930 - Richie Benaud, cricket captain (great Aussie leg-spinner, commentator)
1931 - Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist (CBS News, Court TV)
1932 - Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center)
1933 - Horst Bingle, writer
1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
1935 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1936 - Anna Quayle, actress (Mistress Pamela)
1936 - Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet], cabaret director (Capers)
1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
1939 - Douglas K Bereuter, (Rep-R-Nebraska, 1979- )
1939 - John J LaFalce, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
1940 - Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 - Ellen Travolta, Englewood NJ, actress (Grease, Charles in Charge)
1940 - Wyche Fowler Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977-87)
1942 - Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 - Fred Travalena, NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 - Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He's a Cat)
1943 - Michael Durrell, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs)
1943 - Udo Zimmermann, composer
1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1944 - Merzak Allouache, director (Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris)
1944 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
1945 - Domonic Barber, attorney (Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco)
1946 - Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
1946 - Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012)
1946 - Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 - Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
1947 - Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1948 - Dan Hamburg, (Rep-D-California)
1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 - Glenn Branca, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, avant-garde composer and guitarist
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1950 - David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman)
1950 - Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1951 - Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1952 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1954 - David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1955 - Tony Dungy, American football coach
1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial)
1956 - Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
1957 - Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 - Shahzad Altaf, cricketer (UAE off-spinner 1996 World Cup)
1958 - Joseph Finder, American novelist
1959 - John Mackin, programmer
1959 - Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 - Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
1959 - [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1959 - Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1960 - Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 - Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
1960 - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1960 - Scott Stevens, jockey
1961 - Kathrin Dörre, East German marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 - Tim Burgess, rocker
1962 - Rich Yett, baseball player
1963 - Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1963 - Jsu Garcia, American actor
1964 - Pam Kometani, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1992 Welch's Classic-27th)
1964 - Thomas "Tom" Hunter, US 50M FREESTYLE swimmer (world record)
1965 - Cynthia Meyer, NY, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1965 - David Spaulding, Newport Beach California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1965 - Jim Sharp, US rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988)
1965 - Ruben Sierra, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 - Archi Cianfrocco, Rome NY, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 - Jimmie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Julianne McNamara, Flushing NY, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
1966 - Oscar Caballos, jockey
1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1966 - Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1967 - Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
1967 - Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
1969 - Byron Black, Zimbabwe, tennis star
1969 - Jeff Lay, Ottawa Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Martha Richards, Hudson WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Safeco Classic-21st)
1969 - Robert Person, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 - Darren Oliver, Kansas city MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1971 - Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Phil Bennett, British racing driver
1971 - Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 - Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 - J J Stokes, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1973 - Rebecca Lobo, Mass, WNBA center (Olympics-gold-96)/(NY Liberty)
1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian
1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1974 - Brian Kelly, Mission Viejo California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Geert Jelle de Vries, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 - Kenny Jonsson, Angelholm SW, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Islander)
1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor
1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1975 - Ines Sainz, Miss Spain Universe (1997)
1975 - Jan Harm Schippers, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Veendam)
1975 - Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
1976 - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 - Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 - Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 - David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 - Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 - Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1980 - Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1982 - William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1986 - Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1988 - Kayky Brito , Brazilian actor.
1992 - Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
1995 - Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Deaths

                     
Poet Alfred Tennyson (1892)                       Actress Bette Davis (1989)


404 - Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies
877 - Charles II the Bald, King of France/ Holy Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1014 - Samuel (Samuil), ruler of Bulgaria, dies (b. 958)
1072 - Sancho II, king of Castile (1065-72), murdered
1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1214 - Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castile, dies
1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1585 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies
1641 - Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle
1644 - Elisabeth (In Spanish Isabel) of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1651 - Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
1786 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56
1819 - Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies
1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1837 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77
1855 - August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1860 - Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
1861 - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1868 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1874 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
1880 - Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies
1891 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83
1905 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
1909 - Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
1912 - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1924 - Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
1926 - Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
1933 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
1935 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
1940 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55
1942 - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies
1943 - Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort & catcher Walker, dies
1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 - Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
1949 - Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1951 - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1953 - Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64
1954 - Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
1956 - Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1960 - Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50
1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1964 - F T Mann, cricketer (father of F G, 281 runs in 5 Tests 1922-23), dies
1964 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
1965 - Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1966 - Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48
1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1969 - Walter Hagen, US PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1973 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
1973 - Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58
1973 - Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58
1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1975 - Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68
1980 - Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56
1980 - Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 - [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1983 - Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1984 - George S Simpson, US paleontologist, dies at 82
1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1989 - Bette Davis, US actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1991 - Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
1991 - Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1992 - Bill O'Reilly, cricketer (great leggie, 774 wickets at 16 60), dies
1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1993 - Agnes de Mille, US dancer/choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
1995 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88
1995 - Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67
1995 - Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
1996 - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57
1996 - Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82
1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2007 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
2008 - Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2009 - Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
2010 - Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president, dies from cancer at 83

