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This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Birthdays

                   
Chemist and Nobel Laureate                   Music Manager/TV Personality
Hermann Emil Fischer (1852)                      Sharon Osbourne (1952)


1201 - Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 - Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1586 - Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 - John Ferrabosco, composer
1663 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 - Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
1760 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1782 - Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1813 - John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 - Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1822 - George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1823 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers
1830 - Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
1847 - Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1919)
1858 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 - Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1878 - Robert Warwick, [Bien], Sacramento CA, actor (Falcon's Adventure)
1884 - Helene Deutsch, [Rosenbach], psychoanalyst (Boston)
1884 - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1886 - Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 - Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1888 - Irving Cummings Sr, NYC, silent screen star/director (Curly Top)
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1892 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 - Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex)
1893 - M de Andrade, writer
1899 - Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1900 - Alastair Sim, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1900 - Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904 - Carl Parrish, composer
1904 - J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman (KRO, 1938-45)
1904 - Wally Brown, Malden MA, actor (Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush)
1905 - Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1905 - Howard St John, Chicago IL, actor (Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner)
1906 - 13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner
1906 - Janis Ivanovs, composer
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 - Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime)
1908 - James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
1910 - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Edward Andrews, Griffin GA, actor (Tea & Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat)
1914 - Roger Goeb, composer
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1917 - Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 - E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 - Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 - Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
1920 - Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
1920 - Yusef Lateef, composer
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1922 - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 - Donald Sinden, England, actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba)
1923 - Ronald Tremain, composer
1924 - Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 - Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1927 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 - David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1930 - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 - Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1934 - Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician
1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 - Don[ald] McCullin, British photographer
1935 - Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent
1935 - Jules Croiset, Dutch actor (Help, Doctor Verzuipt!)
1935 - Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960's, century v South Africa)
1935 - Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage & Her Children)
1936 - Brian Blessed, Mexborough, Yorkshire, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1937 - Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1939 - O V Wright, rocker
1939 - Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines)
1940 - Gordon J Humphrey, (Sen-R-NH, 1979- )
1940 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
1940 - Joe Pepitone, baseball 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
1940 - John Winston Ono Lennon, Liverpool UK, musician and member of The Beatles (Imagine), (d.
           1980)
1941 - Trent Lott, (Rep-R-MS, 1973- )
1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span
1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1942 - Shukri Ghanem, Vienna Austria, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), (d. 2012)
1943 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1944 - John Entwistle, London, rock guitarist/vocalist (Who-Baba O'Riley)
1944 - Nona Hendrix, R & B singer (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles)
1945 - Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 - Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 - France Gall, French singer
1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 - Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1948 - Jackson Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love)
1949 - Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
1950 - Gary Frank, Spokane WA, actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon)
1950 - Mick Malone, cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14)
1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player
1951 - Richard Chaves, Jacksonville FL, actor (Cease Fire, Predator)
1951 - Robert Wuhl, Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, Brixton, South London, music manager, TV personality and wife of Ozzy
           Osbourne (X-Factor, America's Got Talent)
1953 - Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star
1953 - Tony Shalhoub, actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night)
1954 - Scott Bakula, St Louis MO, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown)
1955 - Linwood Boomer, Vancouver, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie)
1955 - Steve Ovett, England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
1957 - Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-18, TM-23)
1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1959 - Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 - Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 - Jean Sagal, Los Angeles California, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
1961 - Liz Sagal, Los Angeles California, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
1961 - Trevor Matich, NFL center/guard (Washington Redskins)
1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 - Martin Jaite, Argentina, tennis star
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1966 - Mike Williams, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 - David Cameron, British politician
1967 - Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress (Spring Fever)
1967 - Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player (Barcelona)
1967 - Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player (PSV)
1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 - Charles Jordan, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Dwayne Sabb, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1970 - Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women's Open)
1970 - Kenny Anderson, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers)
1970 - Oleg Kryazhev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1971 - Pete Mitchell, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1972 - Maurice Kelly, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Roman Oben, tackle (NY Giants)
1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 - A J Ofodile, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Alexey Trochshinskiy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 - Brandon Pollard, Richmond VA, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Dexter McCleon, cornerback (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 - Kavika Pittman, defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Keith Booth, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1974 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 - Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer (Guyanese leg-spinner)
1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Sean Ono Lennon, New York USA, John & Yoko's Son
1976 - Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1997)
1976 - Nick Swardson American actor
1977 - Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe (1997)
1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 - Randy Spelling, Los Angeles California, actor (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach)
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 - Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch NZ, breastroker (Olympics-96)
1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Ffotballer
1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, Denver CO, actor (Brad-Home Improvement)
1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 - Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 - Ghetto, British musician
1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Deaths

                   
Argentine Revolutionary                      Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1974)
Che Guevara (1967)


1047 - Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
1253 - Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1326 - Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
1390 - Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies
1423 - Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
1436 - Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35
1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 - Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio/Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist and early advocate for the use of
           condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1646 - Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1769 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1821 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece.
1837 - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1841 - Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1891 - Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
1897 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1906 - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1907 - Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1915 - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
1917 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1918 - Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 - J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 - King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist)
1937 - August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1937 - George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer/actress, dies of liver ailment at 41
1943 - Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
1943 - Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1949 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1955 - Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65
1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 - Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 - Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game
1962 - Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80
1963 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1967 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies
1967 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at
           39
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1970 - Jean Giono, writer, dies
1972 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72
1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 - Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1983 - Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 - Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1988 - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 - Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies
1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1990 - Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1991 - Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
1991 - Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 - C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1993 - Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
1994 - Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 - James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1994 - Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1994 - Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 - John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 - Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
1995 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
1996 - Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
1996 - Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
1996 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
1997 - Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 - Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 - Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2011 - Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper (b. 1989)
2012 - Harris Savides, American cinematographer., dies from brain cancer at 55

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th October


Historical Events

                                   
Vietnamese Communist                           Ex-soldier, drifter                                   Irish Poet and Playwright
Revolutionary                                           Lee Harvey Oswald                                        Brendan Behan
Ho Chi Minh

