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This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Weddings

1965 - Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC
1986 - Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
1992 - Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
2004 - Actor Marlon Brando's son Christian Brando (46) weds Deborah Presley at The Little White
           Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
2011 - Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27)
           at a private ranch in Malibu, California

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This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Divorces

1924 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red)
           Upshaw

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Lexicographer Noah Webster (1758)      Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1854)                 First Israeli Prime Minister
                                                                                                                              David Ben-Gurion (1886)

                     
Irish Nationalist Leader                          Actress Angela Lansbury (1925)
Michael Collins (1890)


1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1605 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1708 - Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
1723 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
1729 - Pierre van Maldere, composer
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
1758 - Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut,lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)
1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12)
           (d. 1816)
1765 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
1811 - Gaetano Capocci, composer
1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1816 - William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1825 - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1826 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
1830 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliography
1832 - George Crockett Strong, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat
1837 - John Francis Barnett, composer
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1849 - Arnold Krug, composer
1849 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
1851 - James Ten Eyck, champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
1854 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1854 - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900)
1855 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1866 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (Troffel & Sword)
1868 - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
1870 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist
1878 - Carlos Pedrell, composer
1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1883 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1885 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner (Olympic-DQ gold-1908)
1886 - Armin T Wegner, writer
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
1890 - Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1890 - Michael Collins, Sam's Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader
1896 - Edmond van Dooren, Flemish painter
1897 - Harrison Kerr, composer
1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
1898 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
1898 - William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
1900 - Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank)
1900 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1903 - Mario Pilati, composer
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
1904 - Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)
1905 - Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns)/lt-gov (Nevada)
1905 - Wild Bill Elliott, Pattonsburg MO, actor (Beyond the Sacramento)
1906 - Dino Buzzati, writer
1906 - George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
1907 - Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir)
1908 - Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1910 - William Leonard Reed, composer
1913 - Alice Pearce, NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1913 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1914 - Christian J Modeste, gypsey king
1916 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
1918 - Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
1921 - Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
1921 - Matt Batts, San Anttonio, TX, MLB catcher (Red Sox), (d. 2013)
1922 - Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
1922 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger)
1923 - Linda Darnell, Dallas, Texas, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
1925 - Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1925 - Daniel J Evans, (Sen-R-WA, 1983- )
1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
1927 - Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1927 - Lee Montague, London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
1927 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
1929 - Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )
1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 - Charles W Colson, Boston Massachusetts, presidential adviser (Watergate figure), (d. 2012)
1931 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
1932 - Henry Jay Lewis, Los Angeles California, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1932 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
1935 - Sugar Pie DeSanto, US singer (Soulful dress)
1936 - Gerardo Gandini, composer
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
1937 - Emile Ford, rocker
1937 - Tony Anthony, Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
1940 - Barry Corbin, actor (Maurice-Northern Exposure)
1940 - Dave DeBusschere, Detroit, NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner
1941 - Derek David Bourgeois, composer
1941 - Erkki Jokinen, composer
1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball catcher (Phils, Mets)/sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1942 - Dave Lovelady, rocker
1943 - C Fred Turner, rock bassist/vocalist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1944 - Bob Cottam, cricketer (England fast-medium on 2 India/Pakistan tours)
1944 - Johnny Washbrook, Toronto, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka)
1945 - Paul Monette, writer
1946 - Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
1947 - Bob Weir, SF California, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
1947 - David Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret)
1948 - Michael Tylo, Detroit, actor (Guiding Light, Blade-Young & Restless)
1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
1948 - Hema Malini, Indian Actress
1951 - Alan Wheat, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1983- )
1951 - Daniel Gerroll, London, actor (Big Business)
1952 - Christopher Cox, (Rep-R-California)
1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
1953 - Martha Smith, Cleve Ohio, actress (Animal House)/playmate (July 1973)
1953 - Susan Pedersen, US, 4 X 100m medley swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1953 - Tony Carey, Fresno Ca, rocker
1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
1955 - Ellen Dolan, Monticello IO, actress (Guiding Light, Margo Hughes-ATWT)
1956 - James H Newman, Trust Territory of Pacific, PhD/Astronaut (STS 51, 69)
1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
1958 - Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption)
1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
1959 - Gary Kemp, London, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
1960 - Val Skinner, Hamilton MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Championship)
1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
1961 - Billy Taylor, Monticello FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1961 - Chris Doleman, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1961 - Wilfried Brookhuis, soccer player (NEC)
1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
1962 - Flea, [Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Laura Coenen, Neenah Wisc, team handball goalie (Olymp-1988, 92, 96)
1962 - Manute Bol, NBA center (Golden State Warriors)
1962 - Tamara McKinney, Lexington KY, slalom skier (Olympic-4th-1984)
1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
1963 - Missy Hyatt, Atlanta Ga, wrestling manager (WCW, ECW)
1964 - Kay Cockerill, San Jose CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic-32nd)
1965 - German Titov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (Calgary Flames, Oly-Silver-1998)
1965 - Lisa Bonder, Columbus Ohio, tennis star
1966 - Donovan Right, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 - Gerhard Puschnik, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Joe Murphy, London, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1967 - Michael York, Australian field hockey fullback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
1968 - Randall Batinkoff, actor (For Keeps)
1968 - Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman (Holland 1996 World Cup)
1968 - Scott Donie, Vicenza Italy, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 - Darren McKenzie-Potter, Auckland NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Doug Hocking, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Gregory Metcalf, Ellensburg Wash, 3k steeplechase
1969 - Spencer McLennan, CFL safety (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Wendy Wilson, Los Angeles Ca, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
1969 - Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Adrian Murrell, NFL running back/kick returner (NY Jets)
1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
1971 - David Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996-)
1971 - Greg Jeffries, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Kathryn J Taylor, Miss USA-Kansas (1997)
1971 - Simon Shanks, NFL inside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Toni Foster, WNBA forward/center (Phoenix Mercury)
1971 - Chad Gray, American singer
1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, Elektrenai Lit, NHL defenseman (Islanders, Pitts)
1972 - Darren Balmforth, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Kordell Stewart, NFL quarterback/wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ (1990)
1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
1974 - Jermaine Lewis, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Paul Kariya, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Oly-98)
1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
1975 - Jacques Kallis, cricketer (South African Test all-rounder v England 1995)
1975 - Jamila Wideman, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1975 - Kellie Martin, Riverside CA, actress (Life Goes On, Cristy)
1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
1977 - John Mayer, American musician
1978 - Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1978 - Whitni Zimmerman, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
1980 - Jeremy Jackson, Newport Beach California, actor (Shout, Baywatch)
1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
1981 - Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005
1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
1986 - Craig Pickering, British sprinter
1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