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 7th October


Historical Events

                                   
The Warrior Pope Julius II                       Ford Motor Company Founder               German WWII Field Marshal
                                                                Henry Ford                                            Erwin Rommel

                                   
First Israeli Prime Minister                       Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg                      US President John F. Kennedy
David Ben-Gurion

                                   
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak       NFL Running Back Walter Payton            Radio shock jock Howard Stern


3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 - Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant
1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1506 - Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1513 - Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1571 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1637 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 - English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north
           & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 - Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1825 - Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
1826 - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1828 - The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under
           General Maison.
1840 - Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 - -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1864 - Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 - Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1871 - 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1879 - Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
1882 - 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1900 - The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1904 - NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 - France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
1908 - Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 - Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1915 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1916 - 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of
           Lebanon, Tennessee
1919 - 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 - Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC
1919 - KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1922 - 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1922 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
1923 - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms
1926 - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1926 - Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 - Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 - Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 - NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 - Himmler/Hess/Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
1936 - 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1937 - Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
1938 - Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J
1940 - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by
           provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1941 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 - Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
1942 - Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC
1942 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1943 - Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC
1944 - Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin
1944 - Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1945 - Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 - Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres
1947 - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1949 - German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm
           Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier
1950 - NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 - Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 - Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2
1950 - William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 - Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 - 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a
           substitute-host)
1952 - Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1953 - Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block
           his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 - Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San
           Francisco.
1956 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1957 - KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 - "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1960 - "Route 66" premieres
1960 - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1961 - "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs
1961 - 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1962 - 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 - JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1964 - NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 - Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 - 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score
           world's longest straight hole-in-one
1967 - Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 - Rolf Hochhuth's "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1969 - WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
1971 - T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in NYC
1972 - 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1974 - German Democratic Republic amends constitution
1975 - Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith
1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1977 - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 - USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 - LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test
1979 - "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
1979 - "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1979 - Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1979 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 - Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1981 - Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt
1981 - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1982 - "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances
1982 - Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 - Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
1985 - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 - PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1986 - 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" published
1988 - Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 - Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988 - Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 - WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at
           5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 - Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 - Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 - Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 - Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead
           heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually
           inappropriat comments to her
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 - "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 - Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1994 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 - Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 - Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
1994 - Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1995 - Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after
           being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2000 - The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by
           Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony
           Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the
           ground.
2003 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office
           term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2012 - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
2012 - Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year

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Famous Weddings

1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1914 - 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F.
           Fitzgerald's daughter Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (24)
1989 - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1995 - "Cheers" actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen
           (42)
2006 - Comedian-actor Tim Allen (53) weds actress Jane Hajduk (39) at an outdoor ceremony in
           Grand Lake, Colorado
2012 - Media personality Jack Osbourne (26) weds Lisa Stelly on the Big Island of Hawaii

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This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Divorces

1988 - Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
2004 - Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years
           of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist                 Russian President                                  Recording Executive
Niels Bohr (1885)                                     Vladimir Putin (1952)                             Simon Cowell (1959)