                 
264th Pope John Paul II                    Physician-scientist Robert Lefkowitz


680 - Al-Hussein and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way
         to Kufa
1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
1549 - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
1575 - Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the
           Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1578 - Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1631 - Saxon army occupies Prague
1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1720 - French government proclaims strike on banknotes
1733 - France declares war on emperor Charles VI
1760 - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1787 - Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1799 - Convention of Alkmaar: British/Russian invasion army departs
1802 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1839 - British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1846 - Alexis de Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1854 - US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1863 - Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 - John Hyatts patents billard ball
1868 - 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 - 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY
1888 - Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1889 - Barnard College is founded.
1892 - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1902 - S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
1904 - Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
1904 - Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner
           Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant
1904 - Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete
           games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1911 - The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
1913 - Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
1914 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1916 - In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series
           grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
1917 - Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
1918 - Baden's Geisz forms government
1919 - Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1920 - 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1920 - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
1920 - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
1920 - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
1923 - Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series,
           also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
1924 - Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1924 - Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
1926 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
1930 - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
1930 - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
1931 - A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
1931 - St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
1931 - William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
1932 - "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
1932 - Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1935 - "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere
1935 - Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1935 - League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1936 - Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
1937 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
1941 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1941 - RAF bombard Piraeus and prevent German heavy armor advancement
1942 - 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1943 - US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
1944 - Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
1944 - US takes Okinawa
1945 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1946 - Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich
1947 - "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1947 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
1948 - Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
1949 - 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
1956 - Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
1957 - Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1957 - Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is
           refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 - A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear
           accident.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1959 - Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1960 - "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
1960 - 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1960 - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1960 - WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
1961 - Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
1961 - Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1963 - Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
1963 - Netherland population hits 12,000,000
1963 - Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK and USSR
1963 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 - 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
1964 - 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1965 - "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
1965 - The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1965 - "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn
           about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1967 - Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin
1968 - Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
1968 - George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
1968 - Lee Evans of US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1971 - 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
1971 - 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
1971 - Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in NYC
1971 - Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1973 - NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
1974 - A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
1974 - Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 - US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1975 - Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1976 - Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1976 - Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he
           finishes in 7:33
1977 - 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
1978 - Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
1978 - British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
1978 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
1978 - Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978 - Steve Perry joins Journey
1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1979 - Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
1979 - Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1979 - Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1980 - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1980 - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1980 - Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
1982 - Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
1982 - Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at
           Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1982 - US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1983 - 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1983 - Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1983 - Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
1985 - Sudan adopts interim constitution
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in
           Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1986 - 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
1986 - Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1987 - Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
1987 - Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
1987 - Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
1988 - 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1988 - Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will
           return to manage the club in 1989
1990 - Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
1991 - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1991 - US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
1993 - Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
1993 - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
1994 - Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
1994 - MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 - NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
1994 - Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
1994 - Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
1995 - "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 - Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1995 - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
1995 - Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
1996 - "Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC
1996 - Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
2005 - Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties
           would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties
           lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the
           Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year.
2009 - After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols
           in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.
2012 - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G
           protein-coupled receptors

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This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Weddings

1975 - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1992 - Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
1992 - Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
1993 - Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
2010 - Actress and singer Alexa Vega (22) weds film producer Sean Covel (34) at the historical
           Homestake Opera House in South Dakota
2010 - Actor Dave Annable (31) weds actress Odette Yustman (25) at Twin Peaks Ranch in Ojai,
           California
2010 - American Idol Season 9 runner-up Crystal Bowersox (25) weds musician Brian Walker at the
           Uncommon Ground Cafe in Chicago
2010 - "Blossom" actress Jenna von Oy (33) weds Dell computer data consultant Brad Bratcher (39)
           in Newtown, Connecticut

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This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Divorces

2008 - Actor and comedian Chris Kattan (37) divorces model Sunshine Tutt (32) due to irreconcilable
          differences after 2 months of marriage

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This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813)           Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate                       Van Halen Rocker
                                                               Fridtjof Nansen (1861)                                   David Lee Roth (1954)