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This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Deaths

                     
Queen of France                                 Military Leader George Marshall (1959)
Marie Antoinette (1793)


775 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
1323 - Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1333 - Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1473 - Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies
1553 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford
           Martyrs at 80
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford
           martyr
1570 - Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered
1591 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56
1594 - William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1688 - Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68
1690 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1694 - Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
1726 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77
1750 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1774 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded at 37
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1799 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1814 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
1817 - Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1836 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
1849 - George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies
1862 - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1867 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
1877 - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1880 - Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1891 - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1916 - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1918 - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
1919 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1928 - Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1939 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63
1942 - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1944 - Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52
1944 - John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78
1946 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
1946 - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged
1946 - Nuremberg trial execut
1948 - Henry Foley, cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 & 2), dies
1949 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85
1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
1959 - George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
1972 - Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
1973 - Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1977 - Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81
1978 - Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (Governor & JJ), dies of anemia at 62
1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
1980 - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1982 - Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1983 - George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1984 - Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer
1985 - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1986 - C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1987 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74
1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72
1991 - Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94
1993 - John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
1994 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87
1995 - John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
1995 - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60
1995 - Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59
1996 - Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
1996 - Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82
1996 - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
1996 - Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58
1997 - Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79
1997 - James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90
1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
2007 - Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.
2010 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
2010 - Eyedea, American rapper (Eyedea & Abilities) (b. 1981)
2011 - Dan Wheldon, English auto racer (b. 1978)
2012 - Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86

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This Day in History for 17th October


Historical Events

                                   
King of England Edward III                        Inventor Thomas Edison                      Inventor and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                  Guglielmo Marconi

                                   
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein        Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse       Singer-songwriter & Actress
                                                                                                                              Barbra Streisand

                 
Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa             The Pianoman Billy Joel