1573 - William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1577 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1698 - Henri Madin, composer
1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1748 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 - Adolf Muller, composer
1802 - Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
1817 - Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1821 - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 - Felix Draeseke, composer
1841 - Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1854 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
1866 - Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1868 - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 - Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer
1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886 - Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 - A C "Jack" Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 - Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 - Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1889 - Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1896 - Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1898 - Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo
1901 - Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 - Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1903 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1904 - Chuck Klein, Indianapolis In, Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
1905 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
1906 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 - Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Richard Caldicot, London England, actor (Horse's Mouth)
1909 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1909 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks)
1914 - Alfred Drake, [Capurro], Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
1914 - Sarah Churchill, London, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 - Walt W Rostow, NYC, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
1917 - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1917 - June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
1918 - Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 - Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - George Duby, historian
1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012)
1921 - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1922 - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 - Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1926 - Diana Lynn, LA CA, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 - Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
1927 - R. D. Laing, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scottish psychiatrist
1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929 - Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1929 - Harold Zirin, Boston, Massachusetts, astronomer, (d. 2012)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1932 - Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 - Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 - Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1934 - Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1934 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1935 - Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List)
1936 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 - Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1937 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1938 - Robert Drivas, Chi, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 - Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 - Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - Bruce F Vento, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977- )
1940 - Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 - Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985- )
1941 - Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 - Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 - Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate)
1943 - Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 - Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 - Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 - Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 - Kieran Kane, Queens NY, singer (O'Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1950 - Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 - Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1951 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 - Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
1952 - Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Martyn Harris, journalist
1952 - Mary Badham, American actress
1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician
1953 - Christopher Norris, NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
1953 - Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 - Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential
           Medal of Freedom)
1955 - Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956 - James Van Patten, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Bo-Chisholms)
1956 - Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 - Jayne Torvill, England, ice skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 - Judy Sams, Toronto Ontario, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th)
1958 - Kim Morris, San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986)
1958 - Judy Landers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress (BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
1959 - Penny Graeber, Sydney Australia, golfer (1990 6th Vic Open)
1959 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
1959 - Simon Cowell, Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor,
           American Idol)
1959 - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 - Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 - Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 - Rich Delucia, Reading PA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1964 - Stuart Hendley, Houston Texas, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open)
1964 - Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 - Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 - Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 - Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 - Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1967 - Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 - Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Randy Bartz, Roseville Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Thom Yorke, British pop musician and lead singer of Radiohead ('Creep', 'Paranoid Android'
           and 'Pyramid Song')
1969 - Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 - Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 - Maria Whittaker, English model
1970 - Daniel Collins, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 - Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Le'Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Paul Hannam, Vancouver BC, 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 - John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 - Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Priest Holmes, running back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Alexander Polinsky, SF California, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)
1974 - Benjamin Oberman, Denver Colorado, pairs skater (& Naomi Grabow)
1974 - Shannon MacMillan, Syosset NY, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1974 - Allison Munn, American actress
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 - Billy Walsh, Summit NJ, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 - Clayton Miller, Toronto Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1977 - Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 - Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 - Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
1982 - Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1982 - Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1984 - Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1985 - Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 - Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 - Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho

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This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Deaths

                                   
American Statesman                              Author Edgar Allan Poe (1849)                 Baseball Player and Manager
George Mason (1792)                                                                                             Leo Durocher (1991)


290 - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 - Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
929 - Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies
1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1792 - George Mason, American statesman, advocated for "The Bill of Rights" (b. 1725)
1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40
1864 - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 - Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1963 - Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63
1964 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
2010 - Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2010 - T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2011 - Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 - John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76

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This Day in History for 8th October


Historical Events

                                   
Captain/Explorer James Cook                  Politician Otto Von Bismarck                  Playwright Moss Hart

                                   
33rd US President Harry Truman            Baseball Player Jackie Robinson              Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

                                   
Musician and Beatle John Lennon           Reggae Musician Bob Marley                  38th US President Gerald Ford


43rd US President George W. Bush


314 - Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
451 - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1480 - Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the
           Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the
           Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 - San Marino adopts constitution
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted
1625 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1690 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 - French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 - Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay)
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir
           William Congreve
1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
1815 - Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1821 - The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1840 - 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1856 - The Second Opium War or 2nd Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the
           Pearl River.
1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 - Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1862 - Otto von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire
1865 - Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 - Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, &
           original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1879 - War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos,
           Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 - Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
1895 - Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1897 - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 - 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1903 - J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin
1904 - 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1908 - NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915 - Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating
1915 - Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1917 - Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1918 - Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 - NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 - British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1927 - NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 - Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
1928 - Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1928 - Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1929 - A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 - Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.
1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1933 - Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1938 - G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC
1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 - NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 - Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 - German troops occupies Romania
1941 - Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
1942 - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1943 - Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1944 - Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres
1945 - Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1946 - Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
1946 - Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 - 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 - Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 - "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles
           becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 - Chinese offensive in Korea
1952 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1953 - Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there
           Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1953 - WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1955 - World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 - Procter & Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Min of Defense
1957 - Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1958 - Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1958 - Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
1958 - KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 - Conservatives win British general election
1959 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1961 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings,
           running his streak to 32
1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1962 - Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally
           prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the
           sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east
           at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 - Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 - Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1965 - Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
1965 - Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
1965 - Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 - Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1969 - The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in
           Chicago, Illinois.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 - Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 - In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 - Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
1973 - NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 - Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the
           largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1976 - Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 - Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship
           game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 - 13th Country Music Association Award:[Approx]
1979 - J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC
1980 - After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marley collapsed in Central Park
           while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
1980 - British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 - USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
1981 - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser
1981 - President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before
           sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 - NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 - Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
1983 - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1984 - 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1985 - "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
1985 - Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London
1985 - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 - Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 - RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 - Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 - Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1990 - 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
1990 - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 - Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
1992 - Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1993 - Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
1993 - UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
1995 - Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of
           11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
1998 - Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.
1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest       
           material Celtic calendar.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland
           Security.
2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog
           during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
2005 - The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
2012 - 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2012 - Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
2012 - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the
           Libyan parliament
2012 - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on
           reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent

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Famous Weddings

1842 - Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1935 - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1993 - Queen Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
1994 - "Growing Pains" actress Tracey Gold (25) weds Roby Marshall (29) at St. Charles Catholic
           Church
2005 - Gilmore Girls" actress Melissa McCarthy (34) weds "Joey" actor Ben Falcone (32) at the Oviatt
           Penthouse in Los Angeles

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Famous Divorces

2010 - Musician Ben Harper (40) divorces actress Laura Dern (43) due to irreconcilable differences after
           5 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Children's Book Writer                         Guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948)              Actress Sigourney Weaver (1949)
R. L. Stine (1943)


Actor Matt Damon (1970)


1515 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer
1619 - Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)
1621 - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim
1676 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
1690 - Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 - Antonio Palella, composer
1697 - Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love)
1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
1715 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
1720 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
1740 - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1747 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
1748 - Franz Seydelmann, composer
1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
1789 - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
1789 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
1790 - Waldemar Thrane, composer
1802 - Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist
1813 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1818 - John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
1820 - Stanislaw Katski, composer
1826 - Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1828 - Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic
1831 - Michal Jelski, composer
1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1838 - John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905
1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1855 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
1860 - Felix Woyrsch, composer
1861 - Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1863 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
1864 - Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)
1868 - Max Slevogt, German painter
1869 - J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
1870 - Louis Vierne, composer
1872 - John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
1873 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1874 - Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron)
1875 - Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
1877 - Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
1880 - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1883 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
1885 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1887 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
1888 - Clifford Heatherley, Preston England, actress (For Love or Money)
1889 - C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)
1890 - Cyril Rutherford "Snuffy" Browne, cricketer (pioneer WI Test player)
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
1890 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1893 - Orovida Camille Pissarro, Epping England, British painter and etcher
1895 - Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl)
1895 - Juan Peron, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
1895 - King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
1896 - Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
1897 - Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause)
1898 - Clarence Williams, composer
1899 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer
1899 - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP)
1900 - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect
1900 - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer
1900 - Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 - Eivind Groven, composer
1903 - Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
1907 - Howard Joslin, GA, actor (Quebec, Detective Story)
1908 - Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1909 - Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1910 - Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1910 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
1910 - Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
1913 - Walter Schumann, NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish)
1916 - Spark Matsunaga, (D-Ha-Sen)
1917 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1917 - Hans Poser, composer
1917 - Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
1917 - Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
1918 - Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera)
1919 - Bill Anderson, cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946)
1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan (1991-93)
1920 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
1920 - Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1921 - Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1922 - Douglas Gray, archivist
1922 - Svend Westergaard, composer
1924 - Arkady Vorobyev, Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1924 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1925 - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic
1927 - Al Duncan, drummer
1927 - Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 - Raaj Kumar, film star
1927 - Torbjorn Falkanger, Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
1927 - Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1928 - Neil Harvey, cricketer (prolific Australian lefty bat of 50's)
1928 - M. Russell Ballard, LDS apostle
1928 - Bill Maynard, British actor
1929 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
1930 - James Olsen, Evanston IL, actor (Andromeda Strain, Spell)
1930 - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1932 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
1934 - Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1934 - J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
1936 - Carman Moore, composer
1936 - Rona Barrett, NYC, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show)
1938 - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service)
1938 - Frederick S Stolle, tennis champ (US Open-1966)
1938 - Penny Pitou, US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
1938 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
1939 - Armando Gentilucci, composer
1939 - Elvira Ozolina, USSR, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1939 - Harvey Pekar, American author
1939 - Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer
1940 - Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, rocker (Impressions)
1941 - George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1941 - Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate (D)
1943 - Chevy Chase, NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
1943 - James Edward Sellars, composer
1943 - R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children's book writer (Goosebumps)
1944 - Bruce A Morrison, (Rep-D-CT, 1983- )
1944 - Susan Raye, American singer
1945 - Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1945 - Vanburn Holder, cricketer (West Indian pace bowler of 70's)
1946 - Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1946 - Jean-Jacques Beineix, director (Betty Blue, Diva)
1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American politician
1947 - Emiel Puttemans, Flemish athlete
1947 - Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1947 - Yelena Ivanovna Dobrokvashina, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-15a)
1948 - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)
1948 - Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
1948 - Stefanie Marrian, Paris France, comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1948 - Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
1948 - Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
1948 - Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 - Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1949 - Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra] , LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1951 - Jack O'Connell, American politician
1952 - Cliff Adams, rocker
1952 - Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician
1952 - Edward Zwick, American film director
1953 - Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1954 - Michael Dudikoff, Redondo Beach, California, American actor (American Ninja, TRON)
1954 - Ben Amonette, Radford VA, free pistol (Olympics-92, 96)
1955 - Bill Elliott, auto racer (Daytona-1978)
1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1956 - Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend Ind, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 63, 83, 94)