1344 - Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)
1486 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy
1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
1599 - Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)
1678 - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)
1684 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)
1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1713 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1731 - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1757 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist (lichens)
1779 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1790 - George Gerson, composer
1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1804 - Albin Masek, composer
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile -
           Rigoletto), (d. 1901)
1817 - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI
1819 - Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1825 - Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1829 - Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1830 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68)
1832 - Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1866
1834 - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
1847 - Gheorghe Dima, composer
1854 - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway, Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922),
           (d. 1930)
1862 - Arthur De Greef, composer
1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1865 - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
1868 - Guillermo M Tomas, composer
1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1876 - Walter Niemann, composer
1884 - C "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer (3 Tests for S Afr in Australia 1910-11)
1884 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint)
1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1887 - Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author
1889 - Han [Henricus A] Van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger (Vermeer)
1893 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician
1895 - Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days)
1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 - Lamar Stringfield, composer
1897 - Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian
1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 - Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
1901 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor
1903 - Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders/prince
1903 - Vernon Duke, composer
1905 - Jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)
1906 - Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)
1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1908 - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer
1908 - John Waldo Green, NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger)
1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
1909 - Florida Friebus, actress (Dobie Gillis' mom, Bob Newhart Show)
1909 - Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet
1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
1910 - Alan Frank, music publisher
1910 - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
1910 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1912 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist
1913 - Claude Simon, writer
1913 - Johnny Downs, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Manhattan Showcase)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Kaumeyer], NO LA, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio)
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker
1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - Benson Fong, Sacramento CA, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart)
1916 - Scott Huston, composer
1917 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night)
1917 - Thelonious Monk, Rocky Mount North Carolina, American jazz pianist and composer
1918 - Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader (Club Seven)
1918 - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast
1918 - Jigal Allon, Israeli politician
1919 - Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder)
1921 - "Boy" [FHP] Trip, Dutch minister
1922 - Boeli [Willem C] van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde)
1922 - Harry Cave, cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's)
1922 - Merv Pregulman, Lansing, Michigan, NFL Line backer (Green Bay Packers), (d. 2012)
1923 - Louis Gottlieb, musician
1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
1924 - Edward D Wood Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, director (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1924 - Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker (Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
1924 - James Clavell, England, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) [or 1920, 22, 26)
1924 - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome)
1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
1925 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher
1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
1926 - Oscar Brown Jr, US songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, NY, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1927 - Clairmonte Depeiaza, cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955)
1927 - John Eric Tieman, production manager (The Guardian)
1927 - Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer
1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)
1930 - Harold Pinter, London England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant)
1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
1930 - Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler (Greco-Roman Bantamweight Olympic Gold 1956), (d.
           2012)
1932 - Charles Dnaiels, archaeologist
1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
1933 - Daniel Massey, London, actress (Vault of Horror)
1933 - Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates)
1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1934 - Sadashiv Patil, cricketer (pace bowler in Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1935 - Paolo Renosto, composer
1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
1935 - Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
1935 - Dave Charnley, Dartford England, lightweight boxer (Dartford Destroyer), (d. 2012)
1936 - Art Dick, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of 60's)
1936 - Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess (Wish You Were Here)
1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
1937 - Bruce Devlin, Armidale Australia, PGA golfer (1964 St Petersburg Open)
1938 - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin)
1938 - Tobias A Roth, (Rep-R-Wisconsin, 1979- )
1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1939 - Joseph Pitts, American politician
1941 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist
1941 - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
1941 - Peter Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], New York City, New York, American actor
           (ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
1943 - Denis D'Ell, [Dennis Dalziel], rocker
1943 - Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan
1943 - Frederick Barthelme, American author
1944 - Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader
1944 - Renier S Schoeman, S Afr MP (NP)/journalist
1944 - Stephen Scott, composer
1945 - Alan Cartwright, rocker (Procul Harum)
1946 - Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
1946 - Charles Dance, Redditch, Worcestershire, English actor/director (Alien 3, Jewel in the Crown)
1946 - Franco Malerba, Genoa Italy, astronaut (STS 46)
1946 - John Prine, Maywood Ill, country singer (Hello in There)
1946 - Peter Mahvolich, NHL star (Mont Canadiens)
1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
1947 - Alan Rachins, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor (Douglas-LA Law)
1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1948 - Greg Lake, rocker
1948 - Rosemary Casals, SF California, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon) [or Sep 16]
1948 - Séverine, French singer
1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
1949 - Jessica Harper, Chicago IL, actress (Inserts, Stardust Memories)
1949 - Lance Cairns, cricketer (big-hitting NZ medium-pace bowler)
1950 - Dennis Holmes, actor (Mike-Laramie)
1950 - Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor/director (Mister Cactus, Passion)
1950 - Nora Roberts, American novelist
1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
1953 - Gus Williams, NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington)
1953 - Midge Ure, Glasgow Scot, rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1954 - "Maestro" Jimmy Fearnley, English accordionist (The Pogues)
1954 - David Lee Roth, Bloomington Indiana, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress
1954 - Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
1956 - Melissa Belote, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1972)
1956 - Mark Gordon, American film producer
1957 - Craig Marseilles, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Gold Coast)
1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
1958 - J Eddie Peck, Joplin Missouri, actor (Bold & Beautiful-Cole Howard)
1958 - John M Grunsfeld, Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut (STS 67, 81)
1958 - Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
1959 - Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin)
1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1960 - Eric Martin, rocker (Mr Big)
1961 - Brian Lee Diemer, Grand Rapids Mich, steeplechase (Olymp-bronze-1984)
1961 - Martin Kemp, London, rock bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress
1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
1962 - Rex J Walheim, Redwood City California, Capt USAF/astronaut
1963 - Mike Donnelly, Detroit, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1964 - Maxi Gnauck, German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, rock vocalist
1964 - Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
1965 - Brett Perriman, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1965 - Steve Scalise, American politician
1966 - Darren Carrington, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1966 - Derrick McKey, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Elana Meyer, [van Zyl], South Africa, runner (Olympics-silver-92)
1966 - Kevin Paige, vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out)
1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
1966 - Bai Ling, Chinese-born American actress (The Crow, Red Corner)
1967 - Frank Wainright, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Willie Davis, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Tennessee Oilers)
1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
1968 - James Williams, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, SF 49ers)
1968 - L B Williams, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Nancy Brookhart, Elmhurst Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-1994)
1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
1969 - Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Scott Anthony Murray Nelson, Geelong Australia, NZ 20k walker (Oly-96)
1970 - Glenn Foley, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1970 - Helen Louise Goldsby, Brooklyn NY, Miss America (NY-Top 10-1996)
1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
1970 - Corinna May, German singer
1970 - Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
1971 - Bryn Parry, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 BC Amateur-2nd)
1971 - Claus Dalpiaz, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Corey Louchiey, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Kiev Ukraine, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1972 - Hunter Goodwin, tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Marianne Limpert, Matagami Quebec, 200m relay swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1972 - Trent McCleary, Swift Current, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 - Yinka Dare, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1972 - Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
1973 - A J Ofodile, tight end (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Jeff Shantz, Duchess, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1973 - Jessica Shahriari, Miss USA-Arizona (1997)
1973 - John Mobley, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Mario Lopez, San Diego California, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell)
1973 - Zach Thornton, Balt Md, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman (Team Canada Oly-1998, St. Louis)
1974 - Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti
1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
1976 - Shane Doan, Eston, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
1978 - Autumn Waterbury, Miss Illinois Teen USA (2nd-1997)
1978 - Brandi Watkins, Miss Arkansas Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Jodi Lynn O'Keefe, Cliffwood Beach NJ, actress (Cassidy-Nash Bridges)
1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 - Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor
1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer
1981 - Michael Oliver, American actor
1982 - Eddie J Peck, Lynchburg Pa, actor (Sutton-Wildside)
1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
1984 - Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
1984 - Rod Benson, American basketball player
1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
1985 - Aaron Himelstein, American actor
1986 - Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 - Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model

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This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Actor Ralph Richardson (1983)                   Actor Orson Welles (1985)


413 BC - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
19 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Hussein ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
          beheaded
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1616 - Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60
1651 - Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77
1659 - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1676 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1727 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61
1745 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1789 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
1791 - C F D Schubart, writer, dies
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1797 - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49
1836 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61
1843 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
1858 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1864 - David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
1867 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1886 - David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
1889 - Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1910 - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
1914 - Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1931 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84
1935 - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1938 - Martin Bladen, cricketer (the 7th Lord Hawke), dies
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song
           (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1942 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1943 - Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish artist gassed at Auschwitz aged 26
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1959 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1964 - Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71
1964 - Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
1964 - Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1965 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66
1968 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71
1970 - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
1974 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73
1975 - Lillian Walker, dies at 88
1976 - Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1980 - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
1980 - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
1980 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
1990 - Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
1992 - James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78
1993 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46
1993 - Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
1994 - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
1994 - Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86
1994 - Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48
1994 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64
1994 - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
1995 - Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
1995 - Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
1995 - John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
1995 - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
1995 - Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
1996 - Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54
1996 - Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83
1996 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72
1996 - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
1997 - Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
2009 - Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
2010 - Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
2010 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2011 - Jagjit Singh, Indian Musician, Ghazal Maestro, Padma Bhusan awardee (b. 1941)
2012 - Alex Karras, American NFL player, dies from kidney failure at 77
2012 - Kyaw Zaw, Burmese politician and soldier, dies at 92