539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from
              almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
532 - Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
733 - Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden
1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at
           Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1387 - Swells convent Windesheim initiated
1404 - Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII
1415 - Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were
           defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1456 - The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern
           continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
1483 - Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain
1556 - Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain
1651 - Future King Charles II flees from England
1660 - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and
           quartered, another is hanged.
1691 - New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1720 - Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
1740 - Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
1777 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1787 - Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1797 - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
1800 - Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
1806 - Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an
           oppressive rule.
1808 - Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1814 - London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.
1815 - Napoleon arrives in St Helena
1825 - 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
1829 - Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
1829 - 1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser
1831 - Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
1850 - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
1855 - Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1860 - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club, Scotland
1862 - Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
1868 - Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 - Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa
1871 - President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
1877 - Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1885 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1894 - Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1896 - Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St Petersburg
1899 - Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1904 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
1907 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service
           between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1912 - Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey
1916 - Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
1917 - 1st British bombing of Germany
1918 - De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens
1918 - Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1920 - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
1921 - Belgium's public library law goes into force
1922 - Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1923 - Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
1927 - Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president
1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934 - "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
1935 - Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
1940 - German occupiers issue identity cards
1941 - 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1943 - Liberators sink U-540 & U-631
1945 - Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina
1951 - Egyptian army fires on British troops
1954 - Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
1955 - Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel
1956 - England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1956 - Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
1957 - "Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1957 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House
1957 - Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 - II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
1959 - "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1959 - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1959 - Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
1960 - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
1960 - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
1961 - 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1961 - Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 - NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected
           until December 3rd
1962 - Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
1963 - "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances
1964 - Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
1965 - "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs
1965 - WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - "Hair" premieres on Broadway
1967 - Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
1967 - Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
1967 - Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1969 - Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1970 - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1971 - Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens
1971 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic
1971 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
1972 - 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
1972 - Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC
1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1
1973 - 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1973 - Arabs decrease oil production
1974 - "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
1974 - NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
1974 - Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other
           than Yanks to win 3 straight series
1975 - 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
1975 - UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
1977 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1977 - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86
           hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
1978 - NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
1978 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
1978 - Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1978 - Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
1979 - "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs
1979 - D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
1979 - Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education
1980 - 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39)
1982 - 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1982 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1982 - Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
1982 - Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
1983 - STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
1984 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1985 - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 - Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to
           illegals who entered prior to 1982
1986 - Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
1987 - "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
1987 - 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
1987 - 1st Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
1988 - 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 - Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
1988 - Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
1988 - Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
1988 - Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title
1988 - Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"
1989 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
1990 - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
1991 - Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
1991 - Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games
1991 - News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally
           attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1991 - Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309
           goals & 744 assists)
1992 - 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves
1993 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf
1994 - Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
1994 - Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)
1995 - Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
1996 - "Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC
1998 - At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers,
           some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
2000 - Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it
           to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become
           the World's tallest highrise.
2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2005 - The Colbert Report first airs.
2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million.
2007 - The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
2012 - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
2012 - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
2012 - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Weddings

1469 - Crown prince Fernando of Aragon marries princess Isabella of Castile
1707 - German composer Johann S Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach
1915 - American born poet (The Waste Land) T. S (Thomas Sterns) Eliot (27) marries 1st wife
           Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27)
1945 - Actress Ava Gardner (22) weds band leader Artie Shaw (35) in Hollywood
1952 - Country music legend Hank Williams (29) weds Billie Jean Jones in Minden, Louisiana
1975 - Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright Arthur Miller (1915)        Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel (1938)               Rapper Eminem (1972)


