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This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Women's Rights Activist                            Aviator Igor Sikorsky (1972)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1902)


899 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1132 - Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1235 - Andres II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1576 - Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies
1607 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1608 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1640 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
1658 - Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies
1661 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1678 - John Jenkins, composer, dies
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1693 - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
1706 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer, dies at 60
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1733 - Antonio Veracini, composer, dies at 74
1749 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1756 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1823 - Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67
1848 - Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
1858 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1867 - John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77
1868 - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
1874 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of Ike, dies
1890 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815)
1903 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
1903 - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1929 - Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1935 - Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1954 - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies
1955 - Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1957 - N Kazantzakis, writer, dies
1961 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies
1961 - Milan Stojadinović, Premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1962 - Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 57
1962 - Louise Beavers, actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 64
1964 - Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1968 - Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1971 - Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83
1976 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
1978 - George Grant, cricketer (WI Test captain through early 1930's), dies
1979 - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies
1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1980 - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
1982 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1984 - John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85
1984 - Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37
1984 - Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Andrew Roberts, cricketer (7 Tests for New Zealand 1976), dies
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1990 - William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89
1991 - Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1992 - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1992 - Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
1993 - Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1993 - H Hardenberg, writer, dies
1994 - Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 - Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
1995 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 - Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
1996 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80
1996 - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93
1996 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA
           polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2008 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
2008 - Delmar Watson, American child actor (b. 1926)
2009 - Teel Bivins, American politician (b. 1947)
2009 - George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
2010 - Glen "Frosty" Little, American circus clown (b. 1925)
2010 - Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (b. 1927)
2010 - Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)

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This Day in History for 27th October


Historical Events

                                   
King of England King Charles I                    Comedian Groucho Marx                    Animator Walt Disney

                 
Musician & member of the Beatles         Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt
Paul McCartney 


312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
625 - Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1523 - English troops occupy Montalidier France
1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1605 - Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk
1627 - English assault on French Il de Ré
1644 - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1651 - English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1662 - England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
1676 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1688 - King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1702 - English troops plunder St Augustine Florida
1775 - US Navy forms
1787 - Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 - Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
1810 - US annexes West Florida from Spain
1830 - Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to
           leave the state or be exterminated.
1858 - RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1863 - Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
1864 - Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 - 2nd Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmond
1864 - Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks
1864 - Siege of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Garibaldi marches on Rome
1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY
           Times exposed his corruption
1884 - Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC
1886 - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1893 - Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1896 - 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1901 - 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln
           bridge-145 & Bdwy)
1913 - Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country
1914 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
1916 - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son
           Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress
           Zauditu.
1919 - Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1919 - US Congress sign Volstead Act
1920 - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 - 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1922 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1924 - Uzbek SSR forms
1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1925 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1927 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
1931 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
1933 - Valentin Boreyko, Russia, rower (Oly Gld 1960), (d. 2012)
1935 - SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1938 - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 - Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 - Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1942 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
1942 - US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
1944 - Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation
1944 - Tito reaches free Belgrade
1945 - "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
1945 - 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
1946 - Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1947 - WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris
1948 - Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
1950 - Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan," premieres
1952 - "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs
1954 - B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 - Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 - WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air
           Force.
1955 - Argentine peso devalued
1955 - Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1957 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1957 - WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958 - WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1960 - AL admits LA & Washington to the league
1960 - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 - American Basketball League starts play
1961 - Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
1962 - "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs
1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious
           circumstances.
1963 - Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba
1963 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1964 - "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs
1964 - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1965 - WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 - UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1967 - 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 - Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1967 - NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1968 - 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
1969 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1969 - St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1970 - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
1971 - Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
1972 - Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1973 - 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1973 - Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1974 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1975 - Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1977 - Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
1977 - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 - Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 - President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 - Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 - St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day)
1979 - Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 - Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen
1980 - Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 - Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 - IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 - 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
1985 - 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
1985 - Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 - Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 - Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
1985 - KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
1986 - NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 - Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1986 - The United Kingdom government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total
           restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as
           the Big Bang.
1987 - Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 - Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London
1987 - South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 - "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 - Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1990 - "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs
1990 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star,
           Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
1991 - "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 perfs
1991 - "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
1991 - John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
1991 - Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
1992 - Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
1992 - Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
1992 - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien
1992 - Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she
           wouldn't have to watch it blink
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
1995 - Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
1995 - Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
1996 - US beats Japan, 21½-14½, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament
1997 - Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 - Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 - Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill
1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan,
           Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
2002 - Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship,
           MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim
2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but
           LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian
           TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years
2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2011 - The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II
           submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is
           likely to be Japanese.
2012 - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
2012 - Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Weddings

1880 - Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd
           birthday
1964 - Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1971 - Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1984 - "Jessie's Girl" singer Rick Springfield (35) weds Barbara Porter in Australia
1991 - "Thompson Twins" singer Tom Bailey weds Alannah Currie at Graceland Wedding Chapel in
           Las Vegas
2005 - Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Fonsi Nieto (27) weds model Ariadne Artiles at Iglesia de
           San Miguel in Ibiza