1956 - Scott Michael Pellaton, barefoot water ski champ
1956 - Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
1956 - Janice Voss, South Bend, Indiana, astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), (d. 2012)
1957 - Doug Cox, Guelph Ontario, 90 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1957 - James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor (Max Holden-One Life to Live)
1957 - Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer
1957 - Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director
1958 - Steve Coll, American journalist
1959 - Carlos I Noriega, Lima Peru, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97)
1959 - Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1959 - Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1959 - Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
1959 - Nick Bakay, American actor
1960 - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
1960 - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
1960 - Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
1961 - Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1962 - Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver
1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer
1965 - Martin Mayhew, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
1965 - Ross Flemer, Newport Beach California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor
1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1966 - Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
1967 - Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress
1968 - Frankie Smith, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, SF 49ers)
1968 - Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer
1968 - Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player
1969 - Dylan Neal, US actor (Dylan Shaw-Bold & the Beautiful)
1969 - Jeremy Davies, American actor
1970 - Carlos Etheredge, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - David Doster, Fort Wayne IN, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - DeWayne Knight, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - James Williams, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy,
           Bourne trilogy)
1970 - Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
1970 - Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress
1971 - Boomer [Norman] Ellison, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Jim Hanna, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Monty Williams, NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1971 - Nate Miller, NFL/WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Terry Richardson, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Val St germain, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Dede Demet, Milwaukee Wisc, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jared Kaaiohelo, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer
1973 - Donnie Abraham, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Toby Haenen, Hobart Tasmania Aus, backstroke swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tracy Bonner, Webster Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Rashaan Salaam, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1974 - Rod Manuel, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player
1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 - Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
1976 - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
1977 - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
1978 - Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1978 - Antonino D'Agostino, Italian football player
1979 - [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1979 - Kristanna Loken, American actress
1979 - Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler
1980 - Andria Gayle Mullins, Miss Texas Teen USA (Teen with Style-1997)
1980 - Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
1980 - Nick Cannon, American actor
1981 - Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, of Netherlands
1981 - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
1983 - Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
1983 - Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor
1985 - Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
1987 - Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu
1993 - Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)

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Famous Deaths

Statesman John Hancock (1793)


705 - Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies
1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1604 - Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
1606 - John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies aged 69
1613 - Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
1651 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
1656 - Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1680 - Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1683 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1686 - Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55
1722 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
1728 - Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
1754 - Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771 - John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76
1772 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
1793 - John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
1803 - Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1834 - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
1842 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer
1862 - James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1862 - William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1864 - Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
1865 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 - Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1888 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
1895 - Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1904 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
1907 - Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1919 - Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies
1925 - Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1928 - Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1940 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
1944 - Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52
1945 - Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73
1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
1947 - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
1953 - Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
1956 - Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1962 - Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1963 - Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist dies of a heart attack aged 54
1964 - Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1967 - Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1969 - Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1970 - Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 - Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1971 - Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51
1971 - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1973 - Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 - Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )
1978 - Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1978 - Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70
1978 - Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 - June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1982 - Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1982 - Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 - Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49
1984 - Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 - Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1988 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1991 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 - Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 - Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
1994 - John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
1994 - Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 - Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
1995 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
1995 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
1995 - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
1996 - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996 - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 - Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
1996 - William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
1997 - Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2004 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2008 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2008 - Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918)
2008 - Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
2010 - Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)
2011 - Al Davis, American football executive (b. 1929)
2011 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)