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This Day in History for 11th October


Historical Events

                                   
Soldier/Public Administrator                    Inventor Thomas Edison                           Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Meriwether Lewis

                                   
Theoretical Physicist                                  Chinese Communist                                262nd Pope John XXIII
Albert Einstein                                         Revolutionary and Politician
                                                                        Mao Tse-Tung

                                   
Country Singer Willie Nelson                  US President & Actor                         Basketball Player Dennis Rodman
                                                               Ronald Reagan


732 - Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria.
1521 - Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
1531 - Battle at Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic kantons beat protestant forces of Zurich
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed at the Battle at Kappel
1540 - Emperor Karel names his son Philip, Duke of Milan
1573 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading
           rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 - the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North
           Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1643 - Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists
1674 - Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris
1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
1698 - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1746 - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies
1776 - Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1797 - Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): English navy defeats Dutch fleet
1809 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious
           circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1861 - Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
1863 - Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
1864 - Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city.
1865 - Pres Johnson paroles Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens
1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant
           Bay rebellion.
1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1887 - A Miles patents elevator
1890 - 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded
1895 - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
1902 - 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY
1902 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia
1902 - Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
1906 - SF begins school for "Asians"
1906 - White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1906 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by
           ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1911 - Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
1913 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1914 - German troops occupy Gent
1915 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1918 - Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean
1919 - 1st transcontinental air race ends
1922 - 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1922 - Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
1923 - Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
1923 - German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
1925 - Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
1925 - NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
1927 - Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1929 - Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with
           stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1930 - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth
           consecutive year.
1931 - 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
1932 - 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1932 - Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party
1936 - "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres
1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1939 - Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
1939 - Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in NYC
1939 - NAACP organized Legal Defense & Education Fund
1941 - 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
1942 - -Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal
1943 - NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10
           World Series
1944 - Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
1944 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1945 - JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
1947 - Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
1948 - "Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances
1948 - "Where's Chartev?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances
1948 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television
           in color, to CBS
1954 - "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
1955 - All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
1955 - Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
1956 - 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved
           by the other AL owners
1958 - "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
1958 - 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1959 - KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test
1962 - 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1962 - 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, & Rico Petrocelli) by
           Red Sox
1967 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 - Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 - Panama revolts
1969 - -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod
1969 - Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1969 - Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 - 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1971 - Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1971 - Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
1972 - Panama adopts constitution
1972 - Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1972 - Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
1973 - Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
1974 - A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1975 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
1975 - Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
1976 - 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 - Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1978 - Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
1979 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
1979 - German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for
           developing CAT scan
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1980 - Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1981 - Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
1981 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 - LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 - Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
1982 - 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg
1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at
           Portsmouth, England
1982 - Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant
           Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 - 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1984 - August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in NYC
1984 - NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 - VP candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) & George H W Bush (R)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1986 - Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 - "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1990 - Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1991 - Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
1991 - Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
1991 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
1992 - 1st 3-way US presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
1992 - Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
1992 - Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
1993 - Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
1993 - US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
1994 - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1994 - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
1995 - John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
1995 - O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
1996 - Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1997 - Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the
           Congo, killing 40 people.
2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
2012 - A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
2012 - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung
2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

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This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Weddings

1948 - Fellow students Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart marry (divorced 1955)
1975 - future US President Bill Clinton weds later Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
1997 - "Charlie's Angels" actress Jaclyn Smith (52) weds Chicago heart surgeon Bradley Allen (43) at
           United Westwood Methodist Church
2003 - American Pie star Alyson Hannigan (29) weds Angel's Alexis Denisof (37) at the Two Bunch
           Palms Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, California
2003 - "The West Wing" actress Annabeth Gish (32) weds former "The X-Files" stunt man Wade
           Allen at The Sea Ranch Lodge
2009 - "Mad Men" vixen Christina Hendricks (37) weds actor Geoffrey Arend (34) at the couple's
           favorite Il Buco restaurant in New York City

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This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Founder of Heinz                                                  US First Lady                             Actor Luke Perry (1966)
Henry John Heinz (1844)                            Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)


1335 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
1573 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer
1593 - Claes P "Nicolaas" Tulip, anatomy/mayor of Amsterdam (1654..71)
1611 - Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome
1616 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect (Anti-Lucretius)
1671 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730)
1671 - Richard Moungler (d. 1730)
1672 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
1675 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1738 - Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales
1747 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
1758 - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta)
1768 - Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar/educationalist
1782 - Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
1786 - Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
1788 - Simon Sechter, composer
1803 - Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen)
1806 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58)
1809 - Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
1814 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people
1820 - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1821 - George Williams, England, founder YMCA
1825 - C F Meyer, writer
1825 - Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1835 - Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1841 - Freidrich Hegar, composer
1844 - Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57
           varieties), (d. 1919)
1863 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
1865 - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Mot Karnaval)
1869 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
1871 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943)
1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
1875 - Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet (Beautiful Irine)
1876 - G von Le Fort, writer
1877 - John Parsons Beach, composer
1881 - Stark Young, US critic/writer (So Red the Rose)
1881 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
1882 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer
1882 - Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg)
1883 - Archibald T Davison, composer
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], New York, 1st lady (1933-1945)/crusader (Nobel 1931), (d. 1962)
1884 - Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel)
1884 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
1884 - Sig Ruman, [Siegfried Rumann], Hamburg Germany
1885 - Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician
1885 - Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
1891 - Antonius [Jacob LT] van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, Antillian Bishop
1894 - Albert Stoessel, composer
1895 - H Schiebelhuth, writer
1896 - Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
1897 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer
1897 - George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1897 - Nathan F Twining, USAF general (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
1897 - Russell Collins, New Orleans LA
1899 - A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E South African fast bowler)
1899 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1900 - Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
1901 - Emil Hlobil, composer
1902 - Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
1902 - Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
1905 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
1906 - Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
1908 - Armen Carapetyan, composer
1910 - Eugene John Weigel, composer
1910 - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier
1910 - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1913 - J J Pickle, (Rep-D-TX, 1963- )
1914 - Edward J Day, US Postmaster General (1961)
1917 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
1918 - Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)
1919 - Art Blakey, Pitts PA, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers)
1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1924 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
1925 - Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up)
1926 - Earle Hyman, NC, actor (Russell-Cosby, Coriolanus)
1926 - John Dewes, cricketer (England opener late 40's early 50's)
1926 - Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
1927 - Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
1930 - Bill Fischer, baseball player
1930 - Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
1930 - Sam Johnson, San Antonio, Texas, American politician (Rep-R-Texas)
1931 - Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (d. 2000)
1932 - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1935 - Jan van Vlijmen, composer
1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
1937 - Bobby Charlton, English soccer player
1937 - Georgi Vladimirovich Machinski, cosmonaut
1937 - R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
1939 - Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers)
1939 - Maria Bueno, Sao Paulo Brazil, tennis player (Wimbledon 1959)
1939 - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer
1941 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
1941 - Charles Shyer, American film director
1942 - Amitabh Bachan, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Indian actor and film producer (Deewar)
1942 - Malvin Whitfield, Bay City Tx, track star (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-48, 52)
1942 - Victor H Fazio, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
1943 - Frank Muyser, Dutch guitarist/saxophonist (Les Baroques)
1943 - Gene Watson, Palestine Tx, country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
1943 - Keith Boyce, St Peter, Barbados, cricketer (big-hitting WI all-rounder of 70's)
1943 - Per-Gunnar Alldahl, composer
1944 - Rodney Marsh, athlete
1944 - Mike Fiore, American baseball player
1946 - Felton Perry, actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death)
1946 - Gary Mallaber, Buffalo NY, rocker (Steve Miller Band-Abracadbra)
1946 - Sawao Kato, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1946 - Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
1947 - Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
1947 - Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
1948 - Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
1949 - Bobby Jones, baseball player
1949 - Greg Douglas, Oakland California, American rock guitarist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-
           Abracadabra)
1950 - Amos Gitai, actor (Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder)
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1950 - Catlin Adams, Los Angeles California, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
1950 - Patty Murry, (Sen-D Washington)
1950 - Thomas J Tauke, (Rep-R-IA, 1979- )
1951 - Wesley Magoogan, rocker
1953 - David Morse, Beverly Mass, actor (St Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves)
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedian and TV actress (Supergrass, French & Saunders, The Vicar of
           Dibley)
1957 - Blair Cunningham, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Haircut 100)
1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummer (Culture Club)
1957 - Paul Bown, English actor
1957 - Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
1959 - Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
1959 - Michiel Schapers, Netherlands, tennis star
1960 - Curt Ford, baseball player
1960 - Joe Nash, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1961 - Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92)
1961 - Neil Buchanan, English television presenter
1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
1962 - Eric Johnson, Seaside OR, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Louisiana Open-3rd)
1962 - Joan Cusack, Evanston Illinois, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values)
1962 - Leslie Landon, Los Angeles California, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
1962 - Martin Bayless, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Philip Newport, cricketer (England pace bowler in 3 Tests 1988-91)
1962 - Nicola Bryant, English actress
1963 - Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
1964 - Michael J. Nelson, American actor
1965 - Chris Spielman, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Young Indiana Jones, Powder)
1965 - Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einstürzende Neubauten)
1966 - Gregg Olson, Omaha NE, pitcher (Balt Orioles, Detroit Tigers)
1966 - Luke Perry, Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
1966 - Shawn Chambers, Royal Oaks MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NJ Devils)
1966 - Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
1967 - Bruce Dickson, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - Charles Ogletree, Greenville NC, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
1967 - Dennis Vaske, Rockford, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1967 - John Lovell, Baton Rouge LA, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
1967 - Rob Selby, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Sean Moynihan, Burlington Vt, actor (Powell-One Life to Live)
1967 - Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer
1967 - Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
1967 - David Starr, American race car driver
1967 - Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
1968 - Amy Louise Taylor, [Kallested], actress (Silent Night Deadly Night 5)
1968 - Claude Lapointe, Lachine, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Cynthia Johnston, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress
1969 - Cal Dixon, NFL center/guard (NY Jets)
1969 - Mike Kerr, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Prince Constantijn, CF Aschwin, of Netherlands
1969 - Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy(5-time all-around world champion)
1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Kelly Sims, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Nicole Jeray, Cook County IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Champ-22nd)
1970 - Andy Marriott, English footballer
1970 - Constance Zimmer, American actress
1971 - Chann McRae, Albany Ga, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Natalie Jay, Hendon England, actress (Baywatch)
1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
1972 - Brigitte Soucy, Moncton New Brunswick,volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Cherokee Parks, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minn Timberwolves)
1972 - Kyoko Ina, Tokyo Japan, figure skater (1993 North Atlantic Sr champ)
1972 - Troy Corbett, cricket pace bowler (Victorian lefty since 1994-95)
1972 - Claudia Black, Australian actress
1973 - Sharon Dominguez, Miss Belize Universe (1997)
1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model
1973 - Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
1973 - Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
1974 - Jason Arnott, Collingwood Ontario, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
1975 - Zach Conrad, Ft Collins Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
1976 - Brent Bennett, American mercenary
1977 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
1977 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
1977 - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
1978 - Kali, Angolan footballer
1979 - Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
1979 - Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown)
1980 - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
1981 - Beau Brady, Australian Actor
1983 - William Sledd, American internet personality
1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
1984 - Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
1984 - Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
1987 - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
1989 - Henry Lau, member of Korean Boy Band Super Junior M
1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer
1992 - Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant

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This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Soldier/Public Administrator                    Singer Edith Piaf (1963) 
Meriwether Lewis (1809)


732 - Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies
965 - Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne/duke of Lutheran, dies at about 40
1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
1303 - Boniface VIII, [Benedetto Gaetani], lawyer/pope (1294-1303), dies
1347 - Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies
1424 - Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies
1598 - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies
1617 - Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62
1666 - Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies
1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, dies at 42
1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
1779 - Casimir Pułaski, Polish born fighter for American independence (b. 1745) dies in Battle of
           Savannah
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1812 - Jurriaan F de Frederici, Dutch governor-gen (Suriname), dies at 60
1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
1837 - Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
1839 - Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88
1850 - Louisa Maria, queen of Belgium (1832-50)/wife of Leopold I, dies at 38
1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1897 - Leon Boelmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35
1917 - Harry Trott, cricketer (Aust capt played 24 Tests 1888-1898), dies
1925 - Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71
1933 - Josef Hofmiller, writer, dies
1935 - Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies
1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1942 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer, dies at 64
1958 - J R Becher, writer, dies at 67
1959 - Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
1960 - Richard Cromwell, actor (Jezebel, Riot Squad), dies of cancer at 50
1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer (No, I don't regret anything), dies at 47
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73
1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
1970 - Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83
1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
1976 - Connie Boswell, actress (Artists & Models), dies at 68
1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
1977 - Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66
1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
1978 - Nancy Spungen, killed by boyfriend Six Vicious in NYC
1984 - Khanderao M Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies
1984 - Sid Carroll, cricketer (prolific NSW opener 1945-59 avg 39 59), dies
1985 - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1986 - Norm Cash, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51
1988 - Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55
1988 - Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90
1988 - Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48
1989 - Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53
1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1990 - Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondent, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1992 - Theo Wolvencamp, painter (Cobra), dies
1992 - Willem RJ Wittkampf, journalist/writer (Liner, Cannon), dies
1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1994 - Maja Bulgakova, Ukranian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
1994 - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66
1996 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80
1996 - Edith Tilton Penrose, economist, dies at 81
1996 - Johnny Costa, jazz pianist (Mr Rogers), dies at 74
1996 - Keith Boyce, cricketer (West Indies all-rounder 1969-76), dies of chronic cirrhosis of the liver
           at 53
1996 - Terry Patchett, politician, dies at 56
1996 - William Vickrey, economist, dies at 82
1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family
           didn't mourn - mostly dead also. (b. ?1880)
2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
2007 - David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War Two fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b.
           1915)
2008 - Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (b. 1950)
2009 - Veronika Neugebauer, German actress and voice actress (b. 1969)
2012 - John Junior "Champ" Summers, American MLB player, dies from kidney cancer at 66

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This Day in History for 12th October


Historical Events

                                   
Founder of Protestanism                         Naturalist Charles Darwin                             26th US President
Martin Luther                                                                                                              Theodore Roosevelt

                                   
37th US President                                        First Secretary of the                        38th US President Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon                                       Communist Party of the Soviet
                                                                   Union Nikita Khrushchev

                 
Musician Sid Vicious                              Queen of the United Kingdom
                                                                         Elizabeth II


539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
638 - Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
642 - John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1165 - Rambam reaches Jerusalem
1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps
           near Sutton Bridge
1279 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-
           Gohonzon
1285 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
1366 - King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues
1398 - the Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the
           Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1459 - Battle at Ludford Bridge: Richard of York defeated
1492 - Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders
1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island he names San Salvador
           (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia (OS 21 Oct)
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament
1509 - Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy
1518 - Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
1549 - John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier
1576 - Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as Holy Roman Emperor
1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1654 - The Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than
           100.
1659 - English Rump-government fires John Lambert & other generals
1692 - Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials
1702 - Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French
           squadron
1711 - Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor
1729 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland
1730 - Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1775 - US Navy forms
1776 - British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1798 - Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
1798 - Friedrich von Schillers "Wallensteins Lager," premieres in Weimar
1815 - Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death
1822 - 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1833 - Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
1836 - 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater NY
1850 - 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1853 - John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug
           Morrissey's fans
1854 - Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute
1860 - British & French troops capture Beijing
1861 - Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
1862 - JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
1862 - Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
1862 - Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
1871 - Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1872 - Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie
1879 - British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
1881 - Henry M Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1886 - Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain" (BG)
1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1892 - US Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools during Columbus Day
1898 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
1899 - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1903 - Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St NYC
1907 - Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
1913 - John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series
           lose, Robertson blames McGraw & is fired
1914 - 1st battle at Ypres, begins
1915 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1915 - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
1916 - Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series
1917 - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale
1918 - Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people
1920 - Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
1920 - Man O'War's last race & win
1920 - Soccer team Quick '20 forms
1923 - NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
1924 - Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1925 - Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8 )
1925 - German-Russian trade agreement signed
1927 - Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his
           feet
1928 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1929 - Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning
1931 - 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform
1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1933 - John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail
1935 - Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC
1941 - Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1942 - Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
1942 - US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1943 - US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
1944 - German army retreats from Athens
1948 - Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
1950 - "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances
1952 - Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons
1952 - KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - US & Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)
1955 - -13] Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti
1956 - Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
1957 - "Mask & Gown" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances
1957 - "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 62 perfs
1957 - 1st coml flight between California & Antartica
1957 - Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1958 - CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 - WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the
           party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 - JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera
           was rolling at that time.
1961 - "Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
1962 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities;
           46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1963 - "Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 16 performances
1963 - Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1963 - At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
1964 - 1st time 3 people in space
1964 - KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, CA (PBS) begins
1964 - Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)
1964 - Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts
1964 - WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin
1964 - WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell
1967 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals
           a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 perfs
1968 - 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 - Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain
1968 - Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
1969 - 1st time 5 people in space
1969 - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
1969 - KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, CA (IND) begins
1969 - Soyuz 7 is launched
1970 - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
1971 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 perfs
1972 - "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances
1972 - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1972 - Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
1972 - Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1973 - Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria
1973 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1974 - 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
1975 - Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1975 - Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19)
1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-195
1976 - 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
1976 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1977 - "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
1977 - 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
1977 - US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of
1977 - Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
1978 - Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
1978 - Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen
1979 - Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg),
           occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1980 - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 perfs
1980 - 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 - "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances
1981 - 15th Country Music Association Award:
1982 - 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)
1982 - Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits
1983 - 5225 Loral & 5424 Covington
1984 - IRA bombs hotel where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
1985 - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
1986 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's
           Republic of China
1987 - 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins
1987 - George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
1987 - Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
1987 - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1988 - George W H Bush & Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate
1988 - Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
1989 - Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
1989 - Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex
1991 - Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
1991 - Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
1991 - Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
1991 - Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-
           38 in overtime
1992 - 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
1992 - Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets
1992 - Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title
1992 - Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
1992 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)
1992 - Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)
1992 - Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
1993 - "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1994 - Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
1994 - Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan & Teheran: 66 killed
1995 - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 perfs
1997 - David Duval wins Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Golf Club
1997 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship
1997 - Transamerica Senior Golf
1997 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
1999 - Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew
           members and wounding at least 39
2002 - Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly
           foreign tourists
2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè
           Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
2012 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust
           Islamist militants in northern Mali
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Weddings

1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of
           the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-         
           Hildburghausen.
1822 - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher
1991 - Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw
1997 - "Malcom X" actress Angela Bassett (39) weds actor Courtney B. Vance (38) in Los Angeles
2003 - Actor Danny Nucci (35) weds actress Paula Marshall (39) in Los Angeles
2012 - Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham (50) weds fitness model Audrey Murdick (32) at the
           Sunstone Vineyards in Santa Ynez, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Operatic Tenor                                        Actor Hugh Jackman (1968)               Track and Field Athlete/Drug Cheat
Luciano Pavarotti (1935)                                                                                                Marion Jones (1975)


1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
1350 - Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)
1490 - Bernardo Pisano, composer
1537 - Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)
1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
1576 - Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)
1602 - William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644)
1686 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer
1710 - Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and statesman (d. 1785)
1712 - William Shippen, American physician and statesman (d. 1801)
1725 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
1742 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor
1759 - Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
1762 - John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811
1763 - John Ross, composer
1792 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
1798 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Kaiser of Brazil (1822-31)/king of Portugal
1798 - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49)
1801 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873)
1807 - John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist
1808 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer
1813 - Lyman Trumbull, MC (Union) died in 1896
1815 - William Joseph Hardee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1873
1822 - Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1832 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin)
1840 - Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian
1844 - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
1845 - Amintore Galli, composer
1855 - Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklos Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1855 - August Sauer, Austria literature historian (Euphorion)
1855 - Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat) [or 9/12]
1860 - Elmer A Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass)
1865 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1866 - Antonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer
1866 - James Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35)
1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
1874 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942)
1875 - Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, (75 pseudonames), British occultist
1878 - Karl Buresch, Austria politician
1880 - Healey Willan, composer
1880 - Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913)
1881 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer
1881 - William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong)
1882 - Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer
1884 - Godfrey Tearle, English/US actor (39 Steps)
1886 - Karl Dane, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Son of the Sheik)
1887 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
1890 - Luis de Freitas Branco, composer
1891 - Edith Stein, German philosopher
1892 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
1893 - Pall Isolfsson, composer
1893 - Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
1894 - Charles Hodge, California, NYU professor (Answers for Americans)
1894 - Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid of Dutch queen
1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975)
1902 - Dirk A M Binnendijk, critic (Authoritarian Regimes in Transistion)
1903 - Grayson Kirk, Jeffersonville Ohio, educator
1904 - Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
1904 - Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959)
1905 - Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1906 - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer
1906 - Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)
1906 - Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar
1907 - Wolfgang Fortner, composer
1908 - Ann Lane Petry, US journalist/author (Street)
1908 - Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991)
1909 - Josephine Hutchinson, Seattle WA, actress (Story of Louis Pasteur)
1909 - Zellig S Harris, US linguist
1910 - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
1910 - Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
1911 - Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78)
1911 - Vijay Merchant, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman)
1913 - William James Moyce, armaments scientist
1916 - Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
1917 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train)
1918 - Emil Cossetto, composer
1919 - Andre Casanova, composer
1919 - Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
1920 - Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)
1920 - Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
1921 - Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
1923 - Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, nutritionist founder (Weight Watchers)
1923 - Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
1924 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
1925 - Bill Parkhouse, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1950-59)
1925 - Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier (court jester of beliefs)
1925 - Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer/guitarist
1925 - William Steinkraus, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 sil/br-52/56/60/64/68/72)
1925 - Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008)
1926 - Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy)
1927 - Antonia Rey, Havana Cuba, actress (True Colors, Wise Guys)
1928 - Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)
1928 - Al Held, US, painter/sculptor (hard edge-style)
1929 - Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973)
1929 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007)
1930 - Jack S Gottlieb, composer
1931 - Raoul Pleskow, composer
1932 - Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet)
1932 - Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird)
1932 - Jake Edwin Garn, (Sen-R-Utah, 1974- )/astronaut (STS 51D)
1932 - Mayer Joel Mandelbaum, composer
1932 - Ned Jarrett, Conover, North Carolina, American race car driver and announcer (50 Grand
           National victories)
1933 - Broos van Erp, Dutch MP (VVD)
1933 - Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004)
1934 - Richard Meier, American architect
1934 - Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Modena Italy, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors), (d. 2007)
1935 - Sam Moore, Miami Fl, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister)
1935 - William Raspberry, Okolona, Mississippi, columnist (Pulitzer 1994), (d. 2012)
1936 - Tony Kubek, shortstop (NY Yankees)/sportscaster (NBC-TV, Madison Square Garden)
1937 - Robert Mangold, American artist
1938 - Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster
1939 - Carolee Schneemann, Fox Chase Pennsylvania, American performance artist
1941 - Craig A Washington, (Rep-D-Texas)
1941 - Michael Mansfield, English barrister
1942 - Daliah Lavi, Shavel Zion Israel, actress (Casino Royalle, Lord Jim)
1942 - Melvin Franklin, Montgomery Alabama, rocker (Temptations)
1944 - Angela Rippon, British television personality
1945 - Aurore Clément, French actress
1946 - Ashok Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78)
1947 - Chris Wallace, Chicago Illinois, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
1947 - George Lam, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Rick Parfitt, Surrey England, pop guitarist/singer (Status Quo-Wanderer)
1949 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Venezuelan international terrorist
1949 - Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
1950 - Susan Anton, Oak Glen California, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
1950 - Robin Askwith, English actor
1950 - Dave Freudenthal, American politician
1950 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
1951 - Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton)
1951 - Ed Royce, American politician (Rep-R-California)
1951 - Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore)
1952 - Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress
1953 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
1954 - Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer (Evening Rush Hour)
1955 - Pat Dinizio, rock vocalist (Smithereens)
1955 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
1955 - Jane Siberry, Canadian musician
1956 - David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned)
1957 - Kristen Bjorn, British film director
1958 - Jeff Keith, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1958 - Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
1959 - Abigail Kingsley Alling, NYC, executive (Biosphere 2)
1959 - Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
1960 - Lionel Washington, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 - Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham AL, PGA golfer (1994 Sprint)
1962 - Dhammika Ranatunga, cricketer (bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan batsman 1990)
1962 - Sid Fernandez, Honolulu Hawaii, pitcher (NY Mets, Philadelphia Phillies)
1962 - Carlos Bernard, American actor
1962 - Chris Botti, American jazz musician
1962 - Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President
1963 - Michael Zordich, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 - Randy Wood, Princeton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Lane Frost, American professional bull rider, (d. 1989)
1963 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
1963 - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer, (d. 2012)
1964 - Darrick Heath, Hempstead NY, team handball left back (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Fanie De Villers, cricketer (great South African pace bowler 1993- )
1964 - Jo Ann Willette, actress (Constance-Just 10 of Us, Real Genius)
1965 - Chris Chandler, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - J Daigneault, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1965 - Larry Silveira, Walnut Creek CA, Nike golfer (NIKE Knoxville Open-2nd)
1965 - Todd Krygier, Chicago Heights, NHL left wing (Anaheim, Washington)
1965 - Scott O'Grady, American military officer
1966 - Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Wim Jonk, Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1966 - Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
1967 - Becky Iverson, Escanaba MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic)
1968 - Adam Rich, NYC, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy)
1968 - Charles Anthony, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - Leon Lett, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Mike Trombley, Springfield MA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real Steel)
1969 - Alison Peek, Australia, field hockey halfback/midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 - Dave Chaytors, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 - David Collins, Bethpage NY, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1969 - Jose Valentin, Manati Puerto Rico, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Kimberly Ann Grimm, Mt Lake Park Md, Miss Maryland-America (1991)
1969 - Nancy Ann Kerrigan, Woburn Mass, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994)
1969 - Terry Ray, NFL strong safety (NE Patriots)
1969 - Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1970 - Amy Beth Keller, Great Bend Kansas, Miss America (Kansas-Top 10-1996)
1970 - Charlie Ward, NBA guard (NY Knicks)/Heisman Trophy winner (1993)
1970 - Herman Arvie, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1970 - Karen Courtland, Orange NJ, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Kimberly Hoskins, Yuma Arizona, Miss Arizona-America (1991)
1970 - Kirk Cameron, Panorama City California, actor (Mike-Growing Pains)
1970 - Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player
1971 - Bronzel Miller, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Pavol Rybar, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer
1971 - Tony Fiore, American baseball player
1972 - Jeroen Egge, WLAF offensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Neriah Davis, Los Angeles CA, playmate (Mar, 1994)
1972 - Singor Mobley, safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Tom van Mol, soccer player (PSV)
1972 - Irina Pantaeva, Russian supermodel and actress
1972 - Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Tom Van Mol, Belgian football player
1973 - Rodney Mack, professional wrestler
1974 - Karmyn Tyler, Shreveport Louisiana, Miss America-Louisiana (1996)
1974 - Miroslav Satan, Topolcany CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Edmonton)
1974 - Rachyl Hoskins, Miss USA-Kentucky (1997)
1974 - Stephen Lee, English snooker player
1974 - Marie Wilson, Canadian actress
1975 - Scott Von Der Ahe, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1975 - Marion Jones, Los Angeles, California, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited Olympic
           medals)
1976 - Sarah Lane, American television personality
1977 - Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe (1997)
1977 - Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
1977 - Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
1977 - Jay Jenkins, American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy"
1978 - Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
1979 - Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)
1981 - Shola Ameobi, English footballer
1981 - Tom Guiry, American actor
1981 - Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer
1981 - Sneha, Indian actress
1982 - Molly Bennett, Irish singer
1983 - Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
1985 - Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
1986 - Sergio Peter, German footballer
1990 - Henri Lansbury, English footballer
1992 - Taylor Horn, American singer and actress
1992 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
1997 - Prince Boris of Bulgaria

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Deaths

                   
English Social Reformer                    Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1870)
Elizabeth Fry (1845)


632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies
642 - John IV, Dalmatian born Pope (640-42), dies
642 - Pope John IV
1093 - Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62
1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1320 - Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies
1343 - Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies
1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1564-76), dies
1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1646 - Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies
1654 - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66
1654 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, is injured in the Delft Explosion and later dies of his
           injuries
1672 - Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle
1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1685 - Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59
1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
1692 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60
1694 - Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1730 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies
1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1791 - A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68
1794 - James Lyon, composer, dies at 59
1797 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84
1817 - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66
1820 - Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36
1829 - Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73
1837 - Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62
1844 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 - Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1860 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
1864 - Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87
1865 - William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53
1870 - Robert E. Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1915 - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
1922 - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
1923 - A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
1924 - Anatole France, writer, dies at 80
1924 - Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
1934 - Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer dies aged 82
1936 - B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies
1938 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (9 Tests for Australia 1881-85, capt), dies
1940 - Tom Mix, US actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60
1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
1945 - Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida
1946 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China), dies
1947 - Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42
1948 - Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80
1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
1951 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62
1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1958 - Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30
1958 - Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59
1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1959 - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1964 - J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1966 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72
1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1969 - Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies
1969 - Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), dies at 57
1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
1971 - Dean G Acheson, US foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78
1971 - Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36
1974 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81
1979 - Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (Man of a Thousand Faces), dies from natural causes
           at 82
1982 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73
1983 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985 - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
1985 - Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32
1987 - Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100
1987 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77
1988 - Ken Murray, actor (Bill & Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85
1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
1989 - Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
1989 - Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), dies at 69 of kidney cancer
1990 - Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
1990 - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1991 - Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89
1991 - Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75
1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
1992 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor/writer (Farce Major), dies
1992 - John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love & War), dies of a heart attack at 51
1992 - Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident
1993 - Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke
1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
1995 - Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
1996 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86
1996 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (Midsex & Eng open bat 11 Tests), dies at 79
1996 - Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79
1996 - Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75
1996 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84
1997 - John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53
1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)
2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
2008 - Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
2009 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
2009 - Dickie Peterson American musician (b. 1948)
2010 - Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
2010 - Belva Plain, American novelist (b. 1919)
2011 - Heinz Bennent, German actor (b. 1921)
2011 - Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2011 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)