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Birthdays

                   
Captain/Explorer                                          26th US President
James Cook (1728)                                   Theodore Roosevelt (1858)


1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1728 - James Cook, Yorkshire, England, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands
1739 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer
1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1746 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer
1760 - August W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal
1762 - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs
1775 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1800 - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878
1809 - Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname
1811 - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1814 - Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
1817 - Antoni Katski, composer
1828 - Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1829 - Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921)
1844 - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09; Nobel 1906), (d. 1919)
1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1872 - Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette)
1873 - Henry Tate, composer
1876 - Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Un Soir Un Train)
1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
1889 - Enid Bagnold, novelist (Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit)
1892 - Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira
1892 - Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet/critic (Mirror of Dutch Poetry)
1893 - Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings)
1894 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor (Residence-orch)
1894 - Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor
1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1895 - John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad)
1896 - Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor
1904 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1906 - Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles
1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
1907 - Helmut Walcha, German organist (church music)
1907 - Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles
1908 - Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 - Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer (Tonight Show)
1910 - Jack Carson, Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce)
1911 - Leif Erickson, California, actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront)
1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
1914 - Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales)
1914 - Stanislaw Brunstein, artist
1915 - Harry Saltzman, St Johns NB Canada, producer (Goldfinger)
1916 - Bob de Lange, [Jacob Bernard], Dutch actor/director (Daniel)
1916 - Kazimierz Brandys, writer
1917 - Jack Plimsoll, cricketer (S Afr lefty quick, 3-143 in only Test 1947)
1917 - Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress)
1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1918 - Paul Dixon, Earling Iowa, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show)
1918 - Teresa Wright, NYC, actress (Eleanor Gehrig-Pride of the Yankees)
1920 - Nanette Fabray, San Diego California, actress (Katherine-One Day at a Time)
1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
1921 - Anestis Logothetis, composer
1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
1922 - Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela (1974-79/89-94)
1922 - George Young, soccer star
1922 - Ralph Kiner, HR hitter (Pittsburgh Pirates)/sportscaster (NY Mets)
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, NYC, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels)
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
1923 - Ned Wertimer, Los Angeles, California, actor (The Jeffersons), (d. 2013)
1924 - Ruby Dee, Cleveland, Ohio, American actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster)
1924 - Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor (Judge & the Assassin)
1925 - Jane Connell, Oakland California, actress (Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling)
1925 - Mary Kay Steans, Glendale California, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny)
1925 - Warren M Christopher, US, lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs (1993- )
1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
1926 - H R Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff (Watergate figure)
1926 - P G "Nana" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper (Indian during 1950's)
1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
1927 - Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
1927 - Edward Ralph Keinholz, sculptor
1928 - Datta Gaekwad, cricketer (father of Anshuman, batted in 11 Tests 50's)
1928 - Kyle Rote, NFL halfback (NY Giants 1951-61)
1928 - Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor
1929 - Marino Iandioro, canned Tomato Pioneer
1930 - Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
1931 - David Bryant, English world champion bowler/tv-host
1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paris France, actor (Trout)
1932 - Kathy Cornelius, LPGA golfer
1932 - Sylvia Plath, [Victoria Lucas], US, poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, La, hall of fame pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound)
1933 - John Sturdy, scholar
1934 - David Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1934 - Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
1937 - Lara Parker, American actress
1938 - Maurice Hinchey, (Rep-D-New York)
1939 - John Cleese, Weston-Super-Mare England, comedian (Monty Python)
1940 - Anthea Joseph, music producer
1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, US, author
1940 - John Gotti, Bronx NY, mafia head of the Gambino family
1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer, (d. 2013)
1942 - Lee Greenwood, Los Angeles, California, American country singer (God Bless the USA)
1942 - Phillip Catherine, rocker
1945 - Carrie Snodgress, Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)
1945 - Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer
1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
1946 - Leslie Byrne, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1946 - Peter Martins, Danish actor(?)
1946 - Steven R Nail, Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, 61-A, 37, 55)
1946 - Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C)
1947 - Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)
1948 - Byron Allred, Logan Ut, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1949 - Garry W Tallent, rocker (E Street Band)
1949 - Jack Daniels, Choctaw Oklahoma, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1949 - Jose J P Hageman, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Mike Kopetski, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1950 - Fran Lebowitz, author/actress (Resident Alien)
1951 - Jayne Kennedy-Overton, Wash DC, actress (Penitentary)
1951 - K K Downing, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
1953 - Michael Baker, Memphis Tn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43, 52, 68, 81)
1953 - Peter Firth, Bradford England, actor (Equus, Lifeforce, Tess)
1953 - Robert Picardo, Phila, actor (Frame Up, Gremlins 2)
1954 - Chris Tavare, cricketer (England opener & occasional scorer of runs)
1954 - Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
1956 - Patty Sheehan, Middlebury VT, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open)
1956 - Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
1957 - Glen Hoddle, English soccer ball player (Tottenham)
1957 - Jeff East, Kansas City, Missouri, American actor (Huckleberry Finn, Superman)
1958 - Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever)
1958 - Simon Le Bon, rock vocalist (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
1961 - Rick Gibson, Calgary Alta, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA)
1963 - Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle-Day of Our Lives)
1963 - Marla Maples, [Trump], Dalton Ga, actress (Will Rogers Follies)
1964 - Jill Hetherington, Brampton Ontario, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Mark Taylor, cricketer (genius Australian captain since 1994)
1964 - Mary Meagher-Plant, 100m butterfly swimmer (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-84, 88)
1965 - Krista Blomquist, New Haven Conn, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1995)
1966 - Brad Lauer, Humboldt, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1966 - Grant Kenny, Norfolk Island NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Timm Rosenbach, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1966 - Matt Drudge, American blogger
1967 - Jaren Jackson, NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs)
1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1968 - Antoinette Lucas, Crozier VA, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1968 - Kata Karkkainen, Helsinki Finland, playmate (Dec, 1988)
1968 - Vinny Samways, English footballer
1969 - Annie Patterson, composer
1969 - Corey Foster, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1969 - John Kasay, NFL kicker (Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Bert Emanuel, wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Vernon Lewis, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1970 - Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1971 - Liz Pagano, Seattle Wash, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994)
1971 - Matt Brown, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Mike Ricci, Scarborough, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Zaddick X Longenbach, Greenwalds Pa, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1972 - Brad Radke, Eau Claire WI, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - John Steel, Auckland NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Maria Mutola, Maputo Mozambique, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
1972 - Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1973 - Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tenn, Miss America-Tenn (1996)
1973 - Monica Louwerens, Greenville Miss, Miss America (Miss-Top 10-1996)
1974 - Juan Viedna Schenkhuizen, soccer player (Ajax, NEC)
1975 - Emily John Orton, Creswell Oregon, Miss America (Oregon-2nd-1996)
1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
1983 - Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)

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This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Deaths

Mughal Emperor Akbar (1605)


925 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 - Aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies
1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 - Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56
1485 - Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies
1505 - Ivan III, [Ivan the Great], Grand Prince of Moscow and Russia (1462-1505), dies at 65
1542 - Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies
1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy
1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1580 - John Bonga, beggar, dies
1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Indian Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1651 - Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies
1652 - Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies
1659 - Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged
1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1725 - Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71
1771 - Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies
1781 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1796 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45
1822 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55
1833 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
1848 - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46
1864 - Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58
1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1919 - John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch), dies
1919 - Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies
1925 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer, dies at 80
1933 - Julius Klengel, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Meir Shapira, rabbi/organizer (Daf Yomi), dies
1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1938 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57
1940 - Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1943 - Bela Reinitz, composer, dies at 64
1944 - Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies
1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1953 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer, dies at 71
1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1954 - Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot), dies at 78
1954 - Frank Druce, cricketer (252 runs in 5 Tests for England), dies
1955 - Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
1955 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
1958 - Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74
1958 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84
1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58
1962 - Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 - Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1964 - Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63
1964 - Willi Bredel, writer, dies at 63
1965 - French Luitjes, Dutch athlete, dies at 21
1966 - Nigel Haig, cricketer (England pace bowler in 5 Tests 1921-30), dies
1968 - Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89
1969 - Jaime Pahissa, composer, dies at 89
1972 - Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65
1973 - Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (Mister Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 64
1975 - Rex Stout, US detective writer (Nero Wolfe), dies at 88
1975 - Rex Stout, American mystery writer (b. 1886)
1977 - James M Cain, US writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85
1980 - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, dies at 31
1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1981 - John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 94
1987 - Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), dies
1988 - Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73
1988 - S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at 80
1990 - Ugo Tognazzi actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68
1990 - Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies of heart failure at 90
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
           Austria (b. 1901)
1991 - Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor/composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies
1991 - Pyke F C Koch, realistic painter, dies
1991 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 - Roy Marshall, cricketer (143 runs for WI, 35725 runs overall), dies
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1994 - Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57
1995 - Mike Dutfield, documentary Prodcuer, dies at 48
1995 - Susi Hush, tYelevision producer, dies at 49
1996 - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84
1996 - James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57
1996 - John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
2009 - David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
2010 - Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (b. 1950)
2010 - Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
2010 - James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
2011 - James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)

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This Day in History for 28th October


Historical Events

                                   
Explorer of the New World                    US President Grover Cleveland               Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Christopher Columbus

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                         Nobel Laureate Author                               First Secretary of the
Adolf Hitler                                                  Ernest Hemingway                     Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                   Nikita Khrushchev


306 - Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome
312 - Emperor Constantine the Great beats rival Maxentius
969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
1061 - Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1422 - Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
1467 - Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars
1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the
           Mameluks near Gaza.
1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna
           Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1574 - Prince Willem van Orange installs university
1595 - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks
1612 - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1628 - Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded
1646 - 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal
           Marines, is established.
1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western
           Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1846 - Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
1858 - Macy's Dept store opens in NYC
1863 - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured
1864 - Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864 - 2nd Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
1864 - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN
1867 - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1882 - Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker
           tape) parade in NYC
1890 - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor,
           "Pathetique"
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1900 - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1906 - Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the
           Democratic Republic of Congo
1911 - Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1915 - Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1918 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1921 - Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
1922 - 1st US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1924 - French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 - White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1927 - KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight
1928 - Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours
1928 - Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1929 - Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1934 - Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1935 - Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC
1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1938 - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1939 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1940 - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence
1942 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942 - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1943 - U-220 sinks
1944 - Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 - Georges Bidault elected president of France
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open
1953 - Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1954 - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate
1954 - N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in NYC
1954 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1955 - Egypt & Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 - Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1959 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1959 - Jean Genet's "Les Negres," premieres in Paris
1961 - "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances
1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 - NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1962 - Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends after JFK and Khrushchev make a public and secret agreement
1965 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 - Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 - NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 - Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 - John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1972 - "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances
1973 - Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1973 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1974 - 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1974 - Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1975 - Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
1976 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
1976 - Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
1978 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
1979 - Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 - NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
1982 - NASA launches RCA-E
1982 - Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1984 - 14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 - 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1984 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 - Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
1986 - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
1986 - KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988 - Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 - Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library
1989 - Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
1992 - Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
1993 - Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1994 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
1995 - Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
1995 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag,
           Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
1996 - Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
1997 - NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-
           league all-male sports league
1998 - An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to
           Taiwan.
2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie
           Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
2006 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with
           reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in     
           1930s - early 1940s.
2009 - The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
2009 - NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled
           Constellation program.
2012 - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
2012 - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
2012 - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World
           Series
2012 - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Weddings

1533 - Prince Henry of France (later Henry II) (14) marries Florentine noblewoman Catherine de'
           Medici (14)
2012 - Bristol Palin's former fiance Levi Johnston (21) weds Sunny Oglesby (20) at Settlers Bay
           Lodge in Wasilla, Alaska

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This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Humanist/Theologian                           Microsoft Founder Bill Gates (1955)              Iran President
Erasmus (1466)                                                                                                      Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956)

 
Actress Julia Roberts (1967)


1017 - Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)
1466 - Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, humanist and theologian (The Praise of Folly), (d. 1536)
1510 - Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1585 - Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1691 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1703 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
1733 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer
1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker
1795 - Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53)
1798 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
1801 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1804 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician (logistic curve)
1805 - John Thomson, composer
1810 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]
1834 - Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1837 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1842 - Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908)
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846 - Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
1855 - Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)
1856 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
1864 - Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (d. 1958
1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1876 - Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
1877 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1879 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer
1879 - Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1881 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
1881 - Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
1884 - Miloje Milojevic, composer
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
1886 - Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician
1889 - Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
1890 - Andres Isasi, composer
1891 - Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
1892 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian (Fall & Throw)
1892 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch)
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1893 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist
1893 - Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief (Negro Worker)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1897 - Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander
1901 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
1902 - Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 - Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop)
1904 - Louis de Meester, composer
1905 - Harry Broadhurst, airman
1907 - Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
1907 - Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1907 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1909 - Adolfs Skulte, composer
1909 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist
1909 - Francis Bacon, Ireland, painter (Study for a Pope)
1910 - Arthur Altman, songwriter
1910 - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
1913 - Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
1914 - Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1914 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
1914 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1915 - Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1915 - Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator
1916 - Jessie Kesson, author
1917 - Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1918 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer trainer
1919 - Bernhard Wicki, St Polten Austria, director/actor (Crime & Passion)
1921 - Peggy Kirk Bell, LPGA golfer
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1922 - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
1922 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
1924 - Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer
1924 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
1925 - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)
1925 - Wim Keja, Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
1926 - Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 - Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1928 - Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team
1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1928 - Lawrie Reilly, Edinburgh, Scotland, footballer (Hibernian, 28 caps), (d. 2013)
1929 - 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida
1929 - Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1929 - Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966)
1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
1929 - John Hollander, American poet
1930 - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
1930 - John Henry Mayer, composer
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
1933 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1934 - Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1935 - Folke Rabe, composer
1936 - Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1936 - Horst Antes, German painter
1936 - Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist
1936 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1937 - Lenny Wilkins, NBA player/coach (Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta)
1938 - Peter Carlstein, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64)
1938 - David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1939 - Jane Alexander, [Quigley], Boston, actress (Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1939 - Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
1940 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmo (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21)
1940 - Susan Harris, American television writer and producer
1941 - Curtis Lee, rocker
1941 - Glenn Moore, rocker
1941 - Hank Marvin, England, [Brian Rankin], rocker
1941 - John Hallam, Irish actor
1942 - Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion (1967)/(Olympics-gold-68)
1942 - Sharron Moran, LPGA golfer
1943 - Conny Froboess, German singer
1943 - Charo López, Spanish actress
1944 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci] France, comedian (My Best Friend's Girl)
1944 - Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Buntz-Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue)
1944 - Anton Schlecker, German billionaire
1945 - Dennis Lillie [sic], cricketer (Queensland leg-spinner 1965-66/80-82)
1945 - Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1946 - Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
1946 - John Hewson, Australian politician
1947 - Tom Fitzsimmons, SF California, actor (Franklin-Paper Chase)
1948 - Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 - Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1948 - Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1949 - Bruce Jenner, Mt Kisco NY, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1949 - Robert Mellors, gay activist
1950 - Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
1950 - Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
1951 - Ron & Don Gaylon, midwest US, siamese twins (Jerry Springer Show)
1952 - Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1952 - Flavian Aponso, cricketer (rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Neth World Cup 1996)
1952 - Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer (Michael Stanley Band)
1953 - Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
1955 - Bill Gates [William Henry], Seattle Wash, billionaire founder/CEO (Microsoft)
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Aradan, Iran, President of Iran (2005-)
1956 - Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 - Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division-Atmosphere)
1958 - Jay Don Blake, St George UT, PGA golfer (1991 Shearson Lehman Open)
1959 - Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1960 - Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1960 - Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1960 - Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world
           record for the largest known prime 3 times
1962 - Bobby Tate, fictional character on Soap
1962 - Daphne Zuniga, SF CA, actress (Jo Reynolds-Melrose Place, Spaceballs)
1962 - Peter Cantrell, cricketer (Queensland opening bat, Neth WC 1996)
1962 - Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
1962 - Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player
1963 - Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter (Adesso Te)
1963 - Kevin Dineen, Quebec City, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1963 - Lauren Holly, Bristol PA, actress (Picket Fences)
1963 - Lisa Bettio, Cleveland, WPVA volleyballer (Ft Myers Beach-17th-1992)
1963 - Robert Bailey, cricketer (England batsman in four Tests 1988-90)
1963 - Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
1963 - James Miller, the "Fan Man" (d. 2002)
1964 - Lenny Harris, Miami FL, infielder (Cin Reds)
1964 - Paul Wylie, figure skater (Olympic-silver)
1965 - Eric Floyd, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1965 - Mark Carrier, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist
1966 - Andy Richter, Yorkville IL, writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien)
1966 - Benoit Hogue, Repentigny, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1966 - Juan Guzman, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 - Kaylynn Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children, Maxine-Picket Febces)
1966 - Steve Atwater, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Tim Bogar, Indianapolis IN, infielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
1967 - James Joseph, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Julia Roberts, Smyrna Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
1967 - Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
1968 - Aleksandr Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1968 - Chris Oldham, cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Ernie Mills, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Glenn Clear, soccer player (Vitesse)
1968 - Rodney Thomas, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1968 - Shawna Molcak, Cardston Alberta, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1968 - Stan Thomas, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1968 - Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach
1969 - Denny Fercho, Ventura California, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Pete Shufelt , WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Troy Ridgley, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Ben Harper, American musician
1970 - Bracey Walker, NFL safety (Cin Bengals, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Rob Hitchcock, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - John Coker, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1971 - Nicole Green, Springfield Ohio, 400m runner
1971 - Tracy Hanson, Coeur D'Alene ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-4th)
1972 - Calvin Jackson, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Chad Folk, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Terrell Davis, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Brad Paisley, American musician
1973 - Frank Juric, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
1974 - Braden Looper, Weatherford OK, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
1974 - Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
1974 - Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
1976 - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1977 - Lara Antunes, Miss Portugal Universe (1997)
1978 - Marta Etura, Spanish actress
1978 - Justin Guarini, American singer
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1979 - Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
1980 - Kanzi, Most Literate Non-Human
1980 - Alan Smith, English footballer
1980 - Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
1980 - Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
1981 - Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
1981 - Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
1982 - Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
1982 - Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
1983 - Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
1984 - Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
1984 - Amanda Paige, American model
1985 - Richard Smith, American entrepreneur
1996 - Naelee Rae, American actress
1996 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Deaths

                 
Philosopher John Locke (1704)                Poet Ted Hughes (1998)


312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
900 - Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies
1138 - Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies
1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1637 - Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1779 - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1852 - Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57
1854 - James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1875 - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
1877 - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1897 - Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72
1899 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1905 - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
1914 - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1919 - Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies
1922 - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
1927 - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1936 - E G Winkler, writer, dies
1939 - Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46
1940 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1959 - Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
1959 - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1962 - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48
1963 - Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1965 - Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1968 - Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85
1969 - Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1970 - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
1970 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
1971 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1980 - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
1986 - Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1991 - Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies
1991 - G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69
1991 - John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1991 - Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
1991 - Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78
1992 - Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
1993 - Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
1994 - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1995 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
1995 - Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87
1996 - William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94
1997 - Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter) dies of a heart attack
           at 71
1998 - Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate dies aged 68
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
2010 - James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
2010 - Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
2010 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
2010 - Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
2010 - Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
2012 - Jack Dellal, British property investor/multi-millionaire, dies from natural causes at 83

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th October


Historical Events

                                   
English Philosopher and                        President and Dictator of Brazil              Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak
Founder of Pennsylvania                               Getulio Vargas 
William Penn

                                   
Heavyweight Boxing Champion             King of Pop Michael Jackson                    Islamic Militant & Terrorist
Muhammad Ali                                                                                                               Osama bin Laden


529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of
              human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
439 - Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and
           Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden
           by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1508 - Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1552 - Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1591 - Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring
           against James I of England.
1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1665 - Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and
           decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 - William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1709 - England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
1787 - Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt.
           William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1794 - French troops occupies Venlo
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1814 - "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1833 - 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863 - Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1864 - Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1867 - Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
1872 - J S Risdon patents metal windmill
1881 - Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.
1888 - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1889 - NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 - Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 - 1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of
           Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1904 - 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
1905 - Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
1913 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1915 - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1920 - Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 - "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 - Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
1923 - Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC
1923 - Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
1923 - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
1924 - "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1924 - Labour loses British parliamentary election
1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1930 - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1931 - Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1932 - French liner Normandie is launched
1939 - Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1939 - NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1940 - Secretary of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US
           history
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
1942 - 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1942 - Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 - Nazis murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 - 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1944 - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands
1944 - Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
1945 - 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 - Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
1945 - Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns.
1947 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 - Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1948 - Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1949 - White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
1950 - British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 - Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10
           attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1953 - A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
1954 - Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1954 - Sweden begins experimental TV
1955 - Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36)
1956 - Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 - International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1957 - Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 - Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
1960 - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 - Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1964 - Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan
1964 - Karmi'el founded in Galilee
1964 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1964 - Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1964 - United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania
1965 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7°N 162°E
1966 - National Organization of Women founded
1967 - Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in NYC
1967 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual
           imprisonment and downfall.
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969 - Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
1969 - Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 - WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1972 - Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1972 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1974 - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1975 - Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills 1st victim, Wilma McCann
1977 - "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
1977 - Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1979 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1981 - Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
1982 - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
1983 - 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
1983 - Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns
1984 - Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
1985 - Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in
           Liberia.
1986 - Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
1986 - Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 - West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
1987 - "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 perfs
1987 - Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
1988 - 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 - China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1988 - Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 - First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
1989 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
1989 - NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
1989 - Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1990 - 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1991 - Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
1993 - Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1994 - Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
1994 - NY Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 - National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
1995 - "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1995 - Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 - US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report,
           which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33
           passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The
           plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was
           landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making
           him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 - ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space
           shuttle mission.
1999 - Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999
           Orissa cyclone ever since.
2002 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people
           shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in
           Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first
           European Constitution.
2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden
           in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001
           attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2007 - Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
2008 - Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and
           reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series to
           become champions of Major League Baseball.
2011 - Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million
           residents without power for more than 36 hours.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in
           damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2012 - Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher

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Famous Weddings

437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin
         Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the
         House of Theodosius
1994 - Impressionist Rich Little (55) weds comedian Jeannette Markey (28) at the MGM Grand Hotel
           in Las Vegas
2004 - "Jackass" member Chris Pontius (30) weds Claire Nolan in Malibu
2011 - Actress Eva Amurri (26) weds former Major League Soccer player Kyle Martino (31) in
           Charleston, South Carolina

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Famous Divorces

1951 - Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and 1st wife Nancy (Barbato) divorce due to infidelity after 12
           years of marriage
2010 - Country singer Randy Travis (51) divorces manager Lib Hatcher due to state of incompatibility
           exists between the two parties after 19 long years of marriage. One of country music's
           longest-lasting couples

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Nazi Minister of                                      President of Liberia                                 Actress Kate Jackson (1948)
Propaganda and Information                  Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (1938)
Joseph Goebbels (1897)


Actress Winona Ryder (1971)


1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
1507 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne
1562 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
1656 - Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 - John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1740 - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1815 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1816 - Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
1822 - Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97)
1822 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1824 - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1837 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
1837 - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
1844 - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
1853 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US theorist (NACW)
1855 - Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1857 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1859 - Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1871 - Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens)
1873 - Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
1875 - Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (Yorks & Eng SLA, played Tests 1899-1930)
1877 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1878 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1879 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
1879 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1883 - Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor/director (Hofstad Stage)
1884 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1890 - Claire Goll, writer
1891 - Fanny Brice, NYC, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
1893 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor
1897 - Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1897 - [Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Rheydt, Germany, Nazi Reich Minister of Information and Propaganda
1898 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1899 - Akim Tamiroff, Tiflis Russia, actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1901 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1903 - Vivian Ellis, composer
1905 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer
1906 - Fredric [William] Brown, US, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
1907 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1908 - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1909 - Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane)
1910 - Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
1911 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader
1915 - Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again)
1917 - Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist (WW II Army grunts)
1921 - Ed Kemmer, Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
1921 - William Henry Mauldin, NM, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
1922 - Francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster/actor (Spider)
1922 - Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show)
1922 - Neil Blaney, politician
1923 - Dietrich Manicke, composer
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1924 - Zbigniew Herbert, writer
1925 - Betty Evans Grayson, Portland Or, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)
1925 - Geraldine Brooks, NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
1925 - Zoot Sims, rocker
1925 - Dominick Dunne, American author
1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor
1926 - Jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
1927 - Frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)
1927 - Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician
1930 - Peter Stampfel, rocker
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1931 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1934 - Karl Francis Hettinger, Onion Field survivor
1934 - Pim Jacobs, jazz pianist/Dutch TV host/actor (Gilas)
1934 - Ramon Sender, composer
1934 - Robert E Hughes, NYC, orchestra leader (Rich Little Show)
1935 - David Allen, cricketer (England off-spinner of 60's)
1936 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1937 - Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1940 - Connie Mack, (Rep-R-FL, 1983- /Sen-R-FL)
1940 - Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1941 - Brian Yuile, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer took 34 wkts in 17 Tests)
1942 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster
1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1943 - Donald Simpson, film producer
1944 - Denny Laine, [Brian Hines], rock guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings)
1944 - Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer
1944 - Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch guitarist (Shocking Blue)
1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
1944 - Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
1945 - Melba Moore, [Beatrice], NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
1946 - Anura Tennekoon, cricketer (Sri Lankan World Cup captain 1975-79)
1946 - Peter Green, [Peter Greenbaum], London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 - Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus)
1947 - Helen Coonan, Australian politician
1948 - Kate Jackson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
1948 - Ricky Reynolds, rocker
1949 - Paul Orndorff, wrestler (WCW/SMW/NWA/WWF, Mr Wonderful)
1949 - James Williamson, American guitarist
1951 - Dirk Kempthorne, (Sen-R Idaho)
1951 - Guy Gelso, rock drummer (Zebra)
1951 - Rick Bordia, rock guitarist (Mink Deville)
1952 - Arnell Carmichael, rock keyboardist (Raydio)
1952 - Beth Solomon, LPGA golfer
1952 - Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1953 - Denis Potvin, Ottawa Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
1954 - Anita Meijer, Dutch singer (Just a Disillusion)
1954 - Herman Ronald Frazier, Phila, 400m/4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Kevin DuBrow, rocker
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1955 - Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
1956 - Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1958 - David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
1959 - Finola Hughes, London, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
1959 - Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
1959 - Mike Gartner, Ottawa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1959 - Tamar Baruch, actress (Small Truth, Q & Q)
1960 - Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984)
1961 - Cornelia Oschkenat, German DR, hurdler (50m indoor)
1961 - Joel Otto, Elk River MN, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team USA Oly-1998)
1961 - Randy Jackson, Gary In, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1964 - Greg Montgomery, punter (Baltimore Ravens)
1964 - Jackie Pereira, Perth Australia, field hockey center/forward (Oly-96)
1964 - May Allison, Toronto Ontario, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1965 - Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 West of England Pro)
1965 - Greg Davis, NFL kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1967 - Greg Gohr, Santa Clara California, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Joely Fisher, Los Angeles California, actress (Paige-Ellen)
1967 - Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1967 - Rufus Sewell, English actor
1968 - Grayson McCouch, NYC, actor (Morgan Winthrop-Another World)
1968 - Johann Olav Koss, speed skater (Olympics-3 gold-1994)
1968 - Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1969 - Peter Breen, Brockton Mass, dance skater
1969 - Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
1969 - Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1970 - Charles Swann, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Chris Thorpe, Waukegan Ill, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Dan Ratushny, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 - Edwin van der Sar, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (Ajax)
1970 - Marquez Pope, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1970 - Phillip Cocu, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse, PSV)
1971 - Greg Blewett, cricketer (Aust batsman, century on Test debut 1995)
1971 - Matthew Hayden, cricketer (heavy scorer for Queensland, Aust 1994-96)
1971 - Winona Ryder, [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
1971 - Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
1972 - Rhonda Blades, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1972 - Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
1972 - Gabrielle Union, American actress
1972 - Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
1973 - Adam Bacher, cricketer (nephew of Ali S Afr Test batsman 1996- )
1973 - Robert Pirès, French footballer
1974 - Mike Crawford, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - R A Dickey, Nashville Tenn, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Renata Hornofova, Miss Universe-Czech Republic (1996)
1974 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
1975 - Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 - Claudia Dopf, Miss Peru Universe (1997)
1976 - Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet
1977 - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
1978 - Travis Henry, American football player
1979 - Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
1980 - Ben Foster, American actor
1980 - B.J. Sams, American football player
1981 - Amanda Beard, Newport Beach CA, 100m/200m breaststroke (Oly-2 silv-96)
1981 - Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Reema Sen, Indian actress
1982 - Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1982 - Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
1983 - Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 - Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
1983 - Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1983 - Johnny Lewis, Los Angeles, California, actor ( Sons of Anarchy, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem),
           (d. 2012)
1984 - Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Severino Jefferson, Brazilian football player
1987 - Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
1990 - Carlson Young,American actress

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This Day in History for 29th October


Famous Deaths

                             
Enlightenment Philosopher                                  Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert (1783)             Nathan Bedford Forrest (1877)


490 - Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1321 - Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
1590 - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68
1618 - Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosophe/mathematician, dies at 66
1790 - Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66
1802 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95
1822 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1829 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
1846 - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
1853 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
1853 - William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29
1856 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
1873 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1873 - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
1873 - Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
1876 - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56
1882 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64
1883 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68
1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1885 - James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
1892 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies
1901 - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1919 - Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60\
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1920 - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
1922 - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79
1927 - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
1931 - Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38
1932 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
1933 - Paul, [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1934 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55
1946 - John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
1947 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
1951 - De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered
1951 - Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1962 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
1965 - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1966 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
1968 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies
1971 - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1973 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83
1974 - Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82
1975 - John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
1981 - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1983 - Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81
1985 - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
1986 - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
1987 - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
1991 - Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
1991 - Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies
1991 - Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies
1992 - Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
1992 - Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1993 - George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies
1993 - Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
1994 - Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87
1994 - Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44
1996 - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
1996 - Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
1996 - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor, dies after suffering on stroke at 82
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 - Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)
2011 - Jimmy Savile, British media personality (b. 1926)

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This Day in History for 30th October


Historical Events

                                   
King of England King Charles I                 Outlaw Jesse James                             Absolute monarch Nicholas II

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Baseball Player Jackie Robinson          Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler


Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Muhammad Ali


637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron
         bridge.
701 - John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope
942 - Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III)
1077 - German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1270 - The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ends by agreement between Charles I of Sicily
           (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 - Battle of Rio Salado.
1389 - French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII
1468 - Charles the Stout occupies & plunders Luik
1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in
           battle.
1485 - Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey, London
1489 - Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
1503 - Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians
1534 - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English
           church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1611 - Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden
1629 - King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
1697 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
1739 - England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear [NS=Oct 19]
1768 - 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
1772 - Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
1775 - 1st navy in US forms
1851 - Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris
1864 - Helena, Montana's capital, founded
1866 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
1868 - John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
1871 - Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Association baseball pennant
1873 - P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (NYC)
1883 - Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty
1886 - Great-Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East Africa
1888 - John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1888 - Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month
1893 - Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
1894 - Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1894 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro
           industrially.
1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1899 - Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat lt-general Whites army
1899 - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1900 - 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
1901 - Battle at Bakenlaagte: lt-col Bensons unit vs Boers
1905 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905 - GB Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in NYC
1905 - Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
1911 - Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators
1914 - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
1917 - British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1918 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1919 - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
1920 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 - Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack
           Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
1922 - Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy
1925 - KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1930 - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1931 - W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1938 - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1939 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley
           Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
1940 - Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in NYC
1941 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1942 - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
1942 - US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
1943 - Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
1943 - Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
1944 - Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Wash DC
1944 - Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1944 - Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1944 - Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II
1944 - Tholen Island freed
1945 - Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing
1947 - 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1947 - Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris
1948 - 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
1948 - Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1949 - "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 perfs
1949 - Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in NYC
1950 - David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments
1954 - US Armed Forces end segregation of races
1954 - 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1955 - Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman
1956 - Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1956 - Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option
           to stay until 1961
1957 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1957 - WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 - WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the
           Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 - Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 - UN unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general of the UN
1961 - Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's
           tomb in Red Square
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Morocco & Algeria signs cease fire
1963 - Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
1964 - Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
1965 - Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
1967 - Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
1967 - Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
1967 - USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
1968 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 - Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
1969 - WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - 45 die in a train crash in Chicago Ill
1972 - Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
1973 - Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe
           and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1974 - Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire ('The Rumble in the
           Jungle')
1975 - Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 - John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
1975 - Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 - NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1976 - "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
1976 - Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 - Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1977 - Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1978 - Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-203
1979 - Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
1980 - Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1980 - NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
1982 - Portugal revises constitution
1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1984 - Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1986 - Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16,
           known as PC Engine.
1988 - 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
1988 - Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1988 - Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 - NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
1989 - August A Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards
1989 - Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1990 - England-France complete "Chunnel"
1991 - Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
1991 - Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates
1991 - Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
1992 - MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
1993 - Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
1994 - Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
1994 - Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
1994 - US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International
1995 - Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
1997 - "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the
           United Kingdom.
2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War
           II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2012 - Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05
           billion