~ On This Day in History ~

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This Day in History for 23rd October


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King of France Louis XIV         Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin            Baseball Great Babe Ruth

                                   
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson              Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak             Musician Sid Vicious


Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat


4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher
42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated
            by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
425 - Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
502 - The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus
         of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
585 - Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Mâcon (Mastico)
787 - Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: Army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso
           VI
1091 - Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing 2 and demolishing the then
           wooden London Bridge
1157 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and
           Valdemar I restores the country.
1229 - Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1520 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1588 - Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster
1642 - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1644 - Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1681 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
1684 - Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1690 - Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
1702 - -24] Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet
1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on
           Spain.
1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1805 - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1812 - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British
           North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next
           three decades by the United Kingdom).
1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1853 - Maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens
1854 - The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General
           Stirling Price
1867 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the
           Canadian Senate.
1871 - Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1876 - New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1884 - 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1886 - St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
1888 - Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested
1890 - Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
1893 - C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)
1905 - Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in NYC
1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1910 - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 - 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1917 - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
1919 - Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1920 - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox
           World Series scandal
1921 - Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1921 - Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1922 - Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in NYC
1922 - Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
1923 - Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
1927 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1932 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1932 - Pieter G Marais, S Afr minister of Education/Development aid
1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
1935 - Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
1935 - Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament
1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at
           a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
1942 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is
           struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims
           is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in
           Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1943 - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 - Burma railway opens
1944 - 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
1944 - Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 - Vice-adm Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract
1946 - UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
1947 - NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1947 - Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1953 - France grants Laos' sovereignty
1953 - German FR applies to NATO
1953 - WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 - German FR joins NATO
1954 - Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 - WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
1956 - Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The
           Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1957 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 - De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 - USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery
           at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November
           1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at         
           74.
1959 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1961 - "Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
1962 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 - WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC
1964 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 - Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1966 - Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances
1967 - NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1968 - "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
1968 - Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1969 - "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
1970 - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
1971 - WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins
1972 - "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
1972 - Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 - WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 - UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 - Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1974 - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker
1974 - Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1975 - Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola
1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1977 - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1977 - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
1977 - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the
           earliest life forms, had been discovered
1978 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
1978 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow
           salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
1980 - "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances
1980 - McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA
1980 - Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1981 - US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 - 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
1983 - 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
1983 - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1983 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1984 - Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1984 - NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 - STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1987 - Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1988 - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1989 - Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1989 - William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London
1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
1991 - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1991 - Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
1993 - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
1993 - Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
1993 - Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
1994 - 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV
1996 - NY Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves
           8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win
1997 - "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 - At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
1997 - Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
1997 - Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers
1998 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman
           Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after
           peace talks.
2001 - Apple releases the iPod.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow
           and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 - A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35
           people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2009 - The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of
           goods is ratified with its twentieth signature.
2011 - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and
           injuring thousands.
2012 - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan

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This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Weddings

1918 - Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
1996 - American caricaturist Al Hirshfeld (93) weds Louise Kerz
2010 - Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort
          Aman-i-Khas in Northern India

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This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Brazilian Football Legend                     Novelist Michael Crichton (1942)          Parody Singer and Comedian Weird
Pele (1940)                                                                                                               Al Yankovic (1959)


1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
1516 - Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
1543 - Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist
1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)
1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)
1705 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1713 - Peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist
1715 - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Saint Petersburg, tsar of Russia (1727-30)
1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1766 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
1767 - H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
1788 - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1797 - John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
1805 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1810 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1820 - James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1824 - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1828 - Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97)
1844 - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1844 - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
1852 - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1868 - Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1870 - Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1880 - Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield)
1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1888 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane)
1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
1899 - Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1900 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (England's Bodyline captain)
1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
1902 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1904 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
1905 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 - Gertrude Ederle, NYC, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
1910 - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1910 - Sally O'Neil, Bayonne NJ, actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth)
1914 - Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
1917 - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
1918 - James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
1918 - Peggy Moran, actress (Double Date, Horror Island)
1920 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1921 - Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
1922 - Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
1922 - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
1923 - Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1923 - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1925 - Nanni Loy, film director
1927 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Roxy)
1927 - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil)
1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
1928 - Bella Darvi, [Bayla Wegier], Sosnowiec Poland, actress (Racers)
1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
1930 - Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari)
1931 - Diana Dors, [Fluck], Swindon England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
1931 - Jim Bunning, Southgate, Kentucky, American baseball player and politician (perfect Game vs
           Mets 1965)/(Rep-R-Ky)
1932 - Dimitra Arliss, actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
1932 - Vasily Belov, Northern Krai,USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012)
1933 - Tom Dewdney, cricket pace bowler (WI of 50's)
1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Rio Piedras PR, PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson)
1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
1936 - Barry Sinclair, cricketer (21 Tests for NZ in the 60's, 3 centuries)
1936 - Philip Kaufman, director (Right Stuff, Henry & June)
1938 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-PA, 1977- )
1938 - Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
1939 - Charlie Foxx, US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
1939 - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1940 - Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento], Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazilian footballer
           (Player of the Century - 1281 goals in 1363 games)
1941 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (England bat whose career was cut short)
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1941 - Mel Winkler, American actor
1942 - Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 - Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), (d. 2008)
1944 - Warren Burton, Chicago IL, actor (Jason Dunlap-Another World
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
1946 - Miklos Nemeth, Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 - Mel Martinez, American politician
1947 - Greg Ridley, rocker
1948 - Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
1948 - Brian Ross, American journalist
1948 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1951 - Michael Rupert, Denver Colorado, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American director (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain)
1956 - Betsy Nagelsen, St Petersburg FL, tennis star
1956 - Darrell Pace, Cin Ohio, archer (Oly-2 gold/silver-1976, 84, 88)
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
1957 - Louann Fernald San Antonio TX, playmate (Jun, 1979)
1957 - Sue Ertl, LPGA golfer
1958 - Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
1959 - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1959 - Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
1960 - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1962 - Beatie Edney, London England, actress (Diary of a Mad Old Man)
1962 - Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
1962 - Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer (vuurtorenpostzegels)
1962 - Doug Flutie, CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)
1962 - Jaime Yzaga, Peru, tennis star
1962 - Mike Tomczak, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1963 - David Bedard, Montreal QUE, 3m springboard diver (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1963 - Katherine Hushaw, Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
1965 - Al Leiter, Toms River NJ, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets)
1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
1967 - Jaime Yzaga, Lima Peru, tennis star
1967 - Michael Philbrick, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1968 - Bettina Fulco Villella, Mar Del Plata Arg, tennis star (1993 Futures)
1968 - Kendall Gammon, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Kevin Henry, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Maggie Philgence, St Lucia Castries VI, WPVA (Oly Fest-gold-91)
1969 - Brooke Theiss, California, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
1969 - Kristine Bailey, Livonia Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1970 - Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
1971 - Alai Kalaniuvalu, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Daryl Price, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Patrise Alexander, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Tiffeny Milbrett, Portland Oregon, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1973 - Blaine McElmurry, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Mac Cozier, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Shawn Wooden, free safety (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Sjoerd Sanders, soccer player (PSV/MVV)
1974 - Derek Landy, Lusk, Ireland, author ( Skulduggery Pleasant series)
1974 - Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, NZ, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Dani Tyler, Denver Colorado, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Kaleena Kiff, Santa Monica California, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
1974 - Sander Westerveld, soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 - Keith Van Horn, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1975 - Odalys García, Cuban actress
1975 - Jessicka, American artist
1976 - Julie Howard, Brantford ON, 100m/200m backstroker (Olympics-27-92, 96)
1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1979 - Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
1980 - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
1981 - Ben Francisco, American baseball player
1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1985 - James Kotecki, American political blogger
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American Actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

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This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Deaths

                 
Fashion Designer                              Country Singer Maybelle Carter (1978)
Christian Dior (1957)


42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
1260 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1602 - Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1753 - Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1782 - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73
1799 - William Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1806 - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
1869 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72
1872 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1886 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1892 - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52
1899 - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
1901 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
1903 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
1921 - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1925 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50
1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
1929 - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
1935 - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
1935 - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1936 - (Marie) Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
1939 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1942 - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
1942 - Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41
1944 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1948 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
1950 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
1952 - Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31
1953 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
1954 - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86
1957 - Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 of a heart attack
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1963 - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78
1966 - Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
1969 - Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47
1975 - Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
1975 - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1976 - Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
1983 - Jessica Savage, Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 - Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 - David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 - Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1986 - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92
1986 - Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
1991 - Lance Baker, dies at 31
1992 - Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies
1994 - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
1994 - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
1996 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
1996 - Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
1996 - Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2001 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
2007 - Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
2008 - Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2010 - Francis Crippen, American long-distance swimmer (b. 1984)
2010 - Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942)
2011 - Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2011 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence,
           inventor of the Lisp programming language.(b. 1927)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th October


Historical Events

                                   
Microbiologist Robert Koch                     Aviator Orville Wright                               Gangster Al Capone

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                  Musician & member of the Beatles                   Tennis Player Steffi Graf
Adolf Hitler                                                      Paul McCartney


1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for
           himself.
1260 - The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France;
           the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred
           Years' War.
1492 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1531 - Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union
1593 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.
1596 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany
1648 - Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire
1648 - Switzerland's independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia
1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London
1795 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
1836 - A Phillips patents match
1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted
1857 - World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
1861 - 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia
1871 - Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1881 - Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty
1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1885 - Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna
1889 - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1899 - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army
1900 - General Redvers Buller returns to England
1901 - 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1903 - 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 - George Sutton becomes billard champ
1904 - 1st NY subway opens
1908 - Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North
           Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1913 - Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
1916 - Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
1917 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
1922 - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922 - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1923 - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 - Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1929 - Belgium princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination
           attempt on Umberto fails
1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President
           of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."
1931 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ dedicated, opens the next day
1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1931 - George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1933 - Langston Hughes' "Mulatto," premieres in NYC
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2]
1935 - Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B
           Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series
1938 - US forbids child labor in factories
1939 - Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
1939 - Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
1939 - Nazi require wearing of star of David
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
1940 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1942 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1943 - Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944 - Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
1944 - US air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 - US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte
1945 - Charter of United Nations of force became
1945 - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
1945 - UN charter comes into effect
1946 - Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer
           space.
1947 - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1948 - Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1948 - Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta," premieres
1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
1948 - WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in NYC
1951 - United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps
1952 - Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria
1953 - KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the
           United States of America (PCUSA)
1956 - AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1957 - Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
1957 - The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
1959 - US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
1960 - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-
           unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
1961 - "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs
1962 - In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
1963 - "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs
1963 - KRO shows 1st Bonanza
1963 - Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1964 - "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1964 - 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
1964 - Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1964 - Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia
1964 - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 - Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust
1965 - Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
1969 - Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together
1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1971 - Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1971 - Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
1973 - John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1975 - Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1976 - 1st Jewish film & TV festival
1976 - 6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11
1976 - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1976 - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
1978 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
1978 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
1980 - John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1981 - Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the
           centenary of the artist's birth
1982 - "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1982 - 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1982 - 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
1984 - 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1984 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1986 - Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement
1986 - Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
1987 - Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1988 - NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
1988 - Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1989 - After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
1990 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1991 - "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 perfs
1991 - Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series
1993 - "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
1994 - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
1995 - Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
1996 - Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days
1996 - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season
           win (with no loses)
1997 - Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway
           sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2004 - 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near
           Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.
2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause",
           an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
2008 - "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in
           their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2009 - First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to
           address a claimed global warming crisis.
2012 - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
2012 - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in
           Downey, California
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in
           damage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Weddings

1969 - "Love Story" actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright Moss Hart (1904)                    Economist/Nobel Laureate                          Actor Kevin Kline (1947)
                                                                 Robert Mundell (1932)


51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1607 - John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver
1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1789 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-6)
1789 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
1794 - Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant
1796 - August v Platen, writer
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1808 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor
1815 - John Edwards, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1830 - Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court)
1842 - Josef Nesvera, composer
1844 - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna
1854 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1863 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer
1867 - Franco Leoni, composer
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1877 - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer
1877 - Rika H E Hopper, Dutch actress (Anastasia)
1878 - Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram)
1881 - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer
1882 - Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan)
1885 - Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem)
1886 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco)
1887 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso
1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1890 - Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
1890 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer
1891 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (The Two Orphans)
1891 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep (1930-61)
1892 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter
1894 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 - Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol)
1897 - Lazar Weiner, composer
1899 - Ferhat Abbas, Algerian pharmacist/MP chairman (1962-63)
1900 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages
1900 - Karl Otto Runolfsson, composer
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)
1905 - Elizabeth Poston, composer
1906 - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter
1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1908 - John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist
1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 - Clarence M Kelley, FBI head
1911 - Sonny Terry, rocker
1911 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1913 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer
1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 - Jean Vallerand, composer
1915 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Figaro-Barber of Seville)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1915 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1917 - Marshall Goldberg, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 - Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Medea, Uncle Wanja)
1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 - Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
1923 - Reed van Delft, [Hendrika M Schwartz], actress (Golden draagkoets)
1924 - Jose Casanovas, composer
1924 - Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player (1948 . . 55)
1925 - Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker
1925 - Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (exciting Aussie all-rounder)
1925 - Luciano Berio, Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins)
1926 - Y A Tittle, AAFC/NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
1927 - Renato de Grandis, composer
1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1928 - Gabriel Laub, Polish writer
1928 - Ken Hough, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in two Tests v England 1959)
1929 - George H Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
1929 - James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (Long Season)
1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norway, polemologist (Meaning of Nonviolence)
1930 - Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (Stimmen Verstummen)
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 - Robert Mundell, Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999)
1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
1934 - Arvind Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav Scored 8 & 7 in one Test)
1934 - Margie Masters, LPGA golfer
1936 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch politican (VVD)
1936 - Bill Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
1936 - David Nelson, NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1936 - Rainer Kunad, composer
1937 - Miguel Angel Coria, composer
1938 - Fred E Finn, SF California, pianist (Mickie Finn's)
1939 - Uri Sharvit, composer
1940 - David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder (Dutch Soc-Dem)
1940 - F Murray Abraham, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1941 - Frank AM Aendenboom, Flemish actor (Lion of Flanders)
1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1943 - Jose Serrano, (Rep-D-New York)
1944 - Ted Templeman, rocker
1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canada, rock drummer (Steppenwolf)
1947 - Edgar Broughton, rocker
1947 - Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
1948 - Dale "Buffin" Griffin, rock drummer (Mott The Hoople)
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, (Rep-D-Maryland)/CEO (NAACP)
1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women
1950 - Terry Buffin, rock drummer (British Lions)
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1951 - Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Magician)
1953 - Billy Thomas, Ft Meyers Fla, singer (McBride & Ride-I Count on You)
1953 - James di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
1953 - Jonathan di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
1954 - Doug Davidson, Glendale CA, actor (Paul Williams-Young & Restless)
1954 - Jaap J Feenstra, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1954 - Perry Lee "Tiny" Tavares, rocker
1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician
1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1955 - Ghulam Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman v England 1982)
1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author
1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 - John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1958 - Mathilde Santing, Dutch rock singer (Breast & Brow)
1958 - Pam Gietzen, LPGA golfer
1960 - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer (1991 British Open)
1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 - Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
1961 - Rafael Belliard, Pueblo Nuevo Dom Rep, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1961 - Russell Swanson, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1961 - Susan Leigh Still, Augusta Ga, lt cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 83, 94)
1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
1961 - Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 - B D Wong, SF CA, actor (Freshman, Mystery Date)
1962 - Jay Novacek, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1964 - Griffin O'Neal, actor (April Fools Day, Wraith)
1964 - Patrick Hunter, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Donald Frank, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Vernice Smith, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, St Louis Rams)
1965 - Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 - F P Santangelo, Livonia MI, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Shawn Lee, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 - Ian Bishop, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler)
1968 - Adrian Dale, cricketer (prolific Glamorgan & England A batsman)
1968 - Francisco Claver, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Ken Ryan, Pawtucket RI, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 - Arthur Rhodes, Waco Texas, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1969 - Kelvin Pritchett, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Morena Corwin, Seoul, Korea, playmate (Sep, 1992)
1969 - Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 - Alonza Bevan, London, bassist/tabla (Kula Shaker)
1970 - Lamont Hollinquest, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Todd Riech, Polson Montana, javelin thrower
1970 - Walter Dunson, NFL running back/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rob Leslie-Carter, British Engineer and Project Manager
1971 - Aaron Bailey, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Mike Verstegen, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1972 - Eric Sutton, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun)
1972 - Natasha Ann Courter, Davenport Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1997)
1972 - Pat Williams, defensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Ruxandra Dragomir, Pitesti Rom, tennis star (1996 Bournemouth doubles)
1972 - Susan Barnett, Miss Pennsylvania USA (1996)
1972 - T J Cunningham, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Tom Fletcher, NFL defensive safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
1973 - Kenny Holmes, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973 - Mike Matthews, American baseball player
1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1974 - Alexander PGR duke of Ulster, son of English prince Richard
1974 - Nathan Parks, tackle (KC Chiefs)
1974 - Jamal Mayers, Professional Hockey Player
1975 - Corey Dillon, HB (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 - Yanda Nossiter, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 - Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 - Amanda Aardsma, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - James Killian, American football player
1980 - Monica, American singer
1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1981 - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 - Tila Tequila, American model
1982 - Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 - Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1988 - Daniel Shalikar, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids)
1988 - Joshua Shalikar, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids)
1989 - Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Deaths

                                   
Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1601)               American Statesman                  Baseball Player Jackie Robinson (1972)
                                                                Daniel Webster (1852)

 
Civil Rights Activist Rosa Lee Parks (2005)


996 - Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1521 - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57
1537 - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1579 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51
1601 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
1649 - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63
1667 - Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1679 - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1785 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64
1789 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69
1789 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68
1799 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, dies at
           64
1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70
1860 - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80
1864 - James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1897 - Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1901 - Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82
1902 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69
1912 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1918 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1925 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56
1929 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
1930 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1931 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (S Afr)/Chief Justice of Rhodesia, dies
1938 - Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68
1940 - Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74
1942 - Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (1 Test England 1921, 1 run, 1 catch), dies
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58
1948 - Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
1949 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74
1958 - Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81
1958 - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83
1963 - Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1967 - Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63
1969 - Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71
1970 - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54
1971 - Carl Ruggles, US composer (Evocations), dies at 95
1971 - Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies
1971 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer/conductor (Guerre), dies at 73
1972 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53
1973 - Jack Iverson, cricketer (5 Tests 21 wickets S1024 15 23), dies
1974 - David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65
1975 - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1976 - Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70
1980 - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30
1981 - Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 - James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1983 - Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1984 - Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66
1984 - Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1987 - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70
1991 - Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43
1992 - Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies
1992 - Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48
1993 - Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
1993 - Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
1993 - Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
1994 - Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
1994 - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
1995 - Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
1995 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87
1996 - Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83
1996 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71
1996 - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96
1996 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87
1996 - Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
1997 - Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
2008 - Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)
2010 - Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)
2010 - Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)
2012 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player, dies at 94

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th October


Historical Events

                                   
Explorer of the New World                Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky            Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Christopher Columbus

                                   
Soldier, author, journalist, politician       German WWII Field Marshal                   Author John Steinbeck
Winston Churchill                                       Erwin Rommel   

                                   
Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                  Singer-songwriter & Actress                    New York Yankees Owner
                                                              Barbra Streisand                                      George Steinbrenner


Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield


625 - Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1131 - Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
1147 - King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon
1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1241 - Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
1415 - John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1492 - Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas)
1492 - Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic
1521 - Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
1555 - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1577 - Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1616 - VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1621 - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1666 - Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape
           Finisterre.
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1812 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean
1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
1854 - Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
1859 - Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1861 - Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF
1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange created.
1864 - Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
1864 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1870 - Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 - Postcards 1st used in US
1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in
           Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1884 - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3
1885 - John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends
1893 - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles
1900 - England annexes Transvaal
1902 - Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow
1902 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1906 - Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France
1906 - US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a
           pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
1907 - Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1915 - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
1917 - Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1924 - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published
1925 - Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers
1925 - Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
1926 - Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1932 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1932 - Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years
1935 - Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
1937 - Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1937 - Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a
           degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young
           people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1939 - George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in NYC
1939 - William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in NYC
1940 - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
1940 - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
1940 - Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC
1940 - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1941 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1941 - Germany attacks Moscow
1941 - Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
1942 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1942 - Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
1943 - Burma railroad completed & opens
1944 - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 - Battle at Samar-island
1944 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 - Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1946 - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1947 - "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs
1947 - Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours
1947 - Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M
1948 - Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
1950 - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950 - Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris
1950 - Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1952 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1952 - French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam
1952 - Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India
1953 - Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1953 - Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
1953 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
1953 - KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time
           since German occupation of 1938
1955 - Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1956 - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1957 - Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1960 - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
1962 - 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
1962 - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 - Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am
           prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 - Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1963 - Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1964 - Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1966 - 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
1968 - Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1968 - Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1970 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
1971 - Belgium & China PR establish diplomatic relations
1971 - General Meeting of UN agrees to admit China PR
1971 - Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 - UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China
1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
1972 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks
1973 - Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1973 - Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris
1973 - SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
1974 - Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
1974 - Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1975 - Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits
1975 - USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1976 - 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
1976 - Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys
           who were convicted in 1931 rape
1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1978 - Israeli government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1978 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 - Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes
           #1 for 3 weeks
1981 - 11th NYC Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29
1981 - 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
1981 - 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
1981 - Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon
1981 - George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1982 - David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria
1983 - US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1984 - "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
1984 - Hepatitis virus is discovered
1984 - King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1984 - Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 - West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1985 - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1985 - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1986 - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 - Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1986 - Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World
           Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
1987 - Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to
           3 in 84th World Series
1988 - ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1991 - Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1992 - "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 perfs
1992 - "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances
1992 - Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager
1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
1993 - Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
1993 - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
1993 - Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record
1994 - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1995 - "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
1996 - Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1997 - After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis
           Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2001 - Windows XP first became available.
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be
           banned by November 8.
2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ
           380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
2009 - The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million
           in damage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Weddings

1764 - 2nd American President John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1973 - American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)
1996 - Singer-dancer Paula Abdul (33) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman (30) at Beverly
           Hills Four Seasons Hotel
1998 - "Punky Brewster" actress Soleil Moon Frye (22) weds television producer and actor Jason
           Goldberg (26) at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California
2008 - Olympic gold medal-winning skier Picabo Street (37) weds John Reeser (31) on top of
           Alabama's Prospect Mountain in Hanceville
2009 - Socialite Ivanka Trump (27) weds New York Observer owner Jared Kushner (28) at Trump
           National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer Georges Bizet (1838)             Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky            Pop Star Katy Perry (1984)


1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1360 - Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1510 - Renée of France, French princess and Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1574)
1528 - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician
1576 - Thomas Weelkes, composer
1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
1692 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain
1709 - Georg Gebel, composer
1709 - John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised
1716 - Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, composer
1721 - Pierre Talon, composer
1735 - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)
1759 - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
1772 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
1782 - Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1803 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poetess (Daisies)
1806 - Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige)
1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1814 - Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours
1815 - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer
1815 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6]
1819 - Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1838 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
1843 - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
1859 - Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers)
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1866 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
1869 - August Otto Halm, composer
1869 - John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1878 - Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch publisher
1879 - Jean Rogister, composer
1879 - Mayhew Lake, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), (d. 1973)
1882 - Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer
1884 - Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
1887 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven)
1888 - Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney
1888 - Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
1888 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 - Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
1889 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1891 - Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1895 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
1898 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician
1902 - Henry Steele Commager, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American historian (Atlas of Civil War)
1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
1903 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
1909 - Whit Bissel, NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel)
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1912 - Minnie Pearl, [Sarah Ophelia Colley], Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
1913 - Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief (Lyon)
1913 - Horace Grant Fletcher, composer
1914 - John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)
1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
1917 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1921 - Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist
1921 - Michael I, King of Romania (1927-30, 40-47)
1923 - Bobby Thomson, HR hitter (Giants win the pennant)
1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Billy Barty, Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
1925 - Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Biff McGuire, New Haven Ct, actor (Serpico, Heart is Lonely Hunter)
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, USSR, soprano opera singer, (d. 2012)
1926 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
1927 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1927 - Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
1927 - Hedley Keith, cricketer (solid left-handed for South Africa in the 1950's)
1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
1928 - Anthony Franciosa, [Papaleo], NYC, actor (Jeff-Name of the Game)
1928 - Jeanne Cooper, Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless), (d. 2013)
1928 - Marion Ross, Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge)
1929 - Peter Loader, cricketer (England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA)
1929 - Peter Rohmkorf, writer
1929 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist
1931 - Annie Giradot, Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1932 - Lev Nikolayevich Smirenny, cosmonaut
1932 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1933 - Larry J Hopkins, (Rep-R-KY, 1979- )
1933 - Ron Archer, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder mid-50's)
1933 - Roy Swetman, cricketer (England wicket-keeper late 50's)
1933 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Russell Luis Schweickart, Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)
1935 - Zdenek Pololanik, composer
1936 - Alan Smith, cricket wicket-keeper (England1962-63 Aust-NZ tour)
1936 - Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
1938 - Robert Webster, Berkeley Cal, diver (Oly-gold-1960, 64)
1939 - Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
1939 - Zelmo Beaty, Hillister, TX, basketball player (St Louis Hawks, Utah Stars), (d. 2013)
1940 - Bobby Knight, college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
1941 - Anne Tyler, American writer (Accidental Tourist)
1941 - Bobby Keetch, soccer player/entrepreneur
1941 - Helen Reddy, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (I Am Woman)
1943 - Roy Lynes, England, rock organist (Status Quo)
1943 - Selly Fernandes, Curacao poetess (Winking with Selly)
1944 - Jon Anderson, English rock singer for Yes
1944 - Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1944 - James Carville, American political stategist and commentator
1945 - David Norman Schramm, physicist
1946 - Peter Lieberson, composer
1947 - Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1947 - John Hall, rocker
1948 - Dan Gable, Waterloo Iowa, 68kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-72)
1948 - Dan Issel, NBA coach/player (27,482 points, Denver Nuggets)
1948 - Dave Cowens, NBA forward (Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 - Rob Halford, Engl metal singer (Judas Priest-Sin After Sin) [or 8/25]
1948 - Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
1949 - Brian Kerwin, Chicago Ill, actor (Chisholms, King Kong Lives, Lobo)
1949 - Walter Hyatt, Musician
1949 - Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - John Matuszak, Milwaukee Wisc, NFLer (Raiders)/actor (Hollywood Beat)
1951 - Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
1951 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1953 - Mark Will McNulty, Bindwa Zimbabwe, PGA golfer (1982 Danny Thomas-4th)
1953 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin, Piqua OH, LPGA golfer (1985 MasterCard Pro-Am)
1954 - Mike Eruzione, Winthrop Mass, jockey player (Olympics-gold-1980)
1955 - Danny Darwin, Bonham Texas, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
1955 - Glynis Barber, English actress
1956 - Matthias Jabs, rock guitarist (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1957 - Robbie Macintosh, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1958 - Dipak Patel, cricketer (in Kenya New Zealand off-spin all-rounder)
1958 - Kornelia Ender, Halle GDR, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-1972, 76)
1958 - Mark Miller, Dayton Ohio, actor (Search for Grace, Love Field)
1960 - Kelli McMullen-Temple, Columbus OH, Canadian equestrian (Olympics-96)
1960 - Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Tom Eplin, Hayward California, actor (Jake McKinnon-Another World)
1962 - Nick Hancock, British television presenter
1962 - Darlene Vogel, American actress
1963 - Tracy Nelson, California, American actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling)
1964 - Barb Broen-Ouellette, Edmonton Alberta, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1964 - Johan de Kock, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1964 - Melinda McGraw, Nicosa Cyprus, actress (Macenzie-Pursuit Of Happiness)
1964 - Michael Boatman, Colo Springs Colo, actor (Carter-Spin City)
1964 - Nick Thorp, rocker
1964 - Pat Swilling, NFL defensive end/linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Nicole, German singer
1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor
1965 - Derrick Rostagno, Los Angeles California, tennis star
1965 - Leigh Ann Mills, Melbourne FL, LPGA golfer (1985 Mazda Champions)
1965 - Nick Thorpe, rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1965 - Steve Decker, Rock Island IL, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 - Warren Ayres, cricketer (Victorian right-handed batsman since 1987-88)
1965 - Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
1965 - 2 Cold Scorpio, American professional wrestler
1966 - Wendel Clark, Kelvington, NHL left wing (Toronto, NY Islanders)
1966 - Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
1967 - Anthony Johnson, NFL fullback (Chic Bears, Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Kelly Chase, Porcupine Plain Ca, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Mazhar Hussein, cricketer (UAE batsman World Cup 1996)
1968 - Corey Miller, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1968 - Lisa Trusel, Cal, actress (Lizette-Father Murphy, Days of our Lives)
1969 - Corey Harris, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Eric Guliford, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, NO Saints)
1969 - Josef Beranek, Litvinov Cze, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1969 - Larry Thomas, Miami FL, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1969 - Oleg Salenko, Russian former footballer
1970 - Audra Wilks, Miss USA-Virginia (1997, Miss Photogenic)
1970 - Kelvin Ingram, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
1970 - Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor
1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 - Jeffrey Prommayon, soccer player (PSV)
1971 - Laura Chapot, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lee Gissendaner, NFL/WLAF receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Midori, violinist
1971 - Stephanie Martin-Cobb, LPGA golfer
1971 - Simon Charlton, English footballer
1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
1972 - Leland Taylor, defensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor
1973 - Joe Angel Acosta Jr, SD CA, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-3rd)
1973 - Steve White, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Chris Murray, Port Hardy, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1974 - Frank Middleton, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Joanne Black, Miss Universe-Ireland (1996)
1974 - Lee Byung-Kyu, Korean baseball player
1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1975 - Ryan Clement, former XFL quarterback
1976 - Steve Jones, Irish footballer
1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
1978 - Riley Mants, Winnipeg Manitoba, 200m breaststroker (Olympics-96)
1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
1979 - Milena Roucka, Canadian former model current professional wrestler of Czech and Costa Rican
           descent.
1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
1979 - Sarah Thompson, American actress
1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player
1980 - Ilana Goldfogel, Denver Colorado, pairs skater (& Erik Schulz)
1980 - Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
1981 - Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
1982 - Jerome Carter, American football player
1982 - Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
1984 - Danny .S., English record producer
1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Katy Perry [Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson], pop singer (I Kissed A Girl, Waking Up In Vegas)
1985 - Maximillian Roeg, actor (Aria)
1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
1986 - DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
           Pop Star Katy PerryPop Star Katy Perry (1984) 1986 - Eddie Gaven, American footballer
1987 - Darron Gibson, Irish football player
1987 - Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist
1989 - Seth Mumy, actor (3 Wishes)
1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
2001 - Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Deaths

Country Singer Roger Miller (1992)


304 - Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies
625 - Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1047 - Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 - Stefanus van Blois, king of England (1135-54), dies
1400 - Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London
1415 - Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31
1415 - Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45
1415 - Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle
1415 - Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle
1495 - John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies
1510 - Il Giorgione, [Giorgio del Castelfranco], Italian painter, dies at 32
1604 - Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies
1676 - Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64
1760 - George II (August), king of Great Britain (1727-60), dies at 76
1833 - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44
1845 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1855 - Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84
1861 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82
1878 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89
1892 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60
1895 - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
1902 - Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32
1902 - Frank[lin] Norris, US writer (Pit), dies at 32
1904 - Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77
1907 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
1926 - Frederick Jr Zech, composer, dies at 68
1929 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
1933 - Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36
1936 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76
1939 - Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1942 - Ted Arnold, cricketer (160 runs & 31 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng), dies
1943 - H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed
1944 - Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed
1952 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75
1956 - Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67
1957 - Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect, dies at 94
1957 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (Jorkens), dies at 79
1957 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1957 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55
1959 - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1960 - José Padilla, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça c'est Paris - Moulin
           Rouge), dies at 71
1961 - Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1963 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer, dies at 53
1964 - Belle Montrose, actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78
1968 - Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies
1969 - Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84
1971 - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (King Lear), dies at 82
1972 - Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympic-gold 1960, 64), dies at 41
1973 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies
1975 - Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83
1976 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer (Last Days), dies at 73
1981 - Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1983 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer, dies at 86
1984 - Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of heart attack at 24
1985 - Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
1985 - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
1986 - Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67
1987 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80
1988 - Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75
1989 - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies
1989 - Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77
1991 - Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
1991 - Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75
1992 - Adelino Da Palma Carlos, PM of Portugal (1974), dies
1992 - Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56
1993 - Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
1993 - Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
1993 - Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85
1993 - Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82
1993 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1994 - Mildred Natwick, US actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89
1995 - Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77
1995 - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64
1995 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65
1995 - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84
1995 - Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77
1995 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74
1996 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95
2008 - Anne Pressly, American news anchor (b. 1982)
2010 - Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
2010 - Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (b. 1922)
2010 - Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (b. 1957)
2012 - Jacques Barzun, French author, dies at 104
2012 - John Connelly, English footballer, dies from cancer at 74

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th October


Historical Events

                                   
United States founding father                 OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp                          Nurse Margaret Sanger
Benjamin Franklin

                                   
Jazz-orchestra leader,                         Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa       Soldier, author, journalist, politician                       
Composer, Pianist                                                                                                     Winston Churchill
Duke Ellington

                                   
First Secretary of the Communist               Politician, statesman                              Israeli Prime Minister
Party of the Soviet Union                              Henry Kissinger                                      Menachem Begin         
Nikita Khrushchev

                 
Businessman & T.V. Personality              Baseball Player Derek Jeter
Donald Trump


740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1366 - Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth
1387 - Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace
1407 - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas
1492 - Lead pencils 1st used
1524 - Spanish troops give Milan to France
1529 - Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1534 - Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1662 - Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1667 - Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)
1674 - Prince Willem III occupies Grave
1682 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal
1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1776 - Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for
           the American Revolution.
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1795 - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US &
           giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1795 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1810 - US annexes western Florida
1822 - King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
1830 - Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
1858 - Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1859 - The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1861 - Pony Express ends
1863 - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
1864 - Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1868 - White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 - 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1876 - President sends federal troops to SC
1881 - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az
1886 - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia
1887 - Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1896 - Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty
1900 - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens
1901 - 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1903 - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
1905 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 - Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1911 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1912 - Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
1912 - Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1913 - Huerta elected president of Mexico
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1917 - Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1917 - World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
1918 - Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
1919 - B C Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in NYC
1919 - Elgars "Cello concerto on 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London
1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1921 - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1922 - Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
1923 - Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1923 - Government-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1926 - Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in NYC
1926 - Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
1927 - Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song"
1930 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
1931 - Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in NYC
1933 - French government of Serraut forms
1934 - While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's
           niece & adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1939 - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1941 - 2nd meeting partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1942 - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1943 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1947 - Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
1949 - President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1950 - 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1950 - Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1950 - Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 - South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
1951 - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India
1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1954 - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1954 - Trieste return to Italy.
1955 - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1955 - British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 - UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 - Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 - USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1958 - PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises
           in LA & Wash DC for 1961
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
1962 - Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1962 - JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed
           its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada
1964 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1965 - Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1965 - Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
1966 - 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 - US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1967 - Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1968 - 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1968 - KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcastng
1968 - Soyuz 3 launched
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1969 - WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1970 - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1971 - UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 - Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 - Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1973 - Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
1973 - President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Wings release "Helen Wheels"
1974 - Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
1975 - Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US
1975 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1975 - Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1975 - Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
1976 - Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1977 - 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the
           CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular
           success of vaccination.
1978 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 - Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi
           Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1980 - 10th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3
1980 - 11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41
1980 - St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
1981 - LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
1982 - Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1982 - US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1983 - Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1985 - -Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US
1985 - On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals
           the World Series
1986 - "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
1987 - Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 - Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1988 - US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1992 - The command and control system of the London Ambulance Service fails catastrophically.
1992 - The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1992 - The London Ambulance Service was thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new
           CAD, or Computer Aided Despatch, system which failed.
1993 - NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
1993 - NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
1994 - Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his
           hotel in Malta.
1996 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass,
           Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine
1997 - Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational
1997 - Nichirei LPGA International
1997 - Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic
1997 - World Series: Fla Marlins beat Cleve Indians, 4 games to 3
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper
           chamber of Parliament.
2000 - NY Yankees defeat NY Mets 4-1 to win their 3rd straight World Series championship, MVP:
           Derek Jeter, NY Yankees
2000 - Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against
           President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian
           Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a
           musical performance three days before.
2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000
           acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2005 - Chicago White Sox defeat Houston Astros 4-0 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP:
           Jermaine Dye, Chicago
2012 - 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2012 - 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana,
           Afghanistan
2012 - China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an
           investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million
           in damage

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This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Weddings

2002 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (22) weds singer-songwriter
           Nick Lachey (28) at Riverbend Church in Austin, Texas
2008 - World's fattest man Manuel Uribe (43) weds Claudia Solis (38) in Monterrey, Mexico

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This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Gospel Singer                                           Last Shah of Iran(1919)                        US First Lady and Politician 
Mahalia Jackson (1911)                           Mohammad Reza Pahlavi                      Hillary Clinton (1947)


1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1483 - Hans Buchner, composer
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1645 - Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanians historian/monarch of Moldova (1710-11)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist
1719 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
1740 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1758 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
1759 - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1789 - Joseph Mayseder, composer
1791 - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
1800 - Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1804 - Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875
1813 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer
1818 - Stefano Golinelli, composer
1823 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist
1824 - Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1830 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer
1830 - Stephen Elliott Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1837 - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1843 - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
1845 - Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 - August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)
1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1855 - Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals)
1859 - Arthur Friedheim, composer
1861 - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881)
1864 - Joseph Moorat, composer
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 - Hermann Lohr, composer
1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1875 - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, London England, actor (King of Kings)
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1881 - Margaret Wycherly, London England, actress (Keeper of the Flame)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1886 - Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1886 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS]
1888 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros)
1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1894 - John S Knight, WV, publisher (Knight-Rider)
1898 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer
1900 - Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan (1958-64)
1900 - Karin Boye, writer
1902 - Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (great leggie of 30's for NSW but not Aust)
1902 - Joseph Paul Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer
1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1907 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer
1907 - Johannes A Apon, Dutch actor (Kaukasische Krijtkring)
1910 - John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop (Philadelphia)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
1911 - Sid Gillman, Minneapolis, Minnesota, NFL hall of fame coach/player (LA, San Diego, Houston)
1911 - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet
1912 - Don[ald] Siegel, Chicago IL, director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist)
1913 - Stuart J[ames] Byrne, US, sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man)
1914 - Jackie Coogan, Los Angeles California, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), (d. 1984)
1915 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor
1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 - Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95)
1917 - Felix the Cat, cartoon character
1917 - Mario Biaggi, (Rep-D-NY, 1969-90)
1919 - Edward W Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79)
1920 - T C Jones, PA, female impersonator
1921 - George Houston, land economist
1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1924 - Tom F Lewis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist (Brief American)
1926 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut
1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 - Georgette Amowitz, choreographer/educator
1929 - Hans Peter Haller, composer
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1930 - John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty), (d. 2012)
1931 - Hank Garrett, Monticello NY, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1932 - Anthony C Beilenson, (Rep-D-California, 1977- )
1932 - Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1933 - Suzy Parker, San Antonio Tx, model/actress (Chamber of Horrors)
1934 - Ulrich Plentzdorf, writer
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Bruce Belland, Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour)
1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
1937 - Dave Gavitt, formed Basketball's Big East Conference (1979)
1938 - Bernadette Lafont, Nimes France, actress (Perils of Gwendoline), (d. 2013)
1938 - Charles W Stenholm, (Rep-D-Texas, 1979- )
1938 - Ralph Bakshi, animator (Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse)
1939 - Vladimir Mikhailovich Beloborodov, cosmonaut
1940 - Mario Orosco, 1st victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1941 - Harald Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1942 - Dietmar Polaczek, composer
1942 - John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to pres (Botha/De Klerk)
1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
1944 - Mike Piano, rocker (Sandpipers)
1944 - Ries [M] Smits, economist/Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
1945 - Jaclyn Smith, Houston, Texas, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Bourne Identity)
1945 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
1946 - Ivan Reitman, director/producer (Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave)
1946 - Keith Hopwood, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits)
1946 - Maureen Anderman, actress (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1946 - Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
1946 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
1947 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chicago, Illinois, First Lady (1993-2001), Senator (New York, 2001-
           2009), Secretary of State (2009-2013)
1948 - Marshall Colt, New Orleans La, actor (Eric-Lottery)
1949 - Kevin Sullivan, wrestler (WCW/ECW/SMW/NWA/Georgia/CWFI)
1950 - Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1950 - T E Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981)
1951 - Bootsy Collins, Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk)
1951 - Maggie Roche, rocker (Roches)
1951 - William "Bootsy" Collins, US bassist (Psychotic bump school)
1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
1953 - Jennifer Roberson, US, sci-fi author (Shapechangers, Sword-Maker)
1953 - Julian Keith Strickland, Athens Ga, drummer (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1953 - Lauren Tewes, Trafford Pa, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)
1953 - Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
1954 - D W Moffett, Highland Park IL, actor (Fine Things, Lisa, Chicago Sons)
1954 - Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
1955 - Stephen K Robinson, Sacramento California, PhD/astronaut (STS 85, sk:95)
1956 - Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor
1959 - Brian Bovell, British actor
1960 - Brian Hansen, NFL punter (NY Jets)
1960 - June Brigman, American comic book artist
1961 - Mark Bucek, Winter Pak FL, Nike golfer (1994 Gary Player Tour)
1961 - Dylan McDermott, Waterbury, Connecticut, American actor (The Practice, American Horror
           Story)
1962 - Carey Elwes, London England, actor (Glory, Princess Bride)
1962 - Roger Kingdom, Vienna Ga, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1963 - Kerri Lynne Rosenberg, Burlington Ia, Miss Iowa-America (1991-top 10)
1963 - Natalie Merchant, US singer/songwriter (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 - Tony Casillas, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets, Dallas Cowboys)
1963 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
1963 - Tom Cavanagh, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadian actor/producer (Ed, Scrubs)
1964 - Lawson Duncan, Asheville NC, tennis star
1964 - Vencie Glenn, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1965 - Gil Heredia, Nogales AZ, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1965 - Ken Rutherford, cricketer (NZ Test batsman & latterly capt)
1965 - Kim Cooper, Australian softball 3rd baseman/shortstop (Olym-bronze-96)
1965 - Mark McLoughlin, CFL kicker (Calgary Stampeders)
1965 - Wayne Martin, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
1966 - Alex Pastoor, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1966 - David Miley, Milwaukee WI, Nike golfer (1992 Cleveland Open)
1966 - Olga Bicherova, gymnastics (won title at 15 yrs 33 days)
1966 - Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
1966 - Steve Valentine, British actor
1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 - Bobby Houston, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1967 - Shelly Stokes, Sacramento California, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1968 - Chris Oldham, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Nico John Hoogma, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Mark Sweeney, Framington Mass, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Mike Pritchard, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos,
           Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Bert Emanuel, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Jessie Armstead, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1970 - Randall Evans, Franklin Virginia, 100m/200m runner
1970 - Tom Vano, Plainfield NJ, field hockey goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dian Bachar, American actor
1970 - Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
1971 - Cinnamon Woods, Anderson Ind, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Ronnie Irani, cricketer (Essex all-rounder, England 1996)
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1973 - Brian Smith, Cedar Rapids Iowa, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Robert Petrovicky, Kosice CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Dallas)
1973 - Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestle
1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
1975 - Katja Riipi, ice hockey left wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Tammy Cleland, Sanford FL, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
1978 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1978 - Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
1978 - Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
1980 - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1981 - Sam Brown, American comedian
1982 - Adam Carroll, British racing driver
1983 - Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
1983 - Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1984 - Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)
1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
1996 - Pasaye, Palatine Ill, twin born 92 days before his brother (Jan 26)