1253 - Ivo of Kermartin, ]])
1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer
1577 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)
1582 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1623 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
1626 - Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)
1688 - Domenico Zipoli, composer
1696 - August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen
1704 - Willem Bentinck, orangist
1711 - Jupiter Hammon, 1st black American to publish poetry (Complete Works)
1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
1720 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
1725 - John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)
1729 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
1730 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
1734 - Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II
1806 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1811 - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)
1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
1815 - Emanuel Geibel, writer
1817 - Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
1817 - Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
1844 - Miguel Nieto, composer
1845 - Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library
1848 - William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
1853 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds)
1860 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
1864 - Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks)
1865 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
1875 - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!)
1878 - Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1878 - Henri Mulet, composer
1883 - A S Neill, British headmaster (Summerhill)
1885 - Aaf Bouber-ten Hoope, Dutch actress (Jantjes)/wife of Herman Bouber
1886 - Spring Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride)
1890 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer
1892 - Otakar Jeremias, composer
1892 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
1893 - Jean Binet, composer
1893 - Fritz Ascher, Berlin Germany, German Expressionist artist
1895 - Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women)
1898 - Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Nagoya, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method)
1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal)
1900 - Jean Arthur, New York, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991)
1903 - Irene Ryan, El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
1903 - Jerry Colona, Boston Mass, comedian (Jerry Colona Show)
1903 - Nathanael West, American novelist (Day of the Locusts)
1905 - Franco Albini, Italian architect
1906 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1908 - Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1909 - Crozy [William] Cole, US jazz drummer
1912 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1978)
1914 - Albert Markos, composer
1914 - Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman)
1914 - John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur
1915 - Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)
1916 - Robert Lowery, Kansas City MO, actor (Murder Over NY)
1916 - Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, composer
1917 - Marsha Hunt, Chicago Ill, actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)
1917 - Martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)
1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
1918 - Rita Hayworth, NY, [Marguerita C Casino], actress (Gilda, Pal Joey)
1919 - John Moroney, cricketer (Australian opener 1949-51)
1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1920 - Montgomery Clift, Omaha NE, actor (From Here to Eternity)
1920 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
1920 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
1921 - George Mackey Brown, poet
1921 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist (National Review)
1921 - Tom Poston, Columbus Ohio, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart)
1922 - Louis Benjamin, showman
1922 - Pierre Juneau, Montreal, Canada, film and broadcast executive, (d. 2012)
1922 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
1923 - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
1926 - Beverly Garland, Santa Cruz California, actress (My 3 Sons)
1926 - Julie Adams, Waterloo Iowa, actress (Yancy Derringer, Code Red)
1926 - Karl Gordon Henize, Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51-F)
1928 - Ivan Marinov, composer
1928 - James "Junior" Gilliam, Dodgers (NL rookie of year 1953)
1928 - Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP)
1929 - Ram Da-Oz, composer
1930 - Angelo Paccignini, composer
1930 - Jimmy Breslin, Queens NYC, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)
1930 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
1932 - Gundaris Pone, composer
1932 - Paul Anderson, US, light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 - William J Hughes, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1975- )
1933 - William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8 )
1933 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
1934 - Barend P Tammeling, Dutch journalist (Trouw, Groninger Gezinsbode)
1934 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
1935 - Alan Brown, cricketer (England opening attack Brown & White vs Pak 1961)
1936 - David Hobson, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
1937 - Paxton Whitehead, English actor
1938 - Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), (d. 2007)
1940 - Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
1940 - Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
1941 - Alan Howard, rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1941 - Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)
1941 - James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1942 - Gary Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)
1943 - Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize)
1944 - Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)
1945 - Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1946 - Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor (Soap)/pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-68)
1946 - James Ray Tucker, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor)
1946 - Vicki Hodge, London England, actress (Confessions of a Sex Maniac)
1946 - Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
1946 - Adam Michnik, Polish activist
1946 - Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
1947 - Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher
1947 - Gene Green, (Rep-D-Texas)
1947 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist
1947 - Michael McKean, NYC, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap)
1948 - George Wendt, Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)
1948 - Margot Kidder, Yellowknife, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror)
1949 - Bill Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1949 - Maurice Willis Wright, composer
1949 - Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara California, actor (Adam-East of Eden)
1950 - Howard E Rollins Jr, Balt Md, actor (Bannister-Wildside,Another World)
1950 - Michael Lynn Synar, (Rep-D-Oklahoma, 1979- )
1950 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (As Love Goes)
1955 - Sam Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Prime Risk, Savages)
1955 - Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician
1956 - Mae C Jemison, Decatur Alabama, MD/astronaut (STS 47)
1956 - Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch ass. secretary of Social Affairs (VVD)
1957 - Vincent Van Patten, Belrose NY, actor (Apple's Way, 3 for the Road)
1957 - Lawrence Bender, American film producer
1958 - Alan Jackson, Newnan Ga, country singer (Here in the Real World)
1958 - Blaine McCallister, Ft Stockton TX, PGA golfer (1989 Honda Classic)
1958 - France St Louis, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1958 - Gig Gangel Harlingen TX, playmate (Jan, 1980)
1959 - Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]
1959 - Ron Drummond, American writer
1959 - Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
1959 - Richard Roeper, American film critic
1959 - Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
1960 - James Patrick Delsing, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1960 - Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
1960 - Rob Marshall, American director
1960 - Guy Henry, English actor
1962 - John Dorge, Australian basketball center (Olympics-96)
1962 - Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist
1963 - Vijay Mehra, cricketer (United Arab Emirates batsman 1996 World Cup)
1963 - Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
1963 - Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian
1965 - Connie Ann Hearn, Anchorage Alaska, actress (New Kind of Family)
1965 - Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva, cricket (Sri Lanka's greatest batsman)
1966 - Danny Ferry, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1966 - Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
1966 - Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality
1967 - Adrianne Werdel Witmeyer, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1990 Futures-Chiba)
1967 - Allen West, US metal guitarist (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1967 - Marianne Werdel Witmeyer, Los Angeles California, tennis star
1967 - Mark Johnson, Worcester MA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 - Nathalie Tauziat, Bangui Cent Afr Rep, tennis star (1993 Quebec City)
1967 - Reggie Clark, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
1968 - Heather McDermid, Calgary Alberta, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ziggy Marley, reggae performer
1969 - Alfred Pupunu, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Joe Courtney, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 - Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open)
1969 - Wood Harris, American actor
1969 - Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
1970 - Anil Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg-spinner since 1990)
1970 - Jean-Paul de Young, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1970 - John Mabry, Wilmington DE, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Marciano Vink, soccer player (Genoa/PSV)
1970 - Shauna O'Brien, Pasco Wash, actress (Showgirls)
1970 - Tasha Tsang, Saskatoon Saskatchwan, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Byron Chamberlain, NFL/WLAF tight end Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Ernest Dixon, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Henry McMillian, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
1972 - Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1972 - Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], Saint Joseph Missouri, rapper and movie star
           ('The Real Slim Shady', 'Stan' and '8 Mile')
1972 - Tarkan, Turkish singer
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
1972 - Joe McEwing, American baseball player
1973 - Keith McKenzie, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Lorie Bennett West, Miss Kentucky USA (1996)
1974 - Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboarder (HIM)
1974 - Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
1974 - Ariel Levy, American feminist writer
1974 - John Rocker, American baseball player
1975 - Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
1976 - Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
1977 - Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
1977 - Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979 - Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)
1979 - Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1980 - Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver
1980 - Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
1982 - Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
1983 - Daniel Booko, American actor
1983 - Ivan Saenko, Russian football player
1984 - Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
1984 - Chris Lowell, American actor
1984 - Randall Munroe, American webcomic author
1987 - Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
1987 - Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
1989 - Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress
1992 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor

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This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Deaths

Composer Frederic Chopin (1849)


532 - Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 - Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1552 - Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
1586 - Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32
1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1638 - Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 - Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1763 - Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 - Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 - Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
1849 - Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 - Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63
1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
1897 - Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 - Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 - Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
1910 - William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
1917 - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
1918 - Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 - Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1941 - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1944 - Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45
1956 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1957 - John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70
1958 - C L Townsend, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1899), dies
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97
1965 - Barton King, cricketer (America's greatest cricket all-rounder), dies
1966 - Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91
1966 - Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61
1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47
1974 - René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
1975 - Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90
1977 - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77
1979 - John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81
1979 - Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69
1979 - S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75
1981 - David Guion, composer, dies at 88
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1982 - Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47
1983 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78
1984 - Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89
1987 - Abdul Malek Ukil,Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1991 - J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84
1991 - Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72
1992 - Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies
1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1993 - Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
1993 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84
1993 - Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies
1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1994 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83
1994 - Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80
1994 - Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
1994 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
1994 - Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57
1995 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
1996 - Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93
1996 - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30
1997 - Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b.
           1915)
2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
2008 - Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2009 - Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)
2011 - Carl Lindner, Jr., Cincinnati businessman and one of the world's richest people (b. 1919)
2012 - Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist, dies from prostate cancer at 89
2012 - Sylvia Maria Kristel, Dutch actress, dies from throat and liver cancer at 60

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This Day in History for 18th October


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                           Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt         Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Baseball Legend Connie Mack           Singer-songwriter Tony Sheridan
 Adolf Hitler

                 
Singer Rod Stewart                                Pakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto


707 - John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by
           the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to
           bedrock.
1016 - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
1081 - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine
1267 - Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III
1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps,
           destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1534 - New pursuit of French protestants
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of
           their ongoing conflicts.
1564 - John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
1572 - Spanish troops attack Maastricht
1622 - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
1648 - 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1667 - English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1672 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants
1685 - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1752 - Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1767 - Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1776 - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1855 - Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres
1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the
           Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1862 - Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1863 - Battle of Charlestown, WV
1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1869 - Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo)
1873 - 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
1873 - Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household usage
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
1889 - 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1890 - John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
1891 - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
1892 - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1901 - Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
1904 - Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1909 - Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
1910 - Edward Forster publishes "Howards End"
1912 - Beginning of 1st Balkan War
1912 - Italo-Turkish war ends
1913 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave
1914 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1915 - 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 - NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
1918 - Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1922 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
1924 - Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1924 - Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1925 - -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
1925 - Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
1926 - Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1930 - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1932 - Belgium government of Renkin falls
1934 - Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1939 - R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC
1940 - Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC
1941 - Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1942 - Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
1943 - US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
1944 - Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussel
1944 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945 - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1945 - Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements
1946 - Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1950 - Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1952 - Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1953 - WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1954 - Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
1954 - WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)
1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1955 - Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton
1960 - Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
1960 - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening
           News
1961 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack
1962 - JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"
1962 - US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in
           determining structure of DNA
1963 - IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1964 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1966 - "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
1967 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
1967 - AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971
           with KC & Seattle teams
1968 - Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City
1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession
1968 - Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
1968 - Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt
1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute
           as a protest during victory ceremony
1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1969 - Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession
1969 - Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
1969 - Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1970 - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
1973 - "Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances
1973 - Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1973 - Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in NYC
1973 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1974 - 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1974 - Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam
1974 - Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
1974 - Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14
           rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
1975 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live, sing "My Little Town"
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1977 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
1977 - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
1977 - W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
1977 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
1978 - 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
1978 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1979 - "Beatlemania" opens in London
1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
1980 - Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
1981 - Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
1981 - NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
1981 - Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989 - Hungary revises constitution
1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
1990 - "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
1991 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater NYC
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 - "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
1992 - 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
1992 - 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
1992 - Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
1992 - Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1993 - STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1995 - NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1998 - Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night,
           suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering 
           crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
2011 - Gilad Shalit is released.
2012 - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2012 - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a
           20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price

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This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Weddings

1952 - Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico
1986 - "Fleetwood Mac" member Christine McVie (43) weds keyboardist Eduardo Quintela
2011 - Actress, model and singer Bijou Phillips (32) weds actor and disc jockey Danny Masterson
          (36) at a private castle in Ireland

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This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Divorces

2000 - Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after
           13 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Ex-soldier, drifter                         Tennis Player Martina Navratilova (1956)     Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960)
Lee Harvey Oswald (1939)


1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1239 - Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72)
1405 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia)
1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
1547 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian
1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
1611 - Valentin Strobel, composer
1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
1638 - Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet
1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
1663 - Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye/land guardian of Austria-Neth
1668 - Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)
1668 - Wierich PL earl von Daun, Austrian prince of Thiano/fieldmarshall
1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1697 - Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal)
1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)
1712 - Jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)
1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1774 - Adolfs Muller, writer
1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
1789 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
1794 - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
1804 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)
1806 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 - Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1829 - Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1829 - Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1831 - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
1833 - Johannes Habert, composer
1837 - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
1844 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
1850 - Francis Thome, composer
1854 - Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)
1854 - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
1859 - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
1865 - Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
1865 - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
1870 - D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar
1871 - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)
1872 - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun
1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 - James E K Aggrey, Ghana, US theologian/educationalist
1875 - Len Braund, cricketer (great England all-rounder in 23 Tests 1901-08)
1877 - Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1878 - James Truslow Adams, historian (Pul-1921, Founding of New England)
1879 - Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer
1882 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
1889 - Fannie Hurst, novelist (Anatomy of Me)
1890 - [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
1891 - Vaclav Kalik, composer
1892 - Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle)
1893 - Roy Del Ruth, DE, director (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show)
1893 - Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ (1949-57)
1893 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
1894 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1895 - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
1898 - George Cuzon, Amersham England, actor (Hooded Terror)
1898 - Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The
           Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love)
1898 - Raymond Glenn, Frankfort KY, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones)
1901 - Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer
1902 - Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge GA, actress (Becky Sharp, These Three)
1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903 - Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist
1903 - Emile Enthoven, composer
1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
1905 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93)
1906 - James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island)
1907 - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist
1909 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
1910 - Albertus "Bert" Botterman, actor (Bridge Too Far)
1910 - Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
1913 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
1915 - Victor Sen Yung, SF California, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family)
1916 - Peter Shepherd, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1918 - Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
1918 - James Cameron Tudor, politician
1918 - Konstantinos Mitsottakis, premier of Greece (1990- )
1918 - Willem J "Molly" Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister)
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1919 - Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton), Chicago, jazz singer
1919 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1919 - Camilla Williams, Danville, Virginia, operatic soprano, (d. 2012)
1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
1921 - Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- )
1922 - Camillo Togni, composer
1922 - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
1922 - Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
1923 - Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter
1924 - Allyn Ferguson, San Jose California, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1924 - Egil Hovland, composer
1924 - Frank Liedel, [Leo van Assche], Flemish writer (Kaperbrief)
1924 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
1925 - Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels)
1925 - Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
1926 - Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
1926 - Klaus Kinski, [Nikolas Naksynski], Poland, actor (Little Drummer Girl)
1926 - Thomas Millar, historian
1927 - George C. Scott, Wise, Virginia, American actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove)
1927 - Ramesh Divecha, cricketer (eleven wickets for India in early 50's)
1928 - Keith Jackson, Carrolton Ga, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football)
1928 - R H "Deepak" Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India)
1929 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua (1990- )
1930 - Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89)
1931 - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Dutch Internal minister (1989-94)
1932 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
1933 - Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
1934 - Inger Stevens, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
1934 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
1934 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
1935 - John B Coleman, Boston, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton)
1935 - Jorge Cervello, composer
1935 - Peter Boyle, Phila, actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond)
1937 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
1938 - Ronnie Bright, rocker (Coasters)
1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, Louisiana, assassin (JFK), (d. 1963)
1939 - Mike Ditka, coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)
1939 - Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1942 - Willie Horton, baseball slugger (Detroit Tigers)
1942 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
1943 - Russ Giguere, Portsmouth NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Association)
1943 - Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
1944 - Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)
1945 - Christopher Shays, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1945 - Huell Howser, American TV host
1945 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
1946 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
1946 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
1947 - Joe Morton, NYC, actor (Hal-Grady, Abel Marsh-Another World)
1947 - John Johnson, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1947 - Laura Nyro, Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End)
1947 - Luc Journet, Belgian physician (Order of Zonnetempel)
1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
1947 - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
1948 - Isabel E Allen, biostatician
1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author
1949 - Gary Richrath, Peoria IL, rock guitarist (REO Speedwagon)
1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
1949 - George Hendrick, baseball player
1950 - Merry Martin, Camden Mich, actress (Leslie-Peter Loves Mary)
1950 - Patrick L Swindall, (Rep-R-GA, 1985- )
1950 - Sheila White, London England, actress (I Claudius)
1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor
1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
1951 - Pam Dawber, Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1951 - Terry McMillan, American author
1952 - Roy Dias, cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test batsman)
1952 - Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
1952 - Jerry Royster, American baseball player
1954 - Liz Burch, Australian actress
1955 - Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
1955 - David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
1955 - Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
1956 - Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)
1956 - Craig Bartlett, American animator
1956 - Jim Talent, Des Peres, Missouri, American politician (Rep-R-Missouri)
1957 - Jon Lindstrom, Medford Ore, actor (Kevin Collins-General Hospital)
1957 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
1958 - Hal Haenel, St Louis Mo, star yachter (Olympics-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1958 - Kjell Samuelsson, Tyngsryd Swe, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1958 - Corinne Bohrer, American actress
1958 - Thomas Hearns, American boxer
1959 - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
1959 - Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
1959 - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
1959 - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
1960 - Doug Lidster, Kamloops, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1960 - Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988)
1960 - Erin Moran, Burbank, California, American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)
1961 - Eric Jespersen, Port Alberni BC, star yachter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1961 - Gladstone Small, cricketer (in Barbados England quickie with no neck)
1961 - Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983)
1962 - Jody Anschutz, Minneapolis, LPGA golfer (1987 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1962 - Vincent Spano, Brooklyn NY, actor (Alphabet City, Maria's Lovers)
1964 - Etsuko Inoue, Japan, tennis star
1964 - George Ferris, cricketer (Leewards fast bowler)
1965 - Fayette Purser, Sydney Australia, golfer (NSW State Rep 1987-88)
1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
1966 - Alan Mills, Lakeland Florida, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1966 - Angela Visser, Neth, Miss Universe (1989)
1966 - Denise Philbrick, LPGA golfer
1966 - Jerod Swallow, Ann Arbor Mich, American ice skater (1997 Nationals)
1966 - Kristine Middeler, Felicity Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1967 - Gary John Anderson, Wanganui NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Denisa Szabova, Bratislava Czech, tennis star (1987 Futures-GER)
1968 - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Narendra Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets v WI on debut 1988)
1968 - Stuart Law, cricketer (prolific Queensland batsman, Australia 1995)
1969 - Anthony Avent, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer
1970 - Bob Kennedy, Bloomington Indiana, 5k runner
1970 - Camille Spitaleri, Mountain View Ca, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1970 - Mark Schenning, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 - Shane Bonham, NFL defensive linesman (Detroit Lions)
1970 - José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
1971 - Bob Whitfield, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Emmett Waldron, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Karen J McNenny, Missoula Montana, Miss Montana-America (1991)
1971 - Tammy Harris, Williamstown NY, Miss America-New York State (1997)
1972 - Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1972 - James Stream Thurmond Jr, son of US senator Strom Thurmond
1972 - Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
1972 - Jake Farrow, actor
1973 - Demetrious Maxie, CFL defensive end (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 - John Baldwin Jr, Dallas TX, figure skater (1996 SW Pacific Sr champ)
1973 - Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Zhou Xun, Quzhou, Zhejiang, Chinese actress and singer (Suzhou River, Balzac and the Little
           Chinese Seamstress)
1975 - Rebeca Tamez, Miss Mexico Universe (1997)
1975 - Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Chris McKenna, Queens NY, actor (Joey-One Live to Live)
1977 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
1977 - David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider
1978 - Wesley Jonathan, American actor
1978 - Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
1979 - Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], Camden, Arkansas, American pop and R&B singer and
           songwriter
1981 - Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
1984 - Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
1987 - Zac Efron, TV actor, born in San Luis Obispo, California, USA (CSI: Miami, ER)
1987 - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
1990 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
1991 - Tyler Posey, American actor
1998 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
2001 - Annelise Manojlovic, English actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Inventor Thomas Edison (1931)              US First Lady Elizabeth Truman (1982)


707 - John VII, Catholic Pope (705-07), of Greek ancestry, dies
1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1340 - Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies
1382 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)
1417 - Pope Gregory XII [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies
1459 - Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies
1503 - Pius III, [Francesco Todeschini], Pope (9/22-10/18/1503), dies
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
1558 - Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Neth (1531-55), dies at 53
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1589 - Adolf van Nieuwenaar & Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle
1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1634 - Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42
1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1669 - Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29
1678 - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok painter, dies at 85
1708 - Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b.
           1660)
1767 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45
1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1771 - Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62
1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1788 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1830 - Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies
1832 - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73
1839 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68
1862 - James Creighton, amateur American baseball player, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting
           home run on Oct 14th
1864 - David Bell Birney, US lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39
1864 - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68
1865 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1876 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 - Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75
1893 - Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
1909 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84
1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1938 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies
1940 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65
1941 - Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55
1943 - Benedictus H Dancer, botanist, dies at 52
1948 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies
1953 - Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
1953 - Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80
1955 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1963 - Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68
1965 - Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91
1966 - Bill Nestell, US actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73
1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1968 - Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70
1972 - Ken Wishart, cricketer (WI opening batsman in one Test 1935), dies
1973 - Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
1973 - Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1973 - Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60
1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1975 - Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47
1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 - Rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies
1977 - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1978 - Frank Woolley, cricketer (58,969 1st-class runs), dies
1978 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64
1982 - Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97
1982 - Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82
1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55), dies at 75
1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1983 - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (55 Tests for India), dies
1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 - Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1985 - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
1987 - Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83
1988 - Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa), dies at 60
1993 - Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
1993 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71
1993 - Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
1994 - Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60
1994 - WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45
1995 - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67
1995 - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69
1995 - Iri Maruki, artist, dies at 94
1995 - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
1995 - Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
1996 - Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71
1996 - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91
1997 - Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62
1997 - Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
1997 - Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65
2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
2008 - Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
2009 - Nancy Spero, American feminist artist dies aged 83
2010 - Marion Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
2012 - David Spencer Ware, American free jazz saxophonist, dies at 62