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Historical Events

                                   
Holy Roman Emperor                              US Cavalry Commander                         US President Woodrow Wilson
Charlemagne                                           George Armstrong Custer

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  Soldier, author,journalist,politician     Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey Oswald
                                                              Winston Churchill


680 - Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.
869 - Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach
           America.
1192 - Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1290 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 - Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1617 - Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)
1621 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1651 - English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1655 - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1668 - Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina
1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1708 - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1716 - England & France sign treaty
1740 - Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28].
1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1794 - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1799 - Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000
           off Dutch coast.
1804 - Hobart Tasmania founded
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1817 - University of Gent officially opens
1818 - Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Ist Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.
1835 - The Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman
           Catholic Church.
1854 - The siege of Sebastopol begins (Crime war)
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 - Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by
           Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1865 - 1st US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1870 - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
1874 - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1876 - 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 - American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 - Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
1899 - 1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa
1899 - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1900 - 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 - 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1905 - Phila A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1909 - Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1910 - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd
           baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1914 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1915 - Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1915 - Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
1915 - Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in NYC
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a World Series game
1916 - Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1916 - Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1920 - 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1926 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1928 - Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris
1928 - NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
1928 - NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
1929 - G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres in NYC
1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 - St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou,
           Foreign Minister of France.
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1938 - A Copland & E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago
1938 - Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 - NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1944 - Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1944 - German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1944 - St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 - British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 - 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in NYC
1947 - 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1947 - Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in NYC for 727
           performances
1948 - WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 - 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
1951 - Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
1953 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 - Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1954 - KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1956 - 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1958 - Israeli navy inaugrates its 1st submarine
1958 - NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1958 - NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
1960 - Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
1961 - NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 - US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961 - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 - Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1961 - World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1962 - Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1962 - Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1963 - Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1963 - British premier Harold MacMillan resigns
1963 - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
1963 - French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
1963 - Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 - 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
1965 - Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 - Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1966 - Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It"
1968 - Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1968 - WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1971 - Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - "Dude" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
1973 - 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1973 - Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1973 - Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1973 - Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 - Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 - Race riot in Boston due to "bussing"
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden
           Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1975 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 - "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1976 - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1976 - Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1976 - Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1977 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 - Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1978 - 12th Country Music Association Award
1978 - John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in NYC
1979 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
1980 - 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1980 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1982 - Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
1983 - 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1985 - "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
1985 - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London
1986 - Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 - Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be
           removed from office through impeachment
1987 - Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
1988 - 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium
1988 - Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1989 - 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1989 - 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
1989 - Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands
1989 - 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on
           Monday Night Football
1990 - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1990 - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
1990 - Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1991 - "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 perfs
1991 - Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
1991 - San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 - Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New
           York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1994 - Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
1994 - Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany
1996 - Howard Stern's book "Miss America" released in paperback
1997 - ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1997 - Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 - NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 - NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
1997 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1999 - The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2009 - First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor
           Robotic Program.
2012 - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum
           optics

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Famous Weddings

1514 - King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)
1999 - "Pretty in Pink" actor Andrew McCarthy (36) weds Carol Schneider
2005 - "The O.C." writer and talk show host Regis Philbin's daughter Jennifer Joy Philbin (31) weds
           NBC comedy series "The Office" writer Michael Schur (32) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in
           New York City
2005 - Savage Garden musician Daniel Jones (32) weds "Hi-5" member Kathleen De Leon at Avica
           Weddings and Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland
2005 - Italian pop singer Alexia (38) weds Giorgio Armani's nephew Andrea Camerana at Church of
           San Martino in Piacenza, Italy
2011 - Musician Paul McCartney (69) weds New Yorker Nancy Shevell (51) in a civil ceremony at Old
           Marylebone Town Hall, London
2011 - TV personality Layla Kayleigh (22) weds Radio Talk Show Host/DJ Steve Covino (36) in Las
           Vegas, Nevada

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Famous Divorces

1973 - Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot