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This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer/Nobel Laureate                       Psychedelic Artist Peter Max (1937)                       Champion Boxer
Miguel Asturias (1899)                                                                                               Evander Holyfield (1962)


1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
1507 - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, [Aytta van Zwichem], Dutch priest
1545 - Giovanale Ancina, composer
1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich [Dmitry of Uglich], Russian Tsarevich and son of Ivan IV "the Terrible" (d.
           1591)
1605 - Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus)
1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
1652 - Louis Le Quointe, composer
1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
1680 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
1684 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer
1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
1690 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
1784 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1784 - Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
1792 - Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal)
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1819 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial)
1824 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
1824 - Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer
1834 - Francis Channing Barlow, US lawyer/gen-major/co-founder (ABA)
1850 - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat
1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
1860 - Affie Jarvis, cricketer (Australian WK of the late 19th century)
1862 - Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
1863 - John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
1865 - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1892, 18 & 3)
1866 - Clarence Lucas, composer
1868 - Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
1871 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Wisdom of the Body)
1873 - Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder)
1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch World Champion cycling & speed skating
1876 - Mordecai (3 finger) Brown, hall of fame pitcher
1882 - Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1889 - Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer (1968 Acad of Country Music Award)
1892 - Alexander A Alekhine, Russian/French chess champ (1927-35, 37-46)
1892 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
1895 - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
1895 - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
1896 - Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
1899 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974)
1900 - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (great Australian batsman, HS 437 Vic v NSW)
1900 - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer
1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
1901 - Arleigh A Burke, Colo, admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross)
1903 - Vittorio Giannini, composer
1903 - Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
1908 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer
1908 - Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer (Elegy)
1909 - Robert Beatty, Ontario, actor (Amorous Mr Pawn, Where Eagles Dare)
1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1911 - George Cates, NYC, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1911 - Hilde Spiel, writer
1913 - Jean Urruty, France, Jai-Alai champion
1913 - Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le ragazze di San Frediano)
1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1914 - Harold Gimblett, cricketer (legendary Somerset & England batsman)
1915 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
1916 - David Lewis, Pitts Pa, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1916 - Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938)
1916 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer (Herr von Hancken)
1916 - Toby Rowland, theatrical manager
1918 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife)
1918 - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor
1920 - LaWanda Page, Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
1921 - George Nader, Pasadena California, actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats)
1921 - Gunnar Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 - Jack Anderson, Long Beach, California, journalist (Wash Post)
1925 - Bernard Hepton, Bradford England, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
1925 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist
1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
1927 - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director (Cobra)
1928 - Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress (Masquerade Party)
1929 - Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
1929 - Dumitru Capoianu, composer
1930 - Tom ap Rees, botanist
1931 - Laszlo Kalmar, composer
1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
1932 - Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222)
1932 - Robert Reed, Highland Park Ill, actor (Mike-Brady Bunch, Nurse)
1933 - Brian Booth, cricketer (dual Australian cricket/hockey international)
1933 - Wilfried Dietrich, German FR, super-heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - David Guard, rocker (Kingston Trio)
1934 - Des Hoare, cricketer (Australian quickie in Test in 1961 v W Indies)
1934 - Jakubu Gowon, army staff chief/president of Nigeria (1966-75)
1935 - Jim Reeves, rocker
1936 - Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president (Spellman College)/(Sen-D-KY)
1936 - Tony Lo Bianco, Brooklyn NY, actor (Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!)
1936 - James Bevel, American activist
1937 - Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer
1937 - Peter Max, Berlin, American psychadelic artist (Dynamite Chicken)
1937 - Sean Garrison, NYC, actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass)
1937 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
1938 - Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader
1940 - Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68), (d. 2012)
1940 - Michael Gambon, English actor (Singing Detective, Paris at Night)
1941 - Simon Ward, London England, actor (4 Musketeers, 4 Feathers), (d. 2012)
1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
1943 - Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper (WI early 70's)
1943 - Robert Morris, composer
1943 - Robin Greville Holloway, composer
1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
1944 - George McCrae, US singer (Lead Me On, Rock Your Baby)
1944 - Keith Adrian, [Johnson], Indies/Dutch actor (Intrepid Mr Twist)
1944 - Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1945 - Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist
1945 - Divine, [Harris Glenn Milstead], Balt MD, actress (Pink Flamingo)
1945 - Harris Glenn Divine, Baltimore MD
1945 - John Lithgow, Rochester NY, actor (Harry & Hendersons, Pelican Brief)
1945 - Keith Reid, rocker (Procol Harum) [or 10/10/46]
1945 - Patricia Ireland, feminist/president (National Organization of Women)
1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
1946 - Bob Holland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner at age 38)
1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
1947 - Wilbert Hart, US singer (Four Gents, Delfonics-Didn't I)
1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
1948 - Chester Biscardi, composer
1948 - Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1949 - Lynn Dickey, American football player
1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
1951 - Annie Golden, Brooklyn NY, actress (Forever Lulu, Hair)
1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
1952 - Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo (Oly-76)/WLAF GM (Rhein Fire)
1952 - Veronica Judith Sainz Castro, Mexico, spanish singer/actress (Nana)
1954 - Joe Bryant, American basketball player
1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
1955 - Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics)
1955 - Pat Klous, Hutchinson Ks, actress (Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat)
1955 - Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
1956 - Nino DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1956 - Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976)
1956 - Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
1957 - Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker (World Party)
1957 - Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
1957 - Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
1958 - Antoine Trousers, rock drummer/singer (Dike-Bleeding Heart)
1958 - John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
1958 - Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1960 - Dan Woodgate, London, England, rock drummer (Madness, Voice of Beehive)
1960 - Dawn Coe-Jones, Campbell River BC, LPGA golfer (1992 Kemper Open)
1960 - Jennifer Holliday, Houston Texas, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
1961 - Tim Belcher, Sparta Ohio, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, KC Royals)
1962 - Evander Holyfield, Atmore Ala, boxer (Oly-bronze-1988)/champ (1990-92)
1962 - Ruud Bread, soccer player (NAC)
1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
1963 - Brian H Henniger, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit Guaranty)
1963 - Jim Dombrowski, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1963 - Laurens BBM, Belgian prince/son of Albert II & Paola
1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium, Château de Belvédère, Laeken, son of King Albert II and Queen
           Paola
1964 - Webster Slaughter, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
1964 - Ty Pennington [Gary Tygert Burton], Atlanta, Georgia, American television host (Extreme
           Makeover: Home Edition)
1965 - Brad Daugherty, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 - Lucio Topatigh, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Maria Lee Ostapiej, La Mess California, Miss Calif-America (1991)
1966 - Amy Linker, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Lewis & Clark, Lauren-Square Pegs)
1966 - Anna Clark, San Francisco Ca, playmate (Apr, 1987)
1966 - Dave Veres, Montgomery AL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Jon Favreau, actor/writer (Swingers)
1966 - Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
1967 - Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist
1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1968 - Sinitta, Seattle, Washington, British-American singer (So Macho, Toy Boy)
1969 - Zdeno Ciger, Martin Slo, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
1969 - DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
1969 - John Edward, American TV Psychic
1970 - Benita Brooks, Miss Alabama USA (1996)
1970 - Chamara Dunusinghe, cricket wicketkeeper (Sri Lanka 1995)
1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
1972 - Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Marc Newfield, Sacramento CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1972 - Megan Still, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Otto Steffers, Louisville KY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1972 - Reggie Rusk, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Pras, American musician
1973 - Robert Tate, wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Shi Ting Wang, Tainan Taiwan, tennis star (1994 Taipei)
1974 - Percy Ellsworth, safety (NY Giants)
1974 - Joy Bryant, The Bronx, New York, American actress (Parenthood, Antwone Fisher)
1976 - Amber Hamilton, Auburn Washington, Miss America-Washington (1996)
1976 - Omar Gooding, American actor
1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
1977 - Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
1977 - Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
1977 - Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
1978 - Chris Sellers, Cleve Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
1978 - Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
1978 - James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player
1979 - Randy Spelling, Los Angeles California, (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach)
1979 - Brian Robertson, American trombonist
1979 - José Luis "Parejita" López, Mexican footballer
1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, Minneapolis, actor (Brighton Sheffield-Nanny)
1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
1982 - Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Satirist Jonathan Swift (1745)               Scientist Ernest Rutherford (1937)


727 - Saint Frideswide
1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John of England (1199-1216), agreed to the Magna Carta, dies at 49
1268 - Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1547 - Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46
1553 - Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, [de' Pitati], Italian painter, dies
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
1609 - Jacobus Arminius, [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1745 - Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies at 77
1758 - Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist, dies
1786 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer, dies at 58
1790 - Lyman Hall, US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 66
1793 - Francisco Morera, composer, dies at 62
1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action), dies
1813 - Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle
1834 - Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
1835 - Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57
1838 - Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73
1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
1856 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1864 - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brig-general, dies in battle at 45
1888 - Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38
1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1909 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies
1912 - J E B B P Q C Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies
1918 - Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34
1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1921 - Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1932 - Arthur Friedheim, composer, dies at 72
1934 - Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63
1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of English fieldmarshal Bernard Montgomery, dies
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel 1908), dies at 66
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered
1950 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1955 - John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground), dies at 41
1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1957 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65
1959 - Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1928), shot to death at 60
1959 - Stanley Bate, composer, dies at 45
1960 - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
1961 - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60
1961 - John Axel Fernstrom, composer, dies at 63
1964 - Maurice Gosfield, actor (Doberman-Phil Silvers Show), dies at 51
1964 - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885)
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
1970 - Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54
1971 - Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies at 89
1971 - Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies after brief illness at 64
1978 - Gig Young, American actor, kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide at 64
1981 - Frank DeKova, actor (F Troop), dies
1981 - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48
1982 - Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas"
1983 - Albert Carel Willink, painter (surrealism), dies at 83
1983 - Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
1984 - Henri Michaux, writer, dies
1984 - Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally shoots himself on set of "Cover Up" at 27
1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 - Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways), dies at 81
1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
1987 - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42
1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1988 - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist, dies at 77
1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies at 53
1992 - Gert Nastian, general & companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69
1992 - Maurice le Roux, French conductor/composer (Contes immoraux), dies
1992 - Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1993 - Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48
1993 - Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
1993 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71
1993 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
1994 - Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78
1994 - Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies
1994 - Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
1994 - Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79
1995 - Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
1995 - Vicki Stangroome, campaigner, dies at 53
1996 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
1996 - Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
1997 - Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49
1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer, dies at 99
1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
2000 - Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2004 - Elliott Smith, American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
2007 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
2007 - Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
2007 - LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)
2008 - Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (b. 1922)
2008 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
2009 - Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
2009 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
2010 - Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
2012 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian professional road racing cyclist, dies from an aneurysm at 91

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th October


Historical Events

                                   
King George I                                           Composer Franz Schubert                       Author and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                 Gerhart Hauptmann

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Baseball Player Hank Greenberg         WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

                                   
Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite          Anti-apartheid activist/                      Queen of the United Kingdom
                                                                  South African President                                    Elizabeth II
                                                                      Nelson Mandela


Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan


1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
1528 - Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church)
1536 - Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions
1576 - Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht
1587 - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1634 - English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax
1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I
1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg
           Monarchy.
1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1817 - 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1827 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti
1843 - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname
1847 - Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
1856 - Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens
1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
1877 - Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens
1883 - Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed
1883 - Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
1888 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1889 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin
1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
1898 - NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers
1899 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
1910 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
1910 - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the
           Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC
1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
1918 - Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
1920 - "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
1922 - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1924 - 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1929 - Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
1930 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1931 - Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
1932 - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS
1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan
1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1935 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1935 - Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up
1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1936 - Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
1936 - Spanish government moves to Barcelona
1939 - "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch
1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus
1940 - Cheese rationed in Netherlands
1940 - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands
1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
1942 - "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
1944 - Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 - US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines
1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1947 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
1947 - Robinson Jeffer's "Medea," premieres in NYC
1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1951 - The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1952 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
1953 - WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
1955 - Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1956 - 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1957 - Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt
1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1959 - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
1959 - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1962 - Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances
1962 - Chinese army lands in India
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1963 - WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1965 - 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1967 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
1967 - Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's
1967 - KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
1968 - "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
1969 - WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1970 - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
1971 - "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per
1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1971 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
1972 - Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
1973 - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox
1973 - Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 - The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves
           station from NYC to Scituate Mass
1974 - 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
1974 - Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1976 - NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Phila 76ers
1977 - David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in NYC
1977 - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in NYC
1977 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members
           Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick
1978 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
1978 - Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs)
1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
1979 - Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live
1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1981 - Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1982 - Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
1982 - St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are
           crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1984 - Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed
1984 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
1986 - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1988 - Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 - Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 - LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in baseball's 85th World Series 4 games to 1
1988 - Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1988 - Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1989 - Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1990 - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series
1991 - "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs
1991 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
1992 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta
1992 - David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut)
1992 - Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
1993 - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit
1995 - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
1996 - "Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
1996 - Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
1996 - Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt
1996 - Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes
1997 - Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
2004 - Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseball's
           American League
2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed
           shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

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This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Weddings

1943 - British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell
           Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London
1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1973 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1991 - Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
2001 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (32) weds actress Christina Applegate (29) at the three-acre Cree
           Estate in Palm Springs, California
2005 - Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (30) weds Aimee Sohngen (28) on a civil
           ceremony at the Stadhuis in Naarden
2006 - "Liberty X" member Michelle Heaton (27) weds Pop Idol's Andy Scott-Lee (26) in
           Hertfordshire, England
2012 - "Clueless" actress Elisa Donovan (41) weds Charlie Bigelow (36) on a outdoor ceremony on
           the Vineyard Lawn at The Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California

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This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Architect Christopher Wren (1632)           Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854)              Physicist James Chadwick (1891)

                 
Kenyan Prime Minister and President        Rapper Snoop Dogg (1971)
Jomo Kenyatta (1891)


1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
1475 - Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api)
1496 - Claude de Lutherans, duke of Guise
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 - Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's
           Cathedral), (d. 1723)
1637 - Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1679 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer
1700 - Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist
1740 - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women)
1751 - Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP/secretary of Interior
1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla
1784 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
1788 - Philip Knapton, composer
1792 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1792 - Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising)
1808 - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus)
1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
1819 - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1819 - Karol Mikuli, composer
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1820 - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1822 - Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1823 - Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Brown's School Days)
1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
1843 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur
1854 - Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 - G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England)
1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1871 - Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage)
1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)
1874 - Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
1877 - Josephine McGill, composer
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), (d. 1956)
1884 - Thomas Chalmers, NYC, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage)
1887 - Addison Richards, Zanesville OH, actor (Pentagon, Fighting Seabees)
1887 - John Warburton, Huddersfield England, actor (Saratoga Trunk)
1889 - Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil (Day at the Races)
1890 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963-78)
1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1895 - Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments)
1896 - Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY)
1897 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1899 - Evelyn Brent, Tampa FL, actress (Panama Lady, Last Coomand)
1899 - Marnix Gijsen, [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan)
1900 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer
1900 - Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore)
1901 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer
1903 - John Lodge, Washington DC, actor (Witchmaker)
1904 - Anna Neagle, London England, actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell)
1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
1909 - Monique Hare, French pianist
1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1911 - Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth)
1913 - Angelo Ephrikian, composer
1913 - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55)
1913 - Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad)
1913 - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw)
1914 - Fayard Nicholas, US, actor (Big Broadcast of 1936)
1915 - Giora Schuster, composer
1917 - Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles
1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop)
1917 - Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948)
1918 - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1919 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
1921 - Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary)
1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
1922 - John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1923 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front)
1923 - Joe Minogue, journalist
1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1924 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist
1924 - Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn, bishop (Manchester)
1925 - Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You)
1925 - Herman Roelstraete, composer
1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
1926 - Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1927 - Oskar Pastior, writer
1927 - Joyce Brothers, NYC, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), (d. 2013)
1931 - Ken Morrison, English supermarket maginate/multi-millionaire
1931 - Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown)
1932 - Roosevelt Brown, Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants)
1932 - William Christopher, Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
1934 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer
1934 - Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1934 - Michael Dunn, Shattuck OK, actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1934 - Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)
1935 - Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing)
1936 - Larry Mowry, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 Crestar Pepsi Senior)
1937 - Juan Marichal, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1937 - Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Let's Have a Party)
1938 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
1939 - Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1939 - Raymond Jones, rocker
1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
1941 - Bob Panasik, Windsor Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Canadian TPC)
1942 - Earl Hindman, Bisbee AZ, actor (Wilson-Home Improvement)
1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
1944 - William Hugh Albright, composer
1945 - Ric Lee, rock drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs)
1945 - Thomas Pasatieri, composer
1946 - Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS)
1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, writer
1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
1948 - Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1948 - Robert A Borski, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
1949 - Valery Borzov, USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Wayne Collett, US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1950 - Isaac Curtis, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1950 - Tom Petty, Gainesville Florida, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1951 - Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time)
1951 - Patrick Hall, British politician
1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
1952 - Dave Collins, baseball player
1952 - Dave McLelland, NHLer
1952 - Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing)
1952 - Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Keith Hernandez, SF California, 1st baseman (St Louis Cards, NY Mets)
1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor
1954 - Suru Nayak, cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982)
1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
1954 - Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
1955 - Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist
1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer
1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
1957 - Chris Cowdrey, cricketer (son of Colin, captain of England 1988)
1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
1958 - Dave Krieg, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Oilers)
1958 - Eric Scott, Hollywood California, actor (Ben-Waltons)
1958 - Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
1958 - Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games)
1958 - Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts)
1958 - Valerie Faris, American film director
1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
1959 - Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics-25-92, 96)
1959 - Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC)
1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
1960 - Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
1962 - Ray Childress, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1962 - Steven R "Randy" Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself)
1963 - Julie Payette, Montreal Quebec, astronaut
1963 - Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1965 - Amos Mansdorf, lsrael, tennis star
1965 - Chad Hennings, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1965 - M Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Team Russia, Anaheim)
1965 - Norman Blake, Scottish musician
1965 - William Zabka, American actor
1966 - Allan Donald, cricketer (great South African fast bowler)
1966 - Erin Deiters, Green Bay Wis, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994)
1966 - Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
1967 - Harvey Pulliam, SF CA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Susan Tulley, British actress (Michelle-EastEnders)
1967 - Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1968 - Raymond Biggs, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Chantel Tremitiere, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1969 - Guillermo Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1969 - Herman Moore, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Juan Gonzalez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 - Greg Primus, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ralph Dawkins, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Sander Boschke, soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 - Shane George, cricketer (S Australian fast bowler, Shield debut at 17)
1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Melbourne Australia, singer, sister of Kylie Minogue
1971 - Eddie Jones, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers)
1971 - Kimberly Po, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1991 Futures-Evansville IN)
1971 - Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach, California, rapper (What's My Name, Gin
           & Juice)
1972 - Dexter Coakley, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Oleg Fediukov, Moscow Russia, dance skater (& Debbie Koegel)
1973 - Scott Goodman, Hobart Tasmania Aus, 200m butterfly swimmer (Oly-br-96)
1974 - Ayelet Ohayon, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1974 - Jerald Honeycutt, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1976 - Reidel Anthony, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
1977 - Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
1978 - Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist
1979 - Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
1980 - Gary Jarman, English musician
1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 - Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
1985 - Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
1986 - Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1994 - Morgan Featherstone, Australian model

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Deaths

                                   
Inventor Charles Babbage (1871)           Geographer, Explorer & Translator                31st US President
                                                               Richard Francis Burton (1890)                 Herbert Hoover (1964)

                 
Theoretical Physicist                              Actress Jane Wyatt (2006)
and Nobel Laureat
Paul Dirac (1984)


460 - Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poetess, dies
1139 - Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies
1187 - Urban III, [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies
1268 - Conrad Hohenstaufen/Conradin, last Duke of Swabia, beheaded in Naples aged 16
1274 - Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1438 - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64
1525 - Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist, dies at about 50
1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1676 - Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1765 - William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44
1794 - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
1819 - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1864 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1870 - Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies at 78
1876 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
1882 - Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41
1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1899 - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1900 - Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70
1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1904 - Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77
1906 - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67
1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1913 - Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69
1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1927 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78
1929 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76
1931 - Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1941 - Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies
1942 - May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84
1944 - Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65
1950 - Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies
1952 - Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55
1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1954 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
1955 - Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51
1959 - Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90
1964 - Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84
1970 - Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44
1972 - Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86
1977 - Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28
1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
1977 - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash at 28
1983 - Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75
1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1896)
1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 82
1986 - Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53
1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
1989 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76
1990 - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
1990 - Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Mexican surrealist painter dies
           aged 72
1992 - Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity
1993 - James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66
1993 - Maurice Dolbier, US actor/writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81
1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80
1994 - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88
1994 - Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50
1994 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69
1994 - Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor/director (Waterloo), dies at 74
1995 - Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47
1995 - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53
1995 - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65
1996 - Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75
1996 - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68
1999 - Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911)
2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress, dies at 96
2007 - Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
2007 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
2008 - Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
2010 - Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), dies at 79
2010 - Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
2011 - Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
2011 - Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b.
          1977)
2011 - Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet and translator (b. 1928)

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This Day in History for 21st October


Historical Events

                                   
Founder of Protestanism                          Inventor Thomas Edison                    Baseball Player Hank Greenberg
Martin Luther

                                   
Short Story Writer Dorothy Parker          US President John F. Kennedy                    Singer Elton John

                 
264th Pope John Paul II                         Pop Star Madonna


310 - St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
335 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
686 - Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1096 - Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
1187 - Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12/17/1187)
1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
1553 - Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 - Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg
1555 - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1568 - 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen
1591 - Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau
1601 - Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto
1639 - Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo
1652 - King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1708 - Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
1727 - Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries
1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts
           and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 - US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed
1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings.
           It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1858 - In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1858 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
1861 - Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
1864 - Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City)
1868 - Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
1869 - 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1871 - 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1878 - German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1887 - Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this
           afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated
1899 - Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1905 - England Pilgrim Association beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
1911 - RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in NYC
1911 - Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1914 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915 - 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
1917 - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1917 - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1918 - Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1921 - Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
1923 - 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1924 - KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies
1925 - Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver," premieres in NYC
1935 - Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
1937 - Franco-troops occupies Gijon
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Canton
1940 - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Breskens
1944 - During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1944 - Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in NYC
1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1947 - Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1948 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1948 - Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
1948 - Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
1948 - UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1950 - Death penalty abolished in Belgium
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
1950 - Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
1952 - Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1954 - Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
1954 - Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1956 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1957 - Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
1957 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 - 1st women in British House of Lords
1959 - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1959 - Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
1960 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched
1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
1961 - Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
1964 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1964 - Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1965 - KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
1966 - 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales
1967 - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1967 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1969 - Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1969 - Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in NYC
1969 - Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany
1969 - Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
1970 - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1970 - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1971 - "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 perfs
1971 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following
           resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1972 - "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
1972 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 perfs
1972 - "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances
1973 - A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two
           safeties in the same game.
1974 - 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
1975 - "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
1975 - Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975 - Elton John given a star in Hollywood
1975 - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1975 - Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1976 - 55th weaapon accord signed
1976 - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 - Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series
1976 - NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1976 - NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
1976 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1977 - US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
1977 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait
           south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1979 - 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
1979 - 9th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33
1979 - Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
1979 - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1979 - Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1980 - "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances
1980 - 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
1980 - Mikhail Gorbachev elected member of Politburo
1980 - Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
1983 - Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
1984 - Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1984 - Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
1984 - Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
1985 - Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL
1986 - 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
1986 - Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code," premieres in London
1986 - IBM re-forms in South Africa
1986 - Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
1987 - 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
1987 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow
1987 - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
1988 - Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
1988 - Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1989 - "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1989 - Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 - 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing
           Denver Nuggets for $65m
1990 - Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband
           Jose in the World Series
1990 - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
1991 - 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
1991 - Former California gov Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
1991 - US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
1992 - Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
1993 - "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
1993 - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
1993 - Military coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
1994 - Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
1994 - North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
1995 - Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
1995 - Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
1997 - Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of wales, breaks world record, 318 million dist
1997 - Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is
           2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at
           RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also
           featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team
           of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

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This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Weddings

1917 - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
1948 - Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd
           wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld
1995 - "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los
           Angeles

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This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Poet, critic, and philosopher                   Inventor/Nobel Prize founder                     Jurist/TV Personality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)               Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833)                    Judith Sheindlin (1942)


US President & Actor
Ronald Reagan (1952)


1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1570 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1582 - Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII
1650 - Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth)
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1680 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer
1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1751 - David Moritz Michael, composer
1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1761 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer/brigadier general
1762 - Herman W Daendels, brig-gen/gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1807-11)
1767 - Francesco Ruggi, composer
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (d.
          1834)
1775 - Guiseppi Baini, composer
1790 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
1803 - George Wright, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
1807 - Hanri Reber, composer
1807 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1822 - Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90)
1823 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1827 - Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer
1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896)
1839 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)
1843 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
1846 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)
1847 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1851 - George Ulyett, cricketer (great Yorkshire all-rounder 1873-93)
1858 - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
1873 - George P Gooch, English historian/MP
1874 - Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist
1879 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1885 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist
1885 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Ploeg)
1890 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters)
1891 - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US (About Tropical Atl Visschen)
1891 - Ted Shawn, US dancer/choreographer (Dance We Must)
1894 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1895 - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
1895 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
1895 - Edna Purviance, Paradise Valley NV, silent film actress worked with Charlie Chaplin ( The Kid)
1898 - Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Ital East-Africa
1898 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
1901 - Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium)
1902 - Hilarion Rubio, composer
1902 - Lillian Bronson, Lockport NY, actress (Next Voice you Hear)
1904 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet)
1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
1908 - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1908 - Howard Ferguson, composer
1911 - Peter Graves, London England, actor (Mission Impossible, Stalag 17)
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
1912 - Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist
1912 - Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
1914 - Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
1916 - Andrea Checchi, Firenze Italy, actress (Attack & Retreat)
1916 - Tomojiro Ikenouchi, composer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1919 - Claire Sterling, journalist
1919 - Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist
1921 - Jarmil Burghauser, composer
1921 - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1925 - Joyce Randolph, Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1925 - Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
1926 - Leonard Rossiter, Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital)
1926 - Marga Richter, composer
1927 - Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], South African/British ballerina
1928 - Edward "Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1928 - Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA (Angola)
1929 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan)
1930 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
1931 - Jim Parks, cricketer (England batsman-keeper in 46 Tests 1954-68)
1933 - Georgia Brown, [Lillian Getel], actress (Study in Terror, Fixer)
1934 - Jerry Lewis, (Rep-R-California, 1979- )
1936 - James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright (Butley)
1937 - Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
1940 - Don Ritter, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1940 - Frances FitzGerald, NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake)
1940 - Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer (stoic England opener 1964-82)
1940 - Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
1940 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
1940 - Osamu Watanabe, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Marina Ripa, Rome Italy, countess/writer (My First 40 Years)
1941 - Steve Cropper, TN, guitarist/songwriter (Booker T & MGs)
1942 - Elvin Bishop, Tulsa OK, rock guitarist (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
1942 - Les AuCoin, (Rep-D-OR, 1975- )
1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
1942 - Judith Sheindlin, Brooklyn, New York, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy)
1943 - Frans LAJ Wolters, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 - Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court)
1943 - Ron Elliott, rocker
1943 - Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian
1944 - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator
1945 - Everett McGill, Miami Beach FL, actor (Jezebel's Kiss, Silver Bullet)
1945 - Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
1945 - Nikita Mikhalkov, director (Dark Eyes, Slave of Love)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, rocker (Chicago)
1946 - Jim Hill, American sportscaster
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1947 - Younis Ahmed, cricketer (batted for Pakistan in 1969 & again in 1987)
1948 - Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader
1948 - Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1948 - Tom Everett, American actor
1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
1949 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron
1949 - Shulamit Ran, composer
1949 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
1950 - David H G viscount Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1950 - Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr (STS 41B, 51L-Challenger disaster)
1952 - Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots)
1952 - Patti Davis [Patricia Ann Reagan], singer/actress/writer, Ronald and Nancy's daughter
1952 - Trevor Chappell, cricketer (bro of several Aussie underarm bowler)
1952 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Go-Go's)
1953 - Eleonora Giorgi, Rome Italy, actress (Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1953 - Peter Mandelson, British politician
1954 - Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland
1955 - Eric Faulkner, Edinburgh Scotland, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, Beverly Hills, actress (Princess Lelia-Star Wars)
1957 - Julian Cope, [Kevin Stapleton], Welsh pop musician (Eve's Volcano)
1957 - Steve Lukather, US rock singer/guitarist (Toto-Africa)
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1959 - George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
1959 - Tony Ganios, American Actor
1959 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1960 - Lionel Washington, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1961 - Mark Finch, film festival organiser
1962 - Don Fardon, Toowoomba QLD, Australasia golfer
1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1965 - Alison Munt, Cairns Australia, LPGA golfer (1992 Jamie Farr-21st)
1965 - Chima McLean, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Conestoga)
1965 - Chris Duplanty, Palo Alto California, water polo goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1965 - Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer
1966 - Jonas B, Svensson Sweden, tennis star
1966 - Thomas Louis Tolles Jr, Ft Myers FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-3rd)
1967 - Bill Berg, St Catharines, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1967 - Gavin Brian Lovegrove, Auckland NZ, javelin (Olympics-96)
1967 - John Flaherty, NYC, catcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Stanley Richard, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Paul Ince, English footballer
1968 - Francois Gravel, hockey goaltender (Team France 1998)
1969 - John McMullen, Santa Rosa California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA-15th)
1969 - Mo Lewis, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1969 - Tracy Yarbrough, Miss Idaho USA (1996)
1969 - Mo Lewis, American football player
1970 - Lance Teichelmann, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Marc Wilkins, Mansfield OH, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1971 - Astrella Leitch, Celeste rocker, Donovan's daughter
1971 - Damien Martyn, cricketer (WA & Australian middle-order batsman)
1971 - Jade Jagger, Paris France, daughter of Mick & Bianca Jagger
1971 - Rebecca Lynn Gray, Indianapolis Indiana, Miss America-Indiana (1996)
1971 - René Ponk, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Shane Hannah, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1971 - Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer
1972 - Orlando Thomas, NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Felicity Andersen, Australian actress
1972 - Saffron Burrows, English actress
1972 - Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1972 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
1973 - Dan Neil, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Derrick Beatty, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1975 - Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
1975 - Toby Hall, American baseball player
1976 - Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)
1976 - Nirachala Kumya, Miss Universe-Thailand (1996)
1976 - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
1976 - Josh Ritter, American musician
1976 - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
1977 - Christie Lee Woods, Texas, Miss Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Will Estes, American actor
1978 - Joey Harrington, American football player
1979 - Khalil Greene, American baseball player
1979 - Gabe Gross, American baseball player
1980 - Kim Kardashian, American socialite
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1981 - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
1982 - James White, American basketball player
1982 - Matt Dallas, American Actor
1983 - Zack Greinke, American baseball player
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1983 - Andy Marté, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
1984 - Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
1984 - Marvin Mitchell, American football player
1984 - Kieran Richardson, English footballer
1986 - Chibuzor Chilaka, English footballer
1986 - Alex Kew, British actor
1986 - Natalee Holloway,U.S teen,disappeared in Aruba
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1990 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player

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This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Deaths

                 
British Naval Officer                                 Writer Jack Kerouac (1969)
Horatio Nelson (1805)


1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1439 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74
1561 - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1627 - Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1629 - Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle
1637 - Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54
1650 - Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
1662 - Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66
1687 - Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
1773 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1793 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1798 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
1805 - Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
1805 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1810 - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
1861 - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
1861 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies
1863 - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 - Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1897 - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1905 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1906 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55
1916 - Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77
1924 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
1929 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
1931 - A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried
1939 - Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1943 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1955 - Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
1961 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies
1963 - George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
1963 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1965 - Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
1965 - Marie McDonald, singer/actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42
1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1969 - Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1970 - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48
1971 - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84
1973 - Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1977 - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
1978 - Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1983 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
1984 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1987 - Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1992 - Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 - Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1993 - Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
1993 - Irving Torgoff, US baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu pres of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
1993 - Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
1993 - Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
1994 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
1994 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
1995 - Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from
           complications of diabetes at 70
1995 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
1996 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
1996 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
1996 - George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
1996 - Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
1996 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 - Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
1997 - Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)
2012 - George McGovern, US Politician, dies at 90
2012 - Yash Chopra, Indian director, dies from dengue fever and multiple organ failure at 80
2012 - Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89

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This Day in History for 22nd October


Historical Events

                                   
Russian Tsar Peter the Great             Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini      US President John F. Kennedy

                                   
Writer Jean-Paul Sartre                           264th Pope John Paul II                      Musician & member of the Beatles   
                                                                                                                                          Paul McCartney

                 
Singer Elton John                                  Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt


362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1335 - Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest
1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King
           Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 - Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633),
           Ming dynasty won great victory.
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1721 - Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris)
1799 - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1812 - Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain
1819 - 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
1844 - Millerite Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
1861 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
1862 - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 - Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
1868 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in NYC
1875 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who
           were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the
           Poor House.
1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and
           Swinton.
1881 - Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1883 - 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
1884 - General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1884 - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at
           Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
1885 - John Ward & several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st
           baseball union
1895 - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of
           concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
1897 - World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1899 - British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1904 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1906 - 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will
           lead to a depression.
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged
           at Pentonville Prison in London.
1913 - Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1922 - Lucerne Street in Bronx named
1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sorryer punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1928 - China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
1928 - ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin
1928 - Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1928 - Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1929 - French government of Briand falls
1929 - James H Scullin forms Australia government
1930 - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
1930 - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
1932 - Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1932 - George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in NYC
1933 - Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal
           Bureau of Investigation agents.
1935 - 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City
1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1936 - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1938 - Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1939 - 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
1941 - Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in NYC
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1942 - US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1944 - Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo
1946 - 2 British ships sink near Albania
1948 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1949 - 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1950 - LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
1951 - Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France
1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1955 - WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
1957 - Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1957 - KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
1959 - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
1962 - JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962 - JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1962 - JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1963 - BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 - EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1967 - 17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US)
1967 - Ian Brayshaw (W Aus v Vic, Perth) takes all 10 cricket wkts
1967 - Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley
1967 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Apollo 7 returns to Earth
1969 - KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
1969 - Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test
1972 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
1972 - Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series
1973 - Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
1973 - Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1974 - Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
1975 - "Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
1975 - Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
1975 - Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975 - World Football League disbands
1975 - World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season
1976 - Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it
           causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1977 - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
1978 - "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1978 - 8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30
1978 - 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
1978 - Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8 )
1978 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1978 - Pope John Paul II installed
1979 - "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in NYC
1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment
1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1980 - 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
1980 - New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
1981 - Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland
1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by
           Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
1982 - Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1983 - Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the
           Supermax model of prisons.
1984 - NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
1985 - Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st World Series win
1986 - "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
1987 - "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
1987 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
1988 - Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
1989 - Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
1989 - Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1991 - General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
1992 - Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space
1992 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in NYC
1993 - Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
1994 - "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs
1994 - Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
1994 - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
1995 - "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 perfs
1996 - NY Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th
           straight post season road win (en route to 8 )
1997 - Cleve Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games
1997 - Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38°F)
1997 - Larry Flynt sells Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati
1997 - Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
1997 - NY Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious & gets 2 stitches while watching
           the game as a plexiglass falls on her
1997 - 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins & Indians were tied 7-7 going into
           the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1997 - Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a
           Netscape icon
1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for
           crimes against humanity.
2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
           the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum
           held in Panama.
2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2012 - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila
           earthquake
2012 - Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Weddings

1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron (50) weds Eva Peron (26) on a civil
           ceremony in Junin
1967 - Actor Morgan Freeman (30) weds Jeanette Adair Bradshaw
1993 - Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
2001 - Tennis champion Andre Agassi (31) weds former World's No. 1 German tennis player Steffi
           Graf (32) in Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 - "Extra" reporter Carlos Diaz weds Adrienne Allen at Union Station's Grand Hall in Indianapolis,
           Indiana
2005 - German film and television actress Uschi Glas (61) weds Dieter Hermann in Munich Palace
2005 - Austria's finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser (36) weds Fiona Swarovski in Weissenkirchen,
           Austria
2011 - Actor and comedian Robin Williams (60) weds graphic designer Susan Schneider at the
           luxurious Meadow Wood Resort in the Napa Valley town of St. Helena, California
2011 - "The Bachelorette" TV personality DeAnna Pappas (29) weds Stephen Stagliano (27) in
           Georgia
2011 - Former US Senator John Edwards's daughter Cate Edwards (29) weds Trevor Upham (30) in
           Chapel Hill, North Carolina

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Divorces

2007 - Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson (40) divorces actress Kate Hudson (28) due to
           irreconcilable differences after nearly six years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer/Pianist                               Photojournalist Robert Capa (1913)              Actress Joan Fontaine (1917)
Franz Liszt (1811)

                 
38th US President                             Pop Singer and Rapper Shaggy (1968)
Gerald Ford (1948)


1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
1686 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1698 - Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, composer
1701 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
1737 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1752 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
1761 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
1765 - Daniel Steibelt, composer
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king
1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
1790 - Jan Ackersdijk, Dutch political economist
1809 - Federico Ricci, composer
1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
1810 - Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist ( Faust Symphony), (d.
           1886)
1818 - Leconte de Lisle, writer
1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
1826 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
1832 - August Labitzky, composer
1832 - Leopold Damrosch, composer
1838 - Carl Fuchs, composer
1845 - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1847 - Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician
1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
1876 - Karl B Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother)
1880 - Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1883 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk)
1883 - Viktor Jacobi, composer
1885 - Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
1885 - Lothar Windsperger, composer
1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
1887 - John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1891 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer
1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d.1988)
1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
1896 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
1898 - Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
1898 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1900 - Edward R Stettinius, US, foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat
1900 - James Hall, Dallas TX, actor (Hell's Angels)
1901 - Charles Huggins, Canada, US physician
1903 - George Beadle, US biologist (Nobel 1958)
1904 - Paul Arma, composer
1905 - Constance Bennett, NYC, actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)
1905 - Joseph Kosma, composer
1905 - Karl Jansky, Czech, discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932)
1906 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
1906 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
1907 - Henriette Wyeth, 1st lady of american art
1907 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (534, Detroit Tigers)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist
1908 - John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly)
1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
1909 - Litz Pisk, movement teacher
1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
1913 - Annette Rogers, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1913 - Bo Dai, last emporer of Vietnam
1913 - Patricia "Boots" Mallory, US dancer/actress (Handle With Care)
1913 - Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
1913 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
1915 - Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1916 - Michael F Howard, British Major-General (Gold Stick to the Queen)
1916 - Sid Miller, Shenandoah Pa, actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show)
1917 - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1919 - Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist (Golden Notebook)
1919 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
1920 - Harry Potts, soccer star/manager
1920 - Mitzi Green, Bronx NY, actress (Little Orphan Annie)
1920 - Timothy Leary, Harvard prof (LSD taker)
1921 - Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer
1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1922 - John H Chafee, (Sen-R-Rhode Island, 1976- )
1922 - John Weidner, Brussels, Belgium, war hero
1922 - Ton Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen)
1922 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
1923 - Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
1923 - Bert Trautmann, German footballer, (d. 2013)
1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, Port Arthur Tex, painter (Gloria)
1925 - Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan], Rahway, New Jersey, singer-songwriter (Mythical
           Kings, Iguanas), (d. 2012)
1926 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian
1927 - Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of S Afr Labour Party
1927 - Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director
1929 - Dory Previn, Rahway NJ, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
1929 - Giorgio Gaslini, composer
1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper (Soviet Union 1954-1967)
1931 - Hikaru Hayashi, composer
1933 - Donald Herod Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6)
1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
1934 - Donald McIntyre, Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold)
1935 - Judy Devlin Hashman, 10 time badminton champ (1957-67)
1936 - Neville E Alexander, South african (10 years in Robbeneiland Jail)
1937 - Tadeas Salva, composer
1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)
1938 - Derek Jacobi, London, actor (Lanner-Strauss Family, Dead Again)
1939 - Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique (1986- )
1939 - Ray Jones, rock bassist (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1939 - Tony Roberts, NYC, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)
1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
1941 - Charles Keating, London England, actor (Carl Hutchins-Another World)
1942 - Annette Funicello, Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
1942 - Robin John Maconie, composer
1942 - Bobby Fuller, Baytown, Texas, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four)
1943 - Allen James Coage, NYC, HW judo (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, [Dorleac], Paris, actress (Repulsion, Hunger)
1943 - Paul Zukofsky, Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio)
1943 - Robert Long, [Leverman], Dutch singer/actor (Vroeger Kon je Lachen)
1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
1945 - Leslie West, [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)
1945 - Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host
1946 - Eddie Brigati, Garfield NJ, rock vocalist (Rascals)
1946 - Richard Loncraine, director (Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman & True)
1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
1946 - Claude Charron, French-Canadian politician and TV personality
1947 - Edward F Feighan, (Rep-D-OH, 1983- )
1947 - Lee Meredith, [Judith Lee Sauls], River Edge NJ, actress (Producers)
1947 - Neil Burton Rolnick, composer
1947 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
1947 - Haley Barbour, American politician, governor of Mississippi
1948 - John Peterson, US, Middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1948 - Mike Hendrick, cricketer (England seam bowler in 30 Tests 1974-81)
1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 - Manfred Burgsmuller, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
1949 - Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician
1949 - Arsène Wenger, French football manager
1952 - Jeff Goldblum, Pitts Pa, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day)
1953 - Roy Ristie, Suriname/Neth radio host (Apintie, Kankantrie)
1954 - Carla Dunlap, Newark NJ, bodybuilder (Pumping Iron 2)
1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
1958 - Bobby Blotzner, rock drummer (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Todd Graff, NYC, actor (Five Corners, Dominic & Eugene)
1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
1961 - Barbara Potter, Ct, tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbledon Court)
1961 - Donna Wynd, Auckland NZ, 1k sprint cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 - Leonard Marshall, NFL defensive end (NY Giants, NY Jets)
1961 - Sanath Kaluperuma, cricketer (four Tests for Sri Lanka 1984-88)
1961 - Robert Torti, American actor
1962 - Derrick Waldroup, Chicago Ill, 198 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1962 - Gayle Stammer, Livermore California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1963 - Brian Boitano, Mountainview California, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 - Cherie Witter, Everett Wash, playmate (February, 1985)
1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
1965 - Marvin Washington, NFL defensive end (NY Jets, SF 49ers)
1965 - Otis Smith, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
1966 - Blair Hartland, cricketer (NZ opener)
1966 - Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress (Rain Man, Little Flames)
1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Carlos Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian
1968 - Keith Osik, Port Jefferson NY, catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 - Shelby Lynne, Quantico Va, country singer (If I Could Bottle This Up)
1968 - Stephane Quintal, Boucherville, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Warry van Wattum, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90, FC Groningen)
1968 - Shaggy [Orville Richard Burrell], Kingston, Jamaica, reggae rapper (Boombastic)
1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
1969 - Cuty [Yumi] Suzuki, Kawaguchi Japan, wrestler (Japan)
1969 - Kevin Carrasco, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
1970 - Coleman Rudolph, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1970 - Steve Campbell, Buffalo NY, tennis star
1970 - Winston Bogarde, soccer player (Sparta/Ajax)
1971 - Amanda Coetzer, Hoopstad South Africa, tennis star (1996 Aust semi)
1971 - Anthony "Pig" Miller, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Atlanta Hawks)
1971 - Mitchel van der Gaag, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Motherwell)
1971 - Timothy Christopher Carswell, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Scott Lachance, Charlottesville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1972 - Tyrone Williams, WLAF/NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Victoria Lagerstrom, Miss Sweden Universe (1997)
1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
1973 - Kathy Butler, Edinburgh Scotld, Canad 3k/5k runner (Olympic-8-92, 96)
1973 - Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Layla Harvest Roberts, Kealakekua HI, playmate (Oct, 1997)
1974 - Miroslav Satan, Topolcany Slo, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers, Sabres)
1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
1975 - Melchior Schoenmakers, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1975 - Martín Cardetti, Argentine footballer
1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 - Helen Svedin, Swedish model
1977 - Katrina Bergstrom, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
1979 - Eve Chalom, Detroit Mich, dance skater (& Gates--1995 Nat Jr champ)
1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
1981 - Michael Fishman, Long Beach California, actor (DJ-Roseanne)
1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Heath Miller, American football player
1982 - Daniel M. Johnson "The Untouchable DJ Drastic", American DJ, music industry professional,
           and radio presenter
1983 - Glenn Loovens, Dutch footballer
1985 - Zac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1986 - Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
1987 - Jake Richardson, English footballer
1990 - Jonathan William Lipnicki, actor (Jeff Foxworthy Show, Jerry McGuirre)
1992 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Deaths

                                   
French Painter Paul Cézanne (1906)         Gangster Charles Floyd (1934)             Historian Arnold Toynbee (1975)


741 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
1383 - Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1494 - Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1651 - Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1707 - Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
1708 - Herman Witsius, [Wits], reformed theologist, dies at 72
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer, dies at 65
1751 - Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1763 - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
1764 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1802 - Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62
1813 - August Harder, composer, dies at 38
1818 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1835 - Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1852 - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1854 - J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57
1859 - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
1869 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64
1881 - Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67
1882 - Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65
1883 - George Coulthard, cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1889 - Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1919 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30
1926 - Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies
1927 - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1932 - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1942 - Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies
1942 - Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1943 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80
1948 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies
1954 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1960 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67
1965 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42
1965 - Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies
1966 - Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1970 - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1972 - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies
1973 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
1975 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1981 - Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
1984 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66
1984 - Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 - Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
1986 - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as
           her copter crashes
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68
1989 - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1991 - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53
1992 - Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84
1993 - Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
1993 - Fred C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1993 - Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1994 - Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
1994 - David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
1994 - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
1994 - Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
1995 - Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
1995 - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73
1995 - Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
1995 - Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81
1995 - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39
1996 - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
1996 - Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2007 - Ève Curie French writer (b. 1904)
2009 - Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (b. 1933)
2009 - Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)
2011 - Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Crown Prince (b. 1924 or 1930)
2012 - Russell Means, Native American activist,dies from esophageal cancer at 72
2012 - Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 77
2012 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist,dies at 89