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th October


Historical Events

                                   
Founder of Protestanism                         Inventor Thomas Edison                 Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky
Martin Luther

                                   
Soldier, author, journalist, politician      Nazi Politician Hermann Goering        Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist
Winston Churchill                                                                                                     Martin Luther King Jr.


Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa


202 BC - Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by
              Roman legions under Scipio Africanus.
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
615 - St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1031 - Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord
1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son
           Henry.
1298 - Rindfleisch-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1453 - 2nd Battle at Castillon: French beats English, end of hundred year war
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany
1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)
1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1576 - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence
1630 - In Boston the 1st general court is held
1634 - Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood
1682 - English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland
1722 - Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher
1739 - England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
1765 - Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; Revolutionary War ends
1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1818 - US Government & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare
           the independent state of Piauí.
1845 - Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden
1853 - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
1856 - James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
1859 - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
1863 - Battle of Buckland Mills, VA
1864 - Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont
1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers
1864 - US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General
1870 - 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 - British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1879 - Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign
1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light
1882 - Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley
1888 - Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs
1900 - Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
1900 - South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe
1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool
1901 - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
1904 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the
           superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1907 - 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
1911 - Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch
1912 - Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
1914 - US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail
1915 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1919 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1919 - Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox
           scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon
           coup.
1923 - Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
1923 - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
1924 - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1925 - Italian army takes Somalia
1926 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1926 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers
1930 - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
1932 - Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists
1932 - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1932 - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1932 - Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP & Chuck Klein wins NL MVP
1933 - Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1935 - Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi
1936 - HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on
           commercial flights, by 18½ days
1939 - Hermann Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas
1941 - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
1943 - Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
1943 - Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
1943 - Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at
           Rutgers University.
1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
1944 - Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg
1944 - John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC
1944 - US Navy says black women can join WAVES
1944 - US forces land in Philippines
1947 - De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections
1948 - "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances
1949 - A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton
1949 - Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
1950 - Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1950 - UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open
1951 - Pres Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
1953 - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1954 - Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1954 - KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu, sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres
1957 - "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
1959 - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
1960 - France grants Mauritania independence
1960 - KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
1962 - Stalin monument removed in Prague
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC)
1967 - Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1967 - Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
1968 - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1969 - J Bock & S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC
1969 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1969 - Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
1970 - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
1970 - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
1970 - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
1972 - "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances
1973 - Ringo releases "Photograph"
1974 - Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps
1974 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1974 - Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand
1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
1975 - Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
1975 - Hamlisch & Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in NYC
1975 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic
1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) is placed on
           the List of Endangered Species.
1977 - Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
1980 - Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
1981 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1982 - Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1983 - Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
1983 - Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
1983 - Phila Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak
1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday
1986 - "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1986 - "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances
1986 - Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1986 - USSR expels five US diplomats
1987 - "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
1987 - "Black Monday" Dow Jones down 508.32 points, 4½ times previous record
1987 - Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)
1987 - US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1987 - Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named
           NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time
1988 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 - Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 - Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 - Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
1988 - South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 - Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
1989 - "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
1989 - Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
1991 - Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 - Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL
1993 - UN authorizes arms, military & police supply embargo against Haiti
1994 - 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
1994 - Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1995 - "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances
1996 - Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series
1997 - "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleve Indians)
1997 - David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1997 - Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic
1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing
           $12 million in damage.
2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum
           seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 - Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on
           charges of corruption.
2004 - Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum
           pressure of 882 mb.
2007 - Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb
          explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 11 and injured more than
          100 people.
2012 - 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Weddings

1996 - "Rescue Me" actor-comedian Lenny Clarke (43) weds former TV producer Jennifer Miller (31)
           at Martha's Vineyard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2012 - Grammy Award winning singer Justin Timberlake (31) weds "Total Recall" actress Jessica Biel
           (30) at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy
2012 - Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume (30) weds Countess of Belgium
           Stephanie de Lannoy (28) on a civil ceremony at the Hotel De Ville in Luxembourg